How Rare Is This?

[Albert Petit]

https://cgi.ebay.com/NORTHERN-SOUL-MELVIN-E...1QQcmdZViewItem

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!

[Pete S]

It used to be pretty tough but a few have turned up and I struggled to get £125 for my last one.

[Anoraks Corner]

Never been that tough to find on a WD...stock copy anyone?

The flipside is vastly superior...awesome mid-tempo beat-ballad...imo.

Agree with Pete circa £125.

[Albert Petit]

Never been that tough to find on a WD...stock copy anyone?

The flipside is vastly superior...awesome mid-tempo beat-ballad...imo.

Agree with Pete circa £125.

The producer of the record

https://www.hollywoodcollectibles.com/autog...__AB8X1117.aspx

[Marc Forrest]

The producer of the record

https://www.hollywoodcollectibles.com/autog...__AB8X1117.aspx

Hi Albert, thats a dfferent guy.

[Albert Petit]

Hi Albert, thats a dfferent guy.

Hi Marc...It´s possible..I make a relation with the baseball picture of the label with the 6t´s baseball player...I´m not sure, but it´s possible,yes?.

Cheers!

PD: Yes...my english is a big S**T

[Guest]

Never been that tough to find on a WD...stock copy anyone?

The STOCK copies have white labels, perfsonally I can't rememeber selling a demo?

Popsike reveals 4 stockers, all over £125... top price being a knackered copy with battered label with writing on @£215.

Well sell Melvin Elling - Mint @ £200 and have no problem in moving it.

I never knew the flipside, as you say it's fabulous. two great sides one terrific label.

[Pete S]

top price being a knackered copy with battered label with writing on @£215.

Well sell Melvin Elling - Mint @ £200 and have no problem in moving it.

So we say it's £125, you say it's £200, we can't sell it and you can sell it all day.

This world is f*cked up.

[Anoraks Corner]

The STOCK copies have white labels, perfsonally I can't rememeber selling a demo?

I've seen other releases on the label with a light-blue label, thus there is a chance the white ones are demos...with no mention of them being a demo...no need for a second run being required when the flood of orders for stock came through at the time...which they obviously didn't!

[Weingarden]

i'm with albert. baseball player on label, producer's use of the name willie (not william, bill, billy) when willie mccovey the baseball player was HUGE back then...adds up to that being THE willie mccovey, though i'll admit i'd never heard of his being involved in music. do you know for sure, marc, that there was another willie mccovey?

[Weingarden]

okay, now i'm REALLY convinced albert's right. just remembered that willie mccovey the first baseman had the nickname STRETCH!!!

Edited July 1, 2008 by weingarden

[Guest]

Mark,

Stretch is a San Francisco label. Willie McCoy played baseball for 19 seasons in San Francisco, so I think it's pretty fair to assume it's the same guy, seeing as the label logo is a baseball player.

Dave,

Stretch light blue label? I've personally never ever seen another record on the STRETCH label (certainly not with the baseball logo) until one turns up with PROMO text or a different coloured label, surely Melvin Elling white label must be classed as stock copy, doesn't it? Unless like Freddie Chavez a blue baby, is found.

PS just curious what other artist is on Stretch?

Edited July 1, 2008 by john manship

[Garethx]

The evidence all points to the Willie McCovey being the backer of this record. A high profile case of a US sports star being involved in independent soul music business is Jim Brown's financial backing of Way Out records in Cleveland: they even gave him his custom Big Jim label (The Occasions & Bobby Wade 45s). There must be at least a few more examples...