Chalky

The trouble is sellers take too much notice of previous auction results, in particular the ones with daft prices and price guides which are either out of date or do not reflect a real world price. These days when something fetches a daft price it is then used as a bench mark and people want those prices for themselves. Some buyers paying over the odds for records that are in the main in poor condition. Sellers also want Mint/Ex prices for records in Vg/Vg+ condition. The record collecting scene has been for years like the housing market, over inflated, sometimes falsely inflated prices and a crash is sure to happen at some point. Most of the long time collectors aren't getting any younger and with collections worth in many cases tens of 100's of pounds then many will look to off-load at some point. Buyers are as much to blame, paying well over the odds when a quick search will often result in a cheaper copy, buyers paying top whack for a record they know full well the seller has quantity

BMR is the boot, Beach Music Records.

they are Percy and Them on Roulette, John Percy Hargrove wrote Look In The Mirror Of My Eyes and co wrote the flip.

doub tit very much, I would have thought a legit Motown record would carry trademark M and copyright.

Percy Stone is New Orleans, this one Detroit. Percy Larkins is on Facebook.

I bought both same day, well same night if I remember rightly back in the 80's, little bit more than what you paid, might have been £15 or £20 for the pair. Used to see them in every sales box.

Magic stuff Is it from a film?

I didn't notice nor did it register who was asking, d'oh!

There's only those three listed on the Georgia Soul site.

Ace records have recently put out a great cd of her recordings. Ady C might be able to shed more light on her. You Hit Me.....about as good as it gets, proper Northern Soul

got spins in the 80's but never really had its day. Plenty of life in this and Little Nicky Soul on the same label, both great records.

Cheers John Like you I can't believe folk were in the first place duped by this and some still continue to deny it is anything but a boot, maybe they are the ones who invested in one of these and somehow how their money was well spent First saw this when the guy first did them and one was sent through to Andy Dyson, both Andy and myself both said on first view that it was a boot, they had clearly been doctored (given the carpet treatment) to make them look aged. To my ears when first listened it was evident they were the same take, just poor quality on the boot, no doubt cause the source was poor quality. No doubt this topic will come up again like it does annually and some will still convince themselves it is legit

It's a boot. It is the Lyrics. The guy found an acetate, obviously wasn't aware of the Lyrics, pressed it, gave the first lot the carpet treatment to make them look worn.

I have some at home Pete, don't have 143 mind and I've heard a few over the years...not heard War though. Also got some Shrine acapellas, Prophets doing One Gold Piece one of them.

didn't Motown lay the backing and the vocals down at different times/separately after so many years? So I would guess other acapella's out there, certainly heard Temptations from a straight up Motown Source. There is a few on the Motown podcasts Motown did for their 50th.

Visit Sitting In The Park, Boba did an interview with them not so long ago.

I'll have a listen when I get home, I've not listened for a few years.

Mate of mine has the Pheonix 45 too.

There is a house/techno or summat like DJ in London called Jason Knight, probably where the misunderstanding comes from.

probably Kitch Col, never heard of George having a copy but you never know.....

well you are hardly gonna find out how Karl did on Saturday in this topic. I was always taught if nowt good to say then don't say owt Maybe Terry would be better off at times worrying about himself and not what others get up to in their own free time.

what has it got to do with anyone where Matt or anyone else goes? Maybe the product on offer wasn't up to scratch or worth the journey?

There is no problem as far as I'm concerned. If you'd put a date then maybe As far as I'm concerned you simply used your own venue and experiences to highlight your point.

I think Motown used the acapella take on the Motown 50 podcasts.