Simon T

Is 19 the little soldier off Academy? Well done again!

Is 12 the record player on Palmer? Well spotted! Thought that might last the longest! Well Done!

1960

Tax stamps: The letters KT which are often found on early pressings of British records is a tax stamp. This tax was a purchase tax that was imposed by the British government on the manufacturers of records, and was based on wholesale prices at a rate of 27 1/2% in 1967 (it was increased to 50% on March 20, 1968). The purchase tax was replaced by a value added tax (VAT) on March 31, 1973. The KT tax stamp can be found in the runoff grooves of singles from 1967 and 1968. A record with a KT stamp indicates that the tax was paid. Beginning in 1969, tax stamps were no longer put on records although the tax was still imposed. from site: https://pinkfloydarchives.com/DUK45NM.htm

36K!

Is that site password protected?

After Shrine, according to Eddie Singleton, at one point he was director of A&R at scepter / wand and did do recordings work with the Shirelles

When you interviewed Eddie Singleton he said he thought he might have recorded J D Bryant in NY. Also, aren't Audio Star acetates out of NY?

Spooky!

I think this may be him https://www.allmusic.com/artist/moses-smith-mn0000498718 Probably best known for: The Girl Acroos the Street - Dionn Come On Let Me Love You / Keep On Striving - Cotillion Try My Love - previously unreleased

Yes.

you're beginning to sound like Chalky

Has there been an equivalent happening in Chicago? Or Detroit, Boston etc for that matter.

did you, or any one else for that matter, get recompense from him?

Would you be able to upload something to YouTube and then inform you to get it included in RS? I loaded scans to Mel Britt earlier out of curiosity and it worked fine.

As an ardent sniffer myself, I agree but if you can get 60's one they do lose it's pungency over time; I think some of the chemicals they are made from 'dry out' and they become more brittle. I remember back in the 80's Jah Tubby's wouldn't cut an old acetate with a new track because it blunted the cutting head.

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Not very practicable advice, but if you do sniff them the old acetates lose their 'wax crayon' smell over time. However if you hold them up to a light and look at the very edge rim the 60 ones are very dark blue and sometimes dark green. The 80's ones are dark purple.

"We're the Vondells & so are our wives!"

Thanks for the info. So they were AKA the Fantastic Vondells too.

If my memory serves me right he got those in 89 or 90 from a man sporting a toupee from Dayton Ohio. Where did Gary Rushbrooke get his from years earlier?

I'd double check any 10" acetate especially if it had been 'discovered' in recent years; bear in mind Transco stopped making 'dinked' 7" blanks quite a while ago. I don't think you can buy them now

No, Adam Faith

Wasn't he selling an acetate of JR - The Trill of Loving You, when the original studio acetate had been in Andy Rix's possession for around a decade?