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That "Gone With The Wind" version is outrageously bad.
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This has the makings of one of those really mental threads, crammed full of crackpot theories, outrageous misunderstandings and much offence taken. Excellent. Let the fun commence...
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Last Lou Ragland I saw up for straight cash was around £1000 so what John got isnt that far away. As for who won, why should they step forward? Yes we all like to know where certain records en
Whilst we are in the Polydor section, how about this example of British release Northern Soul - surely one of the label least seen trophies.
Another Golden Torch classic from the pens Gene Redd, Rosie Marie McCoy & J. Crosby it captures the very essence of the mid-60s girl-group sound, both with producers Wyld & Polhemus using every Motown inspired note to lift this ladies meeting to greatness, but at a different pace.
In more recent times the beautifully constructed Gerry Goffin & Russ Teittelman Big City flipside Beat Ballad, has caught the attention of quality-seekers as this too gives off a most-beautiful atmospheric girl-harmony feeling .
In the early 70s of it was Select-A-Disc that made this recording accessible to the public of it’s Black Pearl release wit “Funny Situation” on the flip.
As this 1967 British Polydor release it is exceedingly RARE! This copy is utterly sublime condition, one brief light minuscule blemish revealed itself under strong light otherwise this offering would have received the seldom use Mint grade.
British collectors neurotic about condition - you will not ever see a finer copy.
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Some days you know you will remember the whole of your life.
The day me and this disc met, was the day i was digging in a garage for records. Records I might add I’d scrambled through many times over the decades. But this day was different, I was allowed for the first time to poke around behind shelves, move years of hoarding videos, cassette tapes, news papers and every manner of past collecting, gathered by this compulsive-hoover of all things tangible.
After struggling for a hour to get at a wall of 100 count record boxes, moving enough debris to start work, the first box I opened I knew in my heart this was gonna be one of the very best days work I’d ever done, as The Groovettes on Reness popped up in the second handful and at the bottom of the box was a 1975 newspaper screwed up as protective packing.
Years of dust was choking the air, I soon realized this was a Radio Station purchase, packed away in 1975 and not touched since. After about 3 hours i found one of my all-time favorite Northern Soul masterpieces, it was a personal Holy Grail, after hearing it on that famous Simon Soussan cassette with the Steinways & Billy Joe Young on..the one we’d play in the transit van on our excursions to Blackpool or Leeds (Casino not open yet).
Well hello Lou Ragland!! You are the sweetest Pink thing I’d ever set my eyes on! The record looked back, as if pleased to meet his first Englishman and eager to encounter a stylus to unleash the genius that lay in the grooves.
To find an unplayed Lou Ragland in 2013 is astonishing but not as astonishing as the music those Cleveland “Way Out” boys laid down that day in 1967.
Two perfect labels and virgin-vinyl deflowered today, revealing only faint sleeve contact blemishes from it’s life on a Radio Station shelf and it’s nonchalant entombing in 1975 for 38 years in darkness.
You will not source a finer copy..ever, ever.
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So very rare in 1974 it was decided this 45 could never have been issued as the 2 or 3 of PROMO copies (still only a handful known today) became one of the Biggest NS Trophy 45s of the 70s.
So when a 100 count box turned up in the out buildings of ALCO pressing plant, pioneering Northern Soul collectors/Dealer Dave Raistrick and Arthur Fenn must have poo’d themselves. As they’d unearthed 500 copies of Joe Hicks - Don’t it make Fell Funky - AGC moments earlier!
WHAT A FIND! as to this day - that’s it!! in a collectors field of approx 100,000 or more, they were instantly swallowed up file and cherished for the killer tune it is.
Today, they seldom come to market.
The reason for this disc’s extreme elusivity is a mistake in CLASS’s release numbering, Class 1518 was allocated & promoted to GOOGIE RENE COMBO - CHICA-BOO - CLASS 1518 a minor hit. So the miss-labeling of Buster & Eddie was laid to rest in storage with a very few Promo’s escaping.
The ratio of collector to record in the Northern Soul scene is the biggest difference perhaps in any collectors market, forcing healthy prices increased demand, 100 copies in 1978 is a raindrop in an ocean.
The fact Neil Rushton found 780 copies of Frank Beverley on Sassy and I found 1100 copies of Epitome Of Sound on Sandbag underlines just how huge the insatiable NS market is.
Stop waffling John-Boy and let the bidders enjoy that spanking-label-scan & listen to the double-helping of Northern Soul from Tommy & Eddie Williams
resist it’s beauty if you can…
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Blinding condition 1966 UK press - other than a light crease to the laminated front cover (left hand side) this offering is in flawless condition.
you could not have picked a better track listing for the era, every one a dancefloor favourite all wrapped up in the head turning picture sleeve.
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The winning bid was £ 359.00