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that definitely is the tiniest "real" record player I've seen

Most of my top wants are random label numbers or obscure records. "known" big records are less interesting to me and they tend to come up for sale more often versus never coming up for sale. In terms of my rarest wants, I'm pretty sure i have a bunch of records on my want list that don't even exist (they just are listed in some places).

there actually is one that's probably smaller (but not really usable), it's just like a tiny piece of paper that folds into two pieces with a needle on one end, and you have to rotate the record yourself. I'll try to find a link.

i know this doesn't answer your question, but there's also a version by jana (a female group) on sound gems

different strokes for different folks

The one positive thing about the fisher price portables is that they're loud. There's no headphone jack though. I have one at home, I actually use it to fix skips -- the heavy tracking force will play through records that skip on regular turntables and playing a record through a few times will often fix the groove enough to play on a regular turntable.

I'm pretty sure those two 45s are the only 9th street exit 45 and there was no LP released. I know this guy who swears he read a review of the LP in a 70s music magazine but all the ohio experts I know say there's no LP. Random info: the four wonders actually have no connection to the imperial wonders, and are from indiana.

in a thread a long time ago where i was asking about a boot i had bought that was not listed in the boot guide, manship responded saying that there was a lot more and a lot more accurate bootleg information (including the record I got) in his 5th price guide. So it's not just a question of having a lighter book.

Maybe this should be a different topic, but what are the best "name" songs? My vote goes to the four tops "bernadette" and the vancouvers "malinda"

it's the first production that the mizell brothers were involved with i think

lots of collectors (including famous people like DJ shadow) use the old fisher price battery powered kids turntables. there is the generic red kind but I actually have seen a lot of people using the sesame street model with big bird's head at the end of the tonearm

This isn't really true, these portable turntables are modern turntables that have normal tracking force and replaceable needles. If you use an old fisher price then you would have this problem.

someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I've been told that all the info (and more) from the manship bootleg guide has been rolled into the price guide. So buying the bootleg guide separately isn't that good of an idea.

I don't understand, are you saying the other side is blank? because the side posted is marked as side B

chapter one is a hard record on stock with that side, and that side is great

I'm not the biggest fan of this label (a lot of the tracks sound sort of like generic detroit to me) but two awesome cuts for me are joe matthews "she's my beauty queen" and jimmy gilford "nobody loves me like my baby".

I also have a random chicago blues record by willie arbuckle that credits the emeralds explicitly as the backing vocal group. Probably the same group.

this isn't the actual track, it's an edited version of the track that was up for auction along with the auction scan. it does give you an idea what it sounds like though.

actually a lot of listings by different Jamaican sellers say "rear" instead of rare, I've noticed it many times. Obviously related to different pronunciation, etc.

I recently picked up that LC Grier (didn't know it before), I thought it was really nice.

On my birthday I always play the marvelettes "you're the one for me bobby" (even though I know it's about bobby rogers).

sad news. in addition to his early work with the o'jays, i really liked "this i beg of you" on samar

the pams is not expensive, maybe $50 max. they have another record on the MP label and I paid like $100 which is the most I've ever seen it go for. They were both produced by Jimmy Webb, I think an east coast group.

maurice on my is boston maurice and the zodiacs are from south carolina

I've heard the crosley is crappy. They made it look like a soundburger but i heard it was built poorly and doesn't handle much abuse.