Mick Holdsworth

On Lee Gates "Nothing But Wonderful", his voice does sound like "You're Just Plain Nice", and there's even more similarity between parts of the two songs themselves. I can't remember how the Equadors songs sound, so will have to have a listen, but certainly the above two are vocally pretty similar. Yes, think you are right. Cheers Mick

I have a near complete set of Outta Site (OSV series) undinked demo records, up to and including OSV162 (Marie Knight) Rather than list them all, I'll list the ones I HAVEN'T got - there's only five. OSV117 - Ketty Lester - Some Things / Please Don't Cry OSV119 - Skip Mahoney - Janice / Don't Stop Me Now OSV125 - Barry White / Sammy Lee OSV142 - MVP's / MVP's OSV148 - Artistics / Artistics (I understand this release never had a small middle press) Most of the small middles had a large A printed on them. There is no aftermarket rubber stamping on any of these. I know there was someone who had a rubber stamp and just stamped "DJ Copy" on some of the early ones, with Borg type limited number covers (7 of 9 / 16 of 23). These did not suffer the same fate. So that's 157 records, plus a handful of specials / anniversary discs ... Velvets on red vinyl. Vibrations on white vinyl (dinked). Bobby Paris on an anniversary release. Tobi Legend / John Rhys, on Yellow Mala style label, signed by John, (normal press was Blue). Both label variations of Two Plus Two. (Green and grey label, and a Green Label). As with the main batch, these are also with solid middles, only exception is the white vinyl Vibrations, which is dinked. 162 records all together. Apart from a few, which I've played maybe once, they are all unplayed. Looking for opening offers of £1000+ for the lot. (Just over £6.00 per record). Will include UK to UK post in with the deal. Fine with UK Cheque / Paypal / Bank Tx / COD (Wolverhampton). Please PM me for any more info / address etc. Cheers Mick

I think people maybe going to the wrong website (thesalesroom.com), whereas, as you say, go to Special Auction Services and follow those instructions. Here's a link ... https://www.specialauctionservices.com/large/me220217/index.html Cheers Mick Just noticed two posts up the same link

I seem to remember it being on a 10" compilation EP - a blue label, from around the same time, give or take, with four or six tracks on it. But it could have been an LP and it was farther away than I thought. Cheers Mick

Glad you got it OK Cheers Mick

All copies of that press with "YDLMA" in very large writing are the same (they simply ran the primary blank upside down. or the secondary text depending on your point of view). Copies with "YDLMA" in normal size are all OK with Decca on left. I don't know of any other Decca release like this, but there may be some, considering the size of their catalogue. Nice signature - he was around on eBay about 15 years ago, sniffing out some of his old stuff. Cheers Mick

What's the going rate for the LP these days. I haven't seen anyone selling them, unless its on Facebook or similar. Cheers Mick

No, I get the impression that the very FIRST press of 149 ( 50129 1A) is going to be the ONLY Wand issue of "Kiss", as it was dropped in favour of "Ride" (50129 1C). By the time of 169 release, "Kiss" was a thing of the past, and the "Ride" version was the preferred version. I can't imagine Wand would try the same two versions again for 169, although stranger things have happened.

Supremes - Stoned Love (normal release) - about 0 seconds. Cheers Mick

Where are all these labels - apart from Atlantic, these seem to be R, S , T, so theres's more ?? Cheers Mick

Barbara McNair - "Anonymous". (It's on a BM Comp CD a few years back) - Still waiting to hear that line, up till now probably 7 years.

Thanks Steve, I think you said earlier that they were different versions, but which one is which. (Ride, or Kiss) Cheers Mick

Ok, cheers, just thought it was 149 with both

I'm confused, I thought it was the 149 that was in question. Isn't that the Kiss / Kent / Inferno version, with maybe some of the 149 copies being this take and maybe some aren't. As to the 169 version, aren't they all the same as UK Pye.?

Does that mean, if I'm reading it right, US Wand 149 is different to US Wand 169. Never knew that.

Just remembered, the B Side to 'Mr Creator' was this different version of 'Hand It Over'. Is this the single you mean, or was it on another release

There was definately a different version - Did it get put on a Kent LP, maybe that was it. I know the UK Inferno release (which in itself was a freebie with an LP compilation) was this different vocal take, this was sometime around 83/84 ish, and thought at the time it was taken from the Kent LP, but it's been so long. Kent 50, as posted above

Originals have gold text, and reissues have grey text. There's probably other differences, but the text colour is the obvious one. Cheers Mick

I only once bidded on Tim's auction. At the time I scoured the site for info on how the bidding worked and had rang him up. I was bidding on a Cool Off acetate and it was sitting there with one opening bid. Once he explained that what I bid was what I would pay, I then asked if I bidded say £10 more than the opener, would that be OK? Was told, yes, that was fine. So I placed my bid about 30 seconds from the end. Maybe I would have got it anyway, or maybe there was no time for other bidder to respond, either way I won it and it wasn't that expensive (£110 or £210, know it was a round 100 plus my tenner. Pretty sure it was only £110). I seem to remember I had to bid by email and include name and address, so I prepared all that and left it till the end to send. This was a few years back now, so I don't know if there is any change in the function of the "Bid" button. Cheers Mick

George Soule also recorded it, albeit just as a demo, and not released until CD a few years back. Suppose that's the first.

Generally, where loads of records are pressed up, occasionally the machine operator may pick up the wrong label and a record may get two A, or two B side labels pressed, and if they're not noticed, can go out to with the rest. There are thousands of examples, although each one can be unique, or limited to a couple of records only. There's other ways this could happen, resulting in a couple, or a lot of misspresses. A common error is A and B labels reversed. So what you have is quite common in terms or records, but "possibly" unique, or as close to unique as makes no difference, in terms of TMG 575. Cheers Mick

I last used them on 12th Dec - no problems then. The website is still up. Have you tried the phone number on the home page ? Cheers. Mick

I don't have one, but here's another label variation. Brown label credited as "Jesse and the James Boys" (as opposed to Jesse James and ... ) - This is the same credit as the brown demo of "Sweetest ...", so it may well also exist as a multi-coloured "Jesse and the James Boys". Cheers Mick

I initially used this link at the top of this page to listen to snippets. Supposedly need an acccount, but maybe that's to buy. I could listen listen without any login (only about 30 secs, like amazon etc.) Cheers Mick