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Is anyone able to tell me anything about this one please? I know Tim Brown featured it in Rare Soul Review issue 3. This Or That uses the backing track to Dee & Joe's Who Is It Gonna Be. The flip is a version of Al Green's Let's Stay Together. It's a strange one. I will scan and post up the other side if anyone is interested. Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

Thank you all! Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

Thanks Doug. I had looked there but couldn't find any brown paper sleeves for 45s, only white ones. They do have the plastic ones though Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

Anyone help me out with a copy of this superb effort on the Big Six label please? If so, email (below) or PM please. Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

Anyone recommend the very best source of quality brown paper sleeves and also clear plastic sleeves for 45s please? Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

Copy credited to the Dramatics. Plus a juke box strip Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

Hey Eddie. Here's one I got from Tim Brown I think about 4 or so years ago I prefer this side to be honest, but gotta have the issue too for TTEOT. Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

Here is a demo which I have just picked up. It's essentially the same as the issue except for the PLUG SIDE text on the Soul Power side. Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

Yes, you are right Kev . Anyone know whether 500 would have been the minimum number to press up for this kind of 45 at the time? Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

I would reckon about 40 quid for the red issue and a bit more for the pink promo on the Chalfontes. Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

I would have said the Dramatics is the harder to find of the two. The logic, if there are only 500 Dynamics copies would be that there are fewer of the Dramatics credited copies. On what the price guides say, I only have Manship's 3rd edition. That doesn't mention the Dramatics copy, only the Dynamics at £15. However, Tim Brown's guide (first) has both discs - the Dynamics at 'Low' and the Dramatics at £75. I have both of these 45s and a couple of the Dramatics ones I think. I also have a juke box strip for this record credited to the Dramatics which I will post up over the weekend sometime Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

Nice one Pete I was going to post a scan of this myself the other day on the end of the Luther Ingram thread that's been going - but I though it was so obviously a crap boot that I couldn't be bothered Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

It was a soul bowl soul pack 45 in the early 80s (weren't they all? ). Some are a bit off centre. Cheers Richard

Wasn't it Sid Barnes himself that said it was a 500 press? Surely no WD It was a poor quality bargain basement press, not at all good. Some look worse than they actually are play-wise. Some skip. Love Hangover is a top track. Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

This is truly, truly one of the most uplifting proper nothern soul masterpieces (IMHO). I focus my collecting on Detroit, but I never, ever tire of this one - it is in my top 10 Richard

Mikki Farrow is bargain at that in my opinion . A genuinely rare one these days, held back by understandable lack of clarity over authenticity, given that the boot is a 'true' counterfeit designed to confuse, which keeps down the price. It's a hard one now and a classic Detroit double sider too. Could It Be is the side for me. By comparison, too much pricewise for the Freddy Butler on Wheelsville - demand driven, but it's not that rare IMVFHO Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

Thanks guys Much appreciated. I agree with you about the quality of the music. I also agree that 900 quid is way OTT. Price-wise I reckon it's very negotiable and very hard to put a 'market' price on it, so to speak. Anyway, if you don't ask you won't get I guess Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

Anyone know anyone with a copy of this please (whether for sale or not), or any other info? Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

The song 'Bingo' (b/w 'Somewhere') was issued twice on Wingate as by both the Dynamics and the Dramatics - catalogue number Wingate 018. Due credit to the man Ron Banks himself and to Soulful Detroit for the background: Their first 45 [Dramatics] did not appear on Wingate until August 1966 however. The song "Bingo" was also erroneously credited to the Dynamics. Heikki uncovered the background in an interview with Ron Banks. "There was a group already here called the Dynamics. When they delivered the label copy and stuff to the record plant here in Detroit, they just thought it was a misprint and went ahead and put the Dynamics. So the first five hundred of that box came with the name Dynamics. We were upset about that. This was our first record..." So, if there were 500 copies of the "Dynamics" credited copy issued, how many were released as correctly credited to the Dramatics I wonder? Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

Don't know if this will work - Hank Johnson - Lost Love (Ten High) This one was already on the computer. I will have to find the Infernos on 45 and stick it on am MP3. Sorry - not sure how to do that Refosoul thingy Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com 11___Hank_Johnson___Lost_Love__Ten_High_.mp3

Orange boot - scan from eBay. Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

Oh dear - didn't cross my mind they were boots - don't ask me why not, its blindingly obvious really . Maybe not so nice after all then. Damned expensive too - the cheapest I have found on eBay is £8.99 and that's without postage. I might just give them a miss then. Having checked the track listing I have all the tracks on vinyl 45s anyway, apart from Sue Perrin Clickety Clack Heart on J&W, which is off the Girls of Golden World CD. Anone got a soundfile for that one please? Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

Can anyone recommend the best place for me to pick up those nice Ric-Tic and Golden World CDs please? Apologies if I have posted this one in the wrong place Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

Here's a bit more from Dave Flynn's site (cheers Dave! ). "Shelley Products, Ltd", New York. Based in Huntingdon Station, Long Island, near to NYC, they pressed for many East Coast major labels such as Liberty, Imperial and World Pacific, alongside cult independent ones, such as the Red Bird family and the infamous Shrine label. Their "X" mark is raised rather than etched into the styrene pressings they used, and often the actual record labels seem to come adrift from the discs due to poor quality adhesives used...this improved post-67. During 1969, the "X" was replaced with a backwards "S" withina circle. This company also owned the Golden Crest label. Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com

I have this one. It's on Ten High 102 (as you said Russ, same as Hank Johnson). the a-side is Air Mail Special. The flip is Lost Love instrumental. Cheers Richard premium_stuff@hotmail.com