Pete S

They probably fear losing the item in the post.

The fact that this guy is telling a singer how to sing? See comments below the clip.

Same here, though I usually ended up in some sort of trouble.. Often a nice crowd of skinheads to offer help and advice on leaving the place too. Stafford Top Of The World had some good alldayers in 79 on alternate weeks to the Locarno, unfortunately I was arrested twice by the DS and decided it was probably not the best place for me to go after that.

All of the records were hits in 75 so more likely to be late 75? (24 Hours A Day was 1976 - what a fantastic record that is)

Yes it's the second of those two Paul.

They were all demos Ian. You might have had an issue but everyone else had demos.

Difficult to say how rare this one is, when I first got one over 20 years ago, it had only been seen twice I think, but a few more have emerged since, I've had it three times but two were the same copy. With the first one, I had a CBS press release saying that the record was to be delayed by two weeks, and a second press release to say that the record was now not to be released at all and any copies should be returned.

The 'known' record on UPC was by a band called Tikki Tacki Suzy Lies! Can't remember the title, might have been Dream Stealer, but it was played at The Torch or the Cats from what I was told.

At one point I can remember 4 different record shops selling pressings in Wolverhampton. They went in the window displays. Most if not all came from Selectadisc. None were advertised as bootlegs, they were just called "new imports"

Different world to me then cos I bought almost every one that came out (1975-78), it was the only way to be able to afford the records most of the time, when you consider 50,000 people bought a pressing of Tainted Love thats an awful lot of people to take the p*ss out of!

Ask them if they do an airsure service to Japan before asking about international signed for - it's way more reliable

https://shop.ebay.co.uk/mayfairmenthol/m.html?_dmd=1&_ipg=50&_sop=12&_rdc=1 loads of 'em, some cracking stuff for sale, all buy it now

The EMI owned Columbia label had nothing to do with US Columbia or CBS, it just happened to license material from the US Columbia label. That's why the Major Lance releases on Columbia have nothing to do with the thread! That's all. Still like to see the scans!

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Wayne Gibson was a UK production, nothing to do with any US label: like I said, the Major Lance recordings were licensed to UK Columbia and the topic is UK CBS, which is why I mentioned it, no Major Lance Okeh recordings came out on UK CBS in the 60's.

The reason this story still has some credibility is because of The Volumes 45's appearance in "The New Singles", a fold out brochure that came out every week listing all of that weeks new releases, I used to have hundreds of these when working for Music Master and it definitely appears in that publication, but the information would have been provided weeks before publication and of course record companies change their minds. If it exists, there's a possibility it might have appeared on a "pre", a white label advance press, however I don't think Pama produced these for their soul releases.

Those Columbia's have nothing to do with UK CBS, up until 66 US Columbia appeared on UK Columbia, very confusing, then it switched to UK CBS.

Superb as usual mate but this time I actually knew 90% of those! Looking forward to the Direction label to see if you have a copy of the best release on the label: Mickey Finn - Garden Of My Mind!

I've had two of those in the last 18 months and nobody, but nobody was interested, despite it being extremely rare; maybe it's just a record that's gone out of fashion. I think the swecond one came from the same source as yours!

There was a nice Wand copy on ebay about a year ago, I kept looking at it then thought nah, not worth bothering with, not realising I'd never seen it before; it went for a low price, maybe $30. Might not be on popsike but I can guarantee 100% it was there.

PETE SMITH 4 BLAKELEY HEATH DRIVE WOMBOURNE WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 0HW 01902 326306 Pete.smith@freeuk.com HERES A COLLECTION OF EARLY SKA AND JAMAICAN R & B 45s FOR SALE. THESE COME FROM THE VERY EARLY YEARS 1962-63 MAINLY, AND ARE IN TYPICAL USED REGGAE CONDITION; KEPT WITHOUT SLEEVES MAINLY SO THEY ALL GOOD TO VG+, MOST CRACKLE IS AT THE START THEN THEY GET BETTER AS THEY GO ALONG. BOOK WISE THERES OVER £600 WORTH HERE, SO A NICE LITTLE STARTER COLLECTION FOR SOMEONE. *** DO NOT EXPECT MINT CONDITION RECORDS *** BLUE BEAT 17 ALTON & EDDY MURIEL / CLUE J & HIS BLUES BLASTERS SILKY 36 THE JIVING JUNIORS OVER THE RIVER / HIP RUB 67 CLANCY ECCLES FREEDOME / MORE PROOF 86 ERROL DIXON BAD BAD WOMAN / EARLY THIS MORNING 94 DERRICK MORGAN & YVONNE MEEKLY WAIT / DAY IN AND DAY OUT 128 ERIC MORRIS OVER THE HILLS / LAZY WOMAN 129 BASIL GABBISON OUR MELODY / GOING BACK TO J.A. 130 DERRICK MORGAN SHOULD BE ASHAMED / MARJORIE 144 BUSTY & COOL MR. POLICEMAN / WHAT A WORLD 150 PRINCE BUSTER RUN MAN RUN / DANNY, DANE AND LORRAINE 158 PRINCE BUSTER ENJOY YOURSELF / OPEN UP BARTENDER 168 THE SCHOOLGIRLS LOVE ANOTHER LOVE / LITTLE KEITHIE 197 PRINCE BUSTER WINDOW SHOPPING / SODOM AND GOMORROAH ISLAND 048 OWEN GRAY I CANT GO ON / IM STILL WAITING 055 DERRICK & PATSY SEA WAVE / LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP 063 SHENLEY DUFFUS FRET MAN, FRET / DOREEN 072 TOP GRANT RIVERBANK COBBERLEY / NANCY 087 RANSFORD BARNETT (as KING EDWARDS) SKIES ARE GREY / HEY GIRL 093 SHENLEY DUFFUS WHAT A DISASTER / I AM RICH 109 RICHARDS BROTHERS I SHALL WEAR A CROWN / BABA BROOKS ROBIN HOOD 194 JUSTIN HINES & THE DOMINOES RUB UP PUSH UP / THE ARK * I'LL CHUCK IN A COUPLE OF SINGLES ON THE UK KALYPSO LABEL INCLUDING LAUREL AITKEN "AITKENS BOOGIE" WHICH IS RARE 22 SINGLES FOR £150 INCLUDING POSTAGE IN THE UK. THATS APPROX 6.25 A RECORD AND THE PRINCE BUSTER ENJOY YOURSELF ALONE HAS SOLD FOR £90 IN THE PAST. ILL CLEAN EVERY RECORD UP BEFORE POSTING I CLEANED THE PRINCE BUSTER UP FROM GOOD TO VG+ ALREADY.

I wrote that article for an unpublished book that Goldmine were going to put out. Completely forgot about it until now!

Back with another selection of mainly Ska and Rocksteady this time, with a couple of early Reggae tunes in the mix somewhere! All dubbed from 45's, sorry about any surface noise, but that's the way I like 'em, lovely old vinyl! https://podcastmachine.com/podcasts/4425/episodes/40897 https://www.mixcloud.com/mayfairmenthol/on-the-right-track/ VIC TAYLOR - MY HEARTACHES - TROJAN * ALTON ELLIS - MAD, MAD - STUDIO ONE * THE SKATALITES - TRIBUTE TO NEHRU - RANDYS * THE PIONEERS - THE REGGAE BEAT - BLUE CAT * ERROL DUNKLEY - THE SCORCHER - AMALGAMATED * PHYLLIS DILLON - WOMAN OF THE GHETTO - TREASURE ISLE * THE CRYSTALITES - CHILDREN VERSION - TRANQULITY * STRANGER & KEN - ARTIBELLA - STUDIO ONE * DESMOND DEKKER - KEEP A COOL HEAD - BEVERLYS * THE JAMAICANS - THINGS YOU SAY YOU LOVE - TROJAN * THE SKATALITES - MISS SKA-CULATION - BLANK * THE INSPIRATIONS - LOVE OH LOVE - CAMEL * THE SOUL BROS - TRAIN TO SKAVILLE - SKA BEAT * PHYLLIS & HOPETON - THE RIGHT TRACK - TREASURE ISLE * RUPIE EDWARDS - EXCLUSIVELY YOURS - CRAB * WINSTON BLAKE - BIG THING - CRAB * THE BASIES - EASE UP - COXSONE * PAT KELLY - SOULFUL LOVE - PUNCH * BUSTERS ALL STARS - JET 707 - BLUE BEAT * RAYMOND HARPER - AFRICAN BLOOD - BLUE BEAT * THE GAYLADS - IF YOU KNEW - STUDIO ONE * BOB ANDY - STAY IN MY LONELY ARMS - RIO * THE SKATALITES - BLACK JOE - RANDYS * SOUL BROTHERS - LONG AND SHORT - STUDIO ONE * DERRICK MORGAN - GREEDY GAL - PYRAMID * THE WAILERS - HOOLIGANS - ISLAND * THE MELODIANS - COME ON LITTLE GIRL - TREASURE ISLE * CLANCY ECCLES - WHAT WILL YOUR MAMA SAY - PAMA *

John how do you get the html to work on your ebay adverts, I try it but it all ends up a jumbled mess, yours manages to keep the spaces and formatting intact??

Thank you Sir