Mick Holdsworth

Yes, it was a typo on my behalf, I meant to say Golden World, not Groovesville.

Thanks Mike, with the following from George . . . "I also did a couple of my things on Barbara Mercer over at Golden World too. Mr. Wingate gave me that chance. I wrote 'Happiness is here' on her and 'Just penciled in.' They didn't like 'Happiness' is here' when it was finished so I bought the track from Mr. Wingate for $500 and later, when Dave Hamilton got some investment on his label, did it on Tobi Lark. General Motors were interested in the track. They were thinking of using it on a Chevy commercial but it didn't happen.... " . . . it must have been a Groovesville track then. Thanks folks. Sorry, meant to say it must have been a Golden World / Ed Wigate Track then.

Thanks Gilly, so it may be down to whoever George McGregor was working for at the time.

I'm sure this info is out there somewhere, but I'm trying to find out if "Happiness Is Here" was a Groovesville recording, later used by Dave Hamilton / Topper, or was it the other way around. Thanks

Thought we had a similar thing already with "best answer". It's been a while since I saw that though so maybe that's now gone.

Yes, I remember a guy selling awful CD's on eBay years ago of pitched up or down tracks, things like Frank Beverly, Jerry Williams, load of others, all done with no thought of the end result. If the function us used with a bit of thought, it's good for fixing key errors.

One of the rarer releases on red US Mercury shares a cat number with a male group pop song release. I thought it was Stormie Wynters or Cobblestone, but can't find info right now. I'm thinking it might be something else. Can anyone remember ?

Hi Simon, The first is Diana Ross, the second is Carla Thomas, both with a pitch drop of about 75% Just reversed process on your files. qqqXXX fixed.mp3 zzzXXX fixed.mp3

There's lots of examples of this happening. Philles 123 is one I always remember. Theres quite a lot of times where numbers get used more than twice, a few examples on Charay

Just add the Essex as The Yank mentioned above, and that's the full list. The Vocals ... 1 - Frankie & Classicals "What Shall I Do" (With Cold Start) - Calla 2 - Frankie & Classicals "What Shall I Do" (With Talk-in Intro)- Calla 3 - Laura Greene "Moonlight Music In You" - RCA 4 - The Essex "Moonlight Music And You" - Bang The Instrumentals ... 5 - Subway Riders "After The Session" - Moonshot - Pprobably not the correct title, as this tune only appears on some copies, most have an unrelated audio of session musicians talking after a recording, which is probably the intended B side, as it also makes sense of the title. 6 - Honey Townsend "The World Again" - Mala. 7 - Burning Emotions "The New World" - Bang (not to be confused with the ABC release, which is a different song altogether). 8 - Mark Johnson "The Beautiful Place" - Diamond (Identical to Burning Emotions but this has the slow intro cut out). Cheers Mick

Yes, it is 3226, Tear Drop, dist through Jamie / Guyden. And yes, "You're Everything is great.

It was released on Teardrop

I've got a 179 as above but no sticker on it.

This one ?

Not sure but I think so, taking it as literally third from left, just past Sam.

Happy birthday Keith. Like so many on here, I have very fond memories going back to the mid seventies when I was in my teens. In recent years he's the only one I know who still wanted a printed record list sent to him. Very best wishes Mick

Sad to lose another great. Was told it was not the Fayette artist though.

I've never heard the Brothers Two, but I've often wondered about things like this. An example that springs to mind is the Fuzz - "I'm So Glad". I think there's something else on Calla too, just can't remember. I can't see any of them being deliberate, but suppose they could be some sort of effect.

That's me on the back row, 6th from the left (black top). I mostly did downstairs, but came in on the upstairs modern room. I don't think it lasted too long though, maybe 5 or 6 months ?

From what I remember the Pye release was just the first half of the original, doubled up, with a crowd effect added. The was a version without the crowd, but car horn instead, but same looped first half only. I used to have a Pye acetate of another version, with a "kids laughing"effect (could have even been a baby crying ?). On this one I think the underlying track that was the full version as per Roulette.

Here's the release on Discogs https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/11421946

Yes, mine has reversed labels, but I brought this up a few years ago on a previous thread and someone said their copy had labels the correct way around. May only be a few though. As a matter of interest, I wonder if the vocal got a Aanadian release, or were they all instrumentals.

Only just picked this up, so sad to hear. I only spoke to him a couple of weeks ago.

You could be right Steve, my first hearing was a JM unknowns tape, but that could have been after Dave R.

When this turned up un the late seventies ( I think John M turned it up on on one of his unknown tapes), I only ever saw Blue / Yellow issues. I don't recall any white demos, but clearly they must have been around.