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Hopefully someone from the ace/kent camp that did the liner notes to one of the king comps has info on this. The fabulous denos did the song "bad girl" and so did the fabulous 3 + 1 (I know lee moses also did it...). Anyways, are the fabulous dinos possibly the same group as the fabulous 3 + 1 (with one less member)? Has anyone ever asked Tommy Brown (T+L label owner) about this? I actually remember emailing him about it long ago and him giving me his number to call and getting busy and never calling him. Thanks a lot.

I agree, you know that I know is great.

I did not say that vinyl sales have increased since their peak in popularity. I said that they have increased steadily for the last 10 years, which is after they fell off, and obviously much less than their peak. Here is a graph I stole from another message board:

Hi. Can anyone post a scan of the Right Combination on malaco? I remember it was on ebay but it's not in popsike. Does anyone know if this is the same group as on SOH / TRC / Gold Mind? If so, is the group from memphis or jackson, MS (or elsewhere)? Thanks in advance.

this has to be the only record ever made warning people about the dangers of dropping out of society, easy rider style

I honestly wasn't trying to and this was in "freebasing"! Nowhere in my original post did I say (or even imply) not to play original vinyl or say playing boots was bad. I was just pointing out something that seemed (clearly to me) silly. p.s. you know you kept reading all 5 pages because you like car crashes. admit it you enjoyed it.

also, all other vinyl-based genres like rap, dance, etc. have moved to mp3s and Serato but not soul music for some reason

lead singer of the majjesstees is Angelo Bond

Thanks. I guess it was the first stereo version available on the 45 and (as you point out), they probably didn't remix it for the 45. I've definitely seen some other later chess presses that ended up differently mixed than the originals. It probably is just due to sloppiness and choosing a random master rather than an intentional thing.

I've never done it myself but sent it to someone who does it (using an oven technique). Had good success with some, a few came out worse and I wish I hadn't sent them. If I do it again I'm sending it to someone who has a vinyl dewarper machine, as I imagine I would get more consistent results.

I don't really care to get into an actual discussion about this, but I just wanted to say that records are getting more and more hip with younger people, who are buying LPs, I think sales have increased every year for the past ten years (something like doubled) and that's just counting sales that are tracked. A few years ago I was one of the people predicting the collapse of the vinyl market and the demise of "soul music". Now my outlook has completely changed. I think what happened a few years ago was that there was a bubble with insane overinflated prices and now the market has made a correction. But NOT that the market is collapsing and going to drop more and more. Now I'm seeing a generation younger than me getting into 45 collecting and paying lots of money for records. Records that you used to be able to get but now are scarce are constantly becoming in demand. The changing of northern tastes to "funky" tracks actually made the music much more accessible to younger people and created convergence with the funk scene for example. Most major cities in the US has some sort of soul dance night where tons of hipsters come to dance to the music. And that didn't really happen say, 15 years ago. I was worried because I thought it would be like doowop where everyone who was into it got old and the market crashed leaving nobody who cared about doowop (despite doowop collectors thinking their music is as universal as soul music collectors think their music is). But what's happening is that soul music is proving to have much more longevity where younger people are still getting into it. 50 years from now you still will be able to buy turntables.

Some of the all platinum presses (I think they actually acquired GRT which had previously acquired chess) are totally different mixes actually, as they released stereo mixes sometimes of stuff that was only mono. I have a billy stewart "I do love you" that is stereo on the later press.

If the dude apologized and refunded, I also wouldn't have left a negative. I was saying to negative based on him keeping the money and lying. I did leave a negative over a record I won for $50 recently when the seller told me they broke it and then it appeared 2 days later as a buy-it-now for much more than $50. and the seller was being greedy as it wasn't worth more than $50.

that is an original, comes in several label variations (blue chess, black chess, etc.), hard to tell which came first, second, when they came out as it was a hit

you actually think the tracks on this CD were licensed? I think you picked a bad example.

ordinary guy was released 4 different times across uptite / fania with different sides on the other side. the one with crystal blue persuasion is the most common because crystal blue persuasion was a hit.

Thanks as always for listening

That pick of the litter is a nice modern stepper and it's less than I paid for mine. I haven't seen one for sale in a long time either. I think the record is still under the radar I guess.

This is the coolest acetate I have -- Channel 3 doing a version of "The Lively Ones" (which was released by Brooks O'Dell). Flip is a nice ballad called "Look into my eyes". Both sides are definitely demos with just like a guitar and drums. I have an even rawer Channel 3 demo but can't find it right now. The best acetates I have have no markings at all and are mystery artists.

Looks like he got pretty high prices this week

"so sad" is nice sweet soul

Phil, I'm totally confused about your post, I read it at least 5 times. What if you had written the paragraphs below. How are they not as valid as the paragraphs you wrote? I'm not trying to make any argument, just totally confused about how your argument doesn't contradict every point you are trying to make. Not trying wind you up either, is your post a wind-up? This is my last post (joking or otherwise) on "originals vs. boots" as I totally can't deal with this ---- I'm afraid you'll need to explain the ungracious bit to me, alongside the perception about being obsessed with what other people are doing. Which bit don't you get? For example, in what way is someone showing even a modicum of good grace by playing a mint copy of something you've spent years tracking down and/or fortunes on? --- Secondly, how on earth does a bootleg differentiate them in terms of validity insofar as dj-ing is concerned? If they play well enough for folk to listen and dance to them without difficulty then what's to differentiate? ---

I mentioned the dynamic desires above. Another one I'm surprised nobody mentioned because people on here have been talking about it recently is the specials - i can't find another on satch. a nice one that I never played before because I always played the other side, but recently played, is the cool sounds - where do we go from here (america). another nice one is the summits - sleepwalking

a good exhibit for Rod would be if they had a bunch of mint 45s that the artist put light marks on, taking them down to VG+ to VG++

haha, on the first one I couldn't initially see the woman's figure and thought he had just spilled blue paint on it, like one of those concept artists that just destroys things of value. it would be sort cool to see the rarest-of-the-rare 45s destroyed in different ways.