Simon T

£553 on Manship's auction three weeks ago. For myself, I'd move the decimal point two places to the left and want postage to be incuded in that too. Intersting to see that it can still fetch such a price with it being on ebay so much recently and not what I'd consider a seasoned classic Detroit collectors 'must have' before you die type record.

Mine seems to have a very fient matrix stamp, but it so shallow I can't tell if it really is one, anyone confirm?

Thanks Chalky, had it ages and didn't think it was a boot as it came from Soul Bowl, but you've confirmed it's OK.

Remind me how you tell a boot from an original ?

Ooops, seems to have disappeared due to my expert post merge :-( Please repost Andy, but can you use the 'new clip' method, thanks.

Play it again ? 6709 refosoul

Hesitations - apart from the styrene v vinyl point, I thought that on the originals the curly 'K' and the band above the peek of the cap are yellow, whereas on the boot they're white. Del-Larks - according to a Kev Roberts post on here a while ago, those plain label blue copies are legit re-releases he did in the mid seventies, can't find the post now though.

Well done Robin, though having owned all the records at one time is a bit of an advantage for you! The JJ was Winston Hewitt - I'm feeling good - Boss Records. Can't remember the DSDB being covered up, was it? Poke's cover ups seem to have consisted of the name of some UK citizen completely removed from soul music, plus then taking the title and changing the last word to another not actually in the song!

early Cool & the Gang too?

Anyone else weigh at least half as much again since last attending Rock City (including hair)? Happy days! If it happens, we'll have to drag Nige Parker out of retirement.

Don't know if they are rare at all, yet alone mega or ultra, but I've never seen for sale a couple I'm after Essence of Love - share my love with you - k-city Power of Atorney Band - Love for you (?) - Star Island (?)

Don't know if it it's just me, but records are like the perverbial bus; waited years, no decades, for stuff, then Fred & turbines - Bernadine Eric Mercury - Lonely girl Limelights- Don't leave me came through in 7 days, gospel truth!

Paul Thompson was a new release in 1970, that's interesting to hear Sam was playing it around 12 years before I first heard it played out by Poke From a tape I recorded of Poke at Cleethorpes Winter Gardens circa 82/83 Lester Tolkin - special kind of loving can you remember these c/u's too? Eddie Richards & the Three Way Split - don't make ladies Tony Raymonds - we're gonna make it Jacki Jacobs - don't make you feel funky Notables - midnight seranade (an instr.) Johnny 'guitar' Watson - because I love you Johnny Pearson - i will stay with you forever

Some info here: /index.php?showtopic=37587 Male group harmony sound as opposed to the girls of Motown fame

Swordsmen - Disgusted & Discouraged - RCA LP played out by Searling as Williams & Watson, Pied Piper produced if a remember rightly

Sure Arnold McCuller got a AVI 7" release. Luther - 'Jelousy' is also a good track from that album

Go on back - johnny curtis - hickory 12866 refosoul

And 'Jack & the beanstalk' c/w 'Go on back' on Hickory

There are (at least ?) three vocals, and the instrumental. 1 is the 'Originals' studio acetate cut, made on 25 / 05 / 66 and only saw the light of day as that acetate which is titled 'Baby Have Mercy On Me'. Came out on the Motown Originals CD, Lost & found series ( The title 'Baby have mercy on me', could have been down to the acetate being wrongly labelled, or more likely that was it's first title which Jobete music registered with BMI, but the lyrics were updated over time through re-writes, like the Tempatations - 'last one out is broken hearted' ) 2 is the version released on the CD 'This is northern soul volume 2' which sounds like a completely different vocal to me 3 is the original vocal but a more funky cut with a 'wa-wa' guitar on it. Version 1 was booted on the white label. And as the Detroit Prophets on a UK boot; seems that it was taken from one of the early cassettes doing the rounds which all played to fast (as did the EMI discs being played out in the early 80's). The other side of the DP boot was Eddie Holman - where I'm not wanted. 'WINW' and 'Hurt' were unreleased Harthon tracks that came on on a CD about 10 years ago with other Harthon tracks.

Sam Hawkins - Hold on baby - Blue Cat "say it's Sam Hawkins out here, baby"

Danny Woods - You had me fooled Used to love this and managed to get one many years ago for the princely sum of £8 which I played and played ... then stopped. Now as soon as I hear that piano intro, I go on search of a hammer to break the bloody record to bits!

Dyco is supposed to be rarer than Marshall. (However, I've seen 3 on Dyco for sale in the last few months, but not seen a Marchall copy for ages.)

'I was a boy (when you needed a man)' Bobby Hebb on Cadet Billy Sheilds on Harbour

ocean of emotion - judy hughes - crusader 12721 refosoul