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Check out Delicious Junction, I've had a pair of their leather brogues for around 5 years. They have a sale on a the moment. Cheaper than Loakes, that said I have had a pair of Loakes fir a lot longer and still in fine fettle.

Pretty much an epic fail after listening to a snippet of each tune, very much a one trick pony in this instance, devoid of any soul whatsoever. Thinksmart pretty much nailed it.

I've bid on his auctions in the past without a problem, won a few., It does seem he has his problems with ebay , I'm pretty sure he started off as plain Modboy and has progressed through 1,2 and now 3 usually blaming a problem with ebay and his account for his change of name.

A popular one on ebay, " very rare" = chart soul from the 70's hoping you won't see the multitude on discogs for less than the start price. a good one my mate saw "original re-issue"

There in a nutshell is why it would be a short set, when charity shops first became a thing you could often pick up decent music and the odd rarer British release. These days there are people like yourself in the know actually volunteering and hoovering up stuff before it hits the bins. I know one personally and of two others. I've no problem with that perk as long as a fair price is paid . The last vinyl I bought from a charity shop was about six months ago, right place right time, a shop that sells everything with the mindset of a quick turnover rather than a high price tag hanging around for weeks though this will change with an imminent move to larger premises planned soon. A box had just come in, I fished out Ronnie Milsap on Us Wand, Aint No Soul, a red Champion pressing of Tainted love, Ramsey's Wade in the Water, Ike and Tina We Need an Understanding, about a dozen ,can't remember the others. Nothing too exciting but a few upgrades to my existing copies and the others to give to mates who still have small collections but have sold the majority. At 10p a throw it made a nice change plus being regulars and knowing the staff I did point out they were selling them too cheap, albeit too late as the woman hovering behind me heard the price and when I'd done she bought a stack of them. Before you ask, yes I did give them more than the 10p asked, as Jackie Lee sings, "Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide". My aforementioned mate on the other hand working in the shops, well over the many years he has volunteered if he had not sold on the majority of his finds he could have played a very decent set. One tip I learnt from him which came up trumps many times ,always ask if they have any vinyl in the back, you might just get lucky.

Saw one this week described as "underheard".

Only just seen this Mike, I did once put a search in for a record and emailed the seller not realising the post was several years old. when I realised I messaged him saying sorry just seen it was an old post . I got a reply quite quickly saying no problem I think i still have the record, seller sold me the record at the advertised price even though it had increased slightly in value. I would think it does not happen very often. Worked for me on this occasion but if I had seen it was an old post I would not have asked. I think is probably a good idea to lock off from a certain point in time, maybe even less than 2020, I was lucky the seller the late Andy Bellwood was a real gent.

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I thought AI initially assumed the vocal was Diana Ross, further searches brought up this being discussed on Soulful Detroit. https://soulfuldetroit.com/showthread.php?20365-Supremes-amp-Stevie-Wonder-I-ll-Wait-a-Lifetime-Demo

A few documentaries worth a watch. Really enjoyed Tricky Dick on Sky documentaries about the career of Richard Nixon, a masterclass in smiling while lying through your teeth.Also Fugitive:The Mystery of the Crypto Queen on C4. Attica :Americas Bloodiest Prison Uprising on BBC4

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Two that i think are pretty well known, Johnnie Taylor You're the Best in the World b side to disco lady, also b side to Sylvia's Pillow Talk My Thing.

Yet another sale, this time up to 50%, watch now £113 on both Amazon and the Lilienthal site and this is within days of the previous price drop. Just looked at when first sold on Amazon May 23 so maybe it's a case of trying to get the best price for old stock.

Some months ago I saw an ad ,might even have been on the side bar on here for Lilienthal watches, on a whim as I'd been thinking about a new watch I had a look, saw two I quite liked and hummed and harred for a few days, nothing too expensive ,one was £189 the other £280. Whilst pondering should I shan't I the site had a sale, the one I fancied reduced to £139, three days to grab a bargain. Said sale duly ended to be replaced the day after by a flash sale, watch reduced to £132, again ticking clock counting down. by this time I had decided I didn't want the watch but continued to follow the supposed sale, I guess these things work on some kind of algorithm that knows you keep returning. I then looked where else the watch was available and it was on amazon for £132, not on sale, buy it now, who was the seller, none other than Lilienhall themselves, this had me thinking how much the watch was actually worth in the first place. Since that initial view it's gone up and down in price, sale, flash sale, extra £5, £10 off with coupon, 33% off,50% off , looking today cheapest it's been £126 from manufacturer, just checked Amazon price now with 4% off the same £126. Anyone had a similar experience when deciding whether to buy something.I intend for my own amusement to keep looking and see if it gets any cheaper, if the watch was only ever worth around the £130 odd mark why not sell it for that in the first place.

I don't disagree with anything you say, yes it is personal to us all, on that note for me it has always been about the music. Life took a different path for me hence I was never part of the scene as such, collecting started at school and didn't stop until children came along. Come the mid 80's I was in my own quiet way on the scene with a mate and his wife discovering all that I had missed in the days of Wigan and the Mecca, much the same as the young guns of today. After starting to buy again during Covid the magic had definitely not died for me, the thrill of that square of cardboard dropping through the door holding my latest buy, nothing expensive mind, later finding records I'd always loved were not as expensive as I thought. The magic of that little 7" piece of vinyl will never die for me. It puts me in the strange position of not so much regretting I wasn't on the scene in its heyday, sure I'd like to have been but reading posts like yours with a heartfelt loss of a special time in your life as with many others on here in some ways I'm glad I don't feel that something's missing. The magic in my life always has and always will be in the music. Where it goes in the future is up to those falling in love with it anew. Whether they are falling in love with the music or the general atmosphere of the events I think will determine the longevity of any scene moving forward. If it's for the music then the future looks a little brighter, if it's going out meeting people, having a drink and a good time well there's plenty of ways to do that and the novelty of the soul scene will wear off when the next media led fad comes along. Looking back more than 50 yrs if a certain knock on the door had come 15 mins earlier I could well be in the same position as you, a phone call 15 mins before that knock took my life on a different path, otherwise I would have been on my way to Wigan with a mate who I'm glad to say is still a mate today, he has his memories, I have a nice selection of his records .

Yes it has, three on discogs starting at just less then £10, reissued on b side of Tahiti by Jimmy and Stan

I've recently been playing cds that I haven't listened to for years, steadily working my way through 300 or so, got to the modern /crossover/Luther Vandross etc and this thread came to mind when I was listening to this cd. Not sure when it came out but in the blurb Kev Roberts ends with the line"welcome to the new Northern Soul". Hope it's of relevant for the original poster.

Original Belgian series The Twelve series 2 finished the other week, brilliant, I would assume ITV will do a remake after doing the first series, i can't imagine it will match the Belgian original though . Not a spoiler but if you get it on catch up don't switch off as the credits roll on the last episode as all the loose ends are tied up. Highly recommend.

When i first got into the music Gladys was my favourite female artist, saw her at the Odeon cinema Manchester around 1971, wouldn't like to see her now and spoil that memory. Saw her a few years later during her Buddah period, that one doesn't live in the memory quite the same brilliant as she and the Pips were.

I saw that thread but hadn't seen an update for a Uk screening

Short notice, On Sky documentaries 2am this saturday , four parts, says it's new and exclusive , no idea without seeing it whether it's been on elsewhere.

Seeing Andy's photo of the bench reminded me of these I took last month, even in death you get the couple must have enjoyed a sense of humour, pics aren't the best as camera on my phone isn't the great, you might have to enlarge to read.

Glad to have been of help, I didn't know the track ,I enjoy a search as it throws up tunes you've never heard and probably would never come across normal circumstances .

Just listened ,one quote from Stuart Cosgrove resonated as not having changed "the media served to confine the scene rather than actually define the scene in any positive way". I think it gave a more balanced view more so than recent articles, I think it was Stuart Cosgrove again who said something along the lines of people writing articles with little or no real knowledge of the scene.