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Not sure about that. I thought $7 for post BUT my PayPal account /brewery invoice was more

tha maddening thing is...Max wrote and did a great piece of research/interviews on the Ultimates-and published it in The Philly Enquirer Jan 2022. So he is a devotte.

they might just as well be saying "alexia play"!

yes...like a fool i thought it can't be as bad as the Nu-Ron's fiasco. It's a book! It's in Print isnt it? but having emailed them (20th Aug), this is what i got back Hey now! How goes it. So we blew through 100 copies and need to link with the author to get more - he’s an odd fellow, but we are working on it! Thanks for writing. sometimes i'm thick and sometimes i'm stupid. on that day i was both @Brewerytownbeats

the very funny Rose Matafeo appeared on The One Show tonight wearing a big logo Wigan Casino t-shirt? It's a BBC epidemic and it is spreading a pseudo Northern Soul virus.

It's (the book) under copyright protection...but it is page 172. As for the B&S issue, i don't have it.

the 'covering-up' with white (paper discs) labels was retold in 'Dave Godin- a Northern Soul' by Stephen Stevlor (author) as...'a train journey trip in 1971 to visit the Pendulum & Cromwellian'. It goes on 'his clubbing adventure was covered in the next available B&S'.

Tavares With Freda Payne :I Wanna See You Soon. Cheap as chips and v.g (IMO)

Much as I enjoyed it there is no substitute for the real thing which had me thinking , if I was Joe public watching would it make me want to go to an event,.... Hope not

Sing-along-a-Northern. Maybe you had to be there. Glad i wasn't.

the guy furthest right would have been well surprised! Sparkles 1963 ( pre Tough Girl)

T. D. Valentine ;Allison Took Me Away Flip of Love Trap

So true. It brings desirability into the equation i think. There are rare and scarce 45's ('Northern') that don't get played because they're less desirable. There are 'versions' that are scarce and rare of known tunes that don't get played BUT, the same known non-rare/non-scarce version of said tunes that do.

yes- in the same way as you see so many selling Mint, Mint +, VG, VG, Ex+1.1 (🤨) palarva, etc, etc, etc. (Carolina Soul the exception i can think of instantly who grades just Good, etc often).

point taken...i should have used different examples. a bit lazy of me, and it just came up

So..Ralph has just posted (for sale) Dorothy Beery as rare £250. Is it rare or scarce, neither or both? And I’m not having a go at Ralph for his description, but it does normalise the term “rare” when perhaps it’s not.

agree. what i was driving at was e.g. Scarce : a 200-300 stock copy count all in collections. Rare: only 5-10 count known worldwide.

let's hope they really love it and keep it or they get burned later down the line if they try to sell it and the price drops to what it should be

more scarce than rare...although i accept they can and are often interchanged

yes Chalky - e.g. "I'll always love you" , Spinners

@Roburt As interesting as your 2 previous posts are (to me)...only you could confess to not having any idea or caring about rarity, but then turn those 2 posts into something entirely different. take it in good heart 😉

explains it. ta

i don't think Kim who came 2nd in 1974 is the same Kim who came 3rd in 1981...unless she used a married name?

the young lady who was 2nd was Kim.