Pomonkey

Yes, figured that a far wider audience deserved to learn about John's life so worked quietly to have that published today, a lot of it came from collating reminiscences here and on FB from old friends of this so hope does him some justice, was beyond proud to call John a friend too.

Finally got one of these Nils, did your friend ever get lucky, flip is equally good!!

Not the best copy ever Garethx, got a completely unplayed one a couple of years back, came from an old guy way off the grid via a record buyer down south along with a lot of other primo local 45s in equally amazing shape. Actually bought a different 45 off the current seller in that same batch, obscure but stellar 45, that just arrived today and it’s in great shape and a steal, think the location (France) etc put some bidders off.

Have a copy, could let it go, if we're friends on FB ping me there as not here too often!

I own this acetate now, came from Joe Dutton's good lady after he passed.

I had a copy of it in my apartment when you visited here Henning, yes it’s a rare one.

The ep he did that was given away by collecting vouchers from ice cream tubs in Sweden (!) is really stupidly good - there were a series of these, front covers are all identical and not sure if you could choose which one you got when sending in the req'd # of coupons, bit like the old Robertson's jams we had, there's one other killer one in that series too, Souls by Les Fleurs which is insanely good psych of all genres, imagine that must have blown any little flaxen-haired pre-teen's head when that showed up in the mail.

Was leafing through some acetates here that had picked up over the last few years and not got round to playing properly and this 8 track one is one of them, yes agree Baby Don't Leave is totally stellar, will definitely play it out at the night doing here in a couple of weeks (along with another dozen+ similar unreleased that have never been heard out before).

It's a good record, copy here, another with a friend.

There's a few of us looking for this one, this is the 5th time have seen it listed here as a want by different folks!

I have one, so do at least 2 of my fellow NYC collectors, am sure if you polled the old funkforum alumni you'd get a fair few more positives. Great track regardless of the # out there.

The acetate that just went through ebay was the same recording as the issue.

Just saw him here in NYC, stellar night, he's still captivating and totally on the money, plus as funny as f***, definitely recommended if you get the chance.

The title is clear as day in the intro, Let your hair down, put that as a search in popsike and multiple copies of Billy Reed show up. Enjoyed the "request" to keep the comments to the artist/title, spoonfeeding is best in private agree.

Weird when people post other peoples' playlists and don't ask them directly what something is, simpler surely? Regardless, it's The Push by Jimmy Dee on Palms, like how it uses the Manteca riff, I have a couple of copies but only interested in trades for something equally oddball.