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Pressing plants: east-coast vinyl (box) and west-coast styrene (no box)

Mmh, never liked Cajun Hart. I understand it's northern but I never could find the soul in it. I do find the musical arrangements rather good and uplifting in 'gotta find a way' but it's still a pop record. Now the C/U above IMHO sounds like a left field moddie/hippie garage thingy to me. Not northern nor soul. No offense !

May I ask why on Trom ? Is it a mix trix or just a Canadian label fix thing ? The 'party' side is credited 40 seconds shorter... What about 'sing along' side ?

Hmm... well before my first listening, the friend who presented me the records talked about "Mayfield" feels like and an intro "à la" Barbara Acklin 'am I the same girl'... But once the record on my deck, I didn't found what he found there. Anyway, to my ears it sounded rather unique. I had to have few plays to even get accustomed to the sound which to this day still reminds me a lot of the '72 and '73 Duke Reid's productions. For the rest, I still sounds like nothing else in particular to me. That doesn't help, does it ?

A version by him also sung in Spanish...

Didn't know about the Musicor, but had the Josie then the Soulville. The take is the same but the mixes are different. It's punchier with the 2 time beat hit on the tambourine and rawer with the vocals further on the front on the Soulville than on the Josie which I like less in the end.

When I first discovered that edition 2 years ago, I started a quest thread in the LAYB forum. As I wasn't sure to understand the story behind it. It looked to be a first, local issue before to common Bell distributed copies. And digging on the net and taking into account the answers I got on here, I got to understand that this very edition destiny was something of an "all or nothing" deal for Al Greene. The story would go that this 45 came out of the pressing plant around March 1967 (if I remember correctly). It was a one shot round of ONLY 500 copies. They were distributed by themselves and promoted to radios but with little or no success. Anyway that unsuccessful venture at first quickly putted-off Al Greene who was starting to forgetting a career in the music business. With the month passing by, Curtis Rodgers kept on pushing the record to bigger radio stations and a story even goes that he used to pay people on the street next to a phone booth to call the local radios and request 'back up train'... And so more and more frequent air-play caught the ears of some people at Bell record by September 1967 to do some business together and SMASH it was an instant HIT ! In the States and abroad. So in my eyes this is an exclusive "corner stone" piece of history and what a double sider it is ! Small tear on 'A' side and sticker marks residue. Vinyl is Vg++ copy that plays strong as it looks. Sound clip of both sides with needle drop & lift AND scans from actual record for sale. al greene.mp3 PM me for details. Gradings used are M/Ex/Vg... through +/- £40 (or best offer) free P&P all over the world - add £6 to have it registered

They were pressed at the same pressing plant for sure. Also using the same press masters then. But which one was first ? And why L. ALLEN became Larry ALLEN and not Leonard as his real name apparently was ?

my L. ALLEN reads G&C - 115 - B and G&C - 115 - A PARADISE

SORTED ! I'm looking for the USA MGM promotional copy ONLY in super clean condition ! Please PM me if you have one for sale. Cheers, Tim

Not in my book really, even PoopSh*te shows 7 to 10 in evilBay history... only a tad rarer and not much different to my eyes.

That's it; to me it sounds like a vanity record. It's so kitch, unperfected (the budget did the time-out = no more takes) and so full of it; it's northern soul in the making. I loved it since the first moment I discovered and bought it ! It's kind of an "out" sound by todays "taste" or trend, I love it even more. I always nod and agreed as understood those who could never stand the song though.

What is ?

The Daren (misspelt) one is slightly rarer but not by far is it ? For a not so rare record anyway !

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...