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Brilliant record but which is the rarest or most desirable format? Black issue, white demo with black print , white demo with red print, black demo with silver print ... Discuss Cheers Richard

Cheers Ady - great stuff The Al Kent reference came from a YouTube comment I found: Flip side side got plays in mid/late 80's, then both sides got spins by myself, Alan Coney, Andy Dyson in the early 2000's. Think Dean Anderson or Kitch played it. Sure I have a Keb tape with him playing the flip? Great Double sider and the vocalist on Al Kent - The way you've been acting lately! Here's the YouTube Link where I found the comment (click on the little YouTube logo in the bottom right corner and it will take you to the full page): Cheers Richard

Hi everyone I'm looking for a copy of Pat Lewis - Look At What I Almost Missed (Solid Hit 101) on the multi-coloured label as shown please. Already got the plain blue issue and WDJ thanks - so multi-coloured only cheers. Please just PM me. Cheers Richard

Extra bit of info. One of my extra copies of the Devotions on the yellow label without the lines (like the normal Ed Crook) came with a fantastic little pocket-sized picture of the group. Here it is. Cheers Richard

Great stuff Could one of you guys please ask Rena if she remembers which release came first - the Grand Junction or Black Rock? Cheers Richard

Northern Soul's Classiest Rarities - Vol 3 - Track 14 - CDKEND 295 https://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=59&release=7777 Cheers Richard

Anyone help me out with this one please? PM only thanks Cheers Richard

Anyone tell me what the blurb on the CD says please? Cheers Richard

Just been googling ... I've been doing this since I was a little girl [since I was 5 or 6]. I started off singing church songs. Nobody paid attention until I was about 12 years old. I joined church and got in the choir. I was in Detroit. One of my favorite songs to sing was Walk Around Heaven. My first time singing in front of anybody, people in the church went crazy. One of my choir members enrolled me in a major contest - the Motown Revue Shows. This big radio station in Detroit would sponsor at the Fox Theater. I was one of 10 out of the 500 contestants that was picked. It was great. I appeared with the original Temptations. After that point, my mother discovered I could sing and began getting me club gigs around Detroit. I made my first record when I was 15. I got signed to Epic. I made my second record when I was 17. I kept singing in choir and at school... Cheers Richard

So would that make the Epic release a possible re-mix/re-recording of the Grand Junction/Black Rock version maybe? Cheers Richard

Hi Wilxy I have a copy of #8 of Detroit City Limits. I don't have a spare I'm afraid but I could copy mine for you. Just PM me with your details Cheers Richard

Hi all I'm looking for any information on Little Rena Scott - I Just Can't Forget That Boy please. Uptempo funky-edged Northern sound - presuming early 70s Came out on Grand Junction and Black Rock as Little Rena Scott, then on Epic as Rena Scott. Flip 'Set Me Free'. All copies seem cheap. Which came first - Grand Junction or Black Rock? Anyone know if the various releases are the same mix please? Is this rated and/or played out? Any other information appreciated Cheers Richard

I just file mine alphabetically by label, then by release number, then promo first, followed by the issue etc. Easy - don't need colour coding then on the sleeve because if you dip in somewhere you always know roughly where abouts you are Cheers Richard

There are some good-looking archive quality mylar covers around - seem expensive though - are they totally inert? - are they worth it? Could I go for these as the outer sleeve for 45s in the original company bag with nothing else? Cheers Richard

Hi Wilxy I wll check if I have #8 and if I have a spare copy. Assuming I have it (pretty sure I have all of them) I would be happy to copy it for you in any case. Cheers Richard

Mossy - yes you are spot on about the Pend on the Devotions I have 4 Ed Crooks - a star design issue, a star design demo, and two of the 'normals'. I have here in my hand an Ed Crook 'normal' with Dimensional Sound on the label plus a Nashville Stamp. I can't find my other normal but will check it out when I find it. Cheers Richard

Thanks for all the tips guys - much appreciated Keep 'em coming Cheers Richard

Hi everyone Is there a way I can 'tape' the radio from an internet radio station using my computer please e.g. Windows Media Player? Thanks for any advice. Cheers Richard

Only the first two Devotions' (see scans at top of post) releases with the bars on the label have the Pend mark on - and then only on the side shown. Both copies of the Ed Crook have Dimensional Sound on them - both the one with stars and the one without. Yes, there are two schools of thought on the two Ed Crook designs re which came first. Have to say I think the stars design is quite a bit rarer. Both Ed Crook copies are Nashville stamped and I think have identical dead wax markings - I will check later if I get the chance. Cheers Richard

Hi Dave I suspect the release order might be as shown in the scan above on my original post. The first two releases with the bars on the label have Pend in a little (looks hand-drawn) box suggesting they were not quite there with all the legal/copyright/publishing registrations when it went out. If that is true, then my guess would be that gold was first of the two Pend releases - simply because it would have been more expensive to do gold paper, so the re-release would have been done on cheaper yellow ??? The later yellow release (third one shown above) is the same design as what I think most people believe to be the second label design of Ed Crook (the first being the stars design), again suggesting a second press. That's my guess anyway - happy to be 'shot down in flames' now though Cheers Richard

Hi everyone I'm about to start a major upgrade of all of the sleeves in my collection. My current sleeves are varied and pretty random. I wan't to go for the best option and seeing as this is not going to be cheap I want to get it right first time. The options I am considering are: Paper sleeve (brown or white) inside a decent grade white card sleevePaper sleeve (brown, white or company sleeve) inside plastic sleeve (PVC)Poly-lined sleeve Anyone got any good tips on these various options please? Thank you Richard

The flip side I Met Her On The First Of September is pretty damned good too making it a decent double-sider If you have a copy flip it over. Cheers Richard

Same deadwax marks on the Del-La-Northern copy - 103A and 103B plus a 95 all scratched in - then a Nashville Matrix stamp on both sides. Cheers Richard

Here's the other side mis-named in Refosoul Cheers Richard

Found this mis-named in Refosoul as the Majestics - tut tut