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Member	Record	Comment
MonkeyHanger Today	The Hollies A: The Baby B: Oh Granny	One of the few Hollies 45s featuring the Lead Vocals of Swede Michael Rikfors, and a great single. My copy of this was bought new on the plastic moulded Polydor label with a 3-prong black Philips style centre and was the first time I'd ever seen this label arrangement. Superb 45, Chip Taylor wrote some corkers eh? Again..Number 26???
Col Wolfe Yesterday	The Directions A: Three Bands Tonite B: On The Train	Rare record. Wish I still had one.
Rotatey Diskers Yesterday	The Directions A: Three Bands Tonite B: On The Train	See if there is a "Document" setting in your scanner software. If you have it on a "Photo" setting it won't be able to make allowances for the screen dots you get in printed items like record sleeves.
carryonsidney Yesterday	The Directions A: Three Bands Tonite B: On The Train	The actual sleeve doesnt have that pixellated blur (thats my scan). On my copy it was autographed by the band and actually does look a little water damaged along the bottom!
carryonsidney Yesterday	Buzzcocks A1: Breakdown A2: Time's Up B1: Boredom B2: Friends Of Mine	The scanner went a bit strange when I did the original sleeve, in reality it is same colour as the 2nd type
MonkeyHanger Yesterday	Squeeze A: Another Nail In My Heart B: Pretty Thing	..and Yellow Vinyl. In fact, this came out on about 6 different colours, virtually unannounced. Ive deffo got a Yellow copy somewhere.
sladesounds Yesterday	Tina Turner A: The Acid Queen B: Rockin' And Rollin'	This track, although the same song written by Pete Townshend for "Tommy", is an alternative recording. It is a more "R&B" than the Tommy soundtrack version and it features an alternative arrangement with horns and of course a different production team.
sladesounds Yesterday	Trio A: Da Da Da (Englische Version) B: Da Da Da (Deutsche Version)	Alt front cover uploaded
sladesounds Yesterday	The Tornados A: Telstar B: Jungle Fever	Scans with alternative tax codes uploaded.
powerpop Yesterday	BP Fallon A1: Fame #9 B1: BP Fallon Interview B2: I Believe In Elvis Presley	great track, this single has on the A side a great dissertation about fame and it ends with a infinite groove. the B side has the interview on the left channel and the great song "I Believe In Elvis Presley" on the right, so you choose listening to the interview or the song or both at the same time.
MonkeyHanger 9th Mar 2010	The MacManus Gang A: A Town Called Big Nothing B: Return To Big Nothing	My bands "Walk-On" music for several years. A quality piece of music.
fixbutte 9th Mar 2010	The Sorrows A: Take A Heart B: We Should Get Along Fine	I told you there.
fixbutte 9th Mar 2010	The Kinks A: Wonderboy B: Polly	Btw: It's very probable that the first pressings had the B-side title wrong because the Scandinavian singles, with their own picture sleeves housing the UK-pressed records, all read "Pretty Polly", as well as the Dutch and German singles. Most of these also read "Wonder Boy" for the A-side, so I guess this was also incorrectly spelled on the first pressings.
fixbutte 9th Mar 2010	The Kinks A: Wonderboy B: Polly	Some original quotation by Ray Davies about "Wonderboy" might be interesting: That was one of John Lennon's favourite Kinks songs. What the song is about is looking at a child for the first time and wondering what's going to happen in its life - how fucked-up it's going to be when it gets into the world. "Wonderboy, some mother's son" is probably the line that triggered it off. We were about to have our second daughter, Victoria: maybe I wanted a boy. I also thought I'd experiment as a song writer because I was a big fan of those older writers like Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. I had the two things happening and I'd thought I'd experiment. On paper, as it's written, it's one of my favourite songs. (from "The Kinks - The Official Biography" by Jon Savage)
peterbauckham 9th Mar 2010	T. Rex A1: Get It On B1: There Was A Time B2: Raw Ramp	I think the Silver Fly with Block Capitals is the first pressing as it looks the same as the later Hot Love copies (BUG 6). All later Fly pressings seem to have the white Fly with handwritten text.
Dr Doom 9th Mar 2010	The Cramps A: What's Inside A Girl ? B: Give Me A Woman	Anyone got a black vinyl copy of this? I can't recall ever seeing one.
45RK09 9th Mar 2010	The New Christy Minstrels A: Green Green B: The Banjo	Is this a UK pressing??
KeithS 8th Mar 2010	Them A: Here Comes The Night B: All For Myself	You can usually tell by the stamper letter in the dead wax at 3 o'clock..that'll tell you which were pressed first
sladesounds 8th Mar 2010	Sugarhill Gang A: Rapper's Delight B: Rapper's Delight	Rapper's Delight although not the first rap record certainly was one of the first to make such a big impact worldwide. Written by "The Sugarhill Gang" namely Sylvia Robinson (the record's producer), Hank Jackson (Big Bank Hank), Michael Wright (Wonder Mike), G. O'Brien (Master Gee); Rogers and Edwards appeared on the labels only after they threatened legal action over copyright as the song was lifted from Chic's Good Times which had been released 2 months prior to the recording. The "Good Times" music on this recording is said to have been played by "Positive Force" as this was pretty much pre-sampler days. It is rumoured that the actual Chic song may have been added by editing the studio tapes prior to release.
Dr Doom 8th Mar 2010	Them A: Here Comes The Night B: All For Myself	Not sure about the taxcodes but what my nerdy Rolling Stones book has taught me is that Wide or Fat lettering on a Decca denotes an earlier pressing than one with Narrow or Thin lettering. A quick reshuffle of label scans.....
Peter Sundae 8th Mar 2010	The Beatles A: All You Need Is Love B: Baby You're A Rich Man	Yes, Fruit De Mer is U.K, affiliated with Bracken records who are American. I guess when you buy the records the 'Add to cart' payment is made directly to Bracken for simpler accounting. Keith and Andy who run the label really go to town on promotion (check copies of Shindig and Record collector magazines) by the time they've spent out on the adverts and other costs it would be impossible to turn a profit on limited runs of 300. You therefore have to believe their claim of running a label for the love of. Fruit De Mer only release cover version records, Bracken release self penned tunes by the artists. Cranium Pie are working on/recording two sides for Bracken as I type. Thanks for the kind words :]
sladesounds 8th Mar 2010	Air Supply A: All Out Of Love B: Even The Nights Are Better	Was it Old Gold that used to do mail order oldies and other singles in the late 70s, early 80s. I kinda remember sending off for a B4 sized catalouge from the small ads of NME or Sounds. There was 100s of singles you could order, some on the Old Gold label, many "ex-jukebox" ones and sometimes imports. Mind I might be 100% wrong on the company, it was a few years ago.
sladesounds 8th Mar 2010	The Ting Tings A: That's Not My Name B: TNMN (Your Mix)	Vinyl looks orange coming out of the sleeve but against a white light it is bright pink.
sladesounds 8th Mar 2010	Them A: Here Comes The Night B: All For Myself	Alternative labels with different fonts/layouts uploaded. If you look at both sets of labels both have K/T tax codes, 1st set is followed by "H", 2nd by "S". Do these characters also relate to the tax code?
MonkeyHanger 8th Mar 2010	Air Supply A: All Out Of Love B: Even The Nights Are Better	My Local WH Smiths used to stock "Oldies Unlimited" 45s in the 70's..quite often these were USA Originals!! Got quite a few Tamla/Soul/Virgo/Mala etc like this..always remember buying Timmy Thomas "Why Can't We Live Together" about 5 years after it came out and it was on the funky "Glades" label!
carryonsidney 8th Mar 2010	The Jam A: All Around The World B: Carnaby Street	This Sleeve belongs to a 2nd pressing
vinyl_junkie 8th Mar 2010	Air Supply A: All Out Of Love B: Even The Nights Are Better	Do most people not remember these from the time? My local indie stocked them (not all of them obviously but you could order them in). It was like the i-tunes of its day! Even as a 10 (ish) year-old, I knew they weren't anywhere near as good as having an original though... the 2 I have my older brother bought and the vinyl is ridiculously thin! I still see them quite often in charity shops or the 50p bin in second hand shops... also a disco hire business I did work experience at years ago had hundreds of them! They were still going recently enough to have sold CD singles - at least as late as the late 90s, they were stocked in HMV.
sladesounds 8th Mar 2010	T. Rex A1: Get It On B1: There Was A Time B2: Raw Ramp	Third version scans uploaded.
sladesounds 8th Mar 2010	The Beatles A: All You Need Is Love B: Baby You're A Rich Man	Fruits de Mer Records 33 Ashley Road, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey KT12 1HG [Edit] Telephone number removed [Edit]
Billy Two 8th Mar 2010	Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart A: Visions Of You (Radio Edit) B: Visions Of You (Ade Phases The Parameters Of Sound)	Includes Sinead O'Connor on vocals.

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