Pete S

Hey, why are you being so polite to me. There's something up

It was never booted on yellow Epic. It was reissued on red Columbia special products.

Went for £43...

Swoz - go and have a look at the 'names scratched in the run off' thread, just mentioned you by name...

Swoz has the original Catacombs copy of Jimmy Thomas - The Beautiful Night - with the late Bob Crocker's name scratched in the run off. It looks knackered, but it's a bit of history.

Yes commented on that when I saw it was in the 7" listings. Yet you'll get people swear they've seen it!

It must have been on ebay for a year now https://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-ILLEGAL-RELEASE-O...t=1218648761527

It wasn't that funny at the time...woke up with tubes sticking out of everywhere, Mom & Dad at the bedside, I've never been so embarrassed Well I have but you know what I mean..

£370 for Kenny Lynch...knock the £300 off maybe...

That means finding issue 7 of Black Music folks...which I just did...and the B side is not listed

6902 doesn't exist...

Thats an interesting avatar you've got there - I sold a copy of that LP on ebay 2 weeks back, I don't think I'd seen it before, now I've seen two in a fortnight!

June 1974 - "Over in the States, completely unnoticed in the Hot Stuff section was a new release on GSF by the Anderson Brothers entitled I Can See Him Loving You. Twelve months later it was big everywhere, impossible to find, and remains a classic today." pete smith 1988

It was definitely on the release sheets printed in Black Music - in that gigantic article I did (on Black Music) I noted the month and year, I'll try and find it. But I don't think anyone has ever seen one.

It's a great track but it's common not rare, in the UK anyway

But people don't use them as guides per se, they use them as some kind of price bible!

The reason no-one can get the prices is because a) there's less money about and the bottom end of the market has all but collapsed. This week I've sold 1 x 125 quid 1 x 100 quid 1 x 75 quid 1 x 55 quid I've sold no 5, 10, 15 quid records. £355 not bad for 3 days work people say, but obviously I had to pay for them in the first place, around £200, by the end of this week I may have made 200/250 profit which is about what the average wage is I think.

Agent Oh-Oh-Chongo

OK someone else tot them up then...

I make it about 16 against vs 6 definitely for and two maybe's

Oh come on, when have I ever been a member of the soul police? Their usually slagging off my choice of records!

The problem with the last guide is that it included auction prices, which everyone knows aren't a true reflection of the 'real' price if two people are involved in a bidding war.

Well I think Skullsnaps is one of the most bizarre, mind boggling and brilliant records ever made...everything about it, the production, the vocals, the drama of the whole thing. Frankie Crocker must surely sound a mess to anyone not on the northern scene but it's an amazing record to dance to. The Lovelites is one of the most beautiful records I've ever heard, very plaintive and emotional - and as for Monique, I love her raw vocal performance, especially near the end when she sings the line "I love you baby - yes I do" and her voice actually cracks with the intensity of the performance. Apart from that, don't like soul music much

Great idea.

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