arnie j

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great tune, can remember dancin to it at stafford as if it were yesterday ! hope you get it

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hi ya, u have a PM

cheers for the info guys, its much clearer now, i knew the jay traynor orig was on abc but thought it could be one of those obscure boots that can fetch a few quid sometimes ! found em in a old box and thought id inquire, thanks for the help though guys

nice one mate,has it any value ? no one got info on the jay traynor ?

cheers bud but it says 1967 on the label ? it has a stamped matrix, im confused.com

any info on these which im sure arent kosher bobby paris-i walked away, b side is h b barnum, heartbreaker, brit red capitol jay traynor-up and over-DCP records any info on these boots and value if any please ?

fascinating stuff, the singer of GWTWIML is comunicating with us, (well, chalky really) i love this kind of stuff, to me this is what its all about,getting close to the people who made the songs we love

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thats a superb idea mate ! would love to hear their stories, not sure they would agree to do it though, heres hoping !

sorry to interupt but how much does the british one go for now ?

i thought that too mr smith, cos i bought one wen i was bout 15yrs old,i didnt know any better, nor did i care at that time to be honest but i now know how important such things are! think i got it from manchester carousel or somewhere, could be wrong though

and what was your verdict bud ? just interested

ditto !! im a single father with a 16yr old autistic daughter who fizzes like a bottle of shook up pop and i need all my energy to look after her,i also work, i did the whole thing in the 80s to early 90s and never missed a nighter of a weekend,u couldnt keep me away from stafford, leicester, notts, morecambe, hinckley etc, etc, loved every second of it but now some things are more important,i do go soulin once a month though when my girl goes to respite for the weekend but only do soul nites,im still obsessed with rare soul and still collect etc, as we all know, it doesnt matter how u get your soul fix cos its in the blood and always will be, in fact my daughter is obsessed with music too and loves rare soul nearly as much as me so its not all bad !

a very sad loss of a man who changed peoples lives with his music, but we will never forget the gift he gave us, rest in soulful peace mike terry

hi boba,great website, i think you are doing a wonderful job in preserving this musical history which is so important to us, thanks for all yr time and effort

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good point mate, so which venues plays boots and cds ? whos gonna go first ?

good evening ian, been asked to post this on behalf of a friend so sorry if been asked before, were there any cover ups at the mecca ? did u sell many records that u stopped playing in yr dj sets ? and if so did u manage to get copies back if you regretted selling them ? do u have records that u would never sell ? did u hear records played by other djs that u just had to get a copy of yourself cos u loved them ? once again im sorry if been asked before

brill, i love this kind of stuff

ian,do u listen to any other music outside of the soul spectrum ?see me i love me rare soul with an absolute passion but listen to other stuff not connected to soul as well, be interested to know mate

thanks for the confirmation mark me old chum, bit of a strange record in my opinion but i do like it

am i correct in sayin this was a stafford sound ? think i got it on a guy or keb tape somewhere, or have i got it all wrong !

ian,i consider myself a bit of a 60s rare soul freak but a lot of the tunes you have posted are superb in my opinion, i try to see it as not what people think they SHOULD sound like but more as what they DO sound like, and i bloody like a lot of em !