Paul McKay

The Charles Johnson went for £408 on Manship auction a liitle while ago, last saw it listed for £300 - £350. Martha Reeves is around £75 - £100 for an issue.

Last one on Manship was £300 and £225 on Brady.

I've got 'Great' whats the details on 'Two time loser'?

The Ray Barretto featuring Phillip Mitchell is on 45 too: BARRETTO, RAY ATLANTIC 3524 DJ WHAT PART OF HEAVEN DO YOU COME FROM? / SAME

Not bought anything of late but dug these out tonight: TABLE OF CONTENTS - WRAPPED AROUND YOUR FINGER - LAKE (VERSION OF POETS) ROZ RYAN - YOU'RE MY ONLY TEMPTATION - VOLT DJ GENE CHANDLER - BABY I STILL LOVE YOU - CURTOM HOLIDAYS - THE LOVE WE SHARE - ROB-RON CANIA - VISIONS - TAMMY JO RICHMOND EXTENSION - EVERYTHING'S COMING UP LOVE - SILVER BLUE (NEVER NOTICED BEFORE BUT THE BASE LINE IS STRAIGHT OUT OF JUST MY IMAGINATION) ROY KINARD - PART TIME LOVE AFFAIR - BAZAR PAUL BURTON - SO VERY HARD TO MAKE IT - MUSIC- GO- ROUND

Good call. I pulled out Brenton Wood 'Take a chance' on Double Shot to play on Wednesday - cracking midtempo and cheap as chips. Several people came up to the decks to ask what it was too! A great tonic for anyone behind the decks.

A US dealer Col.

At least you were right on the cold bit!

They're from Finland!

Some of these are quite expensive these days, but I'm wary of this guys grading. Price is OTT.

Is there a problem Dave?

I agree entirely what you are saying, although I personally didn't find out about the other 2 until I'd already posted about Johnny's free niter on here and Soul Talk.

Do you mean the clash between Johnny Gamel's birthday party & the NCS do? (There was also Yann & Mile's Soul Devotion do on the same night, so a three way split). Johnny did make the 8 - 1.30 period R&B so that there wouldn't be a split.

Helen & I went to the last Crossfire by public transport. We stayed to the end and got home via 2 night buses around 5am having left at 3.15. Might as well have gone onto one of the after parties really and made a night of it!

As one of the co-promoters of Soul in the City I thought I might say a few words here. We've been running SITC for 3 & 1/2 years now, in 4 different venues. 3 have had a dance floor and one didn't. At the end of our dance floorless run we got down to 15 attendees including us 4 Djs, but we soldiered on because everybody who did come enjoyed having a few beers whilst listening to some good music. At the start of the KFC adverts we were approached by Nylon, a City night club to run a weekly Northern night. We, quite rightly we felt, countered their proposal and offered to run a monthly night. We were there 7 months and attendances were very good (peaking at over 100). They closed down and we found a new venue, Vivo, just the other side of Cheapside, where we've been ever since. It has a great dancefloor and although the venue is smaller than Nylon, it has quite a lot of seating and so can look quite empty early on if no one's dancing, but once people are up on the floor the atmosphere changes completely. Now onto attendances in general. My feeling is that, as the last night at These Old Shoes proved people will come out to a midweek do in London in numbers, but the general apathy level in London, means that a lot of people don't bother. TOS for the last year of it's life soldiered on with fairly low attendances and yet the last night was rammed. As Rbman said above, we must use our nights or lose them. Everyone you speak to regrets the demise of TOS, but how many made the effort? Clashing of dates is a cardinal sin, this must surely be a case of 'let's work together'. Travelling to and from dos can be a real pain if you don't drive or, like me, enjoy a few beers with your soul music, but it's quite often possible to blag a lift off of one of those who do drive. I got a lift home from Hatfield to Bromley, Kent the other week & to and from Brighton at the weekend, & gave 2 people a lift home from SITC on Wednesday, so it is possible. I hope that SITC isn't considered a dead duck, as we put a lot of work into promoting the night and play a good spread of Northern Soul of all genres. As DJs, you will quite often find us asked to DJ at various other venues, both at home and occasionally abroad, so hopefully we're doing something right. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the quite large number of Soul Sourcers who came along on Wednesday for turning up and hope that you all had a good time at Vivo and that we'll see you again soon.

That's no excuse Karen! If Janine and Dave can get there before closing time........

Actually Deeve, that was Johnny Gamel's birthday bash - not Johnny T's!

It was on Manship's site yesterday for £15.

I've certainly heard worse for £5! Definitely not as good as MGFJ.

Here's the details of the 45s Gash, but there's also an LP with another track, can't recall the title though, which is LP only: PIONEERS MERCURY 6007147 MY GOOD FRIEND JAMES / SECRETS OF YOU PIONEERS MERCURY 6198081 BROKEN MAN / INSTR.

Might be worth trying Joe Dunlop - he had one for £50 recently.

£150 - 200 I would have said Dan, but what the hey - great album!

Neither on original US 45, but you can get this legit (?) UK issue: HORACES 7 I'LL NEVER STOP LOVING YOU - CARLA THOMAS / STARS - BARBARA LEWIS

Seem to recall one of the group split and recorded this. Then had to release next 45 as Dramatics Band: DRAMATICS BAND MAINSTREAM 5576 SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE / SHO NUFF GOOD FEELING

Pretty much recovered from Johnny's Niter party. A good turn out, good dance floor, good company (a number of Sourcers - good to meet Chrissie) and a great venue. Heres my 2.15 - 3.15 playlist: Charades - The key to my happiness - MGM DJ Majestics - I love her so much it hurts me - Linda DJ Frank Beverlly & Butlers - If that's what you wanted - Gamble Oxford Nights - I'm such a lonely one - Delphi Larry Allen - Can't we talk it over - Green Dolphin Soul Communicaters - Those lonely nights - Fee Bee Cashmeres - Show stopper - Hem Younghearts - Little togetherness - Canterbury Volcanos - It's against the rules of love - Arctic DJ Rubin - You've been away - Kapp DJ Frankie & Johnny - I'll hold you - Hickory DJ Kurt Harris - Emperor of my baby's heart - Diamond Sam Fletcher - I'd think it over - Tollie DJ Carol & Gerri - On you heartaches look good - MGM DJ Bill Bush - I'm waiting - Ronn Timi Yuro - It'll never be over for me - UK Liberty Timmie Williams - Competition - Mala DJ Betty Lloyd - I'm catching on - BSC Impressions - You've been cheatin' - UK HMV Epitome of Sound - You don't love me - Sandbag Seven Souls - I still love you - Okeh DJ PPat & Blenders - Just because - Fast Eddie Sapphires - Gotta have your love - ABC Paramount DJ Jack Montgomery - Dearly beloved - Scepter Tobi Legend - Time will pass you by - Mala DJ Velvelettes - Lonely lonely girl am I - UK Tamla Motown DJ Johnny Maestro & Crests - I'm stepping out of the picture - Scepter DJ Stayed until 6.30 and then went off to "My Tea Shoppe" under London Bridge station for some brekkie with ChrissieO, RBman, the lovely Miriam from Sweden and Helen, strangely RBman wasn't hungry