Chalky

Pretty sure all or the vast majority came form the owner (Eugene Davis) or his immediate family.

There was a clip on You Tube of the Isleys perfoming Staggerlee, it's since been removed Has anyone downloaded the clip and can they either post it here or send it to me. Cheers.

It was selling for around the £400 mark but seems to have all but disappeared.

I think his idea of a few surface marks differs to ours

There was a rumour that it was never released as well and pressed solely due to demand on these shores. Like you say back then it was cheap as plenty of copies to be had.

I remember seeing this in the late 80's. Had it on tape since then as well. Guy first played this and certain if memory serves me correctly that he got it from label owner, my guess mid 80's around the same time he got Joseph Webster which he played at Stafford.

First heard this mid 80's courtesy of Ion then Rob Marriott who sol,d it to Richard Searling. £150 in your dreams. Great record IMHO The one on the bay does look a bit new though thats not to say it isn't the genuine article.

I ndidn't have many UK releases in first collection but had UK demo oif this when it was covered up, Jackie and the Gillettes. Wouldn't rate the US copy that much, have seen for £40, not that hard to find really if you want one.

Sorry bout this folks..... Derek, Just tidying up and found something I've got for you, have been meaning to post it but I've lost your address and e-mail address, can you PM me both. I've lost all my e-mail addresses in a format so if anyone thinks I should have their e-mail address can you e-mail me at chalky.soul@googlemail.com

Anyone got an MP3 of LaSo Another Star, instrumental (I think) to Stevie Wonders Another Star. Ta

went to look but the scan is for the olympics

https://www.fabchannel.com/swamp_dogg posted this in all about soul but it looks like getting lost. great stuff from Swamp!!

Swamp just posted this on KTF, thought you might like a look, hope Swamp doesn't mind. You can see him in concert HERE too, great stuff! The article is from the Guardian..... Swamp Dogg bites back Andrew Purcell meets the best failure in the United States Andrew Purcell Friday June 15, 2007 Guardian The best failure in the United States "When I felt like I needed profanity, I used profanity," Swamp Dogg begins. And as he cheerfully swears his way through his 50 years in showbusiness, it's easy to see why he remained a cult figure while his peers went mainstream. He wrote like Sly Stone and sang like Van Morrison, but took so many diversions he never arrived. "They can't find a hole for this pigeon," he says. "But I don't feel rained on. I don't feel bad. I still consider myself the most successful failure in the United States, and that's really not bad at all." "Little" Jerry Williams recorded his first single at the age of 12 in 1954, with his stepfather on guitar, his uncle on bass and his mum on drums, and spent his teens working the soul circuit as a cherub-faced hollerer and piano man. By 1970, he had written platinum hits for Gene Pitney and Solomon Burke, and produced the Commodores, the Drifters, Doris Duke and Lulu - but his singing career had stalled. "I'm not a down-and-out R&B singer," he says. "I'm not a used-to-be because I never was. I am so glad now that I didn't become a great R&B hit in the 60s, because I may still be in the fucking 60s, running around singing Baby You're My Everything and I'm the Lover Man." Hired by Atlantic Records, he soon hit the soul ceiling. "I thought Atlantic hired me because I was super-duper, I was just so fucking good. But they hired me because they were in a corner. NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People] and CORE [Congress of Racial Equality] insisted that they put a black on staff and I was it. They just hired me, and then they didn't give me anything to do. "I had the chance to rub elbows with [legendary Atlantic producers] Tom Dowd and Jerry Wexler. But I found out that in corporate America, everyone guards the restroom key. They would go there and open the door for you, but they wouldn't lend you the key. The day [Atlantic boss] Ahmet Ertegun's secretary, Noreen, called me to her office and said, 'Jerry, I got something for you' it was almost like a ceremony. When I put the restroom key in my pocket, I felt like the richest motherfucker in the world." Squatting in Tom Dowd's office, picking through Atlantic's B-roster, he came up with an alter ego to record the unreleasable songs he was writing. The result was Total Destruction to Your Mind, a socially conscious funk album as powerful and strange as There's a Riot Goin' On, minus Sly Stone's cocaine paranoia. "The name meant a lot," he says. "Just that Dogg on my name was enough to let people know that I was different. It also put them on alert that they could expect just about anything. Swamp Dogg would give it a fucking try." Swamp Dogg demonstrated against the Vietnam war with Jane Fonda and found his way on to Richard Nixon's enemies list. He appeared on album covers riding a rat and tap-dancing on the boardroom table. He sang God Bless America (For What?) and got sued by Irving Berlin. He never sold many records. His new album, Resurrection (which features Williams being crucified on the cover), is a familiar mix of the profound and the profane, anchored by rolling boogie piano, like George Clinton playing Amos Milburn. Lyrical potshots include They Crowned an Idiot King, America Is Bleeding, In Time of War Who Wins and the extraordinary title track, a rambling state-of-the-ghetto address. "What I'm trying to say is, you're never beaten. That's what Resurrection is about - just get your shit together and stop waiting for somebody else to get your shit together for you. I lift myself up. I may not be as high up as I want to be, but at least I'm up," he says. "And one day, I hope to have enough money to hire Al Green and his band for my birthday party." · Resurrection by Swamp Dogg is available on import. He plans to tour the UK this autumn · This article was amended on Friday June 15 2007. We missed the last two numbers off the year of Swamp Dogg's first single. This has been corrected.

another release of his on Sound Of Soul. It's on site somewhere, I've posted it in the past.

Save yourself £380 and buy Luv'H, far better record IMHO but then again seeing as it's not your money...unless she's using your CC

I do know it, just gotta try and remember sure it's called there she goes and sure it's been on a recent cd release

thats another fine mess you got me into......

3-400 for the orange one. Put one on na recent list for Andy. It went for around that figure. the green re-issue see for around £25 now and then. Was booted too with a green label.

I've a full file of Stan Martin, I can post that. If you just want clip I'll sort one later.

Christ you can buy a 7 inch digital frame for that, scan all your singles and show them on that all day long

origianl vinyl moulded label. boot styrene stick on label

It's a hard record not seen too much, was pretty in demand not too long ago.

Couple of bad experiences does seem to alter your outlook but I'd still say overall despite this they are far better at grading.

I've usually found the US sellers better at grading records than anyone else. Their vg/vg+ often a UK dealers Ex. It's many UK dealers IMHO who need to look at their grading. If we used the goldmine standard, which is the accepted standard by much of the collecting world then things might improve. I also agree that seller should state whether just a visual grading or if he/she played it.

I would say around the £400 mark but have seen it sell for as much as £600 in the past. Depends I suppose how much the buyer wants a copy. Fab record btw