Pete S

I'll go away then

White issue, doesn't make sense??? Never seen one like that before but definitely not a bootleg

That Bessie Banks record is one of the most overrated soul records of all time...awful vocal...the Moody Blues version is miles better. yes I am being serious!

everyone knows who you are talking about, you ought to put up or shut up otherwise it's pointless making the post.

It's £50

I'm Still Waiting - cornell campbell - studio one 13438 refosoul There's loads of versions of this Wailers classic but this is the only true soul version I know of

Well it's a standard Rod as you know but the only Jackie Edwards version I can find is on Trojan from 71 - though I thought he did a version with Millie in the mid 60's, I'll have a proper look when I get back

Ten To One - the mad lads - coxsone Not the soul group - very nice jamaican male harmony track

That's going a bit past my timescale Rod, it's from 71...I don't think I've got it, I found it on an LP but it's a definite re-recording

I've got this computer database program called Roots Knotty Roots which is a searchable database of some 20,000 Jamaican and Uk labels/songs/artists/producers, and I did a quick search for "Conversation" rhythm and it pulled up 32 straight away! So maybe we best leave this topic as it could get out of hand!

Tony Rounce will no doubt know more than me but I personally think the best alternative version is "President mash up the resident" by Shorty...but there really are loads of versions, in fact there was once an album made up of 12 versions of the track. Also I remember in about 1991, the group Dream warriors used the original track for a song called Ludi (I think thats what it was called). There's a good organ version called Peacemaker by the Hippy Boys on Unity. I'll do a bit of research when I get back from the hospital.

Conversation - uniques - island 13434 refosoul This is the long version, originally studio cut

My Conversation (longer version) - slim smith & the uniques - island 13433 refosoul Refosoul Rare and Northern Soul Clip library This is brilliant but it's the wrong track, please go to the track below this one

Have a listen to this mate, this is obviously the take that was used for the single but you can hear it in all it's live-in-the-studio glory here, I especially like right at the start you can hear the pianist practising the riff. Also this version goes on way after Slim Smith stops singing...absolutely fantastic stuff

You're The Guy - argie & the arketts - ronnies 13432 refosoul

Absolutely brilliant - 150 quid on JM - EX+ condition...£100...have a listen

Yeah I saw those boxes yesterday, I think they have an R&B set for every year from 1948 to 1953...looked fantastic. This shop, Fopp, I have to say it was the best music shop I've been in for a long long time, I stayed in for about 45 minutes and actually enjoyed the browsing experience, plus they had a VINYL SECTION which literally gave me goosebumps to see...though £15 upwards for an album is a bit much

This seller thinks if a record has (MR) stamped in the run off, it has to be an original! https://cgi.ebay.com/COASTERS-CRAZY-BABY-US...tem130067502594

Well I was about to say what a load of rubbish but it's there for all to see on the label..I knew he did the Poets Immediate 45 though, used to have it

You're right, Finbarr's do very similar stuff. I just couldn't believe 120 tracks, brilliant book profiling every single artist...but what I said about copyright must be correct, you or I could have put this out because Blue Moon Of Kentucky by Elvis is on there and if that were still in copyright it wouldn't be on here

Absolutely!

I bought this off your site actually John, amazingly it was the very same copy I sold to Carl about 3 years before that! What's the chances. I haven't seen another one before or since...

Of course they are best know for "Lies" which is the greatest Beatles take off ever, on the YouTube clip of "Lies" someone actually says "for 35 years I've thought this was The Beatles". They get everything absolutely spot on, not only the voice but also the song is a carbon-copy of The Beatles circa 64..

Security - thane russell - uk cbs 13404 refosoul

Some of you will have heard this before but if you haven't, please please please listen, not so much to the record - which is in fact a tremendous version of Otis redding's "Security" - but to the singer. If you didn't know that this wasn't the person it sounds like, you wouldn't believe it. I know that sounds confusing but have a listen and see what I mean. It's definitely not who it sounds like.