Chalky

and they pay no tax on promos

When you think of the size of the country and the amount of radio stations, Djs, pluggers etc, 20.000 would soon be gone.

Not sure about the 600 unreleased in the vaults notion, probably many more than that

Another over inflated price, plenty of copies for sale in recent times of each. Who is buying these at these daft prices. You could get this for a then over inflated price of around £700 just a short while ago. What makes some fool pay almost twice as much?

There was far more than 200 pressed. They were given away at a launch party for the CD set The Master if memory serves. Many were discarded, thrown on the floor. I know one who went round picking copies up. All had picture sleeves to begin with.

Are they? They shouldn’t be. Most black issues are more expensive than the demo.

Spot on mate

There is nothing odd about it. Given the size of RCA they will massively promo a release, just about every radio station getting copies. If feedback wasn’t good and initial sales poor then the 45 would be dropped. Many RCA releases of interest to us are rarer on issue

from the sleeve notes of Dave Hamilton's Detroit Dancers Vol 2.... Al Johnson managed the group Lead vocalist and guitarist was Joe Anderson The tape boxes suggest the proper group name is Ravens and that the "I" is a misspelling by Dave Hamilton @Ady Croasdell might be able to help a little more

Shifty had it covered as Royston Vasey....after League of Gentlemen or Chubby Brown?

I’m not saying it is worth it, far from it, its not a rare record but 500 for Valentinos doesn’t surprise me. Its been 250 to 350 for some years now and given the flip is finding popularity after Andy Dyson gave it more exposure a few years it will only create more interest.

He's never gone away. He has tried to join groups on Facebook regularly. But as said be aware of him.

modern soul has been part of Northern Soul for decades. FFS we haven't even got out yet and we have some dinosaurs moaning already. Modern soul has been part of and played at Northern Soul events for decades, much of what is termed modern is Northern. Have a word with the promoter if you are not happy.

🦕 🦖

Agree with Parkypine the magma is excellent.

I hope Tim @Colouredman doesn’t mind me posting this. This is what Tim said on Facebook in the Stafford group, pretty emotional and a wonderful tribute to Duncan.

It is definitely true, it was his funeral today. R.I.P. Northern Cowboy

Can’t remember, white demos I think, ones that didn’t jump

She sold her biggie at Prestatyn, five copies she had I think when we were sat with her.

10k I think the last one?

Leeds Queens Hall was the one I was referring to, over 7000 capacity according to the flyer...

It is indeed

Listened to this during the week. Excellent tribute from Shaun for Marc.