Posts posted by Godzilla
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Six months is nothing. Keep looking. I need to upgrade a record I have that I can't discuss because it is clearly too obscure. Only copy I have ever heard of is my own. And it's too cool to keep to myself so I really need to find a better copy so I can talk about it. Been looking for a couple of years now...
You're right, six months is not long. To be precise though, I've wanted it a while longer but only got round to making it a saved search when it became obvious that I wasn't going bump into casually. By the time I registered the search I'd missed two on ebay - even though there hadn't been any for a couple of years before. They went cheaply too. Entirely my fault of course.
Good luck with your search Lars
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if you have that record you had best pack all your belongings and leave the country..
moldie
Can't argue with that Mouldie. Actually I don't mind it - probably because it was the first version I heard back in 1984.
Apparently they wrote it too according the credits - despite Jack Hammer's being about 16 years earlier...
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you can send me a PM if you want
6 months without a copy on ebay isn't all that long in the scheme of things....... one will turn up just make sure you don't try and get it too cheap with a low bid. If you realy want it then bid accordingly.
Nice try Dylan. And you Mr Tag
Pretty much the advice I expected, so thanks. Thing is though, despite the lack of discussion it's not THAT obscure. I'll definitely bid over double what it's previously sold for though. Six months is too long when you get the bug - as you all know all to well.
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ok here's my dilemma:
There's a 45 that i desperately want. Copies turn up now and again and they don't go for an awful lot of cash. So far, so normal. The problem is that the record is hardly, if ever, mentioned on this or other forums. I've also had it saved in my ebay searches for over six months now but not a sniff.
The problem is that I can only assume that the reason it's not discussed is that it's not at all well known. I'm sure that if more people were aware loads of people would be raving about it and it would be in the wants and play lists of many others.
So: If I post a want, people on here will research, listen and - I'm confident - the demand would zoom. My other alternative is to just be patient and wait. But I just NEED it.
Actually I think I've just answered my own question and I have to keep it to myself for now. Thanks for sharing my anguish though
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YOUR PRICES SUCK!
GREAT PRICES!
there you go.
Exactly what I had mind Bob.
Seriously though I don''t mind if someone says a record is overpriced. I don't spend all my free time reading guides or checking fluctuations on eBay, although I try to do a bit of research and I sometimes rely on my shaky memory.
If someone states that a certain 45 is overpriced It might tip me off to the fact that I've overvalued it and I could adjust the price. On the other hand I'm not obliged to sell cheaper if I don't want to and retain the power to say 'get lost' ...
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Shipping for up to 2 x 45s: £1.00 1st Class / £1.80 Recorded Delivery in the UK. £2.00 overseas + insurance if required.
Combined shipping available if you buy more than one record
PAYPAL preferred but cheques ok by arrangement. All prices are GB Pounds.
More scans, B-Sides etc / longer clips available. Questions etc are as always welcome by PM or email to:
mistergodzilla@yahoo.com
Grading
VG/VG+/VG++/NM
I've tried to grade strictly and a VG+ record will play really well but might have some surface marks. NM is as good as it gets and even unplayed old store stock gets this grade.
I've noted any particular defects and will accept returns on any items where the buyer is not completely satisfied.
Denny Belline - Outside The City - RCA Promo 8 5
Name on flip. Vinyl VG++
Old Northern spin - Alternative version to Willows on MGM
Maxine Brown - 4 track EP Inc "See And Don't See" - Commonwealth United Records Promo - HOLD
Graded VG- as there are audible scratches.
Still very playable, however and a rare record that seldom comes up for sale. Four track promo for her CUR LP and the only way to get this incredible version of the Marie Queenie Lyons classic on 7 inch.
Ann Cole - Brand New House - Sir promo 25 15
VG + great copy Pluggers stamp on label
Well they've booted / repressed a couple of her decent Baton sides so best stay ahead of the gane with this nice Sir promo
The Collection and the Civics - I'll Be There - Soul Train SOLD
VG Some marks and wear but plays very nicely for this grade - check the soundclip
Excellent Baltimore dancer - has had plays on and off but never quite made it big yet - maybe because it's not quite well known enough? For now anyway...
Roger K - Give me The Love (I'm Needing) - Birth 10 8
VG+ with a little ring wear on label
Slightly psychy Blue Eyed Soul written by Pam Sayer and Loris Burton, the Composers of, among other things Slow Fizz for the Sapphires
Music Track - Times Gone By - International Artists promo SOLD
VG+ Some surface marks but still nice and shiny. 2 Xs on flip label
This was played covered up as The Yvonne Baker Band - "Don't Say A Word" and does sound quite like an instrumental version of her tune
The Present - Many's the Slip Twixt The Cup and the Lip (or Baby the World Really Turns) SOLD
Stickers on both sides that you might get off with lighter fluid or similar. Playing surface is NM though as the clip reflects
More Blue Eyed Psych / Garage and a record of which a mate of mine said "How the hell is that Northern Soul?" Play it at an oldies might and watch the dancefloor go crazy for an answer
Otis Redding - Tuff Enough / She's Alright - Evolution UK 30 24
VG++ would be NM but for a couple tiny marks visible under a lamp
Not your standard Otis but a great New Breed R&B double sider. Unusual and nice looking on the UK label. Clip has a bit of both sides.
Bird Rollins - (I'm Gonna Try To Be) Real True To You - Disco Record Co Inc SOLD
VG+
Vocal and inst versions of a nice funky soul dancer
Santio's Premiers and Nat Miller - She's Still My Baby / Dogging The Twine - Candi 45 37
VG ++ due to very light surface marks but really glossy and plays like new
From the Delaware label the brought us the Empires: doo wop flavoured group soul with a first rate Tittyshaker on the flip. Double value!
Santios Premiers A.mp3 Santios Premiers B.mp3
Weldon Irvine - Jungle Juice / Yasmin - RCA 35 28
VG Jungle Juice plays great. B side is a bit noisy...
but it's the A side that's the winner though - a jazzy, moog powered funk monster with bits of feedback - like a tougher 'Expansions'
Timi Yuro - Can't Stop Running Away - Mercury UK 20 17
Vinyl looks NM but graded VG+ as there are a couple of minor pops at the start. Maybe they would clean out?
Written and arranged by Teddy Randazzo and as you would expect it builds and builds and there's a killer chorus. Tasty UK issue too.
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Shipping for up to 2 x 45s: £1.00 1st Class / £1.80 Recorded Delivery in the UK. £2.00 overseas + insurance if required.
Combined shipping available if you buy more than one record
PAYPAL preferred but cheques ok by arrangement. All prices are GB Pounds.
More scans, B-Sides etc / longer clips available. Questions etc are as always welcome by PM or email to:
mistergodzilla@yahoo.com
Grading
VG/VG+/VG++/NM
I've tried to grade strictly and a VG+ record will play really well but might have some surface marks. NM is as good as it gets and even unplayed old store stock gets this grade.
I've noted any particular defects and will accept returns on any items where the buyer is not completely satisfied.
SLIGHT UPLOAD PROBLEM - All scans, clips details in next post
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that's what i thought ... i did wonder with the post about the 'blue' copy
Think Prophonics means like this:
Just a random silver blue verve.
Out of interest any know what the score is with different colours? I've had some on both black and blue. Tommy Yates and Imperial Show Band - "Darling, Something's Gotta Give" comes to mind .
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I'm afraid your E Rodney Jones is the bootleg not the reissue, the original has the Logo in black lettering. If there is an original with brown lettering, John Manship thinks there is, I don't, but the wording R & B Time should be in larger letters than the artist credit like it is on the black logo one and the white DJ.
Am I being a bit thick here? (don't all shout at once...)
My copy looks the same as this one from popsike and I can't tell any difference in the lettering size between this and the black logo one.
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I smell a Johnny Watson...
I'm fairly sure both sides were available on best of billy Harner Cd so the tracks are certainly available. I also recall that someone was selling a load of V Tone original label blanks around five years ago or so ago. Not that those facts are necessarily related. Makes you think though, eh?.
Naturally I just bought one of course
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Thanks again everyone. If you didn't join in I'd just be ranting on my own - although Mrs G says nobody would ever notice the difference. A bit like "the counting man" in Scarborough who walks though the town centre shouting "One! Two! Three! Four!"...
.. I digress...
Like I said, next time I'll not drop clues that are not quite so obvious but I'll avoid the really obscure artists.
In fact it'll be Dana Valery.
oh bugger
Goodnight.
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Ok - sorry peeps. Got to wrap this one.
The Cordells
Originally (and now - sort of) Johnny Angel and the Halos LINK
On Steel Town Sound Inc records Discography link
Not the Philly Cordells who were a black R&B group.
Massive, massive thanks for sticking with this and being good sports everyone.
Another one in about a month if you fancy?
Cheers
Paul (Godz)
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Great Big Daft Record Dilemma
in Look At Your Box
Three guesses then Dave?