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COUNT OWEN: Let's Go Ska-Lipso (JAMAICAN Kentone LP) This is a really lovely original Jamaican Ska LP from 1964, on Kentone. Tracks are: "Take Her To Jamaica / Come Back Liza / Back To Back / Yellow Bird / Marianne / Emmanuel Road / Linstead Market / Coolie Gal / Rookumbine / Donkey City / Chi Chi Bud / Slide Mongoose". CONDITION OF COVER: VG (there is a surface tear on the bottom front cover - see scan. The rest of the cover is intact, and there are no seam splits or tears). CONDITION OF RECORD: EX- (typical quaint Jamaican pressing). £35 or best offer. P&P (registered): UK: £3.25. REST OF EUROPE: £11. OUTSIDE EUROPE: £13 (Please note that I will only send items registered. This is for your safety as well as mine). I WILL NOT RESERVE ANY SALES ITEMS! First person to pay gets it. Please PM me if interested. PayPal only. Thanks, Gene

Many a true word spoken in jest as they say!

Brilliant - didn't know they were responsible for "Detroit Sound" on Laurie!

Keb was playing modern soul as a DJ until the end of 1982. During that year I can remember him playing things like "Giving It All To You" by Cheryl Berdell, "I'll Get To That" by Tom Sanders, and even "How Can I Tell Her" by Curtis and "It Takes Heart" by Greg Perry. I can distinctly remember his first 60s newies spot in London in February 1983. The 60s mafia was kind of 'established in 1983/84. Incidentally, the playlist Chalky posted dates from Autumn 1987 - that would have been the time he and Rob Marriott creamed Jim Wensiora's collection when it was up for sale (hence the inclusion of J D Bryant etc).

Similar boot EPs are quite rife on the rockin' and jump-jive scene. Wasn't able to find any info on the South African issue Eddy, though Rob Messer had one on his sales list a number of years ago.

That's a boot.

I think the only way you'll get Dee Dee Sharp on a 45 is to look for the South African release (can't remember the label but it definitely wasn't Cameo). I think it was the only country to issue it as a 45. It's only otherwise available on the "All The Hits by Dee Dee Sharp" LP on US Cameo.

Not really in favour of schadenfreude, but maybe he'll fall victim to one of the many fake bidders who plague reggae auctions and that should, hopefully, put a stop to his actions.

What is it Pete? Can't see the link.

Yep - the 'Rocket' cash-in definitely makes sense Pete.

Weren't they both 70s retrospective issues, aimed at the Northern crowd? The Patterns LP sounds nice though - still got to be £20 worth of anyone's money.

When I bought a blue issue of this from a US list many years ago, it was described as a "Rolling Stones soundalike"? That was news to me.

"My Life" - Joe Jama. Why so much fuss about a third-rate record which has a musical fart as its intro?

The legal lookalike reissue on WB has Harvey Averne on the B-side (with an Atlantic label). It was a promo for the first volume of "After Hours", done around 2002.

It was supposedly a posthumous release. The Wikipedia note states that it was released on Big Apple ("I'm Sorry / Seabreeze") but gives no number. Also states that they were the last two recordings he ever made at the Big Apple sessions on the same day of (or the day before) his death on February 28th 1968. The discography on Dave Rimmer's "Soulful Kinda Music" website states that it's Big Apple 100, and also gives details of the other issue; Mesida (134), though Dave states that it was recorded on 10 January 1967. The plot thickens.......

Does anyone know anything about or of him?

What about Buddy Smith? All that I know of him is that as well as his "When You Lose The One You Love" on Brute, he also wrote "She's Got You Now" (or "He's Got You Now", depending which version you prefer).

Make you right on that Pete! Mind you, it wouldn't be the first time a budget cover was played on the scene. There's also "Back In My Arms Again" by Val Palmer on Hit. Some of those Hit 45s are quite decent covers.

Yes - good point. Do you think it could have been put out as a similar budget-type release?

May not be up there with the rarest of the rare UK 70s / 80s singles, but what price on a Nolan Porter demo on Probe?

It's very possible that it would have been released here on one of those 6-track budget cover EPs (probably on Avenue, Disc-a-Fran, or Flag). And yes, it does look like the Italian equivalent of one of these budget cover singles (a bit like the Embassy label of the late 50s / early 60s). Both sides would have been UK hits around the same month during 1971, and probably a few months later in Italy (though it looked like Italy didn't believe in using a naked nubile to promote the record). I wonder if the tracks were UK-produced and recorded for such EPs, and then sent over to Italy for similar use? Embassy (which was part of Oriole) did a similar thing by sending their tracks to countries like France and Israel for release out threre. If that's the case, then the real identity of the artistes would be unknown (certainly not the Blue Sharks). These cover versions were always recorded by whoever was available as a session musician at the time - don't forget that even Elton John recorded a few tracks for some Avenue EPs.

Very sad news - and I didn't even know he was that ill. RIP Lou.

No longer for sale - sorry!

Not sure you can get them any more (if it's the American Goldring centres I'm thinking of). Bought a couple of Les Paul and Mary Ford US Capitol 45s from a boot fair with them in, but they're bloody hard to remove. If I'm not wrong, Goldring stopped making them in the late '50s (but am open to correction!).

All warps, including dishes, should IMO be listed in an item description. What if a record doesn't sit properly on some turntables because of a dish warp? Not keen on warps myself. Would rather have a VG copy of a record, which is flat, rather than a Mint one which is distinctly warped or dished.