Sebastian

It definitely makes it rarer, but also less desirable and worth less than this particular 45 with the right labels on it.

Just for your info while hunting the matrix details, this 45 was pressed at two different pressing plants (at least). There are label differences and there are most likely matrix differences between the two as well:

Unless you don't use the Global Shipping Program. I can't fathom why anyone would want/need to use it. I mean, you STILL have to go to the post office. Why not just ship it to the direct location instead of shipping it off to an "international eBay hub" which THEN sends it on... Oh well!

If all packages from the US had "Value: $5" on them there would be no duty to collect. But with the "Global Shipping Program" the exact price of the won auction will be printed on the customs form as "Value". Surely that is the biggest problem.

Have PMed you!

Well, there you go! Deserved to go much higher. It's a masterpiece.

None of the big sellers declare full values. It would hurt their business an awful lot. Don't use the eBay "Global Shipping Program". It is the reason for all the customs problems as of late. Check out this paragraph: https://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/shipping-globally.html#buyer-charges

It's the same basic recording on both DRA and UNITED MODERN. I think that the reverb/effects were added at the time of manufacturing the stamper for the DRA release. UNITED MODERN must've used the plain "dry" mastertape mix-down (without any added effects) when they issued it. I can send you a soundfile of the DRA 45 if you want me to?

Just thought I'd highlight the the writing in the run-out groove that you mention was written/etched ONCE onto the lacquer/mother stamper that was used to press the records.

But that shouldn't make a difference, really. Think of all the shipments that goes on every day within the UK or EU where you don't have to fill in a customs form or declare a value. What would happen in that scenario?

It would really surprise me if it was. As Gene-R wrote above, the 45 issued on UNITED MODERN and all of the worldwide Columbia/Stateside related releases of this track on 45s and EPs were released in 1964 as a cash-in attempt trying to capitalize on Trini's then current popularity due to his recordings on REPRISE ("If I Had A Hammer" etc.). The original release of "Sinner Not A Saint" is from 1961 on a 45 on the DRA label (same as Jessie Mae "Don't Freeze On Me" etc.). The DRA label release of "SNAS" is however completely drenched in echo and lacks the punchy dryness of the UNITED MODERN release.

Do you mean like in the image below (which I found on the net)? The printing is poorly defined and looks "copied" from the proper label. The text is smudged and parts of some of the letters are missing. Looks suspicious to me.

Perhaps someone can ask Garry Cape when they were done (if I remember correctly, member "dewsburyborn" is Cape)? Here is what he wrote in a thread from August 2008: "I had John Richbourg repress it - on the orange/black label - I sold 2,500 to Neil Rushton and 1,000 to my guys in Holland for the flip side 'You're Letting Me Down'."

Only 4-5 hours to go on these auctions now: https://www.ebay.com/sch/pushkings/m.html Thanks for looking!

The last three copies on eBay went for $9.99, $19.99 and $25 so just bide your time in case you don't win this one. There's also a buy-it-now on eBay right now for $25.

That's a bloody rare 45!

£10-£15.

OKEH 7226 - Major Lance - Too Hot To Hold / Dark And Lonely. Big "45 RPM" on the demo, small "45 RPM" on the issue.

Here's an unissued uptempo dancer by Sandra Phillips called "Words" that I've got on an ASSOCIATED acetate:

Click "auctions only" at the top of the page and you'll get rid of the buy-it-nows: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Records-/176985/i.html?Genre=R%2526B%252F%2520Soul&_sop=3&_from=R40&_nkw=&_dmpt=UK_Records&Sub%252DGenre=Northern%2520Soul&rt=nc&LH_Auction=1

Only about 2 days to go on these auctions now: https://www.ebay.com/sch/pushkings/m.html

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/...ushkings/m.html Thanks for looking! Take care. /Sebastian

Obviously seems to be very obscure. It's on eBay now for those of you who might be interested: https://www.ebay.com/itm/330876262276

Or split the Jades / Willie Wade / Nite Life related posts to another thread.

I think we can rule out that Willie Wade on NITE LIFE was a member of the New Orleans group that recorded on MODE. The Dept. Of Sanitation 45 on NITE LIFE is produced by "Wilder Brothers" so the Billboard article definitely refers to this NITE LIFE label. And another thing: both sides of the Willie Wade 45 on NITE LIFE is co-written by a "Warner Weidler" and guess what - George and Walter Wilder who started the NITE LIFE label according to the Billboard article has got a brother named Warner Wilder. It wouldn't surprise me if this actually is "Warner Weidler". It all adds up.