michael-j

i'll admit that i've bought records that people have posted as 'wants' - that's the risk of posting a want! you draw attention to it... some were new records to me that i checked out and liked, others were ones i'd forgotten about while concentrating on newer wants, but seeing the 'want' post reminded me and so i went a found a copy. i don't see the problem, it's just one of the many ways to hear about new tracks. if you're just following certain people's wantslist then that's different of course... Tommaso - i haven't heard it, but sounds like my kind of thing (an uptempo doo-wop b-side) - what's the Sheba thing about, is it Egyptian themed at all? guessed you wouldn't want to spend $400 on it, but those dealer suggestions were to show that you might have better luck searching for the A-side if it's a known doo-wopper

Times Square and Moerer both have the Twisters on sale for $400 (and listed for the a-side 'Truly', sounds like a ballad with that title)

it's a good track, i'm interested in it (probably not enough to actually put in an offer though). where else would you post it, there isn't exactly a dedicated forum for that kind of thing is there?

how on earth do you manage to lose or break so many records?

it is a Canadian release, Mittoo moved to Toronto in '69

think i prefer Part 1, it sounds quite different to pt 2... do any 45s have both parts on? mine (from JM) was listed as having them both (so maybe they do exist?), but the copy i got only has Part 1, and a forgettable b-side despite a promising title (Goodbye Squaresville)

there's quite a nice version of MTMNTC by Odetta on the 'Odetta Sings' LP

nice bit of country soul there, i enjoyed that

was sure i'd mentioned the Manhattans version on here before, because Out of Love has come up a few times. my copy of the Manhattans is on 'Boo', any one know that label, is it a boot or something? just picked it up a few years back for 50p when i saw the title and wondered if it was the same song as 'Out of Love'... ah, just looked on Manship and it's a repro, with Brothers of Soul on the other side

Wu Tang Clan had already used that back in 93 (the bassline a couple of bars before the bass/keyboards bit Dre used) together with a Gladys Knight sample for their 'Can It All Be So Simple' you know it's Chas and Dave playing bass and piano on that Labi Siffre LP, back in their session muso days? Rare Pleasure sample was David Morales, title was something like 'Needin' You' i think...

as far as i know: King 5342 - I'm Shakin' / Cottage For Sale – 1960 <-- w/out drums King 5823 - Person To Person / I'm Shakin' – 1963 <-- w/ drums of course you're quite right, the drums could well have been on a mix at the time, and weren't deliberately added for the later release, just the wrong tape was used (seemed to happen occasionally) maybe some early numbered copies have the drums too?

if it's the version i'm thinking of then that later Pama issue is an alternative JA-recorded version, and clearly a different group. the original version had a JA release on Sir JJ's, so it would have been known over there... The Mohawks of course were just a bunch of session musicians who were recording KPM LPs (Big Beat 1 & 2? not a library expert) when asked to do an LP of similar material for the Palmers, the sleeve notes about 'Morris Hawk' or whatever are totally made-up... just seen this Champ clip from the KPM All Stars gig back in 2006:

the later one (although given the earlier catalogue number in the sleeve notes)

you just missed one on Ebay for $8... it's gone to a good home though

think also had at least two JA issues, under the correct artist/title - Roland Alphonso & The Soul Brothers - Dr Ring Ding. 60s issue plus a 70s one, with a roots track on the other side (it's a cover of Twine Time if anyone hasn't heard it)

'13 Smash Hits' ('Fever Zone' in the US i think...?) is the one that's half soul covers. also can add 'Looking Out My Window' and 'Hide and Seek' to your list, although more on the funk/60s side of things... and he does an alright version of 'Right Place Wrong Time' on one of his 70s LPs... also Hard to Handle and a few others... really good version of Chills and Fever, with some excellent crowd shots:

am i a bad person for trimming these flat so they'll fit in cardboard sleeves...? (but at least i don't push out the middles!)

not quite inherited, but later on he got/bought the DJ Paul Murphy's collection AFAIK https://www.discogs.com/artist/Paul+Murphy

but what was it listed for - or is it a secret? i have no idea of the price of this one

the records brought over cheaply in big lots were already bought in the US as cut-outs with the drill hole/cut corner - they'd gone back to the distributor's warehouse unsold from shops (in the days of sale or return) drill hole/cut-out stuff was also sold in the US - it just went back to the shops as non-returnable bargain bin stuff as mentioned earlier in the thread re: the ballast thing - was cross-Atlantic shipping was containerised by the 70s? imagine the ballast thing is a myth, but they may have waited to get cheap shipping prices on ships short of cargo

what did the Clarence Hill go for?

he'd had biggish hits in the 60s with Indiana Wants Me and Gotta See Jane - in fact aren't one or both of those tracks on the Motown Chartbusters LP? MFP was EMI's budget label, and were just chucking stuff out there that they had the rights to - in this case hoping people would remember a hit or two (would only have been 5 or so years earlier) and buy the compilation LP since it was cheap. tapes sitting in the archive aren't generating revenue, so there was plenty of this kind of activity going on at the time, to get money from old material, often using contemporary photos of the artists to add to the confusion...

you can zoom in on a Word document you know...

oh yeah, i know it happens all the time, but when it's such a famous song as that you think someone involved would say "hold on a minute!"

just noticed on the scan that they pinched the writing credits for Dust My Broom! cheeky bastards... don't think it's a great version anyway, bit of a plodder