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Rich Tufo just told me that at the time Curtom was trying to work with as many larger labels as possible to get as much bigger distribution as possible which is how the Polydor thing came about -- there was nothing special about it.

i used to spend hours trying to get deals on gemm or people's online lists and always failed, couldn't ever find anything and that was like even maybe 5-7 years ago. i would hear stories hear of people finding stuff, i guess people are luckier than me i guess. i get good stuff on ebay though. this month i got a west coast distributors, was graded like G with no pic, was $150, came and it was like a strong VG+.

i will post a scan of the triplett twins for you tonight

i still think that if you're in the same country and even city it's easier to just call before you resort to threatening messages in email, etc.

Hi. Today I didn't have an interview so I did an all music show. I played all 70s and even some nice early 80s tracks. You can listen at the bottom of my music page at: https://www.sittinginthepark.com/shows.htm Playlist follows. Thanks for your interest. New Younger Brothers - Keep it together - YBP Linda Jones and the Whatnauts - I'm so glad I found you - Stang Alvin Green and Green Fire - The sun (shines every time you say you're mine) - Green Fire Silver Lining - My song - Dusic Fifth Avenue featuring Carol Townes - Love has found my heart - Buddah Clarence and the Speed of Sound - So bad - De Jac Infatuation - Since I met you - Pro-Indie Tyrone Mac - Maybe We - Express Jimmy Nunya - My sweet baby - Salsa Picante Anthony Watson - Solid Love Affair - SRO Watch Tower - Together Forever - Tower High Fabulous Waller Family - How long will I be a fool - Dynamic Artists Rinlew Allstars - Didn't want a lot did ya - AVI Raw Soul Express - Dedicate all my love - Cat MVP - I don't want to stop loving you - MVP FLB - Passing time - Fantasy / WMOT Tavares - That's the sound that lonely makes - Capitol Congenial Four - You played the part of a loser - Capitol Compliments - Borrow till morning - Midas O'Jays - I'm so glad I found you - Bell thanks, Bob

i find that making phone calls often settles things much quicker than drawing things out over emails, etc. especially when they're close. just the ebay information request to get their phone number shows that you're serious.

that gene marshall record is on prince james, did it also come out on markeda?

"We're gonna make it" is a positive Black power song, in the style of curtis mayfield's move on up. Sorry for assuming you knew my website, it's www.sittinginthepark.com. Thanks so much to you and everyone else that helped with the audio

"New World" is just a play on the name "World Column". It's idiotic, I knew two of the members for at least two years (if you look at my website I already interviewed one of the members in the passions interview) and nobody ever thought of it. I was just talking to one of them about their recordings the other day, I was like "was the world column the last thing you did" and then he was like "well, we went to curtom but they ditched the band and only recorded us vocalists" and that's how we got into the new world stuff. They had previously told me that the world column vocalist had sounded exactly like curtis though, I guess it's most clear on "we're gonna make it". I have no idea why it came out on polydor, I will try to ask Rich Tufo about it. A bunch of nice people here helped me with the "we're gonna make it" side but I still need audio of the other side, please email to bobabrahamian (at) gmail.com. I'm interviewing the other guy later this month about the many other groups he was in. thanks.

i will dig stuff out when i get a chance. off the top of my head there is a cherries on big beat. there is an ultra-rare triplett twins 45 on markeda. I think you're missing a whole sublabel, like greens iii or something like that.

it's missing this record which is a duplicate number: https://cgi.ebay.com/Northern-Soul-SOMETHING-NEW-on-Curtom_W0QQitemZ170352906443QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item27a9d310cb&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65:1|66:4|39:1|293:6|294:200

So apparently new world on polydor are the vocalists from the world column. The world column were a mixed race soul / horn rock group. Curtom signed them but ditched the band and just kept the vocalists (all Black), 3 men and one woman, all from Gary, In. One of the members was previously in the passions / newday. Another was in the senators on abner and valiants on destination. Can anyone supply me with audio of both sides of the polydor 45 to send to the group members? Thank you

the multi colored release has a different number, like 501 or something like that, and is vinyl. the ladue high school I think is later than the multi colored, it's red or orange i think it's styrene, and was probably pressed for their prom or graduation or something like that.

the problem is that many of these were not only pressed in chicago but many actually ended up being chicago artists. for example, the spencer jackson family "bring back peace to the world" on little lynns. i can fill in a bunch of random numbers for you later if you want though. there are a ton of big beat #s.

some good info here, they say that the HBR / Liberty group was flint (and include the lineup) and probably not the Encore group: https://soulfuldetroit.com/archives/1/636.html?1020915993 the flint group still might be related to the sound impressions group if I can find a common publishing, I have to check the publishing on the record still

maybe there was a common publishing or something, I will check that later.

the sound impression record sounds almost like a garage record but I think it's a black group because of 1) the bass voice and 2) the lead does sound pretty black. I think the names on the record sound like white people's names though, like white people were producing the record and trying to make it sounds garagey. The names on the sound impression record are: writer: Powl Christianson Produced by Greg Sutton Engineer: Brian Dombrowski Arranged and conducted by Martin simmons the four gents records on encore are written by Tom Kemp. one is arranged by Dale Warren, one is arranged by Henry Smith Jr. They are a Meehan - McGuire production. I suprisingly don't have the HBR record, can someone check that one for a common name? as it is, there is no common name across these two. For the record, here is the info on the gents on paramount: Both sides written by Bobby Flax, Lenny Lambert Arranged by Paul Griffin Engineered by Jerome Gaspar For the record, I was wrong when I said 40 pounds was the "going rate", I think I paid $50 for my VG copy of the Gents on sound impressions and have only seen it for sale a few times, I think $100 for M- copy once, so it is pretty rare and 40 pounds is a pretty good price for a M- copy I guess. I would say the value is still based more on rarity than quality though as it's just a garagey group funk record to me. Can someone post the info on the HBR record? it's common but I don't have it.

my friend called gordon keith today and gordon keith confirmed that it is 100% not michael singing on the ripples and the waves track, that mp3.com story is total BS. he just put "featuring michael" on the record to sell more tracks. there was a member of the ripples and waves named michael but he wasn't the lead singer and if michael jackson was the lead, he would have written "featuring michael jackson". additionally, the record was done after the jacksons were already on motown and there was no way he would have had access to michael at that point and it was not an older recording. ben brown was also previously perpetuating another story that the ripples and waves was the original name of the j5 before the j5, but that is obviously not true as evidenced by that newspaper clipping.

i told you i didn't have it with the lyrics insert, i was the second bidder, you could have just offered it to me for your minimum and saved the fees.

i'll give you 210 pounds for it

pressing looks more detroitey than ohio, don't you think? i will look at the names on the encore and paramount and sound impressions records later.

pressing looks more detroitey than ohio, don't you think? i will look at the names on the encore and paramount and sound impressions records later.

I think people are getting the two different leonard adair titles and their respective values confused in this thread.

i never made the connection to the four gents? i will compare names across the records tonight. I have the gents on paramount, will compare names on that also when I get home.

i never made the connection to the four gents? i will compare names across the records tonight. I have the gents on paramount, will compare names on that also when I get home.