Solidsoul

If you are not happy with what's being played, do something about it instead of moaning about it! Start your own venue and play the records you want played! Don't expect somebody else to do it! What have you got to lose, if a few like minded friends join in with it.

"Seven The Loser" - Eric Lomax "Ten To One" - Lou Roberts "I'll Bet You" - Theresa Lindsey

I've been on the Northern scene since 1974 and always been keen to find out about new records. But I still love the classics! In all that time I have observed an enormous amount of snobbery and one upmanship! I have seen people turn their backs on great music because someone told them they were oldies. Some people like very substandard records, if they think that nobody knows them. We used to run a venue with the classics in the big room and a smaller room for collectors. We knew the small room would not be full, but it was an acceptable way to get new sounds played. People did wander in from the big room and it was gratifying when some stayed. Maybe this is the only way to do it!

I am all for playing new stuff, but lets face it, most of the great records are known and have been played! It's all a matter of perspective and what the individual knows or doesn't know. A newie for one person is a record another person has known for years! I don't know how people can love a record and think it's the best thing since sliced bread, then ten years later look down their noses at it. That must show how bad their music taste was in the first place! I think it's DJ's that you like, you should follow, and not venues.

Interesting to know about the variation with the Rubin release. Patti and the Emblems is similar, with different run out numbers, only the red A is on different sides on that one. Could be Kapp used two pressing plants.

Are the Reflections on ABC a different group to the Golden World group? I thought Tony Michaels was the lead singer?

Reggie Soul for over £1300! It's not just Reggie on the ecstasy😍! A record that was about £10 to £15 for years and years. I bought mine off John Powney for £8 and sold it for £12. At least I made a profit!!

"Girl I Love You" / "It Rained Forty Days And Nights" Garland Green USA original Revue 45rpm. A really nice Excellent plus condition. Looks and plays great. Two fantastic sides! £200 plus £7.50 insured postage. Payment Paypal friends and family or bank transfer.

Amazing interview with the Magnetics. They say the Sable sides were cut at Chess records with Richard Evans. These people were making fantastic records, but it seems they just could not get any worthwhile promotion! At least they are appreciated by the Northern Soul fraternity.

A black issue ABC Paramount of The Yum Yums "Gonna Be A Big Thing" is rare. Also black Kapp issues of Patti and the Emblems and Rubin are nice! Carol & Gerri on black MGM also the Charades are a lot rarer than the demos. Then there's all the RCA issues. Not the rarest issues, but not too easy either!

Great to read these memories of the Catacombs. "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" by Walter Jackson became popular at Wigan for a while, but I bought it for the Okeh flip side. "I'll keep On Trying" is a superb piece of solid Northern Soul. Well worth checking out if you don't know it. An original should not cost too much and you get Two For The Price Of One!😀.

I watched it but can't understand a word he is saying apart from titles and names!

"Trouble" by The Agents has never been a cheap record. I remember Richard Searling playing it often in Wigan Casino to a great reaction. Always lots of money when seen on lists for as long as I can remember. So I think worth buying at that price in that condition!

Allnighters back in the day would be on till 8 in the morning. They did not sell alcohol only soft drinks etc. Yet the dance floor would be busy with great dancers all night and full till 8am. There was a reason for that!!! People are older or have gone and can not live like that anymore! I think we have just to make the best of it as it is!

Check out "Gettin' Away" by Cliff Nobles & Co on Phil la of Soul. To me it's a better version of the "Soul Groove" Inst👌.

If I have a rare record that is in mint condition and it's worth a lot, I feel a little guilty playing it. But if the rare record is a bit scruffy, but plays ok, I feel alright playing it as many times as I want!

Had to pay £5 for my Masqueraders off Mr Manship about the same time as you!

Pat Brady used to put Donna Colman on his sales tapes, they were £8 on his lists. Terry Callier was £2.50 a lot of times on the Soul Bowl. Jimmy Soul Clark was always listed for the other side, a great Detroit instrumental called "A Girl's World".

Cashmeres and Posse I first heard in Wigan Casino. Also I think I first heard L.A. Allen in Wigan. The Hytones, Tommy Ridgley and George Freeman from Stafford. Otis Lee later than Stafford for me, maybe Tony's Empress Ballroom. Most of the other tunes I knew first as Northern Soul collectables before they got played in a venue. A lot of them were cheap sounds and became expensive when they started getting played. Things like Terry Callier, Jimmy soul Clark, Donna Coleman etc were all on sales tapes first in the late 70's early 80's.

Kefalonia, one hot afternoon. Walking with my wife past a bar with a dance floor. I could hear a tune playing from the pavement and I said "I know that song". It took a few seconds and then I realised it was "Just An Illusion" by The Earls on Zudan! So we had to go in and it turned out to be a lot of people from the UK on a Northern Soul holiday!

I remember Pete Lawson well, he was quite a character. Although once you met him you were not likely to forget him😉. He had Northern Soul DNA😀 . I sometimes wonder what he would have thought of the scene these days!

You probably already know, but it came out twice on Golden World with different flip sides. Great record.

I said "it is not an original" and that's not vague! The very illegal nature of bootlegging means there will be no documentation. They just want to slip them out with as little attention as they can get!

It is not an original. It's a copy of the original blue label. These have been around since the early to mid 70's and are sold as bootlegs, reissues or whatever!

Black, white, yellow or brown, does it really matter? When I went to nighters I couldn't care less what colour people were! We are all just human beings on planet earth! The media thrives on divisions!