Mattbolton

All aboard.... the list train!! woo woooo! And me please. matt@uselessphotography.tk

Al, I remember Butch playing this for the first time down the 100 Club and flipping out. I told him politely where to go when he told me it was Sharon Jones. I just couldn't believe it. It's tremendous. I asked Keb at the time that I wanted one and he said there would be demos out in a few months. They never appeared. They HAVE to release it on 45. It's a travesty not to. With regards to the Betty LaVette. I remember Roger Banks selling one a year ago for £30. And I thought the price had gone up then. Great tune tho.

He also offered me the Joe King 45 if that's any help.

Mick. I'm hoping so. I kinda got taken with the idea that no-one had booted it. Yet. Tho I know that it only takes a week to boot. There does appear to be a lot flying out the States at the mo. But then he assured me that it was him who found them. Along with a load of other Prix stuff. I mean it wasn't THAT cheap, but quite a bit cheaper than I've seen it in boxes for. You reckon someone might be on a Prix money spinner? I'd be interested in knowing, since I'm due to pay for it next week. Tho I might add that I meant Royal and not 'royl'.

Sebastian. I thought you were alluding to the Martha Starr. It's ok, don't worry. I'm going to bed now. But I guess it answered Janine's question.

>Price $8500. :-o >There's also a sound clip from the actual record. This is one of the very elusive/exclusive solid gold pressings. Thelma had them made for people who were tired of paying anything from £60-150 for it. They considered it a far more valuable record. So they went out and produced their own 'priceless' copies. They all went to a dealer in the North, apparently. Tho there are reports that he's having trouble shifting them and a few have been lining his loft cavity.

I'm sorry, it's typo central today. I'm real tired. Let's hope I don't start citing 'Northern Souk', the sweet sounds of Morocco. Tho I'm sure I know a Pete Petite.

This is a really stoopid question, but I'm gonna present it anyway, cos it's 5pm on a Friday, and I don't finish for another hour and a half. And I'm curious. Are there any label names that we actually mis-represent, either by writing them or pronouncing them wrong? Here's an example. Barbara Dane has always been listed as being on '3-Trey'. See, Trey is actually 'Three' anyway, just not in English, which makes sense that they put the number there as a design feature. Doesn't really make sense to call it 'Three Three' does it? So I reckon we've always got that one wrong. Same with 'ALTEEN'. I always thought it was A 1 Teen. As in, 'top yoof'. Tho I could be wrong. But to me it always made more sense. Unless it's like the Anna label and has those kind of relative(sic) influences. These can't be the only two. Between us, we know a million and a half crazy small labels. On your marks, get set. GO!

That should read ALLEY. Not ally. As far as I'm aware, he isn't part of the Coalition Of The Willing......

Mick, I'm sure I've got a copy of Peet Petite on Coral with your name on it. Did you ever buy it as a new release?

>Yes! he used to be in the faces well he was more of a wanna be mod >when he was younger! Rod was WELL sharp when he was younger! And his trousers weren't as short as Stevies..... Not a wanna be at all! The pic of him in Barnes' book is miles better than Marriot or Ronnie Lane's. Granted, he can't sing for toffee. Tho when you get The Motown Song in your head. IT WON'T LET GO!!! 'Bring over some o your old Motown records, put your speakers in the windows and the hall. We can listen to the Miracles echo in the ally down below'... See. You're singing it now! And for the rest of the day..... HA.

I think he's out of vegas. I just got a Royl esquires off of him. Pretty cheap.

Weller's the kind of person to cite Otis and Aretha as the greatest soul singers ever. Which they aren't even close to being. Either of em. MOJO or Q rings him up at every opportunity and goes,'Who are the best mod soul artists ever?' and he goes '...um. Otis and Aretha'. Even tho Otis can't sing a tenth as good as 90% of the soul artists I've heard in 7 years. And he's 40 now!!! Weller. Not Otis.

Is that the Soul Of Money CD Steve? It's fantastic. He gave me a copy at Cleethorpes. Especially love the Caressa Watson.Not as good as Martha Starr, but the only place I'll hear it outside the 100 Club!

'Brother to Brother'? That'll be a Soul brother and a Marx brother will it?

I always hated weller. This was the man whom, i quote, 'never had anything to do with the Mod revival'. Everyone used to ask me what got me into mod "Weller?" they used to ask? As if. A man with trousers 2 inch too short and those horrid Jam shoes?! Pleeease. The man's an egomaniac. He hasn't done owt good since wild wood. If he batters another classic, I'm gonna rip his throat out like someone should have years ago. Old mods can still be cool without being a knob. Look at Eddie P. Tho I think they're mates, so that kinda disqualifies my arguement. And Weller's the shittest dancer. Calls himself a mod. HAHA HA. Sadly, my lasting memory is him trying to regain some cred by duetting with the effortless T.C. Remember when Stevie met Macca? Need i say more....

>Matt - you had to BUY IT!!! But you WERE the Cleethorpes footage (Tis true - ye >don't get nowt fer nowt these days .) But I DIDN'T buy it! I've never seen it all the way thru. I've certainly never seen me in it. I saw a small bit of the stuff he'd already done before he realeased it and decided not to got to the premiere. It appalled me. Apparently, I'm in the original 12 hours quite a bit. That was when he loved me. But in the edited one, I'm not in it at all. That was edited AFTER i told him I thought it was shite. Funny that isn't it.

I remember the first Northern Allnighter I went to was at the now sadly unused Ritz in manchester. I can't remember the first record I heard, there were too many I didn't know. But Landslide was the first Northern Record I danced to that night. The first NORTHERN record proper that I ever heard Was Howard Guyton. And I wonder how I stuck with it so long? That record is magical still.

One of the best double siders around for sure. 'Under The Streetlamp' is fast becoming my fave side.

>Would have been better to call it "The Soul Of Colonel Sanders"!! Or 'The Greatest Northern Soul KFCD in the World'. I really love the Mille Jackson. It's great. And it ALWAYS sounds great at Cleethorpes. But then doesn't everything? Tho Anna HATES it. It's one of the 70's sounds she hasn't warmed to. But then she said that about Eric Lomax. >On a similar note i bought The strange world of northern soul dvd set >off Ebay You know some things you really regret doing........? That was mine. Regards Ian's 'Protoge' x HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

>Now, I don't know to what level your collection was at, but I know you are quite >knowledgeable and active on the DJ circuit, so forgive me for assuming it was at a >good level. Jamie, I can't really consider myself either. Nor have I ever. I DJ'd the 100 Club as a fluke, tho I would like to think Ady booked me for my musical tates than anything else. And at 25, I don't/can't really consider myself 'knowledgable'(can any of us really?!), since I've only been 'collecting' for 7 years. What I do do however is draw from my brief experince. The records that I had, to some extent, were the infamous class £30-40ers you struggle to find nowadays. I've never had a hugely immense collection Jamie. I just don't collect shite. >Out of pure curiosity have you found it difficult to get back to that level (or beyond >even), and have you found the dealers you sold the records 'cheap' to willing to sell >you similar sounds at a knock-down price because they remember your good >nature and idealistic soul mentallity 4 years ago?? You can't really compare collecting now cos things have exploded since then. And besides, I collect a COMPLETELY different style than I did before. I wouldn't have touched a Roy Hamilton 4 years ago. It's certainly true that I'll never be able to buy a copy of the Constellations off Tim Brown for £8 again! But to be honest, those 'similar sounds' rarely crop up for sale any more! Most of them were moddish r'n'b type records and don't interest me the same way they did when I bought/sold them. The only dealer I sold to was Roger. And yes, he does. Now and again

It's a great start for classic soul, but not Northern. I'm kind of obliged to defend these tracks, cos a lot of em feature in our MoveOnUp playlist, but then we've always been an introduction to Northern Soul and never ever billed ourselves as a full on Northern night. On the other hand, I don't reckon we could ever compile a greatest 'Northern Soul Ever' CD, since we all have such differing tastes. I'd have to have at LEAST 7 volumes! To be fair to whoever put it together, there's some undeniably great tracks on there. Marlena Shaw, Miracles, Linda Lyndell (which always bizarrely gets listed for the flip?!) and Jr Walker. All great soul records. Just pull em out and give em a listen.... I reckon we have a tendency to lose touch with the sublime records we often take for granted. Me included.

A an addition, it's a monologue about how she spots her ex across a crowded room. Should she run away? Should she ask him to dance? Should she talk to him? 'dum dum dum dum... What Shall I Doooo?' It's ace!!!

The spoken intro was only issued on the Calla demos as far as I was aware. It totally makes the record. And puts the rest of the song into context.

I wish i could follow your arguement there James, but as hard as I try, I can't. Tho in answer to your query about £180 vs a Darrow Fletcher, I'll have to refer you to when I DID sell all of my records 4 years ago. I had stuff like mint issues of 'I want to know' on whit, which was massive back then. At the time they were going for as much as £150, but i sold it for £80, cos it was much closer to what I paid for it. I wasn't going to charge a stupid ballpark figure just to line my pockets. And bear in mind this was my holiday money to travel abroad! I sold some of that stuff so cheaply even Roger Banks took a load of stuff off me. If i had a Darrow Fletcher, I'd think I was f*cking stupid to sell it for £180. It'd be embarassing, and there's people I know who'd quite rightly laugh at me for doing so. It wouldn't be me who was sending prices skyward, cos if i was going to sell it, bearing in mind I would be under no obligation, I'd have sold it for £50 tops. Cos I'd only ever have paid $40 for it. >I argue that it is people like yourself who are driving up prices, not the people who >are paying them. If you know Darrow Fletcher is only worth £40 and someone is >willing to pay £180, you should sell them one for less, say £170 or maybe £100? James, £100 is a stupid figure for this record, as anyone who has seen it flying around for the last 4/5 years will tell you. I bet you'll struggle to find it for over £50 on any list anytime before the last 4/5 months. Things take time to find. I've known people wait 20 years to find a record. And not expensive/rare ones at that. Just cos you can't find it doesn't mean it's rare. And even if I did do the above, I'd still be £60 better off, which would make me a record dealer. Which I'm not.