jocko, on 18 January 2012 - 12:44 PM, said:
You wouldn't think it of a man who I believe likes men who play with odd shaped balls.
One challenge however, is you can't say it is complete until you answer the Bob and Earl Loma question, 27 years of chasing it, so I can't die without knowing for definite if it exists or not......
True, I do like men who play with odd shaped balls, but at least my national male costume is not a skirt
It's an interesting question regarding the Bob & Earl record. There are actually quite a few other records listed on the site that I'm fairly sure were never actually released in a physical piece of vinyl format. However, the company records say they were released, so who am I to argue with that ?
One example is Chess Records, I'm almost positive (As are many other collectors and discographers), that there are some singles listed in the Chess catalogue that don't physically exist. But what does that mean ? If the singers sang the song, and it was allocated a catalogue number do they they exist as Chess singles, albeit unreleased ? I don't know ?
The view I have taken for SKM is simple (Bit like me really). If the catalogue lists it, it exists. It is almost impossible to prove a record doesn't exist, but just because a record hasn't been found doesn't mean it won't be. There might only be one box of 25 singles that are hidden away under forty years worth of rubbish in the back storeroom of what used to be a One-Stop in Chicago, and they are sitting there waiting to be found. So there's always a chance.........
Now I realise this way of viewing things is extremely frustrating for label collectors because they end up searching for records that might not exist (There was a thread recently about Impression' singles that a collector had searched years for but never seen) but all I can say to those collectors is get a life

Find something interesting to do with your lives like writing out lists of records