Andybellwood Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Any info on this track , 45 release , label etc would be appreciated . Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Pete S Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Any info on this track , 45 release , label etc would be appreciated . Is that definitely the right title Andy? Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Andybellwood Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 So i've been told Pete ... 'Slim Smith - Ain't Too Proud To Beg (7") THE B-SIDE SAYS VERSION BUT IS ACTUALLY A VERY RARE REVIVAL CLASSIC " DAVE BARKER - YOU MUST BELIEVE" Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Pete S Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I'm sure someone asked me about this last week...yes they did....a track credited to Slim Smith which I knew was Dave Barker...it's called I Feel Alive, see if this is it 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Andybellwood Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 Yep Pete - that's it . Big thanks Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Pete S Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Andy - I just switched my jukebox on for the first time in ages and played a few tunes, I knew that song sounded familiar - I've actually got it, on my jukebox, labelled as "I feel alright again", it's on the B side of a blank of The Uniques "Out of love" which would explain why people think it's Slim Smith. So I had it all along! Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Andybellwood Posted September 4, 2014 Author Share Posted September 4, 2014 And what a fabulous tune it is Pete . Apart from your JA blank and appearing by some quirk on the b side to Slim Smith wrongly titled as 'version' did it have any 'label' release on 45 ? Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Pete S Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Apparently issued in the UK on Techniques label credited to The Techniques..TE 904 Another coincidence is - I said I had it on the B side of The Uniques "Out of love" - well Dave Barker also did a version of Out Of Love using the same backing track as The Uniques, came out miscredited as Dave McLaren "No love at all" on the Big label. So now I need to check to see if it is actually The Uniques version on my jukebox! 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest brivinyl Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 It was released on 45 in the UK on the Techniques label. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest brivinyl Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 We posted at the same time Pete ! Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Pete S Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 (edited) OK this is just getting weirder. My copy is a blank, and it has no matrix number, nothing, I asked Dee to check in case it was my eyes, but there is nothing at all in the grooves. But the other side, has very large run of writing WR 3256 No Body Loves Me Slim Smith meaning (W)inston (R ) iley production but that WR number isn't listed in the RKR database! I put one of my own labels on it years ago and I wrote down the matrix FCR 7423 on the label which is the correct one for the original of The Uniques Out Of Love. But Out Of Love isn't a Winston Riley production anyway, is it? W. Lowe / L. Tyrell? Edited September 4, 2014 by Pete S 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Pete S Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 If anyone wants my copy of this it's up for offers Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Themichael Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 "I Feel Alive" was also released as a JA Techniques blank backed by another Dave Barker tune, "Heart of a man." Total stunner. Couldn't believe it when I found a copy. Went for at least a year thinking it was Slim Smith or Pat Kelly. Couldn't believe Dave Barker had that voice! Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Pete S Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 I sold that copy above for £150 or £200, couldn't believe it, I'd have sold it for a tenner if anyone had offered previously, I'd had it for years and years and never played that Dave Barker side. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Themichael Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Nice! It's rare and highly in demand at the moment given how soulful it is -- a great departure from the normal run of the mill skinhead reggae sound. It's at the top of my list of early reggae vocal cuts. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
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