Kris Holmes

yeah there's a common budget label soul comp from the late 60s/early 70s from here in NZ which has Elbert tracks on it. I admit his falsetto never really does it for me. I must have owned most of his All Plat & Avco 45s at some stage but find myself keeping not a lot filed. This one on All Platinum is one I've kept also this one-off ska 45 on Deram

https://www.ustream.tv/recorded/23681903

really digging this!

I need this in my life

monarch did press both styrene and vinyl.

i actually think any of these would be pretty impressive.

sorry, forgot the above. i know his brother, who also happens to not have a bad collection.

that is a typical yankeeman misconception

Leiden is in Holland.

this is key, so often i can't tell if people are kidding or not on here

never seen a red/white demo that i can remember. would be interested in a pic.

what a weird name.

looking back would you say this method was more quantity than quality or vice versa?

It actually kind of blows me away to learn that "Boogaloo Down Broadway" isn't everyone's first exposure to the Fantastic Johnny C.

Yeah, The Vanguards 45 is probably one of my favorite records of all time, I love how it sounds like the deeper voiced lead guy is about to eat the microphone

far out, how old are you!?! You've been collecting since before my Dad was born

yes, that one kind of blew me away when i first came across it.

money talks, that british rock songbook thing probably did really well for her.

yeah, it's just so massive really, it's a fool's errand to think you're gonna get to the "end" of it all. the best way to learn was just talking with other collectors, listening to their records and just going to the US & digging through tens of thousands of 45s at a time. I started collecting in my early teens around 1990 & must have flipped through millions of 45s since then. I keep a very small selection which sits at around 5000 45s in my own collection, but it's just a tiny drop in a big bucket of what's out there. Once you start getting outside the confines of straight soul & into things like Gospel it just get's more mind-boggling, the amount of unexplored stuff is just ridiculous.

https://www.ustream.tv/recorded/23522596 back after having to work the last couple of sundays. first hour is gospel, second is soul/r&b

US VG++ or UK EX+ or better please. No US VG+ or UK EX. Thanks

yeah, it makes sense though when you think of it as "forced over-extension of funds", a blessing & then a curse, makes licensing it off up the food chain seem like a smooth move.

These were all Cosimo Matassa's companies. Dover was the big umbrella which distributed & funded not only his own stuff (White Cliffs etc) but also a whole grip of other New Orleans labels/productions from the early 60s up until the whole Dover thing crumbled under unpaid bills & the strain of the massive hit which was Aaron Neville's "Tell It Like It Is" on Par-Lo. It ties in with the stuff on my website. https://greenvilleandbeyond.wordpress.com/labels/dover/ https://greenvilleandbeyond.wordpress.com/labels/white-cliffs/

on the recent boot the runout just reads Backbeat 567A & Backbeat 567B. the label is really obvious in real life, the scan is a bit darker than the original & you can see pixels. of course it feels & looks like a modern pressed record.