Modernsoulsucks

Got April Stevens yellow regular "Wanting you" UK 45 in pretty Mint nick and "Little Queenie" Bill Black on UK silvertop London in same condition. Anyone got anything to swap. Looking for 60's soul or ska/reggae in similar condition. NO R&B or 70's thanks. ROD

I checked a listing and it is there Dave BUT so is "Till Johnny comes" so maybe/probably withdrawn? Certainly "Doin their thing" LP rings no bells with me. I'd ask around a bit more and if none turn up I'd put one on Manship and book a Winter cruise [hopefully] ROD

Is that right? It's "Gotta have you back" on the issue. I've never seen demos like that before. Actually Im now wondering if I have seen a WDJ of "Keep..." I may be confusing with "Destination Anywhere" The last regular issueGlobes design I actually have is Wonder "Hey love" which falls between " Got to have you back" and "Starting the hurt all over again", both on later design. No idea when Globes phased out completely. ROD

Im pretty sure Keith that I've seen a Globes demo with same song both sides. ROD

Nice post James. Insightful and inciteful. ROD

Ignoring Ted's "anorak" comment, who's probably just found out that what he thought was a regular issue of WH in his collection turned out to be Three Dog Night, I can see that the bottom copy of the three in the Popsike listing does look different to the other two. And none are the same as the Ebay copy. However mine is the same as Ebay copy. I got a couple in mid-80's. Im saying that it isn't dodgy as a couple of posters have inferred, albeit jokingly I assume. Borne out by demo copies in the same format. I think mine and Ted's point was that the regular issue isn't as rare as the Ebay seller makes out. As to different layouts as you say East and West and styrene and vinyl maybe, different pressing plants utilised by a major company. I regret Ted felt unable to enter this fascinating discussion and he will no doubt be giving my next topic a miss where I point out that in some Detroit matrices the "Z" is bigger than the "C" unless the "S" is slightly more curved preceeding it and it was recorded on a Thursday. My friend and I were stunned to notice this although he's not had a sexual encounter in some time and Im married. ROD

I can only hazard a wild guess that it came out on two label designs with slight variation. If Mr Tag had carried on his investigation he would have noticed that there are demos with both layouts, i.e. "Lou Adler" on the right and "Lou Adler" under ther title. Mine, like the copy for sale, is styrene D-4012 with Delta # 58631-X. ROD

I was actually complimented on my shagging by a young lady who came up to me afterward. I was with Mr. Raistrick who proceeded to giggle and smirk like a naughty schoolboy. Last time I saw him he told me we later had to make a run for the car as the male clientele were obviously threatened by my shagging prowess. I can't remember that but he assures me we did. ROD

In excellent nick I'd say. Hear it here https://www.raresoulman.co.uk/d/73963/GEE,_RICKY £100 on JM site and $125 on CM,s £25 plus £2 postage 1st class recorded

Here's a link https://www.beachshag.com/ I was kinda involved in it from around '76 to 2000 from the point of view of swapping 45s with some of the guys over there including finding records unknown to them with the right beat. And attending the odd club whenever I got the chance. Your questions would take a book to answer. It does have similarities in that it faded a bit like Northern in the early 80's but underwent a massive revival. From my experience you won't hear anything 60's that you don't know. Since my first time at Crazy Zack's in Raleigh [along with Dave Raistrick] in '79 I've hardly heartd a 60's record in a club. On the radio, yes but again nowt obscure to correspond with Northern. Last time I went to a club in 2006 I was told by mates that vinyl is gone and even CDs are being replaced for DJ use by laptops. The dj in the club in Greensboro was definitely using that format. Here's a couple of tracks I remember being very popular in early 90's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Aidp6REiQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfew49guhhM Final one is my biggest discovery. It went massive and got booted.It's absolutely bobbins! ROD

I agree Ted. The seller is talking rubbish to claim it's the only copy. ROD

Boba, The hot water treatment only works on 60's EMI distributed UK 45s as far as I know. Gogo has confused me as he talks about applying pressure but he is right that it will make a VG [heavily marked but NOT scratched] record presentable. Never noticed any loss in sound quality though unless you f**k up in some way. Basically you boil a kettle. Leave for 2-3 minutes. Hold record upright slightly tilted, and pour water down one side and then lay flat Repeat other side. Dry off by wiping with record cleaning cloth. ROD

Boba, could you give a bit more info please. Polishing with what? How does a layer come off? Are we talking US 45s [as Phil alluded to a US dealer] "Cleaned by a VPI[?] machine" you see in some ads. Is that it? The only thing I know about is the hot water treatment which only works on UK EMI records from the 60's. It will make them look better but won't get rid of scratches or skips. ROD

I remember someone playing the grapevine release of Bobby Rich - Theres A Girl Somewhere at a venue where the next DJ on had the original and wasn't very happy I could be wrong but I think Grapevine issued those 45s for people to plat at home or in clubs. If someone is unhappy that they have the original but now anyone can spin it then my advice is to get over themselves and maybe find something else to play. Bobby Rich? Not exactly a new record is it? I'd agree that just because it looks like a UK issued 45 it's not certain to be a legal issue but when it is I can't see what ther fuss is about. ROD

"Far away places" was the popular side over there hence BMR boot and EEE re-issue. ROD

Some were waxing lyrical on here about the old Emi-discs they bought all those years ago. Are these not just the 2010 version? Not that Im condoning it but it's nothing new. ROD

Ageed!! some 45's just aren't making what they should What exactly does this mean? Last couple of days off Ebay I've had a record for £7 that both John and Dave T. has for £75 and £100 respectively at set sale and another for same price that John has at £100 and Craig M at $125. I've no reason to believe that any 45 should sell at the higher value when it's evident from my winning that they just don't. ROD

I'd like a copy of "Watchout" but Gordy would do. Mint or there abouts obviously ROD

I was waiting to hear from others. That may suggest that a lot if not all Woollies branches had stock of Motown LPs they sold off cheap. How many branches in late 60's x copies they had. Quite a lot i guess ROD

Which Woollies RicTic? I definitely remember seeing multiple copies of Moniotors and Chris Clark in the Stockport branch. I bet Francis T remembers too. Around 68 or 69 maybe. ROD

As a hopefully interesting aside I once smacked a member of the Sunliners. He attempted to "touch me up" in Bob Mays shopin Detroit back in 1979. First brush I put down to an accident, second time I was suspicious and on the third I smacked him one and Bob Mays intervened, which was qiute amusing as he was blind drunk at the time and he ended up on the floor too. I also bought about 30 copies of Sunliners off him for a couple of dollars each. ROD

Nothing personal Pete. Just using your first name to be friendly as the wife says I must try to be more amicable and outgoing and lose my carefully cultivated cynical persona. And by his own admission Pinch is worse than me at attaching pics so you should tell him off too. And he was smoking behind the bike sheds. ROD

To be fair Pete there are a lot of 45s on here at prices over £400 that don't have scans. I know he's been asked for it but some of us aren't very good at the technical side of things. Took me ages to scan a couple and attach them to my posts. ROD

Saw 1000's of them at John Lamont's warehouse in '79. ROD

Wow. $103 with 4 days to go. I've got something similar here though it isn't signed. Thought it was a piece of tat. Am Fed of Musicians contract between Henry Cosby and Motown. For 3 hours work with Henry and various others inc Ashford, Jamerson,Coffey, Van Dyke. Includes names,addresses and social security numbers. In fact I've been drawing Earl's pension for the past two years! Henry got $170 for 3 hours and the rest got $85. For a nice offer I'd let this go. ROD