45 Sleeves Website

[Mal C]

everybody must have looked at this brilliant web site on here by now, notice its down, anybody know whats happened to it?

 

.45-sleeves.xxxxcom

 

Mal

Edited April 12, 2015 by mike
malware warning on the orig url

[Guest GeoffB]

Looks like they forgot to renew the domain name.

[Robbk]

Too bad.  It was a great site.  I, myself. uploaded hundreds of different company record sleeves to a thread on a now-extinct Soul music forum.  Too bad.  I am too old and too busy now to upload them again.  Some of you may have frequented that forum, as well as this one.  It also was a Northern Soul forum, which had mainly British members.  We were referred to THIS forum when they stopped operations

(in 2007, I believe).  And that is when I started posting here again.

[Mal C]

The great thing about that site was the sleeves from various European countries, and for me Austrslia, you can't get that info anywhere else on the net...

Really hope it comes back online....

[Guest brivinyl]

The owner of the site Erling Mehl died earlier this year.

[Mal C]

right so that explains things... I wonder if were able to contact the family perhaps, ask if they would get it back on-line... just a thought.. as it would really be a shame to lose it..

 

m

[Mike]

just got  malware warnings of the url posted in the first post

so have edited post and its title

best avoid going there

[Mal C]

thanks Mike, if anybody does have a contact with the family, I'd happily host it for free...

 

Mal:_)

[Mike]

and of course there's a long running established gallery on here already if anyone ever needs a place

 

 

https://www.soul-source.co.uk/gallery/

[Sebastian]

The entire webpage is still viewable using the "Wayback Machine" Internet Archive.

Don't know for how long it will be there, but if anyone wants to do a "site dump" or save any scans, here it is:

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20150319174946/https://45-sleeves.com/

[Mal C]

brilliant, thank you Sebastian...

[The Yank]

I just went on the web site a few minutes ago and the site is up and running again !!!!

[Sunnysoul]

On 4/12/2015 at 00:09, mike said:

and of course there's a long running established gallery on here already if anyone ever needs a place

https://www.soul-source.co.uk/gallery/

We've had a few recent mentions on here  about sleeves  and the 45-sleeves.com website.  Is  it now established that the  site  -  for the time being anyway -   is no longer "active",  so to speak?

I've just been on the site and the label information and scans  appear to be no longer accessible on there.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150312014008/https://www.45-sleeves.com/index.html 

[Cover-up]

On 18 May 2016 at 06:18, sunnysoul said:

We've had a few recent mentions on here  about sleeves  and the 45-sleeves.com website.  Is  it now established that the  site  -  for the time being anyway -   is no longer "active",  so to speak?

I've just been on the site and the label information and scans  appear to be no longer accessible on there.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150312014008/https://www.45-sleeves.com/index.html 

It was established that the owner sadly passed away over a year ago. 

[Sunnysoul]

Thanks but that was already common knowledge. Was just wondering if someone had taken it over and reactivated it. 

[Guest MBarrett]

4 hours ago, sunnysoul said:

Thanks but that was already common knowledge. Was just wondering if someone had taken it over and reactivated it. 

I think the whole site is still there on the "Wayback Machine" - just needs a different link.

Try this Click here

The links to the record labels are down the left hand side but you may have to scroll down and across in that window.

Can somebody confirm that that does or doesn't work please.

[Sunnysoul]

10 hours ago, MBarrett said:

I think the whole site is still there on the "Wayback Machine" - just needs a different link.

Try this Click here

The links to the record labels are down the left hand side but you may have to scroll down and across in that window.

Can somebody confirm that that does or doesn't work please.

Perfect thanks , that's exactly what I was after , seems to work OK and ,  yes,   you have to scroll across the left hand column to choose the label.   

[Dave N]

Hi

Yes this works and is the site I was looking for last month when I started a post on here.

Many thanks

daven

[Derek Pearson]

Visited the Wayback Machine site a few hours ago and couldn't access the 45 Sleeves catalogue at all apart from the opening page which sadly states:

"For your information. I am currently prevented from updating and maintaining the web site. I am sorry for the inconvenience".

All that hard earned information and scans built up over many years by an unknown number of contributors........

It just reminds me that sites on the internet aren't as permanent as I always once thought they were.

In todays fast moving world it looks like the good old fashioned printed word (books, magazines etc etc) still have a vital role to play in preserving history.

Lets hope the 45 Sleeves catalogue reappears sometime in the future.

Derek

[45cellar]

On 23/05/2016 at 13:16, MBarrett said:

I think the whole site is still there on the "Wayback Machine" - just needs a different link.

Try this Click here

The links to the record labels are down the left hand side but you may have to scroll down and across in that window.

Can somebody confirm that that does or doesn't work please.

Derek

Try this link above. Most pages still working for me at the moment.

[Frank]

Try here https://www.bigboppa.co.uk/45-sleeves/index.html

[Roburt]

On 7/1/2016 at 15:26, Derek Pearson said:

It just reminds me that sites on the internet aren't as permanent as I always once thought they were.

Derek

You're right there Derek. I used to post a lot of stuff on Dave Flynn's 'Soul Talk' site. Did my research on numerous subjects & posted the stuff up on his goodly site. Course, I didn't make copies of much of the info I posted there, just gathered the info on scraps of paper, collated it & posted it up.

Lost loads of useful info when the site was discontinued (lots of scans out of old publications like Billboard, US mags & newspapers + other sources).