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It is a bootleg;

A lot are more 'northern' than 'soul', I agree, but a lot also have soul in them. It still is my HQ in music. Just like in return a lot of said (real) 'soul' music are more 'esthetic' (plastic) than soulful I find. Depends what you call SOUL music I'd say. The one you like, the one you don't and the NOT SOUL MUSIC DEFO. True, not that everything and anything is soul, but there is soul and there is soul... Barnaby might have been a 'wannabe' of some sort (judging by the effort he puts in there) to be soulful or something like that, yet still... it's bad enough... agreed.

Don't worry. Crap tune indeed, so just don't mind it...

and if ever you're into the "deep" soul/harmonies kind of things, don't forget to try the flip side for a double winner; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekMONYDWzX4

cute !!!! and no demo for C.L. Blast on United though but a yellow label and dark blue variation...

That Dee Clark is indeed a fabulous "big city sound" kind of "sleeper" at a right price !

OK, not 'stranger' at my door' but 'don't knock me'. Half right Cheers

Well, I never seen nor heard of a Fuller Brothers on a US Bell 45 !

Never seen that ! Are you sure ? Bell from what country ?

It's played on the Northern Soul scene since the called "New Breed R'n'B" wave dropped-in. So not long ago. It does looks absolutely legitimate and was rather made to meet an USA market. I had something like that in my head. Thought maybe another "shagg" sound... but thought someone would know better.

While deejaying last night, my fellow pulled out this 7T's or 8T's issue that I've never seen before; . The record was a "hit" somehow in different places in the USA as the 1962 issue is not rare and was pressed in at least 3 different pressing plants; Would anyone know the story behind this specific reissue (who, why, when...) ?

Likewise, I have a gut feeling that this is not a pressing made for the NS scene. It could be a second release made by them, for them in them days. The distribution/address release might have been a deal that felt through quickly. And so, backed by popular demand re-pressed without the Chess distributed address (who were maybe not promoting it as it should/could be). This disc as such (with and/or without address) is not that rare and was a "local" hit for sure and so we could imagine different rounds of release in a short period while the air-play was still going strong. The Pressing plant for this Johnny Sayles is the same though bothe with and without the address. The "purple" one is a West Coast release on the other hand. Check this one for instance (under the black mark you can read distributed by Bell, Amy, Mala group !!!) ...then... Both are originals but from different pressing plant. And here, the distribution deal felt through after the record was pressed but just before the distribution !

Zample it is !

Same here Chris, I've always knew about it and got my ways around or with it. My point here is not so much on how to get around it and so on, but rather to see how come the EU have no commercial frontiers anymore (so it's open for commercial competition) but when it comes to imports from outside the EU, the taxes do vary and are applied differently between EU countries. I'm not talking about vintage records only. It is for everything that have a commercial value, new or second hand. I just had a bad adventure recently with a Japanese seller (Hi-Fi part made in Japan) who had the stupidest idea the put a slip of the eBay sale of the item in the box mailer (for courtesy the seller said !) while we worked hard in every way to testify to the custom a lower value. So I got f***ked big time. At first I did not understand how the Belgian Custom got around to know the value. The slip inside did that. I needed that part urgently and had to pay in the end and the bad mystery was solved when I opened the mailer that had been open at Custom ! So I had to work out with the custom once again (it's been a long time now). And so, I had to re-discover that, like you say they are like the DVS but worst. The DVS show you how they calculated your tax bill before you have to pay. The Belgium Custom not ! You have to pay and then you can see how they calculated your bill ! I had and still have the gut feeling that the Belgian customs in Belgium is the most peculiar custom administration service in the EU. They work like the mafia. The way they apply the thing is in practice a hi-jack. First you pay then you can see what was destined and actually already belongs to you. And if you're not satisfied with their tax fare and/or calculation or the actual good description (send back for a full refund) you can't get the tax bill refund (even if they recognize the over charge). Once an American dealer, after asking to lower the value which he vigorously agree to do so, gave me a great "little back bite" point of view on how the Americans decided to stop to pay the Dime to the Crown... Before their independence...

TUUUUNES ! What about the music ? I mean crate digging, soundZ and stuffs. Not the whoZ; the what ! The passion, not the fashion ! The "thing" that gathered people, not just another social event...

Totally stick to your points on facts and "have been there" in the "situation". So I relate, understand and agree with you. Cheers for sharing that.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Cloudfunk/timmy-soul-presents-what-a-wonderful-night-for-king-love/ Bobby Patterson – what a wonderful night for love the Moovers – one little dance the Spinners – bad, bad weather (till you come home) Eartha Kitt - there comes a time Barbara Middleton – come on back to me the Freeman Brothers – I’m counting on you Rare Pleasure – let me down easy Solaris – you and me Love Committee – am I wasting time George Perkins – keep on trying

Fantastic legit* !!! Clean plastic !!! Rare records me easily available !!! Underground going mainstream !!! Isn't all that what we came here for ? * legit or somehow or something and the artists are finally earning peanuts out of it...

I do that from time to time for the "important" pieces in my eyes. Still I can't bother too much those nice people to run to the post office all the time because of my vinyl addictions.

Yes, that was exactly my point with one American seller. He replied that he still did sell as much as ever to the UK and Europe... I thought that maybe he was being a bit obnoxious. I've heard many people saying, just like you, that they do not to bother anymore to buy those little tag priced unrare records from the USA... and this seller e-shop is mainly that ?!

Ah ! the good ol' Benelux economic trade connection. And it's fromage BTW.

OK, cheers for that. Does that affect the way you buy from the USA ? Was it always like that in the UK ? In Belgium it was but not as dear I vaguely remember, but it was easy to get around it. Not anymore actually. In Belgium it's a bit dearer than in the UK; they add an "importation duty" and the stamps to the paid for value to do the VAT which will be 21%. So if the record was $25 and the P&P $12 they will add 3% (importation duty for items above 150 € normally...) to $37 to make it $38 so tax at 21% will cost $8 (=7€) + 12€ "handling fee" (30 € if value is 150 €+) that makes 19 € to receive the record that the guy sold to you for 22.50 € ! Can anyone beat that ?

When I buy a record, in my stubborn mind, I add the stamps in the "face value" of the record(s) that came in that specific mailer. I know that I'm not the only one doing that. Even though I know that not everybody does that at the same time. I never was rich and I always compare prices even when I shop groceries. So that's how I am and do. Some years ago, USPS doubled up their mail fares for exports. That was a harsh bit that forced a lot of us; "the small wallets", to try as hard as possible to save on combined shipping costs when we are still trying to get good & unrare records (no, we're not a secret sect with weird rituals and sounds). If no stack of records worthy of such a deal could be add-up, we just had to drop the deal and forget about buying there. Why pay a $5 record (that is worth £8) and then $12 to have it shipped ? I do know a lot of people who drastically slowed down their record shopping habits because of that. Based in Belgium, I'm now having a hard time rounding up deals without the Belgian TAX hi-jack latest "regulations". Any "declared value" import (outside EU) good over 22€, is automatically submitted to custom fees (tax, import duty, administrative charges...) that always sum up between 30% up to 50% of it's paid-for "value". It all depends on the value of the said item and it's shipping costs. Yes, shipping costs are included in the value and so also subject to the taxes calculation ! It's the bust deterrent I've encounter to buy even 3 cheap $10 worth 45s outside the EU. This is where my little query comes in: Is the UK, Germany, France... custom policy as harsh, crazy and expensive as that ? Or is it just Belgium's ?