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I think one of the main uses for US dealers is when sorting through their many boxes of 45s, looking up each one and seeing which ones are worth putting on ebay and which ones are going to be sold for $1 each at a record show.

i was gonna edit my post but i needed to also show that i make mistakes too, you know, so the common man could relate

I don't know but I got it for like $3 a long time ago, played it once, don't even remember what it sounded like, I can re-listen. It's currently on Tim Brown's auction for like 800 pounds and I think Greg Tormo was saying it was good so I should probably listen again. The cadillacs isn't that good either. If someone has an executive four on lu-mar I'd trade the derek martin for it...

there is a rare chicago record that is brenda jones doing this song under her real name (she was from Dayton, OH)... it's totally different, it's not DJable but a really nice mellow sound, maybe recorded live

sorry that should say "lu-mar" not "lu-bet". I got confused because there's an LA Lu-bet label that had a couple of releases by the explosions.

the derek martin release was not on a reactivated arctic, it was a totally different unrelated label that existed before the philly arctic. It is the same new york label that the cadillacs are on and is the same label as the executive four on lu-bet. The label was run by Jesse Powell, who I think was a one time member and possibly the manager of the cadillacs.

has anyone noticed tons of data disappearing from popsike? I'm not talking about missed auctions, I'm talking about stuff that definitely was there and now isn't. I know you can get popsike to take down your auctions if you want but there's no way that all of this missing data was from people emailing them.

why would the moaners be dealers? a way to artificially inflate prices is good for dealers, unless the dealers have prices so high they are higher than the book. it mainly hurts buyers from getting deals.

according to soul harmony singles both got released in '69

nice find on the connection. i also have only ever seen the patience valentine with no other MGR sightings.

The guy who wrote "Tie a yellow ribbon" -- new jersey based irwin levine -- produced a super obscure soul 45 by a group called rythms and blues. it's pretty good, a miracles rip off though. Anyone know any other soul productions he did?

Almost 20 years ago I saw an ad on the internet for some software that used "artificial intelligence" (haha) to strip individual components from a mix. They had some sample on the internet of some michael jackson track where they stripped the vocals (it wasn't the stupid invert a channel and mix to mono trick). I don't know what happened to that. This company does something vaguely similar -- removing background music from film, specifically to avoid having to relicense the background music when rereleasing the film in some format: https://www.audionamix.com/services/index.php That's probably an easier task than obtaining separate music tracks from a music mixdown. Someone told me that there was some company that people hired that did analysis of the original music and then recreated the master from scratch... they got sued by the master rights holder and the court found that they did not violate the master rights, even though their recreation sounded exactly the same. I can't remember the name of the company (I thought it was harmonix, but when I google it's the company that created guitar hero...).

This is a local record show type of record. It charted nationally on the billboard R&B charts. That said, I've never seen a copy in Chicago (actually maybe once), it got no play here. It must have been a hit in some other cities, you might find it at record shows or if you contact dealers. I see that Barry Wickham and Lou Silvani have it for $70 but they aren't going to drop the price on it when it doesn't sell because they have large catalogs of records online. It couldn't hurt to ask them if they would do less.

my mail carrier is scared of dogs, which although logical, is funny because it's such a stereotype. my upstairs neighbor has two dogs and she lets them run down the stairs. the mail carrier runs away (literally) when she hears barking and comes back later. the dogs running down the stairs is pretty annoying though, because it always happens when I'm carrying something heavy

a lot of them do. I recently saw a listing where someone thought it was euros which was funny.

also a lot of things are done in the mixdown besides just the levels -- e.g. all EQing, certain effects, that make it often less authentic to do your own mix. I only heard about this recently, but apparently a new thing that a subgroup of collectors are into are collecting "stems" -- the original unmixed tracks. I guess big source of them is when a TV / Film placement happens and they are given the master and someone leaks the tracks. Apparently Questlove has a large collection of "stems" of things that he's definitely not supposed to have.

It is a tablet carved in stone if it is used by dealers that way as some sort of absolute pricing method. It takes a bunch of time for the price to back down to a normal level after dealers find they can't sell certain things. I guarantee you that at least a few records that aren't that rare will be priced high, all appear for sale at a high price at once, and there will be many on the market but none selling. That said, the guide is still very useful.

It's good sweet soul. I will try to find the recording (it's on one of a bazillion CDs of recorded 45s that I've gotten in trade with other collectors). I remember specifically not buying the promo the few times I saw it because I wanted a stock copy, I probably should have bought it.

Also, sorry i just directed you to my interview instead of giving you info, I don't remember all the details and didn't want to give you inaccurate info. There were a bunch of chicago groups on wand at that time (pretty much throughout the 70s). Ultra High Frequency, South Shore Commission (not exactly chicago but the female singer was from chicago previously in the marlynns), South Side Movement, actually a lot more. I've been told that the lead of ultra high frequency was Danny Johnson, later of the Chilites.

Also, both label variations were clearly printed and pressed at the same place.

Ray Lewis is first because it has a lower catalog number (101 vs 105)

you should probably email him your info.

I have a publicity photo for sweet music (I got it off of Gilles Petard, Reginah didn't have one). I think it's different but similar to the french pic sleeve (it might be the same but they put boxes around the girls, I have to check). I'm confused about your Reflections comment. I vaguely remember a thread or conversation about the Reflections on Polydor but I never would have questioned its release because I've seen promos of it, have a recording of it, and I think I've seen a stock copy once.

I get lifted is a cover of george mccrae which is where all the miami stuff comes in.

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