Anoraks Corner

I have a mint- spare copy for £45 >>> LOOK HERE <<<

I also have a spare mint- copy, if anyone else wants one

Now go give their version of 'Putty In My Hands' a listen...another to shake ya thang to...and to possibly get Nige to go and make the coffee/tea as well!?!

For your entertainment, here are a few pics of some RARE Japanese presses:

Fabulous scans people Am now off to practise my Matador steps!

A great piece on her over on Spectropop: >>> PRESS HERE <<< Here's the Japanese copy.

I have the blue, green, red and yellow covered numbers...what is on the cover of #5? Am interested in the badge and can offer it a happy home to be alongside all of its brothers and sisters (PM me with your price)

Copies used to be readily available during the mid-8Ts...burgundy stockers and WDs. Probably still squirrelled away in collections from that period when that sound style was king!

Agree with your valuation range I have a near mint copy of 0069 for £150, if anyone is interested >>> Label Scan Here <<<

I used to sell that as a new release...that's on the Italian Greenline label (GCH prefix) from the late 80's. They released around x100 Chess family titles in total.

Yes, Decca/MCA dependant on what country...but not Jubilee which was probably a slip of the keyboard.

The 'line dancing' I can understand as yes a lot of 6Ts dance fads seemed to 'line up' in that fashion, but the jump to all doing one's own thing...when, where and why!?

I believe that is an 80's press for the Carolina market...the vinyl and print reflect its age. As pointed out by others, the Rite pressed deep red label copies (0069 and 0070) are the 60's originals.

True, and alongside that the easy reference tool that is Popsike.Couple those with the here-to-stay poor economic climate and methinks the price printed guides are looking more and more out of touch...but then again as soon as something goes into print it becomes out of date, so to speak, so this is NOT knocking the price guides.

Watching clips like these...and the many on Carolina Shagging...it does beg the question as to why Northern Soul dancing developed as a singular activity rather than as couples. Surely the early influences via TV and visiting GIs showed couples dancing? Discuss.

I'm not 100% certain as it has been a loooong time since I played 'Look away', but the version on the Kent LPs is different (and better) to the Scepter 45...or am I thinking of the Chiffons' 'Keep the boy happy'...or maybe both of them are like that!?!

Funny you should mention bike shops, as my research on Japanese record retailers landed up with the fact that the record companies initially used watch and bike shops to stock their players, needles and discs. They did this as these two trades already had good sites and established trade. You've also just reminded me of a shop I used to visit off the Old Kent Road in the mid-8Ts...a newsagents that also jsut happened to have 1000's of UK shop stock in label order behind the counter. Mick Smith had hit it many years earlier, but I got plenty out of there including Shane Martin on CBS and Roy Hamilton on MGM...and two of the three Bowie Pye 45s as well.

Timeless classic...and check out that Funky drumming...reactivation time maybe?!

Nice I always dreamt that it may have come out in Japan, but alas the release files say no. However, I did find an Okeh demo over here which is ink-stamped in Japanese stating that it was 'not for sale' and a 'promo'...maybe it was once under consideration for a J-release and this was the sample file copy...that's what I'll keep telling myself any how!

Timiko stock copy...nice one Jim

I'm after a US Checker WD of Bo Diddley's 'I can tell', if anyone can help me out...PM please if you can!

I'm collecting the 60's LP releases on Japanese Tamla Motown (as well as the 45s and EPs!), which is roughly x100 titles oddly enough. I'm almost complete...the first couple of years was tough mind as I had no listing to work from! I used to search all the obvious artists until it boiled down to three five missing numbers...after much digging two turned out to be from Hugh Masekela, one from Sammy Davis Jr and the final two were actually non-assigned numbers with no clues as to what they may have been! UK LP wise, I do find them over here including early Marvelettes, Miracles and Vandellas, but they tend to carry premium prices due to the 'novelty' of them being UK pressed! If anyone has a wants list for the tougher earlier numbers give me a shout!

Been taping away all weekend...two stories and a little background...what's the deadline, Andy/Nicola and do you need photographic evidence?

Sadly, the 60's Chess family releases did not actually appear on the Chess logo in Japan...they saw release via the Globe label, which covered many labels and genre.Here's a solid center EP:

TOO RIGHT Tony! Is there a Northern collection out there without a Major Lance 45/LP in it?! 'Delilah' really is the bees knees...the piano work is spine-chillingly fab...those tinkling ivories appear again on the slower 'You belong to me my love' found on the flipside of 'Come See'. Five of his Okeh 45's escaped in Japan on Columbia back in the day and later still two of the Playboy label discs. Sadly, and quite surprisingly, no other Okeh label output emerged over here...criminal!