Codfromderby

Yes watching Fiona Bruce is always interesting, oh and the records would be an extra !

It's excellent, reading it at the moment, well recccomended

I had one of them, can't remember where I got it from, the titles felt like they were made from transfers, a bit like those letters you rubbed on to paper

Sorry, but anyone who knows me knows that my northern or soul tastes are varied, disco, garage, soulfully house, northern, Latin , popcorn, r&b, rocking blues, reggae, ska, Bluebeard, soca, jazz, mod, sweet, beach, add whatever But this is, FFS ,god knows ..Carlos Santana brother apparently

Always loved his voice, raining through my sunshine is an awesome track, RIP Eddie, thanks for the tunes

Thanks for uploading that one, new one to me, awesome !

Yep, your right, as for the other label, seem to remember it's another colour nickel, most yellow, other one red ?

It's brothers and sisters, the inst side of don't let them tell you on nickel, it's on another label as well

apologies if the modern soul room people already know it, love it

Or in this case a quid whirlwind, full time thing/ ecstacy passion and pain touch and go 12"

I reckon it's blackbird by the Manhattans lp track from the same album as the excellent don't want to pay the price

Not a clue but I'm sure this was for sale on eBay about a year ago

well, ill go to the foot of our stairs !, that's awesome, want one now !

nice one ! never seen or heard of one

flipping the head on its head so to speak, I've seen a boot of do the pearl girl for sale on eBay ,seller in the US, record booted in notts

that's brought back memories, I can remember one stall having loads of king/james brown related records all different titles, however I can also remember that the ones I either won or bought all sounded the same at the time, would make a nice collection these days though. can also remember most second hand shops I went to had copies of Donny Gerard, hes always somewhere around

might not work that one, when I went to Wigan I was so hyped up or otherwise enduring altered states that the boring bits between setting off and hearing your first record when you arrived are a blank

strange fact I learned whilst listening to an interview with Greg lake, most music we like is based on African American rthyms, where as prog rock is based around European rhythm's ( you've prompted me, I.m now looking for a can t shirt for my next soul night)

I've met four people at work who claim to have gone to Wigan, all ladies, I asked the first two what records they remember most, they both said they could not remember the third one was in her mid forties so must have gone in push chair the forth one was telling me how she went to nighters at Wigan pier

don't knock those portable phones, we were at a soul night once and heard a great track we didn't know, I was about to ask the dj what the song was and my mate took out his phone and said, hold on, he then appeared to text his mate and low and behold he sent us the title and artist, never met this bloke out and about, his name shazam or similar, anyone know him

there's some stuff on there I've not heard since the days, and had not even thought about since, great post, instant funk, Alex Taylor, joe Simon, fook knows where I heard them originally but they certainly are familiar and stirred some memories

its a bit strange identifying divs, I've been into music mainly soul/northern since 1973, i also like ska/reggae/punk and other stuff, i go out occasionally to soul events, I like a drink when I go out, I've got imho a great soul collection and I've been told a good knowledge of our chosen music. i was out drinking with some mates a while ago and we ended up talking to two blokes in fred perrys, levis etc who told us they were on the northern scene, and off to a nighter in stoke, me being a nerd and pissed I started talking about music, billy Stewart, Roy Hamilton, Stafford, soul Sam playing at Cleo's in derby late 70s, bootlegs, king tuking modern soul, popcorn you name it, all they could say was "you don't look like a soulie", and had never heard of any of the records we were talking about apart from "cracking up", I was wearing a nick drake t shirt at the time

oh yes, it got a few plays years,ago, pay anymore than a fiver and you've been done

slightly off topic but also covered by grace Kennedy

awesome stuff ! the cate bros, had that lp for about 20 years and never played that track, great stuff please post more