I know there were around 11-13 cities used at the start of the promos but out of all of them which is the rarest out there. I have two myself, I'm not a collector of them I have Miami and Philadelphia just wanted to know out of interest.

I would say the Detroit, LA and Memphis ones  are the rarest.

What do I base this fine knowledge on ? Well these are the ones I don"t have

Cheers Paul

WOW. This is all news to me. Forty years after. Could someone please post some pictures of them

Steve

Steve , they are basically regular Philly Int white promos with the added line "Washington DC edit" or whichever city

Cheers Paul

Thanks Paul. I only ever had  the normal issue. Don't actually recall seeing a promo.

Steve

I think there was a thread about this some time ago and a few members were trying to collect all the cities, it's in the back of my mind the total was nearer seventeen but I could well be wrong on that. Edit- I am wrong.

Edited December 29, 20177 yr by Twoshoes

Six of the different promo label variations shown here ...

 https://www.discogs.com/Philadelphia-International-All-Stars-Lets-Clean-Up-The-Ghetto-Vocal/master/620156

. . . . SPECIAL BOSTON EDIT version ...

 

Edited December 28, 20177 yr by Roburt

16 hours ago, soul shrews said:

I would say the Detroit, LA and Memphis ones  are the rarest.

What do I base this fine knowledge on ? Well these are the ones I don"t have

Cheers Paul

Paul - Never seen Memphis, do you know the Number ?

These are the fifteen I know to . . .

Atlanta AE7 1132
Boston AE7 1133
Washington AE7 1134
Miami AE7 1135
Philadelphia AE7 1136
Baltimore AE7 1137
Detroit AE7 1138
St Louis AE7 1139
Houston AE7 1140
Chicago AE7 1141
Cincinnati AE7 1142
Cleveland AE7 1143
Dallas AE7 1144
San Francisco AE7 1145
Los Angeles AE7 1146

Looking at the numbering, I feel AE7 1131 must exist but have never seen it.

I Have 14 and am only missing Detroit AE7 1138 myself from the above list.

Cheers
Mick

Edited December 28, 20177 yr by Mick Holdsworth

Interesting reading and a fantastic record too , could be a contender in the - Record You Never Get Tired of hearing topic .

6 hours ago, Mick Holdsworth said:

Paul - Never seen Memphis, do you know the Number ?

These are the fifteen I know to . . .

Atlanta AE7 1132
Boston AE7 1133
Washington AE7 1134
Miami AE7 1135
Philadelphia AE7 1136
Baltimore AE7 1137
Detroit AE7 1138
St Louis AE7 1139
Houston AE7 1140
Chicago AE7 1141
Cincinnati AE7 1142
Cleveland AE7 1143
Dallas AE7 1144
San Francisco AE7 1145
Los Angeles AE7 1146

Looking at the numbering, I feel AE7 1131 must exist but have never seen it.

I Have 14 and am only missing Detroit AE7 1138 myself from the above list.

Cheers
Mick

Sorry Mick I don"t know the number and only mentioned it as I think it was listed in the earlier thread ? I could well be wrong as my memory has let me down before. Never seen Atlanta or Boston from your list either. Don"t know if he"s still active on here but PhillyDaveG would be the man to ask as he has compiled a discography of Philly Int/

Cheers Paul

Cheers Paul

OK thanks Paul. The image example used three posts above is the Boston edit, and the Atlanta was new to me until maybe six months ago.

Thanks lads, I actually bought the Philly off Discogs this month. It was advertised as AE71135 which is Miami. I already have it and just bought it as a spare so when AE7 1136 turned up and mint to for only $3.99 I was a little chuffed. Getting all of them will be a right pain and somewhere I don't wanna go. If one comes up I'll get it but I'm not chasing them. 

Mine's AE7 1140 Houston Edit , don't know if some are harder than others to be honest , never really looked.

I can understand people would like the set though 

On 12/27/2017 at 22:58, Twoshoes said:

I think there was a thread about this some time ago and a few members were trying to collect all the cities, it's in the back of my mind the total was nearer seventeen but I could well be wrong on that. Edit- I am wrong.

Here's that old thread, from January 2007, almost 11 years back!

It's mixed in among a discussion about collectible Philly Int records, well worth a read from start to finish.