Sebastian

Tempests - Would You Believe - Smash LP - £231 Cross Bronx Expressway - Cross Bronx Expressway - Zell's - £63 Ethics - I Want My Baby Back - Vent promo - £180 Beverly Ann - He's Coming Home - Rca promo + picture postcard - £157 Benny Scott and the Soul Masters - No Other Woman But You - Mellow Town - £301 Cavaliers - Hold To My Baby - Rca Victor aceate - £158 Epsilons - Mind In A Bind - Hem - £459 Johnny Rodgers with the Nu Tones - Make A Change - Amon - £1861 Ree Flores - Look Into My Heart c/w Get Out Of My Life Woman - M&H - £1577 Ike and Tina Turner - The Soul of Ike & Tina Turner 4 track EP - Sue EP PS - £146 Jimmy Helms - Romeo and Juliet - Pye - £175 Vernon Garrett - If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time - Stateside Demo - £76 Bernard Smith - Never Gonna Let You Go - Spectrum - £359 The Age of Bronze - I'm Gonna Love You - Guava - £315 Lee David - Temptation Is Calling My Name - Columbia - £173 Satintones - Angel - Motown - £517

But only on some copies of "The Living End"... Very confusing! "The Living End", now THAT'S a pounding tune!

Hello! I've listed a bunch of 45s on eBay. There are label/sleeve scans and soundclips to all records. Check them out at: https://shop.ebay.com/merchant/pushkings ___SOUL / FUNK / NEW BREED R&B 45s & LP______________________ BUENA VISTAS on Vogue Germany BUKI YAMAZ on Stuk ELAINE DELMAR on MCA UK INTRUDERS on Action UK ISLEY BROTHERS on Tamla Motown Sweden ("Out Of The Question") JAY & THE TECHNIQUES on Philips Holland JOHNNY PATE on ABC ("You Can't Even Walk In The Park") JULIE EGE on Starbox LEN BARRY on Brunswick Denmark O'KAYSIONS - 6-track 7" EP - ABC US (3 otherwise LP-only tunes!) ROY C on Metronome Germany SONNY CHARLES on A&M Norway SOULFUL STRINGS - 6-track 7" EP - CADET US (5 LP-only tunes!) ___SKA / ROCKSTEADY / REGGAE 45s_____________________________ BILLY CAMPBELL on Paradise UK BLACK VELVET & RAM JOHN HOLDER on Up Front UK BOB MARLEY on Island Spain CARIBS on Sonet Denmark (EARLY Island export 45!) GEORGE BARRETT on Reggae UK JOHN HOLT on Trojan UK JOHNNY CLARKE on Caribbean UK LORD FLEA on Capitol Denmark WINSTON SAMUELS on Ska Beat UK Thanks for looking! Take care. /Sebastian

As much as I like and use Popsike... it's not perfect and far from everything turns up there. Actually, most things DOESN'T turn up there. There have been plenty of copies on eBay of this title over the past couple of years, most of them have been from the same Peruvian seller so it's most likely not as hard to find in Peru as in the rest of the world.

Answering myself here... I've dug up some scans of the S4KM-0869/0870 release as well as scanned my copy of the 401-A/B release. They have obviously been pressed at two different pressing plants and it's also interesting to note that Eddie Silvers is credited as writer/producer on the 401-A/B issue, while Curtis Smith is credited as writer/producer on the S4KM-0869/0870 issue (which was pressed at an RCA plant in 1965, the "S" in S4KM denotes that)! So... what's up? Have a look below. 401-A/B issue: S4KM-0869/0870 issue:

So there is definitely two different releases of this 45, as mine has just got the following scratched in the runout grooves: 401-A (on the "How High..." side) and 401-B (on the "Say You Will" side) Got my copy from a minor US dealer a couple of years ago. It has got perfect sound quality, shows obvious wear from having been unsleeved for some time, so it would surprise me if it's a bootleg. Perhaps just a case of two different pressing plants? Does anyone have a scan for the S4KM-0869-1A copy?

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The US label Reel Music reissued this album on CD earlier this year: https://www.myreelmusic.com/catalog/item/5370037/5335842.htm They will reissue Gloria Jones Motown album "Share My Love" as well in March next year.

In the US it was only issued on the "Wanted One Soul Singer" LP on STAX (#716). It was issued on 7" in France both as: a 4-track STAX EP (#269.006, together with "Outside Love", "Toe Hold" and "I Had A Dream") and a 2-track ATLANTIC 45 (#650147, with "Watermelon Man" on the b-side). I don't know of any other releases that contains his version of "Blues In The Night". US STAX LP: FRANCE STAX EP: FRANCE ATLANTIC 45:

No, there have been lots more copies and $99.99 is not a bargain compared to what some of the others have sold for. The seller who sold this latest one have regularly sold copies of that 45 during the past year on eBay (at least 5-7 copies) for prices ranging from $50-$125.

It's "Let Me Love You" by Soul For Sale on the GERONIMO (#868) label. Seems to be rare, and I've seen a couple of copies sell for $450-$650 during the past year on eBay. Can't see what the fuss is about myself, but horses for courses.

That test pressing sure is rare, but I think there was only one bidder because the opening bid was fairly high compared to what an actual issue copy costs. In my experience most people seem to prefer actual issue copies of tunes that reached issue stage instead of test pressings or acetates.

"Keep The Faith" is superb as well (although Mark James version edges it in my opinion).

It's just called "Mel & Tim" (STAX STS-5501).

I should probably have added that with "search result" I don't necessarily mean useful results (discussions/reviews/etc.), I mean ANY mention at all of that record - as an out-of-stock item, as part of a discography, on someones want list, a past sale on eBay, well... anything really. Perhaps we just have different experiences about this.

I agree with Benji. I sell and buy a lot of records and research every one of them and it's incredibly rare the times I've come across something that doesn't throw up ANY search results. The folk-psych LP by Malc Sayer (out of Carnforth, Lancashire!) that I sold yesterday was one of those examples, I couldn't find ANYTHING ANYWHERE, but that doesn't happen a lot. Records not turning up as search results may not mean that they are RARE, but it more often than not will turn out that they are obscure.

Only about 3-4 hours left on these auctions now. Thanks for looking! :-)

Billy Preston - Greazee part 1 & part 2 - Soul City demo - £80 Little Stevie Wonder - Workout Stevie, Workout - Stateside Demo - £57 Marvin Smith - Have More Time - Coral demo - £63 Smith Brothers - There Can Be A Better Way - Soul Dimension - £659 Contemplations - Alone With No Love - Dontee 101 - £484 Alice Clark - You Hit Me ( right where it hurt me) - Warner Bros promo - £260 Brand New Faces - Brand New Faces - Lujuna - £938 Ducky & the Glowlighters - Over & Over - Uptown promo - £892 Soul Bros. Inc - Pyramid - Golden Eye - £744 Bessie Banks - Don't You Worry Baby the Best Is It To Come - Quality - £282 Detroit Soul - All Of My Life - Music Town - £222 Crystal Clear - Stay With Me - Polydor promo - £422 Sonny Craver - I'm No Fool c/w I Wanna Thank You - Terri De - £235 Falcons - Love Look In Her Eyes - Big Wheel - £252 Debonaires - Headache In My Heart c/w I'm In Love Again - Solid Hit - £141 Johnny Dynamite - The Night the Angels Cried c/w Everybody's Clown - Minaret - £332

This 45 almost never comes up for sale these days and there is massive demand for it from all corners of the soul/funk collecting fraternity. $640 is about £425... considering who the seller is and how much many of his auctions usually fetch, I actually thought it would go even higher. Fantastic tune! And so is "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire.

There's about one day left on these auctions.

Very poor vocal delivery on the Little Willie Faulk version compared to Ree Flores to my ears. Ree Flores just rips from beginning to end! One of my all-time favourite uptempo soul tunes. Has anyone ever tracked down Ree Flores?

I have a one minute clip of the ballad one if that's of any use?

No, that's a different record. The First Family on WASHINGTON is a powerful mid-70s funk tune. The exact same recording was also issued as by Sugar Hill on the same WASHINGTON label.

Great tune! https://www.fileden.com/files/2008/11/6/217...28CUSTUM%29.mp3 By the way, it's on CUSTOM, not CURTOM.

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