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I hope I'm not missing the obvious here but I've just been playing Baby Washington's cover of What Becomes and although I've played it several times it never came to mind to me question why her version is called What becomes of a Broken Heart. I then looked at the writers and it is credited to Tubb, Paige and Stewart not Weatherspoon , Riser and Dean as on the original by Jimmy. I've done a quick search but can't find any info as to why. I'm intrigued any of you guys have an answer?

Order sorted after emailing ,now showing as posted , anyone still waiting and reluctant to phone as I was I had no response contacting customer services link then used the email link on the same page where you write your message to customer services,it's under the address. I got a response a couple of hours later using that and as i say now posted.

One of the great emotive voices of our music, Moody Woman and Good Times played after many a lost love have been constant companions from my early days of collecting. thank you for your company Sir, RIP.

Don't know if it has been mentioned before but The Sketch Artist Walter Presents is pretty good. French Canadian police drama.There are bits that stretch the imagination but the stories are good. Basically it's about a police sketch artist in a special unit who has powers of intuition and can make people recall things they have seen. If it would annoy you for someone describing a person in a passing car late at night in one moment to say it was dark then the next say the colour of the drivers eyes then it's probably not for you. I am for the moment trying to overlook little things like that as the back stories are interesting along with the actual crimes committed.

I'm not so much concerned more fed up of waiting for my order of 13th January from John's website , haven't wanted to phone as it looks like they have enough to deal with. Record is still showing as available, I'll give it to the middle of next week then reluctantly phone.

I've found that card covers come in slightly different sizes,some will take a paper sleeve others won't. I usually snip the corners of the paper sleeves at 45 degrees which makes it easier to insert into the card cover. There was a thread on here where someone recommended inner sleeves that are rounded. I bought some of these but have found the same problem, it all depends on the outer cardboard sleeve. It would appear that the few mill difference on the outer is the deciding factor. I've bought sleeves from several suppliers over the years sadly never taking notice which is the best fit. I just looked ,if you put "stiff white card sleeves" in the search box you'll find some recommendations there.

You will definitely learn, I've certainly learnt more than I've contributed that's for sure, welcome. Your journey seems very similar to mine and a few more on here , the big 7 0 imminent for me . Enjoy.

Yes I'm well aware of that but in this case the prices were both from Discogs so to my mind the comparison stands. I took the cheapest other sellers listing with the same grading. Surprisingly no stupid prices came up, most were in the same ball park figure. from memory at least ten were from another well known seller. Delusional or not the other sellers still came out cheaper than John's on Discogs Had a certain Boogaloo seller come up on all the records then your point would most certainly have been 100% correct.

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There have been many different opinions regarding John's prices on this thread. I've been buying for the last 5 years after not buying for many years and have found that in general his prices on Discogs are more often than not dearer than anyone else though not always. In regard to this sale and questions raised by some posters to this thread as to actual savings to be made i decided to do a bit of non scientific calculations based on records I have on my wants list on Discogs. I randomly chose 27 records from my list and compared those for sale by John and then other sellers. I only included records of the same grade in most cases mint or near mint. On grading which we all know is subjective as proved by a few posts on this thread John more often than not had mint copies for sale. As I thought John was in most cases amongst the dearest though as I said above not always. The records were generally in the £10 to £70 range though a few were in excess of £100, one in particular was half the price of Tim Browns listing at £100. So, 27 records bought from John = £985 same graded records from other sellers _£845 with regard to the half price sale £492.50 a saving of £353 on the price from other sellers not taking into account postage costs saved. Looks like a bargain to me. As to the sale in general I can well understand people being disappointed in records not being available but clearly some records were going to be popular choices and you were going to miss out. The record I'm waiting for is still listed as available on his site so although it won't be the end of the world if i don't get it due to it being ordered on the 13th of January my level of disappointment will be greater.Not an expensive record but at half price more acceptable, one will eventually come my way sooner or later. I have no intention of phoning adding to their workload for the sake of one record.

As I didn't with this one when it came up on a link, I was intrigued by the artists name so had a look on Discogs and Musicstack drawing a blank on both. Looked at the comments on YouTube where the guy who posted it admitted they wrote the songs and created the music and imagery using various AI tools. Looks like a slippery slope to me

Waiting patiently for an order placed on January 13th for just the one record from his website ,as it is still listed as available fingers crossed it will eventually be sorted.

Condolences to friends and family,his knowledge will be missed.

Hope you don't mind me putting forward a few, The Wall is very good and the follow up The Chateau Murders, I really enjoyed the first couple of series of The Crimson Rivers . the Deutschland series is also very good.

Thought this may be of interest with previous mentions,have to say does not change my opinion on which of the two is the better, new series of Astrid starts this Friday

Interesting but not for me, don't really see the Four Tops influence, if you had said another Motown group The Undisputed Truth producedcby Norman Whitfield I would have maybe seen a loose connection. Not a lot of "soul" in my opinion as we in the uk interpret the term. Good luck with the project I'm sure you will find takers and your niche in the music scene.

When I pre ordered Glynn said he was expecting them 14th January, haven't heard anything since but as we know it's not uncommon for release dates not to be met due to pressing plant workloads etc. Can't be far off I would imagine.

That has been my thinking, both the record I bought and received and a subsequent order are both still listed for sale,I know from a previous purchase John does have multiple copies of certain records but i doubt he would on some of the more expensive items which could be where some of the out of stock complaints arise. I looked on Discogs and from what I read the seller has to delete an item sold manually, don't know if I'm 100% correct on that, perhaps someone on here who sells on there could give us an idea how it works, whether it is simple. I do think a lot of the flak John has received would have been avoided if he had explained why orders were not dealt with chronologically as is evident from some of the posts on here, I got my order before others who had ordered 7 days before me. The second order from Monday of this week is still being processed, obviously ordered knowing patience would be required which given the money saved I am happy with.

I would hope not, i think it's the shared enjoyment, watching the different styles of dancing to the same record and the discussions that arise, everyone listening to different records with headphones on, not for me.

As many have said, Sam and Dave were instrumental in starting me on my lifelong journey in Soul Music, in the duo's own immortal words "I Thank You" RIP

We watched the second episode of Patience last night and it didn't change my opinion that the french version is far better. That said i wouldn't want to discourage anyone from watching Patience, you'd have to have watched the french version to see the differences. The vulnerability of Patience/Astrid does not come across and invokes in my opinion less sympathy for the character in the channel 4 version. I didn't come back to the thread to comment further on the pros and cons of the two but it seems i have, the reason I posted again as an aside to the actual series on another thread we post about hearing Northern in unusual places, at the end of one episode in series 4 i think it was as the credits were rolling in the background Marion Black Who Knows was playing, the following week there was another more modern tune playing which from memory was I think by a French group , I searched but couldn't find a sound bite anywhere.

Watched the first episode to see what they have made of the excellent French original Astrid Murder in Paris, very pale imitation , I'd have maybe enjoyed it more if I hadn't watched all four of the French series, I'll continue out of curiosity as Lou didn't watch Astrid. Astrid (Patience) was a lot more timid and you felt more for her ,Patience comes across as a lot more confident, without giving too much away the developing relationship between Astrid and the detective was a very slow burn and one of the most interesting aspects of the French original. I didn't get the same feeling of Patience being lost in the outside world as I did with Astrid. Must have been quite hard for the actress playing Patience to make the character her own without copying Astrid from the French version. If you haven't seen Astrid I would definitely recommend seeking out at least the first episode and you might see what I mean. I'm not saying Patience isn't worth watching just from what I saw the French original in my opinion is so much better.

Just had notification my order from Discogs last Saturday is on its way and refund sent. To anyone who ordered at a similar time they are getting through any backlog just be patient 👍

I hope my posts were not seen as a criticism of John or moaning , I did say I wasn't expecting to hear anything for the next couple of days,I was just looking for a bit of clarity ,were people in the same situation as myself regarding buying from his Discogs site. I appreciate his staff must be under pressure with the various conditions working against them, the weather, number of orders etc. Like Chalky I'm sure all will be well with patience.

I ordered mine on Saturday from his Discogs site, maybe he's processing orders direct from his site first bought off Discogs and nothing has changed since Saturday still listed as payment received