Sunnysoul

An introduction (member profile) of your wonderful self to us here on Soul Source would be most appreciated, dear lady (I presume) !

Please: Current value ? Has it been booted ? Sound clip ? Cheers !

Just to give a little balance to this discussion ... I have no hesitation whatsoever in saying that I absolutely love the Top 500 Book ... one of the best ever published on the subject along with the book on The Twisted Wheel and also David Nowell's book. I also wholeheartedly recommend the Top 500 Book to people here (Down Under) who are just starting to show an interest in Soul Music and Northern Soul because it serves as a great "overview" and reference guide to the scene. It's a great introduction to the scene ! (PS No, I've never met Kev Roberts or for that matter any of the other major protagonists mentioned in this thread!)

Nice one Ricky cheers ! Great version !

Need a sound clip please of the Platters' fab version of Jackie Wilson's classic .... please !

Yes, except the LP's on the Chelsea and Roxbury labels are, in a sense, far more interesting than the 45's !!! Take the Ron Henderson/Choice of Colour and Toby Kang LP's for example ... brilliant LP only dancers on them ... But of course, as is so often said on here, so many Northern collectors simply close their eyes when it comes to LP's. LP's still remain the great untapped source for undiscovered dance tunes ..

Couple of years ago, I bought an original Soul Brothers Inc "Pyramid" from the daughter of the leader of the group, and I paid shall we say "market value", she posted it in an envelope with nothing but a paper dinner napkin wrapped around it and a promo photo of the group inside ... It arrived ... in about 12 pieces ...

Nice mint original US copy on Excello wanted ... so I can play it after Little Willie John "I'm Shakin" and Charles Sheffield "Voodoo Working" ...

There's a nice 12" of this up on ebay at the moment Dave, both long and short versions ...

Is this great record now in the process of reaching the popularity it deserves ? $534.00 US on ebay .... https://cgi.ebay.com/NORTHERN-SOUL-45-The-J...1QQcmdZViewItem

Very cute pop music by a very talented pop artiste. Like Joss Stone and Amy Winehouse these are all are talented pop performers who appear to have been inspired by classic soul music. But I would never use the word "soul" in relation to the music that these artists are making ... Surely if you've ever listened to Garnett Mimms or Etta James or the Impressions and so on, can't YOU tell the difference between these artists and the Joss Stone's of this world ?

So often people on here express their concern about the future of the scene ... so what are future generations of soul fans going to think when someone shows them a genuinely rare and classic 45 that has been hammered to death, a shadow of its former self, because it was cued and played endlessly to 70 odd punters in some tiny club in the north of England back in the day? Of course records originally were made to be played as mass consumer products but there came an indefinable point some time ago where they became vintage collectables ! It's called "preserving one's heritage". Do you drive a vintage "one of only two in the world" motor vehicle to work up and down the highway every day of the week seven days a week so you eventually run it into the ground beyond recognition or restoration? Do the Italians hang the Mona Lisa out every week out in the park so that the elements can do their work and the great unwashed can gawk at it out in the open ? Of course not.

Disagree completely. Not madness at all, and if you are very wealthy so what if you pay 2,000 quid for a record that a disillusioned few may moan is worth no more than 600 ? It's been said on here a million times, a record is worth whatever anyone wants to pay for it . The whole world turns on the basis that people who have money can spend it in whichever way they want and sellers can sell whatever goods that they want to sell. This applies to records and everything else ... Good luck to both seller and buyer. Neither has a moral responsilibity to keep prices down for those who don't have as much money. That's life !

I never play precious originals when I DJ out ..... I only use boots ...... so I need a nice POINTER SISTERS boot of "Send Him Back" so I can hammer it good and proper. Will pay 5 quid. In case you're wondering I take one box of boots - which I play on the decks - and I also take box of originals of those boots , so that when some smart assed self important chin stroker comes up to me and takes issue with the fact that I'm playing a boot and questions whether I own the original , I quickly pull out the original 45 and shove it in his face then tell him to get on his bike and out of my face ... meanwhile the punters - who couldn't give a monkeys - are packing the dancefloor. Don't you just love this scene?

Yes , I've said it on here a million times , the EX grading should be banned completely , and any attempt to show a double ++ should be banned. The EX grade is essentially a UK invention via Record Collector. My British friends may moan all they like , but the US Goldmine system has long been the internationally accepted and most reasonable system. The UK soul scene in particular does itself no credit whatsoever when UK record sellers don't recognise anything below a "Very Good" grade !!!! I know of many overseas soul collectors that have received records from UK sellers descibed as VG and looking like they were run over by a truck !!!! The result is that there is an increasing number of overseas collectors who quite simply no longer buy soul records from the UK. Gradings should be as simple as this: Mint minus (as new) Very Good Plus (barest of handling marks , lightest of hairlines) Very Good (minor scuffs and scratches) Good (numerous scuffs and some scratches) Fair (hammered but playable) Poor (hammered) Let the poison posts now begin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What's the current value of the Johnny Johnson record ?

If I said to you all that this track is well known and has been played and openly identified in clubs and on radio Down Under in Sydney for a couple of years now, would that change the course of this discussion? Or in 2007 are we still supposed to believe that the Rare Soul Scene only exists in a handful of counties in the north of the UK ?

Interesting comments Tony, Jackie Wilson was another soul man that delighted in performing vocal gymnastics throughout his delivery, and Minnie Ripperton of course in the 70's. I take it you're not a fan of that sort of thing, a performer showing off of their vocal range ?

Old timers tell me that Billy Stewart appeared at the Twisted Wheel on several occasions (before his tragic death in 1969) and he was a big big favourite with the Wheel crowd and the early soul scene.

Think I started a thread on this a few years ago ... the big question is : WAS IT LEGITIMATELY RELEASED ON A UK LABEL ?

Sadly mate, with some honourable exceptions, my dearly beloved soul source brethren are heathens when it comes to LP's .... However, to answer your question , a serious Motown collector might pay up a little, but otherwise same as a stock issue. Nice LP though, regardless of value. Great group too of course !

And Belgium pic sleeve similar to the French ...

"Searchin" by Alvin Robinson (Blue Cat) is the one that does it for me ...

Feel free Pete ... but I just stuffed up this Mel & Tim clip ... thought I did all the right things but it wouldn't download ?