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ok thanks. do you know if it was the same guy as on odessa?

I actually don't know this record and you maybe know a lot more about it, but isn't willie white from Milwaukee? Is it maybe a Milwaukee record? e.g. if it's the same guy on Odessa? Thanks.

probably not the rarest on the label but I've been unable to get a copy of ann bailey with the flip

yeah, I recently bought a bunch of jim gilstrap 45s on roxsbury, just as collection #s. But when I got them they actually ended up being really good. Also, one of them is like the longest 45 I've ever seen (maybe 7 1/2 minutes?) which was interesting.

I think I've red references on here to several Djs having acetates cut of the material. It's okay, apparently a specific exception in the complicated OVO codes.

yeah, it is that 45 but my copy was a promo that has a different song on the flip, the one pictured in that auction has the same song on both sides.

no, i either bought it buy-it-now or on musicstack for cheap. those sites only seem to be good for picking up weird label numbers. I have paid a lot for some terrible label numbers before though.

go ahead, call my bluff

I don't think that's the point. Either way, I'm going to stop posting in this thread, I'm not on this board to make enemies. Also, Bearsy, I hope you understand it's nothing personal, I think you're a really nice guy.

you should have offered to buy them blind...

yeah, he just travels to the US a lot to look for records. Andy Dyson told me that although most of the soul packs were filled with records he had some quantity on, that he would round them off with random records that he only had a single copy of. So some very rare records sometimes ended up in the pack. Are there a lot of people who got out of the scene with these specific soul packs in their attic?

I started to write a long response but it's not worth it. You're one of those "race doesn't exist everyone is the same" people too probably. You should come to chicago which is heavily segregated and a much larger percentage of african americans versus white people live in poverty, populate the prisons, etc. Racism is institutionalized, no matter how much you want to pretend it's meaningless. People who live together and have common experiences inherently have a common culture that is usually different from people with different experiences. If anything, it's totally ignorant and exclusionary to say that there's some sort of universal culture that applies to everyone. Your "it's all about the music" comment is an example of this. Do you really think that a Paul Anka tune that is good to dance to in a certain way means the same thing to an African American kid living in the projects today as it does to someone in England who was on the northern scene at a specific time? There is no universal music that's great for everyone. Here's another news flash: there was a gay club culture in the US in the 80s. It's not homophobic to say there was. Not everyone who was gay participated in the culture. But it existed. Asking how the northern scene intersected with this club culture is not homophobic, it's understanding the real dynamics between two different scenes. Pretending that all races, religions, classes equally participated in every possible scene is silly.

OH SNAP: https://www.ebay.com/itm/J-Kelly-and-Premiers-She-Calls-Me-Baby-Signed-Sealed-NEW-and-unplayed-/110795275289?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item19cbe9bc19#ht_2014wt_805 maybe they have more copies but I've secured mine. this seller (look at their listing) is the exact example of greedy jerks googling and popsiking stuff, finding stupid record collectors exaggerating comments, and putting stuff up for insane prices (or top popsike prices). if this thread existed last week this would have been $400.

I like how the "gay connection" is marked as "hot"

what's an example of a soul record from the early 1950s? thanks.

I think my major lance delilah is styrene, I will check when i get home

cool, thanks for clarifying

can you elaborate about what is pointless and pathetic? I think he's about the connection of northern soul and gay culture, not commenting on the sexuality of random DJs. "gay culture" does exist (albeit in different forms, it's not monolithic), it's not like it's some rhetorical thing that people make up to discriminate against people.

i'm confused, how does that differ from what I have been saying? thanks.

this is true, but lots of times you have to buy records on sight, not after playing them

yes it did play ok (obviously with some noise though). apparently that's all that counts to some people

I think he's just saying there's a crack (which apparently doesn't matter to some people). The record is clearly not split in half...

That opals 45 pic is far from the worst condition ever. I actually bought the worst condition ever record here recently. The labels were 90% torn off completely, the vinyl was trashed, and there was a huge warp and a crack. It was described as "VG".

acetates that come with sheet music are generally songwriter demos and won't be an identifiable recording artist (unless the writer is also a known singer or if the writer got someone else to sing I guess).

I think $300 is kind of high nowadays. The earlier bumped part of this thread is disturbing and I wish I hadn't read it.