Gene-r

I received one of these early this week. I checked the member details and item code by going directly on to Ebay. Surprise, it didn't exist! The Email has purported to come from andrewdonalds2004@aol.com - however when I checked the properties, I found that another path, tomorrowwillbe4@yahoo.com, was displayed. I sent a report to both abuse@aol.com, and abuse@yahoo.com, and would encourage anyone who receives a similar Email to do the same; report the sender (although there's a chance it may have been spoofed, but better to be safe than sorry), and then go to "File - Properties - Details", and report any other paths you find. When reporting abuse, copy and paste ALL details from the "details" page. This will help them identify the source of the mail. Not really worth sending it to Ebay - they aren't interested....... Gene

Sorry to disappoint you - it's the "Annie's Song" issues that are the misprints. The correct title, quite appropriately, WAS "Angie's Pong", which will drop the value of your issue by 50%. If you're going to list it on Ebay, maybe a good idea to use the "Buy It Now" function for 1p. Contrary to most beliefs, this wasn't John Denver's highest UK hit - "Angie's Pong" was a Number 2!

Probably "You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies" - Simon & Garfunkel did release the original of this on US and UK 45s. It was actually written by Paul Simon. It's quite down in tempo compared to Dana Valery and Five & A Penny, and it's unmistakably Simon and Garfunkel, so how it passed on the scene is a mystery! Bearing all that in mind, maybe there is room for "Bridge Over Troubled Water" to be played as a scorching mid-tempo ballad! Gene

I knew an old mate who valued his Soul record collection so much that he put them on a pedestal - just to keep them away from the kids!

I remember buying this off an American list some years ago, really cheap. The description the seller gave it was "Sounds like the Stones"!! When I played it, I thought about what he had said. True enough, it's at the end of the second verse at the line which is something like "good is only very good when very bad...." - which does sound a little like Mick Jagger! Tell me my ears need cleaning out, or that I need a long holiday, please!

Don't start me off Remus!! Oh, OK then........... BOBBY KLINE: Say Something Nice To Me (swapped for "Don't Pity Me" by Joanie Sommers, which I eventually sold for £100) BETTY LOU & BOBBY ADAMS: Dr Truelove - £125 (bought for £15 the week before!) THE LOVERS: Without A Doubt (Frantic) £60 NEW YORKERS: Don't Want To Be Your Fool (Tac-Ful) £50 ....more when I remember them! Gene

Wonder if the director of the company is an ex (or current) soulie? Also wonder if, after a few pints, I'll be able to back-flip and acrobat again, just like in the old days!!!

I wasn't on the scene in the '70s (too young!), but that shouldn't stop me with this list! Gary Lewis & The Playboys - My Heart's Symphony (listen to the intro - amazing what you can do with a taut length of knicker elastic!) P J Proby - Niki Hoeky Lovin' Spoonful - Six O'Clock Baltimore & Ohio Marching Band - Condition Red Gene

The details on the programme were vague with regard to this, but the story that has come to light is as follows (NOTE: NOT ALL OF THIS WAS COVERED IN SOUL DEEP): Sam Cooke was out drinking with friends one night, and went back to a motel with a girl who was waiting for him in the bar. It appears they spent the night together, and when he woke the next morning, she was gone. He also noticed that she had robbed his wallet and other valuables. At this point, he confronted the receptionist and hotel owner and demanded to know who the woman was, and where she had gone. what followed next is a mystery, but the owner of the hotel shot Cooke 30 times, claiming self-defence. Can't remember if she was acquitted or what. It's not known if the woman who Cooke had spent the night with was known to him or, as some believe, a prostitute. It's further unfortunate that the rumour originally circulating about his death (at least until the late '70s) was that he was shot by the hotel maid he had tried to rape. Of course, this was proved untrue by the series of events above. Gene

NO - dunno who had the Edgewood acetate! YES - it was released as The Moments on Hog (apt label, as it's a pig of a record to get hold of!)

Whatever it is, it has almost the same backing track as "I Won't Cry" by Tony Daniels on Beval. Very nice tho!

Sure is Simon! Dennis D'ell (or Dennis Dalziel) was indeed the lead singer with the Honeycombs, and is the same person known for "Better Use Your Head" on CBS.

"Eloise" by Barry Ryan

Jon, Excellent album there mate - brought back quite a few good memories, I can tell you!! Can't believe you got one of me as well; Don't remember you taking it, so I must have been well tanked up - OMG!! The line up in the pic (anti-clockwise from me) are Nikki (Anton's wife), Dave Taylor, Anton and Ken (an old friend who lived in the same house as Anton and Nikki in the Bromley days). Hope to see you and Sue at some point - take care 'til then. Best, Gene

If you're around chorleybloke, now's your chance to leave him negative feedback!!

Just look at it now!!! Someone's had the right idea! https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...ssPageName=WDVW

Glad to have been of help Ian! See a few there I recognise! I'll try get an updated list of stuff together for you. Hope you're well mate. Gene

Sure have - sells for about £150 here, providing you're talking about "I'm Losin' Your Love" on Up Tight!! Stunning record and all, with a lovely horn intro/break. Come along to our Solid Hit Soul nite at Vivo's in London on Saturday 16th April to hear it, along with more!!

"Harvest of Love" - a Top 20 hit for Benny Hill in 1963.

errrrm...................(sorry!)........... "Cinderella Rockefella" - Esther & Abi Ofarim (Philips) but my first Northern record (unknowingly at the time) was: "Goodbye Nothin' To Say" - The Javells with No Smoking (Pye Disco Demand)

FROM THE INDEPENDENT: 2 March 2005. Edward Patten, singer: born Atlanta, Georgia 2 August 1939; married Renee Ivory (four sons, three daughters); died Livonia, Michigan 25 February 2005. With over 25 hit singles on both sides of the Atlantic, Gladys Knight and the Pips were arguably the most successful family-based soul vocal group of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties. Best known for their version of Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", recorded in 1967, a year before Marvin Gaye's, as well as "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)", the Grammy-winning torch song written by Jim Weatherly, and "Midnight Train to Georgia", which topped the US charts in 1973, the quartet recorded for several companies including Tamla Motown, and only split up in 1989. They had formed in 1952 when Gladys Knight was just eight years old. By the time they released their dbut single, "Every Beat of My Heart", in 1961, the group were a quintet comprising Gladys on lead vocals, her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and their cousins Edward Patten and William Guest, and a friend, Langston George, who left in 1962. Thereafter the group remained a quartet. Patten had an incredible range and could sing high tenor as well as bass. His voice became the perfect foil for Knight's emotive performances on "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" (1974) and standards such as "The Way We Were - Try to Remember" (1975). In her 1997 autobiography, Between Each Line of Pain and Glory, Knight recalls Patten as the most responsible member of the group, so much so that we took to calling him Daddy Patten. He was the one who was always watching the clock, trying to keep us on time and in line. He was a snappy dresser, and probably the biggest trash talker on the chit'lin' circuit. Born in Atlanta in 1939, Edward Patten was the son of a bandleader and joined the Pips when Gladys and "Bubba" Knight's sister Brenda and William Guest's sister Eleanor left the vocal group to get married in 1959. Two years later, their first single, "Every Beat of My Heart", became a smash hit on Vee-Jay and also on Fury Records, who signed the Pips and issued a re-recorded version and another three singles, including "Letter Full of Tears" which also made the US Top Twenty. While their lead vocalist got married and had two children in 1962-63, the Pips struggled along as a trio but Gladys Knight was soon back in the fold. The quartet got a make-over from the tapdancer turned freelance choreographer Cholly Atkins, who helped them hone a stage act which became worthy of their new motto, "Perfection in Performance". Patten especially delighted in learning the pirouettes, slides, freeze-frames and synchronised routines that became the Pips' trademark and were often copied by Motown acts. Ironically, after releasing five singles on the Maxx label, the group were signed by Berry Gordy Jnr to Motown's Soul subsidiary but never quite became A-listers there despite a memorable run of singles including "Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me" - their first British hit in 1967. In 1972, Gladys Knight and the Pips moved to Buddah Records and became superstars. They released the album Imagination (1973) and earned Grammies for "Neither One of Us" and "Midnight Train to Georgia" in 1974. They worked with Curtis Mayfield on the ebullient "Make Yours a Happy Home" and were regulars on Top of the Pops, their train-like choreography helping "Georgia" into the British Top Ten in 1976. Contractual problems forced the group to record two albums without Gladys, At Last . . . the Pips (1977) and Callin' (1978), but, by 1980, the quartet was back in the charts with the disco-flavoured "Taste of Bitter Love" and "Bourgie Bourgie". After 30 years together and another Grammy for the single "Love Overboard", Gladys Knight decided to go solo in 1989. Edward Patten and William Guest went into the ice-cream business before launching Crew Records together. Pierre Perrone

Have to say Pete, very passable!! Actually, I was expecting vocals a la Pinky and Perky before I heard it, and reading the description!! Sounds like you've slowed down the backing track - am I right?

LOL Tim!! But at least now, Elaine's complaints about there being no bog roll are completely justified! As for cleaners, she makes sure I buy my own!! Now now, sweet.....JOKE, JOKE! Put that frying pan down now, please.....OUCH!!