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£200. ON HOLD Label is clean. Look of vinyl and sound are excellent. There is a stamped matrix no. ZSP-139197-1H. Billy Davis. Stanky (Get Funky) Label and vinyl are excellent: Sound of vinyl is excellent. Scratched matrix details are - CB731A - £150. POSTAGE £2.50, ADD £1.20 RECORDED, £8 SPECIAL DELIVERY.

I think it's worth remembering that he lived in the US for several years in the 60s and would have heard a hell of a lot more soul and RnB than any of his UK contemporaries even just on the radio. But he also once described in an interview actually going to Black dance events (white folk only allowed on the balcony!) and watching the kids dancing to Howlin' Wolf. Etta James, Otis Rush, Elmore James, etc and how they would mix the faster tempo records - with all the latest steps - with the slower ones where the girls and boys would dance together. Must have been great to see!

About every time I sell one from my collection. Before: 'Ah, I never play this one anymore and look at what people are paying for it. Why not? After: 'Why? why? why did I do that? I miss you baby!'

I was a bit young for the Perfumed Garden, but listening to his shows from the late 70s onwards, I recall he played soul, blues and RnB fairly frequently. I think he preferred the 'deep' or Southern soul sound rather than Motown stuff though, and I don't recall any definitive Northern Soul, although one night I was most surprised to hear him play Dean Parrish's 'Determination'. I got the feeling that he was regularly fed new releases by labels like Charly or Ace... As for Jamaican music, he was obsessive about reggae and played it all the time!

Maybe not a 'champion of soul', but he played a fair amount on his shows over the years. I seem to recall he played a lot of stuff he associated with his times in the USA in the early to mid 60s.

We're already all at sea!

Yes, Rod Shard was going to sell it to him but then changed his mind and instead gave him a carver for nowt.

On a carver as I recall.

OK, it's rare, it's in demand but $3,700 for a crackly G+ copy - ouch. Still it's only $14 postage! https://www.ebay.com/itm/LESTER-TIPTON-northern-soul-45-This-Wont-Change-Go-On-La-Beat-/311845030731?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368

Last Jackie Day I saw for set sale was £2000 on Pat Brady's site. Went pretty quickly too... And I see Anglo American are now auctioning one.

Quite right - as long as you don't make a loss keep the prices realistic and you'll sell them no problem.

A friend of mine found a copy of 'Footsie' by Wigan's Chosen Few in a house clearance. He was thrilled as you can imagine, although how it fitted in with all the Jim Reeves and Mrs Mills LPs that were also there was a mystery.

OK, we all know about the famous three played at the end of the Wigan nighters. But was it always the same three records played as 'enders'? Surely they must have tried a few other tracks and a guy I know claims they played Fats Domino 'It Keeps Raining' sometimes, although as he freely admits he wasn't sure if it was the main room or Mr M's.

I found a whole bunch of US soul 45s in a Turkish antique shop five years ago - all about 10p and, sadly, only chart stuff like Stax and Motown. What were they doing there? Apparently they came from a big airbase near the town that the Yanks had used. But...he also had a pristine M51 parka which I got for £5, so not a total loss.

Usually 'back of the box' sessions to remind me of the stuff I have forgotten about!

Well I can't speak for the others, but I bid what I think the record is worth plus a little extra to account for the 'Manship Madness' that overtakes some people and then forget about it. A couple of weeks later I get an email giving me the result. The strange thing is I often feel relieved if I lose!

I do recall hearing 'Coming Home Baby' by the Barron Knights a few times over the years - I wouldn't be surprised if someone didn't try it on as a cover up.

I was offered about the same for mine - £850. It's very hard to find in any playable condition and unlikely you'll get a good one now for £500 but who knows?

They sure have!

They had a bus from their area which went every week - £2.00 per person all in plus the loan of somebody's membership card (two black bomber 'sweeties' 50p extra!) and whilst I earned enough from my two paper rounds to make it all possible my mother went mental so no go. Some other people's parents didn't mind the thought of their kids buggering off for the whole weekend clearly!

Well, people in their early 50s and upwards certainly. I had two mates at school who went from 1979 onwards when they were 14 and they asked me to come - but my carefully planned fib to my mother that we were going on a weekend 'camping trip' fell through when one of the other guy's mums said: 'oh, no they told me they were going to a disco in somewhere called Wigan!' Whoops.

Had a lot of people from the late 90s to now telling me they were 'into Northern' and then me asking them (at first enthusiastically but with progressively less and less hope of a sensible response): 'Oh right, great! What events do you go to?' 'What do you mean events?' 'You know, all-nighters or soul nights or soul clubs or whatever' 'Oh I just hear it at nightclubs and pubs and places like that' 'What do they play?' 'Well, you know that one about the Snake and that Do I Love You song and Tainted Love is good but the Soft Cell version is better.' 'Ah, I see...' 'Are you into Northern?' 'Mmmm, a little bit. I've always loved Soul and R&B music' 'R&B? You like R Kelly and Craig David and those people?' 'No. I mean RHYTHM AND BLUES.' 'Did you go to Wigan?' 'No, I missed that. But I used to go to Stafford and Morecambe and Allanton/Shotts and the 100 Club and loads of other places over the years.' 'What are they? Hey, did you wear those baggy trousers and vests and stuff and throw talc around and spin on your head and...' 'Whoops, is that the time? I better be going.' To be absolutely fair, some of them have got more into the scene and got the hang of it, so maybe being a Div is just a natural starting point for many. But if you've been around the scene for more than, say, five years and haven't progressed - oh dear.

I remember talking to Keb Darge and Guy Hennigan in the mid 80s and they were moaning about their jobs. Keb worked in an abattoir and Guy in a carpet shop although it also turned out that they were also 'claiming' at the same time (I think I can mention that now!).

Am I getting senile or do I have too much stuff? I have bought two records that I already own in the recent months - one I thought I had sold (but hadn't) and the other one I had no memory of actually owning! Is this a common problem or is it just me?