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The One That Got Away.... The Misery Of Losing Out On A Rare Find


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Torquay Market 1974 with messrs Ian Clowrey and Les Cockell. Record stall which I  got to first. Nothing much until a Marvin Gaye Stateside red & White demo of 'How sweet it is' turns up and goes to front of box for payment later. In the excitement of potentially turning up more gems I rattle through the box without really concentrating. With indecent haste and the other two breathing down my neck and looking over my shoulder I notice a King single but fail to check it out suspecting its yet another Larry Cunningham. Not a lot else to rave about so I step back to pay for Marvin and that point Les politely asks if I've finished. To my horror and his words still haunt me to this day - Right oh says he and goes straight back into the box to pull out Mary Love 'You turned my bitter into sweet' and calmly said 'ok if you're leaving this I'll have it !  AAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHH. 

 

The other one that got away was the Sapphires 'Gotta to have your love' on HMV. Swapped about a dozen bog standard Tamla imports with some Scousers in the record bar at Wigan for this little beauty. My last memory of possessing it was when a well know DJ from the Stoke area saw it in my box and asked to have look at it despite it not being for sale. Hey presto obviously he had studied under Paul Daniels cause it wasnt there later !

 

Eventually got a replacement for the Sapphires but Mary has always since eluded me.

 

The upside of the week in Torquay was that  a CBS Dennis Dell UK demo and Thrills What can go wrong on Capitol demo did make the return journey .

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At a car boot in Plymouth 20 odd years ago I found a box of mint Oriole singles. Not one Motown one in there. apparently someone had beat me to it by about 5 minutes and got them. I had to be content with Sherry, Hugo Montenegro as a poor consolation.  I did get a mint April Stevens MGM Demo for £3 from another stall though.

 

Paul

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This one will haunt me for the rest of my days.

Walking around Bournemouth car boot I spy some records spread around the side of a car.

Has a flick through, pulls one out. Looks interesting  ...Its an Immediate  white label mint demo lp.

Who`s this guy ?  .. must be a local artist ( too true ). Its £1..

I was either distracted or suffered some sort of mental blockage as I usually buy these obscure items.

Anyway I put it down and walked away.

Later , at home, I could not stop thinking about it, so out came the Price guide.

Billy Nichols  Would you believe.

What a downer.

Lesson learnt.

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I went to a record shop in Traders Victorian Arcade in Reading, looking through some records, got chatting (The guy had a Wigan Casino membership behind his counter)......."Blah, blah, blah"..........."We did have loads, but someone came in and completely cleaned me out a week ago".........."I don't suppose you got the guys name did you?"........"Yes, John Manship".........

 

Argh! :D 

 

God luv him :wink:  

 

Len :thumbsup: 

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