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Madame Streggae🍰 28th Nov 2024
| | Likewise the black label copy Mike - I'd never seen one until the image on this page but would quite like to have one. As I commented below, I can't understand why this one had the mecolico stickers and the red/white didn't. |
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mikec2137 SUBS 28th Nov 2024
| | Yep, I bought it, played it, put it in a box and there it will stay. However, being an anorak I would like a black label copy. (Those red and white ones are from my copy) |
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Fokeman 27th Nov 2024
| | Cottonfields turned into a big hit for Creedence Clearwater Revival too. |
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Upsetter FC 27th Nov 2024
| | This predates ska. The track "Worried Over You" was a big hit in Jamaica. Also popular in the UK. Worried also showed up on an early JA hits LP, Jamaican Party Time with a small note on the "rhythm and blues" song on the back cover. |
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Fokeman 26th Nov 2024
| | Yes, I was very much hoping for some Ska myself. It is very middle of the road and not the kind of music I really want to play over and again. I wonder if it really was revolutionary when it first came out? For such a great label, it was a bit of a modest start. It was produced by Chris Blackwell himself and he went on to do some great things other artists.
My labels don't have any stickers so I could perhaps add them for that reason. |
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Madame Streggae🍰 26th Nov 2024
| | The black label images look pretty good to me Fokeman.
Not played my copy in 35+ years I have to say. I probably only bought it for the sleeve (which certainly doesn't feature Enid Cumberland - not sure about 'Keith') as well as hoping for some Ska, of which there is none. |
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Fokeman 25th Nov 2024
| | I'm just playing this for the very first time. On the black label, it starts slow and gentle. Both the record and the sleeve were well used. The sleeve has split down the sides and is pretty filthy. I've just wiped years of tobacco stains off the front laminated cover. I've removed the old sellotape glue and cleaned the record. It sounds beautiful and with the lightest of crackle which is only audible between cracks. I bought it as a duo along with another very early Island LP but this time on Sue, still on the ILP catalogue numbers though...
I'm wondering if it's worth me taking photos to improve any of these? |
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mikec2137 SUBS 17th May 2024
| | Red and white labels added |
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Madame Streggae🍰 30th Mar 2024
| | My copy has the red and white label used for the `62/`63 45s but without the mecolico stickers and 'recording first published....' credit. Can't quite work out why there would be stickers on one issue and not another - surely there would be publishing royalties to be paid on both? Unless of course the black label copies were a limited run of 99 or less? |
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