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the sweet soul side is really good too

both sides have vocals. but both are weak funk tracks.

the way out 45 credits j mccants. i am recording it for you now, I will pm you.

I just looked on popsike, I couldn't find the $355 you talked about but I did find a recent one for $250 and the other ones for $200 and under, but clearly I'm out of touch about the price at this point because I didn't even think it went for that much but apparently it did. Thanks.

I have the harmonics way out 45, it's not very good, both sides are funk, I think there's not even vocals on it but I would have to pull it out to confirm. do you have the elevations - a change it gonna come / no doubt about it on rubbertown? I have all the rubbertown records except for that one, I know it's probably not very good but I'm wondering if it's any good at all?

yeah, now i'm not going to sleep for 2 days YOU JERKS

I apologize, but my tone came from comparing the rarity to lester tipton, which is ridiculous in my opinion. This is on ebay at least several times a year, for example, again usually beat up, but it does turn up. Comparing it to the absolute rarest records is out of line. I agree that at this point you can call it a 'rare' record, at least compared to other records that sell for a similar amount, and it is usually trashed.

I always thought that this dupree was earlier but I guess I'm probably wrong given that summer's love has an earlier number and Dante has it listed later also. Did you listen to this version of "let me go"? It's different than the gold plate

I will also say that my opinion totally doesn't matter at this point because if in the last year people decided that this is a $400 record that makes it a $400 record, it IS rarer than some other records that go for that much. It is NOT rarer than records like Lester Tipton, Don Gardner, etc. though.

Here is the label to the original version of "let me go". I was going to scan my copy but the scan in popsike is of the one I won and just recorded anyways, this is from popsike. I guess the label was originally Akron and then moved?

Harmonics - Let me go - Dupree (ORIGINAL VERSION)

the vardan record usually doesn't show up on popsike because it goes for under $50 usually and popsike doesn't index cheap records. It's usually beat up, though, it is harder to find clean. I must have missed any instance of it that sold over $150, it must be a recent increase. Additionally, this is the type of record that usually doesn't go through ebay -- there are 100,000s of thousands of records that don't register on dealer's radar as rare enough to put on ebay and sit in their boxes at record shows. I've even found this record in chicago (always beat up) 3 times at record shows and this record is from the bay area. Records like these haven't been imported to the UK really because in the past there wasn't demand at least and the northern side was very common on phillips.

Harmonics - Summer's Love - Dupree

I obviously have incomplete information too as I know nothing about Junior McCants. Where are the stories about him dying coming from, are those defintiely true?

the black label dupree press of "let me go" says Akron on the label (it's a different version to the gold plate later version). I will try to record and scan the records so others can compare the voice.

if you're mainly looking at rare northern lists you've probably seen more copies of lester tipton than jackson 5's abc, that doesn't mean the jackson 5 is rarer. This was always a well known sweet soul record, not around in quantity but copies come up as it sold when it came out. Additionally, this isn't even the rarest FORMAT for "do this for me", the Lovers on GATE (local press before phillips) is 10x rarer.

I'm pretty sure the lead of the chicago gangsters is james mccants, and he was alive throughout the lifetime of the group in the 80s. Also, apparently the chicago gangsters *are* from akron, according to his son posting on this youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPAb9g43jvA So james McCants is not Junior Mccants if Junior McCants died early. If Junior McCants sang lead on the harmonics 45s then the leader changed after he left. But the group is definitely from Akron. And the harmonics remade "let me go" in like 1969, but the King 45 in question is from like 1967. Did he die in 1967 or not? Thanks.

Hi Andy. The guy in the harmonics is james mccants, and the harmonics became the chicago gangsters, they were a whole family group of McCants which is why I was suggesting that Junior was related to the family maybe? I thought they were from Akron (or at least dupree says akron on it). Are you saying that James McCants is definitely Junior McCants?

not that rare, even more common on phillips but you don't get the killer sweet soul side on the phillips record.

I have actually accidentally cracked previously uncracked records at the rim, I don't see why it would be a manufacturing defect. Like if you step on the record, there's already grooves there, it's not unlikely to crack at that spot.

the dontells version is better than the monticellos in my opinion

I have definitely had records cracked around the inner rim like that before. Only like small cracked, though, never had 75% of it cracked. But I imagine if a crack like that started and you applied pressure it would continue to crack that way. There might have been the start of the crack before shipping?

the same title got released as sails and sayles. Sails is a misprint, it's a little rarer, but not really worth more.

Thanks for the info. The person I knew who had all the copies of the ascots was Terry Gesten from Ohio (sendfor45s on ebay). I don't know if he has any left. I bought one from him eventually but unfortunately not when he was selling it for $75 and couldn't get a bid!

harvey scales is in this, he was like "I made sure to stand next to Samuel L Jackson a lot so they couldn't cut me out of the movie"