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Hi all! Looking for a 45 for a friend: ANN HODGE XL RECORDS NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH / YOU'RE WELCOME BACK Can anyone help, please drop me a PM with condition and price. Has to be in nice shape...

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US LABELS RUMPUS "My Love's Gonna Get You" (Dash) M- £35 REDUCED! Classy 1976 modern soul dancer, seen on other lists for £75. Lovely clean copy. BETTY LAVETTE "Ticket To The Moon" (Karen) VG- £35 Amazing in-demand funk. Has quite a bit of scuffing, and plays with some background crackle - my old DJ copy, plays much better than it looks. This always seems to show up in dodgy condition... well under HALF PRICE of a minter! MARVELETTES "I'll Keep On Holding On" (Tamla) VG+ £13 Classic girl group stomper! Record has mark right across the whole side - you can feel it, but record is cut so loud, it doesn't sound at all - plays perfect! SOUND OF EXCITEMENT "Please Don't Cry" b/w "Why Did You Go" (Catamount) EX £10 HAZE "I Do Love My Lady" b/w "Waiting For The Moment" (ASI records) EX £10 70s group soul. THE LAST WORD "Keep On Bumpin'" b/w "Funky & Some" (Polydor) M- £10 Two great James Brown funk cuts. Nice copy... STONY ISLAND BAND "Stony Island Band" (Glades demo) EX £12 Rarer and better looking demo - same track both sides. 1978 Florida funky modern soul. ARETHA FRANKLIN "Rock Steady" b/w "Oh Me Oh My (I'm A FOol For You Baby" (Atlantic) EX £3 THE PACERS feat. BOBBY CRAFFORD "You'll Never Know" b/w "Blue Birds Over The Mountain" (Razorback) £20 Great male vocal funker - on other lists for £50+ Ruby Andrews - Let's Get A Groove Going On (Zodiac ) £5 Tatty looking scuffed VG-, plays pretty well with a bit of crackle - would be £50 mint. Awesome funky crossover. UK LABELS MARK LOYD "She Said No" b/w "Everybody Tries" (Parlophone) EX+ £50 His "other" record. Two good pop beat sides, in original company sleeve. Books at £75, on Manship for £100. LINDA CLIFFORD "Runaway Love" (Curtom) EX £4 Classic modern soul/disco stepper. Quiet pressing since they've crammed over 7 minutes onto it!!! BARBARA LEWIS "Hello Stanger" (London) NOC VG+ £10 Rare first 1963 UK release (not red label Atlantic), in original company sleeve. No centre and few surface scuffs, plays fine. Books at £30. MIKE POST "Afternoon of the Rhino" (Warners) EX £5 Clasic instrumental, in original company sleeve. SAMMY DAVIS JR. "You Can Count On Me" (Dutch 20th Century) EX/EX £15 Vocal version of "Hawaii 5-O" - old Wigan spin in picture sleeve. CLASSICS IV "Spooky" (UK Liberty) VG+ £4 Original of the Dusty Springfield cover. Few light scuffs, plays great. MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS "One Way Out" (UK Tamla Motown TMG 621) EX £12 Classic oldie, nice copy on UK in company sleeve. MAJOR LANCE "Sweeter" b/w "Wild & Free" (Uk Warners) £5 Nice Curtis Mayfield flip - 1973 release FRANKIE VALLI "Life & Breath" (UK Mowest DEMO) £3 1975 demo copy for UK Motown collectors! DELLA REESE "Who Is She And What Is She To You" b/w "If Loving You Is Wrong" (UK People) NOC £4 Great funky Bill Withers cover, backed with good deep flip. THE IMPERIALS "Goin Out Of My Head" b/w "I Just Wanna Be Your Lovin Man" (UK Tammi demo) M- £10 Great UK label disco soul. Same label as Ray Munnings, nice "A" demo copy. Good double sider... JIMMY SOUL "If You Wanna Be Happy" (Stateside) VG £5 Scuffed VG copy, plays fine. Would be £20 mint. JOHNNY OTIS "Willie And The Hand Jive" (UK Bulldog) M- £2 Cool Bo Diddley sounding groove, 1974 UK issue. BOB & EARL "Harlem Shuffle" b/w "I'll Keep Running Back" (Sue) £4 On the ever sought after yellow and red bowtie Sue label. VG+ Few light scuffs (tiny wee scratch on flip), name written on A-side label - half price! THE FLIRTATIONS "Someone Out There" b/w "How Can You Tell Me" (UK Deram) £3 Great UK soul in company sleeve.

Just asking because it's not uncommon for acetates to have two completely unrelated tracks on each side...

Are you sure it's a test pressing and not an acetate?

Well, it's Jamaican soul! Ska version as requested...

Is there not one which only made it to the test pressing stage? Sure someone told me this, but no idea...

The Blues Busters "Behold" And the ska version is even better! Should they not be deciding on a song themselves???!!!

A friendly bump... I knew it was gonna be a toughie, but ANYONE? Even an encouraging "no chance, mate" would be appreciated...

Well, it's worth asking isn't it? I'm looking for the French Stateside 45 of "Ooh Baby" by BILLY HAWKS. Preferably with a sleeve. Preferably in nice condition. Preferably at a realistic price. Not asking much, am I? I'll even chuck in my old BGP re-issue 45 as part of the deal... PM if you can help, or know anyone who can. TA!

Sorry if I missed it, but has anyone mentioned the sublime crossover winner CARLA WHITNEY "I've Been Hurt So Many Times" on Attic. Canadian only. And on the same label PATSY GALLANT "It'll All Come Around" I've also got RUBY WINTERS "Better" (Diamond) - pretty much looks the same, but it's on vinyl not styrene...

At the risk of confusing matters, i've had average funk tracks (9th street exit?) with black and green labels. Could the black and greens here just be later official pressings? Why would a £50 tune get booted? And if you're going to boot it, why use the wrong colour ink?

Aye, but you ARE off your head... Great tune!

Or just list them here?

I also offered a record, there was some price negotation and I hoped we were close to clinching a deal. But the trail went cold. I agree, he was very polite and speedy replying messages - until they all suddenly stopped. Hope he's okay...

Think you might be confusing labels here. Soul7 is a subsidiary of Jazzman and all releases are fully licensed, so not boots. Royale VII was released (when the label was still called Soul45) but not Hamilton Movement... that could well be an Austrian boot.

At the risk of sounding morbid, the value of most artists work (both artistically and financially) goes up after they've passed on... And don't forget, there were two people who were prepared to pay that price. Let's face it, anyone paying more than the price of a brand new record is slightly eccentric! Always amuses me when people describe £50 tunes as "cheapies"...

For sale: The Isley Brothers "Tamla Motown Presents..." (Music For Pleasure LP) M-/M- reserved (inc. P&P) Includes one of the greatest northern soul tracks of ALL time "My Love Is Your Love Forever" - on the only legitimate pressing! Lovely copy, post included. PM if interested.

Ha! Touché... I'm not exactly part of the scene, and got into northern in the mid-90s, so I'm genuinely interested in how things worked back then. It seems now, with the internet, ALL the information is out there - so for people to do cover-ups now must take some balls. It either has to be REALLY rare (in which case, why cover it?) or really unknown. And how do you find out if it's unknown? You can't exactly show it to someone and ask? Or play it and be faced with the "oh, that got played twice at Wigan before being tossed aside..." etc etc So, just curious how it worked "back in the day". To know Keb's charts was all cover-ups would take a certain amount of knowledge to begin with...

At the risk of sounding stupid, naive, a killjoy or d) all of the above but... I understand the point of cover ups, but was the intention to deliberately mislead or just have a bit of fun? If Keb got asked to do a chart, he's not going to say "i've got ten records but i'm not telling you what they are..." but if you saw this chart, how many people would know they were made up? And were they genuine mysteries at the time, or were people pretty quick to guess? And finally, phew, if you let the cat out of the bag, was it all taken in good humour? Or would you be met with a karate chop from Keb?!

Sounds like a perfect opportunity to do a release of the "other" Anna Belle Caesar single flipped with the Willie Charles flip. Err, maybe not...

There's so few repros about that I wonder if they are, in fact, carvers with lookalike labels? Apparently there's a re-issue of this via a well-known re-issue label coming soon...

The Elgins is pretty rare, and The Monitors has some great tracks...

There's nothing narrow-minded about not liking a record which is out of tune - sorry, it's not meant to be ironic or avant garde, it's a pop mash-up. When two pieces of music go out of key, it's just wrong. End of... I don't think the problem is using a backing track which is too well known - the whole point of a successful mash-up is to take two equally popular songs, sling them together and hopefully come up with a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts. Which is not easy, which is why so few of them are successful. Candi Staton "You Got The Love" is an example of a bootleg mash-up which works - although, by my logic the vocal was pretty obscure at the time... so it doesn't really qualify!

I don't even think this has anything to do with tailor-mades versus original vinyl only versus what will move the scene forward etc. This is simply two pieces of music which don't fit together, they're in the wrong key and it sounds terrible. That Kylie Minogue Blue Monday thing is an example of two well known existing tunes fitting together like a jigsaw. This Adele thing is just dreadful. Sorry!