Simon T

Vickie Baines - Country GirL - Parkway promo £1409 Nu-rons - All My Life - Nu-ron demo £3605 Bettye Swann - Make Me Yours - CBS Promo £155 Tommy Good - Beginning of the End - Motown aceate DMB-088301 £140 Freddy Butler - with a Dab of Soul - Kapp Lp £95 Betty Brooks - There Must Be a Love Somewhere - Le Cam £480 Four Gents - Young Girls Beware – Oncore £395 Project Soul - Ebony – USR £315 Miracles - The Christmas Song c/w Christmas Everyday - Tamla promo £26 Satintones - Going to the Hop c/w Motor City – Tamla £53 Changing Scene - When the City Sleeps - Jo-Vee-Jo £409 M.J. Wade - I'm Gonna Ball Baby – Helva £126 P.P.Arnold - Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Immediate promo £329 Big Al & the Star Treks - Funky Funk - Double M £111 Jimmy Wallace - I'll Be Back – Alpha £786

My copy on the stereo side has GSFS 1179 and almost opposite a @ On the mono side it's GSFM, then N80 scored through 3 times, top middle & bottom, then 1179. again opposite a @ The run-out on the mono side is about 1.5cm and on the stereo side it's about .75cm (which makes sense as it takes more of the vinyl to record in stereo)

Is the 'dip' just before the centre hole, like in the scan above? If so, is that the first bootleg then? Here's a scan of one which I believe to be an orginal. It's almost exactly the same as the one above be the 'Eng' for engineer has a colon : after it, not a full stop as above. Also, the label seems to be off-white and the print almost grey.

Sorry I might have confused things re: the Anderson Bros original. The original plays in stereo on the 'stereo' side and in mono on the 'mono'; the boots play the same (mono I think) on both sides, regardless of what the label states, stereo / mono

Carstairs WD boot has 'STERLING' scratched in the run-out; original is stamped in. Anderson Bros original has stereo version on one side, mono the flip and it's on vinyl. Boot is on styrene and mono version on both sides

I don't know anything about KB, but I thought Grandville records of Detroit was owned by Clifford Binns.

Can do for you. Anita Harris - The playground

Elvis - Rubberkneckin' Dusty Springfield - What's it gonna be Tom Jones - Stop breaking my heart Ray Charles - I don't need no doctor + others

My mistake, EH 'WINW' was on the other side of the Suspcion press. The Victors - 'Hurt' was the other side of Billy Butler - 'Right Track' on the UK "Backtracking"Â label press. Both the EH tracks are out on a CD, but I can't remember it's title.

Yes, as the otherside to Suspcion attributed to The Detroit Prophets, it's the boot of Suspicion that play a bit faster (done of those unrelease Motown cassette tapes?)

Victors - Hurt is on Philips. The other side is called Not Only A Girl Knows which is also good. Hurt was also done by Eddie Holman but not released, but it is on a CD comp. The Victor is probably well over £100 now, but it was booted on a UK pressing years ago

Could someone post up or PM me decent quality scans of the Italian copy of Wil Collins - Anything I Can Do & So Good labels, plus the picture sleeve too. TIA Simon

Some record companies have been releasing stuff in this format recently. The latest thing is German company that makes a 'vinyl CD' one side plays in a CD player, the other plays on a record deck (it was on Radio 5 Live this week) What about a beer can that plays the tune when you open it, now that would be great!

It's from the LP 'So Sexy' on 20th Century (Canada) & Chi Sound (US) Also, on 7" Expansion & a UK anniversary do's free give away single

Mary Saxton - Losing Control?

I think it's sometimes caused by trying to fit a quart into a pint pot. The recording goes from multi track to stereo, and then when they get pressed, now in mono, it messes the sound up? The prophets track on the studio tape is crystal clear, but in stereo. A full mix of a track rather than an average of both channels often seems to make the result over noisy.

'Pain' by Mitty Collier on Chess

John, when's the sound files of the Parliaments going up on the auction?

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I know that sometimes I seem to be completely void of personality I sit alone the whole night through I seem to never think of you Don't get me wrong, I love you girl and I belong to you At my best I'm still a bore I confess that my jokes are poor My conversation's oh so dry I say the same things every night Don't get me wrong, I love you girl and I belong to you Oh if you would help me for a just little while I'll say something ?of strength? and new You said you'd care of me Remember how I smiled And touched you hand As all my dreams came true I guess I'll always sigh this way Although I'll try to ?style? ?what's? ?day? But oh yeh my love will grow and in time I'm sure you know My love is strong, believe me girl cuz I belong to you

It's not 'Superstar' is it? Tell me who's that man with them 20 inches under that wide body benz and who's that man sitting in VIP just a thuggin' and who's that man all the ladies are kissin and huggin tell me whos that man that the whole ghetto is lovin'

Correct Robin, along with High Bointon. I'll post up his spot playing it later. I think his copy went to Adam which I have now, complete with sellotape marks in the run out from being cover up. Steve Hanbury also had a copy, off D Raistrick. Rob Smith also had a copy, but it was knackered, I think Carl Fornum ended up with it.

'Merlin & the Magicians', £50 on Dave Raistricks list (Del Larks demo was £150, couldn't afford either!)

Big Maybelle - I've Got A Feelin' - Okeh £208 Phonetics - Just A Boy's Dream- Trudel £1269 Eddie Billips & the C.C.C.'s - Shake Off That Dream - Gar-Pax promo £402 Preparations - You Don't Want Me - Tarda £306 Shirley Lawson - One More Chance c/w The Star - Soul City £175 Tan Geers - Let My Heart And Soul Be Free - Okeh promo £505 Temptations - I Want A Love I Can - Tamla Motown promo £126 Bob Henry - Walk Like A Winner - Advision Aceate £48 Ernest Mosley - Stubborn Heart - La-Cindy £445 Herb Ward - Strange Change - Argo £395 Pep Brown - This Good Thing That I've Got - Walden £216 Frankie Beverly & The Butlers - Because Of My - Fairmount promo £1059 Willie Tee - Please Don't Go - Nola £356 Henry Brooks - Greatest Debt To My Mother - P&P £206 Marvin Gaye - This Love Starved Heart Of Mine - Tamla picture sleeve £357

The boots were pressed at Monach, and by the delta number sometime around the mid 70's. The matrix number is ZTSC142593. On the original is all in one followed by -1B. On the boot it's ZTSC  142 593 and it's about half the font size of the original. The easiest way to tell the difference is on the originals the 'foot' of the letters & numbers face the label, on the boot they face the grooves