I would take Tommy over Delphs any day...and it will go for more i reckon. i missed it at this Berkley (a tad too late) but at the last Berkley there were plenty of dancers.
i am good my friend (the beard has gone now; on holiday for a while) - i know it gets a slaggin' but i am not ashamed to say that i love it!! not sure on the issue/demo thing - i've got the demo but never noticed what the others i seen for sale are...
Gareth; it's not often you're wrong, but you're right again.
Out of objection, i have decided not to shave until a copy of Tommy and the D's is in my hands.
No doubt wrtitten by Don Julian (the Larks) and Jerk label owner. I was on a website the other day (which i can't find now) looking at the stuff he had written and it was quite amazing how many songs he wrote relating to dances.
if he were alive today he probably would have been recording "Doin' the iPod Shuffle" and "Can you X-Box" amongst many others.
this 'penguin' is a great record
I am in touch with the guy who ran the backing band on these and other recordings at the time. He does not have a copy and the Producer/Label owner left all his old stock/masters etc in an un air-conditioned wharehouse and everyone went to a blob and unuseable.
I doubt even Tommy Tate knew it was released. The backing is Dorothy Moore (Dottie Cambridge)
I would say its pretty damn rare
If its Monatrch.
i understand the confussion over authenticity is as JM says Ray Agee did not know it was released and as far as i know soultown did not have permission for it - hence claims that its not 'real'. but you could say that about pleny of 60s soul records lol.