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It does... it does indeed Flynn-san. And I want one... I have a different pic to this standard one of Mr Redmond in my files - a pre-Loma one. Will see if I can dig it out later. I'm in the process of putting together an image gallery of Loma-related items. If anyone's interested they can find it here: https://www.lomarecords.com/loma-gallery.html There's more to come when I get the time...

Would happily oblige, but keep getting the following message when clicking on 'Add Refosoul clip'... >>>You are not authorized to access this page.<<<

No, the LP comes from 1973, and Loma shut its doors in '69. I have both issue and promo copies of Delilah Kennebreuw, but just the promo of The Soul Shakers. Would love an issue though... As for Larry Laster, I personally think that the issue is harder to find that the promo. I see Pat Brady has one up for auction at present, which shows that it's demand that keeps the price higher than it should be. I have two issues, so maybe that just proves I'm wrong on those being harder to locate. Either way, it's not a tough one to find. Many of the promos are much easier to find than the issues. This is particularly true for the non-soul stuff. It's not easy to find issues of Limey & The Yanks (2059), the second Belfast Gipsies release (2060), The Poor (2062), Kim Fowley (2064), or Butch Engle & The Styx (2065). As for Redd Foxx, he is far and away the most successful act to come out on Loma and had four out of the seven LP's the label put out. His LP's have been reissued umpteen times over the years, in later years on WB, such was their demand. Look on eBay and you'll see loads of copies, all going for a couple of quid. I agree that WB probably did want to keep Redd Foxx at arms length, and that is why he came out on Loma. Bill Cosby was with WB at the time, and was very successful, so at first glance you would have thought it natural for Fox to be on the same label.

The John Wonderling 45 comes up on Gemm/eBay a couple of times a year. Probably seen three in the last 18 months. 'Man of Straw' also featured on his 1973 Lp 'Daybreaks'. Earlier this year I was contacted by Carey Allane, aka Carey Budnick, one of the co-writers, who was complaining quite bitterly that he'd never received a penny in royalties from the song. For anyone that's interested, there are short soundclips of both sides on my site: Loma 2106: John Wonderling Thanks for putting together the 'Top 10' list, Kris. I'm not surprised to see Larry Laster at the top of that list, yet it amazes me that people pay so much for it. It pops up on eBay almost weekly and is by no means 'rare'. Likewise Loma 2091 - Linda Jones. James Cotton's 45 is much harder to find than either, but when it comes up for sale it's price never reflects its obscurity. As for The Soul Shakers - I'm getting weaker - well, there's another one that's always readily available as a promo, but sooo much harder to find as an issue. Much the same story with Delilah Kennebruew.

Putting aside the Bob and Earl 45, which may or may not exist on Loma, what's the rarest or hardest to find from the label?

Must admit I've not seen one yet. I think possibly the promos tell us whether the earlier of the 1968 releases in this transition phase came in both yellow and green labels. If it's a new style Warner-7 label promo, then you can find issues on both yellow and green labels. If it's an old style Loma label promo, then you won't find it on a green label, only yellow. Loma 2088 (The Realistics - Brenda Brenda) comes on an old style Loma label, and I've never seen a Warner-7 version of it. The same goes for Loma 2089 - Bobby Reed. As the scans here show, Linda Jones - Loma 2091 - comes on a Warner-7 promo, and is available on both the yellow and green labels. That's all assumption on my part though, and I expect it's completely wrong. Of Loma 2087 - The Implements - I've only seen one green label copy, and that looked as if it had been stuck on badly, much as you would expect with a shoddy bootleg. Promos are on the old style label?? If anyone has copies of Loma 2088 and 2089 - issue or promo - on the Warner-7 label, I'd love to see scans of them.

The apocryphal story goes that Mike Maitland (then president of WB) looked out of the window and saw a sign for a street named Loma. Nice, but somewhat corny and not necessarily true. Press notices at the time more accurately report that it comes from a name WB had cleared for copyright and thus intended to use commercially. That name was Eloma.

The Loma label changed to reflect the sale of Warner Bros (film & music) to the Seven Arts organisation for $32 million. Initially a production company, Seven Arts moved into ownership & equity arrangements and that's where they got their money from. That was in late '66. Jack Warner hung on until the summer of 67 before giving up his position with the organisation. The changes within the organisation take, I guess, months to filter down to all levels and it's not until the start of the following year, 1968, that we see the traditional yellow Loma labels being put out with the 'new' green label. The first Loma release that I've come across that is available on both yellow and green labels is Loma 2087 - from January 1968.

20,000 items over 10 years stolen by US Postie Could be some of yours in there...

Ah, sorry - the Speedlimit/Cutlass acetate...

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!