Harry Crosby

Really grapevine peaked? seen some right prices on them especially things like sam williams, as for the others yeh your right there mate

Fascinating reading tony, have noticed a steady rise in value of labels such as GRAPEVINE, DESTINY, INFERNO DISCO DEMAND tracks are these considered collectable british in there own right, after all some of these records are the best part of 30yrs old now

Intresting stuff pete, do you think the british northern soul market is still as popular as it was as ive said at one time it was very much so just never seem to see boxes of british stuff anymore in record bars, as you touched on earlier with lou johnson i myself struggled to get £50 for one only a year ago, where as you`d have thought the prices would have increased because of the limited market

Cheers roddy, my old matey CHRIS HOLMES from york has a fantastic british collection, just fascinating to hear other peoples views on the british collecting side of things. thanks again roddy

don`t know about now but i allways rememer my mate selling up because he couldn`t get a RUFUS LUMLY-STATESIDE DEMO many years ago, thik that was the one

So what would you call the HOLLY GRAIL of british collectable northern/soul music?

Had a few finds myself nothing serious though and as you say its finding the condition, that was allways the key factor with the british buyers as i suppose it is with both british & american now especially on the big price records, just at one time in the record bars you could allways hear the question coming over your shoulder as you were looking "GOT ANY BRITISH MATE" just wondered if the collecting scene for BRITISH RELEASES was still the same or has it dropped because of the obvious time scale of the scene now and limited amounts of british records

Hi phil just to let you know could only get honey & the bees to play

yeh understand that my mate has a copy of frankie & johnny on decca and the sound seems to be a lot louder than the hickory release, lovely looking record too

Shall i get me coat then?

Think i may have posted this in the wrong section, can it be moved to ALL ABOUT SOUL please

Wow great site that pete BOOKMARKED and registered will be having a good look at that one

Don`t know about the other two ian but ive certainly seen four copies of the twans on lists alone over the past couple of years

As a lad back in the seveties when i first started on the long road of record collecting, i used to love to see boxes of british stuff, lovely sight sets of stateside demo`s, would like to start a thread on the history of this side of collecting, never had many british things myself, at one time it was the way to collect, and british releases were far more desirable than the american side of things, the few questions i`d like to ask are-Are british records apart from the ones wrote and released only over here considered re-issues, Are labels like GRAPEVINE, DESTINY, INFERNO, considered as british collectables,-wich are the holy grail of BRITISH COLLECTING we all know the american counterparts but would lik to know what these records are, Is the british collecting scene still as healthy today as it was if not more,-As in the states do we feel there is still more british records to be found and would that music fit into todays mainly american music scene, just thought this might be an intresting thread CHEERS HARRY

I was told some ten years ago that the states were dry! look at the amount of big ticket records that are turning up on sales list auctions on a disturbingly regular basis

I started a thread about this a couple of months ago as i`d been involved in quite a few conversations on this subject, the outcome to that thread was, different inks used in the sixties that are no longer available, types of plastics used, and different papers used for labels, ive been under the impression this is happening for a while now, if some of the finest art from the 16th, 17th century can be forged and fool the experts, why not records? we live in the age of super technology, and i suppose as long as the market isn`t flooded all at once, it could be a very lucrative buisness, with the price of some of the records today

Fantastic post my friend applause all round,and welcome to soulsource, keep things like this coming love this sort of stuff

just a tad i`d say

I have the lp STEALING HOME much longer version if i remember rightly

TELL IT LIKE IT IS!!!

Thanks pete, as i say i was under that impression, but was told this on the sales section thread, thanks for clearing that up REGARDS HARRY

DOUBLE WOW! roger as you`ll probably have noticed in my previous topics ive allways been intrested and collected black issues, but never heard of this one, apparantly mick smith owned a copy, its a first for me don`t know about you? as with you i`d love to see a scan of this ANYONE

WOW!!!!! Apologies for that was under the impression it onlt came out on BLUE

Been following a thread on sales section with intrest about this on blue issue, a question was raised as to wether it was a blue or black issue? to wich i replied it only came out on BLUE, was then told that it did indeed come out on black issue WOW!!!!! never heard of that before, any info on this

It is a very small world carol, now ive looked at those pictures, if thats you with paul murphy, then i remember YOU i used to hang around with the bradford crowd, vernon great friend of mine had a good chat with him at skegness weekender last year and used to see him quite regular when i used to go to brighouse regularly, was and still am friends with derek pearson, george sharp. & mick, do you remember a girl called FRANKIE from redcar, also a lad called JAFFA from up here as well, VERY SMALL WORLD