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i love wylie's photo on the cover

it is the same Keni Lewis, he was a DC guy as Steve G states, he was in some other groups too I think (I have to check my notes). He did a lot of writing and production. The only chicago connection I can think of is that I think he may have been one of the writers on gene chandler's mr. big shot (I will check when I get home). The epsilons are DC, it's suprising someone found that in Chicago, I have never found any shrine 45 in Chicago, I think they show up in detroit and some other places where they promoted, but finding even a more common shrine 45 in chicago is rare.

there's a photo of the group in the prix compilation my friend's label put out -- George I can probably get you a scan if you need it

I've seen bill watts go cheap once on ebay too. There wasn't an audio clip though. Is there a good side, isn't it blues? Either way, also, not a 'known' record so that doesn't mean anything if there is a good side, e.g. it could be expensive if known. Bill Watts was one of the many chicago artists on AMG I think, I have a record by him on a weird local chicago label also.

that underground resurrection that was just on ebay had the pink design by the way, I don't remember what color the one Sebastian won was.

I used to see the eddie simpson for sale all the time, I thought it was the only AMG title that was actually distributed. The whole deal with AMG was that you would pay the guy to press it and supposedly promote it but he did nothing with it. I actually have eddie simpson with two different label designs, a pinkish one (promo) and the more regular colored one. I don't think any other AMG title exists two different ways. Either way, like any other record, it's rare now I guess.

I bought the bill watts on gemm for almost nothing recently. The eddie simpson is one of the most common AMG titles but it is actually pretty good so it's worth a little more, I remember it was actually on ebay recently, maybe sebastian even sold it?

the sweet soul side is really good too

both sides have vocals. but both are weak funk tracks.

the way out 45 credits j mccants. i am recording it for you now, I will pm you.

I just looked on popsike, I couldn't find the $355 you talked about but I did find a recent one for $250 and the other ones for $200 and under, but clearly I'm out of touch about the price at this point because I didn't even think it went for that much but apparently it did. Thanks.

I have the harmonics way out 45, it's not very good, both sides are funk, I think there's not even vocals on it but I would have to pull it out to confirm. do you have the elevations - a change it gonna come / no doubt about it on rubbertown? I have all the rubbertown records except for that one, I know it's probably not very good but I'm wondering if it's any good at all?

yeah, now i'm not going to sleep for 2 days YOU JERKS

I apologize, but my tone came from comparing the rarity to lester tipton, which is ridiculous in my opinion. This is on ebay at least several times a year, for example, again usually beat up, but it does turn up. Comparing it to the absolute rarest records is out of line. I agree that at this point you can call it a 'rare' record, at least compared to other records that sell for a similar amount, and it is usually trashed.

I always thought that this dupree was earlier but I guess I'm probably wrong given that summer's love has an earlier number and Dante has it listed later also. Did you listen to this version of "let me go"? It's different than the gold plate

I will also say that my opinion totally doesn't matter at this point because if in the last year people decided that this is a $400 record that makes it a $400 record, it IS rarer than some other records that go for that much. It is NOT rarer than records like Lester Tipton, Don Gardner, etc. though.

Here is the label to the original version of "let me go". I was going to scan my copy but the scan in popsike is of the one I won and just recorded anyways, this is from popsike. I guess the label was originally Akron and then moved?

Harmonics - Let me go - Dupree (ORIGINAL VERSION)

the vardan record usually doesn't show up on popsike because it goes for under $50 usually and popsike doesn't index cheap records. It's usually beat up, though, it is harder to find clean. I must have missed any instance of it that sold over $150, it must be a recent increase. Additionally, this is the type of record that usually doesn't go through ebay -- there are 100,000s of thousands of records that don't register on dealer's radar as rare enough to put on ebay and sit in their boxes at record shows. I've even found this record in chicago (always beat up) 3 times at record shows and this record is from the bay area. Records like these haven't been imported to the UK really because in the past there wasn't demand at least and the northern side was very common on phillips.

Harmonics - Summer's Love - Dupree

I obviously have incomplete information too as I know nothing about Junior McCants. Where are the stories about him dying coming from, are those defintiely true?

the black label dupree press of "let me go" says Akron on the label (it's a different version to the gold plate later version). I will try to record and scan the records so others can compare the voice.

if you're mainly looking at rare northern lists you've probably seen more copies of lester tipton than jackson 5's abc, that doesn't mean the jackson 5 is rarer. This was always a well known sweet soul record, not around in quantity but copies come up as it sold when it came out. Additionally, this isn't even the rarest FORMAT for "do this for me", the Lovers on GATE (local press before phillips) is 10x rarer.

I'm pretty sure the lead of the chicago gangsters is james mccants, and he was alive throughout the lifetime of the group in the 80s. Also, apparently the chicago gangsters *are* from akron, according to his son posting on this youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPAb9g43jvA So james McCants is not Junior Mccants if Junior McCants died early. If Junior McCants sang lead on the harmonics 45s then the leader changed after he left. But the group is definitely from Akron. And the harmonics remade "let me go" in like 1969, but the King 45 in question is from like 1967. Did he die in 1967 or not? Thanks.

Hi Andy. The guy in the harmonics is james mccants, and the harmonics became the chicago gangsters, they were a whole family group of McCants which is why I was suggesting that Junior was related to the family maybe? I thought they were from Akron (or at least dupree says akron on it). Are you saying that James McCants is definitely Junior McCants?