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Sampled rather than covered, must be RJD2 "Smoke and Mirrors" from 2002?

If two people get in touch wanting to reserve a record, I tell the second person I'll get back to them if the sale falls through. And if only ONE person gets in touch and the sale falls through, maybe there's a reason only one person got in touch... maybe the record was too expensive? Which is why the sale fell through... Just my experience on here, which has usually been excellent.

As far as I'm aware, there are no company sleeves for Action or Alaska...

For Sale: SOFTOUCH "After You Give Your All" b/w SAME (US Prodigal) white demo M- £60 SOLD Great funky 70s Detroit girl group mover, original to the recent 100 Club 45 - I'm sure someone told me this was Lorraine Chandler on vocals? The experts on here will know. Lovely copy, postage extra, PM to reserve. Thanks for looking.

...which sums up in a nutshell why it's sold for over a grand! Because even a nice wee £500 profit isn't tempting enough to wrench it from collections. Top tune!

Sorted, thanks!

This is a long shot BUT... I have a spare Tito Ramirez "Lonely Man" 45 and am hoping to trade for a Big Lee Dowell "What Have I Done Wrong" 45 - not a big fan of selling new records for vastly inflated sums, but would happily trade it for another new record selling at equally inflated prices, which I missed the boat on!!! Hopefully someone can help me out... TA!

One on ebay now: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Funk-Sweet-Soul-45-Reggie-Saddler-Revue-Raggedy-Bag-Aquarius-VG-mp3-/381923386081?hash=item58ec6862e1:g:fjQAAOSwEzxYeVix

Always wondered if Lou Reed was in The All Night Workers, but reading the comments it seems he only co-wrote the flip-side of "Don't Put All Your Eggs In One Basket" - seems like a good enough reason to post it, mind!

Always thought "Temptation Inside My Heart" by the Velvet Underground had a very Motown feel to it. Youtube isn't letting me link...

I would say there's no difference between "today's" vinyl and "yesterday's" - if anything modern vinyl is worse, you can scratch old vinyl 45s endlessly with no bad effects - but this thread is about styrene. Also, your tracking weights rule - the tracking weight is directly linked to the weight of the stylus - some are 1.5, some are 3.5 - it's not a "one size fits all" rule. 2.5 could well be too heavy for certain styluses (or should I say stylii). Anyway, I feel like this thread could just run and run, everyone has their own techniques and opinions!

Well, my point was that intermittent hiss on a record or a record with distortion in one channel isn't caused by heat...

PM'ed!

Mix of UK and US 45s - soul funk disco etc. Postage extra, paypal preferred - PM to reserve, thanks for looking... Three Pieces - I Need You Girl / Short'nin' Bread (UK Fantasy) M- £30 Felice Taylor - It May Be Winter Outside (UK President) EX £4 Sammy Davis, Jr. - You Can Count On Me (Theme From Hawaii 5-0) (Dutch 20th Century) P/S M-/M- £20 James Rivers - Bad Bad Whiskey (Eight Ball) M- £25 Cado Belle - Got To Love (UK Anchor Promo) M- £25 Martha And The Vandellas* - Dancing In The Street EP (TME 2009 UK Tamla Motown EP) VG £10 (no sleeve, scuffed copy) The Pushcart - I've Got A Ticket To The World (Top Dog) M- £30 GREAT FUNK FLIP Berry Street Station - King Bee / I Don't Care No More (Le Cam) M- £40 NEW BREED INSTRO b/w DOWNER SOUL aka "Dead" Rocky Roberts - Stasera Mi Butto (Italian Durium) EX/EX £4 The Imperials - Goin' Out Of My Head (UK 70s Tammi) DEMO M- £6 Zilla Mayes - I Love You Still (Tou-Sea) DEMO EX £60 Aaron McNeil - Soul Of A Blackman (UK Action) EX (light scuffs) £15 Diana Ross - Surrender (UK TMG 792) GREEN/WHITE DEMO M- £15 Messiah (12) - Alpha Wave / Easy Livin' (Magic Minstrel) M- £7.50 Jnr. Walker & The All Stars* - Do You See My Love (For You Growing) (UK Tamla Motown TMG 750) M- £5 Tony Clarke - Landslide / The Entertainer (UK 70s Chess) EX £7.50 Soul On Delivery - Hustle (Dance Of The Day) / Crescent Boogie (UK Decca) M- £5 (Funky disco instros) Dynamic Superiors - Stay Away / Supersensuousensation (Try Some Love) (UK Tamla Motown TMG 1071) DEMO M- £3

Hi Steve will calculate postage and drop you a PM. Surface mail, they should reach you for next Christmas...

I don't really buy this theory - like it's some sort of well researched scientific experiment, and the increase in temperature has been measured under a heat sensor or something. In my, entirely possibly wrong, opinion you'd need to be back-and-forward cuing a few hundred times at some speed to get any real temperature going... There's styrene records which play with hiss all the way through, there's styrene records that play with distortion just in one stereo channel, there's styrene records which hiss intermittently throughout the track, there's styrene records which look trashed which play mint, there's styrene records that look mint that play like shit. There's different materials used in styrene presses, some stand up pretty well, and some (like James Brown People singles) seem like they deteriorate with every play. The most common cause of problems with styrene is playing with a duff needle and back-cuing - I've DJed on old Citronic twin decks and every styrene record I played was ruined all the way through (lesson learned - I DID get paid £20, though - so that replaced ONE of the records ). That's nothing to do with temperature. I'm actually tempted to find an unloved styrene single to do some research on - what happens if you play the whole track forwards really fast, what happens if you play the whole track backwards really slowly etc etc.

Full discography here: https://www.45cat.com/label/kent-anniversary-special 15th Anniversary - Phil Terrell?

Enjoyed that, good selection...

Still looking, can anyone help? Didn't think it was THAT rare, must be buried in collections...

I've never really understood the whole "it was someone else's fault the decks were set up wrong..." You're playing records worth thousands - bring your own needles!!! Personally I never back-cue styrene 45s - just get the needle in the run-in groove and hope the music kicks in after a second or two. But have been left looking like an eejit after a five second gap...

Not surprised that sold so fast - free shipping on a $12 record? Most sellers charge more than $12 for shipping alone!

White demo spotted on popsike...

This keeps getting stranger and stranger... When I first replied to this topic I was merely surprised the title had been counterfeited, but decided to dig out my copy for a look. My copy is an issue, with a strong yellow label and... it's on VINYL! Run-out grooves have LS-1113 etched in, with nothing else. The red colouring on the bird has shonky registration, but the Red Bird logo text is crisp and sharp.

For sale JOHNNY SAYLES "I Can't Get Enough (Of Your Love)" (St. Lawrence) VG+ £125 SOLD! Floorpacking stormer, definite original issue copy (with "Distributed by Chess..." label text round bottom) - has a few light scuffs and scratches, but any light ticks are pretty much drowned out by the music (this record is cut LOUD!) - plays great, and at the risk of cliché "perfect for deejaying"! Flip is slightly more marked (probably more VG) but again plays fine, with the odd light tick. Registered postage extra (or free is you want to send paypal as "personal") - PM to reserve. Thanks for looking!

Looking for MARY CLARK "Take Me I'm Yours" (La Shawn) on 45 from 1980. Maybe some people are bored on holiday, and fancy nipping up the attic to see if they got it as cannon fodder in a soul pack back in the day?! Well, worth asking anyway! Any PMs or leads much appreciated - ta!