Chris L

Got it thanks

Wasn't he a sort of "test driver" for Bacrach & David, if a song worked with him they'd shove it out to someone like Dionne Warwick. I always felt that he's the sort of bloke you'd like to have living next door to, by all accounts a top type guy and a wonderful singer to boot. If it's a white pop singer then my fav is Elaine McFarlane, it's a sort of a puberty thing as for a soul one then probably Chris Bartley, although it may well be that Van McCoy could make you even sound good Ady Chris L

Well received, thanks.

As a young lad in the early 70T's I was desperately jealous of those people who could afford to get the US and buy records, I really was. However I got older and Northern Soul became just a distant memory. In 1991 I joined a large US company and from 1993 onwards I started to regulary visit the US. At that time it never interested me to go a huntin' for vinyl but after being tracked down for SWONS I decided to give it a go. I wrote an article for This Old Soul fanzine about my first trip : https://www.thisoldsoul.com/chrl1.html However the real gem find came curiously enough via an Ebay seller. I'd just won a demo of the Younghearts (it was the year 2000 BTW) and the seller said "If there's anything else you're looking for I've got 85.000 old records in new condition and I might just have it"....................well.....................I replied that I was going to be in the US a month later could I come along and take a look at what he had. I wasn't really but decided this had be about the best chance of getting me hands on anything. Anyway the wife and I took a holiday in New York, after a week I dropped her off at Newark airport for the flight back to Brussels, I hired a car and drove to New Kensington in the grimy state of Pennsylvania. I found the place....oh oh oh talk about white trash, yikes. The blokes house was a filthy tip, he didn't work, he lived on a phoney union organsied disability allowance, his wife had left him some 5 years earlier, why was I not surprised! Anyway the deal was that his best mate had just died, he had been a juke-box repair man he changed all the records on the juke boxes in the area. This bloke had lived thru the Great Despression and had learned never to throw anything away, including all the 45 records that had passed thru his hands. All the records were stewn around this mans house (I referred to him as Dirty Eddie :-). I spent 2 days there and went thru about 75% of what he had. Arriving at 8.30 in the morning and leaving at 10.30pm at night. It really was quite a dodgy area, on the 2nd night I heard a gun fire, 5 shots, I clung to my hard found vinyl no badboy was gonna take 'em away without a fight..................... What did I leave with, 3 copies of the Trends, 2 Willie Kendricks, 2 Art Freeman, 1 Major Lance, 2 Jerry Cooks, 3 Emanuel Laskys - Peace loving, plus loads of other oldies worth about £25 - £75 a go. I paid the guy 470 dollars for 480 records, I didn't sell them all but the ones I did sell I got nearly £5000 for. Whilst I was there Dirty Eddie kept telling me that he'd made contact with someone I knew (it turned out to be Pete Smith). I do remember walking from Eddies house on the 2nd day heading back to Newark and counting the steps from his front door to the car thinking 2 things - will I have time to duck when I hear the gun shot and things like this don't happen to me I don't normally get this lucky. Well I understand that Mick Smith went there abut 2 weeks after I'd been and in Northern Soul record terms I had only left a Lee Roye. I still smile a small smile when I think about it, wonder how many other Dirty Edies are out there ? Chris L

Received and AOK it's on it's way........................

All are US originals unless otherwise specified, play great on my decks, I can scan thru photos of labels & vinyl upon request, postage £1.75 for a single 45, add 45P per record thereafter. sol = sticker on label srlL = sticker residue on label wol = writing on label ftl = felt pen writing on label dr = drill hole xl = X on label The Soul Twins - Quick change artist/Give the man a chance - Karen EX++ (near mint -) dr - old store stock. £95.00 SOLD Artistics - This heart of mine - Okeh - VG+ £38.00 - plays great SOLD Ike & Tine Turner - Dust my broom - Tangerine - MINT £25.00 Johnny Wyatt - This thing called love - President (original issue) MINT - £20.00 SOLD J J Barnes - Our love is in the pocket - Revilot -wol -VG+ £58.00 SOLD Sweet Things - I'm in a world of trouble - Date - EX++ (near mint -) £65.00 Tony Clarke - Landslide - Chess - EX - plays great - £30.00 SOLD Dells - Run for cover - Chess - EX - plays great - £30.00 The Marvelettes - I'll keep holding on - Tamla - small xol- EX - £20.00 Christine Cooper - Heartaches away my boy - Parkway (rare issue) DR - VG+ £175.00 SOLD Hank Jacobs - Rocking with Elijah - Call Me (demo) - ftl - EX - £48.00 SOLD Contours - Just a little misunderstanding - Gordy (rare white demo) EX - £15.00 SOLD Edwin Starr - My weakness is you - Soul - EX+++ - wol - £12.00 Barbara Banks - River of tears - Veep demo - EX - very small srl- £47.00 SOLD Tyrone Barkley - Man of value - Midsong - MINT - £20.00 Ad Libs - Nothing worse than being alone - SHARE - Mint £10.00 James Carr - That's what I want to know - Goldwax - VG+ - £10.00 Lou Johnson - Unsatisfied - Big Top - VG+ - £10.00 SOLD Denise La Salle - A love reputation - Tarpon - G+ (plays all the way thru no skips or jumps) £5.00 SOLD Sandy Winns - A touch of Venus - Champion - Ex - £30.00 - sol. The Spellbinders - Help me - UK CBS (the original 1966 issue) - EX - £15.00 SOLD the Spellbinders - Chain reaction - UK CBS (the orginal 1966 issue) - EX++ - £12.00 SOLD Shawn Robinson - My dear heart - Minit demo - VG+ - XL - £110 Darrell Banks - Somebody somewhere needs you - Revilot - EX+++ - £12.00 - plays mint SOLD Walter Jackson - Uphill climb to the bottom - Okeh - Mint minus £12.00 SOLD Major Lance - Investigate - Okeh - mint minus - £24.00 Gene McDaniels - It's a lonely town - Liberty - mint minus still in it's original Liberty sleeve - £12.00 Kim Weston - Helpless - Gordy - looks VG - plays EX - ftl - £8.00 SOLD The Velvelettes - Lonely, lonely girl am I - VIP - VG+ - £40.00 SOLD All my records are guaranteed - not happy - money back with a thanks for looking Chris L

Sort of reminds me a bit, well in fact not at all, but it's an Ian Levine thing so well worth posting. When he found her and brought her accross to the UK for her first gig, as a sign of gratitude she gave him her only copy of this.........................................signed all over the label "To Ian love Sandi".....................made it worth more or less ? BTW I wass her driver don't you know, honest to God I was, ask her.............. Chris L

Ja ventje, je hebt hier geen vrienden gemaakt. Stom om over de aankoop prijs te stuffen en dan nog zotter zeggen dat je geen soul music graag hoort, man gij zijt een crack, dertien honderd dollar, laat ons weten voor wat het verkoopt, mischien zijn er nog gekke Britten die dat sort geld betalen. Ikke niet in ider geval............................... Chris L

I've seen a red boot but not a multi-couled one............ Chris L

Remember one night when Levine, Neil Mason, Dave Lowe and a few others came over to Leeds looking for him ( 'cause he'd done them). He lived in a flat in Headingley,but we were unsuccessful in breaking in ( it was on the second floor) and we were law abiding citizens ( apart from the odd spliff, gear etc). Happy days Julian

1st we went to the Cats, me Brucey, Hugh & Phil, there was only Alan S and some dopey bird in there, all the rest decided to go the Mecca, most bizzare. Mind we didn't 'alf 'ear some great sounds, plus that bird gave Phil a big bag of sweeties to get home with "know what I mean?" The rest, as they say........was spewing our guts up down the M1 Chris L

I never see this for sale, what do they go for nowadays ? I've only ever seen an issue and that was way.........way.........back in the 70T's. thanks Chris L

Tyrone Barkley - Man of value - MINT !! £20.00 postage £1.50. Get back off list thanks Chris

Mint copy of Bobby Womack - Home is where the heart is, £35.00, postage £1.50. Get back off list please. Photo of actual record.

Do you have alist of all the different posters or is it just these 2 , thanks Chris

Copy of The Marvelettes - I'll keep holding on on Tamla (Twin Globes) in mint minus condition. £35.00. Postage £1.50. Contact off list please. Thanks Chris L actual record.

Very true young man. Most of the ones that do write these vindictive posts tend to be people who really haven't "done much" on the soul scene. When you've been there, done it, smoked the tee shirt, all in a MK I Cortina to boot, well it just ins't worth it. Soul fans who've stuck their necks out will, unfortunately, get them hacked off, usually by the "Only Three Known Copies" crowd. Live and let live. Chris L

They didn't notice it and never gave a sh**

Selling a VG++ / Ex copy of the Marvelettes - I'll keep holding on on US Tamla label, plays great twin globes. £20.00, £2.00 postage. Thanks, Chris S O L D

If you lived in London (we I dunn like) there was only 2 places to go to get clothes. First choice was the Ivy Shop in Richmond, they sold brogues, plaintops, BS's, all the right stuff. Then later, about 70/71 would have been Quincy's, also in Richmond, into loafers, pringle jumpers, etc. We were so cool we had icicles between our teeth. Me at 16 Chris L

I guess it all depends on your point of view. If you believe that the Northern Soul scene is an amatuer boys and girls club where we are all "good mates" then yes let's by all means take all these issues into consideration. If on the other hand you think that it's a pure commercial decision then make that commercial judgement. You may of course get it all wrong, there are many stories of venues having an attendence figure of 20 or less, or..........if you research it well, get the right DJ's and music policy, a great venue then good luck to you. after you pays your money and you takes your choice, cream will always rise to the top. Chris L

This is one of those choons that's souns a tad naff in je bedroom but rocks a dance-floor at about half past midnight. Not sure if they reach much more than £50 nowadays. Chris L

Rimster you're a diamond, don't go changing..................... Merciekes................ Chris L

Just paid £20.00, they tended to go for about £30. Chris L

Gerry & the Pacemakers (no pun intended) recorded "Today I'm In Love" who did the original ? Curious Chris.................