Dave Pinch

i can remember seeing a usa issue in gary smelts boxes at pitches in 1995 wasnt anything like sixty quid...........nearer 20. probably not the same copy dave

hope you popped that tape back in the bin pete. best place for it dave

yes top detroit oldie. been around a long time and by that i dont mean 42 years dave

one is a detroit press and the other is chicago. abit like the brothers of soul "i`d be grateful" scenario. both are original anyway the grey one is styrene with a ztsc stamp and the other is silver, on vinyl wth a moulded over label. just like the brothers of soul is orange on styrene and also red boo on vynil with a moulded label. quite a few more like them but BOS springs to mind dave

my  interpretation of a hotbox dj is that he or she must be a self important berk with a very large ego dave

certainly looks like an aussie or new zealand copy that one joe. ian clark has it on his list at £50 this week. it must be creeping up in demand and so it should. its that good imo. dave

just looked on the bay and theres a stock copy finishing tomorrow.... well i`ll be blowed. never seen it before dave

thats the baby trev dave

craig moerer had an albert jones on his site for $25 dollars. As for the sammy davis. It does crop up on ebay now and again usually goes for around the 25 euro mark dave

fairmount stock copy much rarer though........... anybody taken much notice coz the lables look the same dave

around £300 i reckon. bit rarer than the topics but not quite as good IMVHO dave

does appear to be quite a hard one to obtain...........anybody got a stock copy dave

and how many other fairmount releases came out on rouser dave

an original white demo only went for £300 on ebay last week....................we came 2nd dave

also came out in the uk in 1978 on creole. made number 44 on the pop charts.i bought it when i was still at school but i still love it dave

it was quite a big hit locally in detroit and made the national r and b charts. so maybe coz it made some noise. decca who bearing in mind tried to put out darrell banks over here via london tried their hand with it. maybe they thought they had the rights to it and thought maybe no one would notice............... can you see what im getting at altho i would have said france belgium or holland were more obvious choices dave

lol My thoughts entirely .a great record tho anyway dave

£125 ish or just sell it to the bloke thats made you an offer pete dave

bearing in mind before the internet came along.it was a hard record to get. it took me 8 years to get mine but ebay and the like has opened everything up.the thing with showstopper is actually finding a copy in good shape. most of the copies on ebay are trashed but then you all know that also the other thing its got going for it its not a bad double sider . wouldnt have thought it would go up much more tho dave

yes it was issued. ive had 3 demos and one issue. one of the demos had a date stamp on it october 71 i think. i kept the cleanest demo for myself. wish id kept the issue now although the flip side was poor. i sold it to either joe lakin or derek greenhoff for £25 dave

gary smelt of blacknight records had a stock copy but that was 15 years ago. dont know if this is the same copy. i would have thought there would be more than one copy. although its very rare its on a nationally distributed label dave

still keeps cropping up on ebay tho as regular as it always did dave

its van mccoys version.readily available on an lp but it came out on an italian only 45 its quite difficult to track down now but ive had 5 copies all sold to local jocks in the doncaster/barnsley area. kept one myself tho. dave