First issue originals of the great "Secret Agents" on Mirwood 5504 with "We Go Together" on the flip..  Did you take a photo of a great find in quantity? If so they would be good to see!

Edited January 24, 20223 yr by D9 Ktf

If only we could turn back the hands of time. Nowadays, with a phone camera, you can snap anything. I can remember being in a house in Homestead, Pennsylvania and every ground floor room was full of 100 count boxes from Chicago pressing plants. I can remember being in a Cincinnati lock-up garage packed floor to ceiling with 100 count boxes and only going through some of the front row. I can remember multiple trips to Skippy White’s basement in Cambridge, Massachusetts and there was tons and tons of quantity there. Sadly though, no photographs. It was only late on, I started taking pictures of record stores in the USA, but even these are now on hard-drives long since chucked out or on disks that can’t be viewed as the latest computer doesn’t have a disk drive.

Not mine ,but,I believe 100 copies of Harvey’s’ “Any Way You Wanna” were found in the basement of the mansion Berry Gordy owned,and was later auctioned off...sure  there is a thread on SS about it somewhere...

Edited January 28, 20223 yr by Mgm 1251
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Edited January 28, 20223 yr by Mgm 1251

From the lack of reply posts it looks like photos are rarer than the records. Like Frankie C above I wish I could go back in time with a digital camera and photo all the boxes of records and inside every shop and  warehouse from the 70s. At the time the idea of taking photos of records was something that I never even considered. Just getting them was enough and who would have thought fifty years later any one would want to see them. The only photos I took from back then were street scenes and tourist attractions . However I took a photo of the outside of Global Records in Philadelphia, which if I'd taken a photo inside, would have shown boxes and boxes of some decent titles. At least a thousand copies of Precisions- If This Is Love and lots of Swan and Arctic stuff. For Rock and Roll fans there were loads of Sun titles and Country and Western fans would have been in heaven.

 

Yup. All the time. I buy huge collections from music industry folk and out on the streets everyday. These were cool, loaded Brunswick factory boxes of Jackie Wilson's Helpless and Chi Lites. Love this Brunswick sleeve

these were from a place in Toronto I went to, they had multiple Motown releases in 25 count boxes, all original...bought a couple boxes, which I left as is, its a shame to split them up really..

 

Edited February 6, 20223 yr by Mal C

On 06/02/2022 at 11:55, Mal C said:

these were from a place in Toronto I went to, they had multiple Motown releases in 25 count boxes, all original...bought a couple boxes, which I left as is, its a shame to split them up really..

 

I do love that Canadian Tamla label. Can you send me one Mal so I can lick it 😜

Andy

What a wonderful and interesting question D9 Ktf Sadly I can't directly give you evidence in photographic matter but a few things I came across;  1985, me, Chris King, and Guy Hennigan on a trip to Detroit visited the house of a fellow James Stanford (Casablanca) he was one time working for Ed Wingate at Golden World records. Now when Berry Gordy Jr bought the studio in late 1966 (that became Studio B for Motown) 1000s of mainly Ric Tic 45s and still boxed (25 count shipping boxes, with RT-??? #) stamped on the side were dumped in Casablanca's house garage. We wasn't the first to go through those things but there was plenty to go at. In sweltering heat the 3 of us and ''Popcorn'' Wylie (dressed in a smart jacket and trousers) waded through all of them, sweat pouring out the 4 of us in the hope of finding the more desirable #s. How many records in there, I don't rightly know but a serious amount for sure.

Another one, when trawling through Dave Hamilton's basement studio loft (1988) In there were boxes of his Topper label 45s. Mainly Pricilla Page's two releases, and boxes of the Dottie & Millie's 45s (a handfull of the other #s) a couple of boxes of the TCB 'My Sweet Baby' and several boxes of some of his other labels.

Also 2x25 count of Jimmy Raye's own label JRE 45s

At least 90 copies of Bobby Sheen's. 'Something New to Do.

                                                 A box that contained 25 (to add to the 50 I brought back) of the Dottie & Millie 45