Ernie Andrews

Got your pm Penny Yes deal done regards Steve

I di interview him over lunch- Ill try to find my notes when I move house in a couple of moinths - Itll make interesting reading

Ian he just sounds like hees got his hand over his mouth when he speaks but obviously he hasnt! He was always interested in how much the originals of P&P or PAP labels were in UK. When I told him one on P&P (Florence ?) was about £100 or $200 in US he said halfway through lunch "stay here Ill be back in an hour".True to his word one hour later he turns up with lots of 12" he wanted me to buy to sell in Uk but nothing on P&P but asked me the name of any dealers I knew in UK! Marvellous experience for me watching him operate!

Sounds Like Rufus Lumley with the flu - Not bad though for a pop record with a danceable beat! Whreres my prize Marky boy Double or Nothing!

99% on here are top blokes because we are like minded! I dont want to talk about the 1% because they dont deserve the publicity! Dont give up Pete S. your praises are sang by many!

Yes Peter is a hustler isnt he Ian - Mind you it was great fun trying to understand what he says with that broad harlem accent. - never bothered asking him what he had in those plastic bags he was carrying around and trying to sell to the vinyl shops in manhatten.

Thought the Steve Flanagan was cheap as well- Credit squeeze is on!

send me a mailer with some stamps in it and an address label and you can have my cracked copy- It does play with the odd click but it plays right through. You might be able to do abteer repair job than me!

Id find the next bootleg ( e.g Elipses) of a big sound and play it - cos everyone would think Im going to play the gretest set of all time and then reality would kick in and I would play my modest originals! which are ten times better than a piece of £10 bootleg shite!

Sold one on ebay amonth ago for £18.00 and the guy was pretty happy to say the least. First copy I got came cracked- I was in tears as it was mint apart from the crack - tried taping it and it plays but clicks a few times. I asked on here about ayear ago if anyone knew it but had only one reply. Is this now in demand?

Well last 3 people on here selling it acording to the search engine says £25.00 for avg+ copy £40 twice for amint minus and £45.00 for amint minus So £20 is a bit off the mark -Marks

I see their First Choice theme 12" went for nearly £100 acouple of days ago Apparantly rare on 7inch

Start off with an absolute stomper - Earl Grant - Hide Nor hair Then play some disco shite and confuse them to death Only Joking ! But Earl Grant aint a bad one one if you are playing and oldies set

I assume the John E paul is the 2nd issue - If not Ill have it!

As far as I am aware the one on ebay did not sell(Issue Copy ) for $75 so that tells you what its really worth! I always thought it was a £30 £40 at most.

I probably would sell mine PM Me

tried ringing you Pete but kept ging to answer machine- I wanted the JCKIE DAY BUT OBVIOUSLY MISSSED IT oNLY EVER SEEN ANOTHER DEMO ABOUT 5 YEARS AGO RegardsSteve

2nd time of asking! Joe Johnson - can I change your mind Please!

Get some "Acoustic alchemy" on or Cds by the Rippingtons Easy on the ear

I am sorry but if a precedent is set then it will apply to all where the rights are owned. How do you distinguish between whats acceptable because it is 30 years old and whats not acceptable because it is 5 years old. It doesnt work like that . Where is the age cut off point? 10 years 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ,15 - I am sure you undertsand my point. I actually hope the Big companies fail It looks like legal minefield- Simple where the beatles or other 45s that have the big A on them and the writing eg Not for sale but what about the EMI ones that just had a sticker - How could they prove that was a promotional copy - If the sticker has been removed! Remeber alot of what we think are obsucre records are actually listed with these big companies as rights owned. Its going to be fun!

In the last couple of years there been 2 or 3 on ebay all gong for £20- £35 There was however a french vogue acetate that someone was selling for either £100 or $100 cannot remeber which but he didnt sell it first time round

sold my copy to Fraser Dunn a few months ago £80 cos it was played to death up here in Scotland

see the german one ended on German ebay for 7.5 euros

Its too fast to dance to - but brilliant to play a a soul night where there is no dance floor

I had aGerman one about 5 years ago - sold it for £20 same as the US value