Amsterdam Russ

A £50 purchase from Mr Rob Wigley originally, if memory serves me well. On its first time out at the 100 Club, I think it got played three times in the same night!

Judging by the locks on that I'd say it was donkey's years old. Car boot sale or eBay is going to be your best bet!

I'm in the Netherlands, have been for a couple of years now. Prior to that I lived in London for 20 years. My experience with missing ebay items being sent over here from the UK is that the problem often lies not with the local postal service, ie, the Dutch post office. The problem is that packets do not make it out of the UK in the first place. This has certainly been the case for me with registered items. Where signed for items have gone missing, Post Office investigations have shown that the packets didn't even get a chance to be lost by the postal service of another country - they'd already 'disappeared' well before then. As well as there being a domestic problem with the postal service in every country, you may find that workers inside the UK post office know that packages going to specific countries are much easier to 'misappropriate than others.

Jokes? What, do you mean about Motown and 'Sole Music' - that kind of thing?

Tout Ensemble

Looks like they forgot to embroider 'England' on the first one - or is it common practise out there to end a sentence with a comma?

As a further digression, but staying with the copyright angle, although you could not claim copyright on the list that comprises the players in the England football team, both English and Scottish football fixtures lists are copyright protected. topic>

As you say Dave, you cannot copyright such a list. What you can protect is the presentation and format of it, but only if that were sufficiently unique or novel. On the other hand, if listings are sufficiently large and detailed enough, and as such represents a unique source of collected information, then it could be classified as a database and thus subject to copyright protection.

Lovely item and would definitely like a copy! Am not too surprised; not that long ago I saw a Turkish copy of another Loma release - Barry Barefoot Beefus - which points then to there being others from the catalogue out there, too. Hope you don't mind, but I've nabbed your scans for my files.

You're spot, Matt. Reckon that would have been 85-86. Was going to the 100 club regularly back then and recall I'd gotten a copy of it from Richard Domar some time prior. He described it on his list as a 'Catacombs secret sound' and that's what made me buy it blind! Funny the level of detail you can remember from years ago, but can't bring to mind what happened yesterday! Was surprised when Adey played it out as a cover up and vividly recall chatting to him about it at the time. Now, what the hell was I doing yesterday??

I'm in the Netherlands and items from UK and USA have turned up just fine. If anything the US Postal Service is getting faster. Yesterday's item arrived in under a week.

Currently available on GEMM as a 7" for $25...

There are about half a dozen copies on eBay now, mainly 12" - all at around the same price, and mostly available on a 'Buy it now'.

Any chance of a sound file?

I took a chance and paid something like $75 for a 45 without a label that was marked as 'unknown'. Turned out to be a pre-Atlantic Wilson Pickett that was only 'unknown' to the seller and worth about a tenner at best if in mint condition. However, not only did this one not have any labels, but it also looked as if it had been found on the fast lane of the motorway. Live and learn!

I'm currently deeply in love with Beverly Shaffer... BEVERLY SHAFFER, WHERE WILL YOU BE, ONE-DERFUL - Not just that track, but also her vocals on 'I Simply Love Him' make me go weak at the knees

The Vibrations - Let's find love (Together) / Come to yourself - Columbia?

The title of and discussion in the thread gives it away. Some people buy tunes because they are in-demand. In-demand by whom? Peers. Sheep are everywhere...

Another one just come to mind... The Manhattans - Summertime in the city

Can't believe I forgot... Jackie Wilson - Nothing but blue skies

Summer kind of love - Four Voices My world is on fire - Jimmy Mack

I agree with all of the points that peer pressure is an influencing factor. Sometimes as a species we are more sheep-like than human. There is one other factor that hasn't been mentioned yet, and that's the fact that tracks sound completely different when played out at a venue than they do when on your turntable at home. A tune played to you round at a mate's house, and which you express no real like for, suddenly becomes something completely different when you hear it pumped out loud and bassy at a venue for the first time. Mind you, numerous times in the past, 45s bought because I'd heard them played at clubs or allnighters have sounded, well, quite disappointing when played in the quiet and comfort of home; so much so that they sound like completely different songs that perhaps I wouldn't have bought had I heard them in a domestic situation first.

Yes, it is performed in English - although I would still have been thrilled if at the start JJ had burst into Spanish!

From Argentina - JJ Jackson LP on WB.

I recently put Jimmy Robbins 'I can't please you' on a cd for my father to listen to - he grew up in the 50s. Said he really liked it. Why? Because, he says, it reminded him an awful lot of Chuck Berry. Sometimes I think that we suffer from too much of a desire to label things and stick them in pigeon-holes.