Pete S

Cloth-ears abound, it's bloody brilliant, it's got everything necessary to make it absolutely classic Northern. Fantastic record, from the call to arms piano intro to the do it yourself backing vocals

You probably won't believe me, but that's from ZIMBABWE!

As said above, the first boot was the blue and white one, this one followed about a year later, 100% definite bootleg.

I've got a mint copy of the techniques on UK Treasure isle and it is a fairly quiet recording, got no life in it compared to say Barbwire or Mosquito 1 which have got the same backing. I've never seen a copy of My Conversation for sale and I've been buying reggae since Liquidator came out. You can easily find an import of Ting A Ling, if not I'll sell you mine for a fiver if I've still got it

huh huh huh

Here ya go:

Two designs on this label...

Please email if interested in anything to pete.smith@freeuk.com

I realise it's Prestatyn weekend but I've got to try and make a living! So if you're not going - why not buy one of these! Scans of most can be found on my website www.raresoul.co.uk

PETE SMITH

28 JENKS ROAD

WOMBOURNE

WOLVERHAMPTON

WV5 0BL

01902 893569

Pete.smith@freeuk.com

L. ALLEN - CAN'T WE TALK IT OVER - GREEN DOLPHIN

VG++ 400

Bit of crackle at the start then fantastic after that...still a top record...and has a really interesting letter with it explaining the history of the record and it's fate after it failed to sell in PA back in 1965.

MITCHELL BRAITHWAITE - YOU BEEN A LONG TIME COMIN' - PROBE

EX- 40

Very rare stock copy, looks great. Has a few marks on the vinyl not affecting play.

BROOKS & JERRY - I GOT WHAT IT TAKES - DYNAMO DEMO

EX+ 50

Trust me this is a very rare white demo, it has the words not for sale whited out unfortunately but still a tough record to find on US original.

WADE FLEMONS - THAT OTHER PLACE - VEEJAY

EX 100

Visually this looks VG++ but plays superbly

RICHARD POPCORN WYLIE - ROSEMARY WHAT HAPPENED - KAREN DEMO

EX+ 80

Superb condition original demo copy

THE IMPRESSIONS - GYPSY WOMAN - AUSTRALIAN AMPAR

EX 50

Superb looking and extremely rare Aussie 45 with original sleeve

THE CONTESSAS - I KEEP ON' KEEPIN' ON - E DEMO

M 40

Brilliant girl group dancer

CHESTER ST. ANTHONY - TOGETHER - A & M DEMO

M- 50

Really underrated West Coast dancer - note Jobete music publishing

DVD SET - THE BEAT - ALL 22 EPISODES IN PERFECT QUALITY, INDIVIDUALLY CASED WITH FULL COLOUR SLEEVES & LABELS, - 6 DVD'S IN ALL:

Otis Redding; Little Milton, Esther Phillips, Joe Tex, Etta James, Lattimore Brown, Roscoe Shelton, Carla Thomas, Freddie King, Barbara Lynn, Johnny Taylor, Maurice & The Radiants, Louis Jordan, Mighty Hannibal, Clarence 'Frogman' Henry, Robert Parker, Joe Simon, Mitty Collier, Jamo Thomas, Zz Hill, Lou Rawls, Bobby Hebb, Willie Mitchell, Don Bryant, Ovations, Bar-Kays, Percy Sledge, Garnett Mimms, Sam & Dave, Mamie Galore, Chuck Bernard, Gerri Hall, Cleo Randle, loads more.

This is the source of most of the clips I've been putting onto YouTube. Some good examples can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user...calm&page=7

This is my own set of DVD's.

Please email me if interested in the full set

ORIGINAL SKA 45'S

RIO - CLARENDONIANS - RUDIE BAM BAM VG+ 20

GAS - PAT KELLY - NEVER GIVE UP EX 25

BLUE BEAT - ERIC MORRIS - HUMPTY DUMPTY VG 15

FAB - PRINCE BUSTER & TEDDY KING - SHEPHERD BENG BENG VG 25

RIO - RULERS - COPASETIC EX 30

AMALGAMATED - LYNN TAIT - EL CASINO ROYALE VG+ 25

SKA BEAT - JACKIE OPEL - MORE WOOD IN THE FIRE M- 40

AMALGAMATED - SIR GIBBS - PEOPLE GRUDGEFUL n.c. VG+ 70

PRESSURE BEAT - LORD COMIC - JACK OF MY TRADE VG- 40

PYRAMID - DERRICK MORGAN - TOUGHER THAN TOUGH VG+ 15

DYNAMIC - DENNIS ALCAPONE - ALCAPONE GUNS DON'T BARK VG+ 15

DYNAMIC - ERIC DONALDSON - BLUE BOOT EX 15

COLLINS DOWN BEAT - SIR COLLINS SPECIAL N.C. VG+ 20

STUDIO ONE - THE HEPTONES - ONLY SIXTEEN N.C. VG+ 30

ACKEE - ALTON ELLIS - TOO LATE TO TURN BACK NOW - VG++ 25

DOCTOR BIRD - SIR LORD COMIC - SKA-ING WEST VG- 35

DOCTOR BIRD - THE SKATALITES - DOCTOR RING A DING NC WOL G+ 25

ISLAND - DELROY WILSON - DANCING MOOD VG+ 35

ISLAND - KING EDWARDS - RUSSIAN ROULETTE N.C. WOL 30

ISLAND - STRANGER COLE - RUN JOE N.C. VG+ 25

ISLAND - DERRICK HARRIOTT - THE LOSER G+ 50

ISLAND - SHENLEY DUFFUS - RUKUMBINE VG++ 25

Postage...

1 x 7" = £1.50 (20p each extra)

Recorded delivery add 70p.

Special delivery £5.

Europe

1 x 7" = £2

Elsewhere

1 x 7" = £2.50

Couldn't be bothered to check all 8 pages to see if this had been posted up, but this is way rarer on issue than it is on demo

Yes, Jimmy Webb has quite a pedigree. I actually LOVE "Wichita Lineman" and "McCarthur Park", (though some people appear to hate the latter song with a passion!) - though I'm not a big fan of "By The Tme I Get To Phoenix" - even by Doris Duke or Isaac Hayes! However, he arranged and produced the classic "Sunshower" album for Thelma Houston and also an album on the Supremes in 1972.

Jimmy Webb wrote a couple of other great Northern tunes - Don Ray Sampson - baby Come back, and The Contessas - I keep on Keepin On, both on the "E" label.

I bought a copy recently and the chap I bought it off knew the history and the people who produced it, thought you might find this snippet of information interesting...

Larry Allen was from Greensburg, PA. Jerry Reed, who owned the label, had 1000 copies pressed. 500 as Larry Allen and 500 as L. Allen. It was released in the fall of 1965.

Jerry got frustrated because the record didn't sell and at the time he had an old car that he was junking, and he threw around 900 copies of the record into the trunk to be crushed and remelted.

I got an email from Chcuk Bernard's daughter and both her and her dad were blown away by the fact there was some footage of him that I'd put on youtube. The impression I got was that she thought no-one had ever heard of him. If anyone wants to interview him about his recordings for Satellite, Zodiac, Brunswick, Maverick etc, I'll put you in touch.

Price only really started to move today....which Is why I kept quiet

Maybe cos a lot of people only ever look at whats ending today...I do...it's the first time I see them a matter of hours before they end

Looks great, I fancy a bit of that

Thanks to gavin for the link, hope it's not been up already

WADE FLEMONS - THAT OTHER PLACE - VEEJAY

EX 100

Visually this looks VG++ but plays superbly

RICHARD POPCORN WYLIE - ROSEMARY WHAT HAPPENED - KAREN DEMO

EX+ 80

Superb condition original demo copy

THE IMPRESSIONS - GYPSY WOMAN - AUSTRALIAN AMPAR

EX 50

Superb looking and extremely rare Aussie 45 with original sleeve

THE CONTESSAS - I KEEP ON' KEEPIN' ON - E DEMO

M 40

Brilliant girl group dancer

CHESTER ST. ANTHONY - TOGETHER - A & M DEMO

M- 50

Really underrated West Coast dancer - note Jobete music publishing

Just popping out now so if anyone wants anything, please PM and I'll reply when I get back

cheers

pete

The only problem is pricing it though Sean, don't you think?

If I stuck 50 quid on it I think that'd be about right. Won't sell, but I get to keep it!

Pete

The desperate lengths we would go to to make recordings in those days!!!

Presumably those reel to reel recordings were just done through a mike.

As recently as the mid-80's I can remember making up tapes for parties using tracks recorded through a mike off "Pick of the Pops".

I don't recall the sound quality being THAT bad.

MB

P.S. I am sure when I was a kid in our house we had a reel-to-reel tape recorder before we ever had a record player.

I remember coveting tape copies of the early Beatles albums that were in the window of our local record shop. I don't know what they would have cost - but it might as well have been a million pounds!!

Actually these were done using a kind of din-plug (is that what they were called) so it's actually a line-in recording. There's another one, an hour long Petula Clark live special! bet thats worth something. To Pet Clark fans. (I really like here mid 60's Pye cuts but wouldn't say I'm a fan)

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That's not you, it's Dave Hill

No that photo is a bit deceptive on the haircut front, it's not a fringe, as this frightening one of me at school in 1975 shows!!!

It's a good job we can laugh at ourselves now!

all four volumes of R&B Indies

Is the 4th one out??

I've actually got a couple of lost TOTP episodes on reel to reel tape. My ex wife's dad recorded them for her. I can't remember any soul acts but one has Pink Floyd doing See Emily Play and another features a Swedish group called Ola & The Janglers! There's also a full episode of Crackerjack with musical guests the Love Affair and Don Partridge. Oh and I've got all those Mike Raven shows on reel to reel too. Different source mind.

Talking of high waisted trousers - I'm second from the left, look at that waistband!

Mananged to get through on the phone, their excuse this time was me forgetting february only had 28 days and also it took them 3 days after I started the claim to do something, so I was told to ring back on the 18th!

Er, very great in my opinion.

Bloke told me the sleeve as is rare as the record.

Calvin Klown ?

Bejayzus!