Ruddy Norman - back to the street

[pencilface]

I recently got round to finally nabbing this great 45 BUT I feel like I've been duped with a recent bootleg/reish. No pic sleeve, but it seems too minty and new to me

Anyone have an OG? Can you confirm any runout groove scrawling a or anything like that??

Cheers!

[someblokecalledfuz]

I just sold one of these literally 2 days ago on discogs? I'm pretty sure not to you...

So as I don't have the 45 infront of me anymore, i may not be of much use... but my copy came from Friends of Sound in Austin. The guy who runs the shop had a box of stock copies from source and he was in the process of working out some publishing / rights deal with Mr. Norman, so there are minty OG's out there... they didn't have a picture sleeve either...

Hope this helps.

[pencilface]

Ah, that's good to know. Maybe I got mine from FOS on eBay - I'll check

[Saint Jude]

There have been a lot of deadstock copies of this floating about for quite a while - most without picture sleeves - so I'd doubt it would be worth booting it especially as the price dropped off a cliff once people cottoned on that this was cropping up on a regular basis on ebay.

Mind you nothing would surprise me now given the recent northern boot shenanigans

[pencilface]

There is an identical "reissue" from this year on discogs, which is why I got worried.

Some must have an OG that can check runout groove?

[Shere Khan]

I've got one that I've had for about 5 years. In the runout it says WEC SRL-1577-A disc masters inc and the same with a B on the Streets side. There's a tiny SMK on the opposite side. It's all handwritten. I don't have a pic sleeve.

[Saint Jude]

There is an identical "reissue" from this year on discogs, which is why I got worried

I stand corrected!

Hope you got an OG

[pencilface]

Thanks Shere Khan! Exact same etchings as mine - maybe it is a fantastically preserved stock copy?
Unless someone weighs in with a repress in their hands I choose to believe so....

Thanks chaps

[Sie-Fly]

I would love a scan of the pic sleeve if anyone has one