Sebastian

Just a case of different pressing plants having pressed the record at the same time. I've never seen an issue of this 45, only demos/promos.

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All is not relative. Info about the recent reissue/bootleg is totally irrelevant and should be left out of this conversation because it just confuses matters further. I agree that it would be good to know whether the "Al Scott" or "Mr. Soul" issue came first. I'd bet money on the white labelled Al Scott one to be the first issue just like Pete S implied above, but I don't think there is a huge timespan between the two releases. It's all guesswork though, hard to know without asking the people involved in the recording etc. NSG, have you tried to contact Billy Nichols? He should know. It's also not strange that both releases have got the same catalogue number and are on the same label. That has happened a lot throughout the years on both big and small labels.

Once again, you're mixing things up. There is a recent (i.e. from the 2000's) repro/bootleg of the black label "Mr. Soul" issue. It has got nothing to do with the ORIGINAL black label "Mr. Soul" issue from the 1960's. The labels look different if you inspect them closely and the bootleg hasn't got "You're Too Good" on the flipside (which is actually the a-side).

It might be worth asking Billy Nichols (https://billynicholsmusic.com/) about it. Billy co-wrote the flipside "You're Too Good" together with "Mr. Soul" a.k.a. Al Scott a.k.a. Albert Scott. Here's the BMI entry for "You're Too Good": https://repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&keyID=1733051&ShowNbr=0&ShowSeqNbr=0&querytype=WorkID

NSG, you are mixing things up. The 45 on the Classic 45's site is a recent reissue (bootleg?) with the same song on both sides.

Supremes - Only Sixteen Was released twice in Sweden with different picture sleeves, twice in Denmark with different sleeves and flipside, once in Norway. DENMARK: SWEDEN: NORWAY:

Gloria Jones - What Did I Do To Lose You (was released in Sweden) Jackson 5 - Goin' Back To Indiana (was released in Scandinavia and a some other countries in Europe)

It was released in 1964, not 1962.

That might be the case, but those hundreds of copies sure don't come up for sale much these days.

You're probably thinking of some other 45, this one didn't get a non-US release. It's a very rare 45 that seldom turns up. This was definitely an extremely high price for the Jeff Floyd 45, but it has been massively in-demand over the past couple of years and few copies are hitting the market. There hasn't been a copy on eBay in 3 years apart from the one yesterday. And it's been five years since a copy complete with its picture sleeve was listed. A copy sold on SoulSource for £500 about three years ago. It has never sold on Discogs, but has got 132 "wants" for it. "Don't Leave Me" is fabulous. Yes, the guitar solo as well.

Just have a look at the numbers in the run-out grooves. It's the original if it has got "5444" on the a-side. It's the bootleg if it has got "5544" on the a-side.

£400 is, as we all now can see, peanuts for this record. Would most likely have sold for $1000+ on eBay if listed properly. Probably much more. Demand far outstrips the pretty much nonexistent supply.

The original has got the following etched in the run-out grooves (note 5444/5544): A-side: TAMPETE-5444-A MZL B-side: TAMPETE-5544-B MZL The bootleg has got the number "5544" etched on both sides in the run-out grooves.

The orginal issue hardly ever turns up for sale these days (at least not "out in the open"). Why this 45 should only be considered a £300/£400 disc is beyond me. Far rarer and harder to find than that.

And it's definitely "I Need Some Loving".

That 45 is pressed with fairly low volume and has got an "airy" production so you need a clean copy if you want to be able to enjoy it. It always fetches decent money when offered in M- condition. Some past results: 2014-05-15 - $1290 (M-) 2014-01-23 - $99 ("BOTH SIDES PLAY THRU WITH BACK GROUND NOISE. LOTS OF CLICKS AND POPS") 2013-09-11 - $463 ("BOTH SIDES PLAY WITH BACK GROUND NOISE, LOTS OF CLICKS AND POPS") 2010-12-16 - $1247 (M-) 2010-09-27 - $1134 ("BOTH SIDES PLAY WITH SOME BACK GOUND NOISE, CLICKS AND POPS") 2010-03-15 - $636 ("Strong VG") 2009-09-24 - $1025 (M-)

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Fantastic 45! There is added brass and "sweetening" to the CRS version of "Don't Change On Me", the ZODIAC release is more sparse. The ZODIAC version can be heard starting at 15:39 in this mix: https://www.mixcloud.com/shingaling/sebastian-fonzeus-mix-2013-05-30/ Here's the CRS version:

Two different versions though, of both sides if I remember correctly, at least "Don't Change On Me" is different on the two issues.

It hasn't been bootlegged as far as I know, but there is an official reissue done by Tramp Records in Germany. The difference between the original and reissue can easily be spotted because the reissue has got "Licensed by Curtis R. Staten" at the bottom of the label. REISSUE:

Hello! I've listed a bunch of records on eBay. There are label/sleeve scans and soundclips to everything. Check them out at: https://www.ebay.com/sch/pushkings/m.html Thanks for looking! Take care. /Sebastian

It's a kind of "free for all" when it comes to most US recordings copyrighted before 1964. If the copyright for those recordings were not renewed during their 28th year, they're in the public domain and can be released/reproduced by anyone as far as I understand it. That's why you see the massive amount of CDs/45's etc. being released at the moment featuring that kind of material. According to Wikipedia: All copyrightable works published in the United States before 1923 are in the public domain; [...] For works that received their copyright before 1978, a renewal had to be filed in the work's 28th year with the Library of Congress Copyright Office for its term of protection to be extended. The need for renewal was eliminated by the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992, but works that had already entered the public domain by non-renewal did not regain copyright protection. Therefore, works published before 1964 that were not renewed are in the public domain. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_States#Duration_of_copyright The above only applies to recordings published in the US, the copyright laws for recordings published in the UK or EU are for example a lot different.