Nickinstoke

I’m moving house soon and need to find the best ways of moving, accommodating and maybe storing a substantial collection. I’m sure some of our members have done this - I’d really value any helpful advice you can offer

Moving house so they've got to go. I have a load of record company catalogues, as supplied to UK record shops in the '60s and '70s, plus stuff like release notification sheets. I don't want anything for them, but you'd have to collect. PM me if interested

Thanks for your replies. I’m sure I’d tried Covers 33 before without luck. Good spot Derek - I won’t have to dig out my Blue Peter Annual and make my own

Does anyone know of anywhere I can get some 25 count 7” mailers?

Thinking back to the original question, it’s easy to forget how popular the Drifters were. “Saturday night at the movies” was a massive sound, and “Sand in my shoes” was close behind. It’s almost unimaginable that either would get a spin today. Likewise Sam Cooke - “Chain gang” and “Another Saturday night” were very acceptable plays back in the late 60s

Three Impressions tracks I danced to back then, that you’ll never hear now: Amen, Meeting over yonder, You always hurt me. All popular back in the day.

Another Spencer Davis Group track that had its day in the sun was “This hammer” - long forgotten - and another Little Milton was “Who’s cheating who”

I’m sure I remember DG writing about taking the Ad Libs to the Wheel, along with “Prove yourself a lady”, in one of his B&S columns

I've just done a Google images search, looking for Jimmy Holiday "How can I forget". Among the pictures it brought up was one of the Krankies. It must be because the B side is called "Janet" and the part of Jimmy Krankie is played by Janette Tough. Pretty horrible though!

Thanks for the info Russell, really interesting stuff

Does anyone know anything about the Dutch release of Marvin L. Sims "Get off my back"? It has the same catalogue number as the US Revue, which suggests it was released about the same time, but the label looks like mid-late 70s. If so, why the reissue in the Netherlands?

I'm sure most Soul Source members are regular listeners to Radio Four's Woman's Hour, but in case you missed it they interviewed Stax's Deanie Parker on Wednesday. It's on the BBC iplayer, about half an hour into the show. She's appearing at the Proms tonight

I've still never quite worked out if the Bob & Earl is a different recording from Bobby Garrett, despite playing them back-to-back over the years. Bob & Earl sounds as if it could just be a poorly-reproduced Bobby Garrett, but I'm a bit cloth-eared! Does anyone knw for sure?

I found a flea market this morning - quite a few records but nothing of interest

I hope that's not rhyming slang!

Looks like it'll be just eating and drinking, then

Looks like cake is all I'll be buying

A long shot, but does anybody know of any? Google lists a place called Agulha, in Funchal, but I've been and it's closed down.

I can remember a large circle forming to do a special clap to Mary Wells "What's easy for two", around 1968/9

Now sorted, big thanks to GrayM

That's great, many thanks

I'm trying to find an announcement of some sort for the launch of the Mojo label, in March 1971. Unfortunately, I'm missing B & S issue 53, which is probably where it would have appeared. (I've got #54, which has an ad for the first 3 releases). Does anyone have a copy of #53 they'd like to sell, or, failing that, can some kind and generous soul scan the article for me - if there was one! Cheers Nick

Tim Brown once listed a "rare, unsigned, copy" of Rosemary, I guess making the point that he'd autographed a lot of records

Mine arrived today, it's been keeping me good all day. Well impressed, Steve

I always think James Phelps sounds a lot like Sam Cooke, as does Louis Williams (Ovations). Sidney Joe Qualls sounds a lot like Al Green