Dean

Just agreeing with the point about acetates counting in the value of records. The same discussion could be had for the other addition on JM auction site this week, Eddie Parker Love You Baby 10" acetate. In my humble opinion the value of an acetate is where it is the only format available. Pre-issue acetates are for me purpose made rarities, where I prefer rare by accident.

Saw a request for this in Wants, was considering but don't think I could part. Had it since I was knee high to a dinosaur, anyone inform on it's current value? Label very clean Ex+, Vinyl prob grade at Ex-. was it ever booted/repo'd by the way?

Pm'd you. Thought I had a spare of this somewhere. If by any chance you want one for show I'm sure I still have another (issue) which is really mint but hardly plays due to what i presume is a pressing error. Two different desigh promo's :

Not contributed to this thread before (I lose patience with threads after 3 pages, that's my fault, but enjoying looking through now to add to wants list). Pulled this out to play this morning and needed to share. John Rhys and Liveley Set - Nothing but Love (Impact 1024).

Re Frank Beverley on Sassy - is the b/w demo or issue rarer. JMs auction sold a b/w demo for £439 last week with felt pen marking on label. I ebayed a clean copy about 6 or 7 years ago for £310. There was a box of these b/w demos in Mansfield in the late 70s (or early 80s) as I got mine from a record shop wall for £2 presuming it was a boot.

At a risk of sounding pretentious:- but f'k it, I am pretentious. A good set in my opinion isn't simply what I want to hear most at a given time (given what a DJ has in their box), it's responding to the feelings of the night(er) and the reaction to the mood created. I think a soul night or nighter is a communal thing that works (or doesn't) by a group response, not just the preferences of the individual. However, having said that I personally don't think that this is simply the response of the floor, I know this is important for the feel of a dance centred phenomenon, but increasingly in my opinion there's more to enjoying a set at a night (er) than the response of the dancefloor. Also, picking up on Toad's point, I want to hear something I don't know I wanted until I've heard it, and that may be something I didn't even know before the set, and I may not know I wanted it until 3 days later when it's still buzzing around my head.

Thought it might have been ironic, Norman Wisdom - The Joker $100, but then saw it was from An twerp

Not gone through whole thread but just seen this on ebay as Northern Soul (it's always Begium isn't it). Norman Wisdom The Joker https://www.ebay.com/itm/NORMAN-WISDOM-THE-JOKER-COLUMBIA-UK-POPCORN-NORTHERN-SOUL-/150898773639?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item2322448e87

Didn't say I was selling it , gonna give it to Steve!!!!!

Not the first time I've done this. A kind of frenzy buying. Love this record, Stu Gardner - Expressin' My Love on Chisa. Used to play it out off a Chisa issue. Saw a nice promo going through ebay and thought it would a nice one to have on promo and issue. Arrived safe and sound, went to file it away only to find an identical white promo that I forgot I had. Anybody else suffer these memory failings / complulsive buying? I wonder what the biggest ticket forgotten one is?

A thing of beauty, looks superb.

PM'd you, Dean.

The makers may regret any link to the Supremes. There'll be no shortage of continuity advisers and detail research analysis available. Had to smile yesterday, was painting outside all day and had radio 2 on in the background. Martin Shaw was on Steve Wright talking about George Gently, saying how important it was to him tio have the period research accurate. Don't think Martin Shaw is on Soul Source.

Thought I'd got one for $1.99 https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=bobby+bell+don%27t+come+back+to+me

Opened up a long closed box to come across these. Thought worth posting as later curiosities even tho outside of the OVO class: Laura Greene re-issue, I think mid-late 70s? Dean Courtney British reissue demo: And the strange MaxiMillion series (are there others in this series?). Exciters - Blowing up my mind Ray Paige - Aint No Soul Beverley Ann - You've Got Your Mind On Other Things

Love it, don't think I knew it before 5 mins ago but both sides quality

A few more pulled out from boxes not often opened! If I'm honest I still have a liking for this but don't think I'd want to hear it out, better as a fond memory to play at home: Posted an issue of this already, but could listen to this on a loop: From an age when instrumentals really mattered, and I'd still dance to this (If there's a Lynn Bonnett on here - Why?): A Little more obscure in my opinion: Great ender that I don't think ever really had its day: Inferior version but never the less just really enjoyed playing this again, so thought it worth including in this post:

Couple of You tube links to go with above post: Trade martin - Moanin Kenny Carter

A few randoms: An old Attic spin, one that belts out a good floor feel. This has been a fav of mine for a long time, never tired of it: Been playing through recently records I forgot I had, this stuck out as sounding huge now: Attic spin for Steve L, picked one up as soon as I could after he started playing this: Propper gritty dancer, written by J D Bryant. Last one for now, playing more and more ballads at home, exceptional ballad:

That's it - fetched £60 +

Couldn't resist another wonderful cheap sound, imagine this bouncing off the walls around a dancefloor: Lesley Gore - No Matter What You Do.

This will do for me; Temptations - It's you that I need

I would have put money on you posting this Steve! Syl Johnson Try Me

UK Stateside Breakout LP with Mitch and the Detroit Wheels standing on cars in a junk yard on the cover. Put it on ebay about 4 month ago (I think) and as I recall only one bid.

3 more if you've the patience: Another obvious addition, but the Lp is better than just the one track, although for me Lend a hand will always have a place. Worth a mention, although prob not top 20, just sharing! This would be the last LP I would sell, not for The Bottle, but for the beautiful music throughout, strangely the album titled Winter in America doesn't contain the track Winter in America. Hadn't realised that Mitch Ryder album JM autioned last week was so rare, sold one on ebay recently for about £10! Oh well, live and learn