Sebastian

Just had a quick look around. It would be great if there would be an option to view results as a "list" or as a "gallery". The gallery view is OK for the more obscure artists and labels with maybe 3-10 releases, but do a search for Solomon Burke or a "label" search for Atlantic and it unfortunately looks very messy.

Ahh! Just realised! https://raresoulman.co.uk/ takes you to the new site. https://www.raresoulman.co.uk/ takes you to the old site.

Has the new Manship site been launched yet? I'm still getting the same old same old on https://www.raresoulman.co.uk/

Yes:

Fabulous Apollos "Determination" on VALTONE has also got the same basic backing track:

Hello! I've listed a bunch of 45s and LPs on eBay. There are label/sleeve scans and soundclips to all records. Check them out at: https://shop.ebay.com/merchant/pushkings ___SOUL / FUNK / NEW BREED R&B 45s___________________________ BETTY HARRIS - There's A Break In The Road - SSS INTERNATIONAL BETTY JAMES - I'm A Little Mixed Up - CHESS EBENEZER OBEY - Oro Nipa Lace - DECCA NIGERIA GI GI - Daddy Love - SWEET JAMES ROYAL - I've Lost You - CBS UK JOHN LEE HOOKER - Money - IMPULSE LEE DORSEY - Give It Up - AMY RAY CHARLES - I Dont Need No Doctor - ABC VAN PRINCE / SAHIB SHIHAB - Adlon Hully Gully - ADLON WILLOWS - Church Bells May Ring - MELBA ___SKA / ROCKSTEADY / REGGAE 45s_____________________________ ROLAND ALFONSO - Jericho Chain - BLUE BEAT UK ALTON ELLIS - All My Tears - TREASURE ISLE UK AUGUSTUS PABLO - Don Drummond - TREBLE UK AUGUSTUS PABLO - Up Wareika Hill - ROCKERS BIG YOUTH - Johnnie Reggae - WILD FLOWER BLOOD SISTERS - Ring My Bell - BALLISTIC UK BOB MARLEY & WAILERS - Rock It Baby - ISLAND US CHECKMATES / WINSTON & TONETTES - Invisible Ska - SKA BEAT UK CLAREDONIANS - I'll Never Change - ISLAND UK EARTH DISCIPLES - Peace Love And Harmony - 56 HOPE ROAD ERROL SCORCHER - Dance All Style - SCORCH GLEN ADAMS / PETER TOSH - Cat Woman / Selassie Seranade - BULLET UK HEPTONES - Babylon Falling - HEP HEP JAH THOMAS - What's Cooking - MIDNIGHT ROCK JUNIOR BYLES - Kings Of Babylon - RANDY'S UK KIDDUS I - Love Child - SHEPHERD LAUREL AITKEN - Mary / Hometown - RIO UK LAUREL AITKEN - Devil Or Angel / Fire - RIO UK LEE PERRY - Captive - UPSETTER MELODIANS - You Don't Need Me - TREASURE ISLE MIGHTY DIAMONDS - Tamarind Farm - HOT ROD OWEN GRAY - Big Mabel - BLUE BEAT UK PETER TOSH - Blame The Youth - INTEL DIPLO PRINCE BUSTER & FENDER - Baby Version - FAB UK PRINCE BUSTER - Al Capone / One Step Beyond - BLUE BEAT UK TOOTS & THE MAYTALS - Never Go Down - WARIKA UPRIGHT FOUNDATION - Wolf In Sheep Clothing - WISDOM UPSETTERS - Return Of Django - UPSETTER UK ___SKA / ROCKSTEADY / REGGAE LPs_____________________________ BLUE BEAT YEARS - v/a - ISLAND (RARE withdrawn LP!) BOB ANDY - Song Book - STUDIO ONE HEPTONES - On Top - STUDIO ONE IJAHMAN LEVI - Culture Country - JAHMANI UK JAZZ JAMAICA - From The Workshop - STUDIO ONE MIKEY DREAD SHOW - African Anthem Dubwise - CRUISE UK SKATALITES - Best Of - STUDIO ONE Thanks for looking! Take care. /Sebastian

£350-£400.

The Count Demon track? I think that's an early (or even mid-) 60s tune. 1963/1964-ish. If not that tune, please ignore this comment...

I sold a copy for $66 (£45-ish) on eBay just the other week. Don't quite understand the fuss about it myself. Fairly poor vocal delivery in my opinion if you compare with the other two tunes that uses the same backing track.

Superb tune indeed. , But the Maison De Soul 45 is from 1977. The original 45 issue is from 1963 on Minit.

Northern Soul Poster - Northern Soul Classic - Poster - £32 Walt Bolen - Breakin' Out (with a good thing) c/w Peace Chant - aR - Que - £44 Futures - Angel In Disguise c/w Betcha Come Back - Warped - £220 Eboney Essence - Let Me In c/w Unsatisfied - Goodie Train - £157 Trey J's - I Found It All In You - Tee Gem - £342 Gypsies - It's A Woman's World - Old Town - £132 Fred Johnson - I Feel The Soul - Shi-Lush - £350 Broken Melody - What's Happening Baby - Pesante - £443 Younghearts - Little Togetherness - Canternbury demo plus promo Bag - £162 Teeah-Louise - You Happened To Me - Coastal - £156 Jock Mitchell - Not A Chance In A Million - Impact promo - £477 Mikie and the Ardons - Three's A Crowd - Gallant - £384 Tamala Lewis - You Won't Say Nothing - Marton - £1864 Isley Brothers - This Old Heart of Mine - Tamla Motown demo - £205 Timi Yuro - It'll Never Be Over For Me - Liberty - £861 Johnny Sayles - Anything For You c/w Deep down In My Heart - Liberty promo - £74

It seems to be the consensus that all copies around are originals, and that a BIG box of them was found a bunch of years ago. No one has as far as I know been able to come upp with any real proof (matrix info, different widths of run-in and run-out grooves, volume comparisons etc.) that speaks in favour of two different pressings existing. Label scans/photos shows the label as being in different shades ranging from yellow to orange, but that's probably due to being scanned by different scanners. If anyone knows anything else, please post up the relevant info that you've got.

"Young Power".

THESE AUCTIONS ENDS IN 4-5 HOURS FROM NOW! Hello! I've listed a bunch of 45s and LPs on eBay. There are label/sleeve scans and soundclips to all records. Check them out at: https://shop.ebay.com/merchant/pushkings ___SKA / ROCKSTEADY / REGGAE LPs_____________________________ BOB MARLEY & WAILERS - Wailing Wailers - STUDIO ONE GREGORY ISAACS - Mr Isaacs - CASH AND CARRY HEPTONES - s/t - STUDIO ONE HORACE ANDY - Best Of - STUDIO ONE SKATALITES - Ska Authentic - STUDIO ONE TOOTS & MAYTALS - Sensation Maytals - BMN/DYNAMIC SOUNDS OF YOUNG JAMAICA - v/a - MELODISC UK ___SKA / ROCKSTEADY / REGGAE 45s_____________________________ AUGUSTUS PABLO - Still Yet - ACKEE UK BLACK UHURU - Plastic Smile - GORGON DILLINGER - Ah You Me Love - BLACK & WHITE ERROL SCORCHER - Roach In De Corner - ARIES ETERNALS - Push Me In The Corner - MOODISC UK GREGORY ISAACS - Sunday Morn - SOLOMONIC JOHN HOLT - I See Your Face - MAGNET UK LAUREL AITKEN - Lucille - BLUE BEAT UK LAUREL AITKEN - Jump And Shout - RIO UK LEROY SMART - Happiness Is My Desire - CAPRICORN RISING LLOYD CHARMERS - I'm Back - BLUE BEAT UK LORD KITCHENER - Dr. Kitch - JUMP UP UK MORWELLS - 77 Festival - GIBBS OWEN GRAY - Do You Want To Jump - BLUE BEAT UK PRINCE BUSTER - Train To Girls Town - FAB UK PRINCE BUSTER - Judge Dread Dance The Pardon - BLUE BEAT UK RAS MICHAEL - Run Agressor Run - RASTAFARI SKATALITES - Guns Of Navarone - ISLAND UK SUGAR MINOTT / ROOTS RADICS - Every Man Want - BLACK SOLIDARITY U ROY - On The Beach / True True - TREASURE ISLE Thanks for looking! Take care. /Sebastian

According to Wikipedia: Seven Arts Productions was founded in 1957 by Ray Stark and Eliot Hyman. The company was a frequent producer of movies for other studios, including Lolita for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Misfits for United Artists, and Is Paris Burning for Paramount Pictures. Over time they expanded their involvement in movies from just being producers to becoming equity investors with the studios, partnering with legendary horror film company Hammer Film Productions on many projects, and producing Seven Days in May and Promise Her Anything for release by Paramount; on these productions, they retained ancillary rights that they had surrendered on earlier films. In 1967 they acquired Jack Warner's controlling interest in Warner Bros. for $95 million and merged with it, becoming Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.

My theory is that the original Linda issue actually sold very well in California upon release in 1965 and remained popular in that region throughout the 60s (or perhaps more likely, the flipside), prompting Rampart (a subsidiary label to Faro Records who also owned the Linda label) to give it a new go in 1969, and when the Rampart release started shifting units Warner Bros showed interest and released it nationally (but edited out the fanfare intro because it perhaps sounded a bit too "dated" in 1969). I might ofcourse be totally wrong, but those are my thoughts about this.

I agree. Just do what pretty much every store owner that accept credit card payments do to everything in their store: add the card processing fee to the list price, in PayPal's case roughtly 5%, and don't tell the people who read the sales list. If you want £40, list it as £42. If you want £100, list it as £105. If you want £2000, list it as £2100. To pay £100 more or less when someone is already up for paying £2000 for something doesn't make much difference in my experience.

I didn't mean it to read that way. What I meant was that Lost Nite also was a 60s label that reissued tunes that were popular in a specific region. I have no comment regarding if all of Lost Nite's releases were legal or not.

No, the dark blue one (with the raised-backwards-S-in-a-circle matrix stamp) was pressed in New York by Shelley Products. Same plant that pressed Shrine 45s etc.

This one?

As you stated above, what makes things confusing is that BB and ITZY were (just like LOST NITE) indeed legit labels, and they did issue legit 45s that were't issued on any other labels. But they also re-issued/bootlegged tunes that were popular in the Pittsburgh area and ITZY is actually still going, but are now releasing CDs with "Pittsburgh oldies". Both the Showmen 45s on BB and ITZY are bootlegs/reissues released in the 60s. The SWAN releases are the originals.

Was "God Is Love" issued in the UK? Have never seen a copy of that. As far as I know it's only available on the issue copy of the US release (the demos are mono/stereo of the "wrong" side).

By the way: the BB label release of "Take It Baby" is a bootleg, NOT an earlier "local label" release as it often is listed as.

I agree, those are good examples of early tunes that have gained mass acceptance, but Charles Sheffield is from 1961 and Richard Berry is from 1960. Little Willie John "I'm Shakin" perhaps? It's from 1960.

I suppose you can ask to have the master stamper mailed to you from the pressing plant you use, but the few times I have pressed 45s, the master stampers have stayed at the pressing plant in case I wanted to press more copies of that 45. I never have done any represses of those 45s, so I guess the stampers are still with the pressing plant or has been destroyed by now. By the way, a stamper wears out after a while and a new one has to be made.