John Reed

I'm sort of thinking along the same lines as Bob. Are you talking about a CD swap, but one that's wider musically than the recent Sweet/Deep swap from a couple of months ago?

Just watched it and thoroughly enjoyed it.

John Ridley has a page on him https://www.sirshambling.com/artists_2012/G/joe_graves/index.php

Her Hidden Gems CD from the early 90's was packed with crackers and all previously un-released and just shows that the quality of the rest of her Stax output was top notch. My fave's on this apart from I'll Never Stop Loving You are: My Man Believes In Me, It |Ain't An Easy Thing, Good Man & Goodbye My Love.

It was just a general enquiry really. In the last 25 years I've only had 2 packages lost, both in 2010 (one from France and one from the US) and I've claimed via paypal.

This has probably already been done, but couldnt find a specific thread. If you buy a record and you pay via paypal or not, but dont recieve it. Someone has to make a claim on the post office, so who does it, the buyer or the seller?

The advantage of this one compared to the original is that this is a vinyl press, whereas the original is styrene. So less chance of it getting needle burn when played more than twice.

It was her last release on Avco Embassy and I don't think that stuff has ben put on a compliation. The single should be easily picked up for a few quid and it also got a release in the UK

Cant see the embedded youtube links, so apologies for duplications, but here are a few that I love, although some might not be really crossover...... Rance Allen - There Gonna Be A Showdown - Truth Little Milton - I'm Living Off The Love You Give - Stax Rance Allen - Up Above My Head - Truth Johnnie Taylor - Love In The Streets (Ain't Good As The Love At Home) - Stax William Bell - A Smile Can't Hide (A Broken Heart) - Stax Mel & Tim - Don't Mess With My Money, My Honey Or My Woman - Stax L V Johnson - Don't Mess With My Money, My Honey Or My Woman - Volt Mel & Tim - Free For All - Stax Eddie Floyd - I Am So Greatful - Stax Eddie Floyd - I'm So Glad I Met You - Stax (flip of the above) David Porter - I'm A Tellin' You - Enterprise

His solo version was also a massive play for Norman Jay in rare groove clubs in the 80's

So this is the 3rd version that popped up on acetate on ebay about 18 months ago? Grey & Hanks must have really touted this around at the time are there any more versions knocking around? Must be from the Atlantic/Atco sessions knowing that the others are from 1978ish

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Bet it looks really trippy going round on a deck with the black spiral and the white A

One of the best growlers around, fab tune

Sorry, but to me this sounds nothing like a Motown record, its pure Muscle Shoals all the way...

The first one is a red label with a big/fat font. The re-press label is more a pinkier red and the fort is smaller

Would be very nice to see it on a special Kent EP with other chess masters..... I live in hope

Reading those reviews did make me laugh

Just buy Gaslight for around a fiver

I think that one just pips Born To Be Wild

Volume 1 has a previously unreleased take of Van & Titus and vol 4 has two unreleased Jaibi tracks

Agreed they are a great series of CD's. I know that more uptempo material is included but always wondered why Matildata Jones' Wrong Too Long was included considering Part of the game is on the flip.

That's a great double sider and worth a tenner of anyone's money

One US seller I dealt with wouldn't do a combined postage for 2 recortds I bought. I accepted his postage costs but disagreed with him not combining postage. I told him that for the price I paid, I would expect it express delivery and signed for. It came express delivery and give or take a couple of dollars it was the postage he requested. You might have to bite the bullet and pay the postage and if the postage cost is more than a couple of dollars less than the stamp, put in a claim for over charging postage.

There are many many reasons why these issues are rare and have been discussed in the rare demo or rare issues threads. Contract or distribution problems, artists dying or leaving the group. A lot of southern soul records suffered from terrible promotion and distribution issues.