Kris Holmes

also the mingering mike 45 that came out is

yeah Renfro 124....mid 70s

ok, never mind, found one on popsike, after i posted this.

Anyone ever run across the Anthony Renfro - Gloria's Theme LP?? Is it rare?

Sad news, RIP to one of the greats.

most of the numero ones are pretty easy to tell since they'll have telltale markings somewhere on the label (except the omnibus box set), but yeah the tramp ones are exact.

thats a great deal!!

weird, do you think it might be that setting for sellers where you can choose to make the buyer have to pay for an item as soon as they commit to buy? so essentially as a seller you can make the sale only go through if the buyer pays straight away?

on US ebay the confirm & pay now is not the same step, so you confirm to buy & then navigate away, confirm another etc etc. Then they are all sitting there in your purchased items waiting for you to pay & then the seller gets around to sending you a invoice with combined postage after. i've never encountered the problem as outlined by the original poster.

here's a piece NPR did back in '12 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100823151

RIP I had breakfast with Arlene Corsano back in 2013 while I was on tour in the US who had been working with Rose Marie to get her recognised in some sort of Hall of Fame & I think prepare a biography with her. We talked about how many songs she had written & how wide-ranging her credits were. I didn't get to meet Rose Marie (Arlene also worked for Baby Washington & Maxine Brown, so this was with them) but she sounded like an incredible story.

Something a bit different but related, all deep 6/8 gospel ballads from original 45s. Plenty of sounds of redemption & church wrecking. Cuts to the soul of things really. Hope you guys enjoy. Check it https://www.mixcloud.com/Kris_Holmes/i-wont-have-to-cry-a-deep-gospel-45s-mix/ Gospel Commanders - I Won't Have To Cry Gospel Harmonettes - Trouble Shirley Ann Lee - Without God Big Henry - Hold On Blind Boys of Alabama - Oh Some Day Brooklyn Skyways - It's Sweet To Be Loved Brown Singers - He'll Make A Way Chicago Travellers - Master Show Me The Way Cleveland Golden Echoes - I Was On My Knees The Consolers - Don't Let Nothing Shake Your Faith Echoes of Harmony - He Will Exciting Singing Angels - Beyond The Sight Of Man Explosive Wings of Harmony - They Were Crying Bishop Smith & the Sensational Disciples Band - Bumps In The Road

i've actually been playing the New Riders of the Purple Sage version on 45 out lately just for a change.

i picked this up in just the last couple of years, don't remember paying much for it. Great 45.

so these are ones you can confirm because you have them or are you just copy/pasting from somewhere?

what I have is 1981 - Things Will Be Better Tomorrow (double A sided stereo/mono promo "dual" 45) 1984 - Eddie You Should Know Better (double A sided stereo/mono promo "dual" 45) 1990 - Try Love Again/Can This Be Real not so much help, so i guess we're wondering what the flips were on the issues of 1981 & 1984. (if Soulful Kinda Music is correct or incorrect) i've never paid attention to looking for the issues specifically.

i have always wanted to make this show but never have, last few reports i've got from people have been underwhelming.....

ah, you know what i mean, i think it's cool that your stuff is also crossing over to people who might not usually check for 45s. you do good things!

Liam's records made an appearance (disclaimer: none of the other DJs are usually 7" DJs, they are all 12" LP CD Serato people). It also wasn't strictly a soul gig, lots of reggae & new (beats) stuff was played.

so either American Bandstand/Dick Clark have incomplete info, misinformation posted on the web has been taken as gospel over time or someone years back confused a Banks performance on a different show as being Bandstand.....we may never know....

Happens all the time, stuff gets spirited away after death, very rarely is it kept intact. Everyone wants a piece. At best it goes to people the person left pieces to, at worst, it's theft. There was a case here a while back where a well known DJ was left in a vegetative state & his records were in a lock up. Turned out, one of his friends was going around to check on the wife & kids, lifting the key to the lock up, nicking records & returning the key over a number of months/years. The DJs records were turning up in used record stores all over the place & no one could work it out. The family decided to hold an auction of the record collection to raise funds for his ongoing care only to find the guts had be ripped out of it. Super sad.

there are a lot of DJs/Collectors outside of the Northern scene who buy records to play & actually don't give a care if it's a reissue/boot etc, they just want it on vinyl & will play it at home/gigs/radio. I did a guest spot at a gig the other week which was a 7" only affair & I was the only DJ out of at least 20 playing originals, EVERYONE else was playing new releases, reissues or bootlegs. These are the people buying these records, but they aren't the people paying hundreds for them, I still don't know who they are.....??

because the original labels are more aesthetically pleasing to me as a collector of originals & if i'm gonna have a placeholder re then I like to see one with a similar label to the original because to me it looks better, it's 100% personal preference, i'm not pretending to have the original, i just prefer the way they look. i don't know, maybe that doesn't make sense, but to me it does. i'm definitely not gonna try pass them off as originals, i have enough original jams to not have to worry about that. but as someone who appreciates the artistic look of the original, i don't want an ugly reissue if i can help it. i'm probably not making any sense though

also, if i buy a reissue i'd rather get one with a lookalike label (which still sounds good, not a shonky carve of a mp3 or whatever) over one with a different label.

i called someone on their playing a boot/re, not in a mean way, just "whoa, killer tune" & then when i had a closer look added "oh it's the reissue". response was "whatever, it's all about the music". OK. another time i was playing a set of pretty rare originals & some older collector came up & said "oh that would have been a nice set if you had the originals", to which i replied "they were", he came back with "sure, you're too young to have those records, you don't deserve the originals". WTF?!! It goes both ways hahaha. Look, i'll buy a reissue as a placeholder of sorts but i'll definitely choose which gig i can bring them to. Non-specific bar gig, i'll play a reissue. Specialised soul/funk night, only originals. A lot of bigger name funk/modern/soul DJs are using reissues now & they have all sorts of reasons to justify it. I have no idea who is paying high for the reissues though? That's another level of wtf right there!!