Pete S

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Federal was a custom pressing plant, if you look in the run off of any Jamaican record you get a wealth of information, for instance the prefix FDR means it's a Duke Reid production pressed by Federal, FRE Federal Rupie Edwards, and so on and so on. Countless releases on countless labels. Ditto Wirl and Dynamic.

I know this is going to sound crazy but I don't think that record "looks" Jamaican, can't quite explain why.

Not many dedicated to Northern Soul. There were one-off specials like a Radio One documentary on Northern Soul broadcast in 1975. BRMB here in the Midlands always had a Northern spot on their general soul show, I first heard My hang Up Is You and Love Factory on that show. In the 80's Dave Evison had a long running show on Signal FM.

I didn't think that to be honest, just thought it was about underrated records full stop. Here's a rare one that is totally underrated and absolutely fantastic

That's odd, I have a copy of SC 129 as Jay D Bryant - I Won't Be Coming Back b/w Prophets - One Gold Piece, many don't play the JD track, this one does.

That was part of the package tour that Jamaica sent to the Worlds Fair in 1964.

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True on both counts but unfortunately it's take it or leave it most of the time as you never know when the next one will come up. I regret selling a lot of records but none more than my Island collection, I didn't have all of them but I had over 200 of the 380 or so. They are irreplaceable.

Roburt about the blanks, they were sold in shops as pre-release blanks usually at 7/6, they weren't just sound system exclusives. Yes, they sold to people who wanted to be ahead of the game but more or less every single to be released in Jamaica came out on a pre first. They were usually sold via the producer. Even in England, Pama and Trojan both had white label 'pre' series, many of which never got an actual issue. I've also had UK blanks on Blue Beat, Island, Moodisc and so on. Typical Derrick Harriott pre

I have two comments, don't know if relevant, toasting was going on way before The Great Wuga Wuga which was a very late ska release (65-66) there's a great LP featuring King Stitt recreating his djing style over sound system hits of 1960-62. Count Machuki predates Stitt I think but there are only a few examples of him on record and I think the earliest might be Alcatraz in 64/65. Secondly, I think I actually bought that Jocko - Rhythm Talk when it came out, no idea why because after I bought it I realised it wasn't very good (it went "Jocko, Jocko, candy rapper", but I think it was notable for using the backing track to Ain't No Stopping Us Now.

The blank labels pre-empt the labelled copies, they are basically demo copies (pre-releases) if they decided to go with it after the pre's became successful they printed them up. Also I've had a few strange Jamaican records where they have used existing old stock copy labels, and flipped them over to make new 'blanks', you can still read the info on the original label sometimes though it's usually in reverse obviously.

I know that was tongue in cheek but it's not quite that simple because no two people are the same, be it taste in food, clothes, whatever.

Honey Townsend is £30 - £40.

I don't really understand this topic but I've been buying Jamaican reggae records for most of my life and having had literally thousands of them, compared to Tony I still know very little so if he says it's so then I take it as gospel, having learnt more from him than any other person on this forum. Just my opinion.

.IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CONTACT ME. THANKS Yeah I've got one - why don't you tell everyone it's a bootleg?

That's because it's exactly the same record Tony

That label was responsible for some classic US Garage 45's was it not?

You have a weird counting system 1-2-4-3

Because they're cheap, less people know them as they haven't had the exposure - duh.

Since when has this been "underrrated"? Everyone loves it and recognises it as a classic.

I suppose he's borderline soul/gospel/jazz kind of like Bill Withers doesn't fit into one category. Having said that, I think both Look At Me Now and Ordinary Joe are outstanding.

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No Dave I am officially retired from going out.