Sebastian

About 2 days left on these auctions now.

The stock copy is extremely rare and £60 is cheap. I sold a stock copy for $266 about a year ago, it's the deep side which pushes up the price. Stock copies usually sells for $200-$300 on eBay.

Yes, that EP is mine but it's not for sale. I've never seen another copy. There are two tracks by Otis Redding on the flipside. Comes in a nice art sleeve as well.

It's also available on a 60s EP from Portugal on the TECLA label.

You can't compare the two. Records are luxury items that no one needs to be able to survive.

It's hard to find, but not ultra rare. Several (original) copies comes up for sale every year on eBay. It usually goes for $100-$150.

Please read post #13 above (by me). You're assuming a lot of things that are not correct in all of your posts in this thread.

I think it looks great.

The band themselves have said that there will only ever be 500 copies made of this 45, and the people involved with pressing up this 45 knows full well how these things works and have earlier here on SoulSource pretty much stated that they don't mind it. Read this: I will stand behind making it a small batch though , it keeps it special. This is a big can of worms but to keep it simple let me say that the funk and soul scenes throughout the years have been founded on the fact that not every tom dick and harry has these records. As soon as you can get it just anywhere it loses a bit of it's mystique. I don't want to harp on this point too long, I wrote and produced the record and I can do what I want with it. Also, 2 or 3 people will have small quantity but almost all of that 500 are individual copies or 2x each. The same person also wrote this in the same thread: Record collectors are the freaks, not the band. 500+ people reserving copies of the 45 and you know how many have paid 99 cents to download it? I'll tell you. 10. So is it 'all about the music' or all about object fetishism? I am one of you freaks so don't take this the wrong way but this old chestnut of RECORDS vs THE MUSIC is F*&ing BORING as it's obviously about THE RECORDS! MUHAHAHAH In the meantime this thread had been getting us like 300+plays a day on our page, thanks SS! And the band is the one's who decided to keep it at 500 copies.. there are plenty of other ways to make money for the group besides 45 sales. In fact I wonder what succesful groups these days rely on them for any percentage of their income. This is all a bit of fun. It's all from this thread: /Kings-B...962#entry774962

The flipside on this 45, "The Girl Can't Dance", is an all-time fave of mine. Great frantic rocker!

If I remember correctly, it is mentioned in the liner notes that it is a US track, but they wanted to include it anyway... They are from the US. The local issue is on ATHENS, and then it was picked up by CHECKER. Bill & Will have got some other 45s on ATHENS/HERMITAGE as well. It has often been claimed that "Bill" is Billy Lee Riley, but as far as I know that is not the case. The songwriters on both tunes on that Bill & Will 45 are "Riley / Sasser / Willis". The full names of the songwriters are: Robert S. Riley William W. Sasser Jr. Jerry Leon Willis My guess is that two of the above guys are Bill & Will.

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://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfrppZ75QQfsooZ...QsassZpushkings ___SOUL / FUNK / NEW BREED R&B 45s___________________________ JEAN BATTLE on Clintone (same tune as EBONEY ESSENCE "Let Me In") LITTLE RICHARD on Okeh ("Poor Dog", w/ picture sleeve!) McKINLEYS on Stuk ("Beggin", same tune as TIMEBOX, FOUR SEASONS etc.) JAMES & BOBBY PURIFY on Stateside Spain MARSHA HUNT on Polydor Germany ROCKY ROBERTS on Barclay Denmark SOLOMON BURKE on Atlantic ("Stupidity") RAY PEREIRA on Columbia France ("Funk Everything") NOBLE KNIGHTS on Atlantic Turkey BOBBIE GENTRY on Capitol Holland ("He Made A Woman Out Of Me") DINOSAUR / ARTHUR RUSSELL on Sire Norway JOE SIMON on Monument Germany ("I Got A Whole Lot Of Lovin") LONNIE SATTIN on Warner Bros. Norway GLADIATORS on Direction UK TOM & MICK on Columbia Denmark Thanks for looking! Take care. /Sebastian

Yes, right now it seems like that. Apart from yesterdays $358 copy, it's in steady decline precewise. Here are the 3 latest copies on eBay: 2008-07-24 - $358.66 2008-07-18 - $202.50 2008-07-12 - $214.50

Wow! Didn't know that. I like their "I've Been Crying".

The US RCA 7" is 3:27. The US RCA LP version is 3:59.

Accoding to the seller of the test-pressing it has got: "PA/PB-11403 in the runoff" My RCA vinyl issue copy has got PB-11403A and PB-11403B in the run-out grooves, so it's most likely a test-pressing for the RCA release. A very nice item in any case!

The value for the testpressing is $105.02. It sold earlier today on eBay: https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=250271397463

Fantastic tune. It's a previously unissued track which was only included on the late 80s (or maybe even 90s) reissues of "New Orleans". Not really worth anything as far as i know, as it still can be bought from oldies45s/jukebox supplier shops on the net for $5-$20-ish.

Usually goes for £20-£30. Here's a recent eBay copy: https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=140246745843

Scepter.

Isn't it just the promo copies that are mis-spelled?

Most copies were sold out before it was hyped or even mentioned on SoulSource. A link to the bands MySpace page was posted on the funk forum and the people who pre-ordered the 45 did so because they thought it was a good record or because they thought they could re-sell some copies at profit. Almost all records thorughout the history of recorded music are imitations or influenced of what has gone down before. The vast majority of ALL soul/r&b records ever released are (often unimaginative) ways of re-hashing a formula. That goes for almost all records played under the "northern soul" banner, or any other banner for that matter. That doesn't make those records bad or not worthy of our attention though. It's just the way it works. Kings Go Forth's "One Day" is a truly monumental tune in my opinion. I don't see what that has got to do with me liking authentic 60s/70s soul though. Can't I like and play both? It's not like there's all of a sudden a lack of good 60s/70s/80s soul in my record collection or DJ box just because I put the Kings Go Forth 45 in there.

Here it is:

Click on "LISTEN" below to hear the 4 remaining 45s. Midnight Express - Danger Zone / Dial Love (Tri-Fire) 150 Reduced to 125!! Highly recommended! LISTEN Lady - Whatever happened to the love (M-L) 120 Reduced to 100! I need to sell! LISTEN Tapestry - Life is what you make it (Capitol) wol 8 LISTEN Sun - Give your love to me (Capitol) 12 LISTEN