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  1. Roburt
    When I stated ... He had boxes of em back then & used to try to foist em on us 'Northerners' whenever we went into his shop ..... I couldn't say how many he actually had. Its just that we used to go down to London (on the train from Dony) & whenever we went into Soul City shop & he heard our Northern accents, he would put Tobi's track on & try to sell us a copy. We all bought one on our 1st visit but he tried the same trick everytime we went in after that (we knew better though & didn't 'waste' 15/- on a 2nd copy).
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    I believe that they usually featured around 6 tracks & that the covers were mini replicas of the full 12" album covers. So if the 12" album featured a full track listing on its front cover, the mini LP version also did. If you liked a track listed on the cover & it wasn't actually one of the 6 picked out from the full album track compliment (around 10 in all), it must have been very frustrating if you had obtained a copy of the 7" version.
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    Tobi Legend on Mala issue was easy to get back in the day .... at least it was for Dave Godin at Soul City Record shop. He had boxes of em back then & used to try to foist em on us 'Northerners' whenever we went into his shop.
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    Haven't waded through every post on this thread, so forgive me if this has already been mentioned .... ... but what was the late 60's / early 70's major label 45 that was only issued & distributed in Baltimore (which was stated on the 45's label) ... .... I used to know what the act / title was but the memory is fading away by the day.
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    A cover of Tyrone Davis's biggie ... which country was this cut in ?? Is the 45 from Venezuela or Mexico ?
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    ...... Every time somebody buys say, Eddie Parker I'm Gone, for God knows how much what do you think Eddie Parker gets out of it ????? ............... a 'wet fish' slap in the face ???
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    Willie Mitchell Mini LP's ..............
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    Another Billboard piece (from 71) on Little LP's ............
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    Roger, as already stated coz they were 33rpm, you could easily fit 2 x 1960's length tracks on one side of a 7" disc. In lots of South American countries (Brazil being the main one), just about all 7" records were 33 rpm. Coz of that a 60's US 45 track when released in Brazil on 7" only used a tiny section of the vinyl with the run-out section takin up well over 50% of the grooved area. So, in Brazil, they tended to put out loads more EP's, thuss the vinyl area was used more effectively. Coz of that, there are loads of 60's & 70's LP tracks that only appear on 7" releases in Brazil.
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    And both the label & studio were in Nashville when this gospel 45 was issued ..........
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    The Minors "Lonely Boy" .............
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    Motown still seemed to be putting out mini LP's well into the 70's ..... ... anyone know when their last 7" jukebox mini LP was released (by the date of issue of the 12" album version it was lifted from) ??
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    The Baltimore Bomar label ..............
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    By early 1971, Redisco was unloading its old Bomar 7" mini LP's at discount rates to clear the 'back-stock' ....
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    The US never bought into the EP concept (always big in the UK, Europe & Sth America) .... the vast majority of the 4 track 7" LP's they put out were edited LP's or jukebox items to promote various artists LP's. I have a few various artist 7" US LP's that obviously weren't just being used to promote a single LP but they were still called mini or little LP's in the US .... By 1969, Baltimore's Bomar label had expanded into 45 releases itself ..........
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    Johnny Gilliam's Bo-Mar 45 .............
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    By 1972, Redisco seemed to have lost interest in their Bomar label & mini LP's ... ..... they had started pushing adult-content party 12" LP's .................
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    By 1971, an American based in the UK who ran a jukebox business had started importing US 7" LP's to place on his machines based in England .... ... I wonder why then so few used to seem to turn up here then (I'd think he would have fetched in mini LP's by decent artists and not all the MOR crap that so many US companies had put on the format in the early to mid 60's) ...
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    Johnny Gilliam had soon moved on from (Pittsburgh's) Bo-Mar Records & was later signed to West Coast based Kent Records ....
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    A bit of a side issue now ......... .... I know Bucky Buchman of Redisco & the Bomar label was close friends with the guys that ran the Pittsburgh based One-Stops ..... So could his Bomar label have any links at all with the Pittsburgh based Bo-Mar label that put out Johnny Gilliam's 45 in 1965 (Bucky perhaps taking the label name from the Pittsburgh outfit) .....
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    By 1968, London Records were also giving a big push to 7" LP's ....
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    In 1964, Kapp even had a go at selling their 7" LP's to the public via normal record stores ....
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    Seeburg & Rockola (Jukebox makers) marketed these mini LP's direct to their customers from the early 60's ...
  24. Roburt
    But other outfits had bought into the concept quite a bit sooner. The likes of ABC, Chess, Duke, RCA, Kapp & others had tie-ups with manufacturers who made 7" LP's for them.
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    They were going all out to promote their 7" LP's to the business in 1968 .....


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