WHILE LOOKING THROUGH SOME STUFF I'D PUT AWAY YEARS AGO I CAME ACROSS A FEW LISTS FROM A MR SIMON SOUSSAN OUT OF LOS ANGELES

I HAD DEALINGS WITH MONSIUER SOUSSAN MANY MANY TIMES AND ALWAYS GOT EXACTLY WHAT I ORDERED

HINDSIGHT IS A MARVELLOUS THING ,BUT IF ONLY I HAD BOUGHT SOME OF THE UNKNOWNS HE WAS PUTTING OUT INSTEAD OF THE TOP TUNES OF THE DAY WHICH EVERY ONE CRAVED FOR .HERE'S AN EXAMPLE PRICES ARE IN STERLING

GEORGE BLACKWELL CAN'T LOSE MY HEAD SMOKE 11.00(HE DID GET ME ONE LATER FOR 20.00)

MEL BRITT SHE'LL COME RUNNING FIP 12.00

DONNA KING TAKE ME HOME HOT LINE 10.00

SALVADORS STICK BY ME BABY WISE WORLD 10.00

THE IVORYS PLEASE STAY DESPENZA 9.00

DEL LARKS JOB OPENING QUEEN CITY9.00

THE ANDERSON BROS I CAN SEE HIM LOVING YOU GSF 14.00

THE JADES I,M WHERE ITS AT NITE LIFE 14.00

VIRGINIA BLAKELY LET NOBODY LOVE YOU MOJO 8.00

PATTI/EMBLEMS I'M GONNA LOVE YOU ALONG TIME KAPP DEMO 7.00

ANY ONE GOT A TIME MACHINE FOR AN HOUR OR SO

HAS ANYONE ELSE ANY LIST'S DATING WAY BACK .THIS HAS PROBABLY BEEN DONE BUT JUST TO COMPARE PRICES OF TODAY IS A REAL EYE OPENER

WOODY

WHILE LOOKING THROUGH SOME STUFF I'D PUT AWAY YEARS AGO I CAME ACROSS A FEW LISTS FROM A MR SIMON SOUSSAN OUT OF LOS ANGELES

I HAD DEALINGS WITH MONSIUER SOUSSAN MANY MANY TIMES AND ALWAYS GOT EXACTLY WHAT I ORDERED

HINDSIGHT IS A MARVELLOUS THING ,BUT IF ONLY I HAD BOUGHT SOME OF THE UNKNOWNS HE WAS PUTTING OUT INSTEAD OF THE TOP TUNES OF THE DAY WHICH EVERY ONE CRAVED FOR .HERE'S AN EXAMPLE PRICES ARE IN STERLING

GEORGE BLACKWELL CAN'T LOSE MY HEAD SMOKE 11.00(HE DID GET ME ONE LATER FOR 20.00)

MEL BRITT SHE'LL COME RUNNING FIP 12.00

DONNA KING TAKE ME HOME HOT LINE 10.00

SALVADORS STICK BY ME BABY WISE WORLD 10.00

THE IVORYS PLEASE STAY DESPENZA 9.00

DEL LARKS JOB OPENING QUEEN CITY9.00

THE ANDERSON BROS I CAN SEE HIM LOVING YOU GSF 14.00

THE JADES I,M WHERE ITS AT NITE LIFE 14.00

VIRGINIA BLAKELY LET NOBODY LOVE YOU MOJO 8.00

PATTI/EMBLEMS I'M GONNA LOVE YOU ALONG TIME KAPP DEMO 7.00

ANY ONE GOT A TIME MACHINE FOR AN HOUR OR SO

HAS ANYONE ELSE ANY LIST'S DATING WAY BACK .THIS HAS PROBABLY BEEN DONE BUT JUST TO COMPARE PRICES OF TODAY IS A REAL EYE OPENER

WOODY

I think you'll find that at least some of these - Mel Britt being a good example - are records that were counterfeited by SS (allegedly, ahem ahem...) in a manner that made them almost indistiguishable from the originals.

I can't ever remember anyone selling a real Mel Britt for nine quid, even when nine quid paid for a weekend's drinking/drugs and dancing!

WHILE LOOKING THROUGH SOME STUFF I'D PUT AWAY YEARS AGO I CAME ACROSS A FEW LISTS FROM A MR SIMON SOUSSAN OUT OF LOS ANGELES

I HAD DEALINGS WITH MONSIUER SOUSSAN MANY MANY TIMES AND ALWAYS GOT EXACTLY WHAT I ORDERED

HINDSIGHT IS A MARVELLOUS THING ,BUT IF ONLY I HAD BOUGHT SOME OF THE UNKNOWNS HE WAS PUTTING OUT INSTEAD OF THE TOP TUNES OF THE DAY WHICH EVERY ONE CRAVED FOR .HERE'S AN EXAMPLE PRICES ARE IN STERLING

GEORGE BLACKWELL CAN'T LOSE MY HEAD SMOKE 11.00(HE DID GET ME ONE LATER FOR 20.00)

MEL BRITT SHE'LL COME RUNNING FIP 12.00

DONNA KING TAKE ME HOME HOT LINE 10.00

SALVADORS STICK BY ME BABY WISE WORLD 10.00

THE IVORYS PLEASE STAY DESPENZA 9.00

DEL LARKS JOB OPENING QUEEN CITY9.00

THE ANDERSON BROS I CAN SEE HIM LOVING YOU GSF 14.00

THE JADES I,M WHERE ITS AT NITE LIFE 14.00

VIRGINIA BLAKELY LET NOBODY LOVE YOU MOJO 8.00

PATTI/EMBLEMS I'M GONNA LOVE YOU ALONG TIME KAPP DEMO 7.00

ANY ONE GOT A TIME MACHINE FOR AN HOUR OR SO

HAS ANYONE ELSE ANY LIST'S DATING WAY BACK .THIS HAS PROBABLY BEEN DONE BUT JUST TO COMPARE PRICES OF TODAY IS A REAL EYE OPENER

WOODY

Woody, remember just how much we was earning,I think being a young lad at the time my wages was probably 20 odd pounds.

Kev

I think you'll find that at least some of these - Mel Britt being a good example - are records that were counterfeited by SS (allegedly, ahem ahem...) in a manner that made them almost indistiguishable from the originals.

I can't ever remember anyone selling a real Mel Britt for nine quid, even when nine quid paid for a weekend's drinking/drugs and dancing!

WITH RESPECT I KNOW ALL TO WELL OF S.S DEALINGS WITH BOOTLEGS AND I DO KNOW OF SOMEONE BUYING A REAL MEL BRIT FOR 9 QUID NOT A VERY GOOD LOOK A LIKE

YES I QUITE AGREE I WAS ONLY ON A PITTANCE REALLY COMPARED TO MY MATES WHO WORKED AT THE STEEL WORKS THY WERE LIKE LOTTERY WINNERS SO WHEN YOU THINK ALSO ON THE LIST WAS WILLIE HUTCH WHEN THE LOVE RUNS OUT AT A STAGGERING 65QUID

even when nine quid paid for a weekend's drinking/drugs and dancing!

I used to do it all on my £4.50 a week dole money

I used to do it all on my £4.50 a week dole money

That might get you a bag of fish and chips, nowadays if your lucky

Kev

My copy of the Jades' I'M WHERE IT'S AT is on the REE label (Silver and black) - it says it's a promotion copy

REE501 - b/w MOTHER'S ONLY DAUGHTER

Matrix (hand-scratched) is as per the catalogue number.

Is mine a kosher copy or a boot?

Boot

soussan special i would think!!!!

they must have been the boot prices for a full box of 50??

My copy of the Jades' I'M WHERE IT'S AT is on the REE label (Silver and black) - it says it's a promotion copy

REE501 - b/w MOTHER'S ONLY DAUGHTER

Matrix (hand-scratched) is as per the catalogue number.

Is mine a kosher copy or a boot?

Original is on Nite Life

This looks like the sort of thing you used to find in Russ's Records booth at T'Casino for £1.25

My copy of the Jades' I'M WHERE IT'S AT is on the REE label (Silver and black) - it says it's a promotion copy

REE501 - b/w MOTHER'S ONLY DAUGHTER

Matrix (hand-scratched) is as per the catalogue number.

Is mine a kosher copy or a boot?

I too have one of these.............you have to admire the originators (?) sense of humour.............think about it.................A REE PRODUCTION it says on the label

Cheers,

Mark R

IN ALL FAIRNESS OUT OF THE THREE LISTS I FOUND ONE OF THE JADES WAS LISTED ON REE SOME BALLS OR WOT PRICE 14 QUID

I think you'll find that at least some of these - Mel Britt being a good example - are records that were counterfeited by SS (allegedly, ahem ahem...) in a manner that made them almost indistiguishable from the originals.

I can't ever remember anyone selling a real Mel Britt for nine quid, even when nine quid paid for a weekend's drinking/drugs and dancing!

Soul Bowl had Mel Britt on list for £12, Lee David (issues) for £2.50 for weeks on end, James Fountain ditto. It depends on how old the list is! Remember seeing Yvonne Baker @£6. All originals.

Del-Larks and Salvadores do seem extraordinarily cheap though, even for back then! (I doubt he had more than one copy, if at all)

Edited February 18, 200817 yr by mel brat

Thanks for the info, fellows - I was never sure (I'd spotted the REE-production "pun" way back, but thought I wouldn't mention it)

It was a present from my little bro' about 23-24 years back, so it didn't cost me aught...

...and it plays fine

Soul Bowl had Mel Britt on list for £12, Lee David (issues) for £2.50 for weeks on end, James Fountain ditto. It depends on how old the list is! Remember seeing Yvonne Baker @£6. All originals.

Del-Larks and Salvadores do seem extraordinarily cheap though, even for back then! (I doubt he had more than one copy, if at all)

Yep,

I got my Lee David for £2.50 from Soul Bowl.

Kev

My copy of the Jades' I'M WHERE IT'S AT is on the REE label (Silver and black) - it says it's a promotion copy REE501 - b/w MOTHER'S ONLY DAUGHTER Matrix (hand-scratched) is as per the catalogue number. Is mine a kosher copy or a boot?

Original is on Nite Life This looks like the sort of thing you used to find in Russ's Records booth at T'Casino for £1.25

Isn't there a more look-a-like Nite Life boot as well or did I really get a bargain 20 years ago?

Soul Bowl had Mel Britt on list for £12, Lee David (issues) for £2.50 for weeks on end, James Fountain ditto. It depends on how old the list is! Remember seeing Yvonne Baker @£6. All originals.

Del-Larks and Salvadores do seem extraordinarily cheap though, even for back then! (I doubt he had more than one copy, if at all)

Weren't the Del Larks and The Salvadors booted around the same time on lookalike's? Del Larks blue and white with the Queen City logo and The Salvadors on a blue (PB) boot? It was also a ploy of Mr S to advertise 45s and then send you 'substitutes' as the one you ordered was 'out of stock'.

I got an original Mel Britt for around £8 when Neil Rushton found some originals and advertised them in Echoes .Best ,Eddie

The cheapest copy of Mel i ever saw was £20 in a Clive Jones sales box, then again I used to see lots of Sam Williams Tower demos for the same price Ahh for a Tardis

Remember the Charles Johnsons advertised in Echoes for £1.25 same with the Lew Kirtons on Alston

Mind you Woody on the subject of lists, I used to get one every month off a lad in Wales, cannot for the life of me remeber his name, but he used to send out a 2 page list of stuff that back then did not seem that rare, some of the lists I have stashed in the loft somewhere

Remember Phoning him to take the Frankie Beverley on Fairmount off him for £22 but when i rang it was sold, best of it was I was"nt that bothered at the time, I thought ah well I "ll get another one some time

Mind you Woody on the subject of lists, I used to get one every month off a lad in Wales, cannot for the life of me remeber his name, but he used to send out a 2 page list of stuff that back then did not seem that rare, some of the lists I have stashed in the loft somewhere

Remember Phoning him to take the Frankie Beverley on Fairmount off him for £22 but when i rang it was sold, best of it was I was"nt that bothered at the time, I thought ah well I "ll get another one some time

he aint here at the moment, he will no doubt get back to you, we do have some other old sales lists in the loft, from allsorts of places and people, will have to get them out and have a good laugh at what we all passed by at the time, in favour of current tunes we all wanted then, it does go to show that there is a mass of unknown 45,s and really great underplayed stuff that is yet to have its day me thinks, but it takes balls to play it out, when somebody somewhere will say , never heard that, can we hear something we know!!! same old, same old,

its a never ending drama aint it, and of course woody being woody the hoarder there is loads of blues and soul mags( rimmer please duck now )black music mags and even records, one day , he has to sort it out

The cheapest copy of Mel i ever saw was £20 in a Clive Jones sales box, then again I used to see lots of Sam Williams Tower demos for the same price Ahh for a Tardis

Remember the Charles Johnsons advertised in Echoes for £1.25 same with the Lew Kirtons on Alston

Yes, I think it was Clive Jones who had the Yvonne Baker (vinyl demos) for £6 - and I'd spent all my cash as usual! I think Eula Cooper was one of the most expensive items I saw on Soul Bowl's list (in the 70's anyway) at a staggering £20!

As for Lew Kirton and Charles Johnson, these were readily available as new releases at 80p in 1978 and 1980 respectively.

Speaking of Mel Britt, I saw his name (as Melvin Britt) listed among backing singers on an LP the other day, but have promptly forgotten which album it was! Will post up when I've checked... I remember the excitement of seeing Wally Cox and Joe Hicks' names listed similarly years ago (on albums by Marvin Gaye and Bobby Womack I think)

Edited February 20, 200817 yr by mel brat

WHILE LOOKING THROUGH SOME STUFF I'D PUT AWAY YEARS AGO I CAME ACROSS A FEW LISTS FROM A MR SIMON SOUSSAN OUT OF LOS ANGELES

I HAD DEALINGS WITH MONSIUER SOUSSAN MANY MANY TIMES AND ALWAYS GOT EXACTLY WHAT I ORDERED

HINDSIGHT IS A MARVELLOUS THING ,BUT IF ONLY I HAD BOUGHT SOME OF THE UNKNOWNS HE WAS PUTTING OUT INSTEAD OF THE TOP TUNES OF THE DAY WHICH EVERY ONE CRAVED FOR .HERE'S AN EXAMPLE PRICES ARE IN STERLING

GEORGE BLACKWELL CAN'T LOSE MY HEAD SMOKE 11.00(HE DID GET ME ONE LATER FOR 20.00)

MEL BRITT SHE'LL COME RUNNING FIP 12.00

DONNA KING TAKE ME HOME HOT LINE 10.00

SALVADORS STICK BY ME BABY WISE WORLD 10.00

THE IVORYS PLEASE STAY DESPENZA 9.00

DEL LARKS JOB OPENING QUEEN CITY9.00

THE ANDERSON BROS I CAN SEE HIM LOVING YOU GSF 14.00

THE JADES I,M WHERE ITS AT NITE LIFE 14.00

VIRGINIA BLAKELY LET NOBODY LOVE YOU MOJO 8.00

PATTI/EMBLEMS I'M GONNA LOVE YOU ALONG TIME KAPP DEMO 7.00

ANY ONE GOT A TIME MACHINE FOR AN HOUR OR SO

HAS ANYONE ELSE ANY LIST'S DATING WAY BACK .THIS HAS PROBABLY BEEN DONE BUT JUST TO COMPARE PRICES OF TODAY IS A REAL EYE OPENER

WOODY

.......MICK SMITH WAS SELLING UK ISSUED 45S IN THE 80S AND 90S AT REALLY CHEAP PRICES!

we do have some other old sales lists in the loft..................................there is loads of blues and soul mags( rimmer please duck now )black music mags ...........

Did he mention any Jazz Mags...I heard a rumour he had loads in his loft.....