Sebastian

Well, I'm on here and to me it's essential. 50% or more of my record collection is non-soul/r&b.

The Imperials "Where You Gonna Find Somebody Like Me" (PX 270 from 1978) is a good modern soul tune. But in my opinion the only essential release on the label is The Saints double-sider "I'm Stranded" / "No Time". None of their other releases even gets near it.

Yes, I think you're right about that.

For example here's La Lupe's "Fever" as it should sound: ... and here's how it is played on the popcorn scene: It has even been BOOTLEGGED at its slowed down pace...

Indeed a bit strange that they have the same number. But they don't have the exact same matrix: MM-110-B DELTA #55879-X = SLAUSON SHUFFLE MM-110-B-RE DELTA #55879-X = SOUL JERK Looks like they changed their mind quickly and made a new stamper.

It's a version of the Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford tune:

Just listened to the uptempo side on the 20th Century Fox 45. Sounds quite a bit like the same singer as on the Calla 45.

Calla was run by Nate McCalla, bodyguard to Morris Levy who ran Roulette. Both of those labels had strong ties to the mob. Lots of info about both labels (and Morris and Nate) in Tommy James (from the Shondells) biography which I recommend to anyone that is interested in this kind of stuff. Fascinating reading. "Chained To Your Heart":

Have you heard The Beatles? Neither side of the 45 on CALLA sounds like anything they ever recorded. There was a UK band called The Maze which later morphed into Deep Purple, but the release on CALLA is apparently by an unrelated US group. Very little seems to be known about them. I have included a bigger scan of the french 45 sleeve below in case anyone can identify the members. It wouldn't surprise me if Benny Troy was in the band. Interestingly it seems like the Bobby Moore "Chained To Your Heart" 45 and the Maze 45 were released at pretty much the same time. Both are reviewed in the same issue of Billboard from 8 July 1967. Bobby Moore is predicted to reach the Top 60 of the regular HOT 100 "pop chart" and The Maze is predicted to reach the TOP SELLING RHYTHM & BLUES R&B SINGLES chart. Make of that what you will...

Donnie Elbert - Along Came Pride - UK CBS Oliver Norman - Drowning In My Own Despair - UK POLYDOR

https://www.ebay.com/itm/290873812414 and https://www.ebay.com/itm/330876248446 By the way, I'll get back to you later today regarding what we talked about via e-mail.

I sold a copy of the yellow/green issue about two weeks ago on eBay. It was the first stock copy I've ever had or seen of that title. Another one went through eBay yesterday funnily enough.

It definitely makes it rarer, but also less desirable and worth less than this particular 45 with the right labels on it.

Just for your info while hunting the matrix details, this 45 was pressed at two different pressing plants (at least). There are label differences and there are most likely matrix differences between the two as well:

Unless you don't use the Global Shipping Program. I can't fathom why anyone would want/need to use it. I mean, you STILL have to go to the post office. Why not just ship it to the direct location instead of shipping it off to an "international eBay hub" which THEN sends it on... Oh well!

If all packages from the US had "Value: $5" on them there would be no duty to collect. But with the "Global Shipping Program" the exact price of the won auction will be printed on the customs form as "Value". Surely that is the biggest problem.

Have PMed you!

Well, there you go! Deserved to go much higher. It's a masterpiece.

None of the big sellers declare full values. It would hurt their business an awful lot. Don't use the eBay "Global Shipping Program". It is the reason for all the customs problems as of late. Check out this paragraph: https://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/shipping-globally.html#buyer-charges

It's the same basic recording on both DRA and UNITED MODERN. I think that the reverb/effects were added at the time of manufacturing the stamper for the DRA release. UNITED MODERN must've used the plain "dry" mastertape mix-down (without any added effects) when they issued it. I can send you a soundfile of the DRA 45 if you want me to?

Just thought I'd highlight the the writing in the run-out groove that you mention was written/etched ONCE onto the lacquer/mother stamper that was used to press the records.

But that shouldn't make a difference, really. Think of all the shipments that goes on every day within the UK or EU where you don't have to fill in a customs form or declare a value. What would happen in that scenario?

It would really surprise me if it was. As Gene-R wrote above, the 45 issued on UNITED MODERN and all of the worldwide Columbia/Stateside related releases of this track on 45s and EPs were released in 1964 as a cash-in attempt trying to capitalize on Trini's then current popularity due to his recordings on REPRISE ("If I Had A Hammer" etc.). The original release of "Sinner Not A Saint" is from 1961 on a 45 on the DRA label (same as Jessie Mae "Don't Freeze On Me" etc.). The DRA label release of "SNAS" is however completely drenched in echo and lacks the punchy dryness of the UNITED MODERN release.

Do you mean like in the image below (which I found on the net)? The printing is poorly defined and looks "copied" from the proper label. The text is smudged and parts of some of the letters are missing. Looks suspicious to me.

Perhaps someone can ask Garry Cape when they were done (if I remember correctly, member "dewsburyborn" is Cape)? Here is what he wrote in a thread from August 2008: "I had John Richbourg repress it - on the orange/black label - I sold 2,500 to Neil Rushton and 1,000 to my guys in Holland for the flip side 'You're Letting Me Down'."