Ged Parker

The current hot album A Nation Is Born was sold in KFC outlets in the Bahamas for less than $2.

Are you all out to scupper this sale or something? Bad form guys.

They're demos SImsy. Good value all the same

I thought this was about you finishing in April 2013 at first. If you finished in April 2012 and prsumably got the letter before that why wait until September to post it on here? It was badly handled for sure, but what is it that you want to achieve here?

I can really get where you're coming from here John. Another dimension is that any advantage you gained in going to different venues and hearing new stuff is lost. Contacts are more easily made but that's for everyone and it is too simple. Records have also become much more costly since the web despite being easier to find and that is a paradox I can't get my head round.

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Please only email me on gparker@nussl.co.uk regarding any of these records I can pick up emails all the time rather than needing to be in here for PMs Postage £2:00 standard £5 recorded. Paypal prefered or cash at your own risk. Sound files and scans of actual records what you see is what you get. 45s Ok first off a Texas rarity from the Dynamic stable looks VG but I'll let you be the judge of the sound quality. Can't remember when I last heard this one out and about. Doc and Sal - Cant Get You Offa My Mind - Dynamic £150 t Get You Offa My Mind Dynamic.mp3 Another obscure rarity. This superb blue eyed soul piece has always suffered from a shortage of copies. Apart from the felt tip around the title this is a super clean copy. Gary Wagner Blues Band - I Can't Go On Without you - Major Sound £150 t Go On Without You Major Sound.mp3 Here is a genuinely rare record first played at St Ives in the 70's and never really turned up in numbers since then. A contender for the rarest Laurie outing this copy is an ISSUE. Still I'm not sure its worthy of the £1,000 price tag one site had on it when you think of some of the superb records in that bracket so I'll take offers over £350. Gerard - Happiest Man - Laurie OFFERS >£350 Gerard Happiest Man Laurie.mp3 Here's one for you fans of obscure RnB. This LA recording came out on at least three different labels this is the one to own though. Gerri Reid - No Fool No More - Sla-Mon £50 Gerri Reid No Fool No More Sla-Mon.mp3 No need to introduce this one at all great crossover Joe Johnson - Do Unto Others - TEE £150 swol Joe Johnson Do Unto Others TEE.mp3 Another classic 'modern oldie' from the days of Morcambe Pier. Marva Hicks - Looking Over my Shoulder - Infinity £30 Marva Hicks Looking Over My Shoulder Infinity.mp3 Sticking with the modern but further back and much more obcure we have Phil Phillips; no not the American Idol winner or was it X-factor. Nevermind that this is simply fantastic Phil Phillips - It Takes More - Hard Boiled £100 Phil Phillips It Takes More Hard Boiled.mp3 Back to 60's and over to Detroit. The oh so desirable Thelma label in its most beautiful form the white demo. Rose Batiste's first release. Rose Batiste - I Can't Leave You - Thelma Ex £200 SOLD t Leave You Thelma WDJ.mp3 Staying in Detroit I've included sound files of both sides of this one and must point out visually it's only Good condition but the music is still strong. Have a listen to both sides which in any case are well worth a listen if you don't know it. Its not done the rounds being played out and about for ages. Shirley Lawson - Sad Sad Day - Enterprise £30 Shirley Lawson Sad Sad Day Enterprise.mp3 Shirley Lawson So Much To Me Enterprise.mp3 If you like underplayed oldies with superb vocals you could spend your money a lot less effectively that to buy this blind. Fortunately you don't have to as I've included a sound file. Comes with the ABC company sleave that it looks like it was put into in the pressing plant. Spindles - To Make You Mine - ABC Issue £50 Spindles To Make You Mine ABC Issue.mp3 'Top of the class' soul from the 'Top of the World' you devotees of Stafford classics will have this or have it on your wants list. Driving dancefloor soul at its best. Some slight discolouration to the vinyl and a bit in the label as you can see in the scan. 'kin' 'ard you bet it is. Willie McDougal - Don't Turn Away - Kinard £180 SOLD t Turn Away Kinard.mp3 Currently in vogue tune spotted in Soul Sam's box at the last Rugby. After being a colectors tune for a long time now surely its ready for a wider audience now. Willis Wooten - Your Love Is Indescribably Delicious - Virtue £120 slt storage warp NAP SOLD Willis Wooten Your Love is Indesribably Delicious Virtue.mp3 LP's An LP that actually was a one time promotional product for KFC in the Bahamas. Better than a happy meal toy any day if you ask me. A Nation Is Born — A Musical History of the Bahamas — Bahama Nationhood Ex (Cover VG with seam split to paper laminate cover at bottom) £75 Includes Bobby Smith — A New Day Dawning Bobby Smith A New Day Dawning LP Only A Nation is Born LP.mp3 Les McCann Plays the Hits — Mercury — Ex (Cover VG) £25 SOLD Includes Sad Little Girl and Compared to What. Les McCann Sad Little Girl Mercury LP.mp3 I'll say again please email only no PM's on these. Cheers Ged

It'd be as bad as a replacing a label with the photocopy and I suspect harder to do.

Yeah Dennis good to mmet up. We had met before when the Neighbourhood in Blackpool was going strong but I am easy to forget compared to Roly I think £300 would be the most I'g go to and it'd have to be perfect other than that. It would only be the 'Northern' crowd chasing it the serious British collectors as you well know would steer well clear of anything less than perfect.

Depends on the buyer and the item I guess. For me the JW; if otherwise in EX condition; would only be 25% of an intact one where as a Timi Yuro may be 50%. I realise in an auction I'd lose both probably but wouldn't want to pay any more

Not me you haven't

I missed on on Tim's list a few months back for £30.

Additionally promos weren't getting played at house parties in the 60's they were sat in wharehouses, DJ's and ex distributors collections and radio station libraries just gathering dust mostly.

I have no idea Just memory which is clearly faulty. I'm sure I said that more than once too

Jason will be well please with that.

What about something like Ace Spectrum - Don't send Nobody Else? Reached #4 in the pop chart in the Billboard 100. I'm not sure if it shipped 1/2 a million to go gold but probably did ship in the hundreds of thousands. Multiply that figure (if you can find it out) by £40 or so and thats a fair few quid

I'll bite just to help start a debate. Cashmeres - Showstopper. Loads more copies than the price would suggest.

Bobby Angelle - Too Much For Me - Not sute how I forgot I had it but I did. Flight - Playing Your Games - Still got the spare if anyone is looking for one. Loads of less valuable ones too.

Fair point Chalks. It does illustrate the difference in the mindset of the nighter crowd to (as someone once termed them) the muggles. A good record heard for the first time to one set of soul fans is an instant dancefloor classic and to the others its time to sit down. Mind you they'll dance to it now Nowt as strange as 'soulies'.

I was emptying dancefloors in and around Blackpool with it after some were calling it a played out tune. Such is the progressive nature of the Fylde coast

Over my snipe anyway.

You missed the one on ebay too then.

All those years ago as John Anderson will no doubt confirm no one knew how rare or how valuable the Four Tracks or the Imperial C's would become. Nowadays almost every soul 45 has a known value and therefore why would Rick (or whoever picks the records for packs) put any of the massive tunes in there? Unless of course despite their 'book value' Tim has loads of copies and has had for years with no takers. There have been a couple of 45's over the £50 mark which were unknown to me and not really 'play out' material but definately keepers for me any way. I wish I'd had the sense to buy a soul bowl pack every pay day back then.

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