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My gut feeling always has been that the dark blue label was first but is it ? Rarer although not necessary commanding a higher price tag yet it still puzzles me as I love this 45 and group for their sole two singles and one LP releases and wonder if anyone would have a story to tell behind those 2 different releases. Both pressings used the same vinyl stampers (matrix) and only have another label lay-out BUT the darker blue label pressing also doesn't bare the 'Mactoriana Publishing Co.' rights. Could this indicate that the band didn't bother with such registration at first until the buzz caught them with more and more air-play ? With the then growing public's demand they would have to repress the record and so went on to register in for safety their composition under their newly ready made publishing right company (likely owned by producer Lucy & Albert Williams) and the 'paler' blue pressing came out of the press to hit the market stalls. Anyone maybe knows better what is the full story about these two pressing variants ? Plus what year were these effectively released ? I see dates like 1974 given rather randomly here and there. To me this could have been earlier actually. At least it is to my guessing ability as I would have thought more like 1972 or about. Anyone ? To add water to the mill going by Chris Bartley's discography this would suit his timing in followed acts with his superb 'tomorrow keeps shining on me' (way overlooked IMHO) released on Musicor in May 1971 where his career went on almost uninterrupted from 1967 onward. Making 1972 plausible for him to join in the Ray Alexander Technique project... I now see that the 'Now Again Reserve Edition' USA vinyl and digital edition "re-issue" like of their original LP but with bonuses of different mixes (?) features a comprehensive and illustrated 'booklet' with seemingly quiet a lot of factual 'blurb' about it all. That might be of interest. Would anyone on here have purchased that 're-release' with that booklet ?

To agree and complement what a "good one" can be ; I've heard those USA "good (or better) ones" but they're still not good in my book as they sound "fuzzy" to the best and were played on "muffled" phono gear. Especially in direct comparison once you've heard a 'crystal clear' ones there's no turning back... To be clear on audio-phonic terms I'm of the "anti-muffled" playback rendition school that some call of the 'no pseudo scientific lab specs' addicts. LOL But yes some tonearms and turntables mostly (carts, amps and preamps too) can be over-damped to alter in such a way the cartridge signal up out of the speakers. The "muffled down" playback rendition is still favored by most as it's more comfy and/or compliant with the typical phono groove high frequencies distortions even to the cost of a less 'lively' and 'dynamic' playback experience mostly. But others like I have found to really favor the 'livelier' experience FWIW. Those less lush mastered sixties and seventies 7" single pressings than that of the 'higher end' market like LP's are eminently more prone to such HF distortions issues. On major labels too. And the Mercury group (Philips, Blue Rock...) sadly is well known for that with their troublesome styrene pressings.

FWIW I've had both the demo and the blue stocker on USA Philips copies in Minty conditions but never was I happy with the way they both played . Both had exactly the same kind of annoying hiss (Pffff) all along. Only not due from cue-burn but from the laquer cut I believe. That hiss-like distortion was most prominent in "charged" passages such as the intro and the second verse of the song where Bobby gets 'angry'. To my deep despair as I love and favor my USA pressings 99,99% of the time and my Philips collected bits are cute as it can be I believe. Still I remember playing them so many times before letting them go. And I still hear how they played with those distortions 30 years later after trialing VTF, VTA and anti-skating forces to no avail. Ending up keeping a Canadian copy without the issue. The UK Philips should be safe too I believe.

Real nice EX promotional copy with minimal mileage in the groove and scuffs with p-p pen scribble mark on the 'my hear cries' side label. An almost perfect collector's copy otherwise. FWIW inner groove distortions are inherent to every pressings out there no matter how Mint. These IGD's more prominent on the 'think twice' side indicate a studio engineer recording challenge and a mastering at the 'lathe' cut issue. Porgy Williams so soulful distinctive singular voice is bringing this 'northern' swinger of a tune into something so passively addictive if ever. Making it a classic 'sing-a-long' tune for it's fans and a mental 'humming' tune for the more skeptics. May those last ones flip the record over. Porgy and the Monarchs at their best for a Big Big Apple orchestration on a most dramatic Teddy Randazzo co-composition and arrangement. £250 NOW REDUCED Free Registered shipping all over the world Photoss and mp3 recording with needle drop and lift from both sides of actual copy for sale mp3 recorded loud for optimal presentation NO CHEATS ! porgy my heart cries.mp3

Care to post a picture of it maybe ? 🙃

Richard Hutter, 55, of Ringwood, Hampshire, sold thousands of fake vinyl albums A legal error meant he was spared a five-year jail term for money laundering Another classic case of 'class' issue justice different treatment. Jail not only as punishment (educative) but also to prevent the crime for that time being to re-occur (prevention). So in this very case the 'preventive' factor and the 'educative' one would have make sense. But "faith" (if ever) decided that he didn't deserve that. One has to know that in Law the argument of 'error' in procedure cancelling partially or totally in any Justice procedure is there in theory at least to ensure a fair trial 'at charges' but we know that too often it's there to avoid jail for less "common" people. Never forget that Law makers and law working people both know that. Just like Judges and Politicians salaries are intentionally significant (in it's essence philosophy - it's taught so at Law school) to deter them from corruption temptation. If one is naive it can make sense somehow but if you're not another lecture of that argument is totally fallacious and evidently serves another intention.

RYE LANE is a well put-up movie in every way with a true pleasant, funny and sensitive Londoner (without arrogance !) about a certain London. Fresh in many ways even if somehow easy-does-it. I give it a 4 out of 5. Recommended for the 'gentle souls'.

There's that at play too. True indeed. Introducing a growing 'split' of the customers in regard of geographic location due to Import Taxes enforcement. Meaning that some items will then only find takers on one side of the globe if ever they were more of them on the other side of it. Meaning less bid war. At least less than before. And indeed the Tax addition can prove a serious bite on the final price...

Yes and a new collection to start for those who have them all 🙄

Consider this too maybe ; a lot of those nice records since the upheaval of tintenet in every household then pockets allowed them "sharks" (called that amongst 'crate diggers') as opportunists only for the money that have invaded garage sales, junk shops, flee markets and records fairs alike to know what records to keep and have since gathered home those "valuable" records as some sort of investments. With what is a lasting down turn in economy (inflation, recession and bleak perspectives before a deflation) some are trying to cash-in on them before it gets worse maybe. But since so many gaps have been since filled-in amongst true music lovers, collectors and dee-jays of whatever pedigree sales are indeed reflecting that some too. The NS speculative 'bubble' burst could be just around the corner... The expectation from collector's collections passing away coming onto the market definitely tarn down the optimism of "share (records) holders" and speculators alike with such pessimist perspectives of values "crashing" down. Finally the scare policy lead by all western states and their elites to dominate civilisation by fear through 'Covid' and now with the war in Ukraine definitely changes the mood too.

My friend who find the copy told be so but you're right and so I was wrong to assume that it was. It is indeed more likely to be classified if ever into some 'latin jazz' category... Another friend specialist Doctoring in that field just confirmed me now like you implied over the phone. I bow in due respect to the almighty knowledgeable Russ LOMA ! Um-Gow-Wow!

Annette Snell sent me the shivers just with the music kicking in and then goose pimples with her voice on 'I think...' Truly wonderful. Typing this while the YT clip tune is still playing on first play. Soon purchase for sure. Thanks. Tim

Friend of mine find (more than 25p though for like £5 or about) who came up to me explaining his find with the 'something' side borrowing the 'am I the same girl' horn riffs... I had to lend my ear to that... OK only vaguely but I loved the whole brute almost nonchalant deconstructed instrumentation full of reverbs and the brittle sensitive singing rising on top of it... Was into Jamaican music before and this was reminiscent of such 'left field' sounds. Swapped it off him for few nice 45's. Both happy.

A known Cumbia tune that is sought after by collectors and dee-jays of the genre and likes. Not me though. Pushing up the demand on both ends.

Well to 'original' theme of Joe 90 is nothing on the soul side so was played as something "kitsch" (Wigan was that too) or 'tongue in cheek'. And is actually great in it's genre (with a proper collector's tag price for the original copy outside the NS things of it) but you don't hear it play at NS venues anymore I believe. But other crap yes. Hawaii 5-0 is not so funny IMO but still in the same idea of 'kitsch' play. Now Linda Lewis that is disaster incarnated. Outside the cover-up attempt to make it A new "secret sound." So dull to still attempt that with worthless sounds. More so today were mistakes due to bad fashion, drugs or misconception of 'what is soul' (as Ben E. King would sing) should never happen anymore. Respect to Barry Gray for the 'POP' of it and F**k Ron Grainer's version on Casino Classics.

FWIW I only know of a bootleg for the Surinamese market printed of the Enchanters 'we got love' as pictured here below as the most "exotic" Loma I've seen. Likely pressed at Inelco in Belgium. But have not seen a Jamaican Loma yet (these guys loved to borrow USA labels for one shot labels), nor Mexican or other countries who would release them if ever on Warner Brothers then.

There you go a Peruvian Lama LOL

That could very well be and it was also my thought at first but then got to think about what I named 'fans of the worse kind' like the ones out there for Elvis Presley that have to have it ALL at any cost$. This sort of 'fans' have no limits in what ever there is to have. And even if Bruce S. recording sessions are prolific at one time true hardcore dedicated splashing money for a Peruvian pressing must reach bottom. Finally not so 'red neck' as you might think. He's 'social' "conscious". Not 'left wing' but 'lefty' like in the Democrat party spectrum (Obama). His fans know because he doesn't keep his opinions to himself only. Like you I'm lead to believe that most of his public is R'n'R orientated but surely his fans (of the worse kind at least) will follow him anywhere he goes. But still the spectre of evil NS could also be at work here.

OK I was told that too, on Thursday when I heard the story, that he had his fans (like people of the worst kind) but here we only have UK sellers on both the eVilBay and Datcogs for this "given away" (some state 100 pressed-up copies others state 300) European pressing. That was won by some while purchasing the LP from the official Columbia site apparently (if I got the story right) and so all those high bidders would only be Springsteen fans bidding away on what is likely the most ugly rare record pressed of the Bruce Springsteen ? Because it is utterly an ugly artefact and not only a pathetic cover of a northern tune killed to death for too long. But if that's the case my apologies to those who'd have fallen into the category of 'northern soul' nutters that I'd have presume would be at fault for bidding on it.

No collectors nor from Holland. It's a dreadful yet common practice amongst some dee-jay's "sub-culture" (FWIW that 'C' word has become perverted so much by trendy politically lefties and philosophically liberals alike to sanctify modern dogmas it's hard nowadays to use the term for it's original or anthropological meaning... That here I tried to use in the proper sense as 'sub') that some are used to encounter like with Jamaican pressings and in this case of yours like for those records that came into the hands of Surinamese (a "tribal" scene on it's own) dee-jays. Hence the Holland connection...

Sorry to come up again with this scam/pollution/crap over debated topic so out of what some of us truly do not care for as far as music, scene/tribe or sub-culture phenomenon is concerned but I was told this last Thursday evening at a small do with friends as a laughable subject evidently and yet I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Came back to my mind just now and went on to Popsike it and got gobsmacked realizing it was true (sic.) Not once nor twice but many a time. To laugh or to cry about. This is only a screen capture capable to take what my screen allows to see but scroll it down and there's more of it with auction prices decreasing some... But still 'out of this world' IMO !

Real nice EX promotional copy with minimal mileage in the groove and scuffs with p-p pen scribble mark on the 'my hear cries' side label. An almost perfect collector's copy otherwise. FWIW inner groove distortions are inherent to every pressings out there no matter how Mint. These IGD's more prominent on the 'think twice' side indicate a studio engineer recording challenge and a mastering at the 'lathe' cut issue. Porgy Williams so soulful distinctive singular voice is bringing this 'northern' swinger of a tune into something so passively addictive if ever. Making it a classic 'sing-a-long' tune for it's fans and a mental 'humming' tune for the more skeptics. May those last ones flip the record over. Porgy and the Monarchs at their best for a Big Big Apple orchestration on a most dramatic Teddy Randazzo co-composition and arrangement. £300 Free Registered shipping all over the world Scans and mp3 recording with needle drop and lift from both sides of actual copy for sale Scans seem critical on labels that to in real the eyes looks much better but for a faint yellowing of the white paper all for a better look at the groove mp3 recorded loud for optimal presentation NO CHEATS ! porgy my heart cries-2.mp3

OK Dave I did not realized that this was such an "old" post... And changes has been made since. But OK I get it now. And I also read about your non machined stamp likely original white label copies. Did they have the same printed labels or could they have been from another pressing plant ? Open source datcogs ? Not anymore. I've even stop submitting corrections and additions on datcogs (and I've heard other's similar misadventures) as the last ones had to go through some sort of committee of the "wise" but my submissions didn't get a majority vote and so was letted down. Full of **** working organization that is datcogs nowadays. I mean even more so through the 'C-word' lockdown where they benefited from the online consumerist consumption and made more even changes to become evil as the Bay. I now participate much more willingly to 45cat.com. Cheers, Tim

No it states ; Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Promo, Reissue, Unofficial Release

Any progress in the quest as to 'who' is J. P. ? Am asking as I finally manage to get me a copy in order to play 'a big mistake' home and occasionally out when I dee-jay for the soulful ears in the room if ever...