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I thought maybe he was referring to the osborne guide and just called it "rare record price guide"?

The sinceres were 100% kansas city (many people talk about them actually) and they went to LA to get a record deal to record. A lot of chicago people I know actually ran into them in LA when they were there (they're always like "we met bloodstone before they were bloodstone!"). There actually is a rare pre-pzazz sinceres 45 on a label called Zina I think, it's called "oh my angel", nice doowopy soul. It's the same group as the same names are on the label. That's not the acetate you have, is it? Either way, if it is the same sinceres, they could have gone to texas to try to get a deal. There were other sinceres groups, though, for example, the doowop group on richie.

I can't actually verify who is the lead (and the gadson thing makes sense), but a UK DJ told me that he knew it was tommy tate because there was an interview with tommy tate somewhere where he mentions his first recording as "handy andy". I don't know the actual interview and haven't seen it, i'm just relaying what I heard and what I think is the source of people saying tommy tate is the lead.

this is a cover of marilyn haywood on silver fox, right? now that I think about it, I think maybe eddie sullivan wrote this and I forgot to ask him about it in the interview (unless I am remembering wrong).

whatever, rising sun 'good loving' was like $75 a year ago, now it's like $1500 and that's not just two people bidding that.

Brad Hales, the guy from People's records of detroit (who has been discussed here before, specifically when his old store burned town) is the seller burl*one. re: recordmanx, I don't think his grading is particularly conservative, but to each his own I guess. I do like that he lists a lot of 45s and I do bid on his auctions a lot, he's a reliable person.

I went to their store (Goner Records) a week ago when I was in memphis -- definitely worth checking out if you were there as they had lots of good soul 45s.

this is hard on D.W. (local release), much more common on red bird. Can't give you a value though, not really worth much on red bird.

the flip is written by stormy, who also wrote saxie russell psychedelic soul. gregory washington was a guitarist that played on many chicago records and his sister cynthia washington was lead singer of silk. so at least it's connected to northern soul...

it's so interesting to see all your playlists all the time because I really don't know like 90% of the tracks on it. I love how you seem to be into exactly the opposite type of soul music that I'm into... I like your shows, it's just very different than what I usually listen to. I really appreciate the fact that there's someone else digging up the rest of the genre so the music isn't lost.

I don't know, but I'm guessing the LP was first. Bunky placed a lot of the earlier recorded material as b-sides on later singles. I will hopefully interview Mill Edwards soon (just about the Sheppards) and I will ask him. Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback, not the same bonnevilles, this was a garage group from Milwaukee, the play it cool group was a vocal group from DC. Thanks again.

Hi. Today on my radio show I interviewed Sam Pace of the Esquires. Although they were from Milwaukee, the Esquires were one of the greatest Chicago soul groups, cutting many great records in Chicago in the 60s and 70s. The original lineup of the group consisted of brothers Alvis and Gilbert Moorer and their sister Betty Moorer. Sam Pace joined the group in the early 60s. The group actually first recorded as singers on an LP by a local Milwaukee rock group called the Bonnevilles. Around 1967, Sean Taylor joined and the group went to Chicago to look for a record deal. They took a demo of their song "Get on up" to different labels on Michigan avenue ("record row"), and ended up being signed by Bunky Sheppard at Constellation records. The group went to the studio to re-cut "Get on up" and in the same session did backing vocals for Bunky's artist Mill Edwards (previously lead singer of the Sheppards). While recording "Get on up", Mill came up with the idea of the call-and-response bass answer in the song and ended up singing bass on the record. The record was released in 1967 on Sheppard's newly formed Bunky label and it became a huge national hit on both the R&B and Pop charts. Edwards became a permanent member of the group and they began to tour nationally. The group cut several excellent 45s for the Bunky label and even released a whole LP. Bunky Sheppard then placed recordings by the group on many other labels, including Wand, Capitol, Lamar, Rocky Ridge, Hot Line, and Ju-Par. "Girls in the City", the group's Lamar record, is, in my opinion, one of the greatest Chicago soul records of all time. In the late 70s a new lineup of the group released a record on Milwaukee's New World label and went to LA to cut tracks, two of which were released on Chicago's Lasco record label and two of which were released on the Esquires' own Cigar Man label. Although the group never released any material since 1980, they have continued to do shows and still perform today. You can check on my interview at: https://www.sittinginthepark.com/interviews.html as a special bonus, I played all Esquires records for the rest of the show and included the tracks in the mp3. thanks, Bob

where's the link?

or someone could bid the minimum which would take off the reserve and ruin it for everyone

although this page which is clearer says north carolina, plus it's clearly the same group because it says "king sound interpreters and the tips". https://www.heybabydays.com/bands.htm

this page says that the king sound interpreters were from charleston, SC https://cdbaby.com/cd/voodookatz

I totally think I was correct about the beach thing, the group has a cut on a followup CD for the book: https://www.waxmuseum.net/hey%20baby%20days.html the group always sounded white to me actually but maybe the lead is black, as in many of those beach groups. probably no connection to the audio house group though.

I have the truetones on LSP and it's a washington DC label and has the same names as the josie release. Are they definitely not from DC? I also have a michael hunter and the truetones on carrie but it's the nashville distributed carrie and says recorded in nashville and there are no common names (it just says james hendrix).

can't really tell as there's no info on the king sound interpreters except that somehow their publishing is different than the original

you know, I think I might be confused now actually, because I remember seeing "the tips" on the label and wondering if it was the tips that was from kansas city on AHC, who are definitely Black and obviously not carolinas. Can anyone put up a scan of the flip of the king sound interpreters so I can see the names on that? Thanks.

aren't they in the hey baby book? I will check when I get home. Either way, isn't it a carolinas record?

the king sound interpreters, a beach group, cover it

One of the main things that attracted people to ebay was the possibility of bargains. The records on soulbid mostly have starting bids higher than people set sale records even on here. To the buyer, that's the worst of both worlds. If you are trying to sell records at those prices they should either a) be set sale or actually be an auction at a lower price (without a reserve) that someone could have the opportunity to bid on. Why would someone want to bid in an auction that started higher than they would want to pay set sale? It may seem great for sellers with the lower fees, etc., but you need something to actually make buyers want to go there. I'm just trying to offer some constructive criticism from the point of view of a buyer, please don't take this as an attack. Without buyers, a site that is great for sellers doesn't help much. I also understand that most of the records are Dazz' personal collection and it is very difficult to let your personal collection that you spent a lot of money for go for a starting bid of $10 (versus a record that a seller got for cheap to resell), but I really can't see a lot of people signing up given the prices. Thanks.

thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.