Tricky

Honestly it is just my personal opinion. I am opinionated as anybody will tell you but I am not the Soul Police either.😅😂🤣 Started in 75 at Kettering Central Hall,St Ives and Peterborough so deffo not from up north so perhaps that has something to do with it.

To Clarify. Northern Soul to too many people includes anything poppy with a dance beat still. Hence I distance myself from the term!

Just my personal opinion ok! For many many years now I have denied all knowledge of Northern Soul. It might be where I came from but I have happily left it behind me. My tastes are so wide and varied in the black music genre that frankly I find Northern Soul as a term embarrassing. Even today I have listened to certain podcasts where it reminds me that to too many people it really is just a dance track to which anybody can be the singer.No soulful content whatsoever. Now I do have soulful records by white artists in my collection and I do frequent venues, but Northern Soul not a term for me thanks.

You do learn something new every day.Love the Moovers and I now love Pic and Bills version. Thank You Mal

The bit I fail to get is the £300 to £400 price tag people want for it. It was always on my Detroit radar as a pleasant instrumental that I would like cheap.I knew of few copies. The vocal is average and of no interest to me. I can see why Matthew Barnett fetched money,this less so. As I said it seems to me a few people have caught a cold with this as it’s a difficult sell by the looks of it.

Fiery Spartans (Pic & Bill) is the hardest variation by a country mile. Earlier number as well.

Trouble is the Johnnie Brown was quite obscure and hard to get hold of. Plenty of sellers have it but paid a highish price for them looking at how high priced they are and how many are now stuck in dealers hands. So hardly a secret if you’re eyes are open. Sorry this isn’t meant as a dig by the way.

Thanks Nick I noticed that other Thelma/Ge Ge records were ZTSC but this was the first stamped vinyl copy I had noticed.

Am I going mental or is this an oddity? Was playing a stack off me Detroit shelves Saturday night when I noticed this. Emanuel Lasky, Welfare cheese / crazy on Thelma is Vinyl but has a ZTSC stamp. Anyone noticed or own any others. Trev

Postage is £3.50 signed for. Paypal Friends if possible in UK Pounds! 1 - JIMMY JULES - Ten carat fool - ABET - VG+ £30 2 - BLENDELLS - Night after night - COTILLION - VG+ £35 3 - WHISPERS - Needle in a haystack - DORE - VG++ £85 4 - HONEY and the BEES - Help me - JOSIE WDJ - VG++ £15 5 - SPINNERS - Bad bad weather - MOTOWN WDJ - VG++ £15 6 - WINDY CITY - I still love you - KELLI ARTS DJ - EX £12.50 7 - BOBBY WADE - I'm in love with you - WAY OUT - VG++ £30 Bought as a Demo which it isn't. 8 - FRANCES NERO - Keep on lovin' me - SOUL - VG++ £150 UK 9 - DEON JACKSON - I can't go on - CONTEMPO RARIES - VG++ £40 10 - RAINY DAYS - Anything i would do for you - SEVILLE - EX £30

Is it just me!!! I have always thought this was misidentified. Sounds like another unissued Deon Jackson track to these ears. What are your knowledgeable opinions?

PM sent.

I deffo feel safer with PayPal than I ever would with EBay. I am the same as others.Occasionally buy but stop selling end of this month.

Perhaps the bonus of this will be tunes to view and buy at venues again.

My GSF theories for what they are worth!!! 6896 Skullsnaps - White and issue demos only.Could if released have had I’m your Pimp on flip. 6914 Anderson brothers - Demo only. Dodgy scans won’t convince me this was issued after all these years. 6916 Connie Laverne - Demo only. Last release on label. 6915 Joe Quarterman - This was issued so hope springs eternal perhaps that there actually are issues of the releases either side.

I thought Ebay had upped their take. Now confirmed. Although it’s basically same end result they are still robbing gits. Bloody robbery including postage into fees.

Post is £3.50 - Paypal Friends if possible please. Pictures below. Puzzles - I need you - FAT BACK - VG++ £50 (COUPLE MARKS ON B LABEL) SOLD Tennyson Stephens - You got style - KUDU DJ - EX £20 Lenny Williams - Choosing you - ABC WDJ - VG+ £10 Ben Brown - Ask the lonely - POLYDOR UK - VG+ £100 (NICE AND GLOSSY STILL) Momie O - Your'e welcome stop on by - IDENTIFY WDJ - VG++ £80 Bobby Sheen - Come on and love me - CHELSEA - EX - £25 Gordon Berry - How Lonely - SPORT - VG++ £75 ( THE PISS TAKE LABELLING OF TONY DANIELS)SOLD Reuben Bell -Whats happening to the world - HOUSE OF ORANGE DJ - £20 Invitations - We don't allow no sitting down in here - RED GREGG - EX £15 (slight lift NAP) Charles Perry - How can i - MAGNUM - VG £15 (plays fine-been unsleeved- hard life) Hallelujah Chorus - I've got to find a way - NICKEL - VG+ £30 (B SIDE RUN IN HAS A SLIVER MISSING SO NEEDS CUEING CAREFULLY) SOLD Michael Jay Coleman - I'm falling for you - SOUND STAGE 7 DJ - VG+ £15

Post is £3.50 - Paypal Friends if possible please. Pictures below. 1 Lou Courtney - Hot butter n all - HURDY GURDY - VG++ £40 2 Ernie Hines - Help me put out the flame - STAX WDJ - VG+ £35 3 Angelo Bond - Eve - ABC - VG++ £20 4 Dyke and Blazers - Runaway people - ORIGINAL SOUND WDJ - VG++ £22.50 5 Lenny Williams - Choosing you - ABC WDJ - £10 6 Barbara George - Satisfied with your love - SEVEN B - EX £30 7 Diplomats - Love ain't what it used to be -WAND DJ - VG+ £20 8 Ida Sands - Start all over again - HOW BIG - EX £65 9 Beginning of the End - Funky nassau - ALSTON WDJ - VG+ £20 ( PART 2 THE SIDE FOR ME THESE DAYS ) 10 Betty Everett - Trouble over the weekend - VJ DJ - VG+ £15 11 Lee Bates - International playboy - INSTANT - EX £100 ( tiny lift NAP ) 12 Ray Jay & Eastsiders - Love doll - COTIQUE WDJ - EX £50 ( WATER STAINED LABEL BUT ALL SCRIPT READABLE BOTH SIDES ) 13 Patti Austin - Magical boy - UA UK - VG+ £12.50 14 Larrington Walker - Joy - UA UK DJ - VG++ £30 15 Jerry Butler - Just can't forget about you - MERCURY UK WDJ - VG++ £10 16 Dee Dee Warwick - Do it with all your heart - MERCURY UK - VG++ £50 Thanks for looking.

Doo Wop was really only ever a US thing. Soul in all its forms is Worldwide now. US collectors are no longer a minority and so much stuff plundered by us is heading back there.That is without everywhere else’s interest. I thought lockdown,furlow etc would curtail buying but in my experience nothing could be further from the truth. At the moment I am mainly selling spares and doubles but I do think about a more comfortable retirement occasionally.

Signed post is £3.50 - Paypal Friends if possible. Piccies at bottom of list. 1 Johnny Sayles - Anything for you - MINIT DJ - EX £70 (Nicer silver script - flip label ringwear and needle mark) 2 Carl Hall - Need somebody to love - ATLANTIC DJ - EX £35 3 Girls from Syracuse - Love is happening - PALMER - VG+ (better than VG) £35 SOLD 4 Brenda Starr - Satan let me sleep tonight - POLYDOR DJ - EX £125 5 Ola V Harper - I wanna weep - JEWEL - EX £30 6 Little Janice - Mirror mind - PZAZZ - VG+ £25 7 Barbara lewis - Fool fool fool - ATLANTIC DJ - VG++ £15 8 Eddie Bo - Check your bucket - ACTION UK - EX £20 9 Megatons - Detroit sound - LAURIE DJ - EX £25 10 Tony Northern - Covered with money - ARIEL - VG++ £40 11 Vont Claires - Dont cha tell nobody - DOUBLE R - VG+ £40 12 Bobby Reed - Ill find a way - LOMA - VG+ £110 (nice copy just hairlines) 13 Extentions - Your heart belongs to me - NICKEL - M- £60 14 Cruisers - Mink and sable mable - GAMBLE DJ - EX £90 15 Soul Rockers - If the shoe fits ya - BUDDAH DJ - M- £65 16 Africano - Satisfactorize your mind - HI - VG+ £65 (2 small sticker marks/ Rarer Issue) 17 Kelly Brothers - Crystal blue persuasion - EXCELL0 - EX £60 (just upgraded to mint demo/ getting regular lockdown internet plays) SOLD 18 Invincibles - Crystal blue persuasion - RAMPART - EX £100 (another corker of a version) SOLD Thanks for looking.

John What a great night at the cinema and 100 club it was. Cant believe how quick the time has gone. Trev

Bloody hell thanks for that last sold tip. How have I missed that 😳

Chipping in to buy an old wreck of a van to legally as opposed to going in a nicked car to various all nighters. Invariably broke down and with no license or insurance just as illegal. 😳

How about a recent piece of played in lockdown pap. That Jody’s got married pile of pop turd. 😂

Could the Rouser copy for sale at the Fleet have been Adam Buchannans? Sure I saw him selling it there!