Ady Croasdell

I hear he's cheap in all sorts of ways,

What I will say however is that I have bought a lot more original vinyl since I've joined this site (almost 2 years ago), than I had in the previous 20 years.

No, wrong. There are lots of artists still alive who we've managed to contact, write new contracts and pay them royalties for their past and future releases (advances) we account to them every six months and develop as good a relationship with them as we can. I could give you a list of fifty now who have benefited from being re-released by us. Sometimes we have to downscale the advance because ******** or some other dodgy company has illegally re-issued them (bootlegged them) and we know that the demand for their music has thereby been reduced which will reflect in our future sales. And boots don't spur us on to release things at all, they just ruin it for everyone apart from the bootlegger and the dealer who sells them,

Thanks folks, that's put my sleeve notes up to 6,000 words.

But the difference is the artists and writers were paid the first time around, when the record was new and selling, under the original agreement. The repro boots never paid nowt to no-one (3 negatives makes a negative) except the bootlegger and the dealers who sell bootlegs. I would guess 95-99% of repros are boots.

Great, thanks a lot, that just about completes my graft. I could still do with seeing a scan of it or just list the writers, producers and publisher etc would do.

And any others of his except You're Just Plain Nice, I'll Try Again Tomorrow, Captivated and God's Creation. B sides too!

Dave Hamilton and Darrell Goolsby managed them and I'd hoped they were involved on the label credits

Thanks again, another theory bites the dust!

Thanks Tone and Neil, I could use all the label info on both sides if poss. Ady

Anyone got a readable scan of both sides please. I couldn't make it out on Benji's site. Ta Ady

Loads of his tracks on Dave Hamilton's Kent CDs and on the new Vol 3 out at the end of Feb. shooting High is now long deleted and hard to find. He had a frighteningly gruff and tough voice and cut stuff with Jack Taylor later (some still produced by Dave) The two Kent 45s are the only vinyl of his from Dave's mid 60s period

By Patty & Es, Darrow F What Good Am I, Tommy Neal on Pameline, This Heart Of Mine purple wax & PS and Jean DuShons groovy version of Feelin Good all ending on E-Bay today Go to horacesrecords

Bloody hell, you're right. How did I go 35 years without knowing that. Unless this is a one-off super-rarety (kidding), Cheers John

It's gone out of sight to £1.20 now but Billy Butler's still very reasonable. Only 4 hours to go you Staircase freaks!

Sometimes you gotta tell it like it is. But JC certainly turns a lot of connoisseurs on. His CDs sell like hot cakes.

All wrong, the answer is Lou Johnson. Though Curtis gets second for eloquence.

On Ebay with 5 watchers, could go for a pint (hopefully not of pee) by tomorrow evening when it finishes. Nice bits by Deon Jackson 'I Can't Go On' demo and Billy Butler 'Nevertheless' ending then too. And others. Look under horacerecords

My avatar may answer the question in my case.

Thanks chaps, we ended up with all the tapes that were there when Gilly was (thanks to him) so any speeding up must have been on the decks, though I don't think it needs it and it could be memories playing tricks. I'll post up the tambs version next week when I work out how to and I'm in the office. Cheers Ady

Wow so the Kent single is the same as Searling's and different to the CD. I seem to remember we put a different version out on 45 to make it interesting. So people who remember the original as being slightly faster aren't remembering correctly then? It could have been something to do with the medicine they were on. Thanks Ivor but Tats might be different to Searling's even if it was original as there were several takes and mixes.

Brett can you stick a copy in the post to the Harboro address, I might as well hear all of them. Thanks Simon, I ain't got sound here but I'll listen to it later.

Cheers Toby, if you could do a copy and send it to me in Harboro that would be dead handy. You can sit on Roger's table!

No but the origination costs are more and you need to sell more than 500 of anything to make it worthwhile/profitable.