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Great piece of footage. I used to get his lists in the 90's. Made me smile when he said if he wasn't doing this, he would maybe be a Refrigerator Repair man. I have a friend who started out as a Refrigerator Repair man and is now a millionaire from selling white goods.

I had this on a cassette which I recorded by hanging a mic over the balcony, like so many people did. It was played by Richard Searling early doors 73/74 and was followed by Joe Matthews - "Ain't Nothing You Can Do". It took me almost a lifetime to find out who it was, because he never announced it. I never heard it played again, does anyone know if it did get another airing, or did it just vanish into obscurity? Kev

Good article and well done Pete in the way you went about it. Can't blame Nick for wanting to keep his head down. Kev

Not Rare, but Lovely nonetheless, Yes Pete, you sold it to me!

That's what I thought, maybe £20, but the demo finally went for £270. I thought maybe it was being played out and had become popular all of a sudden

Just notice that the UK demo is about to go for over £200 on JM auction. It appears he didn't know it was a UK only issue. I bought it from new and just wondered if anyone has a value on the issue.

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I think there is something equally as beautiful and that is a Capitol Red & White Demo but I prefer the green & white Stateside demo's

There seems to be some confusion over "misleading" beginnings and "crap" beginnings. I think Gladys Knight is misleading but cetainly not crap, the same with Lamont Dozier, whereas Laura Greene's is just crap! Kev

That's the trouble with spontaneity. Unless you want to spend half an hour checking back through old threads you might have missed, just to make sure you aren't covering the same old ground, you can't help but repeat stuff.

Laura Greene - Moonlight music and you Lamont Dozier - Don't want nobody to come between us

Found it! Sorry to bother you all.

I recently dug this out and love the backing track to it and think it is one of the best versions of this song, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that the same backing track was used by someone else, for the same song, possibly before Dusty, but can't for the life of me remember who it was. Not Baby Washington or Aretha but a soul artist. Anyone help please? Kev https://youtu.be/51g7ZoDGwos

Got my second set and because I didn't have to return the first set, now have a perfect set by combining the best of both. Also now have a full set of warped and dished copies.

Other versions of OTDTYH, to my knowledge.... Jackie Wilson Tyrone Davis The Capitols Betty Wright Chris Farlowe Little Milton Willie Clayton Gregory Isaacs Lew Kirton

I thought the court case arose at the time, out of the fact that Elbert wanted royalties because the song was a hit. DB didn't get shot until 1970, and the Tyrone Davis album came out in 1969 with both credited as songwriters, surely as a consequence of the court case. So not necessarily an "empty chair" scenario!

£55.00 plays Excellent + Vinyl condition is VG++ no scratches very light paper scuffs Label has yellow sticker See scan. Other side clean and no stickers.

Was just looking at other versions of "Open the Door to your heart" and noticed that on copies of Darrell Banks version he is credited as being the writer on singles and "Darrell Banks Is Here" album. However, on Tyrone Davis' album "Can I Change MyMind" it is credited to both Darrell Eubanks (being his given name) and Donnie Elbert.When in fact Donnie Elbert wrote the song and won a court case in his favour. Tyrone Davis' album came out in 1969 so just wondered if anyone has a version that is credited soley to Donnie Elbert. Kev

I sold my copy about 10yrs ago for £50, don't see it that often on lists. Always thought it was too fast to dance to anyway. Great record though! Never heard it covered by anyone else. Kev

Yeh, Terry's a good friend of mine. John Clement and myself used to sit in on Terry's show playing the odd northern track. I used to dj at Ruperts Birkenhead when he was on at The Hamilton. Not met Desa but he and Terry were doing a show together on local 7 waves radio playing 70's & 80's funk and disco. Used to pick up a lot of stuff in Birkenhead Market but didn't know what was what in those days and must have missed tons of stuff. Still don't know what I'm doing now Kev

I spent some time in Billy Butler's loft in the mid 70's going through his records but he was reluctant at that time to part with anything. I couldn't even get him to part with Dusty Springfield - What's it gonna be. It was Billy who got me my first dj job in 1975 Kev

Well, to my knowledge, and my contacts in the 70's, when a local dj wanted a copy of a back catalogue record they had to fill in a requisition sheet and the records were supplied from London, where supposedly, they had everything ever issued. Sure, they had demos sent directly to the station but I was under the impression that there was a main library in London that had everything. I remember seeing the brown cardboard sleeves with all the different stations that had requested the record and the dates on a white label down the side.

It could have been a ploy by the record company to fool the radio dj so that while he was on to announcing the next record, their record came back in again. Just a thought, I'm sure no one cares anyway.

Here's a question. The BBC library, by all accounts, had issues rather than demos. I've got one and seen a few different BBC Library soul records and they were all issues and stamped BBC Library. The black ink stamp is only just visible, in the right light, on my Little Anthony & Imperials black/silver London issue. Does anyone know if they had demo copies as well?