How Do You Tell The Repro From The Original?

[Guest Mr T L C]

Hi there!

I´ve just started collecting soul albums and like most people (?) I prefer buying originals. In my search I´ve come across a lot of repros, f.i. Tyrone Davis- Can I Change My Mind, Candi Staton- I´m just a prisoner. Some time a go I bought the repro version of Tommie Young´s Do you still feel the same way (what a wonderful album by the way!) and by looking at it I started thinking...How the *^@¤** do you tell the difference between the repro and the original?!? There are lots of "still sealed" originals out there and not all people are honest. Which classics have been subject to repro?

[pikeys dog]

Without having it in your hands its pretty difficult.

Original U.S. albums from the 60s and early 70s had thicker card covers with 'slicks' (the top layer of the cover pasted on) - modern repros tend to have thinner more flexible sleeves.

[Guest Soulfood33]

Hi there!

I´ve just started collecting soul albums and like most people (?) I prefer buying originals. In my search I´ve come across a lot of repros, f.i. Tyrone Davis- Can I Change My Mind, Candi Staton- I´m just a prisoner. Some time a go I bought the repro version of Tommie Young´s Do you still feel the same way (what a wonderful album by the way!) and by looking at it I started thinking...How the *^@¤** do you tell the difference between the repro and the original?!? There are lots of "still sealed" originals out there and not all people are honest. Which classics have been subject to repro?

Nearly all collectable major label USA SOUL LPs were REPROed about 10 years since. You can tell by the thickness of the covers and cover print clarity. But first, I s'pose you need to have a few originals to get the feel for it. The repro's do have thinner covers and the covers have been "camera'd" so the picture doesn't look as "sharp" as the original. The paper of thelabel is also made from much cleaner 90s paper non-grainy amd very smooth.... these repros are very good at the time i considered it all a synical attepmt my the majors to have a "pop" at the collecting market. Luckily with LPs like the Skull Snaps they couldn't be bothered with the extra expence of the "Gatefold" sleeve. As with your Tyrone Davis..Atlantic were one of the worst culprits..Archie Bell Lp often get sold as a first press and morely recently the super-duper Gloria Scott on Casablanca has been repro'd. At foirst glance they all look like the first press.

[Guest Mr T L C]

Well, thank you! I guess I´ll just have to keep bugging the sellers with anoying questions...

[steve z]

Well, thank you! I guess I´ll just have to keep bugging the sellers with annoying questions...

Hi,WHAT are Bugging questions??? If you do not know what to ask ?Wake up JOE?