i can remember being at the 100 club in the mid eighties and buying a copy of ty karim "lighten up baby" on romark off Guy H assuming it was the belting 60s gem.I couldn't wait to get home and give it a spin, boy oh boy was i dissapointed! so dissapointed i threw it across the room.Bloody hell i'd just blown £7 on a slow durge of a record, however i did manage to sell it a week later and get my money back funny how tastes change as i'd give my right arm to own it now and to be fair its probably rarer than the original version.

Has this or similar happened to anyone else?

just recently bought a George Byrd for a few quid on a buy it now that came up on ebay as i was looking so instantly bought it thinking it was the bargain of the year only to find it wasnt the one i thought it was, still a great tune but not thee one

  On 10/09/2011 at 17:03, Bearsy said:

just recently bought a George Byrd for a few quid on a buy it now that came up on ebay as i was looking so instantly bought it thinking it was the bargain of the year only to find it wasnt the one i thought it was, still a great tune but not thee one

and dont you dare say anything its in the sales box

  On 10/09/2011 at 17:03, Bearsy said:

just recently bought a George Byrd for a few quid on a buy it now that came up on ebay as i was looking so instantly bought it thinking it was the bargain of the year only to find it wasnt the one i thought it was, still a great tune but not thee one

dont forget to keep a lookout for the brooks brothers on uk pye

i ordered Kenny Lynch-"Half the days gone and i havent spent a penny" thinking i was ordering Kenni Burke-"let somebody love you", DOH!

I bought Joe Matthews - "Sorry Ain't Good Enough" on Thelma from one of the big UK dealers at what I thought was a bargain price

As it turned out it was the re-release on Thelma 114 backed with the un-released "We Got A Good Thing Going" rather than the original release on Thelma 107 with "You Better Mend Your Ways" on the other side

Basically, poor lazy listing by the seller

Still think I should have sent it back but for some reason I never did

Cheers

Richard

  On 10/09/2011 at 17:23, Premium Stuff said:

I bought Joe Matthews - "Sorry Ain't Good Enough" on Thelma from one of the big UK dealers at what I thought was a bargain price

As it turned out it was the re-release on Thelma 114 backed with the un-released "We Got A Good Thing Going" rather than the original release on Thelma 107 with "You Better Mend Your Ways" on the other side

Basically, poor lazy listing by the seller

Still think I should have sent it back but for some reason I never did

Cheers

Richard

this seems all too easy to do these days especially on ebay as there seem to be endless bootlegs and misleading info

Bobby Womack - What Is This on Minit thinking it was the same as keymen

  On 10/09/2011 at 17:37, Steve L said:

Bobby Womack - What Is This on Minit thinking it was the same as keymen

you and about a thousand other peeps

quite a few years ago i bought Barbara Dane, i'm on my way, thinking it was a female version of Dean Parrish (paid £15 for it) imagine my shock when i played it, i felt such a tosspot at the time i just hid the record in a 'back' box, Oh how times have changed

Atb...Rob

james brown then found it wasn't the same as the album version

and cool aid thinking it was cool off fuzzled brain that time

kev

  On 10/09/2011 at 17:43, tosspot said:

quite a few years ago i bought Barbara Dane, i'm on my way, thinking it was a female version of Dean Parrish (paid £15 for it) imagine my shock when i played it, i felt such a tosspot at the time i just hid the record in a 'back' box, Oh how times have changed

Atb...Rob

brilliant, i feel i'm in good company

  On 10/09/2011 at 17:12, vince ayres said:

dont forget to keep a lookout for the brooks brothers on uk pye

remind me via pm Vince me brains frazzled lol

aberdeen music hall nighter.

bought bobby goldsboro / too late,thinking it was larry williams & johnny watson.

i was only 14 years old,give us a break,lol.

  On 10/09/2011 at 18:01, sepia said:

aberdeen music hall nighter.

bought bobby goldsboro / too late,thinking it was larry williams & johnny watson.

i was only 14 years old,give us a break,lol.

Still a bad one mate - even at 14 :lol:

Cheers

Richard

  On 10/09/2011 at 17:56, Bearsy said:

remind me via pm Vince me brains frazzled lol

  On 10/09/2011 at 17:56, Bearsy said:

remind me via pm Vince me brains frazzled lol

can't do that, trade secret

  On 10/09/2011 at 18:05, vince ayres said:

can't do that, trade secret

thats why i cant remember then Vince lol

Ronnie Walker-Its A Good Feeling thinking it was the Falcons song....I wish!

Good topic sure weve all done it

  On 10/09/2011 at 18:58, wiggyflat said:

Ronnie Walker-Its A Good Feeling thinking it was the Falcons song....I wish!

Ouch!

That Falcons is one of the best male group sounds ever recorded - did you ever get one?

Cheers

Richard

In 1978 I bought a Don Varner on Quinvy in the record bar at Wigan, yes you guessed it, bootleg, thought it was original.

Paid a fiver, doh!.....

In my defense, the guy was a well known big seller & had a box full of rare gems & this was lurking at the back, still got the pressing today, a tribute to my foolish youth, I'll never let it go.

A mate of mine still takes the p@ss with the tear stained face thing, the irony of the title is not lost on him, makes me laugh every time.

Aid

  On 10/09/2011 at 16:38, vince ayres said:

i can remember being at the 100 club in the mid eighties and buying a copy of ty karim "lighten up baby" on romark off Guy H assuming it was the belting 60s gem.I couldn't wait to get home and give it a spin, boy oh boy was i dissapointed! so dissapointed i threw it across the room.Bloody hell i'd just blown £7 on a slow durge of a record, however i did manage to sell it a week later and get my money back funny how tastes change as i'd give my right arm to own it now and to be fair its probably rarer than the original version.

Has this or similar happened to anyone else?

Funny thing is me and Andy Lett was talking about this on facebook last week

Ginger did the same thing with "Lighten Up" in the 70s.

I have always loved both versions even back in the 70s

  On 10/09/2011 at 17:43, tosspot said:

quite a few years ago i bought Barbara Dane, i'm on my way, thinking it was a female version of Dean Parrish (paid £15 for it) imagine my shock when i played it, i felt such a tosspot at the time i just hid the record in a 'back' box, Oh how times have changed

Atb...Rob

You are a tosspot Rob

I was super-pleased many years ago to buy a UK Mercury copy of Damita Jo's I'll Save The Last Dance thinking it was the same as her then popular stomping version on Ranwood.

Alan

OV Wright's What Did yo Tell This Girl Of Mine on Backbeat thinking it was the same version as the UK Sue issue.

Plus a few records on demo that that have the not so very good tune on both sides

I recently bought a cover version of Deon Jackson's "Love makes the world go round" on UK by none other than Beryl Reid!

Hey guess what, totally different song, and if you've heard Beryl Reid sing....

mate of mine bought a copy of You Don't KNow Where Your Interest lies in the record bar at Wigan, looked at it on the coach home and thought it looked a bit weird, what with it having the artist name scratched out. You can guess the rest...

  On 11/09/2011 at 08:41, AlanB said:

I was super-pleased many years ago to buy a UK Mercury copy of Damita Jo's I'll Save The Last Dance thinking it was the same as her then popular stomping version on Ranwood.

Alan

I found a UK copy of this in a junk shop, and sold it to a mate, I never played it, this would have been late 72 or early 73.

So nearly 40 years later I find out it is not the same record.

Edited September 11, 201113 yr by davetay

  On 11/09/2011 at 09:28, Diggin said:

Plus a few records on demo that that have the not so very good tune on both sides

I got Josie Jo Armstead "Ride out the Storm" on demo, and Patti Austin "Day By Day" on demo, to find out when they arrived they where stero/mono demos

bought susan farer the big hurt from a junk shop , needle to record out from the speakers comes the floaters float on.

  On 11/09/2011 at 09:32, Pete S said:

I recently bought a cover version of Deon Jackson's "Love makes the world go round" on UK by none other than Beryl Reid!

Hey guess what, totally different song, and if you've heard Beryl Reid sing....

mate of mine bought a copy of You Don't KNow Where Your Interest lies in the record bar at Wigan, looked at it on the coach home and thought it looked a bit weird, what with it having the artist name scratched out. You can guess the rest...

I'm sure I admonished you about that Beryl Reid thing years ago on this very site, Pete.

In (maybe) the early 80s I had an old photocopied guide to rare UK soul singles that I think you were responsible for. I scored an HMV demo of the Beryl Reid tune on Oldham market and thought I was in for treat. I imagine the look on my face was similar to yours when the needle hit the record...

My mate, came running out of the record bar at w/cwith a copy of the Del-capris on Karma sutra, thinking he`d bought richards cover up at the time

  On 10/09/2011 at 18:06, Bearsy said:

thats why i cant remember then Vince lol

Here you Bearsy think you will like it remember seeing them at B'ham town hall with Brian Hyland

I've heard that Barbara Mercer - "Call on me" on Capitol,is a different version than the Sidra one.I mean, who'd buy the Capitol version without checking.....

Edited September 11, 201113 yr by KevH

  On 11/09/2011 at 08:41, AlanB said:

I was super-pleased many years ago to buy a UK Mercury copy of Damita Jo's I'll Save The Last Dance thinking it was the same as her then popular stomping version on Ranwood.

Alan

You're not alone, did the same thing myself

Jodi Mathis "Mama" US Capitol. The issue has "Don't You Care Any More", forgot to check, the one I bought was a Demo, "Mama" on both sides..

how about this...off me face in the Highland room. bought Strawberry Jam version of 'Personally' for a quid somehow thinking I was buying Bobby Paris on British!! ! Thinking was that it was UK issue . I saw Pye( I know it was blue!), thought Polydor!!! What a bargain, till my mate says 'WTF YOU BOUGHT THAT FOR? ,

  On 11/09/2011 at 09:32, Pete S said:

I recently bought a cover version of Deon Jackson's "Love makes the world go round" on UK by none other than Beryl Reid!

Hey guess what, totally different song, and if you've heard Beryl Reid sing....

mate of mine bought a copy of You Don't KNow Where Your Interest lies in the record bar at Wigan, looked at it on the coach home and thought it looked a bit weird, what with it having the artist name scratched out. You can guess the rest...

Was that Steve Caesar Pete? If not Steve did exactly the same :yes:

Blake

  On 11/09/2011 at 10:12, Godzilla said:

I'm sure I admonished you about that Beryl Reid thing years ago on this very site, Pete.

In (maybe) the early 80s I had an old photocopied guide to rare UK soul singles that I think you were responsible for. I scored an HMV demo of the Beryl Reid tune on Oldham market and thought I was in for treat. I imagine the look on my face was similar to yours when the needle hit the record...

My fault for copying second hand information without substantiating it mate, sorry about that!

  On 11/09/2011 at 11:52, BLAKE H said:

Was that Steve Caesar Pete? If not Steve did exactly the same :yes:

Blake

No BLake, lad from round here, Tom. Big Simon & Garfunkel fan nowadays, dunno why

A few yrs back when this was en vogue

I thought i'd found one at a steal for $5

i got it on a yellow MGM ..boy was i in for a surprise when i put it on the decks and it played this version track 23 https://www.amazon.co...agSuffix=dp_img

Edited September 11, 201113 yr by NEV

HI ALL Quite a few over the 40 years, Back in 1974 i asked Dave Chase from Shefford who was going to the CASINO, if he saw a copy of Lada EdmondsJR "Larue" to buy it for me. The problem was i did not no who it was! so i sung it, when i next saw him he said he got me my record, he gave me a boot of Terrible Tom. think about it.

More recent i got this???? a picture is worth a 1000 words DAVE K

  On 10/09/2011 at 23:47, Steve L said:

You are a tosspot Rob

Yep Steve, was then, & still am

  On 11/09/2011 at 00:28, 123-motown said:

Very nearly

Tony

  On 11/09/2011 at 00:28, 123-motown said:

done the same,but ended up with the right one after a while

Edited September 11, 201113 yr by soulsalmon

i purchased,"my conscience",the lovelites on lovelite 1,thinking it was the lovelites,"get it off my conscience" on lovelite 1500,two great tune though,!!!

Not quite the same, but I snapped an OG copy of judy street while djing pissed! Very expensive mistake!

  On 11/09/2011 at 16:51, de-to said:

i purchased,"my conscience",the lovelites on lovelite 1,thinking it was the lovelites,"get it off my conscience" on lovelite 1500,two great tune though,!!!

Loads of people did that back when The Lovelites first started to get played.

I much prefer the slow one myself.

I lost someone - James Brown on King thinking it was the same as the track on hell.

When i first got serious into northern and started collecting...was obssesed with having Breakaway...Steve Karmen band,...in my collection...having only heard the intsrumental..upto them...got told about the vocal version....bought what i thought was it...was the Valentines...completely different tune..but same title..was soo pissed off then...i just fooked it straight out of my bedroon window...then ran down ..fetched it in and cleaned it up with olive oil!!!!!...xxxxxx