Ian Dewhirst

Having a bit of a summer clearout, so here's some oddball UK bits and pieces which are nice to own:- Jackie Wilson "Whatcha Gonna Do About Love" UK Brunswick Promo M £25.00 SOLD! Lou Ragland "Since You Said You'd Be Mine" UK Warner Brothers Promo NM £60.00 Ray Munnings "It Could Happen To You" UK Tammi Promo M £50.00 Love Committee "Tired Of Being Your Fool" Unreleased UK 7" Single-Sided Test Pressing NM 80.00 SOLD! Krystal Generation "Wanted Dead Or Alive" UK Mercury NM £25.00 Watson T. Browne "What Can I Say" UK Pye Promo M £25.00 Baby Washington "I've Got To Break Away" UK People Promo M £20.00 Chuck Jackson "I Only Get The Feeling" UK Probe VG+ £40.00 The Younghearts "Number One Attraction" UK ABC Promo NM £15.00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZn2Wbdw Infernal Blues Machine "Ain't That Love" UK London Promo M £20.00 SOLD PM me if interested. All buyers on a first come first served basis. Free 1st class postage on everything. Ian D

This one got lost in the shuffle but it's actually great... Showstoppers "Baby Don't Leave Me Standing In The Pouring Rain" UK Beacon BEA 110 Ian D

This is interesting - a 7" promo of a 10" record! Nina Simone "My Baby Just Cares For Me" Charley Plug 1 Ian D

I've never seen a UK copy of this even though it's got a Cat No on the acetate.... R.B. Greaves "Let'sTry It Again" Pye Acetate BTC 2203 Ian D

Talking of UK Paramount, I haven't seen many of these eiither:- Stephanie Mills "I Knew It Was Love" UK Paramount PARA 3050 Ian D

Yep, you're right but alas I won't have time to do 'em unless they're on You Tube. That Philadelphia Disco Movers is well weird but it's a pretty pedestrian studio jam unfortunately. I'm just curious who Soulville Records Ltd were.....? Ian D

Yep but entirely predictable considering the spat that Rochelle Fleming and Jean Terrell had over some guy called "Nathan Jones" which is actually a First Choice outake from the rejected second Sceptre single (which Sceptre rejected for sounding like the Supremes, remember). The Supremes heard the First Choice demo tape, nicked the song and got it out whilst First Choice were between labels. Norman never forgave Motown and revenge was sweet when "Armed & Extremely Dangerous" became a huge hit........ I think Jean Terrell was pretty cheesed off about it...... Ian D

I managed to find some goodies on my shelf trawl - lovely UK promos on Tommie Young, Barbara Hall, Diane Jenkins, Ray Munnings, Baby Washington, Lou Ragland, Infernal Blues Machine, The Younghearts and a few oddities.... What the hell is this.....? I'm actually clearing down a few things so if anyone is after any of this stuff, then check the sales thread later on. They need to go to good homes. Ian D

I bet no one's got this on a UK copy.....who'd have thought that a Bobby Paris/Alice Clark stomping duet would turn up on Elektra of all labels..... Paris & Clark "Turn To Love" UK Elektra K12206 Ian D

Anyone else got this on the UK label.....? Hoagy Lands - Friends And Lovers Don't Go Together UK American USA 13 Ian D

Another nice one that I seldom see on UK Mercury.... Krystal Generation - Wanted Dead Or Alive UK Mercury 6052 121 Ian D

OK, I just did a sweep of my some of UK shelves and I think one of rarest UK has to be this:- Love Committee - Tired Of Being Your Fool Unissued UK Pressing SPSR 427 Single-sided 7" test pressing. I guess it could be EMI when they were distributing Salsoul in the UK. Just a blank white label no writing but unmistakably Love Committee.Probably no more than a handful.... Ian D

Actually it's still kind of relevent. When I was working @ EMI in the early 80's, it was sometimes difficult to even find the 7"! The only people who needed 'em were the radio pluggers. Quite often they'd get a basic 'service' which meant that anything that wasn't a radio priority (ie virtually all Soul releases) just got blanket-mailed to the radio stations and generally forgotten about within a week. 9 times out of 10, they'd be the ones which would be lining the promotion offices shelves and be dumped every few months. It's hardly surprising that tons of these never made it to the shops. I've often gone into thrift or junk shops in the U.S. and found 100's of the same promo record, almost like the entire pressing run had been dumped just to get rid of it and that would apply to virtually all of the majors at some point or other. I've found 100 count boxes of Eloise Laws and Segments of Time promos in a flea market - shame I never found Billy Woods in that kind of quantity! Also Steve, see if you can find a 7" of Satoshi Tomiie featuring Arnold Jarvis "And I Loved You" (FFRR F134). Same vibe as "It's Hard Sometimes" and equally as rare IMO. Ian D

Actually, I'm off with an injured foot. Somehow I knackered my left foot again so I've got to rest it for a few days. However, I'm actually planning to go through my shelves this weekend and pull out some interesting UK 70's and 80's releases. One thing I'm finding out is that a LOT of 70's and 80's releases are rarer than people may think. I've had 125 U.S. 70's and 80's promos pulled from Discogs because no one's loaded them yet - I'll often use the issue listing and use the comment section to explain the differences between the issue and the promo. But Discogs (quite rightly) insist that the promo needs a seperate entry. I don't have time to do that, so I'm actually accumulating a big pile of unlisted stuff including the stuff that there's no entries for. I think that there's a LOT of 70's and 80's singles which are rare on 7" - especially when albums and 12"'s were the most commercial formats. Also a lot of the 7" mixes were different to the album and 12" versions. Sometimes the 7" is massively different to the other versions and much much rarer 'cos no one was really buying 7"'s at the time. Anyway, if I find anything interesting I'll whack 'em on here and get the thread back on track LOL..... Ian D

There's a huge competition to locate the UK's most intelligent dog. Eventually it boils down to three dog owners and their dogs. The dog owners are an architect, a maths professor and a record company A&R man. The dogs are each given a pile of dog biscuits and the winner will be decided by the amount of intelligence and creativity the dogs can display by each manipulating their respective piles of dog biscuits. The architect's dog starts first and builds an exact scale model of the Taj Mahal with his biscuits. The maths professor's dog goes next and manipulates his biscuits into the exact equation for the Pythagoras theorum. The A&R man's dog goes last and grinds his biscuits into a powder, snorts it all, f*cks the other 2 dogs and leaves early. Ian D

Roburt. I was THERE mate. I'd got into Wand/Sceptre because Mel Cheren fancied me and thus allowed me to go through the Wand/Sceptre promo cupboard in the mail-out room. There was an air vent system right next to the promo cupboard which fed into the meeting room next door so I heard the EXACT conversation OK? Ian D

Bugger! No index in that book so I can't quickly check! However, that's sorted out a holiday re-read methinks. I really must invest in a kindle as lugging around all these books is a pain... Ian D

I was being tongue in cheek after a few pints Roburt and responding to Steve's point about First Choice sounding like an old Supremes record..... I'll try and be a bit more serious in future! Ian D

Mmmm. Interesting. I can probably check that out for sure 'cos I have semi-access to Stan Watson and Rochelle Fleming as well if necessary. But that strikes me as being EXACTLY what happened because it makes total sense. When "This Is The House (Where Love Died)" first appeared on import in the UK it was immediately tagged as 'Northern Soul' on Record Corner's lists (along with N.F. Porter's "Keep On Keeping On", the Fuller Brother's "Time's A Wasting" and Limme & The Family Cooking's "You Can Do Magic"). So, in a Sceptre Records A&R meeting, when First Choice came up, this would have been the conversation:- Boss: "So what's the deal with the First Choice record....."? Minion: "Jack Shit. A few sales in Philly but that's it. Oh....I forgot....we shipped 2K to England. For some reason they seem to like it over there...." Boss: "Yeah? How come"? Minion: "....I dunno.....it's kinda weird......they like the Motown shit from 5 years ago". Boss: "No shit. Seriously.....?" Minion: "Yeah...I know....it's kinda weird.....Incidentaly, they just sent me their new recording, it's called "Armed & Extremely Dangerous....." Boss: "That title is pure Motown shit. Do they sound like the Supremes"? Minion: "Well.......yeah......I guess........." Boss: "Is this another one of those 'big in England' things"? Minion: "........I.....guess......" Boss: "Release 'em. NOW! Ian D

The original version and the one which hit No.1 in the UK was on the Smokey Robinson & The Miracles vinyl LP "Make It Happen" in 1967 though.... https://www.discogs.com/Smokey-Robinson-The-Miracles-Make-It-Happen/release/3367476 .....I presume this is correct? Ian D

That's a good start. I just turned on 'Olympic's Most Amazing Moments' on BBC 3 and what's playing but The Heavy's "How You Like Me Now" - track 17, CD 2 (which does seem to be being used everywhere right now). Good. One down and another 41 to go LOL..... The Heavy - How You Like Me Now Ian D

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OK, I just googled him. Blimey. He has a pretty impressive discography and claims that he and James Jamerson 'double bassed' on many key sessions. No mention of "Tears Of A Clown" that I can see though, but I guess some of those sessions were murky, especially if there were several takes of a song (as we know there were in tons of cases). They probably all played on different versions of it I guess. I've got the Motown session listings here but I don't think they actually list the players...... His website's a 'lil clunky but there's some interesting stuff on there.... https://www.novastarinteractive.com/TonyNewton_BassBio.htm Ian D

And who's Tony Newton then? I could always get my mate to drop him another line to inform that he DIDN'T play that bassline even though Tony Newton says he did. This seems to happen quite a lot with bassists LOL..... Ian D

It's funny isn't it? It's taken me the best part of 45 years to actually understand that line of the song. It wasn't until my mate explained it last night that the penny actually dropped. Smokey at his lyrical best plus I love the way he 'sampled' one of his own previous songs...... Ian D