Pete S

If it had an MR stamp it was a bootleg!

The gift thing doesn't always work, either that or they've changed it, I got charged 3 quid for sending 50 quid last week, they gave the option of me or the other guy paying for it

I do like that one - just not Psychedelic Shack / Cloud Nine type things

Blimey I was actually expected a load of flak for saying that!

I can't stand any of those Temptations records they did with Norman Whitfield - psychedelic funk rubbish.

PETE SMITH 28 JENKS ROAD WOMBOURNE WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 0BL 01902 893569 07784 507360 Pete.smith@freeuk.com THE SPLENDORS - PLEASE DON'T GO - KARATE DEMO EX 60 THE WANDERERS - SOMEBODY ELSE'S SWEETHEART - CUB EX- 30 THE SHUFFLERS - ALWAYS BE MINE - CRACKERJACK EX 175 Books at 300 THE VISITORS - NEVER THE LESS - TRC DEMO VG++ 35 THE FOUR SHELLS - REPUTATION - VOLT DEMO EX 20 Nice forgotten oldie EDWARD HAMILTON - BABY DON'T YOU WEEP - MARY JANE EX 250 Bit surprised this hasn't gone yet LEA ROBERTS - DON'T LET ME FALL IN LOVE ALONE - UNITED ARTISTS EX- 15 One of Ian Levine's tips, nice early 70's dancer GENE McDANIELS - WALK WITH A WINNER - LIBERTY DEMO EX- 50 Looks a little used but plays great SPYDER TURNER - I'VE GOT TO GET MYSELF TOGETHER - GOOD TIME EX- 275 BARBARA MASON - AIN'T GOT NOBODY - ARCTIC EX 30 VIOLA WILLS - TOGETHER FOREVER - BRONCO M 20 ROCK CANDY - ALONE WITH NO LOVE - DONTEE WHITE DEMO EX- 100 Very rare white demo of this brilliant tune - it has some tiny crackle in parts which is why I've given it a minus grade, I think most would have graded it as EX THE DOLLS - THE REASON WHY - LOMA DEMO M- 40 Truly one of the greatest girl group dancers of all time EMILE GRIFFITH - GOIN GOIN GONE - TANGERINE ISSUE EX 45 This is exactly the same record as The Determinations - You Can't Hold On To Love - Important. Has some weird marks on the vinyl but they don't sound. THE NOVAS NINE - PAIN - ABC DEMO EX 30 Very fast dancer which is getting played around this area PAYMENT: BY CARD, PAYPAL, CHEQUE, BANK TRANSFER, CASH POSTAGE: £1.70 FIRST 3 RECORDS 10p EACH AFTER OVERSEAS - SAME PAYPAL ADDRESS IS SAME AS MY EMAIL

Mossy, you can check this if you like, I sold Timi Yuro on here, this year, for £400, I bought it for £250. VG+. I don't rate it as a top end rarity, it's just had the price pushed up by morons. Great record mind. Glen Miller was a big record 7 or 8 years ago, that was when it peaked, if it's going up in price now it's because some people are only just catching up with it. And let's face it - Timi Yuro beats it into a cocked hat, quality wise.

£50 - £60 purple, £100 pink

If the UK Doctor Bird is worth £1200 then it's time for me to hang up my collecting boots I think. Now I sold a MINT Patsy - Blues In The Night last month for £300 and I rate that as being tougher than Glen Miller. Having said that, I'd ask maybe £450 for mint Glen Miller should it ever turn up. £1200, that makes it the rarest UK 'soul' record, and frankly that's just nonsense Dave.

I'll have the Jackie Deshannon when you reduce it to 40

Nah don't worry about it

Popsike is very hit and miss, it can't be used as an accurate guide, I've sold records for hundreds of pounds and they've never shown up on there

Vince if you don't find one I'm almost certain I've got one, you can have it for nothing

I only had that one Marc, it was, as Ted said, Mick Smith's

And that sends them the message?

Anyone know? Sometimes I get an email from someone I've paid for a record, and it says something along the lines of "your item has been despatched", does anyone know how they do this, is it set up automatically?

This is doing my head in now, I've definitely seen this with a Stag design, it was a white label with black printing and it did indeed feature a picture of a stag and the typeface was like the Jamaican Trojan label.

Slight problem, well two slight problems here; Lynn Taitt played on about 5000 Jamaican recordings and, Glen Miller recorded a couple of hundred sides!

I paid 120 quid for my latest Doctor Bird copy just 2 months ago off D The Drug, nice of him wasn't it, no centre but better than my last one!

That Darrell Banks Stateside demo is cheap, I'd snap it up if I hadn't got the red and white!

Yeah I guess you're right - it was years before I saw a copy.

Maybe, but the second print run never appeared because he defaulted on payment on the first or something like that - and the fact I've twice sold my copies of this book for over £50 must say something about it's availability, I fluked the first one off a Motown collector and paid £40 for the second off ebay.

Sorry but thats only part true, Soussans book was a very limited publication and most didn't get distributed, his book was made up mainly from a Koppell wants list anyway - when ebay started I and a few others were in clover, it was only around 2001-2002 that everyone seemed to join ebay and then of course everyone was after the same records. Once the price guide was out, we'd had it. Don't forget you could get great records out of Discoveries up until the price guide came out as well. Let's put it another way - that price guide has almost put me out of business, so I'm f*cked if I'm going to praise it, not that I don't use it, it's great for b sides and catalogue numbers but to give all that information out, it's like selling your soul. nb John told me he only put his out because Tim Brown was going to do it anyway. This isn't about John or Tim Brown, it's about the existance of a price guide, wouldn't matter if it was Rod Hull and Emu who put it out, the damage was done.

All except one...