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Tony Diamond - Don't turn away - Blue Rock issue €125 incl. insured shipping from Germany to UK Lovely VG++ condition, close to M-. Comes with original company sleeve. Paypal f&f preferred but not mandatory. Please PM.

Many tunes mentioned I really like. But. Skiing in the snow. How bad is that lyric-wise? I mean, we're talking about soul music. Life. Love. Emotion. And an all-black-group is singing about "Gotta get my gear out ready for a winter spill"?

anyone please?

I too guess they were. Though they don't sound obviously white do they? Discogs lists three releases on Airtown, the other two are Garage.

Johnny Maestro sure one of the most expensive beat ballads. Fantastic tune. And the only one I'd buy from this weeks JM auctions. All the other records I'd leave for somebody else to buy. Price for the Tymes mispress seems pretty low, considering how rare it is. Ok, it's not traditional northern or crossover or whatever is en vogue at the moment.

No mask in sight and I see some folks not keeping distance. Very irresponsible.

All I Want Is You - what a fantastic song. Alltime fave of mine.

plenty of reasonable priced copies of the various releases of the album available on Discogs.

I guess most of you know it already, but anyway. On the rack bottom left is Lavern Baker "Let me belong to you".

@Ulrich Leitl Do you know which version that first German issue plays?

another gentle push.

first german issue from 72. second issue is on tamla-motown from 73/4-ish.

link leads to "page not found". Can you share the details?

Just wondering, what are the COVID-actions for these record fairs?

I fully agree with that. What a great book.

Just a general thought on recent prices: Spoke to two guys this week. One is selling higher priced vintage clothing, the other german Beat and Garage 45 rarities. Both said they had incredible sales over the last few months. And both confirmed some customers telling them they had "income surplus" they couldn't spend otherwise due to Corona lock-downs, travel bans etc. This may be a reason for some of the prices JM has been achieving over the last months?

Based on who else has releases on that label I'd say it's west coast. Probably San Francisco.

To me the best years were the early internet years. Literally yield years. Lots of US dealers creating their own sites and posting sales list, countless bargains found. Also, when Ebay US started. Again, countless quality records found at very good prices. Pre-internet I was relying on UK and US sales list posted by mail. They took ages to arrive here in Germany. Most interesting 45s were gone by the time I got the lists.

Speaking of shill bidding, does anyone know if buyers shill bidding still happening on Ebay US? If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's a buyer using a 2nd (fake) account to raise bids way above any reasonable price to block other bidders. E.g.: Seller posts an indemand 45, value say $200 on Ebay, auction starts at $1.00 Buyer A bids $450 straight away. Buyer A is first bidder, so auction is still at $1.00 Buyer A then uses another account, Buyer B, usually fake account, to bid on the auction, in smaller increases to disguise, and raises the price up to say $400. $400 is twice the going rate so nobody else bothers to bid. Right before end of auction fake account retracts bid, price falls back down t $1.00. Buyer A wins @ $1.00 I know this happened years ago when I was still active on Ebay US. But is it still happening nowadays? Some of these shill bidders even waited for real accounts to bid up to a reasonable amount, say $40 in my example before they went it.

check Discogs. Everything you want to know is there.

Get the Magma bag. Sturdy, up to 150 45. You can file them either up to 150 45's in a row or in two rows up to 75 45's each row. If i was still dj'ing this would be my #1 carrier bag.

Wow, that's a name I sure remember. Salamone that is, not Chris! (even though I know Chris personally) Got stung in the early 2k's. Sometime between 2002 and 2005. 250 Euros by bank transfer. Tried to cancel the transfer about 30 minutes later when I received an email from a belgian collector telling me all the details about Mr Salamone. No luck. Money gone. Spoke to my bank, they told me it's a transfer, money gone. Went to the police, they said small amount we don't bother. Lesson learned: Unless seller is trustworthy, Paypal only.

Great news. But I still haven't figured out who's the person that wasn't welcomed to the party?

Believe me. Most of that kind of stuff remains in the UK

Classic Northern 45s seem to fetch loads at Manship's auctions. Target audience well stuffed. I'm surprised about prices of Gallahads and Charlie McCoy. Thought half of the price is about going rate.