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Barbara Cooper - What's One More Tear - RCA promo Vinyl is ex and nice and shiny. Has edge warp which does not affect play. Straight £30 inc shipping and Paypal fees. Paypal only on this one thanks. PM or email: mistergodzilla@yahoo.com

Globaldog discog has the Tower issue of Wall of Sound as 1967. Would have thought Big Bird was the earlier? Tower Discography

He can't help it - he's just an old Lancashire crumbly

That's another 10 years for you, Trouble

My watch must be slow. By now there should have been a post saying "actually these were all played first at the Mecca in 1927"

I'm using Firefox on a Mac. The images show up just fine but something's making all the prices appear too expensive. Godz

Yup. Although I think Mikey was right about the Southbound orig having an unusually large run out, which could make someone suspicious. Perfectly ok though.

Absolutely acceptable at your age Mikey

One off popsike here. Not the best quality but you get the picture (ahem!)

Blue label with red writing and a pics of two women with an afros over a map.

oops - just looked at the label and it's not theirs. Sorry about that. Didn't know the Outsiders song was the same one though as i grew up with this one. Actually, listening now it sounds more like a sort of mod tune. Still like the sax organ solo though...

No, it's one of their own. I used to pick up Decca copies (flip of See See Rider) and sell them at Wigan. I think it was played at the Wheel, or maybe Pendulum as it was definitely known around the Manchester area. I'll see if I can knock a clip up before I start my essay. Might be a bit buzzy though as I haven't got my proper deck plugged in. Cheers

Pedantic - but correct

River Deep is a pretty messy guitar version and not very nice to my ears. Help Me Girl, however is a smashing song and a dancer. Probably my favourite Animals song to be honest, with some great interplay between organ and sax. I assume everyone knows it? Also came out on Decca, but tougher on MGM I should think. Especially so on a red demo with the cute lion cub. Not a clue pricewise though. Anybody help? Cheers Godz

If it's got a a crappy little trumpet parp after the guitar intro it's the lame "Justis" mix. If it has a big feck of drum roll it's the superior "Blackwell" mix. Technically speaking that is

Fair enough Pete, but some of the Northern Soul Fever sets were either dubbed from disc for the most part or were mastered by people who didn't have a clue. I compared like for like with some of my 45s at the time and the vinyl almost always sounded better. On some tracks you could hear actual pops or hiss, on some others I recall they faded a bit earlier than the single. Lots of them sounded really thin or muffled, too which also spoilt listening a bit. However it's true that they were a great way of hearing stuff you hadn't before. I picked up The Collections and the Civics - I'll be there and Imperial Wonders - Just a Dream after hearing them on these comps, and they are firm favourites and permanent fixtures in my collection now.

You mean the "Justis" arrangement, Benji Actually it's not going to stick is it...?

Sound clips are available for all of these on request. Address any questions by PM or email: mistergodzilla@yahoo.com Paypal is fine for UK and overseas and I pay the charges. Cheques ok but from UK only please. All prices are UK pounds. £1.80 recorded delivery UK Overseas your choice of regular airmail at £2.00 or signed for airmail at £5.20. I reserve the right to insist on signed for to certain countries. Jimmy McCracklin - These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - Imperial promo - cracking R&B version. M- 15 Seleno Clark - Soulful Drop / Memphis Boogaloo - MOC - funk / soul organ insts. EX 15 Martha & Vandellas - My Baby Loves Me / Never Leave... - Gordy promo - great double sider. VG+ 20 Rita & Tiaras - Gone With The Wind Is My Love - Destiny Demo - a lot cheaper than original! - EX 20 Georgie Porgie & Cry Babies - Enter Sunshine - Jubilee promo - Old Wigan play - M- 20 Gil Bernal - Can You Love A Poor Boy / To Make A Big Man Cry - RCA promo - 2 x great midtempo sides. VG++ 20 Sandra Phillips - You Succeeded - Broadway promo EX 25 sold Bill Spoon - Love Is On The Way - Hense Forth - Classic Modern. M- 30 hold Grading refers to vinyl condition. Label scans speak for themselves.

Sorry Mike. Just joshing cos people always get bent out of shape on the subject of this 45.

Agreed. It was thanks to the crappy quality of a lot of the Goldmine CDs that I decided to keep on buying vinyl years ago. Some of my 45s sounded 10 times better than the ones they used to dub from, so I suppose I've got that to thank them for. Ace / Kent / BGP and so on have always been fantastic quality however .

I thought it was - if you bought it for next to nothing it's real. If you paid top dollar it's a boot. Or was that the other way round...?

Should I stop now... SPECTRUM Spectrum was the record label of a firm called 'Colortone', which initially was based in premises in Dawes Road, London; it had moved to New Malden, Surrey, by 1976. The Spectrum label appears to have been devoted to budget-priced Easy Listening LPs in the main, though it issued at least fourteen singles, somewhat intermittently, in three consecutive numerical series: SP-0, SP-100 and SPEC SP-100. As for dates of operation, SP-12 dates from 1967, which suggests a starting date of c.1966; the highest-numbered single I have traced, SPEC SP-114, Helen McArthur's, 'Bonnie Scotland', came out in April 1976. Thanks to Reuben Kay for discographical information and for drawing my attention to the fact that the label on Lenny Dee's 'Some Kind Of Summer' (SPEC SP-111; 1973) was of a different design: it was red with silver printing and it had no logo, just the name in italic capitals at the top. Needless to say, none of the company's singles ever threatened the Charts, and they are hard to find nowadays, as the gaps in the discography below demonstrates. Distribution of the Helen McArthur record was by Clyde Factors north of the border.

...and finally. Maybe worth keeping an eye out for Spectrum albums too...

Too slow by half mate