Billy Jo Jim Bob

I think Soul Bowl took the entire quantity when released and sold them for a few quid.

I have a Val Shively catalogue from 1974. Most of the rare soul stuff in the $1 to $2 dollar bracket. Now those prices would be nice

Thats it Chalky. I knew he did an LP around that time but couldn't remember what he put on it. Now you say Motown it comes flooding back. I'm sure I bought one of the LP's and sold it shortly aftwards.....ggggrrrrr !! Drew

I used to go to Rob's soul night in Mansfield and this was his standard playlist. From memory he (or someone around him) did some sort of LP with some of these tunes on. It was a plain label thing I'm sure. Perhaps someone can confirm ? Also I have a copy of Malcolm Dodds on Paramount from Robs tape if anyone is interested @ £5....bargin

PM Franc on here as 'Cobbles' he used to have a few copies, as I got mine from him. Andy

Its a very "low-fi" recording anyway. I sold mine as I couldn't be doing with that, but from memory there was no background noise. I've had mint looking records which did this and its usually down to something like poor storage where the vinyl has deteriorated.

Hi Back again with Part 9 of the sales box sell off. Record grading: M is mint unplayed (very rarely used) Ex is excellent record, showing small signs of use VG is very good where there will be signs of wear and tear and maybe some surface marks. The record may play with some surface noise, but there will be NO skips, jumps or deep scratches. + / - will refine the grade further. All records have a full refund guarantee. Paypal preferred as gift or F&F. Post is £1.50 First UK, £2.50 Recorded or £7.5 Special Delivery. Overseas at cost - dependant on post type. Northern Bell Boys — I don’t want to lose your love — Jamar Ex- £175 Classic with nice clean labels Glen Watts — My little Plaything - Bunky Ex+ £20 - superb Herman Griffin — Mr Heartbreak — Double L Ex+ £ 15 Reduced — nice mid tempo Byron Lee & Dragonaires — How sweet it is / I had a dream — BRA M- £20 Early mid-tempo with a good relative unknown uptempo flip The Natural Resources — Hold back the Dawn / Hey Foxy Lady — Dore M-£20 Obscure girl group NS with sweet soul harmony flip The Diplomats — Theres still a tomorrow — Wand Ex £20 Denise Chandler — Yes I’m ready / You’ve hurt me — Lock M £20 Dealer has this at £50 The Spectrums — Our meeting place — Mercury Ex+ £ 15 Nice beat ballad — issue copy Reduced Hear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gacte6LZjss The Lovers — Do this for me — Phillips M- £10 Underrated tune — also came out as The Emotions on Vardan and Gate Crossover The Gospel Leviticus — I made it over — Starbar VG++ £15 Nice obscure gospel crossover Little Chris & Righteous Singers — I wanna thank you — Skyway VG++/Ex- £100 Rare funky gospel crossover — one dealer had this at £250 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nx5V-_98b0 Jesus Alvarez — Please stay don’t go — Vibration M £20 Nice funky instrumental on the flip Robinhood — Don’t be afraid of love / Let’s live and let live — Capitol M- £ 40 Reduced - Nice double-sider ex Dean Anderson spin from memory on dealers at £100 Both sides https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clWK-2Iudps The Promises — Living in the footsteps — Brunswick WLP Ex £15 Delphonics — I don’t care what people say — Arista M £20 This was auctioned by a major dealer 12 months ago Jim Spencer & Son Rize — The blues are out to get me — Armada Ex £100 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6E-pr40ij4 The Gas Light — I’m only a man — Grand Junction M- £ 25 Love this. Lennie Satin — Homebound / Somebody help me — FIP M- £ 30 Reduced - Getting some attention again on both sides https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nifDnCIgXno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Nw-uSjOXE Powerful People — Little girl say yes — Epic M- £15 Bargain Northern & Crossover All the following are £10 each: The Jades — Aint it funny what love can do — Capital DJ Ex+ Ronnie & Parlays — Am I in Love — Kerwood Ex+ The Boss Man — You’re taking too long — Gamble WDJ Ex+ Kenny Ballard — Its sure looks good — Toy Ex+ Joe Lee Thomas — I trust in you / Let me help — Upset Ex ( two obscure R&B efforts) Jim & Lee — Adam and Eve — Front Page Ex- Claudine Clark — Telephone game — Chancellor M- The Chandliers — Stop Dragging my heart around — Loadstone Ex+ All the following are £5 each The Jive Five — I’m a happy man — UA M- Loleatta Holoway — I know where your coming from — Aware WDJ M unplayed The Conservatives — Who understands — Ebonic M- Alton McClain — Come back baby — Forward M unplayed Delfonics — Loving him — Philly Groove Ex ( nice dancer) Eddie Powers — Gypsy Woman — Sims Ex+ The Philly Sound — Dont depend on me (inst) — Phil La Soul WDJ Ex+ Sylvia — Gimme a little action — Vibration Ex+ ( nice laid back funky crossover) Malcolm Dodds — Come see the sun — Paramount Ex+ (Old Rob Marriott spin) Tony Love — My feelings will never change — HSR M-

Hi Another installment of the sell off once again. This time I'm doing a £10 and £5 section most of which are well under book price. Here we go. Record grading: M is mint unplayed (very rarely used) Ex is excellent record, showing small signs of use VG is very good where there will be signs of wear and tear and maybe some surface marks. The record may play with some surface noise, but there will be NO skips, jumps or deep scratches. + / - will refine the grade further. All records have a full refund guarantee. Paypal preferred as gift or F&F. Post is £1.50 First UK, £2.50 Recorded or £7.5 Special Delivery. Overseas at cost - dependant on post type. Northern & Crossover All the following are £10 each: Roy C — Gone Gone — Shout Ex ( small H on label) Roy Smith — Dont go away — Ascot WLP M- Ronnie & Parlays — Am I in Love — Kerwood Ex+ The Magnificent Six — Hold on Baby — L Brown M The Boss Man — You’re taking too long — Gamble WDJ Ex+ Kenny Ballard — Its sure looks good — Toy Ex+ Joe Lee Thomas — I trust in you / Let me help — Upset Ex ( two obscure R&B efforts) Jim & Lee — Adam and Eve — Front Page Ex- Don Wyatt — I’ve only got myself to blame — Grapax WDJ M- Claudine Clark — Telephone game — Chancellor M- The Insights — you’re just a someday girl — RCA YDJ Ex + The Chandliers — Stop Dragging my heart around — Loadstone Ex+ All the following are £5 each The Jive Five — I’m a happy man — UA M- The Lost Generation - Sly, Slick and Wicked — Brunswick Ex Loleatta Holoway — I know where your coming from — Aware WDJ M unplayed The Conservatives — Who understands — Ebonic M- Alton McClain — Come back baby — Forward M unplayed The Mighty Shane — Call me sweet things — Sue WDJ Ex- Major Harris — Loving you is mellow — Atlantic M- Mask Man & Agents — I wouldn’t come back — Dynamo Ex+ (same as the Loop release) Delfonics — Loving him — Philly Groove Ex ( nice dancer) Eddie Powers — Gypsy Woman — Sims Ex+ Newbeats — Crying my heart out — Hickory WDJ Ex- The Philly Sound — Dont depend on me (inst) — Phil La Soul WDJ Ex+ Sylvia — Gimme a little action — Vibration Ex+ ( nice laid back funky crossover) Malcolm Dodds — Come see the sun — Paramount Ex+ (Old Rob Marriott spin)

Hi Back again with Part 7 (I think ?) of the sales box sell off. Record grading: M is mint unplayed (very rarely used) Ex is excellent record, showing small signs of use VG is very good where there will be signs of wear and tear and maybe some surface marks. The record may play with some surface noise, but there will be NO skips, jumps or deep scratches. + / - will refine the grade further. All records have a full refund guarantee. Paypal preferred as gift or F&F. Post is £1.50 First UK, £2.50 Recorded or £7.5 Special Delivery. Overseas at cost - dependant on post type. Northern Kenny Wells — Isn’t it just a shame — New Voice DJ £240 (Vinyl plays with occasional very light surface noise which is not audible over the music and the label has light some wear overall I’d say VG++/Ex- see scan) Herman Griffin — Mr Heartbreak — Double L Ex+ £ 20 The Caesars — La la I love you / Get yourself together — Lanie Ex+ £40 The Spectrums — Our meeting place — Mercury Ex+ £ 20 Nice beat ballad — issue copy Hear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gacte6LZjss Andy Mack — Later than you think — Chess Ex+ £ 40 Charles Lamont & Extremes — I’ve got to keep on movin — Challenge WDJ M- £ 150 One of the forgotten tunes The Lovers — Do this for me — Phillips M- £10 — underrated tune LaCharles McCoy — Lets talk it over — AMC M- £ 60 Hollywood Flames — I gonna stand by you / I’m comin home — Symbol WDJ Ex+ £60 Rarer white DJ Copy Apollas — Just cant get enough / Nobody’s baby — Loma Ex+ WDJ £20 Uptempo NS but I love the flip Crossover Robinhood — Don’t be afraid of love / Let’s live and let live — Capitol M- £ 50 Nice double-sider ex Dean Anderson spin from memory Both sides https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clWK-2Iudps Rodney Johnson — Get it on — Travelrama Ex+ £ 20 Great modern tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkTZER_uetk Liberty — Girl you better wake up — BASF M- £10 The Gas Light — I’m only a man — Grand Junction M- £ 25 Love this. Lennie Satin — Homebound / Somebody help me — FIP M- £ 40 Getting some attention again on both sides https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nifDnCIgXno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Nw-uSjOXE Shy Guy — Just a little love talk — Mr D M- £ 20 — oddball tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_902tTCTL8 The Tymes feat George Williams — Someone to watch over me — Columbia WDJ Ex+ £40 One of their lesser known tunes — brill crossover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWyZvqjKgHc

If you are after the " Something worthwhile" track from the album, its been released as a 45 by Daptone recently. There are some other nice tunes on the album also. Andy

Thanks guys. I told you my memory was failing .....

Chaps My dismally failing memory tells me that KW was booted in the 70's on a look-a-like boot. Anyone give me the quick differences with the orig. ? Ta Andy

'Mark Nine Music' Produced by Arvey Andrews, written by D Saunders and M Otis, arranged and conducted by Arthur Wright. 'A Vardan - Gate Production' I dont know if this links in ? Andy

A copy of the Gate 45

It was released on Gate 501 but its the Philips 45 i.e. the good slowie flip is missing.

I think the Philips release doesn't have the nice flip if I recall. So if you want the slower group tune then the Vardan release is the one.

Don't know anything about it, but I bid on ebay for it about 10 months ago. A well known UK DJ got it for $375 . Andy

sent you a pm

The Paul Griffin may be this guy....perhaps with a one time solo effort......he has also many credits for producing and arranging and despite what it says in the letter below it looks like most of his work was done with Black artists...only thing I could find March 4, 1999 Mr. David Hinckley The New York Daily News 450 W. 33rd St., 3rd floor New York, NY 10001 Dear David: One of our heroes is very sick. Paul Griffin, probably New York's finest studio keyboard player, needs a liver transplant. Neil Baruch at CBS, a childhood friend, suggested alerting you about this wonderful musician's dire circumstances. As you probably know, Paul began his career in the late 50s playing piano and organ with King Curtis' band. He quickly became a Zelig-like figure, playing keyboards on some of pop music's most historic and memorable moments: Bob Dylan's first "electric" records, all of Bacharach/David's classic Dionne Warwick sides and a slew of hits by the Shirelles, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan and many more. Think of the organ intro to Chuck Jackson's "Any Day Now"...the gospel piano behind Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone"and Don McLean's "Miss American Pie"...the tack piano on B.J.Thomas' "Raindrops Keep Fallin'on My Head" and Bob Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"...Dionne Warwick's "Walk on By"...Paul Simon's "Tenderness" (There Goes Rhymin' Simon ) -- these all feature Paul Griffin at the keyboard. Last year, while collaborating with Cissy Houston on her autobiography, "How Sweet the Sound" (Doubleday), Paul's name came up as soon as we began discussing her 60s session work. A jaded, session veteran, Cissy was uncharacteristically effusive about Pau l. "Paul Griffin can play anything," she said. Of course, she was right. One on-line discography lists over two hundred albums Griffin has played keyboards on: Sixties New York pop like the Shirelles' "Tonight's the Night," "Mama Said," and "Soldier Boy." Neil Diamond and Van Morrison's first hits for Bert Berns. Folk rock albums by Eric Andersen, Tom Rush, Peter, Paul & Mary's Album 1700 and Late Again ; Judy Collins' Judith . Debut albums by John Denver and Carly Simon. Bonnie Raitt's Streetlights . Jazz records by George Benson, Quincy Jones, and Nina Simone. Albums by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Stephen Bishop and Blues Traveler. His warmth came through right over the phone. "I'm in awe of what you guys [writers] do," he said even as I gushed about his contribution to Dionne Warwick, Steely Dan's "Gaucho," Donald Fagen's "Kamakiriad" and Dylan's first rock'n roll records; Bringing It All Back Home , Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde . He seemed grateful to be acknowledged but shied away from the praise with an "aw, shucks" bashfulness. "We made a lot of music back then," he finally confessed. "We didn't realize the importance of it until years later." While we spoke, I discovered that Paul lived just three blocks from where I was working in Riverdale. A few days later, I met him on the sidewalk outside his apartment building. The first thing you noticed was the smile, a big elastic one which rarely left his face. "He was always in a positive, humorus mood," says Hugh McCracken, another legendary New York musician who played guitar alongside Paul on hundreds of sessions. "He never had an attitude with anybody. A lot of musicians had an attitude with those who didn't play as good as they did. Paul would always acknowledge or flatter a player on something that was worthy. And he always was very insightful about other musicians; very sensitive...always a gentleman." Small and wiry, wearing jeans, sneakers and a sweatshirt, he looked much younger than sixty-three. Only the few specks of gray that dotted his close-cropped afro and the old black aviator frames reminded you that he already had close to forty years in the music business. He led the way to the building's basement where he unlocked a room usually reserved for dusty old bikes and baby carriages. The right side of the room was still filled with cobwebs and old boxes. But the other side was a mad musician's lair of carefully arranged keyboards, synthesizers and computer monitors. He laughed, apologized for the mess and offered a chair while he wheeled around on a little stool, from keyboard to computer, finishing up a children's project. Since the 80s, the New York session scene has dried up. Gone are the days when a top player like Paul could bounce from session to session covering three or four in one day. When Phil Spector was working at his favorite room, Mira Sound, in the lobby of the dumpy Americana Hotel on 47th Street. When Bacharach was recording at Associated on Seventh Avenue next to the Metropole...Phil Ramone was at A&R on 48th Street and Brooks Arthur was cutting Leiber and Stoller's artists at Century Sound. When musicians were working so regularly they could run a tab for months at Jim and Andy's, a great little bar/restaurant downstairs from A&R. The work looked like it would never end, but it did. The 70s was the last great decade; before drum machines replaced real drummers, and sequencing, sampling and Midis changed the way music was made in the studio. If you were smart, you socked something away during the good years. Few did. As you know, musicians do not receive royalties from a hit record. Record companies pay into a fund based on the number of sessions a musician has worked in a calendar year. These monies are disbursed to the musician through the union. One musician said that some years when the session work was running heavy, it was not unusual to receive checks from this fund for fifteen thousand dollars. Now, he said he's lucky if he sees a check for fifteen hundred. These days, musicians must rely on contract work, teaching and advertising jingles to get by. The shingle they hang, a memento from the good old days, is the gold record. Hanging wildly askew on Griffin's drab, gray and white walls was a gold record for Steely Dan's "Aja." That's Paul playing electric piano and singing harmony with Michael McDonald on "Peg." In the middle of the floor, atop a pile of old cartons was a framed, gold 45 of Don McLean's "American Pie" -- forgotten, amidst the rubble, as Griffin's brilliant piano playing on the record generally is. Paul displayed no bitterness for the elusive fortunes of the music business. He recalled, rather, with great fondness, his first sessions in 1961 with Cissy Houston at Scepter Records. Hearing that gospel thing in her voice, "I was instantly filled with love for her and her whole family," he said softly. Hearing her niece, twenty-year-old Dionne Warwick's voice for the first time at a session, he was so struck with its beauty, he says he forgot to play. A little disappointment did creep into his voice as the conversation returned to two of his most well-known gigs; both massive successes that barely rubbed off on him: Don McLean's "Miss American Pie" and Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone." He quickly excused Dylan for underutilizing the great band that produced this milestone; recognizing that it was more important at the time for Dylan to slow down and save his life than merely hold a band together. But he still remembers the shock and bewilderment of seeing Don McLean on national television, while "Miss American Pie" reigned supreme on the airwaves. McLean sat on a stool and strummed the hit solo -- without a single other musician. "Hey, what happened to the band?" Griffin laughed incredulously. He said he had grown up in Harlem during the 40s with no male role models "except the junkies, the pimps and the numbers runners." His mother made sure he was in church every Sunday -- up front. At Paradise Baptist on 135th Street, his regular seat for years was in the pew behind the church pianist. Paul would drift off during the service and find himself watching the pianist's hands. This went on for years. One day after church, Paul slid onto the piano bench and began doodling around on the keyboard. After a few more times, he found he had a knack for it. When the church's pianist eventually died, Paul took her place. As an eighth-grader, his dream was to attend New York's prestigious High School of Music and Art. A judgemental guidance counselor, observing either Griffin's humble station or mindful of Music and Art's high academic requirements, assured him he would never be admitted. Griffin slumped out of her office and began weeping quietly in the hall. At just that moment, a teacher who had befriended Griffin happened by. "Why are you crying ?" he asked. Through tears, Griffin explained. The teacher was appalled at the guidance counselor's insensitivity. He promised Paul that he would not only reprimand the counselor but that Paul would audition for Music and Art just like anyone else. Griffin passed the audition. Four years later in 1953, he graduated from the High School of Music and Art . King Curtis offered Paul his first opportunity record in the late 50s. "Can you make the gig?" Curtis asked him. Make the what? "Can you make the session?" Curtis repeated. What's a gig...what's a session? Paul was so green he needed a translator. But he was no neophyte at the keyboard. He went on the road with Curtis and eventually cut ten albums with him. Griffin became a permanent fixture at Scepter Records sessions with players like Mickey Baker, Jimm y Lewis and Panama Francis. Beginning in 1960 with "Tonight's the Night," under the direction of producer, Luther Dixon, Griffin and company played on virtually all of the Shirelles' records (and most of Scepter's releases). Paul was one of the arrangers on "Mama Said" and Tommy Hunt's "Human." His playing on all of Chuck Jackson's early hits cemented a lifelong friendship between the two. Paul quickly became the first-call keyboard player for producers like Leiber and Stoller, Jerry Wexler, Bert Berns, Jerry Ragovoy and Burt Bacharach and Hal David. For Berns, Griffin played on the Isley Brothers' "Twist and Shout," most of Solomon Burke's hits and Van Morrison's first New York sessions. Ragovoy used Griffin almost exclusively on hits he wrote and produced like Garnett Mimms and the Enchanters' "Cry Baby," the original versions of Janis Joplin's signature, "Piece of My Heart" (Erma Franklin), "Try" (Lorraine Ellison) and "Time Is On My Side" (Kai Winding). The spell Griffin cast over Ragovoy was so strong that to this day, Ragovoy says he finds himself sitting at the keyboard still under the influence: "Oh, my God," he says, listening to himself play. "I'm Paul Griffin today!" But if any one producer monopolized Griffin, it was Burt Bacharach. From Dionne Warwick's first records; "Don't Make Me Over," "Walk On By," "Anyone Who Had a Heart" through B.J.Thomas' "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" -- if Bacharach/David wrote it, then Paul Griffin probably played the piano part. Wait a minute. Bacharach, no slouch as a pianist, gave Paul nearly all of his own piano parts to play? "Do you know why he did that?" Griffin asked. "Because Burt used to love to come into the studio and conduct. That's why he gave me those parts to play." Other musicians might have kept quiet about Bacharach's idiosyncrasies and just let their own legend grow. Not Griffin. Try to compliment him on that little organ part for Chuck Jackson's "Any Day Now" and he humbly smiles away the accolade. "A Bert Keyes arrangement," he says, proud to give credit where credit is due. The modesty isn't false. Despite forty years in the business, despite the milestones (and all those Bacharach piano parts!) he still has a sense of wonder about where he's been and the talent of others. Mention Frank Owens, another piano player on Dylan' s Highway 61 Revisited , and his voice drops to a hush. Here was a sideman, he whispers, who was so classy and so good he unwittingly stole the gig from the headliner right onstage at the Apollo. Griffin was so knocked-out by Aretha Franklin's piano playing, that he refused to play on the session for "Think." "They wanted me to play that [piano] intro she does. I said, `No way! That's her !' Then again, Griffin was playing with Aretha three years before Atlantic signed her; when Clyde Otis cut her for Columbia. If Paul Griffin's jazz/blues and gospel chops are not as easily recalled on the productions of Bacharach, Ragovoy, Wexler and Berns, his contribution to Bob Dylan's seminal mid-sixties records is already writ large in pop music history. Griffin was present at Dylan's first rock'n roll session in 1965 for the album, Bringing It All Back Home . No fluke, Dylan requested him three more times; for his next album, Highway 61 Revisited which included Paul's tasty work on "Like a Rolling Stone," and the sessions that included "Positively Fourth Street," "Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence" and "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" Dylan also tapped him years later to overdub organ on Blood on the Tracks . But Paul Griffin's most extraordinary -- and often uncredited -- work with Bob Dylan occurred on January 25, 1966. There has always been some confusion about the players on this first New York session for Dylan's Blonde on Blonde . Because the album was finished a few months later in Nashville, the album lists only the Nashville musicians. The two New York sessions, the first of which produced "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)," are frequently credited to members of the Band . Rick Danko and Robbie Robertson might have played bass and guitar on one of the New York sessions. But just a single listening erases any doubt about who played piano. Al Kooper, who played organ at the session, remembers Paul well. "The piano playing on "One of Us Must Know" is quite magnificent," Kooper told writer Andy Gill. "It influenced me enormously as a pianist. It's probably Paul Griffin's finest moment." Griffin's playing on "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)" is reminiscent of what he would play five years later on Don McLean's "American Pie" -- but even more brilliant in its intensity and improvisation. The song is an emotional confession of misconnects and apologies from the singer to some woman who has tragically slipped out of his life. Griffin gives the song its tragic depth -- and height. He picks his way sensitively through the verses; but at other times, he prowls beneath the words with Judgement and an ominous gospel lick that he stokes until he has climbed to the verse's peak. At the chorus, Griffin unleashes a symphony; hammering his way up and down the keyboard, half Gershwin, half gospel, all heart. The follow-up, a killer left hand figure that links the chorus to the verse, releases none of the song's tension. Then, on the last chorus, not content to repeat the same brilliant part, Griffin's playing is so breathtaking, so completely embodies the lyric, that he enters into some other dimension. For several seconds, on one of Dylan's best songs, Griffin makes Dylan seem almost earthbound. "It's great, two-fisted, gospel piano playing," Kooper says, "played with the utmost of taste." Paul Griffin doesn't remember it. He's momentarily bewildered, almost apologetic for not recalling something others hold so dear. The part was probably something he'd heard in Paradise Baptist church at least a hundred times before. But do not mistake an isolated, fuzzy memory for a moment that he is unaware of. He is well aware of this music's significance -- in Paul Griffin's life. "The sound that you hear is the sound of gratitude," he says simply. "If it wasn't for music, I don't know what would have become of me. I'd had a lot of jobs -- I was a cutter in the garment district, I delivered groceries for a supermarket -- but nothing with any kind of future. So, what you hear is the sound of being thankful...for being able to play...for being tapped to play on a session [Dylan's] like that...thankful...as if I'd been saved from something horrible. " Several months after this conversation, Paul came down with pneumonia. Over the last year, he's been in and out of the hospital. Then, a few weeks ago, doctors told him he needed a liver transplant. After a lifetime in music, "something horrible" yet threatens to overtake Paul Griffin. Doctors do not comment on one's suitability as an organ recipient. Your name goes into a computer and the doctors try to get you ready if and when a replacement organ becomes available. Meanwhile, Paul and his family wait. Would it not be fitting and wonderful if some of the artists, musicians and executives who so appreciated Paul while his smile lit up a session and his playing lit up their hearts, could now raise up as one and help him. Even the listening public -- anyone who remembers all those Shirelles records, Chuck Jackson's "Any Day Now," "American Pie," or the first exquisite twenty seconds of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues." Anyone, in fact, who, like Don McLean, can still remember how that music used to make them smile. Sincerely, Jonathan Singer

Here's a titbit from Badcat.... "I've never seen it, but there's supposedly a fourth and final non-LP 45: 1968's 'Don't Slam The Door In My Face' b/w 'Sandy' (VMC catalog number V-717)" From Band member Mark Bird... A very complete a interesting compendium of the group. Most of the material is correct except that the single "Slam the Door in my Face" was not one of our songs. Warren and I were 16 and Tim and Chuck were 17 when we recorded the David album. We did the singles when I was fifteen. Thanks again for taking the time to write the review. I assume from this that the acetate is a different artist

There's a fella in the post above telling you he has it for sale ???

Your playing "pressings" Ted, and I thought they were carvers

OK my two pennoth for what its worth. Over the years I've had the opportunity to talk to label owners, producers, artists etc and one thing that comes across loud and clear is that amongst the small independant labels in particular, the local scene in each town or city seemed to be one of chaos. Records being pressed at different plants wherever they could get them done, artists moonlighting between groups as did producers and engineers, different recording studios used....the list goes on and on. My own feeling is there are situations where dealers and collectors are guessing or perhaps stating what they believe is some logical explanation as to pressing differences. This then becomes "fact" amongst collectors and dealers. I'm not saying its the case here, but you never know. I remember speaking to one writer / artist about 10 years ago reagrding one of his records and he couldn't even remeber he recorded it, then when I sent him a scan denied it was him, before eventually remembering he did do it after all - FFS !! One of the most recent ones was The Chandlers on Blue Rose. Dealer says the Rite pressing with block capitals for the artist is the orig and the label with poor quality printing and not Rite pressed is the second pressing. Reason given is that the Rite pressing had a quality label. When I mentioned this to someone who was involved in that local music scene at the time, he said it could have been the opposite way round. The Rite pressing could have been done second to make up for the poor quality of the original pressing. My point is we make assumptions which may or may not be valid and relying on people to remember something from 50 years ago is always going to be questionable.

No defintely no other marking on the run out. However on previous threads it said the PES is there in some and not other origs ???