Harold Burrage On MPAC Boot

[Zanetti]

Hello team, 

please give me some feedback if anyone knows:
Is there a boot from:

‘Everybodys Dancin‘ w/ Thats A Friend’ (7210)

I got hold of a very cheap copy (stock), but I remember it differently.
The deadwax takes up almost half of the vinyl, the label is matt, no dh and the matrix is the same as described here.
I had a copy before and remembered it as much ‘heavier vinyl’, a slightly more glossy label and with not so thin, flexible vinyl.

Would be very cool if someone here could compare it with their copy.

Many thanks

Zanetti

 

[Solidsoul]

Certainly looks like a modern reproduction. Not a record from 1964!   It doesn't look like any of my M-Pac records.

A picture I found of an original.

Edited 22 hours ago by Solidsoul

[Happy Feet]

If it is a boot , there are none doing the rounds , eBay etc , at least not yet ! 

[Happy Feet]

This a copy currently on eBay £ 157. There's a definite difference in the label , and dead wax , but here is the label , 

[Zanetti]

Thanks for the feedback.

Yes, there are too many signs of a modern pressing. 

Everything really seems far too up-to-date

[Woodbutcher]

Looks exactly like this one that went through fleabay end of December , or is this the copy you ended up with and are now querying ?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305713032688

[Woodbutcher]

And a lot of his other items look decidedly suspect to these eyes ... !

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/rockinvinyl?_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l170197

[Happy Feet]

11 minutes ago, Woodbutcher said:

And a lot of his other items look decidedly suspect to these eyes ... !

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/rockinvinyl?_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l170197

I bought a Harold Burrage, Mountain Of Soul ,  M-pac , supposedly a Charly release last week , for £5.50 clearance sale , arrived in a white sleeve , instead of the usual brown Charly cardboard sleeve , looks exactly the same as a Charly product , good sound quality , looks the same but it looks and feels suspect , maybe I'm just being spooked .

Edited 21 hours ago by Happy Feet

[Blackpoolsoul]

Might or might not help but according to Discogs original is 1304-01-A 3018 ∫∫ matrix, so mastered at Sound Studios, Chicago. If it is a boot it would be hard to replicate ?

Edited 9 hours ago by Blackpoolsoul

[Hooker1951]

Harold Burrage, what a great artist understated  and underrated made some great music in his time top RnB Soul man of his time, could do up tempo , mid tempo, and great Soul ballads , amazing he,s been dead 58 years I’m just happy listening to him on any 45 he made LoL, Slipped Master Key on in my sets a good few times at Keele all niter in the early 1990,s, Anyway hope you get your answer on your question

Mick

[Paul Kingston]

Great new cd out on Jasmine of his pre MPac material and along with the Secret Stash cd that came out a few years ago is a reminder of how good he was. Died i. Tyrone Davis's garden of a heart attack

[Zanetti]

19 hours ago, Woodbutcher said:

Looks exactly like this one that went through fleabay end of December , or is this the copy you ended up with and are now querying ?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305713032688

Exactly, that was me. 22 dollars or so.
And I was already pondering ... 

[Zanetti]

19 hours ago, Woodbutcher said:

And a lot of his other items look decidedly suspect to these eyes ... !

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/rockinvinyl?_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l170197

Great. I haven't looked at the whole ‘shop’. 

it looks very suspiciously like a bootleg.
One advert also refers to ‘first pressing’ - and if you take a closer look, it is also correctly addressed to the buyer.
He largely dispenses with the term ‘original’