Help Please - 100% Pure Poison

[Suinoz]

Hi there

Original, boot or issue please?.. (scan attached)

Thanks in advance

Cheers Sue

[pikeys dog]

Looks spot on to me.

[Roburt]

The group were US servicemen based in the UK. Their main men were Danny Leake (from Chicago) & James Wells who went on to work with Ian Levine and then Leake worked back on the Chicago recording scene.

Group landed a UK record deal (with EMI) in 1974 and had a LP & 45 out here (the 45 also escaped in Germany). Highly collectable of course (& reissued on other labels since 74).

[Paul R]

Vaguely remember them on at a Burnley Rose Room Alldayer late 74 ish

.

Paul

[Suinoz]

Looks spot on to me.

Thanks for the replies - Pikeys dog... without seeming thick... are you saying its original even though there is no writing around the label... ??

Cheers Sue

[Kev John]

That is an orig UK demo

Soul brother records released it on there own label a few years ago

Butch posted on here last year he was after an orig i think its Uk only 7inch

Edited October 3, 2012 by soulghost

[boba]

I got a killer Leake / Levine production the other day -- LJ Johnson "staring into space" on AVI. I'm sure people here know it but the other side (imo) is crappy (I think it's the a-side). Staring into space is a killer falsetto ballad -- still good even though there's no harmony, very unique:

also, I'm looking for the 100% pure poison release on DRL if someone has one to sell / trade

[Suinoz]

That is an orig UK demo

Soul brother records released it on there own label a few years ago

Butch posted on here last year he was after an orig i think its Uk only 7inch

Appreciate the info mate

Cheers Sue

[John Reed]

the 45 also escaped in Germany

It came out with a nice picture sleeve

Edited October 3, 2012 by John Reed

[Mal C]

that's really nice on the Demo.. I was lucky enough to get a mint issue in a store in Glastonbury last year, for a fiver...the lady actually went on-line so she could hear it while I was sifting through some other 45's I thought the game was up, but low and behold she just asked for five quid...

Record collectors, we do love a bargain!!

Mal.C

[Alan T]

It's an original demo. You can see the run out stamp INT 501 A-1 in your scan, exactly how it is on the issues. There's some issue copies with a "Factory Sample Not For Sale" sticker on them but yours is the first i've seen with the demo details printed on the middle. Definitely rarer than an issue.

[Suinoz]

It's an original demo. You can see the run out stamp INT 501 A-1 in your scan, exactly how it is on the issues. There's some issue copies with a "Factory Sample Not For Sale" sticker on them but yours is the first i've seen with the demo details printed on the middle. Definitely rarer than an issue.

Cheers for that, lets hope, as its on ebay at the mo it gets the price - no doubt someone will get a bargain...

[Otis Smith]

I put a small uk soul list out in 1988/1989 of records I picked up, mid to late 70's', all uk demos, one of which, was 100% pure poison, stamped, not stickered, each record £2, someone got a bargain, since then, I picked the lp up, from a local charity shop £1.