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Looking for a nice condition US promo or stock copy, preferably vinyl and not styrene (not fussy, am I?!) of: Gwen McCrae "Keep the Fire Burning" (atlantic) actually, would consider a cheap UK copy! PM me with details and price, if you can help. TA!

Except there are loads of classical albums which (value wise) blow your average northern soul rarity out the pond!

The reason other shops don't get the records is because people WANT to donate to Oxfam, exactly because the records won't be sold for 50p. They know a decent income will be generated from their donation. I know a few years ago Oxfam were suggesting people left their collections in their will... i think the examples given are annoying, but most specialist Oxfam music shops price their stock accurately and fairly. The whole point is to sell as much stock as they can. How the money gets divvied up after it hits the till, well, that's a whole other can of worms...

Looks like i should have bought that copy on Discogs for £30, then. From the sounds of things i did someone rather a large favour...

Always love reading your accounts of collecting at the time, great knowledge dropped as usual...

It's not comparing like with like, but probably the most famous withdrawn record in the UK is the Sex Pistols on A&M. I suspect given the buzz around the band, a load of copies got pinched on their way back to the pressing plant. And a box of 100 or so was allegedly kept by the label. if the Andantes was withdrawn, who would have thought "oh, that'll be worth keeping a few copies of?" Presumably they were completely unheard of?

Looks like some mice got to it up in the attic. Even though it has been nibbled into a rectangle, I'm sure someone will still bid it up to about £30 for the label alone...

Except Ian Levine's recordings are new and trying to sound authentically 60s but failing miserably due to the synth horns and same drum fill which gets used every eight bars. The Marvin Gaye track has the original track buried down there somewhere, with the completely unnecessary overdubs. I can't understand how anyone thought that this was a good idea, surely it sounded crap even when released in the 80s?!

In all seriousness, would any major label even care that a record was accidentally pressed 40 years ago, three were withdrawn and you have one and someone else does too? Most of them don't even KNOW what's in their back catalogues...

Not sure if anyone has mentioned the bleedingly obvious but... why would a young soul DJ WANT to be accepted into the northern soul scene? Most young people want to go out, get hammered, have a dance and, hopefully, get a lumber. If I was a youngster starting out DJing, I'd start my own night at the students union or whatever without getting bogged down in the whole OVO "under-played newie" "re-activated oldie" "trying to impress a bunch of 50+ year old balding grumpy old men" b*llocks. If they want to do a whole set off a memory stick, then so be it, if they enjoy the music. I really DON'T want this to end up descending into yet ANOTHER o.v.o. thread, but to teenagers or youngsters, I'm sure the whole obsession with "ownership" must be very strange - I don't think they get it at all, or understand what's better about spending £1000 on a bit of plastic, if there's another similar bit of plastic available for a fiver. Or free.. If young DJs want to "play by the rules" and can do the business, then I'm sure they'd be welcomed into the soul scene with open arms. If they want to run their own nights, they can do whatever the hell they want...

Ha! Think that might have been me... Only reason i didn't start it was i've never bought a soul pack since i only started collecting early 90s and suspected soul packs were the dregs of the dregs. Which i'm sure they were in the early 80s too, except these "dregs" sometimes turned out to be future classics. In reference to the last twenty years query, heard a few people got some good stuff in their Ian Levine packs. And, err, some people didn't...

Has this thread been done? What's the best single you got in a soul pack? If not... does someone fancy starting one?!

I would like to concur with everyone above, never met him, but I've bought records off him for the last 15 years or so and he's always struck me as being one of the good guys. He gave me his personal copy of that Kent white label 12" promo, for no reason other than he wanted to support an enthusiastic "young" DJ - top bloke. Lovely to hear he's had a wee baby... I've never had the pleasure of one of his DJ sets, but judging from all the comments above... WHY ON EARTH WASN'T HE ASKED TO PLAY AT THE YATE RE-UNION?????? The words "very" and 'strange" spring to mind...

50 ALBUMS FOR £80 - £1.60 per LP! Need to clear some space on the shelves and don't have time to list these separately. So, up for grabs is a nice job lot of 50 albums - hours of listening to keep you going! Most are in great condition, even VG copies won't have any nasty scratches or anything... BARGAIN! Records graded first, then cover EXTRA TITLES ADDED!!! L@@K! VARIOUS - Motown Disc-o-Tech Vol. 1 (US Motown) EX/EX (inc. Eddie Kendricks "Girl You Need A Change Of Mind") VARIOUS - Motown Disc-o-Tech Vol. 3 (UK Tamla Motown) EX/EX (inc. Sisters Love "Give Me Your Love") VARIOUS - Blues And Soul (UK Marble Arch 1966) VG+/VG+ (inc. Spooners Crowd "Two In The Morning") VARIOUS - It's Christmas In Motown (UK Sounds Superb) VG+/EX VARIOUS - The Sound Of The R&B Hits (UK Stateside 1963) VG/VG (books at £75 mint) VARIOUS - Salsoul Saturday Night Disco Party (UK Salsoul 1978) M-/M- (inc. Loleatta Holloway "Hit & Run" etc.) FANTASTIC FOUR - Got To Have Your Love (UK Atlantic 1977) VG/EX STAPLE SINGERS - City In The Sky (UK Stax 1974) EX/VG+ GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS / CURTIS MAYFIELD - Claudine soundtrack (US Buddah 1974) BEN E KING & AVERAGE WHITE BAND - Benny and Us (US Atlantic 1977) M-/EX BEN E KING - Music Trance (US Atlantic 1979) EX/EX BEN E KING - Let Me Live In Your Life (UK Atlantic 1978) EX/EX THE IMPRESSIONS - It's About Time (US Cotillion 1976) still sealed SLAVE - The Hardness Of The World (UK Cotillion 1978) M-/VG+ DEXTER WANSEL - Voyager (US Philadelphia International 1978) VG+/VG+ BETTY WRIGHT - Soul Explosion (UK RCA 1976) EX/VG+ (Inc. "Open The Door To Your Heart") SPINNERS - Love Trippin' (US Atlantic 1980) EX/EX (inc. "I Just Want To Fall In Love") THE CHI-LITES - Chi-Lites (US Brunswick 1972) EX/VG "Stoned Out Of My Mind" etc. THE CONTOURS - Baby Hit And Run (UK MFP 1974) M-/VG+ DETROIT SPINNERS - Mighty Love (UK Atlantic 1974) EX+/EX LEON WARE - Inside Is Love (US Fabulous 1979) VG+/EX (inc. "Inside My Love") LAMONT DOZIER - Peddlin' Music On The Side (US Warners 1977) EX/VG (inc. "Going Back To My Roots) LINDA LEWIS - Woman Overboard (UK Arista 1977) EX/EX SERGIO MENDES - Love Music (UK Bell 1973) M-/EX (inc. "Love Music") PATTI AUSTIN - End Of A Rainbow (UK CTI 1976) VG+/VG+ PATTI AUSTIN - Patti Austin (German Qwest 1984) M-/EX SYREETA - Syreeta (UK Motown 1980) EX/EX BILLY PRESTON & SYREETA (UK Motown 1981) EX/EX ARETHA FRANKLIN - Sweet Passion (US Atlantic 1977) EX/EX ARETHA FRANKLIN - Who's Zooming Who? (US Artista 1985) M-/EX ARETHA FRANKLIN - Through The Storm (German Arista 1989) M-/EX MAZE - Featuring Frankie Beverley (US Capitol 1979) VG/EX DIONNE WARWICK - Dionne (UK Arista 1979) EX/EX DIONNE WARWICK - Dionne (US Warners 1972) EX/EX GLADYS KNIGHT - Miss Gladys Knight (US Buddah 1978) EX/EX PEACHES & HERB - 2 Hot (Mexican Polydor 1979) EX/EX RAFAEL CAMERON - Cameron's In Love (US Salsoul 1981) EX/EX STEVIE WONDER - Light My Fire (UK Tamla/MFP 1969) EX/VG TOM JONES - Help Yourself (UK Decca 1968) VG/VG (inc. "I Can't Break The News To Myself") THE SUPREMES - At The Copa (UK Tamla Motown 1965) VG/EX THE SUPREMES & FOUR TOPS - Dynamite (UK Tamla Motown 1971) VG/VG MAJOR LANCE - Now Arriving (US Soul 1978) EX/EX JR WALKER & THE ALL STARS - Shotgun (UK Sounds Superb 1974 - 60s tracks) EX/EX FINISHED TOUCH - Need To Know You Better (US Motown 1978) EX/EX ROY AYERS - Love Fantasy (UK Urban 1980) M-/VG+ RAY CHARLES - True To Life (UK London 1977) M-/EX CORNELIUS BROTHERS & SISTER ROSE (US United Artists 1972) EX/EX SMOKEY ROBINSON - Smokey (UK Tamla Motown 1973) M-/EX THE THREE DEGREES - So Much Love (UK Pye 1975) ROY HAMILTON - You'll Never Walk Alone (US Epic 1955) EX/VG+ Looking for £80 for the whole lot of 50 - (there's plenty of £5-10 albums in here) - courier extra (cost = £10). Paypal as gift option preferred - PM if interested, thanks for looking!

Different catalogue number...

Looks like it... https://www.discogs.com/Super-Supers-Mama-Soul/release/2718780

It's a nicer scan because... it's the Jazzman re-issue.

That's over a year ago, you'd think more copies would have turned up. Is it not more than likely a carver?

Maybe they've been looking for records for more than five years. I mean, you're talking pre-2009 here, that's like, ages ago...

I've been pondering this. I really fail to understand how ebay can make a surcharge on a service they aren't actually providing. I keep thinking it must be illegal somehow, although they can obviously charge what they want for what they like...

Is it not the flipside people want this for?

Prices going up by 4p won't make that much difference, but sure the shareholders will be very pleased to see 1600 staff laid off. Sure they were pretty happy anyway, having bought Royal Mail for £8 billion under its real value...

Excuse me but... what on earth are you talking about???

Sounds great, and looks great. EXCEPT for that dirty big barcode at the bottom of the label... Ady, c'mon, detachable barcode sticker on the sleeve next time PLEASE. My poor aching eyes...

It's a strange concept, the idea of writing records into a will. If, for example, you went with your first suggestion and your collection is worth £100,000 and genuinely is in the year 2014. Would you need to keep re-valuing this at routine intervals? No idea how old you are, but you might live to be a hundred and in the year 2064 that collection might be worth... double that? Or possibly nothing at all, except to chains of novelty 1960s pubs which put them on their walls, since they're now over a hundred year old curiosities which people find strangely charming, since they now have the entire history of recorded sound at their fingertips on their watch. And if the figure of £100,000 is the true value, if your dependants needed to realise this in a hurry, then selling to a dealer they'd be getting maybe 40% of the value. And if that's the case, does this mean the collection is actually really worth £40,000? And only really worth £100,000 IF someone took it on as a full time job for five years? All this talk of "split it into soul packs, sell the individual bits at top prices" etc. How many relatives could honestly be arsed becoming part time record dealers to maximise their inheritance? It's not like having your money tied up in gold where one click and the investment becomes cold hard cash... I'm probably in a similar situation, since my collection will go to my missus. I'm sure she'd be happy to sell one or two £100 records a week, but i do worry about leaving a pile of useless garbage for the family to sift through. And so, most likely, won't be putting any estimated value in a will...