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Yeah Prince & Princess is great. Black Power is rubbish and always was rubbish from it's first play. As bad as Tim Tam. Interplay was ok. Lost Summer Love is a great 60's pop record. Burning Bush has a great intro but it's downhill from there. But we enjoyed all of them at the time, what's wrong with that? Records didn't have to pass some kind of credibility test in those days...it was a lot of fun and they were great times.

He sounded similar to Elvis, that was his gimmick. I've actually got this record on Parlophone (I think)

Thanks stranger.

Does anyone know what year Mel Britt was originally released in?

No he's not, he's been dead for 25 years! he was never an Elvis tribute, he was an Elvis copyist and he had him off to a tee, having a few hits in his own right.

Great memories of early days on the Northern scene. There's hundreds of records worse than this. Have you heard that King Moses for a start?

He died a few years back I think and his records were auctioned off, but I seem to remember most of them had their centres knocked out...sorry to be so vague.

I know they are, why do you keep telling me this??

thank goodness for that...

In the dark?

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Had a very obscure single issued here on President circa 1968. Think it's called "Can't get you out of my head".

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No I still don't get what we are arguing about. I said most Emidiscs were legitimate acetates cut for artists, producers, dj's etc, and some blanks were used for Northern Soul bootlegs. Then you said the same thing. But in your first post you said that they were just bootlegs...

No sorry you are way out, yes a lot of Emidisc blanks were used for cutting Northern tracks but there's ten times as many proper acetates cut using Emidiscs, half of the Beatles for a start, this one is not a bootleg it's a legitimate acetate....I've had loads of them, non-Northern Emidisc acetates.

Might just be a publishers acetate, trying to sell the song to a UK artist

It's an acetate. An aliminium record coated with lacquer. Emidisc is just the brand name.

I think they will still be remembered but only in the way that we enjoy looking back with radio shows like Pick Of The Pops, I just listened to saturdays edition featuring 1965 and it was fantastic. I don't think that any of the named bands will be revered in the way that The Beatles have been for the last 50 years.

Actually I bought the Italian Chapter Five of him...and countless other 45's....he gets some amazing stuff.

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That's actually a really collectable 45 and very hard to find! ("Kinky Boots") I bet it goes for over £20 even in Fair.

Good spot Kev

Don't know, but sounds like an American girl not UK - terrible sound quality though.

Give me a big skirt and I could do that

Memory Lane Records, just before traffic lights/crossroads? I'm still in touch with the owner of that shop, I'll sort your credit note out