Pete S

Thought this was about RCA beat ballads, HB Barnum?

Well I got to work at 8 in the morning so must have been about 6am!

My lovely trainers, the toes curled up like a pair of Persian slippers

Duncan, it's the same backing as The Groovers - I'm A Bashful Guy . Both brilliant tracks.

I wouldn't go as far as my back garden nowadays but I remember back in 77/78 when we used to go to the alldayers at Tiffanies, Newcastle Under Lyme, we'd usually manage to blag a lift back home as the trains had stopped running by then, but this time we couldn't get one, so we walked the 40 miles back to Wombourne, other side of Wolverhampton, nobody stopped to give is a ride. Amazing what you can do when you're 17.

Just wanted to say thanks for these in public, without a doubt the best selection of records I've ever bought off Soul Source. The gradings were spot on and every record was perfect. And the prices...amazing. I wish I could afford to keep them all!

People must be sick of this now, so just for more recent members, I'll relive it again Here's an absolute disaster story from start to finish. I bought The Chandlers on Colsoul from the States, it cost about £215 I think, I thought I could make £100 profit on it...anyway, the bloke I bought it off put the value on it at $300, so our lovely customs officers charged me £54 tax. Anyway they don't bother delivering these, you have to ring them up to arrange a later delivery or a pick up. The parcelforce office is in Atcham just outside Shrewsbury which is about 25 miles away from me, but I thought it might be a nice ride out, and I could pick up a couple of italian job deep pan pizzas from Telford (the only place they do them round here) on the way. So it starts snowing just as I set off. I decide to get petrol and cash at the same time so I don't bother going to the only service station on the way, and I get into Telford, park outside Deep pan Pizza and go off to order. Deep pan Pizza doesn't open for another 3 hours So then I get back on the motorway and take the turn of for Atcham. I go 5 miles past the business park where I am meant to go, and end up in Shewsbury. I turn round and eventually find the place, hand over the money and take my record. By now it is pouring down with rain and sleet. I get on the motorway where I got off, and travel around 500 yards before the engine cuts out and I run out of petrol. So I have to leave the warning indicators flashing, and attempt to climb 30 feet up this grassy bank, in the pouring rain, and I don't have a coat, just a jumper. After about 10 minutes of one step forward two steps back comedy climbing, I get to the top of the bank, and there is a fence about 5 foot high with barbred wire on the top. Beyond that is a field, and a road. So I manage to get on top of the fence, get my balance, and leap off into the field, landing brilliantly flat footed in the mud and letting out a high pitched scream of pain. I make it to the road and find a yokel, he says there's a garage about a mile down the road, so I run all the way to the garage. Why didn't I phone for help I hear you say? Because my phone had run out of credit and I could not work out how to dial up and get more! I bought an empty petrol can and filled it up, and some kind soul overheard my plight, and asked me where I'd broken down. By the bridge I said. I meant a footbridge. he took me 2 miles back down the wrong way to the motorway bridge. I had to tell him we'd gone in the wrong direction, and after he dropped me off, he had to go miles out of his way to get off the motorway! OK so far so bad. I poured the petrol into the tank, and spilled half of it on me, so when I finally got home, I put all my clothes in the wash and that included my favourite pair of shoes which are Vans, I had them imported as they stopped making that style about 5 years back. When the washing was done, the rubber soles were intact but the canvas had shrunk about 2 sizes so to get them on I would have had to cut my toes off. By now I was feeling a strange pain in my ankle. Finally I got to open up the package and get my hands on the Chandlers record. It was fucked. I saw straight away I was going to lose money on it. As the last few days have progressed, my ankle has got bigger and bigger to the point where I went to the doctors yesterday to report that I had contracted elephantisis in one leg. She said I'd sprained my ankle. Today I sold the Chandlers for £200, losing nearly £70 on the deal. I heard it tell me to piss off as I posted it. I sit here, a lone, hobbledyhoy figure, unable to get down the stairs because my ankle hurts so much...and it's all down to those damn Chandlers

On that well known RCA subsidiary label MGM

Brilliant record that, came out on a UK EP!

77 not 76. Was there, having our nights ruined.

Found it, it sold for £15 in 2007!

I sold one a few years back on here, can't remember how much it was but it was at least £150 I think, must be 6 years back

Not sure, shortest one I've ever uploaded is about 9 minutes but I can understand why they don't allow single tracks, it'd be chaos.

Thats an absolutely valid point.

78 only players? What, from the 40's?

Just can't understand why this even exists as a 78, six years after most countries stopped making them.

I think Tony Rounce discovered this.

We don't have to agree mate, it's just opinions, I have the vice-versa view of yours that's all

I just feel a bit sorry for people who get told that a certain version is the most sought after by a record dealers sales talk, believe it and then pay way over the odds for an inferior version when they could get the better version a lot cheaper. When people realised they got the double tracked version they usually tried to move it on as quickly as possible.

Saw a demo yesterday, thought it was quite nice, but as you say, issue super-common, never came anywhere near being booted. Always wondered why the middle eight of this was nicked off Lou Christie's Lightning Strikes!

More fool the buyer!

The second one just lacks the 'oomph' of the other one, for me anyway

These things find their level, as I said many years ago when this topic started, the price is false and inflated, and that double track drum roll version is really poor compared to the other version.

The tune of that Chambers Brothers record sounds just like "Man Oh Man".