Sebastian

Really looking forward to that one! Just found this tracklisting on a website. Hope it's correct? 01. Out Of Left Field - Percy Sledge 02. I'm Your Puppet - Dionne Warwick 03. Sweet Inspiration - The Sweet Inspirations 04. A Woman Left Lonely - Charlie Rich 05. I Worship The Ground You Walk On - Etta James 06. I'm Living Good (Version 2) - The Ovations 07. Take Me (Just As I Am) - Solomon Burke 08. Cry Like A Baby - Arthur Alexander 09. It Tears Me Up - Jeanne Newman 10. Slippin' Around - Art Freeman 11. I Met Her In Church - Tony Borders 12. Are You Never Coming Home - Sandy Posey 13. Let It Happen (Alternate Take) - James Carr 14. Everything I Am - The Box Tops 15. Feed The Flame - Ted Taylor 16. Watching The Trains Go By - Tony Joe White 17. In The Same Old Way - Arthur Conley 18. Denver - Ronnie Milsap 19. Dreamer - Patti Labelle & The Bluebelles 20. Good Things Don't Come Easy - Irma Thomas 21. I Need Someone - The Wallace Brothers 22. He Ain't Gonna Do Right - Barbara Lynn 23. Wish You Didn't Have To Go - Tommy Roe 24. Let's Do It Over - Joe Simon

There's now about 2 days left on these auctions: https://shop.ebay.com/pushkings/m.html

Not a 45 that turns up very often in my experience, but as for value I have no idea. Probably mostly of interest to Jimmy Webb and sunshine pop collectors. The Supremes LP-only version is one of their best ever recordings in my opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK_wM_18dbA

That 45 on ACTION surely can't be by the same Benny Harper who released the 45 on HARPER-SOUL? David included it as the last tune in this 6-pak of his from back in 2000:

There might be more releases on the label, but "L.O.V.E." is indeed one of them:

Yes. A bit weird that "Indication" is credited to a duo though. As far as I can hear there's only one person singing!

Hello! I've listed a bunch of records on eBay. There are label/sleeve scans and soundclips to everything. Check them out at: https://shop.ebay.com/pushkings/m.html SOUL / FUNK / R&B 45s: High Keyes, Johnny Copeland ("I Ain't Gonna Take It"), Patrice Holloway, Jimmy Hughes, Alvin Robinson, Ben Harper, Slim Harpo, Timi Yuro, Dynamics, Eddie Holland, Barbara Lynn, Dan Penn, Johnny Sayles, Larry Williams & Johnny Watson, Show Stoppers, Sunny & The Sunliners, Baby Ray, Harvey Scales, Megatons etc. SOUL / MOTOWN LPs: Martha & The Vandellas, Marvelettes, Monitors, Diana Ross & Supremes, Patti Drew Thanks for looking! Take care. /Sebastian

The latest 6 copies sold just the other day for $438-$540. So roughly £300-£350.

The LP regularly sells for $30-$40 on eBay (there are two expensive buy-it-now copies on there right now). Very few known copies of the 45 however so there's no established "value" for that one as far as I know.

Issued both on an LP and a 45 on the SILVER SPOON label. Re-issued a couple of years ago on that SOUL "O" SONIC 45. The original LP looks like this: The original 7" looks like this:

My bad, I have gone back and edited my posting so that it reflects my true opinion. Let's just agree to disagree.

Ofcourse some people can and are conned by re-presses, but people who know how to check these things does not get conned. You will not be fooling anyone. Especially not if you're trying to counterfeit an existing release. I mean, just such a thing as the volume of the sound on the disc. How are you going to get the volume at the exact same dB as the original? With the exact same wave form? That is nigh on impossible. And I'd be surprised if there is even ONE pressing plant that will be willing to forge ARCHER / NASHVILLE MATRIX / GlobeNASHVILLE etc. stamps and put into the deadwax.

Do you seriously believe that it's possible today to make a perfect replica of a 40+ year old 45? There are so many things to "get right" that you're bound to mess up somewhere along the line. Even if you've got the old master plates you will not be able to pull it off, because something in the label printing or the consistence of the vinyl is bound to give it away as a repro.

Same thing. Never use PVC outer sleeves and use high quality non-plastic lined paper inner sleeves. As far as LPs are concerned, one of the worst examples I've come across is the Sweden-only debut LP by Boz Scaggs ("Boz" from 1965) which actually was issued with a plastic lined inner sleeve which over the years has reacted with the vinyl. No one knew it at the time of its release, so few people changed the original inner sleeve for a standard paper inner. As a result that LP is almost impossible to find without those "streaks" or dulling do the vinyl which results in hiss, noise etc. I'm sure there are lots of other examples of this.

The record store I work part-time in was offered a huge superb collection of UK punk / new wave / powerpop 45s a couple of years ago. All of the picture sleeved releases had been stored in plastic PVC outer sleeves since its release and more than 75% of those 45s were totally destroyed (surface looked dull, had streaking, played with constant hiss etc. - just like described above). I wouldn't use any kind of PVC outer sleeves or plastic lined inner sleeves for my 45s, it's just not worth risking in my opinion.

Nov 30, 2010 08:56:36 PST

It is called "Down In The Subway" on the original UK Polydor LP. It is mis-spelled "Down The Subway" on the swedish Polydor 45. That kind of stuff happened all the time here in Scandinavia during the 60s. How about "(I Can Get No) Satisfaction" by The Rolling Stones on danish Decca...

I've experienced that a lot as well, mostly on CDs though (which is even more frustrating in my opinion). I think it's just a case of the person responsible for the reissue being lazy and careless. I mean seriously, if a large centre-hole 7" is pressed off-centre, why not spend an extra minute or two to properly align the record (without using the middle) prior to doing the dub?

Enter: billy harner check in the eBay search field. Click Search. Nothing will show up. Now click "completed listings" in the left column.

I don't know the story behind the different colours, but the two labels have got differing publishing credits, plus the green one has got a catalogue number printed on the label (BF-900) whereas the blue one doesn't. Publishing credits: GREEN = Hitkit Music / Freak Dog Music BMI BLUE = Lantern Light Music BMI

For what it's worth, he's sold 7 copies during the past two weeks: https://tinyurl.com/2vj87qe

I bought a copy of this 45 from the seller on eBay, it arrived yesterday and it is definitely a legit 60s pressing. It has got the same kind of hard-to-read raised hallmark/letters (M.S.I. CO. written backwards) "under" the label as the original issue of Epitome Of Sound and many other Philadelphia releases from that time (V-TONE was from Philadelphia).

The latest bunch of copies on eBay have sold for: 2010-10-28 - $191.50 2010-10-03 - $262.00 2010-08-23 - $282.78 So I guess anywhere between £125-£175 is reasonable.