Pete S

I actually sold Martin that copy, it was a Parlophone issue, have to say it's the only one I've ever seen, having said that, I had a demo in my own collection a few years ago and I haven't seen another one since...I sold the demo for £25 in 1993...I was offered £150 for the issue so I thought I had no choice but to take it. I'd think it's real value is maybe £100, might be wrong, definitely a rare item though, and it's absolutely brilliant. The Val Simpson I think is ok but totally lifeless without brass, and a lot slower. I'm sure there's some link between John Andrews and the group Supertramp

Kelly Michaels...

It's quite rare now but still worth no more than £15....I emailed the seller and told him by the way

Could be...70's record?

It's the bootleg!

Forgot I had this, recording of an Ian Levine spot at the Mecca, can't pinpoint the date exactly but it might be late 75..bit of self promotion going on here I think LJ JOHNSON - DANCING ON THE EDGE OF A DREAM EDDIE SPENCER - IF THIS IS LOVE OSCAR PERRY - I GOT WHAT YOU NEED ? - TRYING TO GET BACK TO YOU GIRL BILLY WOODS - LET ME MAKE YOU HAPPY THE EXCITERS - YOU'RE GONNA MAKE ME LOVE YOU BARBARA PENNINGTON - RUNNING IN ANOTHER DIRECTION HIGH VOLTAGE - COUNTRY ROAD SOUL PATROL - SAVE YOUR LOVE THE IDLE FEW - PEOPLE THAT'S WHY THE DU SHONS - YOU BETTER THINK IT OVER LJ JOHNSON - YOUR MAGIC PUT A SPELL ON ME EAST COAST CONNECTION - SUMMER IN THE PARKS PAT LUNDY - PARTY MUSIC EVELYN THOMAS - WEAK SPOT ANDERSON BROS - I CAN SEE HIM LOVING YOU KENNY SMITH - LORD WHATS HAPPENING 8TH AVENUE BAND - THE WHOLE THING SKULLSNAPS - I'M YOUR PIMP PRINCE GEORGE - WRONG CROWD CANDI STATON - NOW YOU'VE GOT THE UPPER HAND

Trouble is, what happens when they come head to head with an immovable object like ABKCO in the case of Cameo Parkway, still no official CD release from their catalogue and doesn't look libe being one so I suppose that's why someone came up with the CamPark cd's.

That's a UK mercury release, a white stomper, I've got it somewhere if you want to refresh your memory. It's not very good in the cold light of day.

What puzzles me is why anyone would actually want to buy this appalling record

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It's a totally different version to the one that came out on the cd - a better one to be honest. Theres also an instrumental version which I don't think came out.

Blimey, thanks for that Geordie, I was starting to think I was the only one who bought Soul Galore records in 1975.

"Yeah, when I was 15 I bought the odd pressing and I'm sure most of us did. We didn't really know any better then, though, did we? When I was a child I spake as a child and all that. This is about you selling them - the buyers have their own conscience to guide them, don't they"? I've got about 200 northern records in my collection, that's my own personal collection, I'd say 90% of them are pressings, I bought them to replace the originals which I sold to make a living on. That sounds like good business sense to me, not a childlike action. You are slagging off thouands and thousands of people who don't care anything about being elitist and having the record on the correct label. Like that Ty Karim record I got yesterday on Romark, I've got my own copy on some dodgy label, why keep a £500 record sitting on a shelf when there's a £15 copy already there. Let's say the people who make these records manufacture 500 of each title, they do ten titles, thats 5000 records. In 6 months time there will be maybe 50 of each title left on the market. That means over 4000 people bought those records. Are they all 'children', are they all pirates/leaches/ne'er do wells? No, they're just people who want to be able to listen to the record they danced to. Those people are the majority, you and the other soul police are a tiny minority yet you think you have all the answers and all those answers have to be right because - well, just because you say so.

Oh for goodness sake, did you ever see the Joker label perhaps?

Came out twice on Chess, gold lettering 8011 maybe 15 quid, 5-10 for the silver lettering reissue

Well the scond one is have Love Will Travel by The Sonics, there's a thread about it somewhere on the board

Why do you give up and what makes you so righteous then?

It's exactly the same thing - for instance, 3 records arrived this morning, Yvonne Baker, The Miracles and Jeanette Williams. I'm going to sell those records for 1000% more than they originally cost to buy and the artist is not going to see a penny, neither is the songwriter or the music publisher. It was made, it existed,it flopped, it died - 35 years ago. Thats the end of the story for that particular record. What happens later doesn't make any difference. What is the difference between me selling original records which the artists will not earn a penny from, and selling a bootleg of the same thing? If I was a punter, I'd just be happy to be able to own a record that was out of my league price wise on an original. Like I said, I don't make these records, I and everyone else sell them though, I'd just like to know what makes you think I owe a debt to someone who made a record 40 years ago and why I should even care about the multi-millionaire Berry Gordy not earning 1 cent for me selling an original WD of Whole Lot Of Shaking Going On In My Heart or a pressing of a record he deemed unfit to even release by The Originals. One more thing - these records are not counterfeits, they are vague lookalikes, they have totally made up catalogue numbers, they appear on labels that the originals did not appear on (Cause You're Mint on Neptune for example) and they are never passed off as originals. You are talking about counterfeiting records which I dislike as much as anyone else.

Ellusins was booted but it looks nothing like the original and is on styrene. I still don't think this record is worth more than £125 yet Manship lists it for £600!!!!! And if anyone says well how many times have you seen it, I'd say I've had between 8 and 10 copies in the last 10 years. There's 3 or 4 boots of the Superlatives, the one with the lines has been booted, at least I believe it has!

Well seing as Dena Barnes (gardenia barnes) co wrote her own record she's hardly likely to be a child is she, and Little Ann was 20 years old when she recorded for ric tic.

Here you go

Can't scan Steve but I can put a photo up, wait a bit..

No, neither, N4 was done but on black label, jerry Cook done as an issue