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They say better later than ever eh ! Well after a long journey of misfortune only few days before the Verve record finally arrived at my place, my turntable tonearm wiring letted me down, then my amp (I thought first that it was the pre-amp but it wasn't) and again my turntable wiring a second time. It took me 2 months to correct, repair and clean my hybrid vintage'N'modern phono set-up. I'm am now capable to play and listen my records and digitalize them again. I've done a split/mix or a come & go mp3 recording of both sides (without adjusting the volume or nothing) so everything can be compare (volume, dynamic, mastering...). It starts for both sides with the better known Sylves mixes then the Verve one and off... porgy.mp3 Personally I love both sides for different reasons. Still, the cleaned-up mix of 'that's my girl' (man, that was necessary) on the Verve wins it by a mile. Where the '(that's) the boy and the girl' (credited as on the Verve and 'the girl and the boy' on Sylves) looses it all in comparaison of the Sylves "rougher & punchier" mix. So I'll finally keep them both for each particular sides.

Don't think it exists either. Even if the following number Chess 1904 by the Radiants 'voice your choice' came out as a W/D... and that should be the first Chess W/D I now understand.

Agreed, but 'under the street lamp' (the best IMHO) is by far the most common from the Gemini stalls (together with the Little Charles 'too much pride') and is the ONLY release from that label to have more than 2 label variations. Where the other releases only had 1 release from the same pressing plant and 3 only had a demo release.

Exits 'under the street lamp' has 4 label variations, 3 from the same pressing plant; 1 promo, 1 yellow and 1 green, plus another green from another pressing plant.

Debbie Fleming 'long gone' on Attic !

Got my demo some 20 years ago priced @ £25 from John Doe's list !

Agree at £250 max. Thanks for pointing that they used another take for the A-side for the commercial release. I love both sides ever since I acquire the promo and am glad to have it that way. Both cuts are real nice. I should believe that the stocker version would suit up most "sampler's sound" dudes, while I still prefer the slightly bit "rougher" take of 'long walk on a short pier'.

£50-£75 for a stocker and £75-£125 for a demo but I don't know what happened here;

I believe that there are 2 variants of boot. One uses the same "logo" and don't mention "DJ COPIES" like the real stocker. And then the one as the real-deal demo but without the address under the logo that is often "crossed out" on the origina as shown here belowl. This is the "old" boot This is the real-deal demo and the boot copying the real demo

Don't know about the Cotique but the Turbo 'fugitive...' is a later recording to the Blue Cat, so not just longer but other. Even though I love Linda Jones, I always found the Turbo version to be "mindless" in comparaison. All the drama that is on the Blue Cat recording is gone...

No way £100 ! Starting bid was £100... I'd say £25 or £40 to the max. It's a good and not great record and it's not that rare anyway nor in-demand I believe unless... Made a classic by Barbara Lewis on Atlantic BTW

£60-70 I'd say. That's what I sold mine for two years ago anyway.

It's either USA Motown or Canadian Tamla, never Gordy

3 different pressing plant for likely 5 label variations (promos & stockers) The West-Coast plant like the one above on styrene and it's stocker counter-part. Then the Speciality pressing plant like this one; of which I've only seen this white labels with "plug side" for 'the Gallop' side suggesting it's a "promo copy" only never stating that. Then the Pennsylvania plant like those

Off course play them home loud ! I was 7 years old when I was given (my guess is that it would have been thrown away otherwise) my first turntable, well it was a Teppaz pick-up (exactly like this) and a pile of then (1977) top tens crap 45's. Since that day I've always had to have a phono home and only upgraded through the decades my set-up and my record collection as well to fully enjoy the sound these babies can dish out on a properly thought from beginning to end hybrid build-up phono set-up ! With age, it get only worse when the sound at friend's or on a night out is just saturating from Hi's to Low's. The only way I know to give justice to your favorite music is to play it on it's most original and noble support; vinyl or styrene. Mp3's & Co. sound nowhere as good in real direct comparaison and can't never for the life of me give me a kick.

I thought it was to do with the 200 release (red and WDJ), though it's with the long intro, but maybe not on some red ones then.... and the 201 yellow release. But that is only a belief I have... I'll be glad to learn better since I don't have it myself and am after the short intro...

My bad, sorry ;

Not booted but re-issued as a look alike in a Syl Johnson double 45 "box-set" by the Numero Group team a little while ago... It was a re-issue of the Special Agent 201 release I think, the one with the longer-slow intro...

Just for your info on the vinyl press they added extra strings that do benefit (it can be outrageous sometimes) the 'B' side 'no no no' that the styrene press don't have. According to that you might prefer to purchase one press or the other. Never the cut on the first label Pandora which should be a first take though... No Youtube sound clip at all for that side !?

None of them are bootlegs. Just different pressing plants. It was a "common & cheap" record some 20 years back so it must have had some action originally. There's even a blue and black label press...

Cheers for that Roburt, but I have no FB and will never. Someone else might do that and contact him and see if anything there can be clarified ? The stampers "theory" with Sonny Daye is what I was implying. On the Bad Boy records discography I only know of 1001 (S, S & W) 1004 (Eko) 1005 (S, S & W) and 1006 (S, S & W) and the LP. What would be on Bad Boy 1002 & 1003 ?

Not true, it sounds the same (I test play both with ear witness to agree that the sound quality are the same) and I agree it has a "dodgy" look. Don't forget that these Bad Boys records are theirs and they just released them how and when they wanted. But unless they made a copy cat imprint of the original matrix, those shiny dark yellow press used the exact same matrix. So they where maybe made for low ride scene (meaning 8T's or later BUT WHEN EXACTLY ?) but likely through the "official" connexion.

Hi there, I understand that there are 3 pressings of their first single. The pale, matt label yellow label is first (1972 or what ?) here on the top right, and the later third pressing with a shiny yellow label as here on the top left. There's also another one on the matt pale label with Records - Los Angeles, Calif. but not italic and with different larger fonts like the following Bad Boys N° 1004 releases. This issue should be either second or third in line (see third and fourth scan bellow). Oddity is that they copied the top half of both matt & pale label and had to redo with new fonts the lower half of the label to repress it on the shiny darker label. They all uses the same matrix and sound alike even though they must have different ages. Does anyone knows better what date they are the trio of them ? with the same fonts as this 1978 one

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