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Doesn't seem a very good deal for the seller, does it? He shells out 15K and has to wait 10 years to make 5K on that investment. The auctioneer shells out some tiny fraction of that amount (if anything) to promote the auction and waits a couple of 60 days (or less) to make 5K for himself. Seller could have put that 15K into a savings account and made more money on his investment. I wonder if there was some sort of minimum price guarantee on the auction in excess of the final amount.

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I have a studio acetate of this track that sounds great.

I have one of the players, but could never get it to work. It looks like a tiny portable record player.

Tail Feathers, Ronnie Goodson, and Superlatives are all on the same Uptite label and I would say it's from Jersey City, NJ. 125th Street Candy Store on Uptite is NY.

Frank Dell is Big Frank and the Essences on Philips and Blue Rock, both part of Mercury. Not sure what the Starflower record is.

I have both el anthony's on star-vue. Won one on ebay, but when it arrived it wasn't the title in the auction. When i emailed the guy about it, he sent the "correct" one and told me to keep both. Where does Otis Brown fit into these things? What was the Lujuna connection with Lock/Master Key/Erica/Star-Vue ?

I think both Clarence and Kenny told me that. I've spent more time with Lucky than either of the other 2 and he never mentioned it. Never met Ed Okelly. I do not have the Delon Washington record, and I've never heard of it. I really like just about everything I've heard from this stable of labels.

What's the title of the Lintons record? I don't think I know it and I've got a lot of the Lock/Master Key/Erica stuff. Never seen another copy of the Debonairs besides my own. Great record, though. Greg

The one I won on ebay a couple of years ago for approx $75 mysteriously never arrived.

Is that the other side of "I want the good life"? What's the current value?

What's this one go for?

Maybe I sold mine too cheap then. But to be honest, very few people inquired about it when I had it for sale.

Me too. Value? Availability?

I don't think I've ever been to shop where the owner wasn't a nutter. This record collecting thing seems to attract some very odd characters.

Wasn't meant to be a top 30. But I can't seem to copy and paste a list from Excel into this forum because it all ends up jumbled together. I had to pick the "insert list" option which automatically numbered each line. This was just a list of records that I think are hard to come by. I purposely chose some that I have seen for sale but don't own, and others that I personally own but have never seen for sale.

Very true. Just how rare are these? Are there dozens of any of them? How many are one-offs? two-offs? are any of them "common" compared to their potential selling price (50 copies of more)? charles brandy cant get enough blue cat magnetics lady in green bonnie mark iv if you can tell me something good brite lite empires you're on top candi fred & turbines bernadine cenco willie dee it looks like rain chi heat topics have your fun dream precisions sugar aint sweet drew tranells blessed with a love flo jo lynn varnado wash and wear love gator margaret little love finds a way genebro kell osborne law against a heartbreaker highland jimmy delphs dancing a hole in the world karen junior mccants try me for your new love king mello souls we can make it mello devotions do do de bop nation sonny fishback heartbreaking man out a site tsu toronados 1000 wonders ovide ernestine eady lets talk it over phil la of soul bobby rich there's a girl somewhere for me sambea dennis edwards johnny on the spot international soulsville len jewell bettin on love teri de john & wierdest cant get over these memories tie two plus two look around velgo andantes like a nightmare vip springers nothings too good for my baby wale ivories please stay wand walter wilson love keeps me crying wand saints I'll let you slide wigwam classics so glad that I found you yan g

Has anyone tried to do a survey of how many copies are known to exist of some of the top rarities? It would provide an indication of just how rare these records are. Some of these 4 figure records that exist in dozens of copies might indicate that demand outweighs rarity, while a similarly priced record with only a handful of known copies might indicate that rarity trumps demand in its valuation. How many copies are there of things like Magnetics "Lady in green" or Don Gardner "Cheating kind"? How closely correlated are price, demand, and rarity? what about throwing in "condition" as another variable on these valuations? How does condition affect value for the top rarities? If a third Frank Wilson showed up, how much of a difference would its condition have on its ultimate selling price?

I have the purple label version of this. I dont think it's 60s, but I've never heard any other version to compare it to. Unfortunately, mine doesnt look minty like the one pictured in this thread.

Is this actually listed by Manship with a 4 figure price somewhere? There are plenty of records on his "rarest of the rare" page that are not 4 figure records.

I don't think I'm someone you can decsribe as "mixed up" when it comes to recognizing a northern soul sound, so let's agree to disagree on this particular record.

Now I would have said it most certainly wasn't Northern. If someone was to ask me, "What's northern soul?", I would never play a record like that to him as an example. Even when you consider the sub-categories of the genre: mock motown, pop stompers, beat ballads, mid-tempo floaters, beach music, messy-hollow-recorded-in-a-closet-amateur-teenage-combo-adrenalin-fests, even r&b this is just so far removed from any of those types of sounds as to be completely unrecognizable to me as "northern". I don't consider myself an "oldies" fan, and I'm very open-minded when it comes to new discoveries/sounds, but if you were to put this record next to any example of the above sub-categories of northern, I dont think this record would hold up well at all.

Yes, that's the record I had. I thought it was crap. I just played the sound file on Manship's site. I still think it's a bad record.

Is this on a yellow label? I had this in my sales box for years and finally sold it for $20.