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Sharon Davis - 59£

 Chris Clark - 281£

Bobby Sheen - 268£

Artistics - 153£

Joan Baker - 458£

 

Ann Sexton - 250£

Dorothy Black - 679£

Spoilers - 439£

 

Topics - 891£

The Gloria Jones LP Come Go With Me went for £140, which seems a fair price as the record is still sealed, hopefully it won't have a piece of label pressed in the grooves. 

The record was one that I remember well from my spell at Global Records in the 70s. Sixties soul albums didn't sell particularly well back then, Global mainly sold C&W , Pop and Rock stuff but had some OK soul titles including Garland Green on Uni, Fred Hughes on Brunswick, Earl Van Dyke and some other mid 60s Motown titles. Usually Ed Balbier, the owner, would go to the US every month or so, buy from warehouses and air freight the records back. Occasionally he bought a job lot and sent these by sea in a container. This would be much better as there was a good chance of some rare titles, both as LPs and singles.

One container was thousands of mixed LPs that had to be sorted into individual titles. We did this by opening a box, taking an armful of records and laying a title on the floor of a large space, then just piling more of the same until the pile was so high it nearly toppled over. It soon became obvious that each fifty count box had around 3 or 4 copies of Come Go With Me in it . There must have been at least 4 to 5 hundred by the time everything was sorted. Also there were hundreds of two James Carr LPs on Goldwax that soon got sold to shops in Japan. Other titles in smaller quantities were some OKeh records and a few very early Motown titles.

The Gloria Jones sold fairly well to UK shops as it has some songs that people wanted on singles. It may have sold a few to Japan and Europe but it wasn't their type of thing. The copies from back then are probably, like mine, still in collections far and wide. I don't think these would fetch over £100 as they should be well played by now.