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if that's true, then willie hutch stole the song! I will try to look in copyright for the vashons song in copyright.

When I said there were four releases on the label I was thinking of the poormans label. There is a 45 on pro-indie by the infatuations who had a record on the poormans label and on one more label. That's why I got confused. However, the infatuations 45 is a real release and it also says "from the LP" but I don't collect LPs so I don't know if there's an infatuations LP on pro-indie.

thanks for all your help. I still don't know the third single you referred to. These are the ones I know EMI 557 - Love Burns / Turn it over (1978) EMI 566 - Body Talk / I never know can you give me the listing for the third single you keep referring to? thanks again.

that is a real label, there are like 4 other records on it that are really good early 80s harmony soul things

I agree with this in the sense that a lot of the traditional northern sounds sound foreign and unappealing to new, younger, collectors. I'm not talking about just the pop records but the pounding soul that might have sounded awesome in a club in the 70s sounds boring and repetitive to certain people's ears. I think that a lot of the records with this sound that don't have another side that appeals to younger collectors will go down in value.

yes, i will report back and make a recording when i get it. thanks.

Is this record "known", like known as a stepper or anything like that? It's not in any of the discographies I can find: https://cgi.ebay.com/...94#ht_500wt_907

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wait is this you Kris? you totally got me if it is.

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I think now there is a lot more volatility in the prices as stuff goes in and out of fashion. I think before the price guides were out, ebay was similar, an item could go for $500 one day and $12 the same day. It puts experienced collectors who can pick out good records for cheap in an advantageous position. The price guides had the function of fixing the price, to some extent. Now that there isn't a very current one (and that there are so many different scenes to document) it's like there's not a guide. The funniest is Osborne's guide, which was written at the absolute peak of prices, the worst UK-US exchange rate, and even taking that into account, has higher prices than any UK guides.

The Vashons are LA. It is definitely the same song. I'm not sure who stole from whom. Vashons has Tinadele publishing on it which is obviously one of the big LA publishers at the time.

sniping instead of bidding early removes a lot of the impatience and stupidity from the equation what does "neutralize"ing the record mean? @Steve, I never knew the SAG thing, thanks for the info

I like the Marvellos version on Loma. Not sure which one came out first.

the one negative about the ebay DSRs for me as a buyer is that even though it significantly improved the condition of records that I buy, nobody will put up trashed records because even if they grade them poor they will get low DSRs. Some records are rare and I would prefer getting them trashed than not at all.

you know that Bob Welch died yesterday right? He was in the seven souls and fleetwood mac.

if it's as rare as that you can offer it as a private sale to a heavy collector without risking ebay

they took away the "send message" button from the user's personal page. You still can send them messages by going to your messages and composing a new message and putting the user's youtube ID as the recipient.

i'm not on there but fryer mantis is / was the main funk forum. i heard there's a new one? someone here should know.

what was the date and whose auction was it? the context is important. also, i'm guessing that chris is selling not buying

I've actually had the confusion between 80s Parises. Paris on Kelli Arts is Paris Holley. There's another 80s Paris record, a cover of love makes the world go round, produced and recorded in detroit. I have no idea if it's the same person. There is another Paris soul record, a singer who had one single on Uni in like 1969 and who had an unreleased Uni LP. At least that Paris is chronologically closer.

was this one of the things that jimmy radcliffe's son was selling copies of here?