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Ethan....hopefully your still there...X Listen mate....BRILLIANT what your doing out there...HONEST!x I ran an all-nighter with a few other DJ's and there was this lad...he would have been about 12/13...he came to doo's with his dad and DJ'd at Soul Nights with him. I was so impressed....I gave him a spot at our All Nighter...!! He did 3 of his records during my spot...prime time...and ROCKED THE HOUSE!!! A super occasion and deserving. He came from Market Harborough...Len???!! Who was he...Pete was his dad I think???!! He'll be 25 ish now...and hopefully still flyinf the flag out there!! Ethan...keep on keeping on......and...if ure the guy who put the list of tunes up in the wants section...then I have some of them 'spare'! Send me an email to sooty@matso.tv and I will sort a couple out...no charge.....as long as you play them ok!!!x Now...S*D OFF!!!x As Mike sez mate...this is an 'adult' zone!x There is all types of stuff talked about that ain;t nowt to do with your interests at 13 mate...or shouldn't be!x So...understand it ain;t anything u done wrong...if anything....u is doing FANTASTIC...and keep it up ok!x Your welcome at a future gig i'm involved in ok....sorted!x LUV SOOTY X ...p.s....as Mike has got ure name wrong...he may delete the wrong account!!!hehe!x....so stay sharp....shut up....and read about the music to your hearts content....with this,,,,or a new account!!!! Any questions then send em to me via a pm...and i'll try and get an answer from someone no probs...our secret ok!!!!x @@ ~ ...for you adults...I was a school Governor for 5+ years....I used to slap em around the head when out of order.....I;ve mellowed since...X

"l didn,t know you dj,d lenny......you learn summat new every day......where do you dj? :lol:" . ..erm....he's struggled with the potential for over 20 years Gordon....!X @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ...I was given that by Dave Clegg Back Street Blue!! He came up and gave me it on the Anniversary night as a token of his appreciation of our crew to 'support' his venue. I've cherished it since and indeed it is with me wherever i DJ to this day!!x I thought it stood for Stockport Knockout Fan......??!!!x @@ ~ GREAT to hear he's still about Len...and give him a punch and a hug for me!!xhehe!x So where do us DJ's wiv problems go these days??? Where u recommend...to a 'newbie'???!x

...wot about paranod Promoters?!! I asked about a Dave Clegg in the UKIP thread but got no answers! He was a promoter and busy fella in the 90's up t'Norf. This is how we met! He asked me to DJ at this new venue in Stockport...Cottons. He was everywhere attending functions at the time and doing his bit...so I said okdokey! A few weeks later...mini bus and a couple of cars pull up at midnight....as arranged. The car park was opposite the front doors...me and Fudge were looking straight ahead. The bouncers were chucking out the Night Club folk before we took over! Dave was waiting in the car park for us to arrive but walked past....briskly all professional like....said 'ill be back in a mooooment just sort this out!'. We hadn't even got out of the bus!!! He walked across to the fracas outside of the door....and as we approached him en masse....the Bouncer turned and punched him clean on the temple ad knocked him out....BANG!!! We rushed to help him up....he was definately dazed....and the bouncer came on all apologetic as he had assumed Dave was one of these clubbers coming from behind him!!! Dave had that manner of 'creeping up' at nights!! He'd tapped him on the shoulder believing the folk were Soulies trying to get in!! That was our 'introduction'!! He got up with help...we dusted him down....he danced the night away and the venue became 'cult' for the hardcore for a while!! Never forget it....sparko.....whuuuump.....hehehehe!!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ..thing is....he never complained or got angry or owt...just apologised for the grand opening ceremony......! We pi**ed ourselves all the way back home....every time we saw him...and still am at me desk here 20 years later!!!hehe! I hope he is well...or...not a mass murderer or summink since...he wos alright!...happy days!!!!hehe!x

...the Ebay sales has brought up many happy memories as i trawled through me stuff! From '74 until 1994...my Northern consisted of 103 tunes....from my mate Wayne's collection...that i put on 4 cassettes around '77. That is all I played/knew for the next 16 years....and was the only music in my car until I was given the Robin Hood tape by Clannad....which was luvly in laybys around the Nation when the sun shone...!x Wayne...he made friends first day arriving at me new 26th school when arriving in Cambridge 1974. We went to his house at dinner time and he got his wooden fizzy pop crate out and he began playing his collection of Northern. I'd never heard of it!x He still DJ's on occasasion in Cambridge at partys....and still has those 103 tunes!! Forever grateful. He's been my Soul mate too ever since! Hadn't seen each other for several years...and I popped round a few weeks ago to give him the new Zoots tunes....and give credit t him for mine and Pete's inspiration. I's as if we were 14 again....in fact....I don;t think we've ever got past that day! Why should we?x So when I went to my first Soul Night in '93...proper one...EVERYTHING was 'new'!! I lapped it alll up eagerly....and still do!x Now...that generated some problems! I was putting together functions of our own and I needed records.....and there was tooo many to fall in love with from a DJ perspective....and not all that I discovered....got played!! I became 'guilty' of not playing tunes I should have!! Not to play easy stuff...but because I had so many that fit the 'play list'...from my 'innocent' perspective!!!! I was drawing on tunes from the past say 25 years to play....not like the then Lenny's or Bob Hindsleys...Roger banks...Chris kings and Irish Gregs at the time who were out and about and knew what was 'in...out...forgotten...or played to death!'...I didn't! But the point is....in my 'innocence'...some tunes got left behind....by me! Here's one>>>>> I got it in a box of records given to a Charity shop in Basingstoke around '94/5....all from Radio Solents 'archive'....and every 1 a demo!!! About 140 tunes....from the early 60's to perhaps 74/5?. Either the bag...or the record had 'Radio Solent' stamped boldly on it! It was a close thing too! They had a crisp box with a few 70's disco and a couple of LP's near their counter. I looked through them and asked the luvly old dears if they had anymore records! They seemed surprised and said in unison...'oh...that box is supposed to be going back with the others!'....I followed them into the back storage room....and there was this Arc of the Vinylment;....and had never actually been put out! Around the Nation at that time...Charity shops were deciding 'vinyl' wasn't cost effective to take up storage space...and so began withdrawing them from displays! What on earth happened to all those 1,0000000s of tunes...?! Daren't think about it since...! I have noticed Charity shops stocking vinyl again over the past few years...so perhaps they've changed the policy again?!x My personal favourite tune out of that box....was the above....Ernie Andrews Fine Young Girl. I'd never heard it...yet...it would make my personal top 50...! I took it everywhere with me....but....but...Irene and The Scotts...Dee's That's my Girl...Baby u Got It Maurice Mac....alll were 'in there' taking it's place....every time! I never spun it once....in public! I regret it. My question is...has it had an 'airing' or impact since??? I never heard it once in 7 years...and it weren't on my mates 4 tapes which covered Wigan...The Torch...possibly some Stafford stuff...so just asking?!x Reason being is because It has been the quickest tune bought up on me Ebay stuff so far!!!! It took me 20 minutes to make the flippin post and it was just up for 6 minutes....!!! I put it up for £20 and it was 'mint'! I just hope it gets played! I have a US copy....and it's real shiny and loud....so I let this one go and hope someone does it better justice than I did...! Sorry to have let meself and any of you down out there by not playing it as it deserved....!x I make small amends now.... @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ...erm....The Darrell Banks MINTLondon Demo....went to Naaaarwhich.....I drove alll the way on a Friday from Basingstoke full pelt and swapped it for£300 worth wiv my mentor back then Kev Fev....and those tunes put me in ever major venue around the UK within 3 months!x The Lady's in the shop asked for £5...tentatively...for the whole box. I had £37 cash on me at the time. I gave them it and a kiss on each of their rosey cheeks....and we all parted happily!x Me and Kev Fev...celebrating!!!x Charity begins at home...we saved them records we did!!x I hope whoever get's my copy appreciates that!x @@ ~

'ere Swifty....230+ hits to this thread.....how many do you think spun the tune....aaaaand....got excited at the klaxon....???!!x Every tune has it's place....and the above one has done it's job...I reckon!x I was there...Mill Road Cambridge...temporary accomodation sh*thole aged 14 1/2....and I got to borrow a record from me mate....Chuck Wood 7 Days and Footsie on t'other side! I danced to both in me bedroom...and was happy!x Come onnn....I know lot's of you 230 were too!x There...a 'happening'...thanx to Wigan FC....everything has it's place!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ....come on....'HAAAAANSUUUUPPPP!!!!.....'ere's ChAAAALKYYYYY....!hehe!x https://www.skooters.cc/zoots/hansup.mp3 Nite....!x

Give Bob a hug for me next time you see him Aid!x Your not wrong....Bob's not a 'naturallly gifted' DJ.... always was nervous before a set....unassuming and a gent. Yet he would RAAAM it everytime! Dunno why he worried all the time!!! I used to try and make him laff when on the decks together..his Mrs loved it!hehe!x Happy days....and glad to hear he is still kicking it.....and i don;t doubt it for a moment!x Good news!x LUV SOOTY X.

Are You A Paranoid D.j? ....who said that? ...!hehe!x Len...your turn for readybrek!!x Dilemma! As a 'DJ'...in the DJ sense ie out to 'entertain' the masses.....what do you do when folk come up and ask for certain tunes.....wherever you go!!! It happened to me constantly! 'Sooty tunes' so to speak were 'predictable' from Cambridge to Carlisle...Stockport to Southend and all in between!! I was 'innocent; and every tune was 'new' to me as far as 'spinning' them and their 'place' in the scene! I spun Comin Home Baby Mel torme...for the first time in '93 at the City Stop....similar to Have Love Richard Berry and Cards on The Table....aaaand Carla Thomas....wherever i went...I was the only one 'known' for playing them on the circuit as such....so folk asked for them.....and I had to oblige....that's what they wos paying for....to be happy...I felt!!x Now...let's say you have 20/22 tunes in a set...perhaps 5 were already chosen for me!!! Hopes and Dreams....it HAD t be played wherever i went at the time...Soulies demand!! Was I slated for it??? NO...I don;t recall the dance floor emptying once....to any set! Was I 'predictable'?? NOPE...cos i always slung in 2/3 that I had never played before....and 1 of those would become the new 'Coming home' job!! So...I wouldn't worry too much mate! Unless your sat wiv the same mates in your Den each month all chewing the same spoggy!!hehe!x But....you get around....and mate....I used to come allll the way from Cambridge to Wellingboro when i got started to hear your Bud Harper...Daves Jeanette...Ciro's stompers......and NEVER got bored of 'em!!!x Mind you....if u was playing it every week in the past 14 years......!?!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ....chill bruv!!....never ever had a clue wot i am gonna play until I open me box 2 minutes before I need too!!!x....even then....I might change me mind!!!hehe!x If it needed playing...and was right.....then just PLAY IT!!!!x

The only way one can judge such things as good or bad Len...is to listening to good...and bad!x I listened...and I repeat...I like the scene build up and it looked like St Ives in the alcoves! But...never seen anyone go to chat up a girrrl at a doo!!....well I ain;t!!! Talk their heads of yeah...stopped loads from doing that!! But 'lurve' at a doo????!!! We all love each uver but don;t go looking for it...do we?! Well none of my mates who were single on the mini bus did....! Perhaps that's why they were single....?!....! So...the posting has made me think....and reminisce...but yep...sh*te attempt at tapping the Norvern scene but liked the people walking into the room! An earthquake should have happened and they fall in a pit and the singer and band all slide in togever...a puff of smoke end of film. I;d have been happy...and eaten me porridge!x Fanks for bringing me to me senses Len....what have I done without you around for the past 14 years??!!!x LUV SOOTY X ....I mean....waddya say? Hi...me names Sooty wots ures? Want a drink? Yeah...nice....ah...hold on a minute luv...I gotta dance to this tune wivout yer! I mean...she'd think i;m gay or summink wouldn';t she? Unsociable at least? I just can't see it happening....for me....am i gay len??/...none of me Lady friends have thought so?!x Who put the flippin' video up....jeeeezuuuuuz. I was having such a happy day!x ...and...wot do I do wiv all these shirts that have got porridge on 'em???!!x @@ ~

I don't know if mine and Salmons paths crossed or we shared nights together in the 90's. I feel as though I missed out if we didn't. The sign of anyones life is how much they get back. It is clear from your posts he was a giver and man of the people....and soulful with it. From your posts....I know the character....and know he left a lot of happy and funny memorys behind. Take them with you and have a dance at your next gig for him. If he's the kind of guy I believe he was...he'd appreciate that as would his family. It's hard to say owt when you don;t know someone 'personally'...and hope this post relays my sincere sadness at this loss to you and us all...X R.I.P...Salmon....and thanx for making a difference to so many...X LUV SOOTY X Any charitable cause that may be sorted in connection with Salmon and his family then count me in...it's the least I could do for the family and friends he leaves behind......X

...first time of hearing it....and....it's punchy...and promotes 'something' for the scene even if it's just a 'venue' gathering!! Not offended by it and indeed let it spin to the end.....unfortunately! Thanx for posting!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

...about time and all Patto!!x Why Do You Treat Me....I played at Cottons in Stockport and at Blackburn A/N depending on the situation! Both sides have their place...as a chill out floater...or get up off of the seat stretcher....and I'm Stuck always got me unstuck off me seat!x I played Ask Any Girl B side of Baby Love at S/Nights too and was regularly asked by folk what it was and by who?!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X Edit....put up due to 2 pm's saying they'd never heard it and heads up thanx!!x So...for anyone else...!x DJ init....!x RuuuUUUUUUSSS!!!hehe!x @@ ~ ...and how come they survived not being splattered....amazing!!!hehe!x

.....wow....nice to hear this tune mentioned.....one of me favourite spins in the 90's! Red copy...paid £12 for it about '95!x Going rate was probably £20 at the time!x Whatever you pay for it...it is a tune I reckon!x LUV SOOTY X

...that is close 2nd ScooterNik....my survey sez folk say Rugby,,,,then I ask them what kind....and they go pear shape!x That's why I stick to referring to Northern Soul/Wigan...then there's no confusion....and folk remember that easily!x LUV SOOTY X I played Rugby....but until you said that.....I never even thought of it.....honest!x ...erm...and 25 years later...I wouldn't be able to tell u if I played Union...or League.......and until you said League for Wigan....I would have had a 50% chance of getting it right......so i'm normal.......tell Swifty will yer!x @@ ~ ...dis-claimer....I got on for the last 3 minutes....first English/brown man to play for Bridgend......and the last! The ball came to me during those 3 minutes....I screamed....chucked it somewhere and spent the rest of the time asking the ref when he was gonna blow the whistle..........scaaaarey poo!!!!x @@ ~ ...the tune synonymous that very night....and I actually danced to it...remember it well......slid across the dance floor Norvern style and all the Welsh went baaaah.....happy days!!x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNxhbDnhEVk

An interesting thing is this Zed1....I travel the country in all guises and vehidles. I meet 'the people' and hear their understanding of life. In my say 30 years of 'travelling' daily....I would say that Wigan is still known for Northern...than anything else! Those who danced to Weakspot and LJ Johnsons Your Magic Put A Spell On Me in youth clubs had heard of Wigan....I was one of them!!x So...the scene does have it's association firmly planted in the Nations psyche....my survey sez!x Like the Casino....i'm sure the football teams exploits will be remembered in 30 years time! But....by then...our grandkids will be talking about the casino....60 years on....!x The kids are the key!x Time may pass us by...and football matches....but the music will live on....I reckon...X LUV SOOTY X ...'ere Swifty.....if u get a copy of that LJ Joohnson....loooads at boot sales....slow it to about 20rpms.......and i swear....it's an Aboriginal chant....with authentic big pipes they use.....straight up!!! Speeded up it was a guaranteed 5000 year old dance 'hit'....I thought! Figured that in me bedroom in '74/5! There.....i'm keen!!x @@ ~

...lifes to be enjoyed Swifty...X I think Salmon would echo my sentiments and wish him and his family well.....X LUV SOOTY X ...now jump aboard Swifty....the partyyyy is starting in about 45 minutes...round mine......so a phone call just said....!!!! On it....!x @@ ~

...for Wigans chosen few....I like the underdog....being a non league fan I have no choice!!hehe!x But seeing as nobody else dare spin it.....come on...get ure sox off and wiggle them toes to celebrate a happy day for....'the people'...the underdog....football won for once!x LUV SOOTY X ....I put it up elsewhere for a laff....and over a dozen posters said the y ain;t heard it for over 30 years! When will Wigan win the FA Cup again???!x Like it or lump it....it is part of our 'heritage'!x @@ ~ P.S....had many happy days more than nights in Wigan throughout the 90's! On the way home from Blackburn I would steer the mini bus and convoy to Mick Lyons place ..The Temple Of Sound'. I was the only one he allowed to refer it to as The Temple of Doom'....because it was,,,, unless you were 'hard core'!x As you walked in at 9am Sunday morning ..it was 'banging' upstairs with LOOOOUD D&B....!!! Then in the back of the ground floor there was Jungle kicking and plinking! Then...we went down t'pit! A winding stair case to the basement...King Colemannnnn style!x Decks....chill areas...all sorted and waiting ...for the dayer! Me...i'm sure Shifty and a few others who were DJ's had a go first to get things going...and it was a free for all....with about 100 there by 11am! We'd leave to come back South about 12.....and loved every occasion! So Wigan...for me...has many happy memorys....that add...compliment....many of those had by you fortunate to go to theee Wigan...when it was 'happening'!x We did our bit to jeep the name flying...!x A happy day....and can't be ars*d to do the records on Ebay now either...so....tomorrow...a new day!x Have a good evening!x @@ ~

...I've stuck to Felix Len...since i've been awaaaaay.....!xhehe!x I do get confused so stick to keep it oats so smple! When we was about 'hacking it' around the Country....R&B...was only heard at Norvern gigs! Since then...they reckon they is playing it in every Night Club and it's across the charts???? I keep listening......and watching....but nope....it ain;t R&B as me Norvern R&B....NOWT like it....so I LOVE Northern Soul....and tell all about it...end of! No variants then init?!x @@ ~ LUV STODGY X

I have completed all the pics and stuff of the LP's and will be putting them on Ebay after 4pm today! Many 'buy it nows' at a real cheap price! I'm after your happiness not your money!!x Those who want a 'bargain' you have been forewarned be it an LP or one of the 30 odd 45's i've sifted from my collection as they are 'doubles' ie I have a demo/issue of it or 2 different labels of the same tune! Each tune has a 'story and was played somewhere around the land in the 90's!! For those interested my account is xsootyx on Ebay...100% in 12 years!x FREE P&P too!x LUV SOOTY X P.S...the proceeds from these records will go to the following....the LP dosh to my mate who is paying for his daughters wedding...in Barbados...and the singles cash will go towards my next purchase done to consolidate and enhance my 500 tunes!x The next purchase is Sweeter Than the Day Before on Chess...to replace the one I swopped in 98! £200 it will cost for a minter....I got £125 in swops for a copy 14 years ago....?!...i'm happy!x Gonna get it anyway....but recycling is the way to go...I reckon!x Happy Bidding!x @@ ~

...sorry folks...but I am confused as to why anyone should 'hide' their love for the music...or scene?! In 40 years of following/supporting it...not 1 person has ever said owt wrong to me about my following of it or their preceptions of it in a ridicul;ous manner! Why I ask myself? Is it because I look them square in the eye unapologetic? Is it because i believe in my music and they daren't mess with it...? Whatever their reason for taking me serious...it's worked!x I do mention the telly ads.....they like that and it makes it 'normal' for them i suppose!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X PROUD NORTHERN SOUL SUPPORTER...!x

Since '74...whoever wherever when asked my answer is 'standard'..."Northern Soul get's me up to dance...but I'll listen to anything." That has remained true throughout and whatever new fandango genre has been invented or re-invented and pumped out!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X Edit...erm...when thinking about it...I think I dance a Northern Soul dance to everythig else....that has a Norvern streak to it and danceable!x

Now Dave....you being a 'man of the people' I recall...should know better!!!!x They said that in '93...20 years ago.....'he's on drugs'!! Never wos until I went to an All-Nighter!!! FACT!! They then said i wos out to take over the drug movement....yet not 1 Soulie could tell you I sold em out.....except shared honest friendship. FACT!! Then they said I was a coppers knark....and they hid their tilples and sloped off behind stage....all the time I was trekking with me mate Dodge who took....wait for it...40 dex's a day...and slept like a baby! Or during the day had chaperoned a super star and wiped their nostrils before exiting the car for them. Nope....exactly 20 years on since me first promoted doo....everything I did in the Soul scene...I did by choice...measured...calculated and intended....and all thought about on on pure endorphine. And Dave...I came thru' with everything I said i would do and more...remember?!! U wos there!!x Then walked away happy with myself...and did the same elsewhere....for 230 victims of peedofila in my locality. I needed drugs to face that one....w**d...to relax ater a hard days listening. Perhaps I haven't had the natural highs some of you share on here for some time. So forgive me for inspiring meself....like I did in '93......or come to think of it....whenever I decide really! Consider it decision made. We did it in the 90's....'we'...can enjoy it again today....I reckon. I'd have been there in the 70's but was busy running around trying to get away from coppers tellin' me I wos a hooligan...! That was anuver injustice!!! I wos a victim....honest Dave!!!!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ....before I go....Dave...Dave Flynn.....how are you mate?!!!x Luvly to read your words of wisdom all the way from Japan!x This t'internet is marvellous init?!x I used to rush down the 100club...to hear your words of wisdom! You'd just released/been involved with the Sweeter Than The Day Before album....I bought it......yeah...me who don;t collect albums! I played 3 or 4 tracks of it at my Soul Night for months that I'd never heard. Sweeter than the Day Before i added to me 7" collection along with Maurice Mac....Marlena and they all served me well for 7 years...and have been eternally grateful ever since!x There...an album that had an impact on me! You and Gene Pitney....done it for me....ure as cute as he was too Dave...and hope u still are...!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X

But first....I got to take some sleeping pills or i will get depressed!!....Me bestest of all times mate....Russ.....shirley.....must have.....i'm sure i saw it.......but it went again....me name....it weren't on the list!!!! RUUUUUSSSSS!!!!!???????!!!!!!!! Is it cos i'm brown or summink....??!! Was I that sh*t????!!!hehe!x I wos so happy returning...and i;ve been pasturised to grass.......! S*d him then.....gonna speak to Richard and see if we can't get this bouncy floor titling side to side again like we did in the 90's.....I wos there.....holding on for dear life....happy days too!!!x I'm gonna push u off Russ.....I will.....!x @@ ~ I put the above in the UKIP thread in freebasing.........but decided to put it here and ask if you have a Ukalalee Len for me to paddle down the river on wiv me pipe....?!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X ....new mission....to get Chalky EXCIIIIITEDDDDD....again!!!.....on it!x WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!x @@ ~

Dave K....get ure Boots n and come say 'elo......and i'll have a Doddy wig waiting!!x A post made to anuver Hammer a few weeks ago elsewhere....u can have 'my' autograph too.....hehe!x @@ ~ P.S....I notice your a Hammers fan Focus On!x Here's one for yer.....I go several times a season to take fans/VIPs via Limo's etc. I park in the front car park where Execs do and stuff. I nick Chris Akubussi's spot when I have a long 'motor...and we fight everytime....with a chuckle obviously!x Luvly bloke and just like you see him on the telly. Point is....I stay with the car usually for the match and listen to Five Live......and spend the 1 1/2 hours signing autographs in the car park.....folk thinking i'm Chris wiv me hat on.....!!!That's what we fight about.....hehe!!x I went in this the last time...he didn't mind that as he could squeeze next to me no probs!!hehe!x If you see it there....come say elo...i'm kipping in the back usually!X @@ ~ WHAT A FIND John!!!x That woulda made my year mate!x I had a copy in the 90' s and played it at many venues and it went down well....always!x I forgot to say the other week when you mentioned that record you got off me....the one with the A.C Fleming stamped on it! Well...I shoulda plugged 'the man'...Alfie Fleming! I came across his son selling his Dads record collection about 12 years ago based in Detroit. He was into hip-hop...crack and in essence a waster. He told me his dad had been a DJ throughout the late 50's/60's and quit in '70! He had died in '98 and eventually his entire DJ collection ended up with his son. I bought the whole lot......on a 'feeling'. The list the lad had prepared of around 100...of the 450 tunes....was AWESOME! When they arrived....they all had his Dads 'stamp'...A.C.FLEMING proudly placed on every tune! There wasn't 1 Motown tune.....every record tho' was an 'obscure' 60's....SOUL tune....every flippin' 1!!! Ended up with over 40 tunes featured in the top 500 Northern! After spinning them all I kept about 150....and sold the rest on Ebay or swapped them and indeed gave some away.......yours being a 'nugget' I recall!!!x But....what's the point in keeping em if they ain't gonna get spun....sez I! I have currently about 600 out and out Northern. I still take me plastic tool box for DJing which holds 100 tunes and a Sooty puppet in the front!.....and mic.....! I used to DJ 3 gigs in a night on occasion and never played the same tune twice and still 'had it away'....so where does one 'stop'?! Alfie brought me to my senses in 2002! His collection put together when it was 'happening'....said all to me....and i;ve focused on getting a top 500....that would make my 'tool box' if I was blindfolded! I admire every record...the label...info on it...the feel and look....but....if it ain't gonna get played...by me....then it goes! Thanks to Alfie...I am focused on what is in the groove....and want it playing....or...the record is pointless!x Thanx Alfie....your legacy and passion lives on.....even tho' ure lad is a dipstick...RIP...X @@ ~ Now...on that point....since I parachuted in here a few weeks back...I've been going through me tunes when stirred by comment and stuff.....and....I have found about 30 tunes 'surplus' or duplcated in some way! On top of that...I have had a friend pop round with his daughter who is getting married....in Barbados! His problem...he needs money to pay for it!!!hehe! Him and his Mrs split up 20+ years ago. She ended up with his LP collection! He just got them all back...untouched for 20 years...unplayed since 1972!!!!! Pink Floyds Gilmour knicked his girlfriend too he told me...Cambridge based and all that!!!hehe!x (My mate is reading this...he was proud to tell me that story...so i thought i'd share that!!x) I was going to put a post up yesterday in here about my finds this week...but got side tracked sorting them out for him and selling some of them through my Ebay! he was a Mod in '63-8....Geno...Sam & Dave....original 'Old School' pioneer! He collected some Soul albums in the mid to late 60's...and then progressed into being an acid freak....as many did! So his collection went that way! Yesterday we sold Jimi Hendrix 'Are You Experienced'...MINT...and several other 'classics' of that genre....and raised £650 for his cause...! Originally he came to me and asked for £100...for the lot!!!! I said nope...we'll do it together. After the instant sale success with his hippy gear....he said I can have all the Soul LP.s.....as a 'thank you'!!! However....as i've said I don't collect...or play LP's.....so they....along with me doubles/surplus 7"....are going!!! I have looked at the Record Collector 2012...and Ebay....and the majority of the LPs are around £10-30....but....I want them to go to folk who appreciate them....not want to sell them! The money raised will go to Olivia's wedding. I've done her school prom....seen her grow up and stuff and wellll.....u know!x If it's valued/worth say £20....then i'm happy to take £10 including delivery...on condition you are gonna keep it and play it! I want it a no dealer sale! Alfie would be proud of me....music is for sharing!x Question is.....how can i do it?! Stick them on the Sales bit with a first post to say yes get's it kind of approach...and if ure a dealer then i'll out u no problem!!!....or wot?! I have prepared all the pics for an Ebay kinda thing....but...I can't 'control' the sale as much on there to ensure they go to 'the people' first! My mate ain't looked for profit on them...I ain't...why should someone else Alfie? So......suggestions please...anyone?!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X Priced at £350 in the RC 2012.....got £200 for a mint copy with 2 dealers offering £225 after the sale had been done!! The guy who got it had been waiting 30 years for this!! Like me...and my mate...we lovf'd the experience....thank you Jimi!x ... ...sing....WOOOOAAA...I'M GOOOOOING TOOOO BARBAAAADOS....WOOOOOOOHHH.........super stuff!x @@ ~ ...will be back later to put them up on here or Ebay. Off to go blackmail a celeb now into paying a serious amount into a lovely Ladys bank account who doesn't want to go through the public horror some 'victims' have to endure. I would love to put him through it. Music is pleasure.....personally i won't have it any other way..and i got my perspectives right....I reckon...X Have a happy day all...I will...X

....is it good Dave??!!x I believe you...!x I got copys of alternative takes back in the 90's from the vaults of Motown given to me. The Velvettes doing a Supremes hit and all kinda things...half a dozen came out over a year! Sent to me 'anonymously' too!!! I played them at doo's....but nobody believed me that they were who I said/thought they were!!hehe!x I'll admit this....for the first time in 'public'!x I believe Emporer Of My Baby's Heart...Kurt Harris became 'big' again...or for the first time in the mid 90's. I luv'd the record and was pleased to hear it around the Country. I had a copy of Dee Clark's That's My Girl'...and was taking it National wherever I went at the time too. Obviously I had become interested in anything Dee Clark as a consequence! I found this....at a Boot Sale around '96... I think Raindrops is the A side...and the above 'STOOORMER'..the B! When first playing it...I couldn't believe the 'speed' at which it was recorded......mad stuff...imagine the drummer and accompaniment?! Either heavy heavy drugs at play....or...trickery with the speed when 'pressing' the tune! So...I slowed it to 33....then increased it to about 38 rpm......and was astonished! I put a 'white label' over the B side......and took it to the 100club a week or so later. I spun it as 'Emperor Of My Baby' s Heart....PART 2' and called it 'Till the End Of Time'.........and folk danced.........!!! On that basis....there is...was...a story that a Kurt Hariss part 2...was found!!!!!x Those close to me knew 'the truth'....but thought it funny anyway!!x Sorry to anyone who I may have offended by my actions....but i;ve seen worse done by fellow DJ's!!!x You heard it here first....!x @@ ~ LUV SOOTY X EDIT.......JOHHHN PUGH!!!!! I know John...happy days again!x I'm sure I spoke with him last year via E-mail as we bumped into each other via Ebay or summink!x I will do a Major Lance....and 'investigate' further Dave!!!x