Amsterdam Russ

Lovely item and would definitely like a copy! Am not too surprised; not that long ago I saw a Turkish copy of another Loma release - Barry Barefoot Beefus - which points then to there being others from the catalogue out there, too. Hope you don't mind, but I've nabbed your scans for my files.

You're spot, Matt. Reckon that would have been 85-86. Was going to the 100 club regularly back then and recall I'd gotten a copy of it from Richard Domar some time prior. He described it on his list as a 'Catacombs secret sound' and that's what made me buy it blind! Funny the level of detail you can remember from years ago, but can't bring to mind what happened yesterday! Was surprised when Adey played it out as a cover up and vividly recall chatting to him about it at the time. Now, what the hell was I doing yesterday??

I'm in the Netherlands and items from UK and USA have turned up just fine. If anything the US Postal Service is getting faster. Yesterday's item arrived in under a week.

Currently available on GEMM as a 7" for $25...

There are about half a dozen copies on eBay now, mainly 12" - all at around the same price, and mostly available on a 'Buy it now'.

Any chance of a sound file?

I took a chance and paid something like $75 for a 45 without a label that was marked as 'unknown'. Turned out to be a pre-Atlantic Wilson Pickett that was only 'unknown' to the seller and worth about a tenner at best if in mint condition. However, not only did this one not have any labels, but it also looked as if it had been found on the fast lane of the motorway. Live and learn!

I'm currently deeply in love with Beverly Shaffer... BEVERLY SHAFFER, WHERE WILL YOU BE, ONE-DERFUL - Not just that track, but also her vocals on 'I Simply Love Him' make me go weak at the knees

The Vibrations - Let's find love (Together) / Come to yourself - Columbia?

The title of and discussion in the thread gives it away. Some people buy tunes because they are in-demand. In-demand by whom? Peers. Sheep are everywhere...

Another one just come to mind... The Manhattans - Summertime in the city

Can't believe I forgot... Jackie Wilson - Nothing but blue skies

Summer kind of love - Four Voices My world is on fire - Jimmy Mack

I agree with all of the points that peer pressure is an influencing factor. Sometimes as a species we are more sheep-like than human. There is one other factor that hasn't been mentioned yet, and that's the fact that tracks sound completely different when played out at a venue than they do when on your turntable at home. A tune played to you round at a mate's house, and which you express no real like for, suddenly becomes something completely different when you hear it pumped out loud and bassy at a venue for the first time. Mind you, numerous times in the past, 45s bought because I'd heard them played at clubs or allnighters have sounded, well, quite disappointing when played in the quiet and comfort of home; so much so that they sound like completely different songs that perhaps I wouldn't have bought had I heard them in a domestic situation first.

Yes, it is performed in English - although I would still have been thrilled if at the start JJ had burst into Spanish!

From Argentina - JJ Jackson LP on WB.

I recently put Jimmy Robbins 'I can't please you' on a cd for my father to listen to - he grew up in the 50s. Said he really liked it. Why? Because, he says, it reminded him an awful lot of Chuck Berry. Sometimes I think that we suffer from too much of a desire to label things and stick them in pigeon-holes.

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Excellent info - thanks for sharing!

Off the top of my head... Push on Jesse Jackson - The Pace Setters Free at last (great day a comin) - James Barnes & The Agents (& Jock Mitchell) I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired - Marva Whitney The prayer - Ray Scott

Thank you!

From what I've read, reissues include The Marvellos, The Soul Shakers & Charles Thomas (although the press release states 'Carl Thomas' - perhaps they meant both Carl Hall and Mr Thomas). Here's a link to the original press announcement, which primarily focuses on their participation at the last WFMU record fair and how they're getting back into vinyl: Warner Bros story The bit about the Loma reissues is in the last paragraph or two. The announcement provides a press contact and at the time I did email them for more info on what their plans were. Sorry to say no rely was forthcoming from the WB media room. Has anyone actually seen or got any of these reissues?

Chunning or Channing? Chunning is an oriental name. At the same time, Channing Way is the name of a street in the Berkeley, 94704 zip code.

A quick search online shows that the company was the country's sole pressing plant; certainly existed in 1964 and signed a licensing deal with Monument in 69; was pressing and distributing for WB possibly late 60s, but definitely early 70s. They also pressed stuff locally for the Barclay label. Further digging shows that they were co-owned by the Italian RIFI organisation that was centred in Milan. The MD of the Lebanese outfit was called Mario G Haddad.

A couple of years back WB/Rhino were looking to put together a complete anthology of the Loma label. As well as compiling all the A & B sides into one box set, it was to also include a good trawl through the archives to find any unreleased material. That though, was a couple of years ago, and I've not heard anything since. As I recall, Rhino laid off a good number of people some months ago, so it's possible that the Loma project was shelved along with any intention to dig in those archives. WB did, of course, recently reissue a number of Loma soul tracks in the States - on 45! This being part of their re-kindled love affair with vinyl. Is there unreleased material in the Loma archives? Of course there is.