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    1 hour ago, chalky said:

    It's a New Orleans label if I remember rightly and it isn't Harvey Fuqua.  It is Harvey Jesus I believe.  Google will throw his name up.

    Well done Chalky, you knowledge sometimes amazes me, just checked it out, you can still book him for a gig, even has a contact phone No, I wonder how many people have called him for a spare records he might still have.

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    Don't know if this question has been asked before, BUT..

    Here goes....

    While having my usual look at labels and credits etc, I noticed on "The Jokers - Soul sound" on Sko-field the vocals are credited to Harvey !!! Harvey who, I thought.

    Is it the same Harvey from the Tri-phi disc "Anyway you wanta" I thought.  I do know that this Harvey is Harvey Faqua who was married to Berry Gordy's sister and later worked for Motown, I looked at all I could find on his Discography but could find no listing of him ever recording on Sko-Field.

    So what do you think, has my imagination run wild with me or is there a possible link.

    Andy

    Bought my copy in about 1985 for £35.00 from Jimmy Price.

    Round about 1989 I got wind that it had been pressed and sold it to Rudzi (Boogaloo Records, Leic) for £100 as I needed to buy more bricks to finish building my garage. The idea being that I could easily buy one back at a later date.....How wrong I was..

    Could pay someone to build a whole garage now if I still had it.

    Wonder if Rudzi still has it????

    Can't get over people paying that sort of money for a boot, knowing that it is a boot!!!

    Doesn't matter how rare the bootleg is, its still a forgery and not original, I would sooner make a carver for £10 to play at home than pay over £400.00 for something that is not an original.

    Bizarre this Northern soul world we live in :g:

    2 hours ago, chalky said:

    The one with P.B. is the bootleg, came from Soussan.

    Cheers Chalky, so the P.B. is a boot and not a second official press then, as someone on Discogs is selling a P.B. copy for £480.00 and thinks it is maga rare as it has the P.B. I think they must have been sniffing glue

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    I know that this is quite a rare record, but I also know a lot of people who say that they have owned an original.

    Have they all at one point owned the same record, or are there more copies about than first thought, or is it the more likely option that there is a 1970's bootleg that they have unsuspectingly owned without knowing....

    I have see 2 copies that look the same one has a matrix   B9001-A  and the other in   B9001-A P.B.

     

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    Edited by Andyontherock

    Hi there, does anyone have copies of :-

    6ts 2 Melba Moore - Magic touch

    6ts 12 Sharon Scott - Lock and key -----SORTED FOR THIS ONE NOW..

    6ts 16 Junior McCants - Try me -----SORTED FOR THIS ONE NOW..

    Many thanks

    Andy

    It's been around for ages but often overlooked

    Any chance of Loretta Williams - 'Baby Cakes' making an impact nationwide, its recently started to get a few plays at several NW venues and it gets the dancers on the floor?

     

    A great track, I remember playing this on my Radio show as a tribute to Otis Reading as it was him that wrote it, co owned the label Jotis and the backing band are (or were) the Bar kays who some members along with Otis Reading died in the plane crash. This is often overlooked

     

    I also think I played this at the 100Club a couple of years ago as well, a great track

     

    Andy

    The label on my copy is more of an orangey brown as opposed to the more yellow colour of the Boot also the label on my copy is bang on central without the word Row being chopped by the center hole. The numbers in the run out are 2349-1, the edge of the disc is square not pointed.

     

    Can anyone verify this info at all as to its authenticity  

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    Managed to pick up a copy of Otis Lee - Hard row to hoe for a reasonable price from a collectors son in the states.

     

    It is mint and barely played.

     

    Initially made up by the condition, but have noticed recently that there a load of look a like boots hitting the market.

     

    Does anyone know how to spot an original, Matrix No's etc, or give away signs of the boot.

     

    Ta very much

    A true gent that will be very sadly missed.

     

    Loved having a chat with Tony, always went away with a smile on my face with my spirits lifted.

     

    Seems like forever ago, when you came and DJ'd with me and Gaz Keen at our first soul nite in Leicester in the early 80's.

     

    Honoured to have been your friend, man are we gonna miss you  :(

    Ohhh, been a busy day, forgot to post that there is no news to confirm that Jimmy Ruffin has died according to our extensive worldwide IRN news system at the radio station, as everyone above has also confirmed.

     

    Blessings are with him and hope he manages to get well soon

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