Sebastian

I suppose you mean "R&B" in the broad "Billboard R&B chart" type of way? Because if anyone consider "Pusherman" to be "rhythm & blues" in the "new breed r&b" sense then I give up... "Don't Start Cryin' Now" by Slim Harpo is r&b.

Loving this at the moment:

The "Motown Rarest Of The Rare 45's" list on David Flynn's site might be a good place to start: https://anorakscorner.homestead.com/RarestOfTheRare-Motown45s.html Gordy 7004 Hattie Littles - Back In My Arms Again Gordy 7088 Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers - Oh! I've Been Blessed Gordy 7089 Lollipops - Cheating Is Telling On You/Need Your Love Gordy 7091 Terry Johnson - My Springtime Mel-O-Dy 10I Creations This Is Our Night Mel-O-Dy 104 Charters - Trouble Maker Motown G-1 Miracles - Bad Girl Motown TLX2207 Miracles - Bad Girl Motown 1000 Satintones - My Beloved/Sugar Daddy (no strings) Motown 1000 G-3 Satintones - My Beloved/Sugar Daddy (with strings) Motown 1001 Eugene Remus - You Never Miss A Good Thing/Hold Me Tight (no strings) Motown 1001 Eugene Remus - You Never Miss A Good Thing/Gotta Have Your Lovin' (with strings) Motown 1001 180-W Eugene Remus - You Never Miss A Good Thing/Gotta Have Your Lovin' Motown 1006 Satintones - Angel/A Love That Can Never Be Motown 1006 Satintones - Tomorrow And Always/A Love That Can Never Be (with strings) Motown 1006 Satintones - Tomorrow And Always/A Love That Can Never Be (no strings) Motown 1008 Contours - Whole Lotta Woman Motown 1008 Supremes - I Want A Guy Motown 1010 Satintones - I Know How It Feels Motown 54031 Mabel John - Who Wouldn't Love A Man Like That Motown 1012 Contours - Funny Motown 1018 All Stars - Disintegrated Pt.1&2. Motown 1020 Satintones - Faded Letter Motown 1033 LaBrenda Ben & The BelJeans - Came Walk Motown 1044 Supremes - A Breath Taking, First Sight Soul Shaking...(long title) Motown 1046 Serenaders - If Your Heart Says Yes Motown 1061 Mary Wells - When I'm Gone Motown 1112 Barbara McNair - Steal Away Tonight/For Once In My Life Motown 1144 Jonah Jones - For Better Or Worse Motown 1155 Spinners - She's Gonna Love Me At Sundown Motown 1160 Chuck Jackson - The Day The World Stood Still Motown 1168 Blinky (Sandra Williams) - How You Gonna Keep It Soul 35007 Merced Blue Notes - Do The Pig Soul 35009 Earl VanDyke - All For You Soul 35019 Frank Wilson - Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) Tamla 101 Marv Johnson - Come To Me (no address) Tamla 102 Eddie Holland - Merry Go Round Tamla 54022 Barrett Strong - Let's Rock Tamla 54024 Chico Leverett (Charles of The Satintones) - Solid Sender Tamla G7012 Contours - Shake Sherry Tamla 54024 Swinging Tigers - Snake Walk Pt.1&2 Tamla 54025 Ron & Bill (Ron White & Bill Robinson of The Miracles) - It Tamla 54026 Satintones - Going To The Hop Tamla 54028 A-1/2 Miracles - You Can Depend On Me/The Feeling Is Fine Tamla 54028 A-1/2 Miracles - You Can Depend On Me/The Feeling Is Fine (alt.take) Tamla 54026 Downbeats (Elgins) - Request To A Fool Tamla 54028 Miracles - Way Over There (alt.take) Tamla 54030 Singin' Sammy Ward - What Makes You Love Him/Who's The Fool (stripes) Tamla 54030 Singin' Sammy Ward - That Child Is Really Mine/Who's The Fool (globes) Tamla 54031 Mabel John - Who Wouldn't Love A Man Like That Tamla 54036 Miracles - Ain't It Baby Tamla 54037 Gospel Stars - He Lifted Me (stripes) Tamla 54038 Supremes - I Want A Guy (globes) Tamla 54040 Mabel John - No Love (long intro) Tamla 54045 Supremes - I Want A Guy (globes) Tamla 54067 Sandra Mallett & The Vandellas (Sandra Edwards) - Camel Walk Tamla 54081 Mabel John - Who Wouldn't Love A Man Like That Tamla 54106 Kim Weston - A Little More Love Tamla 54144 Brenda Holloway - 'Til Johnny Comes Home Tamla 5501/F1/2 Nick & The Jaguars - Ich-I-Bon #1 VIP 25001 Patrice Holloway (He Is) The Boy Of My Dreams VIP 25006 Andantes - Like A Nightmare VIP 25008 Oma Heard (Oma Page) - Lifetime Man VIP 25020 Isley Brothers - I Hear A Symphony VIP 25021 Velvelettes - A Bird In The Hand VIP 25025 Dalton Boys - Take My Hand VIP 25028 Majestics (The Monitors) - Say You VIP 25029 Downbeats (The Elgins) - Put Yourself In My Place VIP 25044 Debbie Dean - Why Am I Lovin' You VIP 25067 Chuck Jackson - Who You Gonna Run To Anna 101 Voicemasters - Hope & Pray Anna 102 Voicemasters - Needed Anna 103 Hill Sisters - Hit And Runaway Love Anna 1109 Larry Darnell - With ears In My Eyes Anna 1113 Letha Jones & The Rivals - I Need You - I Got That Feeling Anna 1113 Letha Jones & The Rivals - I Need You - Black Clouds Check-Mate 1009 Willie Kendrick - The Best Is Yet To Come Harvey 122 Keith Moss - Satisfaction Guaranteed Miracle 2 Little Iva & Her Band (Raynoma Gordy) - When I Needed You Miracle 3 Gino Parks - Don't Say Bye-Bye Miracle 4 Andre Williams - Rosa Lee Rayber 1001 Wade Jones & The Rayber Voices I Can't Concentrate The Rarer 7" Picture Covers: Motown 1011 Mary Wells - I'm So Sorry Motown 1016 Mary Wells - Strange Love Motown 1024 Mary Wells - The One Who Really Loves You Motown 1027 Supremes - Your Heart Belongs To Me Motown 1032 Mary Wells - You Beat Me To The Punch Tamla 54044 Miracles - Broken Hearted Tamla SL4M 3114 Supremes - Things Are Changing (33 1/3 rpm) Motown Related 7" Promos: City Of Detroit no # Willie Horton & The Supremes - Detroit Is Happening Motown DML294-M05 Christine Schumacher with The Supremes - Mother You Smother You Standard Groove 13090 Miracles - That's Why I Care About Detroit Tamla no # Brenda Holloway - Play It Cool, Stay In School Tamla no # Mavin Gay - Witchcraft (note spelling of his surname) Plain Label no # Lee Allan & The Vandellas Set Me Free American International no# - The Supremes - Dr.Goldfoot & The Bikini Machine Hitsville USA DM097311/2 - Greetings To Tamla Motown Appreciation Society (300 copies)

Loving this at the moment. Lou Rawls making The Box Tops "The Letter" his own: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5-AFch7t0M

"Tell Me" WAS released on an official US Daptone 7" / 45. If you're talking about some other tune, please ignore this.

That's a styrene 45. So most likely just a "coloured in" demo/promo bootleg.

Or off the original, official US 45 for simplicitys sake.

99% or more of all my buyers on eBay follows through with their purchases. It might take a while and a reminder or two to get the payment from about 3%-5% of the buyers, but bidders who chicken out or that I never hear from are few and far between. Hope I haven't jinxed it now though...

I'm glad you liked it!

Indeed, it's a version of that Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler penned standard.

Ofcourse, you're totally right about that. 1965-ish it is.

Here are soundclips: "Mashed Potato Man" https://www.shingaling.com/KingColeman-MashedPotatoMan.mp3 "Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea" https://www.shingaling.com/KingColeman-BetweenTheDevilAndTheDeepBlueSea.mp3 Is it any good? Is the info below correct? VI-TOSE 100 - Cal Richards - Let Him Get His Own Girl / Small Town Girl VI-TOSE 101 - Careless Five - (Do You Love Me) Tell Me Right Now / Summertime VI-TOSE 102 - King Coleman - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea / Mashed Potato Man I read somewhere that the Cal Richards 45 is from 1965, but don't know if that is right?

Just found a King Coleman 45 that I can't find any info about anywhere: King Coleman - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea / Mashed Potato Man - VI-TOSE 102 I've found mentions of two other 45s on the VI-TOSE label (#100 and #101), but no mention of #102. "Mashed Potato Man" on this disc is by the way not the same tune as "The Mash Potato Man" on TOGO, "(Do The) Mashed Potatoes" on DADE or "Rock Gospel Mash" on KING. Any further info? Sounds early 60's, 1963-ish. Moody mid-tempo on the a-side and uptempo r&b dancer on the b-side.

Pete, you're right, it isn't american. The vocalist is Irina Milan from Finland. Recorded in Sweden and as far as I know only released in Sweden on HMV in 1967. A real oddity and I've never ever seen a copy of it prior to a couple of days ago. Just thought I'd post it up as I was so surprised to find a version of it recorded in one of the Nordic countries! The flipside is "Baby's Gone".

Found a 45 the other day with a version of "What's Wrong With Me Baby" (the same tune as done by Invitations and Toys). The other side was also a Linzer/Randell composition which The Toys also recorded a version of and released on the same LP as their version as "WWWMB". Have a listen to this short clip: https://www.shingaling.com/WWWMB.mp3 Is it known? It's obviously not in the same league as the two other versions, but found it interesting at least!

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But if you haven't seen both, then the matrix info helps. That's the point I was trying to make.

Indeed it is. It's not what I would describe as "light green" though. It's a photo of my 45 so nice to get further confirmation that it is an original. OK, then I understand where you're coming from. The chances of finding this record in a sales box outside of the UK and US are however pretty slim, so info about this type of stuff is crucial in my opinion.

But it all gets a bit tricky when you see this: vs. Which one is the original? And which one is "dark" and which one is "light" green? To me it's easier to tell by the matrix numbers in the run-out groove. You don't even have to see the label to make sure you get an original that way.

GREAT STUFF! I have added it to the discography above. It also throws up the question if cat# 3-2 through to 3-9 exists?

Those LPs were released in 2002. There were 4 volumes. The first two focused on his 50s recordings and were called "Detroit Grease" vol 1 & 2. The last two focused on his 60s recordings and were called "Detroit Soul" vol 3 & 4. Don't know who did them, but at the time they were available from many garage distributors like Crypt, Norton etc. Check these links: https://www.discogs.c...release/3670263 https://www.discogs.c...release/3671493 https://www.discogs.c...release/3671619 https://www.discogs.c...release/3671643 I used to play in a band that acted as his supporting act when he played in Malmoe, Sweden back in 1998 when he was touring on the back of his incredible "Silky" album. He is indeed a very "bad" man and the gig after-party was one of the most blasting parties I've ever had the pleasure to experience.

OK, I think it just sold for those high prices because it was still largely unknown when I sold those. Slightly later Craig Moerer had stock of it and were selling them relatively cheap. I don't think that neither of the LVC 45s are poor within their genre though.

You do realise that there are two different 45s by Las Vegas Connection in the link that you are refering to? This one is quite common and usually goes for $30-$60. HEP' ME 136 - Las Vegas Connection - Give Me Your Love / Dancing With My Love Bones I once sold two copies for $200 and $300 on eBay but those were freak results: This one is however very rare: HEP' ME 169 - Las Vegas Connection - Running Back To You / Can't Nobody Love Me Like You Do There's been about 5 copies on eBay during the past 5 years. Whenever it turns up for sale it is always at least £200-£300. It's still just as rare as it's been for ages.

I have no idea actually, but most likely in Sweden.

This is actually by a swedish artist. Svante is the jazz singer Svante Thuresson.