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97 - Witch?

99 - Dawn 76 - Holly?

11 - Columbia = Colombia

4. - Trenton 18 - Crisp?

33 - Bhudda - spelt incorrectly - to wit: Buddah 100 - End 12 - Brunswick 96 - Strata?

I see that you are correct. I know I bought them from a mail-order operation. I guess that must have been my last purchase from Craig Moerer. But, I can't imagine why I did that. They didn't cost much at all. But, as they weren't Detroit or Chicago productions, it was a very strange thing for me to do, as I had stopped buying records about 1990.

I still think that the white release was in the 2000s, correcting the error, by replacing "The Inspirations" on the flip with The Companions (who I think are the Brooklyn group), and the original yellow issues must have been from the early 1990s. I just wasn't buying records at all in the 2000s.

Now, if it had been a rare, unreleased Detroit recording, like Clifford Binns' "I'm Human, Too", sounding like an early 1962 Motown, or Check-Mate recording, I'd have bought that, I'd even buy that now! Broken up many a happy home!

Then I must really be getting senile. It must have been my last mail order purchase, by far and away. But WHY did I buy them???? They weren't Detroit or Chicago productions! I must have had a stroke, and gone mad, temporarily! That was beyond the LAST thing I wanted to do with my money by that time in my life.

Discogs has had plenty of errors and incorrect information over the years. I never saw the white issue, so THAT one must be the 2000s issue. But, maybe the original issue was early 1990s? What about The Ronnie Walker, and The Topics/Stella & Gazelles' original issue dates?

Maybe the white pressing that corrected the error was pressed in the early 2000s, but mine was released at the beginning of the 1990s. I just wasn't looking on lists or buying ANY records in the 2000s.

Rod always said I didn't know what time it is. I thought it must have been the '70s because I didn't remember buying any records from Val since the '70s. But, now that I think of it, maybe I bought it from Craig Moerer. I really don't remember buying ANY records after the beginning of the 1990s. I COULDN'T have bought a record as recent as the 2000s.

Hope it gets better fast. When I'm in L.A., it's usually MY turn to be up all night posting with you Brits. I've been gone from Holland since late November of 2019.

What are you all doing awake so early in the morning???

Here it is: Etched into the run-out is: U - 54857 M - B Benn-X 59 B copyright sign Philley Archives / Benn-X

Yes, I have that GA record. I didn't remember buying mail order records from US dealers after the late 1970s. I always thought that General American record WAS The Brooklyn group. But, in any case, it shows that The Companions recorded in Philadelphia with Gamble and Huff, and so, Ben-Lee as well. Many Philly groups recorded in NY and vise versa (just like Baltimore and DC, they are very close. But why did one issue have "The Companions" and the other have "The Inspirations"?

I have no idea. All I know is that my record has The Inspirations listed as singing "I Can Feel It" on the flip. I bought it in maybe 1973 or 1974, and there was no white pressing available and no Companions' version available. I think those white pressings were issued in the late 1980s or 1990s. I never saw them in the early days. But, I can't guarantee anything. I'm no Philadelphia Soul expert. Maybe it WAS a Philly group, also called The Companions, and that original error was discovered much later, and corrected???

I bought my yellow store stocker of The Inspirations from Val Shively during the early-to-mid 1970s, along with 2 other records containing other recently discovered Philadelphia 1960s Soul recordings that had been unreleased till then (probably discovered and issued by the same Philadelphia record dealer/collector. The Companions was a fake name. The group was The Inspirations. I bought it because the record presser and Val both were pretty sure that it was the same Philly Inspirations that recorded "Dry Your Eyes" for Jamie. The real Companions were a Brooklyn, NY group from 1957-65, and they did NOT sing "Gotta Find A New Love" and "I Can Feel It", and I don't believe they ever worked with John Bendinelli (Ben-Lee Productions). They always recorded in New York, as far as I know. Maybe the owner of Impact Sound Studios found the masters when he bought the studio? Here's my yellow copy, plus the other 2 releases of the newly-discovered Philly Soul masters I bought at the same time (Ronnie Walker and The Topics, with Stella and The Gazelles on the flip):

The original has ZTSC 125853 and 125854 stamped in the runout plus a small bit of writing master's logo? or name? (can't read it- only tops showing). The boot with 99528 delta number was made by Monarch in L.A. in 1976. Several people at the time said it was Soussan, but there were also others getting boots made there back then.

The Benn-X Inspirations were from Philadelphia. The Midas Inspirations were from Chicago. The Inspirations (Joey Jefferson's group) who sang "No One Else Can Take Your Place" were from L.A. So, no, these weren't a group who had another NS hit. It was rumoured that they were, however, the same Philly former Doo Wop group who had a hit with "Dry Your Eyes".

That "alternate" take was the first one we found, and I've always liked it much better, and it will always be the "real" and definitive version, to me. I thought IT was the version Rod Shard took to The UK first, and was placed on a carver, just as all the best of the others he had taped. But, for whatever reason, the other 1965 version took over as The NS favourite, and mine never appeared on The Internet again. The 1970 version is way too modern sounding for me. We had my "classic version" slated for "From The Vaults LP #2". A shame we didn't get to release 5 or 10 of them.

Those don't look to me like original the Motown pressings I saw in The Motown Vaults in 1978. One was a cream-coloured uncredited (no artist name) Jobete Music acetate (used only for song proof of ownership, and another was a 10-inch Motown Originals acetate with, if I remember correctly, 5 or 6 of their songs, from 1965. These 2 look too new (from the 1990s - probably made after the originals were auctioned of at the beginning of the 1990s). Even in the mid 1970s, when I first saw the real acetates, the paper on them from being pasted on only 10 to 13 years before, was already yellowing or browning slightly from oxidation. Also, I've never seen that particular print font on a 1960s Moton or Jobete acetate or vinyl demo record. Clearly, those paste-ons were done after 1990.

Quite an understatement, that! Oyyyy! Vey ist Mir!!!! Some influence from The Good Reverend James Hendrix, and some from the writer of "Randy The Newspaper Boy" !!!

Thanks!

Can anybody post a file of Clifford's "Again it's Christmas"? I've never heard it, and it doesn't seem to be on The Internet.