Mick Holdsworth

Never heard of the Natalie Baron - Must be one that passed me by. Is it "Somebody Somewhere", or like Ty and the Larrys, a different song with the same backing? Cheers Mick

Aah, don't remember "Beat Club", just assumed it was UK as the announcer (DTL) was talking in English.

With exposure on a UK TV show, it makes you wonder why all the blue copies are so rare, compared to the yellow promos.

Not ultra rare, but much harder than demos .... Robert Walker - Stick To Me - RCA Dana Valery - You Don't Know ... - Columbia Cheers Mick

August & Deneen

As a side point, anyone know how come we can still see some very old eBay listings: the one on this page is from Dec 2011 ? I've seen it a few times in the past, but generally they all expire after a few many months. Cheers Mick

I didn't when I had it.

I bought one off Sam about 1980/81. Think it ended up going when I sold most of my stuff in the early/mid eighties. Seem to remember it was a vocal to some Inst by Cliff Nobles. Cheers Mick

If you mean Manifesto, then yes, four colour vinyl, same as the Eddie Foster boots. I mentioned the green label to differentiate from the yellow labeled copies. Cheers Mick

Yes, but a long time ago, It was the green label - possibly Clive Jones had it, but we're talking about 35 years ago. At the time I had a 4 colour Eddie Foster but the grass was always greener on the other side, so as soon as I saw the Manifesto, I wanted it, even though I was never struck on the record.

Looking for a clean copy of South Suburban Rhythm Section (spelt as title above) - Libras really do run it. Either blue or yellow label will be fine. (Not sure which came first) Just let me know the price. Cheers Mick

Maybe the Professionals on Gold Vinyl (I should say this is NOT mine, nor is it ever likely to be) Cheers Mick

Rob , if the Delta is that number, then it dates to late May 1977 Cheers Mick

I've noticed Secret Stash appear to have suffered from the bootleggers. The Valdons "Stop, Wait A Minute" is now available on a yellow repress (SS original press is Yellow, and their second press is Gold). There now appears to be a further repress. Yellow label, but nothing like the first two ... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/351330186428 I assume it's a boot, as I can't see Secret Stash repressing it yet again, when they still have have Gold copies for sale. Cheers Mick

Not really sure, but think the PG in Tesco might have been a year or two after '69. As said, really before my time.

Apart from the dingles, they did have singles. It must have been a few years before my time, but our late friend Blue Max told be the first copy of Perlean Gray came from a Tesco (possibly somewhere in Telford, as I don't think we had a Tesco in Wolverhampton at that time, else we would have used it for shopping). Apparently, there was only the one copy of Perlean Gray in that Tesco at the time, but multiples of other titles. Cheers Mick

I also have a styrene issue. Seems ther must be copies of both formats on both vynyl and styrene.

RCA re-released loads about 84/85 (I think it was about then but I might be +/- a year either way). I don't know how many they did re issue, but it must be close to 100 titles. Amongst them was F Wilson, F Valli 3024, loads of commercial classics / hits, all on black labels. Having said that., I don't remember the Contours being amongst them, but it clearly must have been. Cheers Mick

Maybe it's me but the singer seems to keep saying "take th sh*t'' about 9 times. Does that count. Yes, it does sound like a Y2K retro thing. Cheers Mick

As far a Charay goes, No, they are the same. The recordings are identical apart from the instrumental break being cut out on the LP. One thing I'm pretty sure about is that Martha Starr (Cressa Watson) is not Martha Star. Cheers Mick

There's whites demos and dark red issues of both Sassy releases, both with "Love" and "Just A B side" Cheers Mick

Great stuff, hadn't seen that before

Yes, I only know about it because someone else mentioned it on here a few years back, and I was trying to find out if it was real or not. Only info I had was someone on here saw it on a US playlist, duly contacted the US poster and was told it had been sold to a UK collector. I don't even know if the song was a vocal, and if so, whether it was another version on either Moonlight or What Shall I Do, or even a new song. I'll beleive it when I see it, although with such a widely used backing track, Teddy Vann could easily have recorded more versions that never made it to vinyl. Cheers Mick

Nothing to do with the auction price or even the vinyl aspect of the songs (Milton Wright), but there have always been two schools of thought regarding this. One is that it was an original recording that JA released from original tapes. The second was that the vocals were only recorded in the seventies, making it a "modern" custom recording for the scene (similar to Baby You're The Fire" etc.) Although I don't think many thought it was a fake, reading John A's email further up, at least that has been resolved (if there was any doubt in the first place). Cheers Mick

Hey thanks Frankie, nice of you to say so.