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Coasters - 356£

Bill Griffin - 346£

Jay D Martin - 486£

Dynamics - 305£

Chapter Five - 186£

Detroit Vibrations - 366£

Tony Galla - 1051£

Jackie Day - 2633£

Lyrics - 250£

 

17 minutes ago, Zanetti said:

Tony Galla - 1051£

I'm a bit surprised by the Tony Galla record.
Can someone please enlighten me as to what it looks like with these Swan Issues?
Rarely the yellow, then the white and then the black?
I always thought the black one came at the very beginning.

Dynamics went cheaply. Bill Griffin higher than expected. A few set sale prices. Jackie Day well worth the outlay. A bit up and down for Manny tonight.

I don't know how to interpret "Unissued british 1967 promo only" but Chapter Five "one in a million" was released in Germany and Italy. Yet I don't think this doesn't really matter. It's a below average cover version and probably appeals to UK completists only.

anybody know whats happened to that Jaibi Allegro sound acetate? seems to have disappeared...

agree, that Chapter Five record is bloody awful...

 

4 hours ago, Mal C said:

anybody know whats happened to that Jaibi Allegro sound acetate?

https://www.raresoulman.co.uk/jaibi-you-got-me-what-good-am-i-allegro-sound-studios-ind-mix-ci-6-5560.html

5 hours ago, Mal C said:

anybody know whats happened to that Jaibi Allegro sound acetate? seems to have disappeared...

agree, that Chapter Five record is bloody awful...

 

It's still up for  auction Mal,ends on 29/11/23....

currently sitting at £40..👍

Wierd, It wasnt showing when I checked...

I know we are not supposed to post 'we got that for...' but Tony Galla, Black Issue,  £20 quid from a chap at the Brighton record Fair, in I guess 2006/7.  Surprising, only in that Ian Clark and Mick Smith both had their tables in spitting distance from this chap, he was an Indie guy, with boxes of 12 inch Lp's, and a very small box of 7s, but he managed to not sell it at that price until I looked through his box in afternoon...

I take that as a feather in my hat given those two are hardened dealers!

On 16/11/2023 at 17:08, Mal C said:

Wierd, It wasnt showing when I checked...

I know we are not supposed to post 'we got that for...' but Tony Galla, Black Issue,  £20 quid from a chap at the Brighton record Fair, in I guess 2006/7.  Surprising, only in that Ian Clark and Mick Smith both had their tables in spitting distance from this chap, he was an Indie guy, with boxes of 12 inch Lp's, and a very small box of 7s, but he managed to not sell it at that price until I looked through his box in afternoon...

I take that as a feather in my hat given those two are hardened dealers!

As our esteemed Board member, Mal, has broken the rule I hope I can get away with my Tony Galla story. 

This is one of those records that I can clearly remember when and how I came across it, but not in a good way. When I was working at Global Records I found a single copy, probably around early 75 as it was not long after they moved to the Chepstow St basement off Oxford St in Manchester. What stood out was that it was the only yellow Swan label I'd ever seen, also Global's owner, Ed Balbier, had some of the Swan tapes in the US so could have issued it here. Balbier let me have the copy to see if I could get any interest in it. I played it at home but couldn't see how it could ever become popular so just chucked it into the rejects boxes. At the time early seventies tracks were getting played so it wouldn't have fitted in.

About a year later Balbier shipped the Swan tapes over. There was a 1/4 inch final mix tape for Tony Galla which I played but still hadn't changed my verdict. Some of  tapes were the 1/2 inch four track session ones which could have been mixed for the instrumental version. Tony Galla wasn't one of those so no chance of an instrumental, which would have been an improvement. 

I sold off most of my records late 76 but no idea where Tony Galla went. It would have been in a job lot to either Terry in Kidderminster or Gary Cape , @Dewsburyborn I don't think they would have thought much of the record either.

I next heard about it was years later when it was mentioned as one of the new sixties  discoveries played at Stafford by Keb. When I heard it played in a club it did sound a lot better.

I have a vague recollection of reading that the yellow label issue was done for the US as it was popular in Pittsburgh and/or Baltimore. Balbier sometimes told me that some of the NS records had been big oldies in those areas. Something to do with a radio DJ. As John Manship doesn't mention this perhaps it's not true. Maybe @Chalky would know about this and who played it first.

5 hours ago, Rick Cooper said:

 

 

I have a vague recollection of reading that the yellow label issue was done for the US as it was popular in Pittsburgh and/or Baltimore. Balbier sometimes told me that some of the NS records had been big oldies in those areas. Something to do with a radio DJ. 

"In Love" probably did well in Pittsburgh and Baltimore. It did even better in Tony's hometown of  Buffalo, New York where it got up to #25 on a Pop station - 

 

Edited November 18, 20231 yr by The Yank