Tony Smith

Being that there were at least 3 different chicago pressings, would suggest it sold well enough locally to tempt Wand into releasing it, why they never went beyond demo stage is probably the same reason why a lot regional "hits" picked up by fairly big labels faltered, mob money, tax write-off, or lack of funds.

Nor mine....vinyl not styrene.....

I'm in agreement with you there Rod, the only "Oldies" that Rob was into was rare soul and whatever 60's newies were called before they were thus named! Mind you he did love classic stompers..is that another thread.

on a slightly different tack, were MGM uk demos R/W?, yes they were sorry, just checked! they changed to pink/silver in '67 along with other EMI changes.

In a word, yes. swirl design blue & gold.

Ady, It was definately an Edgewood acetate!

Ron Douglas "First Time Around" Smash W/D £25.00 Fantastic Chicago Double-sider Can't recommend this one enough, flip "Never You Mind" is great too!

How much does the demo on the right go for now?

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Robbie Fortson Are You For Real Pzazz £75 Indemand Major Burkes "You're Gonna Need Me" Gulf £200 So good <My link> Gene Anderson "Tell Me Do You Love Me" Nu-Tone £200 Good price on this Carolinas Stormer </more/soul-library/gene-anderson-1> Otis Blackwell "It's All Over Me" Epic SOLD Getting big spins Mick H & Cliff at Burnley Lela Martin "Can't Have Your Cake" Melatone £125 Fantastic West Coast Stormer Ex Pat Brady c/u Jimmy Witherspoon "Love Me Right" HMV French EP Pic Sleeve Offers Great R'n'B Mover Ron Douglas "First Time Around" Smash W/D £25.00 Fantastic Chicago Double-sider Festivals "You Got The Makings Of A Lover" Smash SOLD All ex condition Scans/pics added later. All reasonable offers considered! Cheers

The Terri Day "I So Glad" is quite hard, I paid 25 for it off Soul Bowl when the average price for every else was 8, Romey Rand was 12 I think, this was back in 84 or 85, the Jackie & Tonnetts was one of the hardest until a few turned up on ebay, it was'nt even listed in Collectors Guide to Detroit back in the mid-80's which leads me to believe the many missing numbers might eventually be filled.

Don't think I've heard the Hesitations, think it may be one of the duplicate numbers (on a red label??), Romey Rand anywhere between £75-£150 i would've thought.

The Marco Hammon 45 is OK as are the Don Hearts in an early Detroit style, the Chuck Hently is good too, though I've never managed to pick one up most were made available on "Dancing In D-Town"/"Wheelsville Wonders" goldmine cds some years back.

Is It Wrong, surely?

Was played c/u by Butch for going on 10 years.

No mate, seems to have disapeared completely, the last time I saw him, he seemed to have had a total change of lifestyle!

I got mine from Butch back in the 80's, one night Rob Marriott was round playing me some new stuff including CB, it then became Rocky Roberts and was played as that by Rob, myself & Saus when he got hold of it, incidently I traded it back to Butch a couple of years ago, maybe the one you have is my old copy?

No mine came from Chicago nearly 20 years ago, not long after Duncan Morris got it off Tim Ashibende.

White label test press with just the number written on the label?

Mick H

Hi Harry, definitely unreleased until Ady Croasdell comped it for Kent and played it down the 100.

I've had 2 demos and 2 issues (gave up after that), never had the styrene one though all had background on both sides. Assumed that was why I never heard it out that much.

Most do.

East Coast-Vinyl-Boxed logo-Yellow label & w/d West Coast-styrene-Tollie as block text Yellow and w/d also with pic sleeve. Boot has molded over label. Perhaps you should post the label pic?