Steve G

I also have a 7 of S.P.A.....Found it at ANdy's Records in Peterborough many years ago 10p

Ian the other side of the Shirelles is a nice e-z listener crossover - Lets give each other love?

Interesting and reminds me didn't G C Cameron Live for life come out on a 7 as well as a 12? V Rare though.

Clearly a BOOTLEG. Matt, show some composure please man!

This UK Paramount stuff if fascinating. Got a rack full of US ones, quite a few goodies, but my UK shelves are nearly bare - two x Linda Clifford, 1 issue, one demo, and the Stephanie Mills in a company sleeve. I should probably start collecting em

Matt "My love is your love" only came out on a Budget LP as a legit UK release. Sorry about that, but no legit UK Tamla Motown 45 exists.

Yes Dave great that he made it to the big time when so many don't. PS: If you ever want to sell your UK copy let me know please....a good home awaits.... See you soon Steve

Unfortunately Dave, the postie has not delivered Jesse today. Must be that good that he's holding on to it! Steve

is this the Dude that is on here from Bedford? Good fella. Steve

Hi Dave, I'd say that's pretty rare - yes Paramount US very nice record too. What did you do with it? Steve Here's a bit on wikipedia about our man: Samuel E. Wright (born November 20, 1946) is an American film and theater actor andsinger who is best known as the voice of Sebastian in Disney's The Little Mermaid, for which he provided the main vocals to "Under the Sea", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Wright also played the part of Mufasa in the original cast of The Lion King on Broadway. Another accomplishment of his was voicing Kron the Iguanodon in Disney's CGIfilm Dinosaur.

If you are trying to sell some of this stuff you might need to post sound clips I'd say as not many will know some of em.

yes Ian I am sure I have Hoagy on a a gold UK promo. BTW have now cleared up the First Choice saga by talking to Frank Controllio who at the time was A&R head at Motown in LA. Frank is adamant that "Armed & Extremely dangerous" IS actually the Supremes singing. WHat happened was that Alan Lentz over at Capitol could not get the mastering right so they shipped it over to Sigma Sound in Philly. When they went to pick up the finished master it had gone and no one knew where it had gone. All they could remember was some heavy dudes leaving with a suitcase - these cats had wide brimmed floppy hats, big afros and purple trench coats and drove off in a great big cadillac with a diamond in the back. One of them was called "Stan something". I think this must be Stan Watson who ran Philly Groove? Obviously Frank is still pretty miffed by the whole saga and the fact that he lost this hit.

Great 45. Had some good radio play on this one.

Yes we have veered off topic, but all very interesting nonetheless. Roburt you have a PM... I tell you one that should be hard at this point is a 7 of Frankie Knuckles "It's hard sometimes" - 300 pressed and yet you can still find them about in hairy old club DJ boxes etc....oops that's 90s ....sorry! Steve

Oh god I see you've started on your planned holiday reading already......

Florence was still incharge at Scepter in 72 though....these record exec types - honestly I sometimes wonder if they'd agree on what day of the week it was on Friday

No need to check, I've done it for you Ian. Cherren says he was pretty mad that they turned it down and were somewhat embarrassed when "Armed & Extremely dangerous" broke into the charts. Interesting book I agree.

Ian I have double checked this now, and if you dust off the 'Paradise Garage' book you'll find your late night attempt at an updated Shakespearian play set in a record executive's office in NYC blended with injections of your boundless humour is indeed very similar as to exactlty how Mel Cherren remembers this point in time relating to this particular record.

Amazing. I didn't realise you guys had so many 78s.... Hope you all got spare record players to play them on in case your existing one konk out.

More on this shortly, but seems that Scepter had the rights to "Armed and extremely dangerous" after all, but turned it down.....because they thought it sounded like "An old Supremes record".

Thanks Ady you also got an email on the other thing you asked about. Will get that sorted at the weekend if OK. I'll check the Sneeds see what titles I have. Steve

Ady I have a few Lois Sneed acetates. What titles are you after?

First shout for this Soul People this Sunday 10 am - 12 Sky 0129 www.solarradio.com I'll be guesting playing a mix of crossover, some upfront funky edged stuff, alternative versions and slow burners. I promise that there will be some stuff you won't have heard before.....so tune in for two hours of musical mayhem!

I'd go with Major Lance, although theres something about young Ralfi Pagan's voice on the RCA one which I also quite like.

Hi Dave, Never thought of it as being more expensive, as I don't think people will pay more for different colour vinyl on the soul scene - unlike Queen fans etc. where colour matters I checked and my black vinyl copy came from John Manship circa 79/80 - since I reviewed it in Blackbeat in 1980/1. Would have been cheap too as I didn't have any real dosh to spend and just trawled the £1.50- £4 type of thing. Hadn't heard the Vest one before - thanks for posting Chalky.