BACK IN '75 (I THINK) WHEN MEL BRITT -SHE'LL COME RUNNING BACK-FIP..WAS FIRST PRESSED..I BOUGHT TWO COPIES (AT WIGAN) ONE WAS THE USUAL STICK ON LABEL THE SECOND WAS A MOULDED ON LABEL WITH A STAMPED NUMBER MATRIX..AT THE TIME I PONDERED IF THE LATTER WAS AN ORIGINAL AS IT WAS DIFFERENT TO ALL OTHERS I'D SEEN (I KNOW IT ISNT) BUT..DID ANYONE ELSE HAVE ONE OF THESE, STILL GOT ONE..AND WHAT WAS THE SOURCE?

BACK IN '75 (I THINK) WHEN MEL BRITT -SHE'LL COME RUNNING BACK-FIP..WAS FIRST PRESSED..I BOUGHT TWO COPIES (AT WIGAN) ONE WAS THE USUAL STICK ON LABEL THE SECOND WAS A MOULDED ON LABEL WITH A STAMPED NUMBER MATRIX..AT THE TIME I PONDERED IF THE LATTER WAS AN ORIGINAL AS IT WAS DIFFERENT TO ALL OTHERS I'D SEEN (I KNOW IT ISNT) BUT..DID ANYONE ELSE HAVE ONE OF THESE, STILL GOT ONE..AND WHAT WAS THE SOURCE?

I BELIEVE THATS A BOOT MATRIX CRUDELY STAMPED ALSO WHITE RING ROUND OUTSIDE OF LABEL AND YEP I HAD ONE THINK THE ORIGIN WAS SOUSSAN ALSO CAME OUT AT THE SAME TIME AS THE ANDERSON BROTHERS AND LEE MITCHELL/THE ECONOMY, AND MANY MORE. MICK.

Edited February 19, 201213 yr by Mick Reed

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Edited February 18, 201213 yr by smudgesmith

There was a time at Wigan where many top sounds started to appear in the record room

all were brand new and being sold as originals

they seemed to appear in batches of about five or six titles then the week after several others would appear

It was rumoured at the time they were comming from susan

there was even the odd DJ involved,in selling them then after a couple of months

the same records appeared in the same batches upstairs in Russ's record hut for a quid

but these records were of an inferior quality

IIE bubbly label slightly different colouring on the labels etc

a few of the obvious ones were

Joe Hicks Dont it make you feel funky

The Flirtations Stronger than her love

Kenny Smith Oh lord whats happening to your people (Both Labels)

Velvet Satins Nothing can compaire to you

Mel Britt She'll come running back

Lou Pride I'm Cumm'in home in the mornin

there were quite a few others as well

I think I raised a topic about the vinyl Mel britt's a few years ago when I got one. It was the copy leaked out as an original before the styrene pressing. Matrix stamp is the same, slightly wonky.

Andy a few weeks back there was a topic about those bootlegs coming via Russ's record lists, I remembered it distinctly because it was my last day of school when I got the list.

Found the original thread about Mel Britt with moulded label

I think I raised a topic about the vinyl Mel britt's a few years ago when I got one. It was the copy leaked out as an original before the styrene pressing. Matrix stamp is the same, slightly wonky.

Andy a few weeks back there was a topic about those bootlegs coming via Russ's record lists, I remembered it distinctly because it was my last day of school when I got the list.

Quite possible , the thing is we move in a "northern soul circle" so eventually things will come back round !

and as we get older the memory isn't the same

If you can remember the post let me know i'll have a read !

And probably realise that i posted on it LoL

Cheers Andy

Sorry mate i thought you said a few weeks ago

i wasn't her when you had that discussion

But you are right about the "better quality" pressings arriving a few weeks before the "Flood" of boots

Edited February 18, 201213 yr by allnightandy