Harry Crosby

Cheers Pete, will give that one a listen, now over to audacity, to see if i can knock the vocals off Chris Farlowe

Chris Farlowe what a superb record that is, and well cheap on a demo, often thought that an instrumental of that would have gone massive years ago. Is there one Pete?

Never read JW`s autobiography, will have to get that one as well, many thanks for the info Chalky

Once again another great post on this thread

Well said Richard, this subject is something that has allways puzzled me over the years, due to the sheer size of america itself. How they ever managed to actually put a billboard chart together is beyond me. But by the sounds of things there were as many things in america where big money was involved some very dodgy goings on.

My Christmas list is growing by the minute here, will have to see if i can get this one too. many thanks for the info

Great post Ian, as allways these stories are simply fascinating stuff

Thanks for the info Derek, it is a great thread, with some amazing input by some very knowledgable folk

Great stuff George, amazing to find out how the wheels turned, really enjoying this thread

you could try this one, i know it was up for sale for a while

Thanks Ian, ORDERED on its way

P.G.TIPS, meets LAPTOP SCREEN :thumbup:

Stiffed: A True Story of MCA, the Music Business and the Mafia by William Knoedelseder (Hardcover - Mar 1993) This one ? i`ll be ordering a copy, sounds very intresting

Thanks will have to try and get a copy once ive got the title

to the point where drill holes / cut corners and label paint/stamps were introduced to prevent it. Never knew about that either, this is really turning into a very intresting thread, thanks for the reply

EJ CHANDLER-I CAN`T STAND TO LOSE YOU, That one seemed to be over n done with pretty quick, may have been the amount of copies that seemed to turn up over night, where did all those copies come from? was it soul bowl?

Thanks for the reply Ian, would be very intresting if you could dig out some of them stories. Think we`ve all sat for hours talking about records not realising what went on to get the records distributed/released-HARRY

Once again great post Dave, it is something that has allways intrested me, the promotional & distribution side of things. I`ll bet there were a few dodgy dealings going on, to get that elusive hit. Also by the sounds of things the smaller labels never stood a cat in hells chance of making it. Very intresting stuff indeed

The most fascinating thing is how the operation of distribution was carried out in the 60`s, in such a huge country, no internet ordering back then, phone and mail only. Not only the soul music, but all the genres of music, remembering 60`s was a massive era for all styles of music. Must have been one very well polished system, or a Nightmare.

Thanks Dave, fascinating stuff, is there any particular reason as to why label designs were changed? ie East coast/ West coast releases.

Some fascinating stuff being revealed here, as you say roger some of the stock copies were almost impossible, ie Dana vallery, recently seen the JD MARTIN stocker for the first time. As with the Rca stuff took me years to find a Dean courtney, allways puzzled me this one

Fantastic reply George. How did the national chart system work? allways amazes me as to how they could get the figures in to turn around the top 100 at such short notice, must have been one hell of an operation, with the size of the country

Hi all. As we know the states is a massive place, and ive allways wondered how the 45`s were distributed, heres a few questions that have bugged me over the years. 1......In some cases mainly the larger labels [RCA, DECCA ETC] the demo`s seem to be more widely available than the issues? How did this work? were promotional copies supplied to the radio stations etc, then stock copies were supplied upon demand? or were record stores sent out batches of stock copies?. If this is the case then why in some cases are the stock copies more illusive than the promotional copies? 2.....Were records held in distribution warehouses/centres 3.........Surely there were more issues pressed than the promotional copies or was it once again a supply and demand thing. [which personally i can`t see] 4..........I keep hearing the comment, only issued in that area/state? Would love to know more about how the records were disributed, many thanks for any help

This was on the Tommy vance rock show, one friday night on the way to rotherham, whilst it was still covered up as williams & watson, the radio was just on as background noise in the car, when it came on

Thats the one i would have put, this was the time i started collecting, putting together things from searlings playlist. Remember at the time being slated by the older crowd in york & being told. " your an idiot, these records will just get pressed up and come down in price, like everything else" now what are those people drooling over now eh