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  1. BILL COSBY-LITTLE OLE MAN- WB (cut me teeth on this) ...what condition is it in then
  2. Rbman posted a post in a topic in Look At Your Box
    What time in the night was that and was it a soul night or a wake?
  3. Rbman posted a post in a topic in Look At Your Box
    If I remember Chalky played it as his first record when he was a guest DJ at Hitchin late last summer.... great dancer IMO...the record....
  4. Rbman posted a post in a topic in All About the SOUL
    Likewise Mikey......
  5. Rbman posted a post in a topic in Look At Your Box
    6799 refosoul Sippin' Sorrow......Pearl Woods...B side to Right Now
  6. Rbman posted a post in a topic in Look At Your Box
    3659 refosoul I'm The Man..... The Dynamics...B side to Misery
  7. Rbman posted a post in a topic in Look At Your Box
    Sorry, should have said all that info comes from Roger Stewart's Boogaloo Records site.... www.boo-ga-loo.demon.co.uk
  8. Rbman posted a post in a topic in Look At Your Box
    Styrene (properly, Polystyrene) Hard, relatively inflexible plastic used to press records, mainly 7-inch singles, mainly using the injection moulding process. The material is heated to a liquid form and is then squirted or injected into the closed stampers in the press. This requires that the labels be either glued or painted on after the record leaves the press. The cost saving to the manufacturer comes from the extended life of the stampers because of the lack of a heating cycle to the stampers. The material can also be reused without noticeable change to its moulding properties. Styrene records will therefore usually have very quiet surfaces when found in an unplayed mint condition, but unfortunately they will wear to a noisy condition rapidly, especially if played with a bad stylus or an improperly tracking tone arm. They also are more prone to cue burn. The Columbia Records Pittman, New Jersey pressing plant was once the major source of injection moulded styrene pressings, and pressings from this plant are found on many small labels. Look for the glued-on labels. Painted-on labels can be found on records from the Amy / Bell / Mala group. Vinyl (properly Polyvinyl Chloride). Relatively flexible material used since the early 1930s to make non-breakable records. Its fumes are an acknowledged carcinogen. Usually pressed by compression moulding, which allows the label to be an integral part of the pressing itself. This process also requires that there be extra material, which spills out the sides of the press, therefore this extra material is routinely ground up and re-used. Because vinyl does not re-heat and re-cool to a smooth, glossy surface, the excessive use of "re-grind" mixed in with virgin vinyl can account for the inherently noisy surface of even unplayed mint examples of the cheap pressings that some record companies used. Noise can be seen and heard by looking at and/or playing the un-grooved surface of the lead-in and lead-out areas. If this area looks or sounds grainy, then the grooves will also have some of this grainy background sound. The stampers used for the compression moulding process will start to break down after only 1,000 pressings because they are forced to expand and contract when heated by steam at the start of the pressing cycle and then cooled to solidify the record. Some companies routinely overused their stampers for their pop record series. Dynaflex. Ultra-thin pressings of high-grade virgin vinyl introduced by RCA Victor in late 1969. Although considered crap by most collectors because they do not seem flat when held, they actually have much quieter surfaces then most of the popular records pressed by RCA in the mid-to-late-1960s due to the extraordinarily high percentage of re-grind vinyl used in all but its Red Seal, Vintage Series, and Original Cast pressings. Dynaflex was also less prone to breakage and permanent warpage in shipment. Its lighter weight reduced shipping costs and allowed for the use of a higher grade of vinyl because less material was required. They were supposed to lie flat on the turntable due to their own weight, but RCA forgot that many people had changers with 8-inch turntables! Dynagroove. Record cutting system introduced by RCA Victor in 1962 that supposedly reduced tracking distortion by computer controlling cutting characteristics to overcome the imagined faults of playback equipment. Considered a disaster by everyone except the New York Times writer Hans Fantel who wrote the blurb inserted in all of the early pressings, it brought the golden age of RCA Victor Living Stereo to a screeching halt. Because there is a possibility that this system was used on later re-mastering of the early Living Stereo records, collectors try to obtain only early pressings of these masterpieces--usually called "Shaded Dogs." The words "Stereo-Orthophonic" are on the record label and sometimes the cover of the "good" Living Stereo albums. Acetate/Lacquer Is usually a reference cut that is made on ultra high-grade methylcellulose sprayed onto thick aluminum discs. Reference acetates are primarily to make certain the record will sound somewhat like the tape. Often they are also made to allow a club or radio disc jockey to play the music on turntables before it has been pressed as a normal record. Acetate is a misnomer. It is actually a Lacquer.
  9. Rbman posted a post in a topic in Look At Your Box
    Running Back and Forth spings to mind......but no chance of uploading from work
  10. and there is no sound fie in refosoul....Am I odd?
  11. Rbman commented on a comment on a gallery image in Albums 2007
  12. Can you get Johnny to dig some holes in the dance floor and erect some posts over it and get the sound system to to distort from time to time so we all feel at home ...... One door closes and another opens Ady......
  13. October 1975......in the line outside the Casino for my first time and Jon Buck says "you lucky bastard, Major Lance is on live tonight".... my reply "Who the fcuk is he"
  14. Rbman posted a post in a topic in Look At Your Box
    ...on Blue Thumb....sound file anyone and price guide... Ta M
  15. I awlays liked the one someone used on here.... "Sex, Drugs and Northern Soul"
  16. Rbman posted a post in a topic in All About the SOUL
    Shouldn't this be in freebasing room....this section is called " All About Soul".....
  17. Rbman posted a post in a topic in Look At Your Box
    wonderful record and seen it £40 recently....mine cost be £70 a few years back
  18. "Two Is A Couple" fits that bill.....maybe
  19. Rbman posted a post in a topic in Look At Your Box
    Cookie Jackson....Do You Still Love Me.... Irma Thomas...Don't Mess With My Man Ike & Tina...Dust My Broom Vernon & Jewel....That's A Rocking Good Way. Dusty Wilson....Can't Do Without You and loads more............................
  20. Rbman posted a post in a topic in Record Sales
    Hard to beat Ruth's, eh Kev......
  21. I hear what you mean Richard.....thanks
  22. I have seen this for sale on Atlantic and Fame.....info and prices please

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