Chalky

I remember first hearing at Keele I think Mick. Rob Wigley also got one quite early and was playing it at The Hollingwood Hotel nights we had in Chesterfield.

Those who were given copies of reconsider prior to those sold were given the same copies as far as I can remember. I had one but moved it on as I got sick of hearing everyone playing it. As for Carla Thomas, Ady had been playing it a long time before the anniversary 45 came out.

I doubt there was a test press, they were boots, it isn't as though you are sending them out as promos either to generate interest for future sales. Any given away would be from the same batch as those sold, might have had a different stamp on them but the pressing would be the same. I'm sure I saw it with just Reconsider stamped on it and then the fake test pressing one with details written in. I've just pulled the 'This IS Northern Soul' comp from the shelf. In it Chris King writes about Reconsider that it was discovered by Pete Lowrie when he acquired some reference dub plates on one of his trips to America.

What is this LP? Suspicion had been known about since the early 80's. It was also booted by people who were nothing to do with Reconsider. Suspicion, Velvelettes, Glady's Knight 'Too late', turned up via a different source, Robb K.

That first lot I think there was 8 45's and as you say Reconsider wasn't amongst them nor was it done by the same people, might be wrong? I spent ages sorting what was left of them a few years later to sell as job lots. Suspicion, that was another of the batch and one we ran out of quickly when sorting. There wasn't many packs with all the 45's.

I don't recall an LP with these titles on? A CD yes. Only boot lp I remember is the one Rob Marriott did and it didn't have Reconsider on it.

Did Richard Searling play this on his radio show last week or week before? Ode to the Ritz and said it was the first time it was played that night at the Ritz by CK? I certainly remember the pressings, reconsider in I think red ink stamped on the white label. I remember getting bored with it/sick of hearing it very quickly as every man and his dog hammered it.

It was a 90's discovery wasn't it, Chris King? I can remember the white label 45's appearing. It's proper title btw is 'Think It Over (Before You break My Heart).

There is at least two in sales.

https://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10393

It's a great LP all the way through. If you didn't see the cover you wouldn't realise it was a film score.

Another LP, Curtis Mayfield film score to Claudine.

Fund first by John Manship and Keb on a trip to USA. Arthur Fenn got one frm the lady herself. Ther is an article about her somewhere on the web. She reissued it on a look a like label.

other side is good if I remember rightly, deepish soul?

We have seen it so often with Motown always behind the curve, at least Ace/Kent are doing a good job for them with these releases.

I'm happy to have something put right Marc and thanks

And you don't with anyone else?

I work around 60 plus hours per week, often away from home 2, 3 or 4 nights. That and the fact I spend all week driving means I can't be bothered to drive at the weekends especially for a all-nighter where the music is no better than what is on offer within 30 minutes of hime. Like you Des, I neither wish to feel like crap until Tuesday either, some seem to think because they have been up all-night and that they are better than others.

That backs up what I am lead to believe. I have read at one time a date of 1972 for the LP. Is there an earlier Dutch release? having been disbanded for a few years by the early 70's, I guess Motown believed there was no or little money to be made from a group that didn't exist and were happy for a budget LP company to issue the material? When they saw the errors of their ways and saw that Baby hit And Run was a big hit in the clubs they decided to belatedly try and make a few bucks themselves.

They haven't the imagination to mix it up a bit, otherwise we wouldn't keep getting these topics.

Marc, I'm happy to be proved wrong and will amend the article, just give me the facts. The vocal on this cd wasn't on the LP or the 45.

Originals vs. boots part 352......... To be honest I've been to countless oldies nights and I don't think I've seen goldmine, stardust or outta sight on the decks. I'm not saying it doesn't happen it probably does, You can't always see the decks and to be honest if I go somewhere for a pint and try and sell a few, more a social night then I don't tend not to care about what they play the records off. But I've been to many a venue where it is 100% original vinyl and the imagination is no different to a bootleg playing venue. Eddie Parker, Wade Flemons, Masqueraders, Al Williams and another couple of hundred, you hear them everywhere As I said it isn't the records, it is those playing them and those promoting the venue. There are still some good venues playing decent records.

The LP was put out by Music For Pleasure, set up by EMI and someone else and specialised in budget price LP's. I would imagine they leased the tracks from Motown.

The 45 wouldn't be "taken from" as the lp wasn't put out by Motown. I will check the sleeve notes to see what they say and correct if necessary to put your mind at rest

Bootlegs aren't the problem, some of the holy grail not as rare as some think. Lack of imagination is the problem and has been since the rise of the returnee.