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on the northern soul market, there is a frequent difference between price and rarity

the cindy that the main attractions are on is detroit. i think that's the first hunts determination band record. the cindy that the R&B indys book thinks is chicago is the fabulous egyptions 45 probably. but I'm pretty sure that's not chicago and think that the label is philly.

solid rock IS detroit, it's a sub-label of revival

this record came out on both "lady" and "black lady"

I think it was the pa label but jack ashford and lorraine chandler were songwriters that shopped their material around. they also wrote the ray gant and arabian knights 45.

there were two presses of the hog, one was the dc version and the other was the same record with wheelsville distribution. it was a DC label and group but the label owners had detroit contacts.

i think there was a soundclip on their myspace page (maybe not if that's where you got that photo), I have to see if I can find it again.

this record came out on tobin and turbo. not london. which version are you looking for? the turbo one is the sweet soul version.

the candace love aquarius is the chicago aquarius, same as boo, zodiac, shock etc. I know that most of the productions had to do with the bros of soul but there were some local chicago ones (e.g. norfleet bros, inner drive) and the fact that the label owner sent people to detroit to work with detroit writers and arrangers (bros of soul, mike terry) doesn't make it a detroit label in my opinion.

it did just go through ebay for like $200 so hopefully the buzz is gone now?

thanks, i just looked in popsike and he has records on a ny cherokee label and an LP on a new york apache label, so it must not be a chicago label. the 45 isn't in popsike so it must be rare at least.

with checker / chess, having the different label designs does not necessarily mean different pressing plants, as checker was constantly repressing titles, you can often find the same title in the checkerboard label, red label, light blue label, etc., often because they were pressed frequently with whatever labels they had at the time, and some are definitely later presses than others. in some cases it's clear what came first but sometimes it is.

which apache label is this? where is it from, it's not the james phelps apache is it?

when it hits 1:1 i'm buying up everyone's sales on here

there was this one person that had the delanettes on ebay for $69, I think the listing went on for literally 2-3 YEARS over and over and over again and nobody ever bid, it was one of the most annoying things I've seen on ebay

i didn't know then, but i'm pretty sure now that me-o is definitely la, run by a guy named romeo taylor

is IPG definitely detroit? the biggest hit on the label was jay wiggins sad girl, isn't he an east coast artist? I know the barbees is on the label, but I always thought it was an easy coast label.

someone on soulfuldetroit said it was a new york label connected with audio fidelity, and that it just picked up some detroit productions. it was a thread about how eric and the vikings on karate have nothing to do with the motown group.

stormy (the twinight guy) actually produced the el anthony 45s on star-vue if you look at them. I don't think lujuna was connected to clarence stuff at all. El anthony was from gary and was a member of the passions on tower by the way.

another hard one is the second el anthony on star-vue, do you have that? ed okelly was involved with a bunch of stuff but he ran the teako label himself. both sides of the delon washington are great, i can send you audio if you want.

for the record, sonday was dionne warwick's scepter subsidary and she was mainly west coast based. flaming arrow is not chicago and is detroit as matt said already.

celtex, avin, boo, criss-cross, duo were chicago. not sure about teen town either, is there a definite detroit teen town label?

the lintons is come back to me / lost love. it's not the same version of lost love as on erica. Do you have the delon washington 45 on lovelite? that is another hard clarence johnson record. Did you know that lock was actually owned by 4 people and not just clarence. At least according to Kenny Wells, the letters in the label stood for: Lucky cordell edward Okelly Clarence johnson Kenny wells The main artist Kenny dealt with was lee sain.

clearly it's rare, everything goes through ebay, including some very rare records. i don't know how rare it actually is, probably someone in italy could answer better though.

this has been on ebay a few times, you can even find 4 copies in popsike