George G

SORTED - Got one!!! Still looking for an original Freddie Chavez - They'll Never Know Why -still my most wanted record - doesn't have to be mint, just play well and have at least decent looking labels, thanks!!!!

not bottoming out, prices are getting more ridiculous..... https://www.ebay.com/itm/SOUL-SUSPECTS-Funky-Drop-RARE-northern-soul-45-SUPERB-funk-Handle-It-LISTEN-/331652174774?hash=item4d380293b6&nma=true&si=f7HqcM7sk%2FfHdqQl82dNYfaX34k%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 Four imbeciles bid more than $270 for it. I guess this copy from a month ago wasn't right for them https://www.ebay.com/itm/SOUL-FUNK-SOUL-SUSPECTS-BLACK-PRINCE-45-RPM-HANDLE-IT-FUNKY-DROP-LISTEN-/361358351718?hash=item5422a2dd66

Eddie Bishop - Call Me - ABC 10799, west coast promo style label. Strong VG (US grade, UK VG+), plays great - sound file available here, can email pic (no writing or tears on label). Send PM or email buckeyebeat@hotmail.com www.buckeyebeat.com/records/bishop_call_me.mp3 SOLD

I turned down a $3000 offer for my Botumles Pit 45. You should probably post in a Facebook group that deals in garage records. Do you know anything about the band?

Sorry, bars aren't my thing. I will go see live music occasionally - at Darrells Tavern in Shoreline, Tractor Tavern and Sunset in Ballard. Where to hang out depends on your age and interests, Capitol Hill used to have (and my still have) a couple good spots. Georgetown and Ballard as well. Alki Beach and Green Lake are fun places to go when the weather is decent. The downtown Seattle waterfront is undergoing a lot of change. Seattle in general is being radically changed by gentrification. There are a lot of good places to eat, most of the restaurants in the core neighborhoods are at least decent. Check out the Stranger paper (or website www.thestranger.com) for more tips.

I hope you don't mean Calvary (Jerusalem) as in the Bible, and meant to say Calgary - Calgary is a long way from Seattle, 10-12 hour drive as I recall. Better not wait too late in the year or else you will be driving in a lot of snow....

Sorry, the garage night is moved to May 29. You would think Seattle has record stores where people that are cool to hang out with sell records at decent prices....and you would be mistaken. The best place to find expensive records is Bop Street. The best place that fits the description I gave is Georgetown records. If you're going to visit Pike Place market, there is a record store there. Jive Time, Easy Street, Golden Oldies may have something.

I don't see any decline in prices on records selling on ebay from the US - I wish, as I would like to be the beneficiary of a few bargains living here in the US (this includes 60s soul and 60s garage). The good/rare records continue to go up. The cheap/common records are still hard to move, this is because of the huge postage increase, shipping one 45 from the US is now $12 and change, three years ago it was $5 and change. The most recent cheap record I got was because it was shipping to US only, a clean Adams Apples "Don't Take..." for $130ish. Several people overseas have the records shipped from ebay to a US address, and then have them sent resent without all the GSP or other crap.

There is a weekly event on Thursday night. Too bad you can't be here on the second Saturday (June 13 this month) for Emerald City Soul Club or the weekend before that for the Tacoma record show. If you like 60s (and some modern) garage rock, we are having a DJ night on May 22.

Yes, the Crawl/ A Thousand Years Too Late is the rarest 45 by them. Color One Tear Black used to sell pretty cheap, as the hard funk of "Crawl" was the in demand side. That was at the peak of the hard funk sound about 10 years ago, and "Crawl" sold for four figures. I paid $500 for mine which was more that I paid for the other three combined (including their 1st 45 as James Bowens and the Agents). Sometime over the next week I make a sound file of "1000 Years" if no one else does. There's copies of all the 45s in several US collections.

The recent Pied Piper production CD says there wasn't any solid info on the singers IDs.

You're about 15 years too late. Several Cincy / Ohio people contacted them way back. They started as James Bowens and the Agents, Bowens was the leader, he liked the James Bond / spy movie genre and named the group accordingly.

That's really interesting - although here in the US radio play did not mean the record sold. It's possible that the low riders were just hearing it on the radio and asking it to be played for dedications. I've seen radio charts that have now rare records charting high locally, but still only handfuls of copies around. People calling/requesting does not necessarily equal sales.

The sound file on the TB copy sounds like it has groove wear. I'd take Jimmy Bo Horn (sic) instead.

bought a bunch of records back then... 79 cents, 89 cents. The price stayed about the same until 1973/4 when oil prices jumped. LPs cost about $2.98 and $3.98 (or $3.79. or $3.97, depending on the store)). Went to $4.98 in the later 1970s. In the late 1970s I was paying $1.25 for a 45.

Here in the US, I've seen red issues of all the Columbia 45s mentioned, they are easier to find than many of the other labels mentioned here. The only one that was never on stock AFAIK was the Youth Opportunity Program promo of the Jimmy Fraser 45. Speaking of UK 45s, at least ones released in the US, I would like to see a black issue of the Tony Colton 45 on ABC, never seen one

https://www.collectorsfrenzy.com/details/150427392213/RARE_NORTHERN_SOUL_45_RUBIN Yum Yums on ABC, surprised there were 15 comments before this was mentioned. 7th Ave Aviators on Congress

All three on hold

Pinkertones - It's Not the way you walk - Queen G, M-, $300 Karen Small - To Get you back again - Venus 1067, VG+, $90 Lyrics - So Glad - GNP 381, VG++, $35 pics and sound files are at www.buckeyebeat.com/records Email buckeyebeat@hotmail.com or PM for questions, thanks!

The Moms Apple Pie cover posted above does have a very slight connection to Northern Soul - two of the members of MAP were in the Shaddows of "Together Again" fame. I recall seeing two different covers to the Velvet Hammer "Call Me" LP, one of them with a woman in bed, I recall there was some story to that and the cover was changed.

Found one of these in the US a few weeks ago for $3. There's probably more out there, just no one paying attention.

This reminds me of the first Todd Rundgren LP under the name of Runt. Some original copies had a sticker mentioning the song "We Gotta Get You A Woman" (a semi-hit 45 here in the US when it and the LP was released in 1970). When the LP was booted/counterfeited in the mid-late 1970s, the sticker was now part of the printed cover. I think there are more examples of this but the Runt LP is one I remember most. There were a bunch of counterfeit LPs from the same era, Yardbirds, the first Billy Joel LP, all US issues.

Here's the same Al Williams 45 on ebay some months ago. https://www.collectorsfrenzy.com/details/301297218707/AL_WILLIAMS_I_AM_NOTHING_BRAND_NEW_LOVE_45_DETROIT_NORTHERN_SOUL_La_Beat_6602

FWIW, I remember seeing this LP as a cutout here in the US, c. 1980. No stickers or messages on any of the couple dozen LPs. I also saw the Joe Quarterman LP in the same piles.

The original recording of Its No Secret from the first Jefferson Airplane LP... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJVvHj0USyA