Pete S

The sound of silence....

he's replied in full if you look - in a separate post

You mean that sort-after rarity?

Can't find it in any of the discographies... https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Funk-brothers-Ghost-...1QQcmdZViewItem

If I can find it you can have mine, I've started chucking stuff away instead of keeping it so no doubt this would be going. I'll just keep my Top 500 book and Beatin Rhythms

THE WALL OF SOUND - HANG ON - TOWER DEMO VG+ 30 THE BURNING BUSH - KEEPS ON BURNING - MERCURY DEMO M- 150 SPYDER TURNER - I CAN'T MAKE IT ANYMORE - MGM DEMO VG+ 50 ROBIN WILSON - BETTER USE YOUR HEAD -A & M RARE STOCK COPY EX 40 LENNY WELCH - THE RIGHT TO CRY - KAPP DEMO VG++ 20 TONY WILLIAMS - HOW COME - PHILIPS DEMO VG++ 40 LONZINE CANNON - QUITE WHILE I'M AHEAD - PHILIPS ISSUE EX 125 DIDI NOEL - LET THE MUSIC PLAY - BLUE CAT DEMO VG+ 20 THE FABULOUS PEPS - WITH THESE EYES - WEE 3 EX 60 THE SWEET THREE - I WOULD IF I COULD - CAMEO DEMO (EAST COAST) M- 40 JOHN RHYS - NOTHING BUT LOVE - IMPACT DEMO M 30 FRANCES NERO - KEEP ON LOVIN' ME - SOUL EX 90 FIA KARIN - YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE YOUR INTEREST LIES - SPIN (AUSTRALIA) M- OFFS 01902 893569 Pete.smith@freeuk.com

You must have got my issue 3

Well they aren't alone there then, I subscribed to Rare Soul Review and only ever received 2 editions, and there are currently several angry Manifesto subscribers on the site

yeah that would have been kind of poetic justice I suppose after all the stick I've given that record

VOICES INCORPORATED - THINKIN' - COLUMBIA DEMO This is one of the best spins of the past 5 years and is currently massive...this copy is glossy but has one or two marks and the odd click so I'm grading it at a strong VG++, it'd make EX on a lot of lists. Plays great. £325 THE PARAKEETS - I WANT YOU RIGHT NOW - BIG TOP DEMO Again, a few marks and the odd pop/click so under half price at VG++ £50 OSCAR TOLBERT - I CAN'T HANDLE IT - CHI LAND SOUL This is in EX condition but I don't really know what it is to be honest or why it should book at £300...sounds crossover-ish to me. I'll take the best offer over £75.

As I said before, I think it's a great book but the comment that was attributed to me about Barbara Mcnair's "Your gonna love my baby" was made up. Not a hanging offence but if I was gonna be quoted I'd have liked it to have been about one of my favourite records.

1) UK MGM £20 (demo £40) 2) UK Pye - not sure about priuce nowadays, when I last sold it it was £60, rare on issue, brilliant Brit-stomper (though he was American)

yeah tell him he's banned from my house as well!

This is what the pressing looks like

I was highlighting the rather strange sales tactics not the person selling the item and of course it will be construed as a personal attack on them, when it isn't, so I'll say nothing.

I'm amazed at the tactics employed here...if this person doesn't know the difference between a pressing and an original despite being a dealer for years then there's something up...and it ends with the pretty insulting "it's not a fortune is it?" well yeah it is if you pay £49 for a £5 pressing. https://cgi.ebay.com/NORTHERN-SOUL-ROTATION...1QQcmdZViewItem

I had no idea about this, first time I've ever heard this story...thought it was the same vocalist. Amazing but obviously credible as Hendley was Diamond's best pal, according to the latters wife. Anyway, I prefer the "77" version..

Indeed! But to be honest, it was literally years later that I realised that the version on pink Breakthrough was not the one I'd heard at Wigan!

I hate it when people come round my house to look at records, which are always filed alphabetically by artist, and they play them and put them back in the sleeves upside down and back to front. Bastards.

You know what I mean though. It was released due to Northern demand and because they couldn't find the tapes of the 1st version, it's not like it was issued as a new release in 77 with the charts in mind.

The 70's version is fantastic, there's not a lot of difference anyway, but it ain't worth more than £15! At the end of the day it's a reissue and was/is available in the same quantities as any other 70's pressing.

They did loads of these test pressings Harry, I don't think they released it in the end but even so, still only worth a tenner

Must be true then

Not your record but this is what a proper World Artists 45 looks like below, and styrene/vinyl: styrene is brittle plastic and the label can be removed, vinyl is more flexible and the label is moulded in and can't be lifted.