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I'm 90% sure this is the same Milwaukee group as the Enchanters on Tee Pee. I finally got a copy recently. The Enchanters 45 is better but this 45 is still great.

the plot thickens -- apparently alan merry does have a song with the title in BMI. I never looked at the b-side of the record when I was looking for it years ago (I was buying it for the sweet side) so I would have missed it.

This is the very first record by the Family Circle btw.

I totally agree but the sweet soul side rules. I know a couple of older sweet soul collectors who have had this for many years. I said this in the last thread about the record.

Manship 6 lists Debonettes on Merry "choose me" / "tears" at 250 pounds and an alternate title "tears" / "I'll never let you go" on the exact same label number for 400 pounds. This record ("I'll never let you go") does not exist, does it? Thanks in advance.

are you saying you have a box of the mental centers or you have a box of the 45s all with metal centers

I did this mix for April 15th, tax day in the US. Check it out: https://numerogroup.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/tax-day-blues-time-to-pay-up/

I started the other thread, someone messaged me about how to remove them, still couldn't do it. I know someone who can instantly remove them but I still can't do it even after watching him.

when you clean a record in such a way that it removes the dirt without physically affecting the vinyl it reveals the natural gloss of whatever non-scuffed part of the vinyl / styrene is left. when you clean a record in such a way that it actually "polishes" the vinyl, effectively skimming it or taking off part of a layer, it has an unnatural shine that masks the real playing condition. One of my pet peeves is polished records. Other people might not mind. But it is purely aesthetic and doesn't improve play past cleaning the dirt. The improvement in play you do get from the furniture polish is from the part where it does actually clean some of the dirt. WD-40 permanently embeds itself in the grooves and binds to them and creates an unnatural shine that's totally visible. If you take a mint record and spray WD-40 on it, it doesn't look the same as before, does it? Any cleaning method should be applicable to a mint record and leave it looking and playing exactly the same as if you didn't clean it.

black shoe polish isn't as bad of a buffing agent, although it sucks and is difficult to get off. wd-40 and furniture polish are much more irreversible. if i get a polished record i'm sending it back.

and just to be clear, polished / buffed records and wd-40ed records are easy to spot, even if the person applying them doesn't know the difference.

I've cleaned tens of thousands of records and spent hundreds of hours figuring out how to do things. I even offered to fix a skip for free for you. I'm not teaching you how to fish and even if I did you would ruin lots of records learning to do it correctly. If someone uses furniture polish or WD40, whether or not you think it doesn't do anything negative, I would like to know at your sale. Thank you.

I hope you disclose this when selling because the vinyl is visibly polished / buffed in this case

i told you i can fix skips

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just a note: vodka contains ethyl alcohol (ethanol) wood alcohol is methyl alcohol (methanol) neither of these things are ispropyl alcohol. none of the three are equivalent in cleaning records. so you have to be specific.

I've been collecting that Bennett label since I found the Bonnie Floyd 45 when I was in New Haven. I have a 45 on the label by "Ready Willing and Able" and one by "Apollo VII". Any other known titles on the label?

this thread is disappointing because i always assumed it was like a $3 record back in the day (like almost anything else) and that it temporarily has gone for ridiculous prices. seems like it will stay rare / expensive and I won't get a copy without winning the lotto.

whoa i did not know this

as long as this is the flowers trivia thread, the LAX is a reference to the los angeles international airport, which is the design for the A:

I enjoyed the story, but in reality it probably wouldn't have even made it to the store, and if he got the store to carry it it would have only been a few copies. if nobody bought them it would make it to a cheap cut out bin where a few people bought them for a quarter or something like that. then one day john anderson or neil rushton or someone similar came along and got all the copies from the producer and exported them. plus have you ever been in a record store where the store owner tells you what to buy? customers come in and ask for things.

All I know is that I was playing the Powdrill version the other day and I knew the song (I actually knew the Powdrill version too but forgot it) and was thinking of a much less pop version. I think it might have a different title.

thanks a lot. that's one more version I didn't realize. But not the one I was thinking of! am I wrong that there's another version?

I was listening to this 45 (Pat Powdrill and the powerdrills "Together Forever" on Downey) and I swear there's another version of the song (possibly "Blacker" sounding) but I can't think of it. Anyone have any idea of what I'm thinking of or am I imagining it? Thanks in advance.

if I don't get you a recording in a couple of days email me to remind me the carnival CDs were the first ace/kent CDs I ever bought (I bought the first one when it came out and bought the subsequent ones when they came out).