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💎 Jackie Edwards 💎
💎 Jackie Edwards - I Feel So Bad & I Don't Want To Be Made A Fool Of - Island Wi-3006 Mint Minus 💎
Island
WI-3006
Northern Soul / Mod
Artist:Jackie Edwards
A Side:I Feel So Bad
B Side:I Don't Want To Be Made A Fool Of
Label:Island
Format:7"
💎 Condition 💎
Vinyl Condition:
M-
Label Condition:
M-
Sleeve Condition:
M-
💎 Description 💎
Jackie Edwards - I Feel So Bad / I Don't Want To Be Made A Fool Of - Island WI-3006 mint minus
For those you who delight in hearing about record dealers making monumental fuck ups - here's one of my best, out of the 1000s I've embraced over the decades.
Forgive me if you've heard this story of adolescent naivety, driven by my just out of school Soul vinyl obsession before but some events never leave your mind, no matter how long ago they happened.
My brother's funeral in 2017, was a tearful reunion of the Melton Mowbray MODS who shaped my life. In 1970 one of his close buddies Decky Stevens introduced me to the Brit Club on the banks of the River Trent. I felt so proud to be asked to accompany the man with the best polished brogues in town. I thought I'd entered the exclusive world of MOD-acceptance, through my personality; but it was apparently my very pretty girlfriend Patricia's preference for tight fitting hot pants that triggered the invite to ride the bus to Nottingham that night..
A night that changed the course of my life. Not because Decky's MOD persona almost stole my girl away but because my brain that evening was bombarded for the very first time with the recordings of Al Kent, J. J. Barnes, Major Lance, Jaybirds, Jimmy McCracklin, Rufus Lumley etc etc. I left the club determined to own all of them, especially that one full of strings that Decky couldn't tell me the artist or the title but I found out on my next visit, it was Jackie Edwards - I feel so bad - it became my top want.
Ironically a few months later, I had my very first record-digging "hit" on Melton Mowbray Airfield Sunday market. The Kendall brothers and me stumbled upon a 45 collection being sold by "Cetti" his I.d. sticker was on every Tamla Motown, Stateside, Sue, Capitol, Columbia 45 that lay in strewn across the market stall for these 3 knowledgeless country-bumpkins trying to amass a Soul collection it was gonna be a day to remember. ( another time I'll tell you what prizes we left behind as our feeble knowledge failed us)
My prize catch was Major Lance - Investigate - Columbia. The boastings of our find soon spread; Tim Crumb a horse-showjumping Soul boy declared he wanted my Major Lance, but I wouldn't sell. But I would maybe trade it for the super-rare (I'd been told) Jackie Edwards - I feel so bad - he said he'd got a copy...
I was absolutely ecstatic when we did the trade the very next day. I couldn't wait to get home and play it...
I danced around 25 Baldocks Lane like Leicester City had won the league (I knew that a dream that could never come true, but I was at last the owner of Jackie Edwards - I Feel So Bad - I was all-a-quiver!! .
And what a pretty label, a brilliant yellow.. a label I'd never seen before. The 'MAGIC' label and it felt like magic and I was so proud of my first record deal...
Until I soon afterwards I was told it was a worthless bootleg worth 75p...
Perhaps the finest condition copy we've had in memory, Totally bright clean red and whitre labels, 4 prong centre intact. Full gloss miraculous MINT Minus vinyl. Plays flawless - now go and bathe in those mesmeric zipping strings in full flow and Jackie's spellbinding vocal, crystal clear and irresistibly beckoning as always.
💎 Condition Report 💎
Perhaps the finest condition copy we've had in memory, Totally bright clean red and whitre labels, 4 prong centre intact. Full gloss miraculous MINT Minus vinyl. Plays flawless - now go and bathe in those mesmeric zipping strings in full flow and Jackie's spellbinding vocal, crystal clear and irresistibly beckoning as always.
Still in my top 10 after 56 years. .
💎 Detail 💎
Artist
Jackie Edwards
A Side
I Feel So Bad
Produced By
Syd Dale
Arranged By
Syd Dale
Written By
Jackie Edwards
B Side
I Don't Want To Be Made A Fool Of
Produced By
Syd Dale
Arranged By
Syd Dale
Written By
Jackie Edwards
Label
Island
Format
7"
Year
1966
City
Island Records, 108 Cambridge Road, Kilburn, London NW6
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