Simon T

I'd plump for another Motown outing, Jimmy Ruffin - Don't Feel Sorry for Me on Miracle. 45th birthday this year!

Values please for: Magicians - Just A Little Faith & Understanding M Carla Thomas - I'll Never Stop Loving you E+ thanks

Does anyone know when and where Danny Monday was first played? Who first played it first and did they cover it up at the time? I've been told it was Va Va's by Pep and it was covered, but probably not the case. Also, does anyone remember having a copy of it with 4 strips of 'masking' tape stuck over both sides?

Does any one know if this came out twice with slightly different takes? Thanks

Just found a different mix of Curtis - 'How can I tell her' which is different to the 12" version @ 4:17 long. Anyone know if is released or even where it might have come from?

You can't really plug a record deck into your PC's sound card because the signal from the stylus is so low. Old amps with a phono / record deck input have a preamp built in where as most new amps don't so you need an external pre-amp; you can use this kind of pre-amp between your record deck and the line in on the PC's sound card (blue socket). You can buy them with music cleaning software from PC world, but for about £40 can buy a better quality basic on from hi-fi shops.

It does sound quite like Deon Jackson, maybe a relative? :-) I'd like it to be the Monzas, they've got a saxophonist and some girls for the backing singers

Ps...The other Annabelle Fox on Satin "Gettin' Through to me" is also brilliant...and cheap.....(i think !)

Other erasons for rarity apart from disputes a) copyright inflringment allegations pressing fault on one side c) producer doesn't like the finished product d) label goes bust without paying the pressing plant e) singer / label owner dies f) singer / band signs with another label ...we could go on..... G) A lot of them are utter sh*te that no one would buy at the time, or even relatives & band members would admit to owning, & were thrown in the nearest bin! Hand on heart, I would have to admit I would have no interest in many of them whatsoever if they didn't have their ultra rariety tag.

Wot about these rarities: The Locations/Mr Diamond Man (label unsure)....anyone know? It's on 'Ron Paul'. Anyone got a sound file?

Hope this OK

One on JM's @ £15 www.raresoulman.co.uk

Seconded, top notch! I bought this again within the last four years for the princely sum of a £3; cheap and wonderful.

Chris Jackson's were acetates as far as I remember (Mick Smith would know) So there's no chance of getting a decent recording of CJ? The acetate has seen better days.

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Pete I think it's off some re-issue best of type thing out of Japan Anyway here's your list selling an acetate if it https://www.raresoul.co.uk/list130.htm

The safest way to back them up is to record them straight to a recordable CD and then transfer that recording to a PC to clean them up and burn them back to CD. Luckily, with a tape deck you don’t need a pre-amp and so you can use the ‘out’ phone plugs to plug directly into the ‘in’ of a CD recorder or line of your PC’s sound card. After a few years the iron oxide on the tapes breaks down and if you are unlucky you might only get the chance to play it once before it’s all displaced on to the tape head and that’s the end of the story. Also, inside the cassettes there usually a layer of ‘bubbled’ paper each side of the spools to cushion the spools and stop the friction of plastic on plastic occurring; again these usually get damp and puffed up and so in fact stop the spools running smoothly. Assume that you’re only getting a once chance to get a decent recording: 1. Clean the tape heads thoroughly with some alcohol and let them dry thoroughly. 2. Fast forward and rewind the tape a couple of times to loosen the tape up and hopefully get it play without jamming up. 3. Set the recording levels to about 75% (put in a decent tape to calibrate the recording levels to just touching the ‘reds’) so that you should get a fairly decent level of recording. 4. If and when the sound / recording levels start to drop off, stop the tape at a point between tunes and clean the heads again. You don’t need to bother about the CD recorder / PC recording as one side of a C90 is obviously 45 minutes and CD-Rs are around 74 minutes. 5. Once you’ve finished recording one side of the tape ‘finalise’ the CD and ‘grab’ to your PC to clean up, amplify etc 6. Finally, ‘burn’ your recordings at a low speed to a good quality CD. Alternatively, send them to me and I’ll do them for you!

Does anybody know what happened, was it withdrawn for contractural reasons? Is the track ever going to appear on a CD (the wife would never let me buy the single, even if I could find a copy)?

Don't that it's M&Vs or Barbara McNair, but there are at least two versions. Check out around 53 seconds, TT sings 'so come back', the other sings 'oh come back', but reckon backing, singers etc are the same.

Rap comes from the word rapport; in order to get on well with the ladies i.e. a good rapport, you had to have the gift of the gab and some good chat-up lines unique to the individual, and the better the persons' 'rap' the more succesful in the lurv stakes. As time's gone by this 'rapport' had been extendent to artist : audience, and now anyone and their homies. Some where, I've got a unreleased 60's / ? Motown track and the singer states he can't get started on the track until he gets his rapport sorted!

About £10 and I wouldn't think too hard to track down.