Hi all 

help required!!

the sonatas - going on down the road.  
 

I have a copy see photo attached but struggling to fine out if it’s a bootleg as I’ve never seen another bootleg the sound quality is good,label looks faded & no numbers or stamped matrix ??

all help much appreciated 🙏

Doesn’t look like the one I remember nor like the one on discogs or 45cat.  The text on the right on yours is right aligned, other scans it isn’t, all centre aligned. The font doesn’t look right either…

Discogs (one on 45 cat has green font)

 

That's a badly handcut label , probably stuck on the Outta Site boot for some silly vanity thing.

Zoom in on the cutout round the centre.

Edited June 12, 20231 yr by Woodbutcher

Help appreciated guys 🙏

  On 12/06/2023 at 19:34, Woodbutcher said:

That's a badly handcut label , probably stuck on the Outta Site boot for some silly vanity thing.

Zoom in on the cutout round the centre.

Didn’t realise there was a reissue

  On 12/06/2023 at 19:25, Chalky said:

Doesn’t look like the one I remember nor like the one on discogs or 45cat.  The text on the right on yours is right aligned, other scans it isn’t, all centre aligned. The font doesn’t look right either…

Discogs (one on 45 cat has green font)

 

I’ve checked out on 45cat my copy also has green text but font is incorrect and code is incorrect as mine states 174-1637 on both sides,it can’t be the osv reissue in disguise as it does play the correct a & b side ,I guess it’s just a rare boot , but nevertheless a boot 👍

Notes

Cosimo Code:
A: 174-1637
B: 174-1638

The original has a stamped circle with what looks like As in it 

Thanks Ted 

a boot for certain but it’s sounds good 👍 

thanks for clearing that one up 🙏

looking at the poor quality label and print and spelling mistake on the time z instead of 2 could be a jamaican press possibly done in very small quantity by coxone for his sound systems

Edited June 13, 20231 yr by Trev Thomas

  On 13/06/2023 at 10:41, Trev Thomas said:

looking at the poor quality label and print and spelling mistake on the time z instead of 2 could be a jamaican press possibly done in very small quantity by coxone for his sound systems

They were my thoughts too Trev,it has all the hall marks of a jamaican press. 

  On 13/06/2023 at 11:47, Wheelsville1 said:

They were my thoughts too Trev,it has all the hall marks of a jamaican press. 

and after giving "vendor" a listen, all the hallmarks of the kind of soul sounds that were played on the jamaican sound systems, tunes such as...

robert parker - i caught you in a lie

bobby bennett - alone with my tears  released in jamaica on affirmative

walter wilson - not now but later  released in jamaica on wand

  On 12/06/2023 at 14:31, Topo1964 said:

Hi all 

help required!!

the sonatas - going on down the road.  
 

I have a copy see photo attached but struggling to fine out if it’s a bootleg as I’ve never seen another bootleg the sound quality is good,label looks faded & no numbers or stamped matrix ??

all help much appreciated 🙏

Sorry to disappoint you, I have the Sonatas 45 it definitely some sort of bootleg 

  On 12/06/2023 at 20:13, Ted Massey said:

The original has a stamped circle with what looks like As in it 

Yes that is correct Ted  I have the 45

  On 12/06/2023 at 19:53, Chalky said:

Didn’t realise there was a reissue

Yes outa sight all so Donna King and Jerri Hall

  On 17/06/2023 at 21:05, Motownmagic said:

Yes outa sight all so Donna King and Jerri Hall

I’d given up trying to keep up with all the reissues

  On 17/06/2023 at 21:05, Motownmagic said:

Yes outa sight all so Donna King and Jerri Hall

Already done in 2011, the Donna King is the flipside of the Sonatas. Donna King was already booted in the 80s too