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I don't know much about jukeboxes but I've never seen a portable one like that, pretty cool.

We do love playing CDs (and bootlegs), making movies about northern soul, and watching monty python. This week though we're having an hour long chin-stroking session.

I agree with Steve at this point, it's worth eating the 150 pounds to ensure you get the record, rather than gambling that it will get back ok, paying shipping again, etc. Also, Julesp1905, welcome to the soul source unpopular members club, we have meetings every tuesday night from 7-8PM.

sort of related based on people talking about insurance, one thing some US sellers are doing recently is sending first class air with USPS, declaring a low value, but using a 3rd party service (e.g. endicia, which they might already use for their mailings) to insure the package. Probably easier to make a claim than USPS and USPS doesn't have to have any idea about the value.

if you're trying to straight plan a fixed set list, it's almost always true that one hour is 20 records. I've done a radio show with 45s for about 15 years and it somehow always works out that way, unless I start playing late 70s-80s records, which are longer. However, you should obviously bring many more records so you can actually respond to the floor and change up if you need to. I think 350 is a decent number. Maybe 200 is appropriate for an hour as it gives you much to choose from but that doesn't necessarily scale linearly to 5-6 hours I would think.

it would probably help if you have good scans and maybe audio too.

Thanks everyone, mine is also a white demo. I think they must have screwed something up in either the mix or the pressing, as it's almost unlistenable.

I'm not sure but I think there were two different James Carmichaels in the soul world (neither of which is James Carr). I don't know enough to say which is which though, it might be the same guy.

I think you're looking at arranger, not producer. But I don't think James Carr had anything to do with this.

I recently picked up this 45, the song sounds nice but it sounds totally muffled / distorted in the low end. Do all copies play like this or is it just my copy? Thanks in advance.

I emailed him, hope to get a response

nice sweet soul cut. this usually shows up beat up and even slightly marked copies are noisy because it is a long track.

I never noticed that, I guess it must be the same guy. That guy is from Milwaukee though. Thanks for the info!

I don't think it is. The Sonic artist is from Milwaukee. Billy though this guy was from Chicago. I don't think it is the Bobby Taylor on Chytowns either, who is supposedly somehow from new york.

I think you mean the Emery label out of ohio, not Emerge

wow, thanks so much everyone

no it's not

apparently this happened to the Tip Top label stock. I think someone mentioned this already but one thing I've heard several times for pressing runs that were scrapped was that there was some manufacturing defect -- e.g. it skipped when played.

Hi. Yesterday I did another all music radio show. You can listen at the bottom of https://www.sittinginthepark.com/shows.htm . Playlist follows, thanks again for your interest. Curtis Blandon - In the long run - Wand Carmelita - Isn't it lonely - Carmen Teakwood - Suddenly you're my life - Encore Jackie Wilson - Whatcha gonna do about love - Brunswick Silk - I can't stop turning you on - Philadelphia International Odia Coates - That's the way the cookie crumbles - Epic Basic Black and Pearl - We've gone too far - Wam Nite Breeze - So much love - Dazzler Chosen Few - I'm alone - Faces Dianne Cunningham - Someday baby - New Breed Sir Dane and Darius - We shouldn't have to break up - Sir Dane and Darius Production The Memphis Men - Oh what a night - Miramar Don Williams and the Exchange - Time - Spring Jeen and Him - The party's over - Boss September - I'll go crazy - Brunswick Billy Harner - What about the children - Mel Omega Shelton Turner - Loving you - Babylon Satin Finish - Don't wanna lose your love - Greenback The Myxx - Mixed up - Mark Custom Unity - Love is - no label Special Touch - Love that's for real - Brackett thanks, Bob

I agree it's not worth 400 pounds. I just don't understand how you can say it's worth less than when it was selling all the time on ebay. Maybe in the UK you do see it everywhere for sale, just online I don't though. In the long run, 100-200 copies isn't that much for the population of soul collectors to absorb. I don't know how many came out but it sure doesn't seem like 1000. Other records like Betty Lloyd came up in quantity, went down, and then went back up. Time will tell I guess.

I don't really see this as the same thing as Danny Moore. Slowly leaking some copies out on ebay is totally different than set saleing a bulk amount of copies on the northern scene. It never went as low as 75 pounds when it was on ebay every week, how is it worth 75 now that it's dried up? even if 100 copies of this were dumped on the scene, that is a relatively low amount compared to other titles and it is a quality title that i think people will want to keep.

I think soul collectors (the market for these books) aren't constantly searching amazon for rare soul books. You might do better just putting them up for sale in record sales sections.

I totally agree with this and was thinking about this the other day. There seems to be a huge category of "300 pound" records that are all somehow worth 300 pounds. Some will never sell for much while there are others that never come up and that I would gladly pay 300 pounds for. I don't know if I'm talking about rarity or demand at this point though.

The only way to really know this is to find order slips from pressing plants. When my friend was working on a comp of material that was pressed at Boddie in Ohio, he found 1000 and even 5000 order forms for records that were ultra-rare or even no-known-copies records (things nobody had ever heard of before).

It's usually impossible to know what happened. I think most often the story is that the stock was not distributed and just thrown out. It definitely is true though that many ultra-rare were pressed 1000 copies or more though, that doesn't mean there's 1000 copies out there now. It's always strange to read sellers text when they say "only 50 copies pressed!" or something, like they just made it up.