John Reed

Does anyone have a copy that they're willing to sell of Al Green - God Blessed Our Love / Take Me To The River - South African Hi 7" Needs to be Ex+ at least. Many thanks in advance

I don't think it was just him, his family are difficult to deal with as well. Around 20 years ago I posted Stormy Love Affair on my YouTube channel, it was on there for about 10 years, before one of his family accused me of making money off of this recording and threatened to sue.

There are occasions where the Kent releases differ from the released records as sometimes the master tapes don't specify what version it is. There was a thread on here regarding the subject quite a few years ago.

Do you want the original promo 12" on Al & The Kid from 1980, the first 7" reissue on Fynal Vynal from 1985 or the 2nd 7" reissue on Bunky from 1990?

That picture doesn't look right to me and is different to my copy that I've had for about 35 years. Apologies for the picture quality as the lights too low. The band name and song title are the same font, whereas the earlier picture the fonts are a different size. I have a vague recollection of those popping up in the the 2000's.

The Dickie Wonder release is slightly different compared to a straight reissue as its the only way to get his version of All My Friends Call Me A Fool, which has its own champions especially on the West Coast Low Rider scene.

It got released as both a 78 and 7". It's Sun 257, with Shoobie Oobie on the other side.

Charley reissued the LP in 1985, are they reissuing it again?

Both of these releases have a 1977 date. All these sides were on their 1974 LP - Christ Is All, so that's a 3 year retrospective release. Maybe they tried to cash-in and repackage songs they already paid for.

I wonder who'll win that when it comes up for auction....

Sebastian, have you checked Steve's book?

That's the copy Ian Clarke has for sale and his grading of vg plus plus is the highest grading he uses.

Now that is a proper rare record, never had a sniff at the issue

I hope this doesn't turn into another tired thread of just "biging up" the plays for the major DJ's of the 70s/80s. There can also be a big divergence between rarest, most valuable or sought after. Garry Cape had stock of Earl White Jr, and I had multiple friends phoning up over the next week asking and getting copies. There are also quite a few records posted that are owned by quite a lot of DJ's and collectors, with Melvin Moore being one of them, but i agree, that getting an original has always been tough. The evolution of the internet has brought to light that many records were not as rare as they were once thought to be.

I seem to remember a significant discussion about this maybe 20 years ago. I think the whole Anada set up was quite dodgy and I remember comments like the writers were not paid for the use of their songs, the groups who recorded them were not paid and the record company released them without the knowledge of those involved. I think when Sharon Brown was asked about it in an interview, she didn't have any good words to say about the subject. So in my eyes, if no permission was given by those who had any rights, then any releases are bootlegs.