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| The most rare and hard to find coversong "It's A Secret" After I found the book "Beyond The Summertime" , written by Derek Wadeson and John van der Kiste, I started to collect the coversongs as listed in the book. Beside that I found a lot more coversongs, In the meantime I collected more as 225 (fysical) different coversongs, but untill today I never found the 7" single from "It's A Secret" recorded by "Baba Barafu & The Emvees" "It's A Secret" was first released as coversong in 1976 on the low budget, South Africa, label MvN on the LP "Springbok Hits Of The Week Vol.31 (Studio Artists) with cat. nr: MVN 3497, this one I just added to my collection. The LP was also released in Rhodesia as: "Rhodesia's Hits Of The Week Volume 15" with cat. nr: MVN 3497(R) Note: South African label which appeared in 1970 following Teal's acquisition of the "Manley van Niekerk" brand of studios and record plant the year before. In 1977 a 7" single was taken from this LP and released by World Records Co. Kenya, with cat. nr. KORS 1047 On the A-Side "Daddy Cool" and the B-side "It's A Secret" Artists on the single: Baba Barafu & The Emvees. The most rare and hard to find 7" single. The only copy I know from this single is in hands from John van der Kiste, lucky John. | ||||||
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| Ray Dorset, Colin Earl, Joe Rush, John Godfrey, Paul King Side A Northcote Arms, Keep Your Hands Off Her, There's A Man Going Round Taking Names, Ella Speed, Take Me Back, Bottle Up And Go, O'Reilly, That Old Dust Storm Side B Shorty George, We Shall Be Free, Out Skirts Of Town, The Sun Is Shining, You Got Me Dizzy, Give Me Love, Hey Rosalyn | Forgotten, Lost and Found Advanced Promotion Acetate - PYE 1971 Rare acetate of what appears to be an embryonic version of "You Don't Have To Be In The Army" or possibly an early compilation. I found this one on an auction site, as the seller said: obtainded from a band member's collection, I can only guess who that is. It's one of the most interesting (and expensive) items I ever found. Raw recordings, I guess just before mastering, of what we can call "The Army Sessions" Three songs: Shorty George, You Got Me Dizzy and Out Skirts Of Town, were shelved until the 2-CD set "Gonna Bop 'till I Drop" was released in 2007, and never appeard elswhere on vinyl. The hitherto unknown song "Bottle Up And Go" was also shelved but never released, it was only regularly played by the band at live gigs in 1971. Most of us, including myself, have never heard the song before, I got already goosebumps when the postman handed me the package and when I first heard "Bottle Up And Go", or what Alan Taylor said: I'm like a kid at Christmas. Until Alan told me the name of the song it was called "Unknown" This is what John van der Kiste wrote about this acetate: Just hazarding a guess about this compilation and the track listing, could it be that this was the original running order but: Mungo Jerry and PYE records had thought about releasing a 15-track album at first of better value for money, but then decided too many tracks per side would reduce the sound quality ? The "bonus" tracks that didn't appear on "You Don't Have To Ben In The Army" were thought a bit too simular to the others, hence the addition and substitution of the more different sounding Pigeon Stew, On A Sunday and Simple Thimgs, plus "You Don't Have To Be In The Army To Fight In The War" itselfs as an incentive to buyers who hadn't bought the single ? This is what Alan Taylor wrote about it: "What a fantastic find, especially with the inclusion of the un-released, 'Bottle Up & Go'. I always wondered if the band ever recorded it and now we know that they did. It was a track they played regularly at gigs at the time and Ray Dorset did record it at a later date, notably on his 'No Frills' CD." An acetate is not pressed for regular play, the quality of the pressing is low and fragile and already cracks quite a bid, (no wonder for an acetate of this age), I converted the whole lp to digital so I don't have to play it over and over when I want to listen to it. A lot of tracks on the record, and because it's a acetate not made for regular playing, the surface and grooves are very fragile, also because the age and treaded badly over the years the record sounds horrible, a lot of clicks and pops and other noises nearly drowns out the music. After I made the record digital I used two different software programs to reduce the noises. First I used: "Steinberg Clean/Plus Software" to reduce the most of the heavy clicks and pops, after that I used "DePopper version 4" for the rest of the noises and other clicks and pops, now it sounds much better with just a little noises as usual what you can expect from a record of this age. |
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The latest news
There's a new 7" vinyl single in the pipeline,
"Alright, Alright, Alright" 2023 backed with a brand new song
"Five Hundred Miles"
Both tracks MONO recorded.
Here's what Ray wrote about it:
I want to let you know that as it's 50 years since "Alright,
Alright, Alright" entered the music charts,
I decided to make available a recording of the song containing
the missing verse that I was asked to omit in 1973.
I have arranged for a very limited number of 7 inch vinyl records
of the song, in mono, to be manufactured,
and below there is a YouTube link to a video which contains a
stereo version of the recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvIqnoJCUbs
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New Release
23-05-2023
!2" Maxi Single
Click on the Image for more info
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| This ad goes out in the Vive Le Rock & The Beat magazines in both the UK, and GoodTimes & Musix ( the most read ), in Germany: | |
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| It is hoped that it will also go out on some social media platforms. Don't forget to vote for "Let's do it Again" on The Heritage Chart site (Episode 26). | |
Mungo Jerry's new single "Happy
To Be" is now on the Heritage Chart (Episode
23) and going up..
Please vote now !!
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