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"I Can't Go Back." Looking for a M- copy to replace my noisy one. Anyone?

Though they were no longer in real use, the two-letter exchanges were still familiar to anyone living in Detroit at least through the seventies. TY was for Tyler, the name of the street my mother grew up on. There was a well-known local TV commercial when I was a kid ca. 1974 for a home-improvement company where the jingle instructed viewers to "call Tyler-8-7100 for a home-improvement date." My own exchange was UN, for University District, as I lived near the University of Detroit. BEechwood, the famous one in the song, didn't actually exist.

Like this one. There do seem to be some label variations on this, but it looks legit. https://www.popsike.com/Northern-Soul-Otis-Smith-Let-her-go-Original-HEAR/280077656373.html

Thanks, Robb.

Does anyone know what's up with the great website motownjunkies.co.uk? All content is still there, but it hasn't been updated in quite some time, and I see no explanatory note.

M- copies of the Kittens, "Ain't No More Room," and the Sweet Things, "I'm in a World of Trouble," please! U.S. originals only. Cash waiting. Thanks, Matt

Whoa!! Surely someone as knowledgeable as Ian Levine must know that the Willie Tee on Crazy Cajun, the one who recorded "Sick and Tired," is A DIFFERENT PERSON ENTIRELY: Willie "Tee" Trahan, a swamp-rocker from roughly the same neck of the woods. Here's his website: https://willietee.com/ I mean, come on. Yikes, looks like even John Manship is a little confused: Two different Willie Tees, people. Could the one on "One More Chance" be the other one? How strange that he would have done a song by the better-known Willie Tee.

My statement to the singer of this track: "I've met Willie Tee, I've spoken with Willie Tee, I have nearly every Willie Tee record, I've seen him perform live half a dozen times. You, sir, are no Willie Tee."

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Pat Lucky, Earthquake/You Sure Can Lie (Sue white promo). Clean as can be, flawless M- (only blemish is an X and someone's initials on Earthquake label). $550 $475 U.S. plus shipping.

Jesse Thomas with Huey Piano Smith's Band, I'm Boss Yeah/That'll Get It (Ace), nice glossy VG+ (on a scale without E grades). Two killer New Orleans sides. $80 U.S.plus shipping from U.S.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-D1NLh55dIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ1MvRT3GWM Pussycats, Won't You Be Mine/One True Love (Dynamic), strong VG, my old DJ copy. Cool N.O. girl group mover. $65 plus shipping. https://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php… (move cursor ahead to 0:20:40)

Different record from the Chess one, which has Herb Kent rapping on it. This one has vocals by the Big O, whoever that is. Backing track is the same, I'm pretty sure...and also appears a third time, on "The Buzzard Lope" by Gabriel...

Curious about the "estate" remark above. Has Nelson Sanders died?

Promo copy. Stone killer beautiful midtempo ballad with heavy drums; flip is a decent northern stormer. VG++ (essentially a new unplayed copy with just a couple light storage marks that don't affect play), $60 plus shipping from U.S.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSVAC6nvfjQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwA9F2LH6oI

Here he does a very straight version of the Ohio Players' Capitol single "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow" in 1974.

The blue-green one above was pressed for the Pittsburgh market, I believe. The sound on these is fantastic....Was it a legit repress made by or with the approval of Harvey Fuqua? Flip is Challengers III. More info on white promos:

Blues Palmer with Jimmy Coe Trio, Misery Is Gone Pt. 1/Pt. 2 (Intro). Beautiful barely played M- copy with just a slight hint of the beginning of ring wear on label, barely noticeable. $175 U.S. includes standard shipping anywhere. Paypal personal payment. Clips readily available on Youtube.

Looking for a shiny minter, promo or stock. Thanks.

I'm Gonna Get Your Thing is a remake of his own I'm Gonna Get You, released on Swan under the name Leroy Harris. I prefer that one.

The Correc-tone sides are completely different recordings from the Ric-Tic and Sonbert ones.

Ugh, sorry I haven't done this yet!!! It would be much easier if I had a scanner.

Thanks, Mats!

Saw it in New York on Sunday. It's really good! It's still looking for a distributor so is festival-only for the time being.

Hi, gang. I took a kind of left-field approach to yesterday's Toussaint tribute on my radio show. Hope you enjoy. Playlist and listening links here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/63590

I agree that the Alvin Robinson is much darker, but not in the ways you mean, I think. His vocal delivery, for one thing, is much more "adult" and lascivious-sounding than the Coasters' lighthearted comical take. As others have noted, though...yeah, you're watching too much True Detective. The "Sunday mass" bit is just an inspired extension, really, of the couplet that comes before it ("Every time you monkey, child, you take my breath away/Every time you move like that, I've got to get down and pray"), not a threat of murder. Also, I don't think it's too much of a stretch to surmise that listeners are supposed to think "ass" when they hear "fiberglass" and "mass." This country-bumpkin-up-north-in-the-big-city theme is a common one in songs of the era, though the only other one I can think of at the moment is Young Jessie's "My Country Cousin": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGYEPufQPd4 Plenty of black families who'd migrated from the South still had family members down there, and these songs brilliantly mine humor from the very real contrast in lifestyles (in the days before American culture was depressingly homogenized).