Benji

My alltime top fave 100 club 45s (in order): 6T2 - Melba Moore - The Magic Touch 6T8 - Chuck Jackson - What's With This Loneliness 6T7 - Carla Thomas - I'll Never Stop Loving You Of the recent ones my favourite side is the (mis-credited) George Jackson - All in my mind.

I've sold my gold copy a few years ago on Ebay. Can't remember how much I made with it. Not a fortune for sure but more than what I paid for it, I'd guess 40-50 pounds.

When the gold issues came on the market they sold for 20/25 max. a piece, I bought one at the time and sure wouldn't have paid more than that. Sure price went up soon after as demand exceeded supply.

yep. 45 is Spain and Germany only.

Seller sold it for 470 quid and yet didn't bother to post it in a proper mailer and to write "fragile - do not bend" on the parcel? *facepalm*

Yep. Mixed up both titles

Oops, I had it down as late 90s. But just learned it was late 80s.

Sorry you're indeed wrong. It's Eddies' take of "She's wanted" (Larry Clinton) that was issued on G2K. The slower take of "I surrender" came out on a Goldmine LP/CD before Universal. Don't know if "where I'm not wanted" is also on that album. Wasn't "Where I'm not wanted" included in the Goldmine Wigan Casino 25th Anniversary 7" box?

Like you I always assumed it's Martin Kopell. First Stardust releases appeared in the early 90s, or at least that's when I saw them for the first time. Tempests around mid 90s at a guess. IMO Stardust is nothing but a bootleg label, period. They might be legal in Canada due to a loophole in copyright laws but surely aren't licenced at all. Bit like the belgian Marginal CDs from the 90s. If a record is re-released w/out consent of owner of rights it's a bootleg. Whoever bought that specific Tempests 45 on Ebay bought it to dj with. "45 has better sound quality than the LP", that's just bullshit unless the only copy of the LP one has ever played was a G- US mono press. I've owned/heard various presses of the LP over the years, canadian, dutch stereo, german stereo and they all have supreme sound quality.

And punters are obliged to turn up dressed in authentic Mecca dress, plastic sandals etc.

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Russ Winstanley, Brian Rae and Chris King are three that come to my mind immediately.

There should be plenty of copies of the LP around. Off the top of my head I recall US mono/stereo, canadian mono (stereo too?), dutch stereo (renamed "well tempered soul") and german stereo.

Have to withdraw my previous statement. Just saw that Ebay UK forces all sellers to accept Paypal. I didn't know that. Ebay Germany requires Paypal only for sellers below or above a certain rating threshold (+50? +100?).

Seller wants postal orders only so where's the problem?

seconded. bob meyer is the worst version. that funky guitar might be flavour of the month but eventually it's crap.

That's how I understand it used to be back in the 70s. But is it still the same nowadays?

are there really that many reissues of current newies/biggies? I mean if folks are reissueing/pressing each and every newie within 1/2 years after its first spin I sure would agree with Andy D. or Arthur. But folks aren't, from what I understand most of todays "hot" sounds are still exclusive and limited to just a few copies. So what's all the fuss about? And that's leaving out the fact that being against a reissue where the artists would financially benefit from is pretty selfish IMO.

and already sold by the time you posted the link.

You're sure these Billy Butlers are fake? I mean, some original Okeh demos came in all sorts of colour and the scans look real to me. I know, seller states these are reissues....

Yes, he told me that when I met him in the mid 90s.

No, Long John Baldry never heard of Ray Pollard when he recorded his versions of both sides.

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I quite like the Gas Powered Clock instrumental, but not as a Northern track more as a pop one. I think the Leo Wright cut sounds quite different to the United Four cut I'm used to. Will see if I can find my United Four mp3 and if it's really just a speeded up Leo Wright. Do you know if original acetate is uncredited?