Benji

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Thanks for clearing that. I always thought they were one and the same outfit. Do you have any more background information about The Four Perfections or the Party Time label? "I'm not strong..." is one of my alltime faves and it'd be nice to know more about the song..

Now sold. thanks!

Do you know if the Four Perfections and the Show Stoppers were one and the same group?

I think Arthur once told me he found the first copy of Four Perfections on Party Time at Val Shivley's.

For sale: HANK JACOBS - ELIJAH ROCKIN' WITH SOUL/EAST SIDE - CALL ME (VG++) Genuine original, plays really fine. £60 incl. registered post in Europe and Paypal fees. Outside Europe £2 extra. Please PM if interested.

Scans now added. Anyone?

Now reduced...

For sale: CAROLYN CRAWFORD - MY SMILE IS JUST A FROWN/I'LL COME RUNNING - MOTOWN WHITE DEMO (EX) Plain logo label design. Nice one! £100 £80 incl. registered post in Europe and Paypal fees. Outside Europe £2 extra. Please PM if interested.

The link I posted starts with books.google.de because I get redirected to german Google automatically whenever I type in books.google.com. Doesn't make any difference at all if you're using books.google.com or books.google.co.uk or whatever. All the same...

As you may know Google did start to scan as many books and magazines as possible and uploaded all their scans to the internet (books.google.com). Earlier today I did a Google search for Kenny Carter I've got to find her on RCA. One of the very first links I got as result was for April 2, 1966 issue of the Billboard magazine. (Click here, you have to enlarge the scan to see everything). In that issue the following records are "predicted to reach the Hot 100 chart": Kenny Carter - I've got to find her Frances Nero - Keep on lovin me Emanuel Lasky - I'm a peace loving man Roger & The Gypsies - Pass the hatchet Don't think any of them made it to the Hot 100 did they? Further down the scan there was the Hot 100 chart as at April 2, 1966. It did include some surprises (at least surprise to me) as I didn't know they charted at all: Outsiders - Time won't let me Slim Harpo - Baby scratch my back Tim Tam & Turn Ons - Wait a minute And check out the Golden World ad on page 15!

Any idea of value for a european RCA copy of Tony Moore? Manship's copy is from Italy and I have a copy on its way that's either german or northern Europe (seller forgot to check before posting). any other countries it came out in?

As good as it is Mark (and it really is good) it's poor compared to the Soul Communicators "Please don't go"

For sale: JOE KENNEDY - SLICK TRICK/TODAY AND TOMORROW - ATLANTIC GERMANY (WITH ORIGINAL P/S!!) Very rare one, vinyl in vg++ condition. Plays really fine. See scans. Solid Northern double sider. £20 incl. post in Europe and Paypal fees. Outside Europe £2 extra. Please PM if interested Labels: Both sides of the sleeve:

Sold now, thanks!

For sale: AL WILSON - THE SNAKE - UK LIBERTY (EX) Classic oldie on rare UK original label. Nice one! £25 incl. post in Europe and Paypal fees. Outside Europe £2 extra. Please PM if interested

Came out on Roulette as well. The beat ballad side has the same backing as the flip to the Soul Communicators on Fee Bee "please don't go". Think the group was somehow connected to Fee Bee and/or Chuck Corby??

In the foggy back of my memory I think it was either a link to an interview with MW or Milton himself posting on Soul Source many moons ago...

As far as I remember Milton Wright himself confirmed he recorded both tracks back in the 60s but they remained unreleased until late 70s.

Mick, thanks for clearing that up. Never heard of it being pressed on white demo and it's not mentioned in Manship Bootleg Guide #2.

What's the difference between an original W/D and a bootleg W/D? I'm only aware of the green label pressing.

here's a clip taken from a 2008 Keb Darge podcast. Anyone know this song? I know i've heard it before (I might even had it at one time in the past) but I can't remember artist or title. Can anybody put me out of misery? TIA Benji LINK

JD Bryant is a truly great song, wonderful production, good lyrics and matching vocals. The ambitious yet still rather amateurish approach adds a lot of charm to it. That approach doesn't work on all Shrine productions mind! Jackie Lee is a crap song. Average vocals on a song that doesn't really go anywhere. When I heard either song for the first time I didn't know how dear they were or what label they were released on. I only judge by the musical quality and JD Bryant sure is the winner.

Came out at least on a blue label Bretby Allnighters Anniversary bootleg (?) 12". Don't know if it was released in any other format

Ady, to be honest I think it's not bad but very astounding that somebody thinks your liner notes are worth reproducing Anyway, back to the thread: If there was/is any specific reason for CD sales going down since the late 90s it's the general file sharing/mp3 swapping to blame and certainly not home-compiled CDs. But personally I don't think that's the only reason for Goldmine/Goldsoul and Grapevine going out of business. I think the first simply didn't come up with any interesting CDS in their later days, i.e. rather unloving compiled CDs with boring sleeve notes. The latter, Grapevine, was too elitist to get sufficent sales, although I have all of their releases and think they were brilliant (apart from the Funk ones ). Giving away complimentary CDs at venues sure doesn't do any harm to official CDs sales, anybody saying so simply tries to find a cheap scapegoat. I always saw and will see CD freebies and home-made CDs being sold in small numbers as the natural successor to audio tapes. Of course advertising them on the net and selling in bigger numbers is just as illegal and immoral as counterfeiting official CDs.