Sebastian

Just noticed that Leroy Barbour even copyrighted the song as his own! The original copyright info (and label info) miscredits Terrence "Terry" Callier as Terrance Collier.

It is also interesting to note that Leroy Barbour cut a version of "I Ain't Going Nowhere" in 1975 on the Frontiersman label, entirely omitting details of the original songwriters. Produced by Phillip Mitchell.

I noticed that two acetates were sold in January 2020 on ebay containing crude demo versions of these four songs: https://gripsweat.com/item/383351099875/unknown-i-am-in-love-with-you-on-acetate-soul-demo-45-vg-hear https://gripsweat.com/item/362869417702/unknown-i-aint-going-nowhere-on-acetate-soul-demo-45-vg-hear I have uploaded the demo versions to YouTube for posterity's sake:

Must be these two, which were included on his fathers' "The New Jimmy Reed Album" from 1967:

Don't they all have "A Declon Recording" printed on the label? Declon was the licensing arm of London Records in the US (which released UK Decca recordings in the US).

The only 7" release I know of is this japanese EP: https://www.discogs.com/release/27114270-The-Fifth-Dimension-Individually-Collectively

Really liking this one at the moment, came out about 6 months ago but I didn't hear it until recently: KSR & Konny Kon - Part Of The Plan

What does it say on the test pressing? Any writing on the labels? What's in the deadwax? Isn't the version of "I Gotta Stand For Something" credited to Apple And The Three Oranges on the Now-Again label compilation the exact same versions that were released as by both Barney Williams and Professor And The Efficiency Experts on STANSON cat# 123?

Original.

That sounds reasonable. Found this site a moment ago (that I had no idea existed), it has got some good info: https://www.monarchrecorddatabase.com/monarch-history

I think you're absolutely right. But are you 100% sure that Monarch actually pressed vinyl? I've read elsewhere that they only had styrene presses and vinyl records that carry a delta number were pressed at Alco and not Monarch.

Many of the records pressed on vinyl that bears a "monarch" delta number were actually pressed by Alco. Monarch and Alco shared the same delta numbering system. The records pressed on vinyl that used the monarch delta numbering system should have a (sometimes very faint) Alco stamp in addition to the delta number in the run-out groove.

Yes.

Both sides on that No Na Mee's 45 are fantastic. Robb is 100% right. Very few of the tracks posted in this thread would be considered garage by people who actually like and collect that "genre" of music. Strings, horns and harmony vocals are by-and-large big no-no's. Unison (but not harmony) group vocals are more tolerated. Horns are OK when it comes to frat-inflicted stuff like The Sonics etc. Snotty/snarling/screaming vocals, pummeling beat, distorted guitars, fuzz guitar or heavily distorted guitar break are crucial unless the song is a moody mid-tempo lament or of the more jingle-jangle Byrds-ian variant. Heavy Kinks/Animals/Them/Pretty Things influence. Often heavy r&b or bo-beat influence, but seldom soul influence. A few examples:

I've got the previously undocumented Normar issue of... Larry Darnell's "Too Many Heartaches" / "Cheating On Me" ...on ebay right now. Barely known to exist as a withdrawn Resist label release, but the Normar issue seems to be a unicorn! Here it is: https://www.ebay.com/itm/376289468539 Plenty of other stuff up right now as well: https://www.ebay.com/str/pushkings?_sop=1