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100% Pure Poison - You Keep Coming Back - EMI International 501. Can anyone give me an idea on the current price for this tune? Thanks in advance Godz

First time I bought a record consciously knowing it was a soul record was Ike & Tina Turner - Nutbush City Limits. Don't think I've bought my last one yet but most recent was Mary Jane Hooper - I've Got Reasons. Godz

Is this record really fetching that much? Great tune and underated - possibly because it's not as 'obvious' as their other on the label, but I would have thought somewhere around £75 was going rate, no? Godz

You're probably right Quinvy, but nonetheless I find that depressing. When I first got into soul music it was a combination of hearing the music and owning the records that did it for me. The obvious next step was an interest in collecting records in general - after all, I wouldn't want to repeat the mistake I made as a fourteen year old when I went "hmm Beatles singles on Polydor - interesting" but still left them at the flea market. Could have had a few decent trades from that lot. My wants posts for old advertising 45s shows that there are others on this forum who take an interest in the world of rare records but I guess you're right in the fact that your post suggests that most would go "Sex Pistols on A&M - not for me sonny - I'm only interested in soul!" Godz

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Just kidding Chalks - sounds like a rugby channel or summat What did RSF have to say? Godz

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Can't believe that you're all arguing about thirty quid when there's a thread about a record that's one hundred and ten thousand dollars with four days to go - and virtually no comments! Godz

Great stuff Pete I always preferred the Velvets softer stuff like this and Sunday Morning to the sonic experimentation. Mind you, you have to love Waiting for the Man of course. Sid Griffin (ex Long Ryders) once led an audience singalong of Femme Fatale in my pub in the 90s. Godz

Why lunatics mate? Sure it's a lot of dosh but it's got to be a sort of holy grail for rock collectors / historians. At least in this case the price reflects it's rarity and importance. Damn lot of money though of course Godz

Well of course it's a record but, well, bloody hell, blimey etc.etc.etc. https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...10309%26fvi%3D1 Godz

Had these hanging round for ages so I thought I'd have a knock at flogging them cheaply. All are pretty much EX condition with maybe one or two at VG. Nothing knackered. Feel free to ask about particular 45s. CLAUDINE CLARK - TELEPHONE GAME - CHANCELLOR - 20 BUNNY & CINDY - SURE DIDN'T TAKE LONG - NEPTUNE - 5 SHIRLEY WAHLS - PROVE IT EVERY DAY - BLUE ROCK - 10 JAMAL TRICE - LOVE IS NOT THE ANSWER - SOUL PROMO - 5 TOMMY YATES / IMPERIAL SHOWBAND - DARLING SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE - VERVE (black) 15 MAGIC TONES - TOGETHER WE SHALL OVERCOME - MAH'S - 5 BOUQUETS - AIN'T THAT LOVE - BLUE CAT PROMO - 15 UNIQUES - NOT TOO LONG AGO - RIPETE - 5 RIVINGTONS - ALL THAT GLITTERS - VJ PROMO - 15 DON HIGH - ALMOST YOU - COLUMBIA PROMO - 5 JACKIE LEE / DOLORES HALL - WHETHER IT'S RIGHT OR WRONG - MIRWOOD - 5 NELLA DODDS - COME SEE ABOUT ME - WAND - 5 TROY KEYES - LOVE EXPLOSIONS - ABC - 5 ROSEMARY TAYLOR - I REALLY GOT IT BAD FOR MY BABY - ABC PROMO - 5 IMPROBABLES - A MOST UNUSUAL FEELING - COLUMBIA PROMO - 10 FIFTH AMENDMENT - GOT YOU WHERE I WANT YOU - NYS - 5 LESLIE GORE - MY TOWN, MY GUY AND ME - MERCURY - 5 REPERATA / DELRONS - IT'S WAITING THERE FOR YOU - MALA PROMO 10 RON MOODY / CENTAURS - THE NEW BREED - COLUMBIA PROMO - 10 KRUZE BAND - SHOO DOO FU FU OOH - METRO - 5 DELORES LYNN - THE BIG SEARCH IS ON - JUNIOR - 5 JACKIE DAY - WHAT'S THE COST - SPECIALTY - 5 I'll consider offers for the lot. Postage in UK - £1.50 1st class. Recorded a bit more. Overseas at cost. Ta Godz

I'd love some scans and MP3s if you have time. You can email them to me at mistergodzilla @ Yahoo.com (remove the gaps). Don't think I really have anything to trade. As I said earlier I'm happy to buy but I'm not obsessed enough to spend much. Just want to have a bit of fun with them. Thanks to everyone who has responded so far. I knew there would be fellow nutters on here Godz

Cheers J Brew Missed a couple on eBay before, so I've grabbed this one. Ta very much. Godz Thanks very much Pete. About to PM you Godz Gotta keep my eye out for that one Any chance of an MP3 please? Godz

Got the Action Man one already Pikey (if it's the one where there's a soldier running at you on the cover and battle effects on the flip). Smiths Crisps sounds just the ticket though! I'll PM you. Good start Anyone else? Godz

Hi everyone I'm in the planning stages of starting a records based weblog. It will feature soul and funk 45s, maybe a bit of garage (60s that is!) and 45s that were put out to advertise stuff. I have a few of these already: Manfred Mann's Ski Yoghurt and Michelin themes, a Bush stereo hi-fi 45 (The Big Bush Sound!) and flexis advertising Raleigh Bikes and Cherry B etc. Quite a bit of old tosh like that in fact, and I'd like some more. I realise this is chiefly a soul forum but i know what record collectors are like and I bet I'm not the only one who can't leave a "Welcome To Your Hasboro Mercury Spacecraft Model" 45 in the charity shop. I'm not aiming to become a specialist in this area, it's just a bit of fun, so I'm not going to be paying daft amounts of cash for your Tetley Bittermen flexi If you would like a nominal payment plus postage and would like to see it go to a good home though - I'm your man. Lets see what the Sourcers can do Many thanks Godz ps - there's an old guy in town who gave me a tape of his John Collier "Saturday Night Suit" 45 but won't let me have it so I'd really like one of those to p*ss him off

It's a bit similar in places but no way are they the same song Godz

You're probably right but I think that it may have also had a bit of a resurgence when Afternoon on The Rhino went massive. I remember one of my pals playing it to me in his house covered as Mike Post. When I stopped laughing I sold him a copy of "This Thing Called Love" by Cottage on Crystal covered as The Jewels. Boy were we young eejits back then! Godz

What are you lot on tonight? Classical Gas is by Mason Williams on Warner Brothers. Domino is a song on Warner Brothers by Van Morrison. Domino definately got the odd spin at Wigan but I only ever heard classical gas played out at some hotel back room in Glossop. So there you go Godz ps ... and the horse was called Hercules. Or was that Steptoe's?

They sound completely different The clip on Johns site does sound amazingly close to the so-called Sidney Barnes Orchestra's instrumental to I 'Hurt On The Other Side' though. In fact the percussion and (I suspect synth generated) string sounds are identical. SBO was a Simon Soussan acetate only job from around the same time, so I reckon there's more of the man from LA than Van the disco man on John's auction piece. Godz

Mr Soul (sorry - quote function seems to be a bit iffy on my compy at the mo) Why not in the the thousands mate? You can fit a couple of hundred 45s in a duffle bag and if you're offloading them at or near the port it's not too much hassle. You'd probably have to do it in bulk to appeal to anyone wanting to buy as well - although you'd probably have to sprinkle liberally with Motown / Stax / Atlantic to tempt them. All speculation of course - although my uncle in Liverpool used to buy US rock & roll 45s from dockers in the 60s when the boom had more or less gone. Godz

They wouldn't use morphine as ballast - the ships would get high... Godz

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Isn't it just because it looks like one, Paul? That was always my assumption and it seems to be common to most record collectors. Godz

I reckon the clue is the "Port" part of Portsmouth. There are other ways of tranporting goods on ships than using said goods as ballast. Given that American sailors could probably pick up deleted records for next to nothing, and the fact that by the mid 60s there was already a market for soul 45s in the UK, isn't it more likely explanation that there was a bit of trade going on? Godz