Woodbutcher

They're members here on Soul Source so you could ask them direct ... https://www.soul-source.co.uk/profile/2594-md-records/ @Md Records

Bandcamp doesn't own the label . it's just an online distribution set up , great way for small independent artists to get their product out there , nothing sinister about it , quite the opposite in fact.

I probably should have written in the past tense so as not to give folk the wrong impression but I'm far too honest and "never say never again" is my way of thinking ...

My preferences would change depending on how good the gear is , the better the gear the less fussy I get ...

The backing of the demo is much closer to that of the "What Four" recording , a kind of 'Munsters' feel to it , the GV track is completely different. Completely different credits too on the GV label , presumably these are just a fabrication for pseudo-legal purposes ? Very interesting. As a side note , there's another version on an EP by the boisterous all-girl garage band "the Rosalyns" in 2014(with the same credits as the demo/What Four) I wonder where they heard the song ?

I've always assumed the 'Happy Cats' on GV and the TM acetate was merely a demo cut for the writers/publishers. The song consequently being re-recorded later in a more polished way by 'the What Four' and released on Columbia (Publisher named as T.M. Music Inc.) I have a very vague recollection of a 3am conversation about it in some dark corner of a nighter about thirty years ago but with whom and where I cannot remember.

Similar tales of Carol Anderson on Whip , I know there were hundreds sold way back in the late seventies for about £5 , but they're all seemingly tucked away in collections and unavailable and have recently topped £2000 ....! One stone minter resides in my grubby hands that I'll never let go , but I did have to give Andy Rix £90 for it in about 1996.

Well if he let the first one go for $2000 I can hardly see the rest going for $3500.

Looks to me like it ended but the winning bid wasn't what he wanted or hoped for so he had a hissy fit , and he's now relisted it at a price he deems more to his taste.

Last four through fleabay have all topped a grand and three of them in the last few months so I guess there's a new surge of demand for it , has Uncle Butch been playing it again or has someone in the south-west just heard it ... ?

I've seen a few over the years but never in good enough condition to tempt me.

Very sorry for voicing an opinion Chief Superintendent ...

Hummed and hawed a tad too long and missed the Syl Johnson , at what I thought was a steal , no doubt if I'd bid it'd have taken off again so it'll remain a life-long want ...

I think the days of any elitism regarding OVO and the like are disappearing fast outside of a very few venues. I'm not condoning it for a second , but the vast majority of punters these days at the myriad of 'cheap beer and ample parking' soul do's littering the Events section these days probably don't even know the name of the tune they're strutting their YT taught line-dancing moves to , let alone what label it's on ...

Try "Mobland" , makes 'This City Is Ours' look like Brookside ...