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Impressive ! Or depressive... hope you find your ways to get around it at times.

I first bought the LP 'arriving' some 25 years ago. Always liked it since day 1. It must have had some sales in 1978 but indeed, the US album was floating around a lot as NOS/cut out. We can guess that Motown expected bigger things for these materials at one time. But it just didn't made it somehow. One can understand that it didn't appeal to the Disco Queens, neither to the trad Motown fans, nor to the Northern kids in the UK since it didn't sound either Motown specifically, nor funk'n'disco nor even stomping... The "art sleeve" makes you wanna go 'hmmmm!'. So they put an old artist back in the studio who was used to resing his old materials until that day for British kids, with an unusual production team/work for Motown, in a sleeve that doesn't say what it is one bit with just the arty-flashy colors that where the order of the day. Only the very curious and open minded would pass over all of that. That is how I understand it at least.

Mine does sound indeed particularly bad ! Now, my pick-up (cartridge and needle is one and the same) is a mono reader. And on my amp I can't play with the trebles , mids and basses. So I get what I get. I can't and don't want to change that yet. On this peculiar 45, my system seems to bring all the default of the pressing out instead of "hiding" them. I don't remember it playing so bad on my previous system. That's why I brought up this topic quest. Cheers to all.

The much rarer red stocker in perfect shape ! Mint- but after few spins downgrade to an Ex+... Scans and soundclip of both sides from actual record for sale. johnny greenwood.mp3 PM me for details. Gradings used are M/Ex/Vg... through +/- £25 free P&P all over the world - add £6 to have it registered

I think to remember £100 as well !

jean carter.mp3 This is a full one take direct good quality recording on my descent home turntable and amp and it sounds like this out of my good speakers as well. As everyone one here said I believe. I'd be very curious to hear both your sides as well. Can we have such a graceful opportunity ?

OK, I now have them both; the Wee3 and the Wheelsville 45's under the hand. Matrixes are a perfect match, play wise and recoded with Audacity shows no difference in sound nor in view meters graphics/specters.

Yours is the REAL deal. A West Coast styrene press. Should sell easy.

Valdez in the country - Donny Hathaway let's give each other love - the Shirelles more power to you - Don Varner with these eyes - the Fabulous Peps I'm not your regular woman - Lucille Mathis I dream of you - Motor City Sound the man that said no - Bettye Swann one day (you're gonna come my way) - Johnny Adams the chaperone - LaBrenda Ben and the Beljeans hey boy (take a chance on love) - Ruby Andrews it was true - Big Don's Rebellion I'm gonna win him back - the Chantels

link here for a little story around it:

The picture cover is beautiful but the songs are "late" Contours materials which doesn't make it the most wanted amongst the Dutch/Artone collectors. It's not so common Artone single, but I once had a copy and it was not an easy one to sell on. I'd say £25 for a very clean copy these days...

Yes Chris, same here. When the seller agrees to declare lower values that is. But at times it's only not possible to avoid to be stabbed with taxes and fees.

Consider yourself "lucky", in Belgium it's for anything declared or purchased over €22 (15£) !!!

None have money worth as such

RIP Ernestine Dark and dramatic, here's my favorite of hers;

RIP Ernestine Dark and dramatic, here's my favorite of hers;

The recording was not the problem. It came out on the Kent compilation 'floor shakers' and it sounds just perfect from the tapes (recording). It's a master-plate pressing issue with the USA 45. My quest was to understand if some original USA 45's didn't suffer the same fate as it's sometimes the case when another pressing plant is doing it's own masters...

I couldn't say (me born 1970 !!!) but there are other example of major USA labels with misfortune of faulty pressing runs (in such or such pressing plant) or sometimes it's the whole pressing run that is faulty. Like Bobby Hebb 'you want to change me' on USA Philips where both promos and issues have a master-plate issue (PFFFF sound all the way through) while the non USA presses don't ! Could the DJ's have then play the MCA issue (dunno when was that issued) ?

OK, I've browsed through the two previous topics (2006-2008) on the very same subject thanks the links provided by 'macca'. I believe we can now forget about finding a proper copy since they all (stockers and promos) seem to suffer the same fate from a bad/faulty master-plate issue at the pressing plant. I'd have wish for a bad run of pressings instead but it doesn't seem to be the case...

I've dug out my minty pink promo copy of Jean Carter 'like one' on USA Decca and the sound is rather distorted. Like muffled and trebled. And even the flip side 'that boy ain't no good' suffers the same fate. It looks like a real clean Ex++ copy. It sounds like it could be covered with a veil of "grease" like some NOS stored in warehouses get through the years, but it's not the case. Anyone out there has the same ? Or not the same !

Never heard of it being bootlegged. And indeed I've seen a few advertised on the e-VilBay being double sided... promos they were. So likely they were just mislabeled as. As yours is.

Both were new old stock when first bought some 20 years ago. Now they still look as they sound; GREAT ! Overall both nice Ex Scans and sound clip from actual record for sale jerry kane.mp3 PM me for details. Gradings used are M/Ex/Vg... through +/- £20 free P&P all over the world - add £6 to have it registered ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ !!! SOLD !!! Scans and sound clip of both sides from actual record for sale jonn el.mp3 PM me for details. Gradings used are M/Ex/Vg... through +/- £20 free P&P all over the world - add £6 to have it registered

Same here since ever... and with that video even more a second time around;

Johnny's finest double sider IMHO. And by saying that I'm a real amateur of his singing talent ! This copy is in overall Ex- condition due a slight warp, some light wear to the vinyl and label. Still in great shape by the looks and sounds. Mind you the noises on the 'it's all over side' side are due to the pressing and they're all like that. See and hear; Scans and sound clip of both sides from actual record for sale. johnny moore.mp3 PM me for details. Gradings used are M/Ex/Vg... through +/- £65 free P&P all over the world - add £6 to have it registered

That was my gut feeling. I don't have the Wee3 anymore and I just got in the beautiful Wheelsville copy and I had that impression that the Wee3 was indeed full of bass and deeper in the sound spectrum somehow in comparaison... from memory that is. Cheers 4 that.