Sebastian

Wow! Those envelopes look really cool! Here's one from Fame Records that recently was on eBay:

Yes it's, on Poker. Holland-only as far as I know. EDIT: Sorry, just double-checked. It's available on italian DURIUM as well.

It's available on a 12": https://www.discogs.com/Dorando-Listen-To-My-Song-Didnt-I/release/812326

I've only got one mailer and it's from Ardent, but only vaguely soul-related via the Stax connection I guess.

Ben E. King is a truly incredible artist in my opinion and despite his huge hits during the early 60s, he is still one of the most mis-represented and undervalued artists of the "soul giants" as far as his later career is concerned. The majority of his ATCO recordings from 1964 to 1969 are nothing less than exceptional, but I've never seen a decent compilation (put together by someone who is serious about what they're doing) made out of that material. They are always too heavily focused on his early recordings. I once did a CD for myself with 28 of his lesser known tracks (24 of those were from 1964-1969, and no "Stand By Me" in sight). It is one of my most played CDs. Ben E. King deserves a compilation just like the one that Kent/Ace recently did for Arthur Conley. Just a few mentions from me: "It's Amazing", "Forgive This Fool", "It's No Good For Me", "So Much Love", "'Til I Can't Take It Anymore", "What Can A Man Do", "It Ain't Fair", "We Got A Thing Going On" (with Dee Dee Sharp) etc. Fantastic stuff.

The following is a fantastic site for those of us who are into collecting 45 sleeves: https://45-sleeves.com/ For US releases, click "US sleeves" at the top left.

Good call!

Don't have the 45 myself so just throwing this out there... might be the following 45 from 1969? Orsa Lia - Love's The Only Answer / World I Used To Know - UNITED ARTISTS 50514

Haven't heard this in a long time and it is sounding very good today!

Give this one a go: https://www.ebay.com/itm/180793854253 Good luck!

Try this: https://tinyurl.com/6nrcwxx

Great night that. How would it be possible NOT to dance to it? Mindblowing tune! The other side is a bit too happy-go-lucky for my taste.

WOW! That's a fantastic tune.

OK Toad and Boba, I might have been wrong there. Have personally only taken notice of "Slauson Shuffle" being on the demo. Note to self: must pay more attention!

The ones in bold above doesn't exist though, or am I wrong? It should be: 110 Mickey's East Coast Jerk / The Slauson Shuffle (inst.) (1/65) DEMO 110 Mickey's East Coast Jerk / Soul Jerk (1/65) ISSUE 109 is: 109 - Eric Williams - Goodbye My Love / I'll Give My Love To You

Yes, two variations of MONEY 110. "Slauson Shuffle" is only on the demos as far as I know. The issue/stock copy has got "Soul Jerk" instead on the b-side.

Definitely their trickiest Atlantic release. But there must've been a stack that came over to Scandinavia at some point because I've found 4 copies during the past couple of years in record stores here in my hometown of Malmoe, Sweden and in Copenhagen, Denmark. All of them in practically M- condition as well, so probably came over here to be sold in "cut-out" stores (there were several of those here in Sweden during the late 60s and throughout the 70s that exclusively sold US pressed cut-outs and overstocks). Weird how stuff like that happens. And while on the topic of rare 45s turning up in Sweden... one copy of the Tommy Dent 45 on Cobblestone (not my copy) turned up in Stockholm (and was later auctioned by Manship). Amazing!

Bobby Reed on Bell is a fairly common 45, there are at least 30-50 copies per year offered for sale on lists, eBay etc.

As far as scarce records on Sue goes. How about The Notations? Very seldom turns up for sale.

Really? Very few known copies as far as I know. There hasn't been a copy on eBay during the past 12 years and no copies on any of the "big" lists either in that period of time. I got my copy in a private deal a couple of years ago after 10+ years of constant searching, and ofcoure more copies might have changed hands that way, but in my experience "What Does it Take" is a really rare record.

It is a totally legit release. The "Playback" EPs were promo EPs released by the CBS group of labels to promote their artists. There are some very indemand/expensive EPs in that series which includes tracks by Iggy & The Stooges, Bruce Springsteen etc.

Very well written post. I couldn't agree more.

Off the top of my head: Herman Griffin - Are You For Me Or Against Me - MAGIC TOUCH Dennis Landry - Sing My Song - SOUL UNLIMITED L.A.X. - All My Love - PRELUDE

It's included on this US Motown album: Mary Wells - Vintage Stock (MS-653 / MT-653) November 1966

Or try the original version by J.J. Jackson (flipside to "But It's Alright"):