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You'd still have some collection on your hands if you owned that little lot tho!!

Didn't realise there had been 30 copie sof Joe Jama! I still don't have one tho About six LT's came from one guy from Virginia about four or five years ago. Then another couple appeared from the same area under a different seller I think? Also, a few Ray & The Blue Satins have started to appear on ebay, but again, still a very hard record to obtain. One that defintely seems to have retained super hard rarity is The Nomads...has it ever been for sale on ebay? (my Popsike membership has run out!)

"So are these records now considered to be not really that good anymore, or to a certain extent frowned upon as a few copies have turned up?" If that is whats being suggested then its a very sad day and only proves that people want these records as trophies as opposed to actually liking them - heaven forbid! And putting records like the Tranells in a list with things that have OBVIOUSLY turned up in LARGE quantity (ie Clara Hardy) doesn't make sense either. Lets get a grip practically all of the records mentioned here are in no way easy to come buy, and certainly not cheap! I doubt the proles will be wandering around with pockets stuffed full of Tranells & Magnetics..... Surely ebay would have to be saturated before we can say a previously super rare records can no longer be considered rare any more, and therefore supposedly a bit shit?

Also it depends on what you mean by 'de-rarified'? Little Tommy or Al Williams are not everyday records by any stretch (but certainly not in the rarity league of say Soul Inc or Little Stanley) however I think you would still need to do a fair bit of searching (or have deep pockets) to quickly come into possession of either of those records.

A nightmare to Dj with because of the ending

Lots of copies of Little Tommy have been through ebay, but i am still surprised at the money on that one given its condition. Its booked at £1000 (£300 too high i would of thought) but JM has always got much more money for it than that and had it for sale a number of times. Thats the cheapest i've seen it go (again considering condition) for about four years. Others would be Al Williams on Palmer maybe?

YES! Haven't heard it out yet, imagine its a great dancer.....

"The flip is also awesome 'Sometimes I Wonder' top tuneage brilliant double header," Got this recently, both sides awesome, 'Sometimes' almost Shrine-esque production imho. Wasn't amazed on this side first listen but Lupton told me to give it another go and by Jove, he was right.....maybe the better of the sides?

Butch had a white demo at £400 a few months back...might still have it as not that well known (yet)? also look on popsike...someone got on for £37 not too long ago!!!

Hi already sorted but thanks for the offer! a great great record, thank god its cheap for a change

tough r&b sold mine a few years back and have only seen the one on manships for sale since. Great record btw!

Anyone got a minter free of hairlines ect for sale? Thanks! JM

so far all the tracks mentioned are available on cd i think? can we find one it knows that is definetly not on cd (as in professionally produced/licensed?)

Same here, a guy at work bet me i couldn't find a record it didn't know and when i came up trumps with one (can't remember what it was, something off the old soulclub site) i have to say i was quietly relieved after having spouted off about my knowledge of 'music no-one else knows about'

I've tried this with some obscure but not neccesarily super rare records, and then things like the cairos which i played from cd....some it couldn't find, the latter it did. I think how it works is it accesses a database of every record thats been put to cd. Perhaps there is a central database somewhere? It dosen't seem to be able to find records that haven't been comped to cd at some point, at least thats what i've found. Would be amazed if it really can tell you any record ever recorded. For instance take a rare northern record like the tamangoes: i'll wager it can tell you what that is but i doubt it will recognise the b-side. Still an amazing tool all the same!

VERY obscure. Andy Dyson has one I think?

King Cobras is a great record. Never even heard you play this out James?

I paid about £130 for Emmanuel Laskey about two years ago...thought that JM's price was the current rate at the moment? Its the silver (inferior imho) label version with the wanky synth as the backing comes in that goes for a few hundred isn't it?

Thanks for the info, gorgeous deep soul!

Would love to hear a clip of this 45!

Theres also the Rickey Andrews (edit) funk 45 which is very are as well but not in the league of Willis from what I've heard. Think Honky from the States plays it? I heard it was a bluegrass label.....

Moving onto another Rob Thomas record (so not completely highjacking the thread ) whats the story with Keni Lewis 'Shes Not The Marrying Kind'...one of my favorite records ever.....don't know much about it apart from that i heard its Shrine related? Is that correct?

me too!

? more than one copy?

v.cool