Pete S

Why would you? They'd stopped making red and white demos for two years when that came out. They'd even stopped green and whites. There is no demo, you might see one with a sticker on it or a date stamp.

Yeah it's going to be real tough to sell this if JM can't be on the case for f*cks sake

Weird Emidisc test press of Tony Simon I had a Debonaires "Headache" similar to this once, with custom labels

You are correct mate. Thought Brenton Wood was 1968.

The white ones are the issues. There's no demo / issue as far as I know.

I can think of one Soul 45 they put out in 68, one that hardly anyone would even know of I guess, there was a UK cover version of Gimme Some Kind Of Sign, it's by Tony something, Tony Simon? It's terrible. I think, I did have it once upon a time. But no, no US sides I don't think. Al Kent was apparently withdrawn and is quite rare, much rarer than The Debonaires but not as expensive.

Right. Now I was thinking way more for Johnny Gilliam, maybe £100 more, and I think I'd sell it. Otis Clay, it's like a swoosh noise as it starts. Going to try £100 on that. Laskey I will take the advice. Can't do my usual cut price bargains on these see...

What about Shades Of Blue on Sue - another detroit one off UK issue

They were still pressing it in 1971!

That's who I was referring to mate, DJ'd with him once in Plymouth and his entire box was UK demos from that source, jammy sod

Couple of prices needed please: Emanuel Laskey - I'd Rather Leave On My Feet - DT records (green label) superb condition Johnny Gilliam - Room Full Of tears - Cancer (ex) Otis Clay - The Only Way Is Up - Echo. This looks NM but it sounds like it has a little noise in the right hand channel. Willie Tee - First taste of hurt - Gatur (green label, Funky Twist on B side)

Revilot isn't directly related to GW and RT though is it?

Steve, I put an extra bracket on the end of the address, should work now

I think the links to them are still in Nick's original topic, also on my facebook page and everyone elses round the world, and if you can click on the photos on my blog site, they will go to a larger size

Kegsy, the Edwin originally came out before the Track label was up and running, so as it was a minor hit, maybe they got the option to take a few releases from Ric Tic / Golden World. Don't forget The Holidays also appeared on Polydor.

Photos at https://lostvinylgemsofthe60s.blogspot.co.uk/ Ladies and Gentleman, you are looking at a piece of record collecting history, certainly the find of the century so far. Darrell's modest US hit was released by London on a yellow demo copy, but before the record could actually be released, they were hit by an injunction from EMI Records whose Stateside label had the rights to the tracks. So the demo was withdrawn (after maybe 300 copies got out) and the record came out two weeks later on Stateside. Picked up by the fledgling Rare Soul scene almost immediately, both sides have deservedly gone on to be regarded as major classics of the genre. So why is this particular record so special? Well, it was found by someone I only know as NickW and posted up on Soul Source on sunday night. Quality of the photograph was poor, and knowing that this didn't exist on a stock copy - not a single one discovered in 48 years - I was incredulous to say the least, and literally said I'd believe it when I see it. Not long after, Nick posted up these high quality scans, as well as close ups of the run off groove matrixes, and I said there and then that it was kosher and was indeed the first ever Darrell Banks issue to be discovered. I posted both sides up to Facebook, and within an hour it had, as some people might say, "gone viral". It was found in the collection of a an ex-Decca employee. Who knows, perhaps the day after he received this one, the order came through that the record was now not going to be released due to copyright problems, and all copies would have to be destroyed. Poor NickW has more or less had to go into hiding to escape hordes of mad bidders offering to take it off his hands. Nick appears to be a collector and he is contemplating keeping it. Good for him. In my opinion, this is the rarest record ever released in the UK. People may refer to Sex Pistols GSTQ on A & M, but we know that a couple of dozen copies of that were given away to staff at the time. This is - as yet - a one off. A Northern Soul collector with the financial backing might pay up to £10,000 for this. If I had the money I would easily pay £5000. But if NickW does decide to sell it, he shouldn't underestimate the London label collectors out there - they don't like demos, they just want the stock copies, and here is that elusive, one-off stock copy. If I was given the job of selling it - it would be going to Sotherbeys. This is a slice of 7" vinyl history. Now we know how Howard Carter must have felt when he entered that tomb back in 1922 and found it totally intact - this is UK label Northern Soul collecting's Tutankhamun moment. Let's hope there's not a curse on it!

This was made in either Canada or USA I think, fantastic record too Gene. Only 2 years old, sounds like it was recorded in 1969.

Also - this doesn't make any sense. The whole purpose of demo records is that they are advance copies, they would go out to the radio stations, press, tv shows etc before the stock copies were even pressed, so that they could make it onto their playlists by the time the record was actually released. Otherwise - why even bother making them?

You should see what came out of Radio Birmingham; all demos, someone on here has hundreds of them, or did do

You only have to see that footage of Tony Blackburn on the opening day of Radio One in 1967, his two singles on the decks are both demos - famous photo of Jimmy Saville holding up two demos at the first Top Of The Pops (bet they were Beatles). I think most of the BBC local stations had nothing but demos.

Those machines must still be around Gene, I bought this last year, looks great

Well James Bond is a tough cookie to find and is £100+ these days, but you can pick up a Phoenix City for under £20 still (Doctor Bird label)

Not sure why all the London demos would turn up from the same place, doesn't make sense, they were distributed to the usual outlets / agencies / tv companies, I was behind someone who got one in Eastbourne for instance.

Oh Nick sorry, I've used it as well, on my blogsite, along with the story so far...if I have any facts wrong you can always PM me to issue the bollocking https://lostvinylgemsofthe60s.blogspot.co.uk/

Someone emailed it me and asked if I knew anything - I said it sounds New Orleans circa 1960 to me, but I have no idea who it is. Weird vid too.