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I think Nev was asking the person asking the question to confirm they understood that styrene was a type of material different from vinyl for making the record and that the words "styrene burn" only applied to records made from that material. If there is a constant hiss on vinyl, there are a bunch of possible causes and a bunch of related solutions.

I bought a mean green one from someone here, thanks so much. Nev, I think I did bid on that record. I don't think mean green or buss were his band, I think it was just made up for the record. In Gary, IN Nate Evans was the singer for the band the Fabulous Kings, who later had a modern soul 45 in about 1980 (long after Nate left). Thanks everyone.

I never knew they had 2 avco LPs. I have a 45 on Roxsbury by the "starshine sisters" that sounds exactly like the chambers bros. I assume they did that due to some sort of contractual issues.

I don't understand. Boddie was a pressing plant and numero had access to their paid invoices where customers were delivered 1000 45s, and they are 45s that no collector has seen. Other ones that were 1000 pressed were only 1 or 2 known copy records. My only point is knowing how many were pressed might be a clue to, but usually doesn't prove, rarity of a record.

According to the wikipedia article you linked, provenance means "the chronology of the ownership or location of a historical object." It doesn't mean generic evidence that backs up any action or behavior. Provenance on a record, for example, refers to the chain of ownership/location of it, from some point (possibly all the way back to production but not necessarily that far back) to today.

good luck, I hope you get something. Did you try looking at discogs, and then musicstack and gemm?

that is "voodoo funk" frank in africa somewhere

thanks so much, he pm'ed me

there is no way to get rid of styrene burn, the grooves are physically damaged. The only thing you could do would be to use a different cartridge/stylus that rides in the grooves differently, it may hit an undamaged part of the groove. I guess you could mess with your turntable settings also, if you have a tonearm height adjustment it might make a difference.

haha rza sampled off a cd. i always suspected the first wu-tang album was a product of the stax box set and not of digging for 45s.

Thanks everyone for the great info. I am interested in either of the 70s pressings done by the hamster label. Please PM me if you have one for sale for around $100 or less. Thank you.

For some reason I haven't been able to find a copy yet. I even found a PICTURE of nate evans which is impossible to find (it was used in the numero twinight CD). Does anyone have the cheaper one for sale? Thanks.

I found an unknown P&P sweet soul record a couple of years ago. It was by a group called me, you, and him. But it was exactly the same cuts as You, Me, and Him on K Schavonne (which the seller of the rouser record that's up now also has for sale). Who knows if it was legit or not. A few months ago I got a copy of the soul severes, it was just a kool and the gang soundalike record but I got a good trade because funk people want it.

Number of copies pressed really has little to do with how many copies are out there. Numero did a comp of stuff from the boddie pressing plant in ohio. There are orders for 1000 of certain records that were definitely pressed and that nobody has ever seen. There are other 1000 press copies that are 1-2 known copy records. There is this myth that for every super rare record the label owner pressed 50 of them or something like that, that's not true. If a record was not distributed (except a couple given to the group or something) and the backstock was thrown away, it becomes very rare. Even ones that the group sold at shows are often incredibly rare.

are you making reference to the purple color on the label? if so, it was released like that.

i was disappointed it wasn't me

Thanks so much for posting the movie link, I will definitely dig through it and post the parts where the group occurs. I looked maybe 5 years ago and could only find an IMDB reference to the film and that was it. thanks again!

I don't know anyone who has a relationship with a pressing plant that they can do that, maybe Adams has some inside thing. However, I don't know if you've seen old stampers but anytime I've found some they weren't really in any sort .of usable condition. It's unlikely that someone who doesn't even have the master tape of a record (the situation with most obscure soul 45s) would have stampers btw

Sparkz on bell is an unrelated (white I think) group. It was mislisted together in the first volume of soul harmony singles. Sparks on Cub originally came out on a small label, MSR. On the MSR label it says that they performed the songs in some film (I have to dig out the 45 to see what the title was again). I would love to see this footage but have searched in the past and not been able to find it. The flip of the sparks "woe woe" is top notch sweet soul, killer.

I am not assuming what you're saying. For any listing, if 300 vs 900 people see the listing, and there is talk about the item creating a buzz, the price will go higher. re: cods vs combinations, I actually think the CODs record is way better, it is much more Chicago sounding and has a killer ballad flip (the combinations also has a good ballad flip, although not as good). "Coming back to you girl" is awful IMO though. I don't know which one is better in terms of northern soul, but if anyone has a CODs and wants to trade it for my Combinations, I'll do that right away.

He is an *incredibly* nice guy. He and his DJ partner also put on the "dig deeper" event in new york where they actively support forgotten soul artists.

I've bought from people who used glass cleaner to clean and not had problems. I don't regularly use it to clean but if I have to wet play a record (e.g. because it has already been wet played and has a lot of noise) I will use glass cleaner. You have to make sure that all of the record stays wet the whole time it's playing, if any part dries or starts to dry the crap will relodge itself in the grooves. Once it's done, you need to get the cleaner off as soon as possible to keep it from drying and the gunk from settling. You could either use a vacuum or VPI type device (which I don't have) or a bunch of lint free cloths. I'll only do this with a fisher price turntable because a bunch of glass cleaner always gets inside under the platter and you have to shake it out / wipe it down afterwards. Also, it tracks higher so I figure it's better at digging up the crap in the grooves.

you have a limit of 100 searches, given the thousands of records that a 3 figures or more, you would have to create many different ebay accounts. And their saved search feature is totally unreliable and sometimes misses stuff completely, sometimes sends stuff after it's been up for a few days, etc. If you're really serious about heavy searching with instant results, ebay has an RSS feed option which you can use and then do everything in your RSS reader.

yeah, if you wet play a record and then let it dry, gunk dries deep in the grooves and it leaves surface noise, and a regular cleaning will not be able to get the dirt out. I think it's more the wet playing and not the foam that's getting the dirt out though. Did you try a similar thing with, say, windex (glass cleaner) and see if it worked just as well? Thanks.

are you talking about the foaming cleaner or something else like a general record cleaner? The foaming cleaner didn't smell like isopropyl alcohol. Also, the foaming cleaner doesn't look like it's available in the US (based on my quick google, I could be wrong). Does it contain some US banned chemical or something? How long do people leave it sitting on the 45 before wiping it off? Thanks.