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Bennett with two Ts. I'm glad you like it. The insts on the GWP CD which is a cracker and the vocal will be on Vol 2 along with some other corkers like the Hesitations. But you'll have to wait! It was co written with Larry Banks, the team that brought you Go Now.

Being a lover of show tunes and co-incidently staying in Boy's Town LA at the moment (I'm here for the Oscars; not!), I think this is fantastic. Jim Carrey once did a "live" version of it on the Larry Sanders show, it was an absolutely incredible moment of television in loads of ways. On the same tack 'Seasons Of Love' from "Rent" brings out the hankies, the cast version not the Stevie Wonder version which is OK too.

No the nearest thing to it was KentStax which I think is long deleted now, it had quite a few of the same tracks on it.

Mike's around and would be chuffed someone's interested in his label. ask Paul at Echoes for his addy.

A short lived small run UK label run by Echoes scribe Mike Atherton. He also issued Ike Turner's instrumental Sue single 'The New Breed'. I think it was late 80s.

The Charmaines was unissued as far as I know, but I've been wrong before. The First Choice and Chris Jackson's were acetates as far as I remember (Mick Smith would know) but the Sam Nesbit was a vinyl test pressing Dave Godin didn't even know about.

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Quite possibly, some of dave's tape machines were a bit knackered by the 90s. We copied it on a good machine so that's how they recorded it. All we try and do is reproduce the way the recording was made as clearly and as well balanced as possible. It's slightly subjective of course but our engineers try to get as much musical information off the original recording as possible and filter out hiss, crackle feedback etc.

You would have thought so Ted but I'm by the record player near a phone right now. It's the personal touch.

Yes it's on Verve and its not rare just brilliant and hard to get if you want it. I just played the flip which is very nice indeed in the Annabel Fox mode. Credit to the big guy.

That's fine Pete, we'll have to produce an aural "Neanderthal" series for the likes of yourself who prefer crackle, hiss and awful EQs. Perhaps it's just nostalgia for the first Goldmine series when a lot of the records were dubbed off centre and you could hear the needle on the sip mat. I understand what you're saying but I don't think you're beng objective about the recordigs. I just wanted to point out that Searling's acetate was made from the master tapes that we bought and have re-issued. It's not a different recording.

For sale on E-Bay. No one seems to know the Audrey Royal on 60s Alston 'Come On Playoy', it's excellent, I'll play it over the phone this morning if there's not a sound file about. Pat Thomas is the brilliant version f 'My Baby's face' that we play at the end of the 100 Club. And there's a UK Brian Hyland! All under horacesrecords (one word). Finishing today.

Thanks Billy but this highlights the problem with sound files, they sound poor. I can hardly tell the difference between 1 & 3 they both sound speeded up. In reality they are very different alternatives. The Searling sound file is just a very bad quality variation on the first Kent release, it's not a different piece of music just an inferior copy that is sometimes speeded up or not as in the vesion on show here. It's like playng a record at 45 and then at 48 and saying it's a different piece. I challenge anyone to seriously compare the Searling acetate and the original Kent version by playing a few seconds of each n turn all the way through and say there is anything different in the recording apart from varied speed, different EQ (bass, treble etc) and editing.

I agree Billy, it's the one a commercial record label would want to go with. I personally prefer the original acetate and the previous Kent releases which are more emotional and soulful.

Ironically this is running slower than the Kent and Dave Hamilton version, hence Ann sounds a bit deeper. It's exactly like I said a poor quality version shortened at the start and finish by editing, there's absolutely no difference in the mix or vocal version to the one we put out. Play five seconds of one then five seconds of the other all the way through and you'll see for yourself. Thanks for posting it. What do you think of the true alternate version I played on the radio.

I've compared them several times and the only differences are that Searling's misses the first drum roll and fades earlier so technically the endings are different but there's less on the original acetate, not more. There's no different take apart from the one on the new CD. Either compare them yourself again or send me a copy of the one you have. I'd love there to be more mystery to this one but I'd be very surprised indeed if there was.

Hi Eddie, we could do an instrumental for Vol 4 if the masses demand it. Pete, pay attention, Searlings version was the same as on Vol 1, sometimes he slightly speeded it up sometimes he didn't. You may be confusing bad audio with alternate versions.

"I've had that version of Little Ann on tape for a few years now, exactly how many 'takes' of the track exist?" -ST That's the copy I did for Andy Rix a few years ago. There are two different vocals and a few variations on those but the two that will be on Vol 3 (this one) and the original one on Vol 1 are the ones that matter.

I think he was a man who loved the scene but realised it wasn't the whole world; just an exciting and hilarious part of it. RIP (it up).

Have Barbara Mills demo, Masqueraders, C&C Boys and a few other bits ending tomorrow on Ebay.

I'm sure cross compiled comps will be OK, I'll check on the 100% Fantasy ones but there'll be a sell off period on them anyway. I have noticed that some of the CDs that are running low on stock aren't getting re-pressed unless they are still selling on strongly so some of the 5+ years old ones are deleted or close to it. Don't hang about there'll be very hard to find soon.

That's clever, I think I sound like a young Robert DeNiro. Ken the Little Ann's going to be on the new dave Hamilton CD at the end of the month. The only help you need is sniffing the talc hooligans out. I'll get you a dog (cue BB).