boba

actually me and my friend got that acetate and my friend sold it on ebay. It came from Stormy (guy on twinight). He is the cowriter on the track (John Colley).

have you heard the invincibles version? it's got this folksy guitar and awesome falsetto lead.

I say no way on the gypsy woman cover! They're not even in tune. my contributions: Tomorrow's Edition - million dollars - mel-o (cover of soul generation, amazing record actually from the late 80s) Invincibles - Crystal Blue Persuasion - Rampart (one of my favorite records of all time)

"it's got to be now or never" was a big hit in chicago, maybe because it had more of a chicago sound than a philly sound. it's still an awesome record, you should check it out if you don't know it.

Saxie Russell is definitely the vocalist. He has another record on randee but there aren't really vocals to compare, only chanting. His real name was vernon taplin. He has a few writing credits on other random records (e.g. luci and tim on gamma). nobody I know has been able to find him.

dammit...

I know everyone writes "rare" on their items, but I thought this was an extreme case on an ultra-common record, it annoyed me enough to send them a message. here is the interaction. --- Dear boba., Dear boba, Thank you so much for your interest in our Ebay offerings and your comments. Rarity is relative - most of those "zillion" copies have been tossed into the "trash heap" of time and are gone forever. Yes, it is played on "oldies" radio often enough to keep it popular with some but there are those who just cannot hear the songs often enough so must own a copy for their own enjoyment. Thus, you might note that this copy has sold. Thanks again and please return often to check out our listings. Have a great day and Good Luck with your bidding. Sincerely, FWMfermare -fermare ================================================================= Respond https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/e11051.m44.l1159/7?euid=4f01acd83547415cab85f531e17ce02a&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fcontact.ebay.com%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FM2MContact%26item%3D170724965704%26requested%3Dfermare%26qid%3D257166266017%26redirect%3D0%26ssPageName%3DADME%3AX%3ARTQ%3AUS%3A1159 ================================================================= ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From:boba. To:fermare Subject:Details about item: boba. sent a message about RARE, RARE, RARE - CHI-LITES 45RPM RECORD - "HAVE YOU SEEN HER" &"YES I'M READY" #170724965704 Sent Date:Nov-13-11 18:20:16 PST Dear fermare, This is like the most common record ever. It still gets played all the time on oldies radio and sold a zillion copies. -boba.

yes, what a good track. don't understand why the values are reversed on these.

my copy of this LP has a long note / dedication to the blue notes written by muhammad ali. I didn't look at it before, thought it was just writing on the record, then when I pulled it out last year I actually noticed what it was. Pretty cool. p.s. please don't tell me that all the copies LPs have this...

for me reversed labels are sort of annoying but they don't affect the price i would pay. When i read the title of the thread I thought it was going to be a record that was cracked in half, melted, etc.

I paid $80 on ebay a year ago and was annoyed that it was nowhere near as good as the cheap herb and doris

gil scott heron is some sort of DJ/collectors reissue, not worth much I would think.

wow, never seen that. i wonder if it's one of those curtom "SP" numbers like the christmas single. I think I have an SP-3 and SP-5.

I hadn't actually clicked on the picture. Man that thing looks trashed.

Curtis Mayfield

Thanks for the details on this. It technically is a "stock" copy. are both tracks the same length? Is it also mono/stereo?

I actually was thinking the same thing reading this thread (not that it's unique) -- people love to bitch and hate on things, and those threads are always the 5+ pagers.

flip of 162 is "everybody dance"

both are on ebay right now ending in 15 hours

the chicago radio market was one of the tightest controlled market in terms of payola, control over what got played, etc. Yet there still were local hits on tiny labels (who didn't have enough money to promote) and many garbage major label records that were promoted but nothing happened.

whatever. you're saying that the only reason a record succeeds or fails is due to promotion because "it does not matter if they are great or crap." That's obviously false, if it were true then the record industry would be deterministic and anyone could have a hit on any record based on how much money they put into promotion.

I don't know if they included photos or not, but the little ed photos they got were totally sick

i agree, there are a lot of records that are rarer than the more common ones, but the whole reason they're rarer is that they're not very good. i still need this bobby treetop and the other paul smith on jacklyn for example.

general johnson is a great singer, the songs just suck and aren't well written such i would want to listen to them. i only like their two hits dangling on a string and give me just a little more time. actually there are a ton of invictus singles (not just COTB) and despite the holland-dozier-holland a large percentage of them aren't very good. a lot of them sound like they were trying too hard to cross over pop.

that is a pretty hard record that rarely comes up for sale (unlike the other one), I agree it was kind of cheap