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Bit more than rare ish

Cheers Alan I actually felt that in my brain

What's the record - rare ish, female vocalist, jazz singer, the story I was told was she only recorded it as a favour when she went into a studio to record something else? I'm aware of the paucity of information here (and even that could be wrong)... bit of a Hail Mary pass but I bet someone knows it. Thanking you all in advance It's very well known by the way. I just can't bloody remember it.

It's definitely rare yep, just wondered whether people had seen more issues or demos. I've had one of each over the years so that doesn't help... It just occurred to me to have a look on Popsike - 18 copies sold on eBay ove rthe last 15 years, 12 demo, 6 issue. So maybe I was right!

Is it rarer on issue than demo pls? I seem to remember that it is but my memory is shocking these days

Don't suppose you can stick up a YouTube link? I can't find it no matter what search terms I enter!

Was there also a third or fourth anniversary video btw? Or am I misremembering?

Thanks so much for posting that. Hairs on the back of my neck/little tears in my eyes stuff. I'm off out now but I'll watch that in bed tomorrow morning rather than shagging the missus. It's absolutely mad, looking back - jammed in like absolute sardines, completely off our tits, people karate-kicking and spinning all over the shop, people waving lit fags around two inches from your eyeballs, inhaling talc, sweating your nuts off, for eight hours solid. It's incredible that no one ever got blinded/kicked in the face etc Though I was wearing badly-fitting braces that night and I ended up with bleeding nipples. The best days of my life.

I always liked the (apocryphal) story about the Whizzy Vicar going straight from a CESC do to his church for mass, and introducing a hymn in the style of a northern DJ... 'This next one's called Morning... Has Broken!'

Thanks mate. Yep, I'm aware I could do it that way but unfortunately the nature of my job means I have to do everything above board and legit. Frustrating but that's why they pay me the big bucks. (They don't pay me the big bucks.)

Love this

Yep - I was there (If it's the Notts Oddfellows one in Leicester?)

Actually it looks like it's only necessary for commercial businesses?

I don't normally sell to overseas buyers because it's a PITA but this bloke is begging me to sell a record to him - he's paying £500 so it's sort of worth doing. Does anyone know what HS Code to put on the customs label? I don't want to get hassled by him because it doesn't arrive on time because it's stuck in US customs, basically. Thanks in advance

It's never a good idea to buy records off someone you don't know, or whom a person you know to exist (and preferably more than one) can't vouch for. This is straightforward fraud, but of course the police don't deal with that sort of crime any more. See if you can get him to misgender you, then you might be in with a chance.

Answer came there none.

Not the 'Not the "as long as they're having fun trope again"' trope again.

Ah that would make some sense - though I still don't quite understand why they wouldn't all get shipped direct to the UK. Why would copies get shipped to eg York, PA? (Though as per my above comment - chaos, unpredictability, lunatic behaviour, bad business sense etc characterise a lot of those labels.) Can I ask, is this surmising or is it based on documentation or conversations with Ashford people?

I'm a bit late to this but just to add my twopennorth - I'm as sure as I can be that there are originals with no stamp, as others above have said. I base this on a few things but mostly that I got my copy from a tiny little record shop in York, Pennsylvania, in 1988 (I actually got three copies and sold two, one to Danny Everard I *think* though that might be wrong, it's a long time ago) - all marked with the same 'play side' felt tip cross as in one post above. I am aware of the pressing situation in the States - it's obviously where a lot of boots were made, and indeed I have visited pressing plants in search of info and maybe even tapes etc back when it was worth going over (never got much useful info or tapes mind you!) - but it beggars belief to me that anyone would go to the trouble of producing an Eddie Parker boot (or any boot) and then ship multiple copies to insignificant record shops in outlying northern towns where they could possibly be discovered and bought for 50c each years later. It would cost more to produce and ship them. I can understand why it would be worth shipping to someone like Val Shiveley (not imputing anything improper to Val), because visiting his place in Philly was like walking into Hurts Yard some days - more Midlands/Yorkshire/Lancashire/Sweaty accents than local. If Val had wanted to, if the boots had been really good, and if he'd been prepared to do it, he could easily have knocked out boots to unknowing northern punters, certainly back in the lower-information pre-internet days (not that he would.) The very fact that it came from Val Shively (or similar) would have given it the necessary imprimatur. But a little mom and pop operation run by a bloke who also sold toasters and CB radios five hundred miles from Detroit? I don't think so. Makes no possible sense. It is easy to identify some known bootlegs but hard to prove a negative, given the chaotic and fly-by-night nature of many small US record labels in the 60s and 70s, and claims to know the absolute and definitive story of issues/boots/legal reissues/second issues on any given record are (I think) sometimes on thin ice. What is a known 'fact' today is often disproved tomorrow by the emergence of unanticipated new evidence.

Agree - that's great (though I don't like the bridge much). If I win the Euromillions I'm getting a bunch of people together and making a load of new stuff like this and knocking Butch off his perch.

It was actually a great night!

Mid 1980s, travelling to a nighter in Sheffield (I think) where Popcorn Wylie was appearing (I think) a dog got run over on the M1 in front of us. Bit shit. Around the same time, going to the Buzzard nighter and finding it had been moved to a cement works social club. Cement dust and sweat ruin a pair of shoes nicely. Maybe late 80s, going to a new nighter at a miners' welfare in Notts somewhere. (I say a miners welfare, from memory it was like a village cricket club pavilion.) Good DJ line up, reasonable attendance. No gear. Worst nighter ever.

Brilliant interview, thanks for posting that up. Such a great singer - I think My Darling Baby is probably my favourite track of his.

I sell the odd thing now and then but I've never sold abroad before. Just about to sell something to a guy in Spain. What's the best way? Record is worth four figures. cheers all