Sebastian

Yes, only two known copies as far as I know. Both are white demos and both apparently turned up in Toledo...

Usually about £75.

Lovely reply!

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No, that can't be it, and those release dates are wrong. There are almost two years between the two releases. Chico was released April 1959 and Contours was issued on 20th of February 1961 (the "regional" version that is, the "national" one wasn't issued until May 1961). This acetate looks very dodgy to me.

I'm A Loser - blue bull - uni Refosoul Rare and Northern Soul Clip library - v3 getting there.. This is the most surprising cut I've ever come across on UNI. Proper moody r&b tune produced by Willie Mitchell.

Hahahaha! Top class answer! Well I wish... Nice meeting you too! Wish we could've talked a bit more, but that loud music in the background made it a bit tricky. Some really nice stuff you played as well!

Barbara McNair - You're Gonna' Love My Baby - Motown promo - £307 Exportations - I Want You - Vir-ro - £308 Eddie Bishop - Call Me - ABC - £270 Darrell Banks - Open The Door To Your Heart - London Promo - £818 Chapter Five - One In A Million - CBS Promo - £101 Jessie James - Are You Gonna Leave Me - Shirley - £911 Delegates Of Soul - I'll Come Running Back - Uplook - £423 Louis Curry - You're Just Plain Nice - Reel - £307 Blues and Soul - Monthly Music Review Issue # 3 - Blues and Soul - £20 Joe Jama - My Life - Optimum - £3015 Lynn Dee (and the Pagans) - Do You Love Me - Music City 5" Acetate - £290 Preston Foster - Fifty Two Times Before c/w He Gave Me - Getit - £307 Ben E. King - Spanish Harlem - Atlantic LP - £36 Carl Holmes - Investigation No.1 - C.R.S Lp - £132 Betty Turner - The Winds Kept Laughing - Crescent - £661

The version of "Mary Lou" on Modern is superb and very gritty!

From Manship's rarest of the rare gallery: "Never Going To Let You Go" https://www.raresoulman.co.uk/sounds/exists...g_to_let_you_go "Alone With My Tears" https://www.raresoulman.co.uk/sounds/exists...ne_with_my_tear

Great double-sider! "Never Going To Let You Go" is the side for me and a superb piece of rocking r&b!

I've heard it and I think I have it on one of his Liberty LPs here somewhere. Was it issued on a 45?

It's one of the worst recording ever. You just have to laugh! Especially like the english accent he's got going...

Here's the old thread where Manship made a comment: /index.php?showtopic=46079 Manship wrote: The blue text is the FIRST PRESS Black text is the SECOND PRESS the second press used the original stampers so the deadwax matrix is identical. So the Black Text is not a BOOTLEG just a second press circa 1976.. Blue Text is £500+ Black text has sold for as much as a £100

Johnny Rivers! What a guy! So many great recordings!

Have you heard "Mascohistic Beauty" by Marvin Gaye? I'll have to post it up for those who don't know it. It's... bizarre... to say the least.

I probably will be auctioning my "Footsee" acetate at some point, but your trade offer is tempting. Then again, I have no idea what a work-in-progress acetate of "Footsee" will fetch, you never know what kind of value people will put on such a thing, taking nostalgia things into account etc. And oh, the "Footsee" one is a metal acetate so you'll need a LOT of heat to make it into an ashtray!

It sure is "interesting" as far as novelty records goes. I'm quite amazed that it was played at a venue. Was the backing track ever used for anything else? Gary Paxton being involved etc. I actually auctioned a copy of "The Lurch" a couple of weeks ago on eBay and described it as a left-field, oddball ancient northern soul spin and within a day I recieved an angry e-mail saying that "this isn't northern soul, you don't know nothing etc.". I ofcourse understood the point, but it sold and when I recieved the feedback from the buyer it said "quality piece of northern soul KTF". I couldn't help but smile.

About £10-£15.

According to the Vault and Paula discographies I've got: the Vault 45 is from 1968 and the Paula 45 is from 1970.

Yes, that's a very strange one. The official issue copies has got the small "45 rpm" logo which otherwise only was used on the 2nd issues. But I guess you could go for a white demo dopy (which has got the big 45 rpm logo) just to be on the safe side.

Not really. It's a re-press. It shouldn't be of any interest to a person who only collects/buys original issue 45s.

A lot of people are paying ridiculous money for these lookalike bootlegs, so stick it on eBay and you'll probably get £20-£30 without problems for it. A copy sold just a couple of days ago for £31... amazing.

There are some very cheap presing plants out there. I've pressed some 7"s in the past (the original music of the band I was in at the time, NOT BOOTLEGS!) and pressing 200 or 300 usually costs about £1.75 per copy (including postage, labels, paper sleeves and everything). So that's about £525 to press 300 copies (minimum order is ususally 100 copies). You then manage to sell 200 of them for £10 each, that's £2000 and a profit of about £1500, if you sell all 300 copies you make a profit of £2500. And these people don't just press up ONE title, they probably have 50 different titles "running" at the same time. That's a profit of 50 x £2500 (£125000) if you sell 300 copies of all the titles.

You are wrong. "Sure As The Stars Shine" (a ballad) and "Perfect Love" (uptempo dancer) are two entirely different tunes with different lyrics and recorded some 4 years apart.