pow wow mik

thanks for any help, track below

i wouldn't play them if they're already issued. you could say stuff like the Jazzman 45s are first uk issues as they're legit, but they're just re-issues to me. Anyway, you'll just be happy I've got 'These boots...' so you get go-go dancing! Sorry, there's a magnetic force always pulling me towards cheese!

that 'destroy my boy' is nice too..making the Grapevine the preferable release...but then if i played 'these boots' i'd be playing a re-issue. what a quandry Although Mr Finewines acetate is a lot better for me, more mod sounding i suppose so more my cuppa. Proper belter in fact, cheers for that Matt, i'd missed that one, you selling it?

I like it, great ramsey lewis style mod track imo. I understand people not liking it though and can live with it. hope that might save people some time posting to say how shit it is. thanks for the info.

I know this oldie was released on grapevine late 70s but Manship has it listed on Omack. Is that the original US release and how rare / valuable is it? cheers, mik

Shorty Long - I'm out to get you (Soul? Tamla?) Sammy Ambrose - welcome to dreamsville (musicor) cheers recordmik@btinternet.com

'groovy spirit' is a great track though, bit of an oddity but it's like an instrumental of Johnny Nash's under-rated (I think) 'falling in and out of love' and also an update of his earlier Banana 45 'Totally together'

dont think there's ever been one on ebay cos it's been in my searches since ebay started! I got one in the end of someone who had 3 copies, & i only know of one other apart from them. I'll ask if he's got any more

Some various boring Jack Hammer info: I've seen the LP a few times, worth around £40. there was one for buy-it-now on ebay for ages. The whole LP is nice Oscar Brown Jr style stuff, but 'down in the subway' the definite stand-out track, but also a nice track 'switchblade operator'. There's also 'love ladder' too which is fairly easy on 45 and not that interesting imo. I also have a Polydor 45 which sounds like it's from the same sessions but has a great more northern style beat with his jive talk over the top & some nice solos, great dancer and real rare, it's called 'ode to a discotheque'. I also have the Swedish 45 of 'down in the subway' and had a UK acetate of it which i sold when i got the Swedish issue, so it seems a UK release was considered. 'Swim' only got a 45 release apart from the Youngblood sampler, which has a different take of it. Bizarrely the backing track was used a few years later for a 45 by Mike Berry called 'dial my number' on the flip of 'tribute to Buddy Holly'! It's not bad too. Safe to say i'm a Jack Hammer fan, he seemed to be a proper character & would love to hear his story. apparently performed with Elvis, recorded with Brigitte Bardot, was an ex pro boxer in the US army, I guess why most of his records are European releases as he was posted in Europe. In the late 50s he must have been big in Europe cos all his records got releases in most euro countries, mostly twist records. The only 60s US release i've seen is credited to Jack E Hammer called 'cool swimming pool' and uses a Googie Rene backing track and is on New Bag. Sounds like him. Best 45 i've heard from his early period is 'Twist in the morning' imo, which uses the 'Wade in the water' tune. again er, sorry, i'm a Jack Hammer fan and cant resist the chance to go on about him. Found 'Swim' for 50p in the mid 90s and it rocked the club i was DJing in for years, so i feel i owe him!

people often contact sellers offering them X amount to take it off now. Can't see personally why sellers ever do this, as just the offer alone indicates what someone will bid, and therefore what it's worth. Worst case scenario all they need to do is get a mate to put in a bid just under that, but most likely it's an in-demand item that someone is trying to secure at a nice price. Having said that, I've done it myself, been refused and then won the item for less than i offered. If it's something you want bad, it's always worth e-mailing the seller immiediately and making them your own offer, if it's higher, they may well sell it you instead. People making off-auction offers deserve to be outbid, same as on-auction.

had a spare of this not turn up. i'll let you know if it does, if not, ask around sheffield postmen

aye, that'd be ok, if it's just the b side

I'm guessing not the Fads who did 'my poor heart'? Great track, but these are they:

got to be this for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLEK0UZH4cs...feature=related

Sammy Ambrose - welcome to Dreamsville odd one - Glenn Wells - Tears come cheap for the lonely (Tear Drop) good cash prices paid cheers recordmik@btinternet.com

sure the one with the extra drums is the earlier one Michael? they sound overdubbed, although eqallly they could have realised how bad they sounded and took them off for a later release. They've got different b sides if that's ahelp, 'person to person' and 'cottage' if i remember right, which i probably dont.

I'd give you £75 for it. i dont think demo/issue rarity affects price of stuff like that. it's hard to find but doesn't fit any scene it seems & I guess most people who like it will be happy with the LP, which is quite easy. Or £50 & the LP!

me too. top of the wants. complete monster and I think all even semi-educated dancefloors would agree

£100 top?

one on Rob Messer's latest list @£75. Assume it's a demo for that it's hip city records

I was wondering while reading it if 'trade my soul' was the record Roger plays, I thought that was an acetate and never knew who it was by. What a masterpiece, is it available on cd or a soundfile anywhere? i've as much clue about what's northern and what isn't as an american , but I was surprised when I found out the antallects was such a big record on the scene. I personally love it, but it is quirky, and has a touch of Duran Duran's 'Rio' about it imo

think it's ok, but a 4 figure record!? it's a version of 'you are my sunshine' as done by Ray Charles with the lyrics changed a bit.

i got a some from him, gav too, but heard some didn't. this list's 2 years old, why's it resurfaced?? should cheer gav up anyway, he got the Tiny Topsy for £140

surely you're own theory on Dean Barlow at least being a decently crafted piece of music, whether appropriate for the soul scene or not, applies to Curtis Lee - surely a catchy, brilliantly played and produced garage record at least.