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Thanks so much for the info! No I am not Bob Pruter (but I do know him). There actually is a law in Chicago that says that at least 75% of the soul music collectors need to be named Bob (at least it seems that way). Thanks again.

I never flipped it over, will check it out. thanks for the tip!

Hi. Yesterday I did an all music show, starting off with a set of records about Martin Luther King (songs which I never played before). You can download the show directly from: https://www.sittingin.../1-15-2012.mp3? You can get to additional shows or interviews with chicago groups at: https://www.sittinginthepark.com/ Playlist follows and thanks for your interest. Intrigues - Soul Brother - Toot Shirley Wahls - Remember Martin Luther King - Blue Candle Relatives - Free at last - BIX Big Maybelle - Heaven will welcome you Dr. King - Rojac Brad Lundy - The breaking point - Julmar Baby Love - Do it for me - Dud Sound Wylie Dixon and the Wheels - Sad Times - Conduc Tempting Ones - Heartaches - Vaughn Steelers - Crying bitter tears - Glow Star O'Jays - Oh how you hurt me - Imperial Katie Love and the Four Shades of Black - It hurts so good - Muscle Shoals Connie McGill and the Visions - For that great day - Toy Moments - Pray for me - Hog Freedom - Funny way - Malaco Aged in Harmony - Trust me - Mortones Cosmic Funk - I need you - Cimsoc Cautions - Catch you later - Warlane Mystics - I'm alone now that you're gone - Budweiser Showdown Mel Production Band - Sail on by - MPB Coast to Coast - I want you dear - Multi-sound thanks, Bob

The number I just bought was 628. It's a james brown 45, one side is an extremely funky remake...

Hi Larry.My name is Bob, I'm in Chicago. I'm working on a book that is a discography of soul groups that cut records between like 1960 and 1990. We currently list your record but without any info. Can you supply the membership of the keymar 45 as well as what each person did. Is the group from Baltimore? Did any of the members record with any other groups? I'm sorry, I don't know enough about the northern soul scene to tell if your record ever got played in clubs but I'm sure someone here could answer that. thanks, Bob

I'm pretty sure I created this same thread a while back if you search for it. One version of the label was the James Brown label, the other is the Mickey Stevenson number. I recently bought #028 on the james brown label, had never seen it before, it was actually james brown doing an awesome remake of "I feel good".

the far superior side of the turn-a-rounds on minit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVAQjpUhgok

great, now i learned something stupid about an 80s band that i don't care about. thanks a lot.

no, we're both named bob, i think he's talking about the soul discography.

ok got it

so what's a "dex"?

yes

lots of artists don't remember everything that they did in their career ... you sort of have to use judgement when listening to their story, like if they are extremely detail oriented, with dates, etc. versus trying to recall something that they hadn't thought about in 40 years. this is not a comment on the don gardner record, just a general comment that might apply. i don't remember what i ate for dinner last night.

I always complain for at least two of his auctions. His stuff does get taken down by ebay often. It pisses me off the worst when he shows up in the ebay ad here as one of the most expensive items, that's when I'm most aggressive about reporting him. He used to do the zillion dollar ads all the time, now I rarely see them (he has fake cheaper ads).

I definitely agree that acetates were done for different reasons (including the one you mentioned). I was just saying that sheet music makes it likely that it was a songwriter shopping a song around. The song writer could have gotten a "professional" to sing it though.

yeah that is the side i play (off youtube because i don't have the vinyl ....)

this is one of my big wants. i didn't mention it here because i didn't know if the funk track was a "northern classic".

you must be right. Also, we obviously have different tastes, which is great, because it would suck if everyone liked the same thing...

i like this cut, i never play the "evil" side

obviously we're looking for different things in a record. I love the group on the chosen few and the voice of the lead, obviously the lee moses is much more deep soul. I think the chosen few version was first but I'm not 100%

there was one clean one that went through ebay recently, I think seller was hanceville-a ?

I think the chosen few version (also the flip of a northern record I guess) is better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjklpyIl3Jw

thanks a lot. that is a weird sort of gossipy / insidery article with a lot of detail. I wonder who wrote it, maybe Andrew Hamilton?

This was hidden in the obscure records on big labels thread, so I'm creating a new thread for this. Here were Andy's comments Anyways, I got the record yesterday. It was stone mint which was cool. But I thought it was terrible. The ballad side is sort of meandering and poorly written, and there isn't any backup (even girls) on the record. The thing that made the sensations so great was their fantastic harmony. The other side just sounds like random funky soul to me, although Andy is much more qualified to judge whether a record is a "great northern dancer". Either way, it's an interesting record, it would be cool to know if John Washington was involved with making music in any other capacity after the sandwash record..

I would never play "look at me" on this, no contest.