has this ever been reissued and what would be the reasoning behind it..anyone got any info.....

https://www.popsike.com/THE-SOUL-STIRRERS-CHECKER-GOSPEL-NORTHERN-SOUL-45/120671975920.html

original 1968 copy

https://www.popsike.com/black-gospel-soul-45-SOUL-STIRRERS-Worry-CHECKER-HEAR/370504535877.html

another variation of original

https://www.popsike.com/Soul-Stirrers-Gospel-Northern-Soul-on-Checker-LISTEN/250866223673.html

and another variation of original

https://www.popsike.com/SOUL-STIRRERS-DONT-YOU-WORRY-CHICAGO-NORTHERN-SOUL-hear/200400737215.html

this one is ok i think as well but what about this one below. it doesnt look right at all......anyone know anything.. over to you

https://www.popsike.com/THE-SOUL-STIRRERS-DONT-YOU-WORRY-MID-TEMPO/140752925968.html

That last scan looks well dodgy IMO...I would have thought this would have sold reasonably well, so maybe various re presses ?. Was first played by Marco from the LP & covered up as the Tempests, remember seeing him take it off at the 100 Club & thinking that I couldnt remember the track from the Tempests LP LOL...

Russ

certainly a lot of variations of it....could have been kept on catalogue for a few years....maybe for the flip side altho im not sure which is the a side..but where was the demand for it then....dont you worry only been played in recent years....flip is real gospel

Brilliant record.

Dave

Brilliant record.

Dave

it is and i`m still after one but ive been offered ` what i believe to be`the repress copy.....if someone tells me its not i might go for it i need more info first

Get the LP

Russ

The last variation is very interesting. At first, I thought it might be a bootleg, wherein the perpetrator got hold of blank Checker labels from the very end of Chess' run, when they were bought out by All Platinum, and he just had his pressing plant use an available font. But that font seems to be one that All Platinum used on their own records in the early /70s. So, it might be a legitimate re-issue by All Platinum from the early '70s pressed in one of the East Coast plants they used,

On the other hand, I'm questioning why this, particular, poor-selling Gospel record would have been chosen for re-issue by a company who paid a lot of money to purchase a catalogue with a lot of classic R&B/Blues/Jazz/Soul titles they DIDN'T re-release. It could be that a bootlegger somehow got hold of blank Checker labels from the All-Platinum period, and not having access to original Checker fonts, chose the available font closest to one of All Platinum's used fonts, to feign legitimacy of use of the available blank labels.

For me, this is a 50/50 possibility of legitimate vs. boot, as I have looked through millions of 45s between 1965 and 1990 , and never seen that font used on a Checker record.

yeah, agreed, looks weird but the fact it is from the All Platinum era of Chess could make it conceivably legit.... interesting.