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Comment by Madame Streggae ●:

Nice story John.

I remember further back when some JA Coxsone reissues came with the original UK laminated sleeves, but sadly I never had any sleeveless UK vinyl copies to match them to. I'm sure I've related this story before but Virgin Megastore were selling (in shrink wrap) original UK copies of 'Blue Beat Special' in `79, possibly alongside other UK Coxsone/S1 titles that I never noticed (I daren't think what I might have missed). Likewise some Melodisc comps in shrink too like Holt's 'OK Fred' and 'Sounds of Young Jamaica', which I did buy. Some enterprising individual must have been scouring the warehouses and distributors for old ex-stock Reggae album titles to sell to the Two-Toners.

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Comment by johnnyhotspur:

I got this LP on Vauxhall market in the Smoke about 20 years ago. Think it was around £10/15 for a sleeveless copy on original UK Blue Beat. Subsequently I managed to buy the JA repress with a perfect UK laminated (front) sleeve a few months later! Matched the sleeve with the Blue Beat LP and took the JA vinyl (now sleeveless) to my local record shop for a trade, think I got about £15 worth of trade back.
About a month later I went back in the shop and the owner said to me "Hey, take a look at this on the wall" it was my JA sleeveless reissue vinyl copy on his wall for £300!!! I couldn't believe it, and the fact that he'd completely forgotten that I sold it to him!

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Comment by johnnyhotspur:

Jamaican reissue replaces 'Shanty Town' with 'Sad Song'.

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Comment by Upsetter FC:

I think the original date on this listing was sourced from RC.

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Comment by Madame Streggae ●:

Just checked an old (2004) Record Collector guide. It listed the BB as 67 and the Fab as 68.


Some of these these tracks are from `68 so how can the BB have been `67? I never trusted anything in RC.

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Comment by Upsetter FC:

The reissue I have gives the date as 1968. It has the BBLP label number on the cover. But the cover was printed in Kingston in the 80s. The vinyl is recent as it has Miami and 876 area codes.

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Comment by Stampkool:

I don’t think RC is right, or it must’ve came out with a different cover, as the term Reggae (‘Reggea’ on this cover) wasn’t known until 1968 (probably first used on record by The Maytals, Do The Reggay [sic])

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Comment by Upsetter FC:

Just checked an old (2004) Record Collector guide. It listed the BB as 67 and the Fab as 68.

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Comment by Stampkool:

If Melodisc used left-over labels, the year should be (at least) 1969 I think?