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Date Posted: 22:38:53 04/01/00 Sat
Author: bannatyne
Author Host/IP: spider-to087.proxy.aol.com / 152.163.204.39
Subject: Hardest Find

Luxton, I know that like many of us here, you are also a record collector (among many other things too). Anyway, I am curious as to what record was your most difficult find? And, have you found it? One of the hardest for my collection was a copy of the Reo 45 by Bob Ashley and the Reflections - Made In England. I finally did come up with one after many years of searching (and about $100).

I also had a hell of a time finding a copy of When Friends Fall Out on Nimbus. Of course, with that one, after I found the first one I came across 3 others.

I've been scrounging now for over 15 years for a copy of the one sided 45 with the Two Wheel Freedom commercial on it. Got it on tape and have a nice color photocopy of the label, but it's just not the same as holding the vinyl in your hands. It's almost like holding a piece of history - as you yourself have said, "Time Is Frozen".

Just wonderin'

Joe - So Long Bannatyne

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[> Re: Hardest Find -- Roast Beef, 23:08:10 04/01/00 Sat [1] (217.cleveland-01-02rs.oh.dial-access.att.net/12.76.72.217)

While you're waiting for Luxton's reply I'll share one of my picture sleeve finds. I'm a BIG picture sleeve lover (US only, a man's gotta know his limitations) and it's always a thrill to find an item you never even knew existed. I was at a record show maybe 10 years ago and was rifling through a dealers stash of 45s. The first sleeve I found was David Bowie's "Time" for $5. It's the the same shot as the Aladdin Sane cover (that lightning bolt graphic Luxton was referring to earlier in answer to my Glamour Boy question). I didn't previously know it existed nor it's value (turns out it goes for about $600 near mint). Then from the very same dealer I find myself looking face-to-face with the Guess Who's "Hang On To Your Life" picture sleeve. Holy freakin shit I couldn't believe it! Not only was it previously unknown to yours truly but also by my most favoritest group in da world. I was thrilled and knew that at $8 I was getting quite deal. Even though it doesn't list for as much as the Bowie it sure as hell means a lot more to me personally. When I wrote my book, the Goldmine 45rpm Picture Sleeve Price Guide, I made sure to reproduce it in color and let everyone know that the Guess Who are "My favorite group."


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[> [> Re: Hardest Find -- bannatyne, 23:46:31 04/01/00 Sat [1] (spider-wd044.proxy.aol.com/205.188.193.169)

Man, the same thing happened to me when I first saw the HOTYL pic sleeve. I almost feel down. And to top it off, the dealer was asking $4. A couple of years later I found a second copy. That copy I brought with me to the Toronto Variety Club telethon in 1992 and gave it to Burton during one of his breaks. He even mentioned the sleeve and held it up to the camera before he left after a long night working the telethon. It's a pretty rare sleeve too - I've seen it go at e-bay for more than 35 bucks.

Speaking of collecting suprises, One of the biggest was finding a vinyl 45 of Take One Away in 1991. I haven't seen more that 2 or 3 of those baby's around - I wish that had a pic sleeve!

Joe - So Long Bannatyne


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[> [> [> Re: Hardest Find -- Roast Beef, 00:23:43 04/02/00 Sun [1] (217.cleveland-01-02rs.oh.dial-access.att.net/12.76.72.217)

Hey let's bootleg a sleeve for it...JUST KIDDING...Seriously, I only know of 4 US 7" sleeves for Burton, and two are EPs. Who knows what the man himself has squirreled away in his home. I'm still knocked out after Burton's confirmation of that "Sea Of Love" 45. I always thought that was the original tune by Phil Phillips playing in the background.

I've got a jukebox EP for "So Long Bannatyne" and I've heard there's also one for "Canned Wheat". Know anything about Guess Who jukebox EPs?


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[> Re: Hardest Find -- Shillelagh, 23:11:27 04/01/00 Sat [1] (remote066.arc.ab.ca/128.144.63.66)

Maybe it's one of those "bootleg" Beatles' LPs. "Get Back Sessions", Studio Outakes, on blue centrifically-spun-marbled vinyl with the El Wizardo label. Or, are those dime a dozen?


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[> Hardest Find -- Arrivederci Guy, 00:24:45 04/02/00 Sun [1] (ch3smc.bellglobal.com/206.47.244.59)

Super Golden Oldies


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[> [> Re: Hardest Find -- Rod in the Rock, 22:17:47 04/02/00 Sun [1] (sud-tcs1-port12.vianet.on.ca/209.91.129.32)

> Super Golden Oldies

Super Golden Goodies ?


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[> Re: Hardest Find -- LUXTON, 05:55:10 04/02/00 Sun [1] (spider-tm041.proxy.aol.com/152.163.197.61)

HEY JOE...I admit freely and publicly that I've quit collecting vinyl altogether...now that cd's have been around since 1981, there are already incredible remasterings of classics that have "come and gone again"...my seeking now takes place in the arena of the CD world...two incredibly rare CD purchases immediately come to mind, both having taken place in Eruope on the Ringo tour of 1992...late one evening just before closing time I wandered into a HUGE record and CD store in Frankfurt Germany...I was there primarily searching for anything by Georgie Fame, an absolute idol of mine since the British Invasion days and singles like YehYeh, In the Meantime, and Get Away...finally finding the Georgie section with the help of a clerk from the store, I excitedly leafed through about ten or eleven cd's by Mr. Fame...I had most of them, but anxiously grabbed every one in a cover I didn't recognize...one of these quick grabs was an album by Georgie called " A Portrait of Chet"...the cover was a coloured drawing/painting perhaps done in chalk, of Chet Baker, sitting with his eyes closed, cradling his trumpet between his knees...this picture is then mounted on some sort of pillow or piece of parchment or SOMETHING...I paid for all my purchases and went back to the hotel, not listening to anything for several days...late one night in Switzerland, after having played at the wonderful Montreux festival, I took my discman, earphones and "A Portrait of Chet" out onto the balcony of my suite, overloooking part of the Alps...the night air there in Switzerland, coupled with the sight of the stars over the mountains was enough to take your breath away...with all this already going for the moment, the Gods somehow nudged me into listening to Georgie Fame doing his album-long tribute to Chet Baker...I didn't even know who the hell Chet Baker was...honestly...it was one of those profound moments in life after which a person is never the same...when I first heard Georgie sing Dancing On the Ceiling and Do It the Hard Way, immediaetly followed by It Could Happen to You, something told me that I was "meant to hear" this stuff...I fell in love with the tunes and arrangements without yet ever having heard Chet Baker...it was weeks later, after the Ringo tour had finished, I was in Tower Records one night here in LA and just for fun, I checked the jazz section for something by Chet Baker...once again I was having a profound moment...I found almost fifty cd's by this guy...my special angels silently and invisibly made sure that out of all these fifty cd's about which I knew absolutely nothing, I chose the one called It Could Happen to You....when I finally heard Chet himself doing Everything Happens to Me, I knew I was having another one of those "profound moments" in an already fascinating life...
Ever since hearing Chet Baker, my idea of being an artist has had its bar raised considerably...Chet is one of the most amazing singers that ever lived, and I never heard of him until I was 44 years old...Incredibly, I had been almost "led" to this man through complicated circumstances...I didn't mean all this to sound corny, but my idea of what GREAT singing is has changed since finding that very rare little cd of Georgie Fame's "A Portrait of Chet"...sorry I took so long to tell that...I now own thirty or so of Chet Baker's cd's...
One more piece that I value so, so highly in my rather formidable cd collection may not be as rare, but I've never seen another one anywhere, ever...it's an 8 disc box of the Shadows with just about EVERYTHING they ever did for EMI...I found it in Paris on the same tour in a small cd shop near the Champs Eleysses...saw the box, grabbed it, paid for it and just bloody well smiled all afternoon...I have a friend here in LA who has a store called Ear Candy who can get you some pretty rare stuff, and he's never seen another one either...I guess deep down I hope somehow that EMI never bothered to shove out more than a couple of thousand of these beauties...
I'm still an obsessive collector of music, but let the vinyl freaks chase the vinyl...I'm chasing the zeros and ones...LOL...
Oh yeah...by the way...on that same tour when we got to Gotenburg, Sweden we found out we were appearing on the same big festival as Georgie Fame himself...he personally autographed his "20 Beat Classics" cd for me, which I had been carrying with me for the whole tour, just because it makes me feel good whenever I listen to it...the music Gods certainly do seem to think I'm worth the odd nudge now and again...

Luck and Health

BC


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[> Re: Hardest Find -- Glen, 15:06:38 04/02/00 Sun [1] (proxy1.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com/24.64.2.33)

Well, just collecting some GW & BC rarities is a journey in of itself:

Japanese pic cover of band live onstage for Follow Your Daughter Home & Bye Bye Babe.
Japanese pic cover of group shot for Hand Me Down World & Runnin' Down The Street.
Scandinavian alternate cover for Artificial Paradise. (I didn't know this even existed until many years later).
Japanese cover for Share The Land. It's the same cover, but the packaging & print is different from normal LP.
BC Plus signs vinyl (Nos. 3997, 3998); Now I know who as Nos.1 through 25 :-)
BC's Woman Love with misprint of Woman In Love on the spine.


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[> [> Re: Hardest Find -- Sue, 05:45:38 04/03/00 Mon [1] (NoHost/203.26.28.169)

> Hey, Glen. Just curious. What's the Scandinavian Artificial Paradise cover look like? We had an alternate cover here in Australia, too. It was a reddish long-exposure photo of the band playing on a black background. The back cover had the guys sitting on a circular seat under some pavilion.


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[> Re: Hardest Find -- Rod in the Rock, 22:04:43 04/02/00 Sun [1] (sud-tcs1-port12.vianet.on.ca/209.91.129.32)

It's Time on Quality
When Friends Fall Out-Nimbus 45


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