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Aren't all bidders de facto "private" now anyway? All you see is something like d***8 and a feedback score, right? I mean, I suppose you may be able to suss an account by the feedback rating. The only time I see the word private on a listing, it's someone who has made their feedback private. Am I missing something? To a couple of the other points in this thread, I very seldom see bid retractions these days. If I list ~200 items a month, maybe I see one retraction every other round of auctions. I also get, on average, 1-3 orders per month that go unpaid. I usually don't offer to the 2nd high bidder, I just put the record on Discogs or re-list on eBay later. My success rate on second chance offers has been low for years, probably due to some of the trust issues expressed above, so I basically quit bothering. Maybe bad to say as a seller, but when I bid I don't use a sniping tool but I do wait until the last possible moment to submit my bid. I don't understand the posturing and incremental bids and treat a 7 day auction as 6 days of free/cheap advertising to get eyeballs, with one day of action. That said, I guess if a record starts getting early traction, it also might also help get more attention. I'm not an auction or marketing genius, I just like digging for records.

I can partially explain this. There was a fair amount of time between the Levi Walker and the King Hannibal. Michael Thevis came in to start his Aware and GRC labels, and hired Wendell Parker to work for him since Parker not only ran Shurfine but had previously worked for Capitol Records. So Thevis and Parker released Shurefine 027 and quickly Aware 027 as King Hannibal "The Truth Shall Make You Free". Once Parker started to settle into his job and realized what kind of man Thevis really was (look his story up sometime!) Parker quit the business until Thevis went to prison, at which time he released an early electro-rap single and then started Shurfine Gospel.

Hi Dave - yes I am. I'll DM ya too.

SS7 VG+ or better please. Little Hank - Try To Understand

I think you'll enjoy the pressing on Impulse more than Tangerine, but don't let my opinion sway you.

I just got a batch of 45s with one of these yellow label boots in it. Was it a Jamaican pressed boot? There were a bunch of dancehall singles (and some other legit soul 45s) in the box. These boots don't often surface in the southern U.S. states so how this one turned up where it was is a bit of a head scratcher.

Been a while since I asked around, so here goes. Still looking for a clean copy of Hermon Hitson's "Walking In the Park" on Lisa. Surely, someone has grown tired of having this in their collection. It's not even a club record.

Any ideas for watching this outside of the UK? "BBC iPlayer only works in the UK. Sorry, it’s due to rights issues."

Last weekend was the Emerald City Soul Club 14th annual weekender in Seattle. I played a 45 minute set on Friday night (first two photos) and a 30 minute set at the survivor's party on Sunday night (last photo). One of the organizers of the weekend played a record in my Sunday set, which he had just purchased and wanted to hear over the system but I can't remember what that record was. Anyway, here's what I played. The entire weekend was filled will killer, eclectic sets from DJs from all over the U.S. as well as Germany and England and Ireland. If your travel budget allows, I highly recommend considering a trip to Seattle in November of 2020.

Tony Owens ‎– I'll Be There / Wishing, Waiting, Hoping (Soulin 146) Wanted in VG+ or better condition stock or promo not important as long as it's not the double sided promo. Cash/Trades waiting. Shouldn't be too difficult except that I keep finding off condition copies.

Sounds like fake crowd noise was added.

Sound files have been recorded for all of these if you want to hear anything. Prices do not include postage, shipped from New Orleans. The Antiques - Taught Me To Care / Glistening Stars Are Shining (White Cliffs 209) VG+ $25 Diamond Joe - Hurry Back To Me / Don't Set Me Back (Sansu 460) VG+ wlp $30 Fats Domino - If You Don't Know What Love Is / Something You Got Baby (ABC 10545) VG $25 Rudy "Tee" Gonzales - La Bamba / Those Long, Lonely Nights (Tear Drop 3109) VG+ $30 Jimmy Holiday - The New Breed / Love Me One More Time (Diplomacy 20) VG+ $25 Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto - Do I Make Myself Clear / Somewhere Down the Line (Argo 5579) VG+ DJ $25 Bobby Jones & the Para-Monts - Beware A Stranger / Check Me Out (USA 864) VG bb $20 Soul Lee - I till Have A Feeling For You / I Love You (Atlas 1258) NM- $25 Pat Lewis - Can't Shake It Loose / Let's Go Together (Golden World GW-42) VG+ wlp $25 Billy Mack - Son of A Lover / I Can't Sleep (Miss Betty 34) VG+ $12 The Marvelettes - You're the One For Me Bobby / A Breath Taking Guy (Tamla T 54213F) VG+ $20 Willie Mitchell - That Driving Beat / Everything Is Gonna Be Alright (Hi 45-2097) VG+ $30 The Mohawks - The Champ / Sound of the Witch Doctors (Cotillion 44002) VG $20 Gloria Parker - Hello Baby Goodbye, Too / If You Ever Loved Someone (LLP 104) NM- bb $25 Teddy Pendergrass - The More I Get The More I Want / The Whole Town's Laughing At Me (PIR ZS8 3633) NM- $15 Bobby Powell - Funky Broadway 69 / In Time (Whit 6902) NM $20 Freddy Scott - Pow City / Quiet Time (Marlin 45-16004) VG+ wol $25 Johnny Scott - Won't You Please Call / Hide & Seek With Me (Portra P-1004) NM- $30 Nina Simone - Save Me / To Be Young Gifted and Black (RCA 74-0269) VG+ $15 Elliot Small - Stay In My Heart / Girls Are Made For Loving (New Sound 1001) VG+ $30 light warp DNAP Merle Spears - Ain't No Need / It's Just A Matter of Time (Atlantic 45-2274) VG wlp $17 Ted Taylor - Don't Lie / Pretending Love (Okeh 4-7154) VG+ $15 Freddy Wilson - Promise Land / Where Is She? (Eastbound E 602) VG wlp $12 Light click during part of ballad heard in sound file. Lonnie Youngblood - Go Go Shoes / Go Go Place (Fairmount F-1002) VG DJ $25

Postage: $3.50 up to 3 45s, US / $9.50 up to 3 45s, Canada / $13.50 up to 3 45s, rest of world. After three 45s, I'll quote you based on weight (the weight of the package, not your weight, silly). I have sound files recorded for all of these ready. Eddie Bo - I Found A Little Girl / Hold Me (At Last 1006) VG+ $50 Brass Construction - Take It Easy / Two Timin Lady (Docc 501) NM- $45 Chili Peppers - Fly Vines / Chicken Scratch GWP 511) VG+ $50 Moses Dillard & The Tex Town Display - I Promise To Love You / We Gotta Come Together (Shout S-253) NM wlp $50 The Diplomats - Don't Bug Me / Honest To Goodness (Minit 32006) NM- DJ $100 The Endeavors - Shattered Dreams / I Know You Don't Want Me (Stop ST 372) VG+ $75 Joey Gilmore - Do It To Me One More Time / Somebody Done Took My Baby and Gone (Phil LA of Soul 345) VG+ $45 Judy Green - I Still Love You / Face To Face (Aware 028) NM- wlp $50 Betty Harris - Mean Man / What'd I Do Wrong (Sansu 478) VG+ bb $50 Betty Harris - There's A Break In the Road / All I Want Is You (SSS Intl 766) $45 Inspired Gospel Singers - He Will Provide / I Can Shout About It (Golden Shield GS-103) VG+ $150 Little Beaver - Listen To My Heartbeat / We There (Cat 2006) NM bb $95 Johnny Moore - Let's Get It Together / What More Can I Do (Larry-O 404) VG+ $45 New Ghetto Express - Standing On the Verge of Getting It On part 1 / part 2 (Unemployed) VG+ $65 Lu Parks Singers - Zap Pow Ee Yow / Happy Music (Ambassador TIF 211) NM- $100 Roger & the Gypsies - Pass the Hatchet part 1 / part 2 (Seven B 7001) VG $40 Sunny & the Sunliners - Put Me In Jail / Baby I Apologize (Key-Loc KL-1004) VG+ $50 Felice Taylor - I Can Feel Your Love / Good Luck (Kent 483) VG+ $55 Doris Troy - Hurry / He Don't Belong To Me (Atlantic 2269) VG+ wol $50 Chelo Vasquez - The Preacher / Contestacion A Que Tal Si Te Vas Conmigo (GC 1017) VG+ $75 Sarah Vaughan - Mama / One Mint Julep (Roulette R-4413) NM- $50 Billy Young - Suffering With A Hangover part 1 / part 2 (Joyja J-005) NM- $450

I just listed a solid copy on Discogs. DM if you want to buy it direct.

Beautiful copy of Billy Young's "Suffering With A Hangover" on Joyja. $500 + postage.

The Diplomats - Don't Bug Me / Honest To Goodness (Minit 32006) NM- DJ $100 Inspired Gospel Singers - He Will Provide / I Can Shout About It (Golden Shield GS-103) VG+ $150 The Kittens - Ain't No More Room / Hey Operator (Chess 2027) NM- $100 The Volcanos - Storm Warning / Baby (Arctic 106) NM- Postage: $3.50 US / $7 Canada / $13.50 World.

Two currently sitting on my desk, available for purchase. The Now Gang - Wanna Make You Dance vocal / inst (EGM 0359) NM $30 Ray Paige (Ralfi Pagan) - Don't Stop Now / Ain't No Soul Left In These Old Shoes (RCA 47-9047) NM- wlp $125 Postage: $3.50 US / $7 Canada / $13.50 World.

Earl Grant ‎– Hide Nor Hair / I Love You Yes I Do (Decca 32093) NM- $165 + postage filing stickers on each label. Canadian pressing. Postage: $3.50 U.S. / $6.50 Canada / $13.50 World

What's the info you're looking for?

This is very good advice. I feel like the quality of new records coming out now is quite a bit higher than 15 years ago. Sites like Bandcamp can be good to plow through until you find a handful of trustworthy labels that suit your ear. From another perspective, some of these will be good investment pieces for the future.

The ORR Chevelles is not the Flaming Arrow Mighty Chevelles.

Postage: $3.50/US, $6.50/Canada, $13.50/World Rusty Bryant - Fire Eater / The Hooker (Prestige 750) VG+ $75 Cypress One - New Lover / Lay Me Down (Share Intl) VG+ stickers on B label $85 Lillian Hale - Don't Boom Boom / The Sings Were Wrong (Fretone FR-011) NM- $40 Kenny Hamber - Never Found A Girl / Buster Benton - The Best Piece of Chicken (PES 101) VG+ $40 Bobby LaCour - If I Had My Life To Live Over / Daddy Want You Home (Great Southern GS-100) VG $40 Michael LeGrair - Hustle On Down Pt 1 / Pt 2 (Alaga AL 102) NM $45 Ninapinta and His Bongos and Congas - Satisfaction / A Lover's Concerto (Decca 25692) NM DJ $120 Roger Pace - You Better Know What You're Doing / Let This Crazy World Go By (Twirl 2023) VG+ xol wlp $45 Sons of Slum - What Goes Around / The Man (Stax STA-0138) NM- wlp $30 Warm Excursion - Hang Up part 1 / part 2 (Pzazz 039) VG+ $30

Prices do not include postage. $3.50/US, $7/Canada, $13.50/World up to three 45s. Postage costs increase with the 4th 45. Abaco Dream - Life and Death In G&A / Cat Woman (A&M 1081) NM- $20 Rusty Bryant - Fire Eater / The Hooker (Prestige 750) VG+ $75 Tommy Bush - Skin It Back part 1 / Skin It Back part 2 (Cal State CS-3204) NM $45 The Chashers - Without My Girl / The Wind (Uncle UN-4311) NM $475 The Danleers - Baby You've Got It / The Truth Hurts (Lemans LM-005) NM- $25 Jackie Day - Before It's Too Late / Without A Love (Modern 1028) VG+ $100 The Endeavors - Shattered Dreams / I Know You Don't Want Me (Stop ST 372) VG+ $75 Vernon Garrett - Don't Do What I Do / Do What (Watts USA 077) VG+ $50 (visual VG, play VG+) *SOLD* The Gaturs - Cold Bear / The Booger Man (Atco 45-6870) NM- $25 *SOLD* Lillian Hale - Don't Boom Boom / The Signs Were Wrong (Fretone FR-011) NM- $45 Betty Harris - There's A Break In the Road / All I Want Is You (SSS Intl SSS 766) VG+ $45 Ralph "Soul" Jackson - Let Your Sweet Love Surround Me / Match Box (S.O.B.) VG+ $50 Bill Johnson - You Better Dig It / The Right To Love (Talos 45-402) VG- $60 Denis LaSalle - A Love Reputation / One Little Thing (Tarpo T-6603) NM- bb $100 Earl Lett - Soul Sax / The Boston Puppy (Beantow B-101) NM- $60 The Marvelettes - A Breath Taking Guy / You're the One For Me Bobby (Tamla T 54213) VG+ $17 Gwen McCrae - 90% of Me Is You / It's Worth the Hurt (Cat 1992) VG+ wol $50 Mickey & The Soul Generation - Southern Fried Funk part 1 / part 2 (Omega ST-4423) NM- $100 *SOLD* Bobby Patterson - What's Your Problem Baby / If I Didn't Have You (Jetstar JS-107) NM- black vinyl promo, light stains on labels. Lou Rawls - It's You / Sweet Charity (Capitol P-2408) NM- DJ wol $50 The Rhine Oaks - Tampin / Oceanliner (Atco 45-6724) NM- $30 light warp DNAP Doris Troy - Hurry / He Don't Belong To Me (Atlantic 45-2269) VG+ wol $50 Chelo Vasquez - The Preacher / Contestacion A Que Ta Si Te Vas Conmigo (GC 1017) VG+ $75 The Volumes - Maintain Your Cool / I Got Love (Twirl 2016) VG+ wlp $125 light marks sounds great **SOLD** James Williams & The Ghetto Sounds - Wazuri part 1 / part 2 (Ghetto G-101) NM $225

Yes it is, in fact.

I'm only just finding this post from Dave, would loved to have contributed when it was still a current topic. Alas.... Matt Brown was also in the Men From Macon (with Robert Thomas already discussed as Matt's Cousin). In 2010 I published an article on Matt in my now defunct Georgia Soul blog. He was to attend a music school in the early 1970s but enlisted in the Air Force instead. Following his service, he did go to college in Philadelphia and returned to Macon in 1978 but did no further recordings. Matt Brown Discography: Love Me Just A Little Bit / Funky Soul Train (Sew City 108) - as Mathew Brown 1968 Fire Lighter / The Soul of A Man (Charay C-89) - as The Men From Macon 1969 These Arms of Mine / Spirit of '76 (Le Cam 204) - as Matt & Robert 1969 These Arms of Mine / Soul of A Man instrumental (UNI 55151) - as Matt & Robert 1969 Run For Cover / Pride and Joy (Jar-Val 001) - as Matt & Robert "The Soul Cousins" 1969 A Man Without A Woman / Soul of A Man instrumental (Soft S-1035) 1969 A Man Without A Woman / Soho (Le Cam 357) 1969 Everyday / Baby I'm A Want You (Jar-Val 004) 1972 Thank You Baby / Sweet Thing (Jar-Val 006) 1972 Mr. Pitiful / All I Want Is You (Christi LC-005) by Berry Street Station; Matt Brown appears only on Mr. Pitiful; year unknown