as there are several label variations (at least 4 that i can think of: white with black writings, white with coloured writing, purple and orange), i was wondering which one is supposed to be the very first pressing and are the other ones later pressings or simply label variations?

I thought they were just label variations. It only seemed recently that anyone has had any interest in this record. The other side is a real cracker and gives Bobby Patterson's version a run for its money.

Edited May 30, 201213 yr by John Reed

I thought they were just label variations. It only seemed recently that anyone has had any interest in this record. The other side is a real cracker and gives Bobby Patterson's version a run for its money.

I've still my Contempo red promo which I think is better mastered than the U.S. pressings. A cracking record which would probably work nicely with some exposure. She's fantastic...........

We've got a nice-price Tommie Young comp coming up in the Backbeats Artists series in a couple of months too........

Ian D

I've still my Contempo red promo which I think is better mastered than the U.S. pressings. A cracking record which would probably work nicely with some exposure. She's fantastic...........

We've got a nice-price Tommie Young comp coming up in the Backbeats Artists series in a couple of months too........

Ian D

interesting point about the uk master quality. normally i find that most of the uk pressed soul records (which had previously had a us pressing) are mastered worse than their american counterparts. the reason probably being that they were mastered directly from the actual records and not from the tape.

don't own the tommie young on contempo, so i can't compare it with my american pressings thou...

I thought they were just label variations. It only seemed recently that anyone has had any interest in this record. The other side is a real cracker and gives Bobby Patterson's version a run for its money.

i've had my copies (a purple and an orange) for a few years now, it's just that i was discussing this thing with a friend of mine the other day and today i spotted a copy on ebay, so i thought i might ask on here

Hello,

I'm sure I also saw a green label issue on Soul Power.

Stan Lewis used several plants and kept pressing copies so it's impossible to say which label colour came first. Some of the different label variations might have been pressed at the same time.

Quite a few copies ended up in the UK, even though it had been issued here on Contempo in August 1973.

I always plugged the record, the A side 'She Don't Have To See You' was obviously popular with deep soul fans (and it was the important follow-up to 'Do You Still Feel The Same Way') but I also sold copies to DJs for the flip side and I'm surprised it didn't get more attention - until recently.

The ironic thing now is that the UK copies are probably harder to find, especially the red promos, and they were great pressings (as Ian said) from the Decca factory.

Paul