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Hi there my 1st post, I recently brought this record for £40 m-. Just wanted to know is this a decent price?

Thanks,

Lewis

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Hi there my 1st post, I recently brought this record for £40 m-. Just wanted to know is this a decent price?

Thanks,

Lewis

about the going rate. decent group funk track.

Guest lewisdreamhead
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about the going rate. decent group funk track.

Yeah really love the guitar breaks, thanks for the information. Any idea if these recorded anything else?

Guest carl_p
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i've never actually heard it and i've only seen it offered once or twice so that's probably a great deal. i'm guessing it would be the four gents group with maybe a revised line up? there is another detroit "Gent's" record on Midnight Records which is also probably related but it's an earlier sound.

Guest lewisdreamhead
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i've never actually heard it and i've only seen it offered once or twice so that's probably a great deal. i'm guessing it would be the four gents group with maybe a revised line up? there is another detroit "Gent's" record on Midnight Records which is also probably related but it's an earlier sound.

I hope so, I think sound impression is a detroit label so the midnight records release would seem logical, a sound file of this anyone?

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i've never actually heard it and i've only seen it offered once or twice so that's probably a great deal. i'm guessing it would be the four gents group with maybe a revised line up? there is another detroit "Gent's" record on Midnight Records which is also probably related but it's an earlier sound.

i never made the connection to the four gents? i will compare names across the records tonight. I have the gents on paramount, will compare names on that also when I get home.

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i've never actually heard it and i've only seen it offered once or twice so that's probably a great deal. i'm guessing it would be the four gents group with maybe a revised line up? there is another detroit "Gent's" record on Midnight Records which is also probably related but it's an earlier sound.

i never made the connection to the four gents? i will compare names across the records tonight. I have the gents on paramount, will compare names on that also when I get home.

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i've never actually heard it and i've only seen it offered once or twice so that's probably a great deal. i'm guessing it would be the four gents group with maybe a revised line up? there is another detroit "Gent's" record on Midnight Records which is also probably related but it's an earlier sound.

i never made the connection to the four gents? i will compare names across the records tonight. I have the gents on paramount, will compare names on that also when I get home.

Guest carl_p
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the a-side is a rather slow group harmony ballad. the b-side is slightly uptempo r&b a bit early i'm guessing 1960 or 1961. I was told it was a detroit group but i think it's a toledo label.

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the a-side is a rather slow group harmony ballad. the b-side is slightly uptempo r&b a bit early i'm guessing 1960 or 1961. I was told it was a detroit group but i think it's a toledo label.

pressing looks more detroitey than ohio, don't you think? i will look at the names on the encore and paramount and sound impressions records later.

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the a-side is a rather slow group harmony ballad. the b-side is slightly uptempo r&b a bit early i'm guessing 1960 or 1961. I was told it was a detroit group but i think it's a toledo label.

pressing looks more detroitey than ohio, don't you think? i will look at the names on the encore and paramount and sound impressions records later.

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pressing looks more detroitey than ohio, don't you think? i will look at the names on the encore and paramount and sound impressions records later.

The label number follows the toledo "midnight" label (joey leal) produced by johnny gibson except that it's an arp pressing. ted weelock told me it was absolutely a detroit group and i believe he also said it was a toledo label.

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pressing looks more detroitey than ohio, don't you think? i will look at the names on the encore and paramount and sound impressions records later.

the sound impression record sounds almost like a garage record but I think it's a black group because of 1) the bass voice and 2) the lead does sound pretty black. I think the names on the record sound like white people's names though, like white people were producing the record and trying to make it sounds garagey. The names on the sound impression record are:

writer: Powl Christianson

Produced by Greg Sutton

Engineer: Brian Dombrowski

Arranged and conducted by Martin simmons

the four gents records on encore are written by Tom Kemp. one is arranged by Dale Warren, one is arranged by Henry Smith Jr. They are a Meehan - McGuire production. I suprisingly don't have the HBR record, can someone check that one for a common name? as it is, there is no common name across these two.

For the record, here is the info on the gents on paramount:

Both sides written by Bobby Flax, Lenny Lambert

Arranged by Paul Griffin

Engineered by Jerome Gaspar

For the record, I was wrong when I said 40 pounds was the "going rate", I think I paid $50 for my VG copy of the Gents on sound impressions and have only seen it for sale a few times, I think $100 for M- copy once, so it is pretty rare and 40 pounds is a pretty good price for a M- copy I guess. I would say the value is still based more on rarity than quality though as it's just a garagey group funk record to me.

Can someone post the info on the HBR record? it's common but I don't have it.

Guest lewisdreamhead
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the sound impression record sounds almost like a garage record but I think it's a black group because of 1) the bass voice and 2) the lead does sound pretty black. I think the names on the record sound like white people's names though, like white people were producing the record and trying to make it sounds garagey. The names on the sound impression record are:

writer: Powl Christianson

Produced by Greg Sutton

Engineer: Brian Dombrowski

Arranged and conducted by Martin simmons

the four gents records on encore are written by Tom Kemp. one is arranged by Dale Warren, one is arranged by Henry Smith Jr. They are a Meehan - McGuire production. I suprisingly don't have the HBR record, can someone check that one for a common name? as it is, there is no common name across these two.

For the record, here is the info on the gents on paramount:

Both sides written by Bobby Flax, Lenny Lambert

Arranged by Paul Griffin

Engineered by Jerome Gaspar

For the record, I was wrong when I said 40 pounds was the "going rate", I think I paid $50 for my VG copy of the Gents on sound impressions and have only seen it for sale a few times, I think $100 for M- copy once, so it is pretty rare and 40 pounds is a pretty good price for a M- copy I guess. I would say the value is still based more on rarity than quality though as it's just a garagey group funk record to me.

Can someone post the info on the HBR record? it's common but I don't have it.

I was hoping I got a good deal on that, not bad for a 20 year old smile.gif . Thanks for the information though. I have asked a few well known dj's here in england none of them seem to have heard of it so I don't think it is known over here yet?

Question about the sound impression label anyone know the catalogue numbers for: 6801, 6803, 6805, 6806

Guest carl_p
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Bob, here's the scans. but your right it may not be the same group.

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Bob, here's the scans. but your right it may not be the same group.

maybe there was a common publishing or something, I will check that later.

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I was hoping I got a good deal on that, not bad for a 20 year old :smile: . Thanks for the information though. I have asked a few well known dj's here in england none of them seem to have heard of it so I don't think it is known over here yet?

Question about the sound impression label anyone know the catalogue numbers for: 6801, 6803, 6805, 6806

#6803 is by the Solitary Confinement, it's a garage 45.

Brian Dombrowski also recorded records using the same numbering system, but they were issued using private labels and not Sound Impressions. For example, there's a record he did by the Lykes Of Us, on the Molt label, but the numbering is 6801 - could be 6801/2. I found that Gents record years ago, I don't even remember what I did with it.

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