Any info on this track , 45 release , label etc would be appreciated . 

  On 02/09/2014 at 15:13, andybellwood said:

Any info on this track , 45 release , label etc would be appreciated . 

 

Is that definitely the right title Andy?

So i've been told Pete ...

 

'Slim Smith - Ain't Too Proud To Beg (7")  THE B-SIDE SAYS VERSION BUT IS ACTUALLY A VERY RARE REVIVAL CLASSIC " DAVE BARKER - YOU MUST BELIEVE" 

I'm sure someone asked me about this last week...yes they did....a track credited to Slim Smith which I knew was Dave Barker...it's called I Feel Alive, see if this is it

 

Yep Pete - that's it . Big thanks

Andy - I just switched my jukebox on for the first time in ages and played a few tunes, I knew that song sounded familiar - I've actually got it, on my jukebox, labelled as "I feel alright again", it's on the B side of a blank of The Uniques "Out of love" which would explain why people think it's Slim Smith.  So I had it all along!

And what a fabulous tune it is Pete . Apart from your JA blank and appearing by some quirk on the b side to Slim Smith wrongly titled as 'version' did it have any 'label' release on 45 ?

Apparently issued in the UK on Techniques label credited to The Techniques..TE 904

Another coincidence is - I said I had it on the B side of The Uniques "Out of love" - well Dave Barker also did a version of Out Of Love using the same backing track as The Uniques, came out miscredited as Dave McLaren "No love at all" on the Big label.

So now I need to check to see if it is actually The Uniques version on my jukebox!

It was released on 45 in the UK on the Techniques label.

We posted at the same time Pete !

OK this is just getting weirder.

My copy is a blank, and it has no matrix number, nothing, I asked Dee to check in case it was my eyes, but there is nothing at all in the grooves.

But the other side, has very large run of writing

WR 3256 No Body Loves Me Slim Smith

meaning (W)inston (R ) iley production

but that WR number isn't listed in the RKR database!

I put one of my own labels on it years ago and I wrote down the matrix FCR 7423 on the label which is the correct one for the original of The Uniques Out Of Love.

But Out Of Love isn't a Winston Riley production anyway, is it?  W. Lowe / L. Tyrell?

Edited September 4, 201410 yr by Pete S

If anyone wants my copy of this it's up for offers

"I Feel Alive" was also released as a JA Techniques blank backed by another Dave Barker tune, "Heart of a man." Total stunner. Couldn't believe it when I found a copy. Went for at least a year thinking it was Slim Smith or Pat Kelly. Couldn't believe Dave Barker had that voice!

I sold that copy above for £150 or £200, couldn't believe it, I'd have sold it for a tenner if anyone had offered previously, I'd had it for years and years and never played that Dave Barker side.

Nice!  It's rare and highly in demand at the moment given how soulful it is -- a great departure from the normal run of the mill skinhead reggae sound.   It's at the top of my list of early reggae vocal cuts.