Pete S

That's interesting, I remember the first one of these turning up in the 70's, I think it was on a JM list and it sold for - well not much, a tenner or something - then one was printed on the cover of an issue of Shades Of Soul back in the 80's. Not seen it again until this one turned up on ebay. So you reckon they had the test pressings done for the bootleg?

Nah this was an issue but it did look knackered. I sold an issue for I think it was £125 about 18 months ago.

Think you got two bands mixed up there Tony. Think it was Phase Three who did First Shot. Alpaca Phase Three did I Like To Party. Now thats a record I haven't heard for 30 years

I think he's just used ebay selling prices anyway so it's hardly going to be accurate

An American based soul price guide... https://cgi.ebay.com/FOSMANS-NEW-2008-PRICE...bayphotohosting

Reg what you've written above is utter rubbish and is not what happened. I made you an offer, you said you'd think about, the next day you upped the price so the message I left with your wife that I was NOT INTERESTED but if you chose to sell them for my original offer, you can always ring me. I hear nothing else til YOU leave a message on MY answerphone telling me you want to sell them again for what I offered in the first place. You said another party - soulmine - had been in touch but they hadn't got back to you which is why you were accepting my offer, you also told me you needed the records to play out on the forthcoming friday and could we do it on the following saturday, I said yes because it'll give me the week to get the money finalised. Now you tell me which bit of all of that is untrue. n.b. I often sell pieces out of my reggae collection 'to make ends meet' - this time I sold a massive chunk of my rarest ones solely to help finance this deal. p.s. just to jog your memory further on the conversation we had on the saturday when we agreed this sale, you asked me if you could keep 3 records back that you wanted to frame, one of them being a Major Lance columbia demo that you'd bought that week from either Will Johnson or Soulmine. Now why the hell would I make that up?

Ah those were the days - I used to get so much stuff then though, I mean really good stuff, mainly off Nancy and Chris Johnson in the States. Plus of course, I could afford to buy them in those days! Sh8t, sorry to hijack your thread Mark. Someone buy Vince Apollo, it's brilliant old style Northern.

I thought it had gone up to about £125! No offence Mark. Like Simon, I was selling them at £25 a few years back, I had a dozen or so.

I remember that Gene. But this isn't a publishers acetate like yours was, it's a straight Decca acetate - there's no publishing info on the label at all.

It's all down to Johnny Brantley. John Anderson said that he got numerous versions of Love Slipped - five or six - from Brantley but the rest have disappeared. Of course, he gave Richard "Herman Hitson"'s version to play at the Casino (I've posted it up on here before) p.s. this will teach me not to read the whole thread before replying

You'll be glad you asked me and not someone else then ... who may not have told you the truth!!! They are out there

I'll just take me comission on the Connie Clark then

Yeah I've got the demo too - never seen an issue either but there's bound to be one I reckon. Books at 150 issue 85 demo, I'd ask 50/60 for the demo but I'd want more for the acetate

Steve here is another UK Decca acetate I found on popsike, note the name Trevor again

I just know that that is what UK Decca acetates look like Steve - plus the fact that it's the same cutter as did another one I had from Advision Studios in London - I'm sure there's a scan of it up on here somewhere, I'll try and find it. What's astonishing is that nobody bid against me on ebay - either nobody spotted it, didn't know it or just wasn't interested in it.

By the way, where it says "Trevor" on the label - this guy must have been a regular disc cutter because I had an Advision acetate of "I can't turn you loose" and his name was on there as well.

Hang on a sec Kev and I'll post it up. Yes it will be for sale.

You'll see it listed for 30, 40 quid but it's really common on both labels - I'd sell it you for 20 if I had one

but actually - the Eddie Daye is the UK repress

Bit of a mystery this one. The record came out on RCA in the States, in the UK RCA was distributed by Decca at the time, which explains the Decca test pressing label, but as far as I know, this record never actually came out in the UK - unless it's undocumented. It's not a publishers acetate either. If anyone hasn't heard it - it's a brilliant female group midtempo sound. (sound clip a few posts down)

Just going back to the original subject of the Frank Furter record, the only ones for sale are the two out now on John Manships and Soul45 heaven but the group name just sounds weird thats what is putting people off ..I have NEVER seen one for sale before. The reason I asked in the first place is because a friend of mine has a copy to sell and wanted me to find out about it if possible.

Correction, it's male with a girl chorus - but they sound like a black group to me. Sound file in 5 mins.

No, it's girls, definitely - or maybe I'm just hearing a girly chorus. Definitely on Uptown though, last release on the label, had it a couple of times and always liked it. I@m sure I put it on a cd compilation I did years ago, I'll see if I can find it.

How did it suddenly become £500? The strange world of northern soul...

There's a great record called "Imitation of life" on Uptown, probably the same one you mean? but it's actually by a girl group and is brilliant. Can't remember the name of the artists, sorry. JUst remembered - The Groove Stick