Sutty

AFAIK for a private seller, from today (yup 29th not 31st) you have to fill out and apply a CN22 sticker to all gifts and goods leaving the UK irrespective of their destination. Much more of a headache for business though I think? https://www.postoffice.co.uk/mail/customs-forms cheers Sutty

All of them from 73-78, the couple before on RCA and then after those dates have tracks on but are less consistent. You’re in for a a treat if you’ve never heard Ode To My Lady or Color Her Sunshine his material wouldn’t be classed as rare groove tho cheers Sutty

Rita Wright was a U.K. singer, and they’re completely different vocalists, just the same backing track, personally I always preferred Rita’s version. Never cottoned onto the OJ connection with Esther! cheers Sutty

I might be stating the obvious here but the cutting engineer writes the run outs at the time of the cut into the master disc, the disc is then sent to the pressing plant where they may also add a stamper in the run out as part of the process of creating the metal stamper to identify who has pressed the record. There isn’t necessarily a cutting room in a pressing plant. In the UK you see a lot of records with Porkys Prime Cuts (George Peckham) or Ray Staff at Trident. Neither of these cutters had any relation to a specific pressing plant, so it may well be that RB Is the cutting engineer and his masters were sent wherever the person paying for the cut asked them to be sent to to be pressed up. cheers Sutty

I’m waiting on a package from Spain that was posted 11th and just arrived in the UK today. I have a guy in Paris who has been unable to post as the p.o. has not been accepting packages for weeks, so patience is the key. You have 180 days to make a PayPal claim

There are 40 on the first label available on Discogs now with a NM copy available for £2.33 - the auction is for the LP

Umm yes, this is the most bizarre one I’ve ever seen, it could hit over a fiver in a back wind 😂 https://www.raresoulman.co.uk/omar-there-s-nothing-like-this-1990-uk-indie-kongo-dance-kdlp-2.html

I got done in December for customs on a declared $19.99 package, which was under the £15 limit. You have to pay before the p.o. will release the package, the charge was £12 in my case, £4 customs and £8 p.o. fee. The p.o then directed me over the phone to the hmrc website to jump through hoops to get the customs money back. Looked like the £8 was going to be kept by the p.o. for collecting so I didn’t bother. Basically, what they did was illegal as they stole from me, but what can you really do when they behave like scum? better than when they tried charging me a ridiculous amount on a jap package that was 750 yen (£5) and they valued it as £750. The discussion at the p.o. was pointless and I refused the package!

Thanks, I would grab it but I suspect I already have it as Curtis was never singing on it as he’d left, unless proven otherwise

Can anyone confirm then, who owns a copy, that Curtis is on this version as he left the impressions a year before to be replaced by Leroy Hutson on the album this came from. Love to hear a clip of it, and if it is the case if anyone wants to sell me a copy drop me a message! cheers Sutty

PM’d you yesterday?

The Prisoner album mix is only on a cd single https://www.discogs.com/All-Blue-Prisoner/release/1702805 all the 12s are housed up remixes and probably not what you’re looking for I’d guess, cheers Sutty

I was in LA Saturday and was gutted to be told on Sunday morning about a soul event I’d just missed, at least I now know I didn’t miss it LOL

No shipping outside the USA 😐

PM’d ya

It did, I have it on 7 as part of box set of the album which is not too expensive cheers Sutty [edit already answered...]

It was a bootleg as was the Tammi Terrell

The one one eBay came out quite a few years back now, I bought it for a fiver or something as I love the track, and they’d had my money years before that when I bought the cd box set. The sound quality on the 7 is excellent, they did Tammi Terrell ‘all I do’ in a 7 around the same time, cheers Sutty

It’s up to the person/company ordering the test pressings, usuallly it’s a small amount before the promo run is ordered to make sure the pressings ok, but you can order as many or as little as you want, so there is no real answer to the question on a release unless you find out from the company or pressings plant, cheers Sutty

It was also bootlegged on a 12 which is an extended version https://www.discogs.com/master/view/1253561 I have the 7 and 12 and they both sound good, the 12 should be pretty cheap to pick up - but the other side of the 7 is also really good https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jajLTEwKICU&time_continue=76 cheers Sutty

Keep you hair on, I was just pointing out that there is no original material on the album, I used to have the the LP after picking it up in a batch of albums and thought it was odd that someone had just taken a load of stang recordings and released it as their own album with their own pic in the cover. Or it was just a tax dodge? I do apologise for any offence and for actually discussing the music lol

This is the just moments on stang with some reverb on it and no original tracks just some muttering and heavy breathing over the top, strange record, more of a personal vanity project made by someone from someone else’s tracks. Very odd. cheers Sutty p.s. the moments original mixes are better, just in case anyone is not aware... you probably are I guess, quite why anyone wants to buy it is a mystery to me but each to his own!

Am I dreaming or did I read somewhere in the past that a band member (maybe Robert Tanner) said that the name in debate was made up by someone else as a name to release the album under and they had no say in it and never sanctioned the release, and never got paid a penny - it wasn’t the actual name of the band or they didn’t even have one at the time? That it was a bunch of guys recording someones songs (RT?) and they never actually played as a group, and somehow Sylvia Robinson heard the tapes and they got released. I might not have his quite right but it really rings a bell somewhere... cheers Sutty

It’s down to the songwriter to register tracks to royalty agencies around the world and keep their contact details up to date. Sign to a publisher and you get an advance on royalties and they chase the royalty agencies for you, and you only need to keep contact with the local publisher you’re signed to. A good one has the right system in place to collect royalties you may miss so although you are losing a % to the publisher then net amount you receive is more, and all at the same time in your royalty statement from them. It seems complicated but it’s not really, cheers Sutty