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Of all the chartbuster series i think it was Vol. 6 that did it for me.
Older brother had Vol.3, which is class, but Vol.6 was the first i bought with my own cash!
Cover was the big "flying bug" thing and tracks included, if memory serves, Temps "just my imagination"
and Velvelettes "these things will keep me loving you".
You realise i'm going to have to go and find it when i get home!
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Did any of you guys ever manage to get to The White Swan Hotel on a Sunday night ?
Never went to the Swan as i had moved north by then.
Came back home to a couple of all nighters at the Civic Centre(?) on Chesterfield Road. Mid 80's i would guess.
Can remember plenty of soul/motown/northern at the "junior" disco's early 70's - Folk House, St Johns, etc.
Happy days
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"Queen Elisabeth Grammar School (QEGS) now that was one place did not mind going to"
Now nearly 30 odd years on and i still wake up screaming when i think about some of the teachers at that school!
Young uns today, don't know there born, ect, ect, ect.
Shame know ones got a contact for Steve. I'm told he still goes to Ilkeston on odd occasions
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Anyone got a contact address or e-mail for Steve Wilson from Mansfield.
Used to live on the Ladybrook Estate, just off Pye Avenue, but that was
ages ago.
Used to go to QEGS.
Thanks
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Like the rest on hear, mainly soul but also listen to plenty of other stuff.
Over the last five or six years i have got into blues in a big way! Not just the
old stuff, which i do love, but the bands playing the blues circuit now.
Check out: King Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys, Reverend Doc, Martin Trimble, Sean Webster,
Danny Bryant's Red Eye Band, Bluz, Sugarland Slim plus loads more!
Better still come to this years Maryport Blues festival!
Gary
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Found the article. A bit of a Q&A section with a number of dj's.
Article is from May 2004 "Record Collector". Bit sad i could remember it really!
At that time Alan Handscombe (Capitol Soul Club) list the Zenobia Bonner track
as his rarest record adding "It's the only known copy..."
Sorry not much more info
Gaz
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A lot of years ago now i got into label collecting but lost interest and sold off what i considered as fillers a few years later. One of the labels i tried to complete was 70's Detroit label Fee.
As i said i let a few things go, if memory serves Floaters/ ADC Band/ Bill Merriweather
/ Beverley and Duane(?) and kept the well known stuff, or well known at the time. Carol Anderson, Flaming Emeralds, Bobby Franklin. Looking back it's fairly obvious why i kept those three but i also kept Volstair - dancin' (which i think might have been a Mecca play - can anyone confirm) and Leo Lyons - set me up baby.Did the Leo Lyons thing get played anywhere? Can't for the life of me think it did. Fairly sure i got it off the front page of a Soul Bowl list, so couldn't have been that rare at the time. If unfamiliar with the track it's very Flaming Emeralds in style.
Any information welcome - Thanks Gary
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Pulled an old lp out last night to have a listen to. Sandra Phillips - too many people in one bed.
Must have had this about 25 years but havn't played it for a very long time. Absolutely brill!
This is the album Joss Stone wished she had made
The album is on the UK Special Agent label based in Wakefield. If memory serves me correct they also ran the Hit & Run label.
Anybody know the label history or have a discog?
Thanks
Gary
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Just something i was thinking about in a quiet moment.
Records that have been big, then have been flipped, and gone big again!
These for starters:
Tangeers - what's the use of trying/ let my heart and soul be free
Stienways - my hearts not in it anymore/ you've been leading me on
Jack Montgomary - do you believe/ dearly beloved.
Must be loads!
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Came across the "Porretta Soul Festival" website while doing some research at work
First i've heard of it!
Anybody been, know anything about it?
Just interested!
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Funny feel like i done this one,pushin up daisys,forget who,V.I.P me thinks
link
Credit where credits due! Just thought it deserved it's own thread!
Now for all you masochists out there!
mp3's of:
randy the newspaper boy - Ray Oddis (VIP 25012)
happy ghoul tide - Ray Oddis (VIP 25012) :angry:
WORST DOUBLE SIDER IN THE HISTORY OF RECORDED MUSIC?
small sad sam - Bob Kayli (Tamla 54051)
NICE BERRY GORDY PRODUCTION THIS!
ENJOY
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Funny feel like i done this one,pushin up daisys,forget who,V.I.P me thinks
link
Credit where credits due! Just thought it deserved it's own thread!
Now for all you masochists out there!
mp3's of:
randy the newspaper boy - Ray Oddis (VIP 25012)
happy ghoul tide - Ray Oddis (VIP 25012) :angry:
WORST DOUBLE SIDER IN THE HISTORY OF RECORDED MUSIC?
small sad sam - Bob Kayli (Tamla 54051)
NICE BERRY GORDY PRODUCTION THIS!
ENJOY
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Funny feel like i done this one,pushin up daisys,forget who,V.I.P me thinks
link
Credit where credits due! Just thought it deserved it's own thread!
Now for all you masochists out there!
mp3's of:
randy the newspaper boy - Ray Oddis (VIP 25012)
happy ghoul tide - Ray Oddis (VIP 25012) :angry:
WORST DOUBLE SIDER IN THE HISTORY OF RECORDED MUSIC?
small sad sam - Bob Kayli (Tamla 54051)
NICE BERRY GORDY PRODUCTION THIS!
ENJOY
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Funny feel like i done this one,pushin up daisys,forget who,V.I.P me thinks
link
Credit where credits due! Just thought it deserved it's own thread!
Now for all you masochists out there!
mp3's of:
randy the newspaper boy - Ray Oddis (VIP 25012)
happy ghoul tide - Ray Oddis (VIP 25012) :angry:
WORST DOUBLE SIDER IN THE HISTORY OF RECORDED MUSIC?
small sad sam - Bob Kayli (Tamla 54051)
NICE BERRY GORDY PRODUCTION THIS!
ENJOY
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Funny feel like i done this one,pushin up daisys,forget who,V.I.P me thinks
link
Credit where credits due! Just thought it deserved it's own thread!
Now for all you masochists out there!
mp3's of:
randy the newspaper boy - Ray Oddis (VIP 25012)
happy ghoul tide - Ray Oddis (VIP 25012) :angry:
WORST DOUBLE SIDER IN THE HISTORY OF RECORDED MUSIC?
small sad sam - Bob Kayli (Tamla 54051)
NICE BERRY GORDY PRODUCTION THIS!
ENJOY
Mansfield/ Notts
in All About the SOUL
I used to play football with Steve Wilson when I was about 7 or 8 on the pitches at the top of Armstrong Road.
AH! The old "top field". Honed my skills up there as well
- can you remember Greg Mellor, Andre Kean, the Hallam Brothers (Glynn and Simon) - all off of Pye Avenue i think.
Last saw him a few years ago at the Early Doors although I've heard him a few times since cos he used to regularly ring up the football phone in on radio Mansfield to talk about the Stags.
Sounds like Steve, whole family were mad keen Stags supporters - even his sister
Which teachers at QEGS?, Trum, Nag Horsefield, Bruiser?, starting to have a cold sweat thinking about it! Im an OE myself was there 72-77
A French teacher called Mr Eve brings back particular nightmares and one called Gent, i think, looked liked mad eye moody off of the Harry Potter film. Forced to play hockey!!! Also had a maths teacher who's motivational techniques involved slippering anyone who scored below a certain mark in the weekly test!
Often me 
Also a veteran of the Folkhouse which is where I got my grounding in northern from 74 on - had some great times there.
What about Syd Booths - propper record shop!
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