Woodbutcher

Heard you the first time ...

Gave all the details in the first reply ...

Well these must be the worst quality bootlegs out there , just f**kin' laughable ..... https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/nightowlwigan7/m.html?item=262618652997&hash=item3d254aa145%3Ag%3Awx0AAOSwvzRX1AsI&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

To be brutally honest ... at the end of the day it's not exactly what you'd call exciting , rare , expensive or hard to find ... in any format ... so not sure it warrants much more sleuthing ...

Without a copy of in each and and a loop to check the deadwax I'd say impossible to answer with any certainty , anyone out there care to photograph their copies ( properly at full res and square on ... RAW file preferred ) so the scratches/stamps can be compared ... ?

Same plates , two pressings ...

Mr Manship's 5th Edition.

If you want it for home it's on an Ace CD .... https://acerecords.co.uk/rhythmnbluesin-by-the-bayou-nights-of-sin-dirty-deals-and-love-sick-souls 45 seems pretty scarce.

John says it came from Lou Barreto himself so one assumes it's the real thing ... ?

Flip side to "Forever Mine" on 7" ...

Boot .....

2nd press ......

Plenty of credits listed on Discogs ... https://www.discogs.com/artist/706990-Bob-Relf?filter_anv=0&type=Credits

Release number on LHS of label = 1st Press. Number on RHS of label = 2nd pressing. Boot has no address along bottom of label and has "If I Could Only Be Sure" on flip.

Just up on John's Facebook page ..... " Phew!! now that was damn hard work... https://www.raresoulman.co.uk/…/MANSHIPS_COLLECTORS_GUIDE_ed… At last, the 1024 page hardback collector's addition is FINISHED and with the printers. Well over a 1000 full colour scans + 860 pages listing A & B sides, label & #, label variations, genres & matrix information where necessary. All in artist order. includes RARE SOUL ALBUMS with wanted tracks noted. includes NORTHERN SOUL reissues, bootlegs and counterfeit with matrix info includes. NORTHERN SOUL, MOTOWN, 50's & 60's R&B, SWEET SOUL, DEEP SOUL, FUNK, MODERN SOUL, MOD/BOOGALOO, LATIN, CROSSOVER etc, etc. Fully revised and updated and hugely added to from the 700 page Edition 6. This is a limited collectors edition in HARD BACK! This collector's edition, are all individually numbered and signed by the author. NOTE only 1000 are being made, more than 1/2 have now sold. Pre-ordering will most likely be essential to secure a copy. This edition, is we consider our best work so far in documenting, authenticating USA rare soul vinyl. ***To follow this release will be the long awaited UK SOUL/MOTOWN (very soon) INFORMATION GUIDE very soon. the 5 years in the making HARD BACK BOOTLEG GUIDE, + a full colour MOTOWN COLLECTORS GUIDE**

No , there's two bidders , "y***2" and "a***l" , y***2's top auto-bid must have been $178 and a***l's was higher so it's showing as $180.50 , if you click on "Show automatic bids" you'll see the back and forth ... Both dickheads ...

I prefer it on the tape over the YT clip , you can barely hear it on the tape ... And rightly so.

Just do what everyone else does , go to John's site after the auction's ended and read the finish bids for yourself ...

That's the one , 'orrible racket ...

Nah ...

https://www.raresoulman.co.uk/d/247855/MANSHIPS_COLLECTORS_GUIDE_edition_7

It's not Curtis Mayfield in that scene ... the uncredited "big black man" was played by a Raymond Johnson.

That'll be because it's a test pressing not a demo ...

It hit £3000.00 in about two hours ...

https://www.raresoulman.co.uk/auction/11192/let-me-make-you-happy