Sebastian

A rule of thumb is that: Styrene records have their labels glued on to them and you can peel them off if you want to. This is true for all styrene 45s except the Amy/Mala/Bell(-distributed) 45s which have their labels painted onto the wax. Vinyl records have their labels moulded into the wax and you can't peel them off.

Only about 1-2 hours left on these auctions now. Thanks for looking! :-)

First issue (prior to the US one) of Levon & The Hawks "He Don't Love You": Nice canadian vinyl copy of the Precisions classic: Larry Williams also on a nice canadian vinyl copy:

"Birth Of A Playboy" was officially issued on three different labels in the following order: 1) Lee John 2) Maple 3) Canyon The LEE JOHN label 45 was released as by Crown Four, it utilises the exact same recording as on the Maple and Canyon releases but has got a more "thin" sound. It also has got a different uptempo straight northern soul flipside.

Thanks for the comments! I'm really glad you enjoy our mixes.

There's about 48 hours left on these auctions. I've just put together an MP3-mix featuring tracks from my current auctions for those of you who don't have the time to dig through all of the eBay listings. And even for those of you who aren't interested in buying anything it should make for about 65 minutes of nice listening. SOUL / FUNK / R&B MIX [listen here] HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUE NOTES - Prayin' - SOURCE DAYTON - Eyes On You - UNITED ARTISTS PAGES - Heartaches & Pain - SUNSTRUCK LAS VEGAS CONNECTION - Give Me Your Love - HEP' ME LILLIAN HALE - Don't Boom Boom - FRETONE BOBBY BYRD - I'm Lonely - SMASH JIMMY LOMAX AND THE VOWS - Come On Home - CAB BETTY EVERETT - I've Got A Claim On You - ONE-DERFUL TEE FLETCHER - Would You Do It For Me - TRAGAR IMPRESSIONS - Love Me - CURTOM BLUES BUSTERS - Wide Awake In A Dream - BRA ROCK CANDY - Alone With No Love - DONTEE JESSE JAMES - If You Want A Love Affair - 20TH CENTURY LAS VEGAS CONNECTION - Dancing With My Love Bones - HEP' ME PAGES - Mack - SUNSTRUCK INOVATIONS - Stay On The Case - HIT SOUND DEE & JOE - I Found A Love - JUBILEE CAROLYN FRANKLIN - Reality - RCA WEE WILLIE DENSON - Strange Things Are Happening - MAY LENNY O'HENRY - Savin' All My Love - ATCO JOEY DEE AND THE STARLIGHTERS - Put Your Heart In It - JUBILEE BETTY EVERETT - Unlucky Girl - UNI MAURICE McCORMICK & MAJI - Reeall Deeall - ATOMIC ART SYL JOHNSON - Goodie Goodie Good Times - E.P.I. SPENCER WIGGINS - Love Machine - FAME NEW CYMBALS - L.C. Funk - DE-LITE LITTLE DION - Yes We Can Can - CAPITOL MAURICE McCORMICK & MAJI - 15 Minutes - ATOMIC ART BILL BRANDON & LORRAINE JOHNSON - Let Me Be Your Full Time Groover - MOONSONG DEE & JOE - Who Is It Gonna Be - JUBILEE CARL HENDERSON - Please Stop Laughing At Me - OMEN ESTHER PHILLIPS - Catch Me I'm Falling - ATLANTIC GLORIA WALKER & THE CHEVELLES - You Hit The Spot Baby - FLAMING ARROW PRETTY PURDIE & THE PLAYBOYS - Don't Go - FLYING DUTCHMAN JIMMY LOMAX AND THE VOWS - Remember Me - CAB PATTERSON TRIO - Calvary - MERIDIAN

Chalky is partly right. It seems like all issue copies does indeed play Tony Galla's "In Love", BUT the white demo copies play the correct Southbound Freeway tunes. They are both psych/folk type of tunes. I'll post a clip of the correct "Revelations" below. Here is some more info about Southbound Freeway which I found on the https://www.beatbehindthedykes.com/ site: The Southbound Freeway were a band from Detroit, Michigan. Their debut 45 (Swan 4272) from November 1966 goes for big bucks amongst Northern Soul collectors! Why is it here? Well, black label copies actually play Tony Galla's highly collectable "In Love" (released as Swan 4275). Craig Moerer sold such a mispress on eBay with "Buy It Now" for $750.00. The demo version of #4272 that actually has The Southbound Freeway into it's grooves is regarded as shite by the soul connoisseurs. Not by me! At least not the flipside. "Crazy Shadows" is horrible indeed, but "Revelations" is a fab slightlydelic folkrocker! Their second 45 "Psychedelic Used Car Lot Blues" from '67 was released on several labels (Tera Shirma, Red Rooster, Roulette) and can be checked out on the "Michigan Nuggets" compilation.

Yes, I foolishly sold my only copy of this 45 about a year ago (and regret it). Superb sweet soul ballad 45. I got $162.50 for my copy (which was good though), have seen it around cheaper.

The Peanut Gallery 45 is folk-ish garage rock/pop. Have a listen here: https://helium.lunarpages.com/~funky4/sound...anutgallery.mp3

Wow! Huge, HUGE thanks!!!

A very hard repro to spot indeed. There are two radically different versions issued of this track which were released with only a couple of weeks apart. The first gritty "regional" version was withdrawn and replaced with a slightly cleaner "national" release version. If anyone would like to trade the regional issue for the national one, let me know.

You shouldn't have to pay more than £10-£15 for a mint copy. There's a buy-it-now copy for $10 right now on eBay and Craig Moerer has got 11 copies in stock at $25 each.

Hello! I've listed a bunch of 45s on eBay. There are label/sleeve scans and soundclips to all records. Check them out at: https://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfrppZ75QQfsooZ...QsassZpushkings ___SOUL / FUNK / NEW BREED R&B 45s___________________________ BETTY EVERETT on One-Derful ("I've Got A Claim On You") BETTY EVERETT on Uni ("Unlucky Girl") BILL BRANDON & LORRAINE JOHNSON on Moonsong BLUES BUSTERS on Bra ("Wide Awake In A Dream") BOBBY BYRD on Smash ("I'm Lonely") CARL HENDERSON on Omen CAROLYN FRANKLIN on RCA CATALINAS on Scepter ("You Haven't The Right") CRUISERS on V-Tone DAYTON on United Artists ("Eyes On You") DEE & JOE on Jubilee ELGINS - Darling Baby - VIP LP ESTHER PHILLIPS on Atlantic ("Catch Me I'm Falling") GARY US BONDS on Legrand GLORIA WALKER on Flaming Arrow ("You Hit The Spot Baby") HAROLD MELVIN on Source ("Prayin") IMPRESSIONS on Curtom ("Love Me") INOVATIONS on Hit Sound ("Stay On The Case") JESSE JAMES on 20th Century ("If You Want A Love Affair") JIMMY LOMAX on Cab ("Come On Home") JOEY DEE on Jubilee ("Put Your Heart In It") LAS VEGAS CONNECTION on Hep Me LENNY O'HENRY on Atco LILLIAN HALE on Fretone ("Don't Boom Boom") LITTLE DION on Capitol LYNN COLEMAN on Amigo MAURICE McCORMICK on Atomic Art NEW CYMBALS on De-Lite ("L.C. Funk") PAGES on Sunstruck ("Heartaches And Pain") PATTERSON TRIO on Meridian PRETTY PURDIE on Flying Dutchman ROCK CANDY on Dontee ("Alone With No Love") SPENCER WIGGINS on Fame SYL JOHNSON on E.P.I. TEE FLETCHER on Tragar WEE WILLIE DENSON on May ("Strange Things Are Happening") Thanks for looking! Take care. /Sebastian

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Billy Watkins "I'm Tired" was issued on three labels - Robell, Chartmaker and Jerhart. The version which Ady included on a recent Kent compilation as "unissued" is, however, unissued because it's got a 10-15 second saxophone break which has been edited out on the 45 releases. Apart from that, the "unissued version" and the 45 releases are the exact same recordings. I love this tune. Very frantic! Perhaps a bit hard to dance to, but just throw yourself across the livingroom floor, grab an imaginary microphone, do your best Jackie Wilson impersonation and that should take care of it.

This is superb! Goes very well together with Bileo's "You Can Win" tempo-wise. It still seems to be played covered-up on the current underground disco scene as First Family "That's Love" - it was even released on the "Disco Demands Part Three" compilation under this name.

As far as I know, the label is glued onto the record prior to the large hole being punched out.

Probably to be able to fit more minutes of music onto one side.

This is the craziest one I've got (and the only solid-centre copy of this title that I've ever seen): It's an original stamped US copy that haven't had its centre pushed out.

While on the topic of this group, has anyone of you got a copy of the following for sale? Soul Bros. Inc. - Hot Pants / Girl in the Hot Pants - SBI 1003 Please, PM me if so. Thanks in advance.

About 2 days left on these auctions now.

Hello! I've listed a bunch of 45s on eBay. There are label/sleeve scans and soundclips to all records. Check them out at: https://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfrppZ75QQfsooZ...QsassZpushkings ___SOUL / FUNK / NEW BREED R&B / POPCORN 45s_____________________ BALTIMORE & OHIO MARCHING BAND on Stateside ("Condition Red") BARONS LTD. on Chimneyville BELOVED ONES on Boyd BROTHERS BY CHOICE on Ala 12" ("Girl I Need You Too") CHARIOTEERS on Josie ELLA BROWN on Lanor FREDDY KING on Cotillion ("Funky") GEORGIE FAME on Columbia Sweden ("Sweet Thing") GENE McDANIELS Sings - RARE London EP HIGH KEYS on Atco ("Que Sera Sera") IKETTES on Polydor Germany IRMA THOMAS on Bandy JACK HAMMER on Ronnex ("Ali Ben Ghazi") JACKIE WILSON on Coral UK ("To Make A Big Man Cry") KIP ANDERSON on Checker ("If That Don't Make You Cry") LEE DORSEY on Amy ("Give It Up") LITTLE TERRY on Savoy ("Shake Me Up Baby") MEL & TIM on Polar Sweden MITCHELL KEYES / TROY KEYES on Atco ROBINS on GNP Denmark RONETTES on A&M Germany (RARE picture sleeve!) ROY GAINES on Bell RUBY & THE ROMANTICS on Kapp Denmark SHIRLEY & SHIRELLES on Bell Denmark SYL JOHNSON on Hi 12" THREE PLAYMATES on Savoy THURSTON HARRIS on Sonet Sweden TIMOTHY WILSON on Buddah TOYS on Stateside Sweden WANDO on Brasilia 12" ("Nega Do Obaluae") ___SKA / ROCKSTEADY / REGGAE 45s & 12"s__________________________ LLOYD CHARMERS / JAY BOYS on Straker's ("Can't Get Next To You") MILLIE on Sonet Sweden DILLINGER / CLANCY ECCLES on Clandisc LION YOUTH on Virgo Stomach ("Rat A Cut Bottle") SLY & ROBBIE & MAO on D-Roy ___SKA / ROCKSTEADY / REGGAE LPs_________________________________ BLUES BUSTERS - Phillip & Lloyd - DYNAMIC CIMARONS - In Time - TROJAN DILLINGER - Bionic Dread - BLACK SWAN DON CARLOS - Prophecy - BLUE MOON EXPLAINER - Nature - CHARLIES HEPTONES - Cool Rasta - TROJAN JOHNNY CLARKE - Don't Stay Out Late - PARADISE JOYCE BOND - Soul And Ska - ISLAND KEITH LYN - Sings Love Ballads - DYNAMIC MAYTALS - Monkey Man - TROJAN PIONEERS - I Believe In Love - TROJAN RICO & THE RUDIES - Blow Your Horn - DOWNTOWN/TROJAN WAILING SOULS - Wild Suspense - ISLAND v/a - Tighten Up Volume 2 - TROJAN Thanks for looking! Take care. /Sebastian

Precisions "I Wanna Tell My Baby" on D-TOWN. Superb tune, but the mixing/mastering leaves a lot to be desired.

The record you won is not the record on Anglo Americans list. Allison and Calvin Turner released at least three 45s on the LuLu label. I haven't heard the "Everytime I'm Near You" track.

246 - Phillip Mitchell - I'm Gonna Build California / The World Needs More People Like You 249 - Richard Marks - Love Is Gone / Don't Take It Out On Me 253 - Moses Dillard & The Tex-Town Display - I Promised To Love You / We Gotta Come Together