Frankie Crocker

This is the harder to come by issue. Value probably above £150 nowadays. The song is also on Royal-Tone and more commonly available at about £100 - £125; on this release it is titled Baby I Dig You and is on a gold label and on a red label. I can’t add anything else more factual other than to say it is a great tune, seriously overlooked probably undervalued and my advice to anyone would be to grab the yellow Ambassador issue if you have the chance.

Jades went for £4,828 as mentioned above. Bidding went beyond 6.00 pm. as is often the case on juicy items. If the winner pays immediately, the record is removed from the listing so nothing to worry about. Jades is one of the rarest New Orleans records so highly collectable if you’re a New Orleans completist. 5K is steep for this 45 but it rarely comes to market. The Para-Monts shot up in value too.

Inclined to agree. The pink issue is very hard to come by. Manship says the white demo is very scarce but Popsike shows the frequency of it marginally more numerous than the pink issue. I vaguely recall the red edition being on styrene and a pressed unofficially but don’t quote me on that. Both the white demos and pink issues of Buster and Eddie are very scarce and rarely come up for sale - more importantly, it is a top tune.

Hi Joel. Excuse the delay. Hope you’re well.

Here’s the article to distract those worried about a few Proms.

Phew...does this mean our Bentley’s and Range Rovers will be safe parked outside the Festival Hall come Prom time?

Yummy, my kind of food but I still dream of chicken sandwiches served at the balcony cafe at The Casino. Maybe the scene needs to move up a class or two, take over Stringfellows nightclub for an evening of mid-tempo sounds served to gents wearing suits and lasses wearing cocktail dresses... drinks at £10 a time should deter the car-thieving-drug-taking-riff-raff. Think Manchester Ritz or Birmingham Locarno, plush decor, good sound system, plenty of wannabe DJ’s around, surely loadsamoney to be made. As long as the music remains quality, all the rest doesn’t matter.

Loads of interesting comments above, mainly critical it must be said. Personally, I don’t see the Proms threatening the current scene or debasing the past as these events take place in a parallel universe. Yes, the Proms could result in more divs dropping into Soul Nights but I recall plenty of claims on Soul Source of the need for new blood; don’t forget that many of us were divs once upon a time when we stumbled into The Casino. I suspect that some of the Cat’s oldtimers will enjoy the event in Wolverhamton whilst the old Wheelers will derive some satisfaction at the Manchester Prom. Sadly I’m travelling and can’t make it to the London, Manchester or Sheffield events but would have gladly gone to any of them, distance no object.

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The legitimate reissue has the 3w’s scribed in the run-out

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Salvadors is played out as in spun in public. Bobby Paris rarely heard nowadays. Both tunes are uplifting and perhaps more accessible to Prom goers. Agreed, those Top Of The Pops LP’s were truly awful - even back then it was original vinyl only for serious record collectors.

Sorry Mark, but George Blackwell has got to be one of the dreariest rarities played out, and played to death for that matter. If the next round of Proms are to generate ‘atmosphere’ as you put it, they need some tunes with oomph like Bobby Paris’ Personally, Prophets’ Fever, Salvadors etc. I think the whole Proms experience should be imagined as being in the recording studio rather than a club like the Casino - you’ve got the Mirwood Orchestra, Funk Brothers and a host of professional musicians plus talented singers delivering a recognisable versions of tunes unfamiliar to the masses.

Record on hold for you Glyn.

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