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I think you shouldn't doowop collector's count joke label names as real label names.

Marvell Love ran the New World label and he's the Marvell in Marvell and the Blue Match / Mats. He's dead now.

does this exist as a white demo? I don't know if I've ever seen any calla 45s as a white demo actually, they're all red and white or blue and white.

There is also an ultra-rare chicago connected ditalians release. They played in a group called Chocolate Sunday, lead by Chicago singer Bruce Thompson.

I also have a discoveries column somewhere where he calls people who buy on ebay 'bottom feeders', i will try to dig it out.

Can anyone fill in the #113 and #116 titles that are missing from Dante's and Dave Rimmer's discography sites? I'm just interested in finding out what these are. Thanks.

Does anyone know why the tru-glo-town 45 by the royal robins is so rare? Wasn't at least one of the group's abc 45s a national hit? And wasn't tru-glo-town a pretty major / well distributed label (with a few hits -- for example, my baby likes to boogaloo was a big hit in chicago at least) by record industry insider ed townsend? I know Townsend did some other very rare 45s as demo type things, but this was on his 'real' label. I've only ever seen this as a demo, did it come as an issue also? Does anyone know anything about the group? Were they from Jersey? I know just being on his label doesn't mean they were from that area (for example, the sandpipers were from florida).

I like how he tagged all his soul auctions with TEFTELLER, like anyone who buys soul will know who is he or care. the people who do know who he is will know about how he consistently insulted soul collectors and ebay buyers and sellers in his discoveries columns.

this was a national hit in the US, there's still original stock of this around and this was not booted. the only gemini title you have to be suspicious of the jimmy conwell.

this is also funny in concept for me just given the idea that some doowop collector would find the record and not be able to differentiate between it and some other 'modern soul' 45. Maybe he's the one that's right and in 10 years people will be playing that after it has fallen out of the popular memory.

I'm going to start a northern event and have a stripper room, where it will definitely get played.

Also, I think one of the group members is herbie ross on hunza

the sir shambling discography is missing the fact that the bumpshop 45 also came out on the same # but with the pusher on it (it's much rarer). The bumpshop 45 he has listed came with two label designs, a plain one (more common) and one with a car on it. A different version of the pusher got released by some other artist, I think on Zudan. My friend talked to the songwriter of that cut, who didn't know anything about the final decisions.

there's definitely only one label this came out on, I've only seen one design but maybe there's another I haven't seen.

Marc Forest discussed this in the other parliaments thread (saying it was the George Clinton parliaments, I can't personally confirm that but he said it was on some parliaments comp or something).

they borrowed the acetate from willie clarke for the comp. the flip is a really nice sweet soul, apparently a cover of a doowop cut by clarence reid and the delmiros

It's done from original master tapes. Like everything on that label, the CD is also fully and legitimately licensed and includes extensive liner notes with many photos of groups and artists.

I don't own it, a-side is funk but the flip is sweet. I will see if I have a recording of it somewhere on a CD someone made for me, but I think I actually don't, but I will look.

Rod, you should change your id to modernsoulsucksexcepttrueimage

yet people use it as evidence of the rarity of their item ('only been on ebay 3 times!' because popsike only has 3 listings). It also only lists higher priced items and will list the one time some common item went for a stupid price but not all the other times. it's a seller-oriented tool

yeah, it's only slightly higher than when it was on ebay with the reserve not met. I don't know what the seller expects, the record is VG.

Ok, I asked Dante and he gave me the listing: Starvue s-001 - Johnny Thompson - Ain't no fool / Stepin Tall It's a plain red label, maybe the first thing on the label given the number?

there was a buzz about this on ebay maybe 5 years ago where people started to list their mispressed copies. So at least it's known, I don't know if it's ultra-rare or not.

I personally think that discussions about "how many exist" are sort of silly. Unless something is well documented from production through the time DJs get it (e.g. Frank Wilson), who knows how many copies are sitting in people's collections or undiscovered in some basement that are not known. I probably have some records that people think only a few exist and don't know about my copy. I was only responding to the idea that there was only 1 or 2 by pointing out one more. I don't think people were somehow insulted and got silent because you mentioned the "north east", I just think there was nothing else for anyone to say.

Hi Barry. Do you have a link to a page on manship's site that gives a list of the items with the ending prices? I assume it's in your favorites, as you mention in your post.Thanks in advance!