Posted September 6, 201410 yr I purchased this off Ebay the other day as a buy it now for £4.99 RARE PLEASURE - LET ME DOWN EASY - UK DJM in PROMOTIONAL SLEEVE with blurb about the track. actually one of the few disco records I really like - anyway if a US copy goes for what, £30 to £40, how much should I stick on this UK one
September 6, 201410 yr Hate you, I was given one these as young DJ in 1976 and old sold it a few years ago which I still regret. as for value I am not an expert but is seems to for £20 to £40 which is strange because it is much harder to get then the US one JM has one on for sale £40 one here on 2012 https://collectorsfrenzy.com/details/251121068166/RARE_PLEASURE_Let_Me_Down_Easy_DJM_UK_Demo_7_1976_Modern_Soul_Disco_Nice Edited September 6, 201410 yr by jim g
September 6, 201410 yr Author Hate you, I was given one these as young DJ in 1976 and old sold it a few years ago which I still regret. as for value I am not an expert but is seems to for £20 to £40 which is strange because it is much harder to get then the US one JM has one on for sale £40 one here on 2012 https://collectorsfrenzy.com/details/251121068166/RARE_PLEASURE_Let_Me_Down_Easy_DJM_UK_Demo_7_1976_Modern_Soul_Disco_Nice Cheers Jim. I mean Rory.
September 6, 201410 yr That piano at the start is reminding me of something else. Or perhaps it was sampled. Any ideas anyone?
September 6, 201410 yr That piano at the start is reminding me of something else. Or perhaps it was sampled. Any ideas anyone? Was sampled by David Morales on his hit "Needin' You"
September 6, 201410 yr That piano at the start is reminding me of something else. Or perhaps it was sampled. Any ideas anyone? David Morales, Needing You, or summat like that ?
September 7, 201410 yr I remember when the David Morales track was being premiered on radio 1 on a Friday show many moons ago (can't recall the DJ at the time) and they actually played Rare Pleasure right after it to illustrate where the sample came from...I was quite impressed that they did this...was driving up the M11 at the time...funny what the mind remembers!!
September 7, 201410 yr Author Pete what condition is it in yeah it's nice EX vinyl, sleeve is also EX apart from a small tear on the open end
September 7, 201410 yr I purchased this off Ebay the other day as a buy it now for £4.99 RARE PLEASURE - LET ME DOWN EASY - UK DJM in PROMOTIONAL SLEEVE with blurb about the track. actually one of the few disco records I really like - anyway if a US copy goes for what, £30 to £40, how much should I stick on this UK one Disco indeed, this is class 70s soul. lol.
September 7, 201410 yr Fantastic! I would keep it. Would sell for whatever the US goes for...Never even knew it came out on DJM but obscure UK issues are not a big deal with a record like this. Does anyone know anything about the US label it came out on, Cheri? I think I have just about all of them but there seem to be only about four or five. Released over a period of about four years. Three awesome records- Sherm 'Reb' Nesbary, Hyla Parker and Rare Pleasure. The singer on Rare Pleasure was Sandy Barber aka Sandy B - she did quite a few house / garage records.
September 7, 201410 yr https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=T7QbVywGzio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYkJ9E5dIus&feature=player_detailpage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_U3LL7HaT0&feature=player_detailpage
September 7, 201410 yr It depends which side you play. I think one of then says 'disco version' on the label! Funnily enough, the underground club scene that gave rise to disco never called it that. They called it 'party music' from what I understand. And i never realised that 'Let Me Down Easy' was written by the same fella as another one of my faves - Debbie Taylor 'Just Don't Pay'. (And no I haven't got anything better to do and yes I am a bit drunk!)
September 7, 201410 yr yeah it's nice EX vinyl, sleeve is also EX apart from a small tear on the open end Pete , PM me a price, I will probably take it if you are selling.
September 7, 201410 yr That David Morales reminds me of some good nights - not in red speedo's though!
September 8, 201410 yr I remember when the David Morales track was being premiered on radio 1 on a Friday show many moons ago (can't recall the DJ at the time) and they actually played Rare Pleasure right after it to illustrate where the sample came from...I was quite impressed that they did this...was driving up the M11 at the time...funny what the mind remembers!! I remember that also, it was Pete Tong. He did the same when he first played Shapeshifters - Lola's theme, then play Johnnie Taylor - What about my love
September 8, 201410 yr Shame it wasn't the Disco promo 12 you found Pete, recently it's been fetching towards £300 (https://www.popsike.com/RARE-PLEASURE-LET-ME-DOWN-EASY-RARE-DJ-COPY-PROMO-12-UNPLAYED/160893721735.html On a tangent, years ago digging through came across a quantity of the US press 7", maybe 30 copies. Thought I could probably move on a few in swaps, so decided to take a dozen. Did a quick check to make sure they were all the same unplayed condition and kinda half noticed something different about the one label (I think I thought it was a different font?) There was so much stock to get through that trip I rapidly moved on with my searching and never gave it another thought. Years later I was going through my records looking for something to put in my cheapy x-over/modern swap box for that nite at Albrighton and found the remaining copies, still unplayed. Having learned from my mistakes of the past I thought I must make sure to hang on to a copy before they all go. I chose one at random, put in in a sleeve and dropped it into a 70's playbox. Time goes by and one nite I play it as a memory jerker in a modern set, and as i'm putting it back in it's sleeve the next DJ on is already on the stage and he said to me " can I have a look at that". I thought 'surely he knows this tune', but handed him the 45 anyway. As he gave it me back he said words to the effect of " I've never seen one like that before". Puzzled, I looked at it, and the penny dropped. I must have included this 'different looking one' years before, and luckily it was the one I'd added to my collection. Now the difference isn't all that great, but it's there and I think instinctively when you look through a quantity of 45's anything different registers in a part of your brain. We chatted for a while and he produced a copy from his DJ box and we compared the two. I don't know why it hadn't clicked with me but my copy was a promo. I think it looked different because the label colour was brighter, the print was much darker, and the white writing at the bottom of the label was larger and in a bigger font and much more prominent. For my own satisfaction I've checked back and found close to 200 copies sold on the net. Amongst those there's only 2 of these promos. Dunno about anyone else, but with common records I think it's nice to have them in their rarest format, so for once I think I've been lucky. I'm not great at prices but I reckon if the 7" issue is worth a tenner, surely my 7" demo has gotta be worth 20?
September 8, 201410 yr Was sampled by David Morales on his hit "Needin' You" Same record also sampled My First Mistake by the Chi-Lites...I was involved in spotting many a sample on house records !!!
I purchased this off Ebay the other day as a buy it now for £4.99
RARE PLEASURE - LET ME DOWN EASY - UK DJM in PROMOTIONAL SLEEVE with blurb about the track.
actually one of the few disco records I really like - anyway if a US copy goes for what, £30 to £40, how much should I stick on this UK one