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Cool record, but not a particularly rare 45, there are currently 6 copies for sale on Discogs and a couple pass through ebay every year. His 45 on the Vi-Tose label is rare though, and the one on Big Apple is also scarce and was issued on dark red vinyl:

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Yes, I totally understand that. I just didn't get what Chapter Five being from Barrow-In-Furness had to do with the Charles Johnson/Lew Kirton 45.

I don't quite know what you're getting at, but Chapter Five were from Barrow-In-Furness. The Charles Johnson 45 has got Lew Kirton on the flipside. The Burnett's label is obviously from the UK. If you want to license stuff from Henry Stone, this is where you go: https://licensing.henrystonemusic.com/

Don't know who's behind it, but seems to be perfectly legit and licensed from Henry Stone. That label has recently reissued Chapter Five as well (with a brand new recording on the flipside by a group featuring members from the original Chapter Five line-up). https://www.discogs.com/label/1608178-Burnetts-Of-Detroit

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These are not different pressings. It's a case of the coloured background print labels not being properly aligned when the black print was applied - this "effect" can be seen on lots of labels. The seemingly red vs. orange label variations is also down to the first image having been scanned with "unsharp masking" setting on (which hightens contrast and causes text to get a white outline), and the other two pictures being photos taken with lighting that probably just enhanced the orange colour tones. Red/orange/pink colour variations are hard colours to properly capture.

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Some great soulful tunes on that LP. Have played this out a couple of times:

Pat (& Lolly) Vegas also produced (and co-wrote one of) the AGC label recordings by Joe Hicks.

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It is O. Stanford J. Vaughn "Angel Eyes" on the BLUE SOUL label. https://www.discogs.com/O-Stanford-J-Vaughn-C-Bryant-Angel-Eyes-So-In-Love/release/8200485

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Indeed. The "Stop Girl" 45 is from January 1968.

See my previous post above. The faked "Nashville Matrix" on the ebay copy is placed in the wrong postion. It should be placed between two grooves in the run-out.

The Nashville Matrix stamp on the record on eBay is definitely faked. It's not placed where it's supposed to be. It should sit BETWEEN two grooves in the run-out. "Being Without You" side stamp on the ORIGINAL looks like: "Baby, Baby" side stamp on the ORIGINAL looks like:

Great 45. Don't know the identities of the vocalists sadly. There's at least one other 45 on the Velvet Sound label, by Billy Soul: https://www.45cat.com/record/2685us

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Yes, the MONA label release is the first local issue of this 45. The Houston Records pressing plant matrix on the MONA release, "LH-4693" and "LH-4694", places it as being a mid-to-late 1968 release. It probably sold well locally (or as someone suggested, was part of the Peppermint Harris deal) because JEWEL picked it up for national distribution and it seems to have been released in November or December 1968 (the cat# preceeding the Ola V. Harper 45, JEWEL 796 "Wig Wearing Woman" by Lightnin' Hopkins is mentioned in an issue of Billboard Magazine from November 1968). JEWEL seems to have had a big seller on their hands with the Ola V. Harper 45, because it's a common 45 with at least 5 different label/pressing plant variations. Although the MONA issue is more desirable, both the MONA and JEWEL releases would be considered OVO to all but the most rigid puritans in the same way that IMPEL and SOUND STAGE 7 issues of Ann Sexton's "You've Been Gone Too Long" and DESPENZA and WAND issues of Ivorys/Ivories "Please Stay" are considered OVO. As for copies of the MONA 45 being sold, here are 7 copies sold during the past 10 years, with prices ranging from $32 to $61: https://gripsweat.com/item/381699769602/tx-rb-northern-soul-ola-v-harper-mona-7001-resisting-i-wanna-weep- https://gripsweat.com/item/310879445306/rb-soul-45-ola-v-harper-i-wanna-weep-mona-hear https://www.popsike.com/RB-45-OLA-V-HARPER-I-Wanna-Weep-MONA-HEAR/310675938006.html https://www.popsike.com/NSoul-Ola-V-Harper-I-Wanna-Weep-MONA-HoustonTX-djcopy/170577162573.html https://www.popsike.com/OLA-V-HARPER-I-Wanna-Weep-Houston-Texas-Hear/170566241603.html https://www.popsike.com/OLA-V-HARPER-RESISTING-MONA7001-PROMO-NORTHERN-SOUL/390243428295.html https://www.popsike.com/LISTENRare-RBNorthern-Soul-45Ola-V-Harper1st-Press/180295570631.html

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