Pete S

Nah fraid not. Obviously there are people who collect these 45's, if it had been This Heart Of MIne you'd have got a good price for it!

I put a snipe bid on JB & The Hawks - Combination Boogie, a reissue which I wanted for my jukebox, I meant to bid $36.66 but I actually bid $366.66, in the morning I'd won the record but at something like $275 because the other bidder thought it was an original! So I hade to grovel to the seller and tell him what has happened and he let me off buying it! I got one about 3 weeks later for $20 anyway. So I reckon in the last 10 years I have probably done between 4 and 6 thousand snipes and the amounts of disasters and failed bids are under 20.

Label owned by "Dickie Wong" - I've never heard of him. Active 74-76 according to RKR

It's just a straight Aussie issue of the UK Pye single Jeff. Astor issued product from loads of UK labels.

I don't think there is an answer to this question. There are so many unknown Jamaican records that the rarest may not have even be discovered yet. What about that Horace Faith record from 1962 I found about 2 months back and posted on here, I'm sure that was an unknown but it was fantastic. I once did a cd compilation of Jamaican soul tracks from my 45's but didn't make a note of the tracks, I've still got the cd but don't know what half the records are!

These are the only Jamaican records with cricket in the title (1960 to 1975) taken from RKR database Lord Tanamo Lord Tanamo and His Calypso Band Night Cricket JA 1960 7 R C A Dada Tewari Lord Tanamo Lord Tanamo and His Calypsonians Night Cricket USA 1960 7 R C A CR 60-301 Dada Tewari Count Zebra and Seasiders Cricket JA 1963 7 Pep Laurel Aitken West Indian Cricket Test UK 1964 7 J N A C JN 1-B Laurel Aitken Terry Nelson Cricket Excitement UK 1966 7 Halagala HG 7-A Tony Dee Cricket '76 UK 1975 7 Faith FA 023-A R Cake

UK or Jamaican?

I hope so too. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with it, it just seemed not quite right that's all, but if they love the music, fantastic.

It was just that a lot of what they were saying comes from "Northern Soul quotes for dummies", like a football managers after-match comments...sick as a parrot, over the moon, etc

Fontella Bass demo isn't rare, there was one on ebay last week for £15 which didn't sell.

I can't tell if they mean it or if they're acting. Seriously.

Yes it stays at no bids until your bid goes on - if thats what you're asking.

One of those Sheffield University rag singles features a version of Earl Van Dyke's "All For You". Or I might have dreamed that.

I started using that a year or two ago and the first few were ok then it failed twice so I never trusted it again.

Yes you are spot on, I was explaining this in another topic, I have a set price for more or less every record I bid on and unless it's exceptional, I never go over that figure, I win about 50% I would say but it does stop me getting in trouble.

The only reason I use a snipe program is simply so that I don't have to show my hand at all. If I was to bid £50 on the first day of the auction then someone who really wants the record just has to keep going until he overtakes my £50. But if I don't bid, he probably thinks he's going to win it for £45 and then with five seconds left, whoops there goes my £50 bid and I win it. And of course it also saves you having to physically be at your pc.

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People who don't use a sniper - do you still ride a penny farthing bike?

No it's actually a picture of yogi bear and it says "Yogi Bear Club" around the top in an arc

Oh how stupid of me. I didn't realise that there were different types of disco music. Shit and shittier by any chance?

I'm afraid you're mistaken. There are very few white sounds in 76-77. In fact the best music ever played there was in 76-77. In 78-79 there are loads of white sounds. 78 especially. 79-80 would be when it picked up, not 78-79.

Well said Spike, but note that elsewhere at the moment there is a topic entitled 'Disco' and half of them are creaming their y fronts describing how utterly fantastic disco was, me being one of the only dissenting voices saying it was utter sh*te and them telling me I know sod all about soul music.

That is definitely the correct sleeve / distributor Jules. I had a demo like this of Heather - I"ll Be Waiting (Hortense Ellis cover), with a proper King sleeve and the same stamps on the cover and the red A on the label.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/THE-BLACKSTONES-WILL-YOU-STILL-LOVE-ME-TOP-UNIQUES-NEXT-CUT-ON-ORIG-RHYTHM-/200853233941?pt=UK_Records&hash=item2ec3c92115 have a look at the composers on the scan of the record

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