Kris Holmes

Was Bell always part of Columbia or did a buy out by "the man" occur sometime in the late 60s?

Does anyone have the White Whale 45? Is that fast or slow?

things got confusing when people started posting up about the original slow version & it's many releases

This thread has got pretty confusing. So is there a Ranwood 45 of the faster version of Harlem Shuffle or is the Trip 45 it?

I have never actually seen it on Trip before, good to know the uptempo version is available in 7" on both Trip & JayBoy though

far out, i've never seen that Mala company sleeve before

left this 45 behind at a local store a couple weeks back, Van McCoy credits pop up everywhere. yvonne caroll - stuck on you -

ah, passed right by that pic too, I need to pay more attention to some of my labels

damn, Goldwax didn't even cross my mind when looking through my computer for pics, flipped right past those.

I have a bunch on these labels, this is a start, just the ones still lurking on my computer, I'd have to dig out & take pics of the rest, but that would take ages

you probably did, there are probably other boots of that record besides the one I'm thinking of (I think it was a white Ichiban label).

i didn't look at both sides, I'll have a look later & see if I have any without the "R" on the flip. I think the colours are just down to inks/pressing plants because I'm fairly sure later represses used whatever label design was current. I don't know what the bootleg status of the label is sorry, I know the Charles Sheffield was booted on a totally different looking label which is very obvious.

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Sad news, such a huge impact on R&B music. RIP,

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i play this at soul, mod, rockabilly & funk gigs from time to time, it goes down pretty well everywhere. I love it, the drums are bananas. One of those records which can sit kind of well in a lot of scenes but not perfectly in any if that makes sense.

are you talking about the red "banner" label? All the ones I have on that have the "R". I know the red label comes before but then I'm not sure if the white with blue banner or white with arrows comes next, later on is the all blue label.

thanks guys, just hadn't seen this label before, I have earlier local ones on London & thought this may have been some later anomaly after that deal ended. But now that you guys mention it, the label & press are pretty consistent with other UK things I have from the late 60s/early 70s (President etc)

definitely not heard out so much at soul nights, but crops up at mod nights every now & then.

for anyone who doesn't know it already, it's on youtube here: fun stuff

The world became a lot less stressful when I decided to never buy another VG+ graded record again, ever. VG++, EX, EX+, NM-, NM, M- are all I'm after, makes things a lot more cut & dry. The fact is that that clip embodies VG+ to many out there.

haven't found any with my name on them, but every now & then I'll google the name of a previous owner & flick them an email to see if it's the same person (has to be a pretty unique name of course, John Smith won't cut it). I've had a few replies back that were positive & managed to get stories about how records left their possession. Pretty cool when it works out.

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watch out Mike, I got flung abuse at for pointing out the same thing earlier, some people don't like to be told