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Re: Gentleman June Gardner, here's the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hajNT_5uXm0

Really like the flip of "Elijah Rockin' With Soul"–"East Side".

Sixty Minute Man.

Philly Dawgs sounds identical.

Off topic again but on the subject of Ronnie Milsap there are a number of budget albums on labels like Trip and Gusto which collected the Scepter recordings (some never issued by Scepter) to cash in on his Country stardom of the mid 70s. A track i've always liked from these which could be played at a broadminded soul night is "I Can't Stop Crying". Soulful pop really but with a great vocal and a vintage American Studios production.

Hi I wrote the book with Elaine. The figure of 2,000 was a quote from one of the people interviewed for the book who went to practically every Torch allnighter. It was meant to convey the point that the place got really packed: certainly in excess of the fire limit. It wasn't a scientific number based on till receipts. A load of people who went there were really young at the time and caught up in the excitement of it all. They certainly weren't doing a head count. The remark was off the cuff and for effect. Hope this answers the question in some way. Best to read the entire book and quote things in context before making sweeping condemnations of the text.

Proper Northern.

PJ Proby's is the original release I think. Demo'd by Jimmy Radcliffe.

The Johnny Gilliam / Jerry Butler track which both did is You Make Me Feel Like Someone. Credited to Levine and Springer on the Butler Mercury track, and Levine and Tree by Gilliam on Modern. A Jerry Butler version which is underrated is Why Did I Lose You, originally recorded by Penny Carter on Verve; a track by great Brill Building writers Roger Atkins and Carl D'Errico.. I prefer Jerry's original versions of Curtis Mayfield classics Woman With Soul, I'm The One and I've Been Trying to The Impressions own readings (which are still great). Has anyone mentioned JB's version of Kenny Gamble's You Don't Know What You Got?

Apologies if this has been mentioned elsewhere on the site but Bobby 'Capri' Barrucco, lead vocalist of the Velvet Satins passed away on October 3rd. "Nothing Can Compare To You" is one of the scene's iconic records. https://www.egizifuneral.com/obituaries/Robert-Barrucco/#!/TributeWall

Agreed. Fascinating.

Hi anyone out there with a clean copy of Bil Lucas "Cause I Know You're Mine" Dionn 502 they're willing to part with? Vinyl original, not the styrene repress. Demo or issue. Sorted now. Thanks for all replies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg2ZuvOeEnI

Jo Armstead is seriously underrated. So is Joe Tex.

^ Yes

Irma Routen was known decades before Burnley though.

^ Hits the nail on the head.

Hi The book is indeed out next week. There is not a single label scan or top ten in it, I'm afraid. That kind of material is ably covered by other books.

A one-stop shop would quite easily have warehouse stock of demos to sell cheap or in bulk, bought any time after the record was released. A note on the pressing details of this record. Warner Brothers at the time had their releases largely pressed at Columbia factories. The various numbers quoted here, from 1A up to 1E refer to different lacquers. When the record was mastered a number of lacquers were cut and sent to the various plants. Each plant would have received a different lacquer with a unique code, so the A and B numbers do not refer to whether the respective side was the plug side or the flip, just to which plant it was to be pressed at. If a lacquer had to be replaced (either for a fault or for stamper wear) it would then become 2A, [or 2B etc.] then 3A etc. The typesetting for this release was done at Columbia Santa Monica in California, which did the typesetting for Warners Reprise and then sent artwork/films to the other plants. The Columbia plants (Pittman New Jersey, Terra Haute Indiana and Santa Monica California) pressed both styrene and vinyl and it was quite common for the promo to be on vinyl and the issue to be cheaper styrene as is the case with the Bobby Sheen record. Columbia didn't use the brown, see through plastic which the bootlegs are supposedly made of in 1972. This material is not generally seen until the mid to late 80s, when the number of vinyl pressing plants in the US had decreased from dozens to just a handful of functioning factories and this became the default material for many vinyl 45s. If anyone has a bootleg of this it would be really helpful if they could photograph the dead wax and post it up here. I'd be interested to see if these have the stamped matrix which a genuine Columbia-pressed record should have, or whether it's scratched in.

^ Indeed. The "Chop Down That Old Oak Tree" promo has something along the lines of "rush re-service" on it if memory serves. It was quite common practice for record companies to flip the 'Plug Side' after initial radio feedback. Bottom line on all this is that the see-through dark brown plastic copy of Bobby Sheen is an 80s or 90s boot. Styrene copies should all be originals.

Tony Rounce shot me down in flames for suggesting the Johnny Wonder was the better version but I still think it is. I had known and loved the Stanley Winston for years but hearing Johnny Wonder tearing into those lyrics with such anguish takes it to another level. The other side of the JW is an admittedly lesser version of "Crying In The Streets" by the way.

Great group ballad on the b-side of this.

This group of Jades has no connection to the New Orleans group on Mode who were African Americans.

If an issue of their 45 exists it must be pretty rare.