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The ‘assumed’ song title you mention "one room country shack", sounds like some of the lyrics at the start of this track by Ronnie Milsap……could it be this?

How much please.

The Lucozade 'Mods' advert was actually 25 years ago!!! Made in 1998.

Barbara Dane and Jimmy Ruffin look a bit hefty on the price tag to me……I’d have thought £150 each…..tops………or am I way out of date these days?

Joe Arnold - £435????? Bit steep........thought this used to be about £150 tops.........then seemed to drop in price........seen as low as £60. There is also a cheaper one on Discogs for sale......the bidder could have paid £83 less......even though that price is way over the top to me! More madness???

That doesn't look real to me, I'd be very, very surprised if the above label really existed.............it looks like the words 'ACETATE', 'WITCHCRAFT' and 'THE TEMPTATIONS' have been added to a label scan using photoshop (or similar software). Very easy to acheive with photoshop on a 'worn' scanned Gordy label of that era. All the Motown and related acetates I've owned or ever seen have been like Wiggyflat's label in his scan/video.............plain(ish) paper or 'proper' studio acetate label with typewriter 'type' text. Any other ideas anyone?

If I remember right......I bought one when the stock was found............think it was about £50 to £60............I'm sure I've seen it as low at £30 at one point.........really surprised its jumped up to the prices noted above............sold mine a long while ago now and struggled to get my money back on it!

Agree, the ones I've had played perfect too.

I'm with you Chris.......not involved in the 'Northern' scene so much these days, haven't been for a number of years now, so I do get very surprised with some record prices these days. With regards to Chimes 'Beginning of my life', this was very readily available 20 years ago. Every record shop I went into in Chicago had copies for 50 cents.......again don't like the record but that's only my opinion again. Is this really a £75 record? To be honest.......I've been really thinking of selling up and cashing in lately due to some of the prices I've seen!

On trip to States about 18 years ago, found a Mint 20 count box in a record shop in Texas of the TSU Toronadoes. There was five of us on the trip and we all bought four each, think they were $50 dollars each. It booked at about £150 then, so we thought $50 was a good price. When we came back I really struggled to sell the record.......started at the £150 mark but ended selling them for about £80 tops. I guess it wasn't 'in demand' then? Kept one for myself but ended up selling that about 7 years ago. Book price was still at £150.........again struggled to sell it and got about £125 for it I think. I was really surprised to see it being sold at the £400 plus mark over the last 6 months or so........and it actually selling fast! Is it getting played somewhere? Is the demand really there? Nice record but I always thought it was OK.....not great.....but that's just my opinion. BTW - don't have any left and don't remember there being a problem with sound quality either.

What a voice......one of the best!

I thought the Valentinos was worth half that to be honest!

The more I've looked into it on the web since my previous posts............I might be eating my words..........I'm kinda now leaning towards the cover version from budget 60's LP idea. As previously noted by other posts, there were plenty of cover versions for budget LP's recorded in the US and UK throughout the 50's and 60's. Record gets released by a big artist, gets well known......then rather than paying royalties, budget LP producers cover version of the 'well known' record to include on a LP on 'past' hits. Very plausible……I’ve got a number of LP’s and EP’s in that vein……..don’t remember any ones which are better or as good as the original version though (I'm not saying this is better that Ray Charles BTW). Whether it is Sandy Philips or not, I expect we'll never know. Could just be a 'studio' artist and band that some in Belgium has found along the record digging path!

I did say I might be wrong Also found this at the same time, sounds same to my ear but not slowed down (which they do a lot in Belguim): Which may point it to being an earlier recording that was not published until a lot later. But then again we may never find out!!! I'd disagree with the comment of not being able to re-create a 60's sound now-a-days......there's plenty of records that have been made over the last 10-20 years that sound like they were recorded in the 60's. James Hunter has been mentioned, but also some stuff released on Daptone and The Kevin Fingier Collective/Acid Jazz to name a few that has an authentic sound, maybe not all soul but also R&B, New Breed R&B, Jazz, Boogaloo and Latin sounds have been copied/reproduced. I've also seen plenty of unknown/little known 'live' groups over the past 20+ years that to me, sound like they've stepped straight out of the 60's.

Think I may have found it? The video above for 'Sandy Philips' sounds slowed down to me................it looks like it could actually be a contemporary rockin' group called 'The Green Apples'. Not much information about them that I can find so may be unknown or a studio group or could even be older and not issued? Looks like it's on an album called Rock'n Roll Attitude, released in 2010 which has covers of classic songs. Have a listen to the sound clip here: https://music.apple.com/us/album/rockn-roll-attitude/412453590 Sounds the same to my ears but not slowed down, like the Sandy Philips video. I've never heard of any of the groups on the album, any rockabilly's out there that may know? Of course.......I may be completely wrong