Kris Holmes

PRESS RELEASE - 8 September 2011 SYL JOHNSON & THE BAMBOOS MELBOURNE CONCERT POSTPONED On Monday night (5 September 2011) Chicago soul and funk legend Syl Johnson performed at The Spiegeltent as part of the Brisbane Festival. It was the third sold-out show of an historic four-concert Australian tour backed by The Bamboos due to conclude in Melbourne at the Hi-Fi on Saturday 10 September. At approximately 8:30PM immediately after coming off stage Mr Johnson complained of feeling unwell. On his request, an ambulance was immediately called which arrived within two minutes. While being attended to by Queensland Ambulance officers backstage, Mr Johnson suffered a heart attack. The lead ambulance officer and two ambulance medics successfully steered Mr Johnson through the heart attack event. Mr Johnson was then transported to the Royal Brisbane Hospital (10 minutes from the venue) where he was placed into immediate care. Royal Brisbane Hospital doctors carried out an operation to clear one of Mr Johnson's arteries which was achieved without the use of a stent. Mr Johnson has made a remarkable recovery and is in full command of all his mental and physical capacities. Within 24 hours of the event he was insisting that he continue with the Melbourne performance which had been scheduled for this Saturday 10 September. However, on the insistence of his medical team, Mr Johnson has agreed to postpose his performance to the following Saturday (17 September) at the same venue (Hi-Fi Melbourne) with the same line up. Mr Johnson wants to express his gratitude to the Brisbane Festival team for their help, concern and professionalism as well as the Queensland Ambulance Service and the nurses and doctors at the Royal Brisbane Hospital for their fantastic care, attention and patience. Mr Johnson says that he sincerely hopes that his Melbourne fans who have already purchased tickets will not be inconvenienced and that they will be able attend the Hi-Fi on 17 September for what is sure to be a very emotional concert. The tour promoters (Harlem Dukes and Straightup) have said that persons who bought tickets for the now-postponed 10 September concert should retain them for use on 17 September. However, if any ticket-holders cannot attend the 17 September concert, refunds will be available until Monday 14th September 5.00pm by emailing info@thehifi.com.au //= 0; i=i-1){ if (l.substring(0, 1) == ' ') output += ""+unescape(l.substring(1))+";"; else output += unescape(l);}document.getElementById('eeEncEmail_CLQkDWtjNC').innerHTML = output;//]]>. Lloyd Dewar on behalf of Harlem Dukes

This will bring flashbacks of all the Bobby Bland 45s on Duke I've had to flip through. I remember going through a small lot of about 1000 45s from Dallas in the 90s & damn near 50% of them would have been Bobby Bland Duke 45s, copy after copy of the same 45s, if it had have been a massive lot of 45s it would have been unbearable, 1000 was grueling enough with that sort of repetition. I think I probably could have easily ran almost his entire output for the label.

I think I said this before but I was playing a lesser known Otis Redding 45 & someone actually came up & requested some Otis Redding.

there's a grip of Brunswick stuff pressed up in NZ on this label, Young-Holt, Barbara Acklin, Artistics etc.

Sad news indeed. He has his name on so many great records. RIP.

the font looks right for Tamla fwiw......

I think Jason Perlmutter has stock on this, which is who I got mine off, not sure if he posts on here but someone could probably send you his contact details (I'm firewalled from my contacts here at work).

beautiful record, you should be able to get this for $30US no worries.

now i'm trying to remember if there was anything pre-Stateside here in NZ.....

https://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17056031

Here in NZ there is Stateside stuff pre the pink Tamla Motown ones.

Last Fri night. Wellington NZ. I'm DJing a soul/ska night, in the middle of a soul set a guy in his 20s walks in, sits down gets his iphone out, feverishly concentrates on it for a few minutes. Gets up walks up to me. "Can I make a request?" Me: "Sure, but I only brought this small box of 45s with me (I had 75 or so & over half were ska), so your success rate might not be all that good" Looks at iphone "Do you have Mel Britt "She'll Come Running Back"? Me: No. He looks at iphone again. "Can you play Judy Street "What"? Me: "Sorry mate, I don't have that" He looks at his iphone again "How about - he names some other rare northern 45 I don't have - ?" Me: "Nope, sorry, I really only brought a small amount of records with me" He puts his phone in his pocket & walks out. Maybe I should have packed better records..... It was weird.

The EP with Stormy Monday/Voodoo/She's Alright. I have the New Zealand press which is a poor pressing & I just can't take it any more. Would like a Euro press (UK or whatever) that plays clean (prefer better than Ex). Will consider a coverless copy.

wow, that's definitely one, well i'll be, white label promos do exist! (for some titles at least) Good detective work! Someone with more time than I have should start plugging titles from the 1900 series into ebay & see what they come up with.

they are legit, don't know the full story on the variation, prob just a different pressing plant or short lived experiment, Tony Rounce or someone will likely know more about whether it was used exclusively on any 45s or only appears concurrently with some light blue titles, I have Mar-Keys/Booker T & maybe other early stuff that I'm blanking on titles right now on grey.

She would had to have used the Personal Payment option & select herself as paying the fee for this to be successful regarding what the seller wants. Correct, "Gift" gives you no comeback on your money, so you are at the seller's mercy. Very risky unless you know the person. A high profile DJ who had a good name got a lot of people this way a few years back, he had been great to deal with, built up a good rep but then caught a drug addiction, sold a lot of his stuff for good money on private lists to people he had dealt with perviously, insisted the payments be gift, took the money, didn't send the records & essentially disappeared. I think the tally was low 5 figures & no one got their money back.

https://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16921225

just bought Destination Anywhere yesterday from a local store, on the other label design though. i also dug out that Gospel LP from the early 60s which Ashford is on, raw, good stuff.

i think that is indeed the suggestion.

for such a specialized press there is probably no firm number. if you want to move it put it on ebay with a $9.99 start bid & see what happens, market will decide the value.

I think they missed the point that we were wondering if there were white labels of the later issues (1900 series) on that design. As we all know there were absolutely white labels of that design from the earlier releases on that label. I would guess that the "one pressing plant out of sync" theory is pretty sound. This would make it possible that white labels do not exist as the plant may well have just been pressing stock copies for that area. Also agree that if a white label 1900 series 45 on the "old" design turns up it would be a very rare variant & an interesting deveopment,......for those of us who find this sort of thing interesting

But that Billy Emerson is a earlier number though right? I would have thought that would be more expected on that label design?

ah, maybe, there is info here though.

yep, extra card inside the mailer should be mandatory.