Hi Everybody Picked up a record today by the ultimate blacks on hitstown never seen or heard of them before It's not even in Manships book is a bit of a funky number does anybody have any info or a value for this group. A side is I like to be & B side is the world is a turmoil it says p 1974 but sounds more early than that and says landover md 20785 at the bottom of the label. Any info would be great.

Regards Al happy new year to you all.

  On 31/12/2011 at 19:43, soulontop said:

Hi Everybody Picked up a record today by the ultimate blacks on hitstown never seen or heard of them before It's not even in Manships book is a bit of a funky number does anybody have any info or a value for this group. A side is I like to be & B side is the world is a turmoil it says p 1974 but sounds more early than that and says landover md 20785 at the bottom of the label. Any info would be great.

Regards Al happy new year to you all.

very indemand with sweet soul collectors, I bet you got some PMs already.

All copies have some sort of heat hazing and play with heavy crackle.

  On 31/12/2011 at 19:59, boba said:

very indemand with sweet soul collectors, I bet you got some PMs already.

All copies have some sort of heat hazing and play with heavy crackle.

Hi thanks for that Boba Yeah I have played it and its sounds bloody awful it does look if been near some heat I thought it just needed cleaning lol thanks for the info

regards

  On 31/12/2011 at 20:17, soulontop said:

Hi thanks for that Boba Yeah I have played it and its sounds bloody awful it does look if been near some heat I thought it just needed cleaning lol thanks for the info

regards

yeah, it won't clean up. but it doesn't affect the value given that all copies are like that.

Ultimate blacks what city did it come from ?

  On 05/01/2012 at 08:49, southsidesoul said:

Ultimate blacks what city did it come from ?

Landover Maryland

i had a copy of this 45' and it plays with some kinda distortion throughout,but unfortunately my whole entire sweet soul collection got stolen from me just days ago on december 27th 2011 in covina,california!

and many many many rares were in that dj box!! including the ultimate blacks!,little caesar and the uterpeans, 4 jades, faces of truth,laurene lavallis,jus' us, wee on wee,darling dears etc....i am scouring ebay and soulsource and many other oputlets to see what turns up as im sure they will...fantastic record by the way it gots me missing mine just thinking about it...good day all!!

  On 05/01/2012 at 16:13, soulful70s said:

i had a copy of this 45' and it plays with some kinda distortion throughout,but unfortunately my whole entire sweet soul collection got stolen from me just days ago on december 27th 2011 in covina,california!

and many many many rares were in that dj box!! including the ultimate blacks!,little caesar and the uterpeans, 4 jades, faces of truth,laurene lavallis,jus' us, wee on wee,darling dears etc....i am scouring ebay and soulsource and many other oputlets to see what turns up as im sure they will...fantastic record by the way it gots me missing mine just thinking about it...good day all!!

sorry again for what happened to you george

  On 31/12/2011 at 19:59, boba said:

very indemand with sweet soul collectors, I bet you got some PMs already.

All copies have some sort of heat hazing and play with heavy crackle.

do you know what caused the heat damage?

  On 05/01/2012 at 20:24, Sleeps45 said:

do you know what caused the heat damage?

I have no idea and I don't want to make up a story. I have seen other records before where many of them were heat damaged, probably because they were near a fire. Kevin from DCSoulrecordings said it was pressed on poor vinyl but it still should be shiny in that case, the dullness and playback sounds definitely like heat damage to me.

  On 05/01/2012 at 20:26, boba said:

I have no idea and I don't want to make up a story. I have seen other records before where many of them were heat damaged, probably because they were near a fire. Kevin from DCSoulrecordings said it was pressed on poor vinyl but it still should be shiny in that case, the dullness and playback sounds definitely like heat damage to me.

I had 2 copies and they both had the heat damage..the records were clean and the damage was in the sound..I wonder if the entire batch was exposed to heat or just the master disc that they were pressed from.. thanks

  On 05/01/2012 at 20:31, Sleeps45 said:

I had 2 copies and they both had the heat damage..the records were clean and the damage was in the sound..I wonder if the entire batch was exposed to heat or just the master disc that they were pressed from.. thanks

It's not in the master, the vinyl itself itself is clearly heat damaged, you can see the dullness and lack of sheen, looks like the zillions of heat damaged records I've seen.

  On 05/01/2012 at 20:32, boba said:

It's not in the master, the vinyl itself itself is clearly heat damaged, you can see the dullness and lack of sheen, looks like the zillions of heat damaged records I've seen.

I did pull the 1 copy I have left and I do see what you're talking about..the ballad is really nice and sought after by the sweet soul collectors,how do the funk guys feel about that "world is a turmoil" cut?

Edited January 6, 201213 yr by Sleeps45

  On 06/01/2012 at 00:34, Sleeps45 said:

I did pull the 1 copy I have left and I do see what you're talking about..the ballad is really nice and sought after by the sweet soul collectors,how do the funk guys feel about that "world is a turmoil" cut?

Have you a clip of it?

  On 06/01/2012 at 10:08, Mister Fish said:

Have you a clip of it?

i dont have a clip of the funk side and i dont have a way to transfer it to mp3 at the moment unfortunatley

Interested in parting with the Ultimate ? Let me know thank you

  On 24/01/2012 at 13:03, southsidesoul said:

Interested in parting with the Ultimate ? Let me know thank you

he already sold it on ebay. my snipe didn't go through....

PM'd you

  On 24/01/2012 at 13:03, southsidesoul said:

Interested in parting with the Ultimate ? Let me know thank you

PM'd you.

One sold this year for $32. i would of paid $100 on top of that

  On 11/08/2012 at 14:05, analogtape said:

One sold this year for $32. i would of paid $100 on top of that

you probably won't get one offering $132 though.

  On 12/08/2012 at 09:54, boba said:

you probably won't get one offering $132 though.

no i know Bob, due to the quality of the pressing I would pay $200-250 for a nice one. I'm still keeping hope that one of my friends in the DC area turns one up and hooks me up for a nice trade or decent cash offer

  On 12/08/2012 at 11:35, analogtape said:

no i know Bob, due to the quality of the pressing I would pay $200-250 for a nice one. I'm still keeping hope that one of my friends in the DC area turns one up and hooks me up for a nice trade or decent cash offer

Like a couple years ago there was one on a Tim Brown list for like 30 pounds and it was listed as "EX". I don't know if it was heat damaged or not.

  On 12/08/2012 at 11:41, boba said:

Like a couple years ago there was one on a Tim Brown list for like 30 pounds and it was listed as "EX". I don't know if it was heat damaged or not.

I assume that you own a copy,how is the flip side?

i do have it but am crazy busy, msg me in two days and i'll pull it out

  On 12/08/2012 at 15:49, analogtape said:

I assume that you own a copy,how is the flip side?

I can let you have Mp3's of both sides if you want?

Edited August 13, 201212 yr by Mister Fish

  On 31/12/2011 at 19:43, soulontop said:

Hi Everybody Picked up a record today by the ultimate blacks on hitstown never seen or heard of them before It's not even in Manships book is a bit of a funky number does anybody have any info or a value for this group. A side is I like to be & B side is the world is a turmoil it says p 1974 but sounds more early than that and says landover md 20785 at the bottom of the label. Any info would be great.

Regards Al happy new year to you all.

I work in Landover,Md twice a.week.fir the last few years.....i have found a few copies of.this in landover.as well.as.some.gospel on.the label.....Im guessing the ultimate blacks might be a D.C group as Landover is right outside of D.C

Just resurrecting this because I have a copy of this and I might be slightly deaf but I can't hear any sound problems on it at all.  The faster side, definitely no problems, the slow side yes maybe some minute background crackle but certainly nothing like heat damage and a hell of a lot better than the copy on YouTube.

Seriously.

Anyone want a copy with little or no noise, do let me know!