Richard Free

Forgot to mention the backing singers were great .I always love the backing singers

She was signing a few records and it was no bother taking pics at the 100 club .Although I only took a couple and they weren't too good .Love your Stafford scribing Chalky!

Maybe there will be another slump in prices or maybe not .For sure some relatively common records are selling for over the odds due to demand .There will also be a bunch of collections coming to the market in the next years as some of us older collectors pop our clogs .Demand however is now from all around the world and there is a growing youth market for funk sweet soul and northern . One thing that is for sure is that the genuinely rare records will continue to achieve big prices .Another point worth mentioning is how many American soul collectors there are including a lot of younger guys .Walking into a record shop Stateside is certainly does not mean easy pickings anymore and it hasn't been that way for a good while .The days of big old stock finds are also extremely rare .Most of the Radio stations have been done .The biggest percentage of big tunes are stuck in collections .So who knows where prices will go ?

Great to see Betty Harris at the 100 club .She started off a little sluggishly with Mean Man but soon picked it up with great renditions of many classics and could still bang a tune out for sure .She's appearing in Manchester tonight and you never know it might be the last chance to see a truly great artist in th UK .What a great time we had listening to great music and meeting up with old friends and making a few new ones .What a great venue .

I will take your city lights Angus cheers richard

Bootlegs were the first Northern records I bought .I didn't even know they were bootlegs I was 14 and discovering Northern soul .I loved the music and learnt to dance in my bedroom along to the sounds of these illegal pressings . The bootleggers gave me access to sounds I could hear only at the weekend otherwise .There were no CDs no Spotify not even lovely Kent compilations so back in 1974/5 there was no alternative if you wanted to play these tunes at home you bought these illegal presses .After a very short time on the scene I started to buy originals at first just cheapies and then more expensive tunes .Today I would not dream of buying a boot but back then they did serve a purpose . I fully agree with Mr Croasdale re the ovo nights the d j s can play a great selection of music even if they don't own a copy of The Salvadors or a Tomangoes .The local soul nights have always played boots and will continue to I am sure but I really do not see the point of bootlegs now when you can access the music in so many other ways .If a DJ wants to be respected on the soul scene he or she plays original vinyl . I must admit that I still own a few bootlegs from my youth they are part of my personal history .

Wants to help fill Christmas stocking Tony Middleton Spanish maiden ,Tommy Bush I don't like it originals only properly graded at vg+ an old fashioned vg would do but vg+ seems to be the old vg if you get my meaning cheers Richard

Linda Jones and ike and Tina gone??

Message me if Marvellos falls through please

About £100 or a little more with the wind blowing in the right direction or an eBay nutter or two bidding

I have always thought the white Canterbury demo is the one to own .replaced my soul town copy with one and fell much happier .

Steve Clarke had a constellations on Facebook page the hassle free page ??

Ray pollard please

Need a copy of Lee Bates Why don't you write .cheers Richard

I will take this please cheers Richard

Lots of great soul sevens and albums at our new shop in Liverpool

It's always been a top want for me .I love the instrumental .i first heard it on the east coast and thought it was a soul Sam play before it came to Wigan but I am sure someone will wade in with the facts on that one .I loved Derek and Ray interplay as well but we all have our personal issues .Thanks to Jay Martin for the info re the label and the artists performing on it .I still need one if anyone has a nice original lurking in the depths of their box but too embarrassed to play it

Hi got a us copy on King vg+ £12 incl postage cheers Richard

I am sure if the accidentals was in demand the price would shoot up pretty fast .i have owned a copy for some years bought in the Midwest .Many years of digging and I have never seen another copy for sale at a record show ,record store or flea market in the US so certainly not common but not a £300 tune

I have a vg++ copy if pi can't find his same price £15

I remember that list from 1976 I had just started work that year and I was planning how to spend my wages .£16 per week .had to give my mum £8 so not much left over .found out from guys at Wigan it was all boots anyway .it was big news in the record bar . re the boots on eBay it is fraud and deception and the perpetrators need outing .They are trading on some peoples naivety.Sick of other eBay listings not even mentioning that record is a re issue and have been coming across the same issues on discogs especially from Belgian sellers . Buyers beware

I will take your joe Mathews pl see cheers Richard

I take it it's gone?? Cheers Richard

Got on abc £25 incl postage cheers Richard

Thing rob messer had one?