Frankie Crocker

PM to reserve records or for further details please. Prices include postage, packing and insurance to UK address. Payment by Pay Pal. Thanks for looking. Malibus-Gee Baby I love You-Sure Shot: Mint minus for £90 SOLD Dobie Gray-Honey You Can't Take It Back-White Whale DJ: VG++ for £65 Pamela Beaty-Talking Eyes-Tip WD: VG+ for £425 Percy Wiggins-It Didn't Take Much-RCA WD: VG++ for £65 (slight damage to spindle hole) Sheila Anthony-Livin' In Love-Buttercup DJ: Excellent, a few sleeve blemishes and small stains on reverse label for £75 SOLD Busy weekend popping in and out but all messages will be replied to.

PM to reserve any records please or further details. Prices include free postage, packing and insurance to UK address. Payment by Pay Pal. Thanks for looking. Busy weekend popping in and out but will reply to all messages. Bell Boys-I Don't Want To Lose You-Jamar: VG, slight WOL erasure for £150 SOLD Ann Sexton-You've Been Gone Too Long-Seventy Seven: VG++ for £90 Gary Dean-You Can Say-Young: Excellent but slight distortion first half of record for £150 SOLD Sophisticates-Back Up Baby-Sonny:VG++ unplayed for £50 Mer-Lyn - Promise-ABC: VG+ slight ringwear for £50

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Always thought the white demos were originals and the orange release was the boot. So, has this been booted again recently?

Not sure why the advert informs us a relative of a friend has died? Why can't the friend just consign the records to a seller who markets them with an adequate description? Always thought there was more money to be made copying paintings or photocopying banknotes...

Staggering but a great tune. Demand for the top tunes continues to push prices through the roof. Other records in the auction fetched pretty big money too.

Recently watched 'another' copy 'finish' at $49. Just been notified 'another' copy is up for auction with bids starting at 99 cents. A couple of weeks ago, a copy 'finished' at $49. When I check bids on copies of this title, they are all 'Private' so information is witheld. It looks like there are common 'bidding' patterns for this decent track but I remain baffled... Any further insight would be appreciated.

Most cracked records would be valued at 20% the going rate (or less) with only very expensive, rare items perhaps selling fir more. Pat Brady has a Tony Galla up for sale at the moment for anyone seriously interested.

One sold for $815 yesterday. In really nice shape. I fancied it too. Went to a very RICH bidder known to bid thousands to secure whatever crops up...

Richie Rosen had a load of Frederick Hymes ten years ago. He also had a bunch of carvers at big prices. Other Vegas dealers now seem to have quantity of specific records as though they were from a single source. Vegas dealers seem to be rolling in Ruby Lee (hence my post a week ago), Four Voices on gold label, Toby Bullard, Frederick Hymes etc and the list goes on. Just too many second presses for peace of mind. Do these old-timers have access to a pressing-plant as it looks like they do QED? Remember the Johnny Watson scandal...

Richie Rosen had quantity of Reverend George Morton and that has gone down in value. Royal Esquires has also dropped in value.

What's the story on this? I was unaware of it until a recent eBay auction. I won the copy I bid on but at a higher price than expected. A check of the bids revealed only Private Bidders had competed for it. Just checked on Popsike and the seller has auctioned over 80 in the first few pages, 10 or so stamped for DJ purposes. I am bidding on the one currently on eBay but again only Private Bidders appear which is unusual for the trivial sums involved. Popsike timed me out before I could add up all the records sold by this Las Vegas seller but it was around 84 of the first 120 on the first five pages. Any info on this record and the sales MO would be appreciated.

All the reasons cited above sound good to me. Add to them the change in musical style to a funk-disco oriented electronic approach relegating instruments in terms of importance. The decline of gospel-trained backing vocalists resulted in the loss of harmony. Song-writer creativity drying up after a peak with some becoming disillusioned at not receiving fair reward for their output. The general tendency of the majors to churn out commercial product to top the charts with little regard for quality or nurturing talent, same as today, perhaps. It was always going to be difficult to extend the vintage era 66-69 so it finally fizzled out early in the 70's.

Four bidders so three disappointed collectors out there. Thought it would fetch more.

Game on. May the best man win.

So, no one having a nibble? Come on snipers - whet our appetites a little. Could be interesting if several big-hitters start scrapping it out in the last 10 seconds...

Ady. I recollect seeing the Parliaments on a list of your all-time favourite tunes a little while back...

Soul music has to be soulful, otherwise it is just Black Music. If it is soulful, it's probably got that special something that someone, somewhere will like. The Parliaments is heavily Doo Wop influenced RnB but brilliant because of this. To the Northern Novice unaccustomed to an immense range of quirky tunes, the record may appear unfinished. Whatever the story, it's a great dancer, a treat to listen to and a fine contrast to the up-tempo Motown-like tracks that hooked us when we were starting out.

A stunning tune. Not one for Northern Novices. Like a fine wine, one to be contemplated then savoured. Real gritty records of this rarity are few and far between. Sets the floor alight on the rare occasions it's spun in public. Looks as though it will fetch a tidy sum.

I saw Mike's for sale a little while back and then another issue for sale more recently although it may have been the same copy being sold on QED. I have two issue copies and the white demo. I picked up the two issues at the same time in Beaumont, Texas about ten years ago. One is in the sales box if anyone's interested...

PM'd you re Jerry Ganey.

PM'd you re Bobby Paris.

Another bidder enters the fray. Who will withdraw their bid first? This would be comical if it wasn't so tragic. The tune is played out, clapped out and dwarfed by so many other really good sounds it should just be left in the box with Bettye Swann, Nolan Porter, Marvin Gaye etc.

Looks shattered and unplayable. No one in their right mind would buy this. Might look OK sleeved in a picture frame so £20 tops...

Sold for £1,483.52. In really nice shape too.