Sutty

I thought Manhattan was a dead loss when we were there in Sept, Brooklyn however was awash with records, spent hours in Human Head in Williamsburg which is easily accessible on the subway, 5 mins walk from Montrose Avenue stn which is 10 mins on the subway from 14th/Union Square stn on Manhattan. The guy that runs it is really friendly and the prices are good, $2-5 for records that sell for £15-20 over here for example. Many of the Manhattan ones are closed down since lockdown, I spent ages looking for a jazz one I wanted to go to only to find it was a building site, so make sure they’re open before you venture anywhere, Human Head def is, 7 days a week, cheers Sutty

Heavenly Body Heavenly Body was a massive 2-step track

Missed a sales trick on the Jap Marvin LP. It’s not just quad, it’s completely remixed, and apart from the different production with the vocals more upfront, it’s smoother, the giveaway is God Is Love carries on to fade rather than cutting straight into Mercy Mercy Me as on every other press. A unique, and for me the best, version never reissued in any format, cheers Sutty

Bub passed away through ill health. The world became a lesser place when he left, particularly the NS scene IMHO, a joy to be around, cheers Sutty

I had a package sent UK to Netherlands a couple of years back that went via Singapore. Was sent one a little earlier from Spain I think it was that went via Barbados 🤷🏼‍♂️

AFAIK for a private seller, from today (yup 29th not 31st) you have to fill out and apply a CN22 sticker to all gifts and goods leaving the UK irrespective of their destination. Much more of a headache for business though I think? https://www.postoffice.co.uk/mail/customs-forms cheers Sutty

All of them from 73-78, the couple before on RCA and then after those dates have tracks on but are less consistent. You’re in for a a treat if you’ve never heard Ode To My Lady or Color Her Sunshine his material wouldn’t be classed as rare groove tho cheers Sutty

Rita Wright was a U.K. singer, and they’re completely different vocalists, just the same backing track, personally I always preferred Rita’s version. Never cottoned onto the OJ connection with Esther! cheers Sutty

I might be stating the obvious here but the cutting engineer writes the run outs at the time of the cut into the master disc, the disc is then sent to the pressing plant where they may also add a stamper in the run out as part of the process of creating the metal stamper to identify who has pressed the record. There isn’t necessarily a cutting room in a pressing plant. In the UK you see a lot of records with Porkys Prime Cuts (George Peckham) or Ray Staff at Trident. Neither of these cutters had any relation to a specific pressing plant, so it may well be that RB Is the cutting engineer and his masters were sent wherever the person paying for the cut asked them to be sent to to be pressed up. cheers Sutty

I’m waiting on a package from Spain that was posted 11th and just arrived in the UK today. I have a guy in Paris who has been unable to post as the p.o. has not been accepting packages for weeks, so patience is the key. You have 180 days to make a PayPal claim

There are 40 on the first label available on Discogs now with a NM copy available for £2.33 - the auction is for the LP

Umm yes, this is the most bizarre one I’ve ever seen, it could hit over a fiver in a back wind 😂 https://www.raresoulman.co.uk/omar-there-s-nothing-like-this-1990-uk-indie-kongo-dance-kdlp-2.html

I got done in December for customs on a declared $19.99 package, which was under the £15 limit. You have to pay before the p.o. will release the package, the charge was £12 in my case, £4 customs and £8 p.o. fee. The p.o then directed me over the phone to the hmrc website to jump through hoops to get the customs money back. Looked like the £8 was going to be kept by the p.o. for collecting so I didn’t bother. Basically, what they did was illegal as they stole from me, but what can you really do when they behave like scum? better than when they tried charging me a ridiculous amount on a jap package that was 750 yen (£5) and they valued it as £750. The discussion at the p.o. was pointless and I refused the package!

Thanks, I would grab it but I suspect I already have it as Curtis was never singing on it as he’d left, unless proven otherwise

Can anyone confirm then, who owns a copy, that Curtis is on this version as he left the impressions a year before to be replaced by Leroy Hutson on the album this came from. Love to hear a clip of it, and if it is the case if anyone wants to sell me a copy drop me a message! cheers Sutty

PM’d you yesterday?

The Prisoner album mix is only on a cd single https://www.discogs.com/All-Blue-Prisoner/release/1702805 all the 12s are housed up remixes and probably not what you’re looking for I’d guess, cheers Sutty

I was in LA Saturday and was gutted to be told on Sunday morning about a soul event I’d just missed, at least I now know I didn’t miss it LOL

No shipping outside the USA 😐

PM’d ya

It did, I have it on 7 as part of box set of the album which is not too expensive cheers Sutty [edit already answered...]

It was a bootleg as was the Tammi Terrell

The one one eBay came out quite a few years back now, I bought it for a fiver or something as I love the track, and they’d had my money years before that when I bought the cd box set. The sound quality on the 7 is excellent, they did Tammi Terrell ‘all I do’ in a 7 around the same time, cheers Sutty

It’s up to the person/company ordering the test pressings, usuallly it’s a small amount before the promo run is ordered to make sure the pressings ok, but you can order as many or as little as you want, so there is no real answer to the question on a release unless you find out from the company or pressings plant, cheers Sutty