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Apparently in Antiques Roadshow on BBC1 now they're going to do a bit about vinyl. They ask punters to guess "Good, better, best" to put items in order of value.

Mine is fairly clear at the moment, but at various times is the dumping ground for all of our clutter.

Several mentions for 'Hold on Help is on the Way' - flip it over for the sublime 'Bet you're surprised', another instrumental. 'Little Bit of Soul' and the flip 'The Cat Walk' by Gerry & Paul and the Soul Emissaries on Fatback. 'Right On' by Al De Lory and Mandango on Capitol. And check out the messy and unashamed R&B meets Jazz style of 'Soul On' by Leon Haywood on Imperial. The combination of organ and piano is brilliant! The other side is a (mainly) instrumental take on '1-2-3'.

Found this on their site; listing of all releases: https://www.recordstoreday.co.uk/media/18075/RSD%20Product%20Listing%20.pdf

I had similar luck in East Village New York on my first trip in 2002. Great little shop called Wowsville that was on 2nd Avenue up at roughly 10th Street (not too sure now). Almost the first record I came across, $1.

Yep, had that one on as I typed.

They arrived yesterday, and I managed to listen to a couple, but they've been a blessing this evening, as it's been a bad day and there's some fantastic music in there to help you cope with the emotions but also to take you out of yourself for a moment too.

Great story relating to a wonderful record. Brilliant that artists get to understand their impact on the world through moments like this.

Brilliant series Ian, I keep buying and can't believe you keep getting more out! I'll go and get my order in now. Good to see 'This Time Around' featured in there.

Glad I missed it and my commiserations to everyone who watched it!

Twilight Zone is a fine track, one I first heard at Stafford. Great suggestions across all of the replies though. The only track I can think to add (and you'd have to be thinking Ray Pollard 'Drifter' or the like) would be The Emotions 'So I can love you'. I've only got it on the excellent 2007 2 CD and DVD Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration combo. The DVD is well worth watching and the two CDs are a good listen.

The Val Shively article picks up on the impact of the internet making maintaining a shop uneconomic, and it echoes what's hitting our high streets with out of town shopping centres killing local smaller scale shops. For those of us who used to enjoy casually going to the record shops back in the 70's, not even stopping to think about whether they would exist in the future, the chance to still find shops selling soul on vinyl has been prolonging the pleasure, but for most of us requires a fair old journey - they're not on your doorstep, and probably not in your town or even county. But as the record shops slowly close up, that pleasure of thumbing through a stack of records gets tied down to record fairs, car boots and junk shops, and soul nights. You can buy on the internet, but just as iTunes doesn't give you that same physicality that a 7" platter can, neither does clicking on a website come close to walking into a record shop and glancing around to spot the box labelled "Soul".

Thanks Rod - I don't seem to be able to post in the main Soul Forum area so placed it in the video/media bit as it seemed to make sense, but hard to find.

Danny Baker series of 3 programmes about the LP format focussing in this 3rd episode on BBC4 right now. Trevor Nelson, Mica Paris and Martin Freeman talking about their interest in various sides of soul.

Hey Chas - think he's been watching Soul source! Standing up for 'Looking for a love'!

Betty Lavette 'I'm not the one', just as good as her earlier contributions to Jools' Hootenanny, and still time for another Womack maybe.

Should have guessed Midnight Mover if another was up. Great to see BW getting primetime coverage though! Happy New Year all!

Bobby doing a good one with 'Love is gonna to Lift You Up'. Hopefully 'Please Forgive My Heart' later? Betty Lavette earlier excellent.

Just spotted that the wonderful Bobby Womack is featuring on the New Year's eve edition of Jools Holland's Hootenanny.

Just noticed that there's a documentary about a record store in Stockton on this evening called Sound It Out. BBC4 at 10.55pm. I bought this DVD earlier this year (I think) in Head in Leamington. Although there's precious little to do with Soul, for the vinyl fans it's a really interesting look at the last record shop in Teeside.

Wouldn't Filemaker Pro deal with this? Cross platform, web enabled, and it has a free app (FilemakerGo) to use on an iPad so that you can access the contents of the database if that's hosted somewhere. Only thing is I don't know how to create it or where you'd host it so that anyone with the password (so it could be a paid for service, or free if the creator of the main database was feeling generous!) could then get into it.

There are apps designed for people with communication difficulties so that they can work through symbols or text and multiple levels and have speech output that sell for £50 and even £100. It just depends on the needs of the market and the likely number of users I guess.

There was only the one that I saw. I'd been planning to order it online for £11 and Head was the same price so I bought it there. I didn't ask if they had more stock so no idea if it will have ben replaced.

Got the CD in Head Records in Leamington on Thursday - great selection, thanks Ady and Kent. For some reason the CD track names wouldn't download; I've typed them all in meaning to upload to Gracenote but for some reason it won't let me do that either. Obviously the internet's working, otherwise I wouldn't be posting this message. If anyone has tips I can maybe send the track names later (or is it just a blip for me and everyone else can get them anyway?).