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PETE SMITH 01902 326306 pete.smith@freeuk.com Some great originals here folks. My EX grade is most people’s M- so buy with confidence. I don’t use a Mint grade, sometimes I will use a Near Mint if it looks unplayed or new. Johnny Gilliam 'Room Full Of Tears' (Cancer) EX 250 SOLD An absolute classic from the Stafford era and beyond, barely played copy Bobby Sheen 'Dr. Love' (Capitol) VG+ 75 First of all, it’s a definite original. Secondly, it looks a bit rough. Dr. Love side has label damage from being stuck to another record by the looks of it. Now the good news. Both sides play great. Trust me. Sandy Wynns 'The Touch Of Venus' (Champion / promo) NM 100 SOLD Beautiful original white demo Otis Clay 'The Only Way Is Up' (Echo) EX 70 Right, like practically every copy, it has a little light noise in one channel, this fades out as the record gets going. Otherwise, near perfect. Emanuel Laskey 'I'd Rather Leave On My Feet' (DT) EX 180 Green label, fantastic copy of this 70’s dancer Claude Huey 'Why Would You Blow It' (Galaxy / DJ) EX 200 Fantastic copy, rarely turns up nowadays Willie Tee 'First Taste Of Hurt' (Gatur / green) NM 200 SOLD This is an unplayed / mint copy, seriously. Funky Funky Twist on B side Sissie Houston 'Don't Come Running To Me' (Kapp / demo) EX 75 Fantastic version, midtempo genius — A side label has some ageing spots, B side pure white Ernest Mosley 'Stuborn Heart' (La-Cindy) NM 40 This is the bootleg but if anyone wants to give me 40 quid for it.. John Bowie 'You're Gonna Miss A Good Thing' (Merben) EX 250 SOLD Classic, beautiful copy too The Charades 'I Don't Want To Lose You' (M-G-M) EX- 75 Rare black stock copy, only downgraded because it has some paper scuff type marks not affecting play. Drill hole in label. Ten times harder than the demo though. Fabulous Downbeats 'Life Goes On' (Poison Ring) EX 50 Brilliant oldie, perfect as a lesser known spin Garland Green 'Girl I Love You' (Revue) EX 100 With It Rained 40 Days And Nights on the flip. Both sides have small scuffs but both sides play like new. Has a name scratched in the run off. Towana & The Total Destruction 'Wear Your Natural, Baby' (Romark) NM 250 SOLD Blue label. Vinyl. Gorgeous. Help Me Get That Feelin’ Back Again on the other side, two for the price of one Shelia Ferguson 'Heartbroken Memories' (Swan) EX 120 SOLD Super uptempo dancer. Few small non sounding marks on vinyl but play grade is above EX. Small sticker mark on label and a small star sticker. Rare but underplayed. And so tough as a stock copy. Shep 'I'm Sitting In' (TNT / DJ) VG+ 70 Both sides have scuffs but not audible — apart from light crackle before record starts. Bit of ring wear to raised part of label but a nice white demo. Fool To Fool 100mph Northern, Sitting In top midtempo. I believe the vocalist is Mr. Sidney Barnes. Or is it Don Gardner. One of them anyway.. Bobby Sheen 'Something New To Do' (Warner Bros / promo) EX 100 SOLD Guaranteed original in lovely shape, still packing the floors, splendid white demo paypal is pete.smith@freeuk.com POSTAGE IS £2.50 FOR FIRST 3 RECORDS IN THE UK (RECORDED) SPECIAL DELIVERY IS RECOMMENDED FOR RARER ITEMS! COST £7.10 OVERSEAS WILL QUOTE BUT IT’S USUALLY £9 EUROPE AND £10 ELSEWHERE FOR REGISTERED POSTAGE. CHEERS PETE
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Cheers Ivor, I sold Johnny Gilliam for £250.
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Darrell Banks - Open The Door To Your Heart 2014 London
Pete S replied to a topic in Look At Your Box
Just out of interest, do you know who sold the two highest price auction records this year? I'll give you a clue. It was me. -
What Are The Top 3 Uk Holy Grails For Collecting
Pete S replied to Sheldonsoul's topic in All About the SOUL
I would LOL and Canned Heat -
What Are The Top 3 Uk Holy Grails For Collecting
Pete S replied to Sheldonsoul's topic in All About the SOUL
Yes but it can't, because that label design was never meant to have a white demo, if you see what I mean -
What Are The Top 3 Uk Holy Grails For Collecting
Pete S replied to Sheldonsoul's topic in All About the SOUL
Why would you? They'd stopped making red and white demos for two years when that came out. They'd even stopped green and whites. There is no demo, you might see one with a sticker on it or a date stamp. -
Darrell Banks - Open The Door To Your Heart 2014 London
Pete S replied to a topic in Look At Your Box
Yeah it's going to be real tough to sell this if JM can't be on the case for f*cks sake -
Revilot, Ric-Tic & Solid Hitbound Uk Pulishing Rights Etc
Pete S replied to Kegsy's topic in All About the SOUL
Weird Emidisc test press of Tony Simon I had a Debonaires "Headache" similar to this once, with custom labels -
Revilot, Ric-Tic & Solid Hitbound Uk Pulishing Rights Etc
Pete S replied to Kegsy's topic in All About the SOUL
You are correct mate. Thought Brenton Wood was 1968. -
The white ones are the issues. There's no demo / issue as far as I know.
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Revilot, Ric-Tic & Solid Hitbound Uk Pulishing Rights Etc
Pete S replied to Kegsy's topic in All About the SOUL
I can think of one Soul 45 they put out in 68, one that hardly anyone would even know of I guess, there was a UK cover version of Gimme Some Kind Of Sign, it's by Tony something, Tony Simon? It's terrible. I think, I did have it once upon a time. But no, no US sides I don't think. Al Kent was apparently withdrawn and is quite rare, much rarer than The Debonaires but not as expensive. -
Right. Now I was thinking way more for Johnny Gilliam, maybe £100 more, and I think I'd sell it. Otis Clay, it's like a swoosh noise as it starts. Going to try £100 on that. Laskey I will take the advice. Can't do my usual cut price bargains on these see...
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Revilot, Ric-Tic & Solid Hitbound Uk Pulishing Rights Etc
Pete S replied to Kegsy's topic in All About the SOUL
What about Shades Of Blue on Sue - another detroit one off UK issue -
Revilot, Ric-Tic & Solid Hitbound Uk Pulishing Rights Etc
Pete S replied to Kegsy's topic in All About the SOUL
They were still pressing it in 1971! -
Darrell Banks - Open The Door To Your Heart 2014 London
Pete S replied to a topic in Look At Your Box
That's who I was referring to mate, DJ'd with him once in Plymouth and his entire box was UK demos from that source, jammy sod -
Couple of prices needed please: Emanuel Laskey - I'd Rather Leave On My Feet - DT records (green label) superb condition Johnny Gilliam - Room Full Of tears - Cancer (ex) Otis Clay - The Only Way Is Up - Echo. This looks NM but it sounds like it has a little noise in the right hand channel. Willie Tee - First taste of hurt - Gatur (green label, Funky Twist on B side)
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Revilot, Ric-Tic & Solid Hitbound Uk Pulishing Rights Etc
Pete S replied to Kegsy's topic in All About the SOUL
Revilot isn't directly related to GW and RT though is it? -
Darrell Banks On Uk London - The Story So Far
Pete S replied to Pete S's topic in All About the SOUL
Steve, I put an extra bracket on the end of the address, should work now -
Darrell Banks On Uk London - The Story So Far
Pete S replied to Pete S's topic in All About the SOUL
I think the links to them are still in Nick's original topic, also on my facebook page and everyone elses round the world, and if you can click on the photos on my blog site, they will go to a larger size -
Revilot, Ric-Tic & Solid Hitbound Uk Pulishing Rights Etc
Pete S replied to Kegsy's topic in All About the SOUL
Kegsy, the Edwin originally came out before the Track label was up and running, so as it was a minor hit, maybe they got the option to take a few releases from Ric Tic / Golden World. Don't forget The Holidays also appeared on Polydor. -
Photos at https://lostvinylgemsofthe60s.blogspot.co.uk/ Ladies and Gentleman, you are looking at a piece of record collecting history, certainly the find of the century so far. Darrell's modest US hit was released by London on a yellow demo copy, but before the record could actually be released, they were hit by an injunction from EMI Records whose Stateside label had the rights to the tracks. So the demo was withdrawn (after maybe 300 copies got out) and the record came out two weeks later on Stateside. Picked up by the fledgling Rare Soul scene almost immediately, both sides have deservedly gone on to be regarded as major classics of the genre. So why is this particular record so special? Well, it was found by someone I only know as NickW and posted up on Soul Source on sunday night. Quality of the photograph was poor, and knowing that this didn't exist on a stock copy - not a single one discovered in 48 years - I was incredulous to say the least, and literally said I'd believe it when I see it. Not long after, Nick posted up these high quality scans, as well as close ups of the run off groove matrixes, and I said there and then that it was kosher and was indeed the first ever Darrell Banks issue to be discovered. I posted both sides up to Facebook, and within an hour it had, as some people might say, "gone viral". It was found in the collection of a an ex-Decca employee. Who knows, perhaps the day after he received this one, the order came through that the record was now not going to be released due to copyright problems, and all copies would have to be destroyed. Poor NickW has more or less had to go into hiding to escape hordes of mad bidders offering to take it off his hands. Nick appears to be a collector and he is contemplating keeping it. Good for him. In my opinion, this is the rarest record ever released in the UK. People may refer to Sex Pistols GSTQ on A & M, but we know that a couple of dozen copies of that were given away to staff at the time. This is - as yet - a one off. A Northern Soul collector with the financial backing might pay up to £10,000 for this. If I had the money I would easily pay £5000. But if NickW does decide to sell it, he shouldn't underestimate the London label collectors out there - they don't like demos, they just want the stock copies, and here is that elusive, one-off stock copy. If I was given the job of selling it - it would be going to Sotherbeys. This is a slice of 7" vinyl history. Now we know how Howard Carter must have felt when he entered that tomb back in 1922 and found it totally intact - this is UK label Northern Soul collecting's Tutankhamun moment. Let's hope there's not a curse on it!
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Darrell Banks - Open The Door To Your Heart 2014 London
Pete S replied to a topic in Look At Your Box
This was made in either Canada or USA I think, fantastic record too Gene. Only 2 years old, sounds like it was recorded in 1969. -
Darrell Banks - Open The Door To Your Heart 2014 London
Pete S replied to a topic in Look At Your Box
Also - this doesn't make any sense. The whole purpose of demo records is that they are advance copies, they would go out to the radio stations, press, tv shows etc before the stock copies were even pressed, so that they could make it onto their playlists by the time the record was actually released. Otherwise - why even bother making them? -
Darrell Banks - Open The Door To Your Heart 2014 London
Pete S replied to a topic in Look At Your Box
You should see what came out of Radio Birmingham; all demos, someone on here has hundreds of them, or did do -
Darrell Banks - Open The Door To Your Heart 2014 London
Pete S replied to a topic in Look At Your Box
You only have to see that footage of Tony Blackburn on the opening day of Radio One in 1967, his two singles on the decks are both demos - famous photo of Jimmy Saville holding up two demos at the first Top Of The Pops (bet they were Beatles). I think most of the BBC local stations had nothing but demos.