Mick Holdsworth

I know it was still there in 1976 as that was my only visit to the place. At some point around the same time he opened a shop in Market Street in Wolverhampton, more of an upstairs room than a ground floor shop. It was very short lived though. Of course the Birmingham shop must have continued longer, but my own experience with it the one time in '76.

This usually happens when the listing is old and eBay clear the old pages (obviously not the case this time). It can also occur if the listing has breached one of their rules. Many years ago listing something like Gwen Owens or Frank Beverly was awkward as eBay clamped down on the word "wanted". Although that glitch was sorted ages ago, there may be other words that can flag an alarm. if you know who the seller is, maybe they can shed light on it. Good lluck.

I feel there are quite a few of the Velvelettes TPs around, I also had one myself from Pat Brady in the nineties. I don't know why that particular title is so abundant (compared to other EMI TPs of the time).

Yes, It was awful to hear of his passing, and I can't imagine how Sandi and family must be right now. Rest in peace Paul.

It's only the Warner Brothers release that was chopped. The Linda orig, and then the Rampart release are both the same with the full intro. No idea why WB cut it down though.

Hello there, I wonder if anyone has sent an Acetate disc from the UK to US recently, and can advise me on the following. In the description field on the CN22b form I would have normally said "45 rpm vinyl record" or similar, but with an acetate being made of aluminium coated with lacquer, would the standard record description fall foul of the customs requirements ? I'm sending it International Track and trace as a gift, so I don't need to worry about the unique tariff number this time. Thanks, Mick

The only thing I can add is that he last visited this site on March 24 2025, exactly two years after the post you highlighted above of March 24 2023.

That's a cracking song Mal. Just pre-ordered one for me and another for a friend. It seems in the UK it is due for release Aug 15 2025. from Kudos. https://kudosrecords.co.uk/release/ged028/derobert-and-the-half-truths-nothing-to-prove-i-would-die

Hi Mike Just noticed the previous problem I had with the unreadavle thin light text on a white background when using Firefox with Win7 has been resolved. Text is now nice and dark as before, so thank you for sorting that out.

So sad to hear this. My memories of Brian were mostly from the late seventies, early eighties at Birmingham Locarno and latter years of Wigan, amongst other places. Such a lovely man and such a loss.

There are a few. Champion demos of Gloria Jones were in both vinyl and styrene. Also the Sandy Wynns black issues of Venus are in both. DOC copies of that song were also in vinyl. It maybe that the few vinyl titles they did were mastered at Monarch but pressed elsewhere, but I don't think I've ever heard of this happening. Others may know more.

Here's the other track on the Exciters album . . . Movin'Too Slow

Cheers, I'll have to check that out. I know "Turn Me On" and another track from the RCA album were good.

About five or six months ago Tim Ashibende did a radio spot (possibly on a Dean Anderson show) playing album only tracks, and they were all excellent, and new to me. If the show is still online. it's well worth checkng out. Here's just one of them. The Spellbinders - That's The Way You Make Me Feel

Thanks Kathryn, that is better, for me atleast.

I'll try that Mike, but where can I find Dark View. Thanks.

It's an old version of Windows (Win 7), so that's probably the root problem.

Strange - I use Firefox normally, but I just tried it in Chrome and Opera and it's fine. I think the problem with Firefox is the distinction between bold and light text is lost, as if any styling is not happening. For me at least using opera is an ok workaround. Cheers Mick

Hi Mike, Regarding the display query above, I'm on a Desktop PC, and the text is very thin and light on white. making it almost unreadable. I know you said earlier that the display was being looked at, but I notice your screenshot above is much more readable than mine. Here's my screenshot . . . Cheers, Mick

Hi Mike, A couple of things I've noticed . . . We seem to have lost the sub-menu links to navigate between forums, eg AATS to Box, or Sales to Wants etc. We now have to go up a level, and back down. Also, the Sales and Feedback reputations seem to have disappeared, along with any links to members feedback. Maybe you are aware of both of these and are working on them, but I just thought I'd mention it incase they had been overlooked. FYI I'm using a desktop PC, and it may be different on a mobile.

Yes, I just wanted to clarify that the pitch of the vocal AND the backing are raised together, IDENTICALLY. Is is easy to notice a vocal that has been changed, but not so noticable with music. In this case the vocal "sounds" different (that's because it is), wheras the music may "sound" untouched (but in reality, it is different, just as different as the vocal). To demonstrate the differences in the music, here is a short clip of the two intros, First part is the intro from the Cindy thing, followed buy the same intro by Tony. Ends of the Earth intros only.wav

Both the vocal AND the backing have had their PITCH raised identically, and in each case their TEMPO remains the same or similar. In other words the track was processed as one "noise". If the vocal was processed seperately, leaving the music untouched, then it would be horribly off key. Since this was done there has been separation programs available to adjust a vocal track independently of music, and is used if the singer is off key. To make a male sound female whilst leaving the music untouched (eg. creating a duet) is also something that now available, but at the moment has a very small range. It's called Form or Formant adjustment.

Yes, this came up about ten years ago, and it was simply Tony Middleton with a pitch shift. Same or similar tempo but the pitch raised dramatically, presumably to sound like a female, athough I'm not sure of the species. I don't know who or where is was pressed up, but they were for sale on Juno, and may still be.

Such awful news, so saddening. Rest in peace, Ted.