I don't think he knew we had accessed the original masters from the original production company at that stage. To be fair it was a surprise to us after all these years of people searching for them.
I went into Ainley's record shop in Leicester about 1969 and asked for a song called something like 'Heart Felt emotion', the girl said "Oh you mean Mel & Tim Backfield In Motion"
Two very different versions of 'This Man'. The Wand came out first in Dec 1970 and the GSR version which was unissued until UK Kent got it in the 80s was scheduled for US Kent in July 1971
Doesn't sound like her Pete and she was LA whereas TKOs were Bay Area. Not sure about Prince Ella Johnson on Merging as I ain't heard it but that's more likely to be the same as Prince as also LA.
Amazon seem to have it in stock, though it now says through Reissues Direct which is actually us, so I'd have another go and if it don't work out get it through us www.acerecords.com
We're sending them more stock, this seems to be a hot item
Thanks for letting us know
We'll be putting out some 45s on a brand new Kent Pied Piper label starting in March. In the meantime if people want to cut any acetates or carvers for DJing purposes feel free to.
Ady