Pete S

Just found this again - well worth a listen! This is a Jamaican record but it had the same effect on me as my northern favourites did when I first heard them..I was just blown away by this. And I'll tell you why. This guys voice is fantastic, it always is/was, but it's the incessant one note played by the baritone sax and that fantastic guitar playing the background which plays a really melancholy tune towards the end of each verse. No doubt every one will disagree but I think this qualifies as a soul record.

Just back a bit to the first post, I used to have a Little Milton version, it was on a UK Stax blues compilation.

If anyone else is into this stuff I have a treat for you. For details please send me a PM, thanks.

Thanks guys, yeah it's in my account then current status.

Can anyone tell me how you find out what your ebay charges have been for listing and selling a particular item please? thanks pete

Because it sounds like it's sung and performed by inmates of a mental hospital. And it's shit.

Real world price £250. Had 3 of these but never had a UK issue. Seen one though. These all jump in the middle by the way, US copy doesn't jump.

I have to disagree, Geoff Metalikos version is an unlistenable turd of a record, shocking in it's atrocity. And it's the original version

No.

It's all those three. And it's dramatic! Absolutely fantastic record.

It's Michael Dekoningh mate, I know him pretty well...in fact I just bought £600 worth of Island 45's off him last week and it was also him I got the "Jet 707" from the week before. Blazing Fire is only worth about £15 even in great condition but there is a weird variation, they must have kept pressing it through 1964 so as well as the original white island label, I've also got it on red and white. Reggaematic Sounds, about £60. Prince Buster £25. Very very hard to sell the Byron Lee lp's, presumably because they are mostly cover versions.

Craig, you either get it or you don't with this stuff, there doesn't seem to be a dividing line. Just listen to that rolling bass...fantastic! I have no sympathy for anyone parking on double yellow lines in MY village, they are usually lazy bastards who want to get nearer the chip shop or the cash machine, but I am shocked that you got a ticket because as far as I know, we have no police here!

I nearly fell off my chair when I heard this for the first time which was about 3 minutes ago - a rocksteady version of Jeanette Williams - All Of A Sudden - and it's great! But where on earth would they have picked that up from?? It's by Carl Dawkins by the way, well worth a listen.

Where is he based Rod, UK or US? Club Ska 67 is a great album, an essential! There was actually a volume 2 which is pretty rare, I'vr only seen it for sale twice in the last few years, ditto the one that came out the following year, Club Rock Steady 68. I've had that twice but never in great condition.

There's 3 volumes of that, one has Barbara McNair on, and the third is very very rare...the one with the cars on is pretty easy to find. Motown Memories I think they are called.

BENNY SPELLMAN - THIS IS FOR YOU MY LOVE - ALON EX £100 CHARLES WRIGHT - KEEP SAYING - PHILIPS DJ EX £20 CHESTER ST ANTHONY - TOGETHER - A&M DJ EX £50 TASHA THOMAS - I SAW THE SKY - ROULETTE DJ EX £50 JOHN LEES GROUNDHOGS - I'LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN - PLANET EX £50 BYRON LEE - THE RECORD - SOUL EX £25 THE TOYS - MAY MY HEART - STATESIDE DJ EX £20 MITCH RYDER - LITTLE LATIN LUPE LU - STATESIDE DJ EX £15 MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS - LIVE WIRE - STATESIDE DJ EX- £50 GARNET MIMMS - THINKIN - UA DJ EX £25 JAMES BROWN - PRISONER OF LOVE - LONDON DJ EX £15 MARION RYAN - BETTER USE YOUR HEAD - PHILIPS EX £30

Damn I've got that one as well (Stop Making Love - sam etune as Same Old Song) but I'll still come round and kick you anyway if you like. I bought this last night...£128...see what I mean...

Sid I already have those I'm afraid, but thanks a lot for offering. I now have about 150 of the releases so it's going ok. Some of the 3000 series, that's late 66 to 68, are as hard to find as things like Rufus Lumley on Stateside...at least I've had 3 or 4 copies of that one!

The pink was not booted. The only real original is the white demo, the pink ones were pressed up due to demand from the UK. The white demo was booted but has Sterling Sound scratched in instead of stamped and the sound quality is poor. Not poor enough to drown out this apalling cacophony though

Without listening I think it fades out just before the second chorus.

That was on Play It Loud and also Sladest I think. Might be wrong.

It diodn't get banned mate, it was withdrawn by Kubrick who allowed it be screened in every other country except the Uk in anger at what he thought was terrible treatment from the UK press. A film and a half, but way more potent when you could only watch it on a 3rd generation pirate copy

I used to love T.Rex as well. I did a compilation CD the other day of all the singles from Ride A White Swan to New York City and the loss in quality as they progress is unbelievable, the writing was on the wall when Truck On Tyke came out, awful single, what does anyone else think? In fact I bought the revamped Born To Boogie film last year, made me wish I had Slade In Flame...then I realised I had got Slade In Flame, so I watched that instead.

As far as I'm concerned, this is the rarest of all UK soul records. I'd pay a thousand if I had the money. I've been in the fortunate position to have the vocal and the instrumental in my hands at the same time, courtesy of Mick Smith, and you just cannot tell the difference by looking at them, maybe the run off on one was a millimetre shorter than the other but everything else is identical including the matrix and stamper numbers. Mick told me he got his copy many years ago from some ruffian kid selling records out of an old pram at Portobello market. There's an urban myth that the version with the instrumental on is part of a 3 track single but that's rubbish. Anyway I'm going to bid £500 on this so if any of you beat me on it I'll set both the dogs and the baby on you

That was also my first LP! The first LP I bought with my own money was Reggae Chartbusters, the original 1969 one on trojan. I can still remember the thrill of finding that on the rack in beatties store, 99p it was.