John Reed

There may also be some charge for foreign exchange transactions, when I’ve tried to pay for something in Yen, PayPal wouldn’t allow a F/F payment without incurring a charge even thought my PayPal is linked to my bank account. I can’t remember if this happened for Dollar or Euro payments.

Althought i'm not a UK collector I only remember seeing dinked releases of "You Got Me Where You Want Me", but some of his other Phillips releases did have centres.

Polydor had a mixture of dinked and small hole'd UK releases in the late 60's to the mid 70's and well as Atlantic. Otis Clay's - Baby Jane on Atlantic was only a dinked release and Edwin Starr's Stop Her On Sight on Polydor came out in both variants.

Mal, If you dont have a yearning for the 7", go for LP (Brotherhood) as its got a few other likable tracks and it'll probably be more than half the price of the single.

One sold on ebay in April for $7.25 Can someone confirm the release number as its documented as 2414-S? if A&M were correct with is numbering, it would have been the groups last release on A&M (then moving onto Montage) and was sandwiched between Squeeze - I've Returned (2413-S) and Howard Johnson - So Fine (2415-S). Jeffrey Osbourne's first Solo release on A&M was I Really Don't Need No Light (2410-S) which was 4 releases before this one. So it looks like A&M had the singer they wanted and had no need to promote what I would assume to them was a redundant group and maybe the release was something to do with a contractual obligation for a specific number of single releases.

You just beat me to that comment..... was this released before the Impressions Keep On Pushing LP? according to to cat45 and wikipedia it was by about 4mths

That’s the mislabelled copy, as it’s a cover of the Otis Clay song "That’s How It Is". There are copies which have it correctly labelled. The other side is a good great redition of the O V Wright classic.

And what I've always thought strange about this release is that Charisma Road is the "A-side" on BDA 483 where you'll generally see it as single sided demos with ANLYL only on the issue. Then you have ANLYL as a single sided demo BDA-483-N, which shows in the Ref number (BDAS-483-B) it as a "B" side. Does that make the ones with a "N" suffix reissues?

You get both sides on the demo, Mal Came out as a Black/White demo with bold text and Blue/White demo with small text

Ady Pierce used to have a load of Candi Stix product, thought that was about 20yrs ago

Think they were all published via "Real Rhythm" which was Ron Murphy's label from the mid/late 80s which released the likes of Sja'Nay - Tell Him and Nightforce - How Do We Get Back To Love, amonst others...

Try this, they're about 1/2 way down the page. https://www.cruizinmemories.com/rare_hard_to_find_oldies_s/1.htm May I congratulate the graphic designer for his thoughtful artwork of the Lowrider Oldies series

From memory there were only those three that came out in 1991 and were unreleased Detroit Gold Soul demo's cut around 1970.

You should be able to get the issue of Bettye for about £20-30. Personally, I think its a great reacord and harder to get than Kisss My Love Goodbye, but there's not as much demand.

I think Bob A floated that question a few years ago. Both records do share a lot of writing and production credits.

Don't think Rod re-pressed issues 1 - 4/5

The other label was Tout Ensemble

All the White demo's i've seen, have the Big C logo on them, so would have assumed the issue with the same design came first. I thought that this was quite a sizable hit so the the 2nd pictured one could just be a slightly later press to cope with demand?

Tony Rounce might know as he's been playing around the Memphis vaults and compiled the Danny White CD for Kent?

Ooohhhh that yellow is really pretty, i want one......

I used to think that Atteru was the local Memphis release before being leased to Atlas. I knew of three variants of the Atteru demo's, but didnt know of the issue. Two of the Demo's dont mention any distribution information, but one has it distributed by Joda in NY. I would love to see a scan of the issue to see if it mentions Joda?

Keith, Are you selling "To Be Your Lover" on Aar O Dot or "I Used To Be a Loser" on Volt or both? John

Thought this was an LP track from Generally Speaking

This is my favourite Otis remembrance song as Clarence gets the emotion just right. Looks like another top show, Barry (as usual).

My version preference is James Phelps and then John Edwards over the other versions, but do think it’s a tight run thing. Of the two songs I think I prefer You Were Made For Love over The Look On Your Face and on that case I prefer John Edward’s rendition on Aware, which was his next record after his Bell release. So for me it’s a draw with: J.P. 1 — J.E. 1