Solidsoul

Such a shame these great records didn't sell at the time!

The condition is a nice Excellent+ His rarest and best on the label. £125 all in. Includes tracked post.

Record is Ex condition. This is the original light blue demo. It must be about ten times rarer than the normal blue issue. £50 plus £3 postage.

Two great sides. Super soulful crossover Northern Soul mid tempo dancer. £80 + £4.60 post Very nice Excellent condition.

I don't think it has been booted as an issue. There may be some carver type things knocking about, with a photocopy label stuck on. I wouldn't buy it without a Monarch delta number and details in the runout. All original copies I have seen, have them.

"It's The Same Old Me"/ "Let Me Live"- Otis Leavill - Bluerock. M- £20. Plus postage. Great Chicago double-sider. "I Don't Want To Lose You"/ "Just Be Sincere" - Jackie Wilson - Brunswick. Ex+. £20. Plus postage. Double sided brilliance!

That's right you didn't, and you have started a very interesting topic on lost 45 records, but I thought it a point worth clarifying.

He didn't issue the record for the USA. He just pressed up a 1000 copies on a special order using the old Chess distributed Red Coach number 802 that the white demo used in 1973. They where all shipped to the UK Northern Soul scene. Rick Cooper on here said a while ago he ordered them while working at Global Records. Then I think Gene Redd pressed some more copies for other UK dealers. His Red Coach label that was distributed be Red Lite was up to at least release number 808 by 1975, when the so called issue was pressed.

Immaculate Mint- condition. Original USA demo 45rpm. £150 plus postage.

Original first issue of this great Detroit record. Record is in nice Ex condition. Has two light pen x's on flip side. They are not very noticeable, but I always think it gives a little provenance to the originality. £50 all in. Postage included.

Classic Northern Soul, on a nice Mint- original first issue USA 45. £25 plus postage.

Sold. Original first issue UK Bluebird release from 1982. Condition is mint- Nice mover with Walter Jackson's distinctive great soulful vocals. £20 all in, includes postage to UK address.

All time classic in very nice Excellent+ condition. Original USA 45 first issue. £40 plus £3.50 tracked postage.

Every time I see the photos of that record, I think there was a extremely rare, good condition record that now has been defaced and devalued with needless writing on the label! If Kenny needed Frank Wilsons autograph, it would have been good enough having the sleeve signed, and a photo at the same time for provenance!

I met Nick and his wife around 1981. They were both good company. We did some tape swops and he taped me some great records, which have turned out to be rare and collectable items.

On Hold. Great Northern Soul instrumental from the Stafford all-nighter era, when Guy Hennigan had it covered-up. Record is an original first issue in great Mint- condition. £60 + postage. Second picture is the copy for sale.

Apt demo. USA Original first issue 45 rpm. Condition is Ex. £30 plus postage. Looks and plays nice. 2nd picture is copy for sale.

Original first issue UK Bluebird release. Condition is mint- Nice mover with Walters Jackson's distinctive great soulful vocals. £20 plus postage.

Your info on how to tell the difference is correct, as far as I know. The original green label copy should have four run-in grooves. The white demo of the green copy has 4 run in grooves. Then as Tlscapitol mentions, there's also the blue label styrene west coast original as well.

Two great sides here on the original first issue Blue Rock. "It's The Same Old Me" and "Let Me Live" Record in nice mint- condition. £30 plus postage. Second picture is the copy for sale.

I don't usually buy modern new releases, but I watched a You Tube clip and Arthur Fenn played it when dj'ing. I thought it good for a recent UK release. Anyone else like it?

Original first issue USA demo of this wonderful great double sider. Condition is Ex, but it has some smudged name and date on the flip side. £35 plus £3.50 postage.

Oh well, it looks like my theory didn't hold water. I will just have to be happy I have large Archer stamped copies of Eddie Parker and The Four Sonics, among others.

It's a good point about the trimming tool but I think probably the trimming tool would only trim excess vinyl, not form part of the pressing groove/profile. The outside run-in taper/chamfer is formed by the pressing plate, as it's part of the run-in groove.

I don't need a time machine to spot an Archer pressed record. All the large Archer stamped records I have looked at, have a nice finished outside tapered edge to the record. This chamfered or tapered edge makes the outside edge of the record quite sharp. When I look at a lot of Nashville Matrix 95 records they don't have the typical Archer type nice outside edge taper. The outside run-in groove is flat to the outside edge with no taper/ chamfer. When I look at Archer stamped records like Doni Burdick, Four Tracks, Mighty Lovers, Eddie Parker, Westbound records etc. All have the sharp outside edge tapered run-in groove. You mention The Four Sonics on Sepia. The large Archer stamped copies have the nice outside edge taper, typical of a in-house stamped Archer pressed record, but the non,-stamped Sepia has just the flat edge run-in groove. A lot of Mary Jane records have the Nashville Mains 95 stamp, but don't have the typical tapered Archer run- in groove, it's just a flat run-in groove to the outside edge. Sometimes like Betty Lloyd on BSC there is no Archer stamp, just the Nashville Matrix, but that looks like a Archer in-house pressing because it has the typical tapered Archer outside edge profile. All this leads me to think Archer Stamped records are done at their factory and some non-Archer Nashville Matrix 95 stamped records with the good outside tapered edge are pressed at Archers factory. Copies without the stamp and high quality tapered run-in profile, and just have the flat edge are maybe the product of a sub- contractor for Archer, or for some reason made by them to a lesser quality finished item. Maybe it is just another machine, but this happens time and again. It must require different mother/pressing plates for the different outside edge profiles! It is hard to work out why it would be done.