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how does this affect US produced records?

what does that mean?

this makes it sound not very rare

thanks everyone for your opinions, I'm sort of disconnected from "the scene" so it helps

yes. someone must have played a big stack of drifters 45s at one time and picked that one out. did they miss this one or is the sound wrong?

I think it was the first drifters 45 I ever bought, just bought it randomly like 12 years ago, I remember playing it and being confused by the sound. 12 years later it's still confusing. I don't understand why this isn't a known record, isn't there some known northern drifters record?

i've seen prices of this all over the place, from $50-$200. never seen it at 250 pounds though.

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.