George G

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I can't speak for the bidders on this record, but the real Southbound Freeway 45 is worth some money. $200 might be a bit high but not out of the question. It's not soul, been a while since I heard it but I remember it being in a 60s rock/psych style. Certainly not an 'unwanted pop record'.

I've looked at the "admin systems" for several small (non-major) US record companies, recording studios, pressing plants. I can assure you that they live down to all the UK/Euro stereotypes of Americans being illiterate, slovenly, uneducated louts. I've seen very little that relates to an accurate accounting. The only well documented catalog that I am aware of was the Cuca operation from Wisconsin, and even at that I don't think everything was accounted for (I don't remember if paperwork for the famous Devils 45 was there).

Also, AFAIK Ike Perry and the group were from Cleveland, they travelled around and cut records in different cities. Ike passed away last year, still living in Cleveland.

Isn't the 45 on Rhythm by the Lyrics, not the Five Lyrics? I don't think they are the same group. The Five Lyrics (which is the Isaac/Ike Perry group) is on Music City 799, "I'm Traveling Light", from 1956-ish

The acetate was cut no earlier than 1970, I think that's when Cleveland Recording got a stereo acetate lathe. I've seen the same machine at work. There's a slim possibility I could get more details about the recording dates but I'm not betting on it. They go back before 1958, their first 45 was as the Five Lyrics on Music City, a major doowop (more accurately, vocal group) rarity.

Several different Starbucks here in the Seattle area have been playing a similar loop of Northern Soul. I've heard Originals, Sam Dees also, and Lou Ragland - I Travel Alone, Morris Chesnutt - Too Darn Soulful, Earl Jackson - Soul Self Satisfaction, MVPs - Turning My Heartbeat Up mixed in with more obvious ones like "Tainted Love", "I Don't Need No Doctor" and "Do I Love You". Some Starbucks have a flat panel TV screen that shows the LP/CD the songs are from (the one I heard them does not have the screen) and they are from some comps.

Flynny, I am sure that is a Pama pressing. The font for address and 'RECORD" part are dead on. The Nosnibor font is a stencil. The number 13 is a missing number in the sequence that I posted the link to below (I made the list with help from friends). I was not aware of the existence of this until now. I've seen many of the Rite pressings. Many of the Pama pressings are 100 copies or less and are unknown outside of local fanatics. A recent garage 45 discovery was a 25 count pressing. The Rite pressing seems to be from around July 1965. The Pama pressing would be from around the same time, it's likely that this was the first press of a handful and then Cleveland made a much larger Rite press (i'd guess there were 1000-2000 copies of the Rite press). There are also many Pama pressings that are not numbered. https://www.buckeyebeat.com/arpama.html

Could you post a scan of this? This could be a Pama custom press. The numbering would read ARS-45-13. That fits into the numbered sequence Pama used. Pama was a pressing plant in Cleveland. A picture of the label and dead wax would allow me to make a 100% ID, as I can tell the font/label design they used for pressings.

The seller said Ohio/Indiana. NW Ohio and NE Indiana border Michigan and are only 40-50 miles from Detroit. You could play about 60% of the B side. Just use a crap needle and put it on the playable part as its moving. It will play a bit of the song before the needle is bumped off groove. You should be able to tell if it's the same song as the ML 45 flip. I did this for a 45 that had about 1/4 gone because of the crack and I was able to figure out its a crap c/w record.

What's the deal with Kent Morrill? I have the record but don't remember what it sounds like. He was (passed away a couple years ago) the singer and keyboard player for the Fabulous Wailers band from Washington State. Can you add a 'No Beatles" filter?

Looking for originals only, must sound good and have decent looking labels, thanks! Magnetics - When I'm With My Baby Freddie Chavez - They'll Never Know Why Lil Lavair - I'll Be So Happy Sorted send PM or email buckeyebeat at hotmail.com

I have a Chihuahua/Dachshund mix dog that ate the paper sleeve off a copy of Youngblood Smith "You Can Split". I found the naked record on a dog bed about 8 feet from where it had been laying. The record survived with only minor damage.

I remember a store (long closed now) in rural WA state that had piles of this record with a pic sleeve - emphasizing "Stickball". I think it may have been on a different label but it was the same songs. The store owner gave me a few of them with my purchase of other records (which included a really clean copy of the Ventures "Walk Don't Run" on Blue Horizon for $5). I don't know if it was a "underground hit", but I'm pretty sure it was on some jukeboxes in bars. Stuff like "Telephone Man" and later "Rodeo song" were popular like that.

So is anyone here the buyers of the Cindy Gibson, Yvonne Vernee, Summits, Pat Lewis 45s from the seller? I've checked that the scans of the Yvonne Vernee and Cindy Gibson 45s were taken from other auctions, there is pretty solid visual proof. No feedback left in over a month.

The current exchange rate between the US and UK is trending in the wrong direction for the US. I've bought 1 45 from the UK in 5 months and it's probably going to be 5 months until the next one. yes, there are still plenty of records in US if you want to make the effort - I'm thinking that for many of the US buyers they don't have access to many record stores and record shows that sell good records, and most every store looks up stuff on the internet and prices them accordingly, so many common records are available cheaper as imports where they meet the real market value compared to the typical price guide geek who marks everything up (since they have to play the 'I've got to make money to keep the store open' line). I get people telling me stuff like Edwin Starr - Running Back and Forth is a rare record, I guess to them it is, easy for me to pretend it's still 1987 when I found 20 of them.....

A couple things - Dererk Daily / occasional 45 has NOTHING to do with the sale.....Derek lives in CA and has no connection to the seller in OH. Looks like the seller grabbed a label from a google search and was too clueless to check it The con artist seller of the 45 was on ebay under a different name (also based in southern Ohio) and seemed to have been suspended for bad feedback - cancelled sales after the fact.

That seller is a CROOK! Has tried scamming a couple other people by posting high $ records and not sending or sending empty boxes.....MAYDAY to the buyer to cancel the transaction ASAP.....

There's been several 'fake' company sleeves made for the old timers collector market (mostly for 50s R&B and rockabilly). I know a guy who does this and he enjoys it. I've seen some relatively familiar sleeves sell for >$10. Depends on who's looking. mid 1960s Columbia promos came in a plain heavy green sleeve, BTW. I've bought crap records in pristine sleeves for the sleeve....

I think the Temps LP came out first and the Gladys Knight was shortly after that. I had forgot about the Chuck Jackson one, I've never found that LP while junking. The Temps LP sold probably 20x or more than the other LPs so I would assume the two groups heard it from there.

From memory (which may be wrong) this is credited to Whitfield and Moy on the Temptations "With a lot of soul" LP which I think is the first release of the song. I've talked about this before but the Originals were a white (or 'blue eyed') self contained band from Cleveland and have nothing to do with the Detroit Originals. The record got airplay on Cleveland stations, I think that is why there are two pressings. The gold pressing was done at Pama in Cleveland, I'm pretty sure that is the first one. I'm pretty sure the Profonix were from Michigan, I guess Detroit suburbs.

I heard the song "don't you..." on the radio in Cleveland back when it came out. I think it was played on the Canadian/Detroit station CKLW probably for Canadian Content (Cancon) rules! It was a pretty unique sounding record then. I also have the LP, it probably didn't sell crap and is rarer than "Osmium" but there's no demand for it.

Columbia made a series of 7" 33rpm records, all of them seem to be alternate releases of standard 45s. They used two different label designs and apparently used a variety of artists. As Robb said, the reason was for jukeboxes. This was Columbias third and last time making 33rpm singles. They originally came out with them in 1949 as a counter to RCA's 45rpm single with a large hole. In 1959-63? they made a line of stereo 33rpm 7" records, then these. There are some Aretha Frankin 45s on the stereo series. https://collectorsfrenzy.com/details/370953479134/Polka__7_in_33_13_RPM_Single__Frankie_Yankovic__His_Yanks_On_Columbia_42010 https://collectorsfrenzy.com/details/261360181120/Rare_Rockabilly_Ronnie_Dawson_45_33_13_Do_Do_Do_Columbia_1961

There are two garage 45s on the Lakeside label from Chicago, they use two numbers from the Chess numbering system, 1981 and 1982. Seeds of Reason and One Eyed Jacks are the bands. Chess 1983 is by the Wurds, another garage band aka the Dirty Wurds. It's one of the rarest Chess 45s.

I think I have it, I don't remember. It's not a soul record, it's a midtempo 1960s garage 45 with lyrics that are more recited than sung, about being a teenager c. 1966/7 and how he was judged for having long hair and listening to rock music. It has nothing to do with racial discrimination. I think that this and the much better 45 by Squidd are the only rock 45s on the label