Gene-r

I know Ebay has its fair share of f**kwits, but this really does take the biscuit - unbelievable!

Nigel, you don't mean this demo (PSR 417) from 1977, do you? If so, I've got one without the cover, and no centre, but wouldn't have a clue what to ask for it. It's going on Ebay tonight if no interest. https://www.45cat.com/record/psr417

Nice!

Why do I think of "look......no hands" when I look at this?????

THE CHANTS: I've Been Trying / Lucky Old Me (UK Chipping Norton 45) EX- Lovely crossover double-sider from Eddie Amoo and his crew. £20 + P&P (a few light surface marks on the B-side. Plays near perfect, but for 3 pops at the start of the B-side) WILEY TERRY: Follow The Leader Pts. 1 and 2 (USA 45) VG / VG+ Has been attracting some interest on the funk scene, so I'm told. Very similar to "Cleo's Back" by Jr Walker. £10 + P&P (some light surface marks and a few fine scratches. Plays fine, only with a few scattered light pops in the first bar of the A-side) P&P: £2.15 UK. Europe: £6.50. Rest of the world: £8. All items sent recorded or registered. PAYMENT BY PAYPAL ONLY, PLEASE. PLEASE PM IF INTERESTED. I DO NOT RESERVE ITEMS, SO FIRST TO PAY GETS 'EM! I will accept best offers on any item, but no stupid offers, please! Thanks, Gene

No, I'll spare you this time, Steve! I dont believe in youthanas......eyouthinasia.........erm, shooting people

And here's me thinking that it was a sparkling wine!

Judging by his other sale items, past and present, he knows feck-all about records, let alone soul. But then again, igonrance is no excuse to attempt to mislead and defraud the public.

I am thanks Paul! How's things? Hope all is well at your end too - catch up again soon, I hope......

In the next exciting instalment, Dave teaches the rest of the forum members how to suck eggs.................

Sure that wasn't Ady's old copy? His had a tight crack running through it as well. Unless that was a flaw which was characteristic with most of the colour vinyl pressings of that particular single.

Not a bad achievement for someone born in 68!

I once had a bullshitter uncle who was one of these know-all wankers (most of my uncles and their families were in any case) who claimed he was an black belt in Tae Kwan Do. When I told him I had a friend who went one better than that and was a black belt in Shakuhachi-Senzuri, he claimed to be an black belt in that too. It's a good thing, for his sake, that he never looked up Shakuhachi Senzuri - from what I'd been led to believe all these years, it's the Japanese phrase for 'wank'! Maybe Dave Flynn can confirm that one way or the other? If I'm wrong, and it's complimentary, then my lying uncle (well, one of them) has had the last laugh from his grave!

Originally released in February 1966, but as AT 4071, when Atlantic was distributed by Decca..

Pete, I know it came out on yellow / green vinyl on Jamaican Soul (the one with "Wings Of A Dove" on the flip) - Ady Potts was selling his copy a long time ago. Not sure about a coloured vinyl BRA release though

I'm pretty sure Des Parker let one go a lot, lot cheaper over the past year on here.

Dave, I know it's not completely relevant to your original post, but here's what your Man United record may have looked like. Interestingly, I picked this up amongst a load of mid-60s records in London a few weeks ago, along with one of the Freddie Bell & The Bell Boys EPs on UK Mercury and a Jimmy Smith EP on UK Verve, both in pic sleeves. However, if you're saying that the Man United 45 is worth £50, I would dismiss that as sheer fantasy. If I were to sell the Rangers 45, I'd take at least £47 off your hysterically, over-inflated, know-all price. The Tams / Chubby Checker mispress with this reversed label would, of course, be an entirely different matter?

Rob had quite a few things from Jim when he sold off in '87, so that would make sense.

Maybe that's why he was so defensive!

There are bullshitters everywhere, not just on the scene (where the name droppers love 'Stafford' and 'Wigan'), but most other places in the world of record collecting. LIke the tw*t who got chatting to me in a record shop run by my late friend Bill Cottom some 15 years ago, and the conversation turned to Elvis. "I've got an Elvis Sun 78 at home........Jailhouse Rock" he tried to tell me. The relaxed mood in the record shop was quickly shattered by me shouting (deliberately so that everyone else heard), "B**locks, you haven't got Jailhouse Rock on a Sun 78". The shop went silent, and Bill gave him a dirty look. He tried to walk away with a silly smile on his face, and about 4 customers giving him daggers! Those that know their Elvis stuff will know that Jailhouse Rock was only issued on RCA - it was three years too late to be issued on Sun! Or the Ebay weirdo who tried to brag that he had lots of celebrity contacts, including a contact who worked for the BBC, because he wanted one of my records cheaper than I had set the starting price, and tried to say it was for him. I asked him which department his friend made tea for, and got a rather defensive response which caused him to receive a warning from Ebay for inappropriate language (and, needless to say, blocked from my auctions)! What made it even funnier was that his Ebay name was "honest dave"!

Brilliant - thanks Ricky!

Yes. "The Record Collector, Vol. 1" on Destiny, which also had Arin Demain,The Flirtations, Checkerboard Squares etc. I think it was reissued on CD with some extra tracks not on the LP. The Plexium LP that it's on is (I think) one of these budget "Top Of The Pops" type LPs from 1971.

The only record I've ever altered the pitch control on while DJing is the instrumental B-side of "Alone With No Love" by The Contemplations, as it appears to have been mastered at the wrong speed. It plays slow, so I used to play it at +1.

Anyone know of the current going rate for a UK Action copy of "Save It (Never Too Late)" by Melvin Davis, please? Cheers, Gene

Was covered up as Jimmy Burns during the early '80s (Stafford?). I think also Empty Heart (on the Chattahoochee LP and a cover of the Stones) got some play a long while back. Like the other singles, it was also released on Whittier. I believe they also did a version of "It'll Never Be Over For Me", also a Whittier 45, though I've never heard it. By the way, your Chattahoochee LP look pretty damn awesome - some lovely looking tracks!