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i never thought i'd find one of these. sure, in a few clicks i could get one off the web but where's the fun in that? maybe you're wondering why didn't i buy one in 1987? the fact is i never heard it until a few years later and by that time hard to find records (htfr) were already charging £100 for it. remember, this was years before the internet and you could only rely on the likes of htfr or vinyl exchange to have one (at an inflated price). my copy is an '87 re-issue, the first pressing had a blue and orange label. over the years i'd heard stories of lucky bastards finding this for a quid. well...now i'm a lucky bastard! i could write a brief summary of this record but a guy called pipecock sums it up perfectly in his review on discogs.

"This is possibly the most beautiful house song of all time. It's just got soul dripping from every piano chord, the melodic bassline, and of course the fantastic vocal. There's magic in the production and the song quality here, it's the perfect marriage of raw Chicago machine soul and New York's more refined R&B influence."

PROMO 11

a few weeks back i stumbled across a real gem. this record was in a job lot that came into a shop and the owner just wasn't into this sort of thing. apparently the mother of the person who owned the records brought them in and thought she'd get a mint (she didn't). there were hundreds of impossibly good records but 90% of them were battered. there were some ace cds too, but once again they were scratched to fuck. anyway, after about 90 minutes of digging (and being disapppointed 90% of the time) i finally came away with a pile of stuff i'd missed out on first time round. i only got this because the name rang a bell. little was i to know what i'd found. number 92 on discogs top 100 highest selling price list ($491), a limited run (200 only) white label in excellent condition...james jack rabbit martin's "only want to be" (acid mix). fucking result!