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It's from Belgium.

OK! I would charge £10, that's what most of the clean EX to M- copies goes for on eBay.

£5-£10.

Yes that's probably exactly what happened. But the arrow label was introduced in August 1966, so the "Midnight Johnny" arrow-labelled 45 must be from after August 1966. It probably doesn't matter to most people, but I'd rather have the March 1964 release if I could choose.

According to the Seabear Studios website (https://www.seabear.se/Gordy1.html) which is usually pretty thorough in their research: The first 45 that utilised the "arrow" logo was: GORDY 7055 - Temptations - Beauty is Only Skin Deep / You're Not An Ordinary Girl It was released in August 1966. All earlier numbers utilising the "arrow" design are reissues/repressings done after August 1966. Why Liz Lands got reissued? Who knows? Perhaps they just ordered a repress of the wrong cat#?

Howard Guyton is a different song with the same name. The Jay Walkers and also Little Charles & The Sidewinders recorded versions of "Got My Own Thing Going". Both of those tunes have got the same lyrics and writers on both 45s and it's a (demo?) version of the same tune that can be found on the acetate:

Are you sure about that? "Ordinary Joe", from 1972, on blue/white?

There's a Felice Taylor / Chuck Jackson release on that label as well. More info here: https://www.discogs.com/label/Soul+Gems Seems to be bootlegs and not official releases.

As for Memphis, these are good: Shangri-La Records, 1916 Madison Ave Goner Records, 2152 Young Avenue The following is a tiny shop, but might be worth a look: Audiomania Records, 1698 Madison Ave

3: Nature's Divine - Never Felt This Way Before 10: Natalie Cole - I'm Getting In To You 12: Denise Lasalle - Love Addict 15: Flame N King & The Bold Ones - Ho Happy Day 16: Freddie Waters - Groovin' On My Baby's Love

Click "auctions only" at the top of the search page. That way you'll at least get rid of all the buy-it-now's which accounts for about 13000 items in the northern soul category on UK eBay... I.e.: https://www.ebay.co.u...nc&LH_Auction=1

I have no idea if this has been massive in the past, but I can't find many mentions of it in playlists etc.

Usually goes for much less than that though... there's one on Discogs now for £9.99. £8.95 on MusicStack. £30 from Jazzman. £30 from Pete Smith etc. All of them unsold.

£10-£20

OK... I guess I'll have to give the actual box-set a go then. It doesn't make any sense though that Spotify requires that the music is in stereo, they don't, there's lots of mono stuff on there. So were two sets of mixes/masters done? Stereo for downloads and mono for the CDs?

The 1975 and 1977 releases are two totally different albums.

It's such a pity and a real lost opportunity to do things properly. Ever since the Arctic/Jamie/Guyden stuff first started to appear on CD it's been the same. I remember buying the "Storm Warning" CD with "all new stereo mixes by Tom Moulton"... I don't care who re-mixed them, they sound like shit compared to the original 45s. For example, listen to "Love Addict" on the box-set, one of the most in-your-face sounding 45s I have in my collection. This new stereo mix makes it sound mellow and disjointed in comparison. It's as if the people doing the re-mixing/mastering have got no idea what the song was originally supposed to sound like. Just becuase you have the multi-track tapes and can make a stereo mix, you don't have to do it.

All tracks recently turned up on Spotify: Sadly most of the tracks are presented in abysmal stereo mixes. Why do a set like this in stereo?

It's strange, but Airsure doesn't require a signature when sent to Sweden. The packages just gets slipped through the door.

That might very well be the case. In that case the order would be: W 104A - multi-coloured W 104A - red/white W 104A3 - red/white

That sounds reasonable.

Are you sure that it is from Belgium? BIEM is a french organisation. SABAM is its belgian counterpart.

OK. That could be the order of release. It still doesn't make sense to me that "A3" would come before "A" though. Also it is weird that there suddenly is a spelling mistake on the labels that has got the "A" mixes. One would think that it was corrected for the "A3" release. Anyway, we will never get to the bottom of this unless someone involved in the recording/pressing comes on here and settles it. And it doesn't really matter, I guess. Both mixes sound more or less crap most of the time. A pity because it's a good tune. I just wanted to highlight the fact that there are two very different mixes because I've not seen that fact mentioned much, just a lot of people saying/writing that the "first issue" is the one with red/white label. And that just doesn't make sense seeing as there are two different red/white issues...

That doesn't make sense to me because the "second" mix (W 104A3) doesn't exist on multi-coloured label as far as I know. Surely the second/newest mix would be used for the nationally distributed 45? I think that the order of the releases are: W 104A - red/white W 104A - multi-coloured W 104A3 - red/white Why would the "A3" mix have been done before the "A" one? Also, the "A3" mix has got the correct title ("You're..."). The "A" mix doesn't ("Your..." on both red/white and multicoloured). I assume that the title was corrected for the later "A3" issue. It could ofcourse be that the "A3" mix is the first one, but I doubt it. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a test-pressing of an "A2" mix as well, but it was scrapped due to some reason before making it out to the public.

Yes, both have got pro's and con's. Hard to explain what I mean with that it doesn't "gel", it's just that on the W 104A3 mix it sounds as if Jesse sings "on top" of the music and the music is way back in the background. Almost as if it hasn't been compressed at all. There is no punch to the music, but the vocals are clear. The one to have in my opinion is the W 104A version and keep buying it until you find a non-distorting copy of it. The W 104A3 sounds very thin and crap when played at a venue. Below are soundclips of both so you can compare them for yourself. Both files are recorded using the exact same equipment and set-up. W 104A version: https://www.shingaling.com/W104A.mp3 W 104A3 version: https://www.shingaling.com/W104A3.mp3 As you can see below, the WAV files also look very different. W 104A version: W 104A3 version: