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great info all thanks

On the LP credits for "I lost a true love " it shows diff credits to the 45.......F wilson V wilson etc...and ive always suspected a Motown involvement on this and "this thing called love" ...particularly that sax break on the Johnny Wyatt version.....any comments?

On the LP credits for "I lost a true love " it shows diff credits to the 45.......F wilson V wilson etc...and ive always suspected a Motown involvement on this and "this thing called love" ...particularly that sax break on the Johnny Wyatt version.....any opinion?

i had both the mono and stereo........and sold the mono as it sounded crap on my (at the time) amstrad stack

real good tune...modesty forbids what i paid in the early 90ts recession........

thanks all.......turned into an interesting thread....the US UA 45 would presumably be the fawn label?......

mill evans........spot the boot.........

i always assumed it to be the first.....because George was a Florida artist.....and Blue Candle a Miami label....and by the credits it has a TK connection.......Soul City is LA....(.Al Wilson....5th Dimension etc )...the UA would be a reissue of Soul City thru the Johnny Rivers connection.....the Blue Candle 45 would be about 1972.

its an early Blue Candle thats for sure...the orig local 45..i thing Georges first release....there was a Blue Candle label listing in an old Blackbeat mag.....

common as muck on the other labels.....but not this ......labels reversed...im thinking of selling...any input appreciated......

thats the side for me

bit of info on the Marvin Smith penned track "nobody treats me the way you do" on the World of Soul lp.....which never got released by Marvin or the Artistics......Bob A asked Marvin about it and he never knew it got recorded.....and mebbe it got hawked around by Carl Davis thru Jalynne......im sure Bob could confirm.........

good price on Calvin Leavy....rarer than you think........TOTW play for Dean A upstairs........

always been happy with my dealings with John......he can use any scans of my 45s hes sold for me ....no problem.......in fact in the past hes bought in for himself a 45 of mine that got measly bids.. at the price i wanted.........nothing wrong with that.........you need to establish with him if its a scan...

not quite on topic........does anyone know if Afternoon of the Rhino was intended for a film that never got made?

yes ive seen it.......

delivering cut ice to households was a business in the USA........

Ive got a plain white label of the red issue with the detail written in on GGG....Dunno if it was an attempt to c/u or what.....bought it from Dave Alcocks records so i doubt it..........great 45 that suffers from being common so DJs were always reluctant to spin it.........

Paddy from Stoke used to have this........played it round mine many times.......happy days .

Nick Marshall sold his to Steve Smith at TOTW when it was covered up....cant remember the price...£40?....he found it in a Soul Pack

as i understand it this was a promo for the Grapevine release (of the 45 or the LP?)....Whether John intended the unreleased vocal on the B side ...dunno ....he might have had the regular instr and the vocal and someone made a mistake.....interestingly this vocal never eventually made the Grapevine LP or the 45...only John A knows the real story...i got mine from a box of bootlegs when pointed out by Gilly..good lad that he is...

Old traditionalist that i am .....i have the stereo album Steve ...is there any appreciable difference between this and the 45 soundwise?

Trentham Gardens Disco 1971 Stoke-on-Trent Lester Young "Barefooting time in Chinatown" Swinging Soul Machine" Spookys day off" Intrigues "in a moment" Formations "at the top of the Stairs" Tams "Skinheads dont bother me"

thanks for that ...Kev and Pete...Blondie had a few mint issues which he said came from Laura Greene...dunno he can spin a yarn.......i think they got sold in Stoke about £100..ones with me

are black issues rarer than than demos?