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Bang Bang reissue please.

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Hi yes have an ex copy here. Lovely shiny and clean white label. Can send photo pm. Any similar value trades? Paul T

Just need following for SS RnW TM completion (obsessive I know) - don’t have to be in Ex condition. Most have decent stock copies here if part trade of interest. Also have some other trades or cash PayPal 238 Little S Wonder - Work 243 M Gaye - Can I 250 Martha Vandellas - Quicksand 278 Temptations- The Way you do 285 S Wonder - Castles 336 4 Tops Baby I need your loving 387 Velvelettes - He was really (just missed this from Mr Cox!) thanks Paul Temple

Marvelettes please Neil if not sold. I’ll pm you.

I recommend anyone thinking of buying a portable to go for this. I still use mine all the time and the great thing now is that you can plug in a quality small speaker not just use for ear phones. They sound great. Red or yellow the rare ones. Paul Temple

Hi Kev and thank. I must be a bit outdated as I thought it was worth around £350 so will pass unless you fancy a part trade. I could offer £200 plus either david Coleman drown my heart and flip on Barry ex or soulful twins on sable also ex. Both great records No probs if not. Cheers. Paul

Interested in replacing this great x/o if anyone selling. Just let me know condition and price cash or trades Paul T

Pmd you joe.

See Sunday Telegraph today back page of Business and Money - interview with SLV as an ex Bond Girl https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/fame-fortune/susie-vanner-paid-no-1000-bea-bond-girl/ her biggest money regret was not keeping a box of her RCA single Don’t Pity Me. Sold mine years ago as too poppy.....but undoubtedly rare PT

Hey guys thanks so much. Turns out they are the same group and recorded the same record with different arrangements in 1966 and 1971. And I had the Dispo version as well all along but hadn’t connected. Just listened to the interview and the band members were William Ledbetter, Willian Kirk Davis, Kenny Rydell, Gregory McEastland and Ronald Christian. Very little about them in Rob Pruter’s great Chicago Soul so the interview was brill. Some interesting stories about Barry Despenza, The Gems, Donny Hathaway and many others. Incedentally both versions have different but great flip sides. SS does it again. Cheers. Paul Temple

Help needed please. Just bought a great double sider The Traits Some Day Some Way and Youve Waited To Long (misspelt too for to maybe). Contact 4058 and according to discogs there were at least two variations of the label - one has CONTACT at the top and the other down the side. Both yellow. Anyway I’m sure lots of members know this record but I’ve never heard it played out and it’s great for now imho. I do have Willie Cager on CONTACT 504 and The TrAITS do have another nice midtempo on CONTACT 501. Contact seems to be a Barry Despenza sister label to Despenza of Ivories Please Stay fame - one of my cherished all time favourites. Anyway any info appreciated especially who were the Traits and were they the same as the Too Good to be True group. Also there seems to be another expensive CONTACT record by Paulette- who is she - any info? ive done some research but not a lot out there. Thx. Paul Temple

Hi Does pic and bill have pic sleeve please? paul T

After this please for sale or trade on RPR stock copy

Thanks vm Mal - I thought mine would be the reissue but it isn’t which is a relief as I paid above the odds....best Paul

Enjoyed that thanks. Do you know how to tell the difference between the original and legal reissue of VAL 7225. I do remember a sudden glut of the popular xover record coming on the market and seemed to remember Pat Brady dealer had quite a few supposed to have been sourced direct from Joe. Also do we know how many copies were reissued. It doesn’t seem a rare record now. Paul Temple

Anyone got any of the following on this label please - cash or trade - lots on discogs so hoping for better price Vg or better Eboney Essence let me in Chris Jones Destination unknown Sam Frazier I got to tell somebody and although I appreciate this is the rare expensive one Frank Hutton old man me prefer to buy more than one from one seller if possible thx Paul Temple

Sold Phillip Mitchell, esquires and Detroit spinners

See photos below: Action 4537 Carl Carlton Look at Mary Wonder/Bad for each Other - ex 25 4618 Esquires My Sweet Baby Great x/o ex 50 4622 Bobbie Houston I want to make it with you ex 12 Jay Boy 33 Demo Jerrry o Karate Boo Ga Loo vg++ 15 37 Phillip Mitchell The World Needs More/I’m Gonna Build Fabx/o M- 40 56 Olympics baby do the phillydog/Secret Agents VG++ 8 Atlantic K10243 Demo Detroit Spinners I’ll be Around Ex 25 PP fnf please plus 2.75 post signed for cheers Paul Temple

Nice info and questions. Made me get out all my Ovide and related stuff. Have and like the Mark Putney. It is a great collectors label. Re TSU (Texas State University where they formed) Toronado(e)s I think just two spellings if you ignore The - oes on Ovide and os on Rampart Street for example, which I think was their own label - Tim Ashebende on here would know as he bought most of the spare copies way back when. An additional question. Did any other Ovide apart from Bobo Mr Soul - Hitch Hiking (London HLU 10418 - 1972 licensed from Hi), and Archie Bell - A Thousand Wonders on Atlantic special issue in 2004 get issued/reissued in the UK. PT PS only assume The Drells were so called as rhymed with Bell rather than being an Alien species!!

Demo here M- will consider sell or trade. PT

One here Ex con I’ll pm you. Downstairs Record shop NY (which was upstairs), had lots of Smoke stock in early 80ts but never found George! PT

I don’t get that Betty Fikes version of the much better and much cheaper dan Brantley which I have always loved. £1k for an inferior version just because it’s rare and was once played at a Cleggy!!

Very upsetting. Roger has been unwell for a long while, but it’s still a shock. NS was much of his life - totally dedicated. I remember when he found the first Ted Wilson - I can’t take no more - on Sierra at our local boot fair in Chiswick. How the hell did that get there. He recognised its potential straight away. We had so many great times, and I am fortunate to have benefitted from his knowledge and record collection. He took the photos at my wedding (BnW) and then between us we lost the reel! Also knew Jim - he was the first person to recommend Mark Lloyd - When I’m gonna find her - to me and sold me a copy. Still a rare record. He loved talking records. Gonna raise a glass to you both tonight. PAul T