Pete S

Same here, I've just had to go through all mine and save the ones I call my 'desert island discs' I ended up with 110 of them, put them in a box, meaning I'll be selling about 150 quality items next few weeks, or 250+ if I include all my red and white Island 45's.

I've noticed there are a lot of records like this starting to get more recognition mainly from the Soul collectors as the Soul dries up, because of course it's only that Reggae beat that stops this from being a soul record - the voice is fantastic.

That's true..

The Teardrops. I sold that a couple of years ago but it is the same recording as The Viceroys isn't it? Well that's how I described it anyway. I'll try and find out if there's another version of that Amalgamated 45, but it's very very confusing. Firstly, it's definitely Glen Adams not Ernest Wilson. And it also came out on UK Island at the same time as the Amalgamated 45. The Jamaican label was a short lived Bunny Lee thing called Soul Shot.

But Rod bought the record going by the photo of the record which looked like a UK pressed record but no detail of it could be seen except for the outline. I do think I would be able to tell the difference between a Jamaican record, which will always have a centre hole, and a UK one, which will either have a solid centre, a centre that can be pushed out, and one that has had the centre pushed out but the indents where the centre was can be seen.

I think it was one of those that only lasted a month to be honest.

Sorry I meant the really big stores, HMV etc. I also used to have to order records until smaller, specialist shops started opening.

That is exactly the point, all of these records that people disregard with utter contempt nowadays were part of our introduction to the scene back in the days when it was more about dancing than matrix numbers. I'm not going to sit here and say yeah The Present, The Poppies, Rain, I used to like them but now I've seen the error of my ways and I know I'm not supposed to like them now so I'll say they're rubbish. Sod that, I like what I like and if that makes me any lesser person than someone who likes rubbish like Dolly Gilmore than so be it.

Where are they going to retail them then?

But surely you could research that to find out what sort of music it is?

The Gas one is the one with strings. Best version.

All the records you mention (except Rodger Collins) were reissues of that period but they might not have been stocked in anything but the bigger stores and specialist shops, they were all on legitimate UK reissues and the shop owner would have been able to look them up in a book like Music Master to ascertain if they were deleted or not, and then order the records in, all the record shops had these books at the time.

Benji I sell a lot of records and I always get people trying it on, claiming this and claiming that so don't think I'm not on the sellers side, but if I had listed say a Dutch 45 on ebay and not mentioned it was Dutch, I would not be surprised if the customer complained.

Didn't the guy who sings on the A side, Robbie D, come on here a few years ago and explain about the record?

For Sale: 5th Dimension - Too Poor To Die - Super rare Swedish LIberty (looks just like UK issue but better!) with the bonus of having it's mega rare picture sleeve featuring a great shot of the band. Be quick, You won't see this one around for a while. £40, absolute bargain.

I totally disagree. The seller should have stated it was Swedish because if it's being sold on Ebay UK you would automatically expect it to be on UK Liberty. In fact it's very deceptive not to say so. Good sellers always put a full description of the item, if you bought a USA Kapp issue and it turned out to be a Canadian Kapp issue wouldn't you be upset? They both look identical except for the small print. And £15, £10, or £300 it doesn't matter, I've just received a record which cost me £10, it was described as VG, so I knew what to expect, except it has heat damage throughout and is warped, should I keep that?

Stunning in what sense Gord?

Never liked Enchantments much but this is a good oldie, stayed rare so not that many people play it surely?

Whats not to like about this apart from the artists name? Used to be played as Robert L Martin "Come and go with me"...great stuff

Price https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rainbow-People-Living-In-A-Dream-World-The-Walk-Will-Do-You-Good-Pye-Demo-/230915870786?pt=UK_Records&hash=item35c3a89042

Sure, if you will let me know one way or the other Paul

whoever posted this up got the title wrong

Might have been more Russ than Richard mate, not certain cos I only ever heard it Birmingham Locarno having stopped going to Wigan by that time

Bugger I forgot about this sorry Paul, I picked the record up yesterday, it's a mint West Coast issue and it's £60 and of course no worries if you are not interested!

Delaney Bramlett (UK Vocalion / USA GNP Crescendo) sounds horrendous nowadays