Solidsoul

Maybe the orientation of the A & B sides numbers seems a little different, it's hard to tell. Like most collectors on here I have been scrutinizing vinyl for many years and this vinyl looks what I would expect from a record made around 1970. It has a slightly recycled look of vinyl made for small independent labels around the 60's/early 70's and is not bendy like modern vinyl.

My copy has what looks like, two stamped number one's on both sides runout's. Like a number 11. They remind me of the MGM bed stamp arrows. Is that on all copies?

"Trying To Get Back To You Girl" Jackey Beavers - Dade. Original first issue - Ex condition. 1970's Mecca classic. Always fills the dancefloor. SOLD. "60 Minutes Of Your Love" - Homer Banks - Minit. Fabulous great classic on first issue original. Condition is a nice Ex. £25. "Stay Here With Me" Sandra Richardson - Inter/Soul. original classic Detroit 45rpm. Condition is Ex. £25. Postage £3.45 recorded. PayPal friends@family or bank transfer.

Was that the seller who called himself "Pay my way through college" or something like that?

As mentioned earlier, it was a Richard Searling exclusive at Wigan Casino covered as the Embers. I remember thinking this is a record I will never be able to own. I was so pleased to be able to get one when they turned up in quantity. Full on Northern Soul with a superb slower tempo flip. I would never sell my copy and a lot of copies will be staying in serious collections! So market forces push up the price!

There are different of opinions on what constitutes an original UK release. To me, if it was released around the time of the original recording or issued with a view to getting it into the UK commercial charts, it is an original. If it was legally pressed many years after it was recorded and issued only for a specialist market like the Northern Soul scene it is not a proper UK release. So to me, Frank Wilson on the first UK black label Tamla Motown release, was a long time after original recording but it was released in the hope of some commercial chart placing, and the general public, so it is an original UK release. You could of gone and bought it from your local record shop. But the Pointer Sisters on Out-a-site was released for a specialist Northern Soul market and not intended for the general public and the commercial market, so to me it's not a UK original. I suppose it is all a matter of your personal viewpoint on it.

Probably because some people can't be bothered looking at, or don't want, cheap records! So put it at a higher price and it gains more interest and maybe a sale. Silly I know, but true!

"When The Music Grooves" / "Let Her Love Me" Otis Leavill. Bluerock. Original first issue USA 45rpm. Condition is a nice Ex+ Classic dance side and a pure quality Impressions style flip. £30 plus £3.45 recorded delivery for UK delivery. Paypal friends & family or bank transfer.

Great instrumental, and that used to be the only side played, back in the day!

I'll Do Anything" - Doris Troy on Calla. Most red and white label copies are coloured demo's with "Promotional Copy Not For Sale" written on the right hand side. The red and white stock copies without the promotional info are much more scarce. With both being the same coloured label, it is not very noticeable.

"What Do You Want With My Love" c/w "Your Love" The Stratoliners. SOLD. Federal. USA original 45rpm first issue. Condition is a nice EX. Just a couple of very light sleeve scuffs and drill hole in label, otherwise it would be a minter. Plays really well with great fidelity. Much rarer on this greenish/blue issue than the white demo!

I have known it for over 40 years but for someone who has recently got into Northern Soul, it's still quite fresh. I try and take a pragmatic view of the Northern Scene and take it for what it is! Saying a record is hammered to death is a relative to the induvidual person, but certainly not true for everyone listening to it! I agree that a DJ who plays a totally predictable spot of big sounds, but does not use some imagination and include some semi knowns is tiresome. But others might be listening to the same spot and they hardly know any of the records, so they are all fresh sounds to them!

Nice happy post!! Start your own venue and play the music you like! Build up a following and something positive may come out of it!

"Thanks, But No Thanks" - General Crook - Wand. Original USA 45rpm in a nice EX condition. £20 plus postage.

Dinosaur to you too! Some of the new releases are ok, and I have listened, but they don't have the chrisma and production flair of the records from the 60's and the 70's in my opinion. They are just simply not as good!

"Stormy" by Diana Ross and the Supremes -Tamla Motown. This lingers for a while! Such a great record by them!

Sold. For sale a lovely original of - The 7th Avenue Aviators - "You Should Of Held On" on Congress. This is a really great condition USA original 45rpm. Looks and plays a great M- £2000 plus £10.65 fully insured to a UK address. Payment by bank transfer or Paypal (using friends & family option, or add paypal commision fee 2.9%) Please P.M. any questions. Thanks.

Bought mine off John Manship for £3. It was not that rare back then, and I wouldn't be surprised if a small box full has turned up. It was only a soul collectors record when I bought it. In other words, it was good but considered to slow to DJ with! The dance floor scene has slowed down, hence the popularity of the crossover record. I don't think it's a good or bad thing that the scene has changed, it just makes it more interesting. We couldn't keep taking that dancing stimulant forever😉.

Are you still looking for this?

Wrong! It's a fabulously great record😊

"You're Still The One" Roscoe Shelton T.Jaye. Original USA 45. £20 plus postage Condition is mint- Clip is off you tube just to hear the tune.

Always for me, the instrumental "How Can I Forget" - Joey Dee - Caneil. Monster instrumental back in the day and once in my head, How Can I Forget?😏

The LP will be cheaper, but then you would only have the LP, and would not have the original 45! I would think that the buyer really wants the original single.

I was in Marks & Spencer's clothes dept about 10 years ago, heard the fabulous "Thank You Baby" - Matt Brown from the Jar Val label. One of the best so called "crossover" records you are ever likely to hear!

Not Cd, but you will remember there was the Ric Tic Relics Tamla Motown LP with the pictures of Ric Tic records on the cover. A proper CD of good sound quality would be a good thing.