The Miracles - I gotta dance to keep from crying. Stateside SS 263 Very rare

	£		43
	$		57

FIRST THE RECORD FOR SALE HERE..................
THE MIRACLES - I gotta dance to keep from crying/Such is love, such is life                     Stateside SS 263, 1964                Condition:  EX (credited to The Miracles, obviously the lead singer was William "Smokey" Robinson!)
This great track comes from the early days before Tamla Motown was established in the U.K. which didn't happen until 1965. These early tracks came out on London, then Fontana and Oriole and finally Stateside, before Berry Gordy made a deal with EMI to have the imprint Tamla Motown registered. Many of these records are now so rare that they attract premium prices, none more so than Eddie Holland, one of the famed Tamla songwriters. One of his two discs is also currently for sale and the other one will be shortly.
This disc is in excellent condition. There are some very faint hairlines visible under a very bright light but they made no sound when I listened to it before putting it on sale. There is a tiny bit of label damage on Side Two where a sticker has been removed in the past- but you don't play the label. A rarely seen example - buy it now at a discounted rate. Supplied in a replica Stateside Company sleeve.
Listed by Record Collector Price Guides at £55.00 (MINT). My discounted starting price is £42.95
NOW READ ON for details of my HUGE Tamla Motown sale!

I have for sale OVER 700 Tamla Motown 45's, including many that were issued on other UK labels such as Oriole, Fontana, London and Stateside before Tamla had its own outlet here, as well as a few on the American Gordy label. These range in value from £5.00 or less for the fairly common ones, through approximately £150.00 for a smashing Marvelettes disc, to £350.00 for an almost MINT "New Faces from Hitsville" EP, to Eddie Holland's Oriole single which will set you back around £500.00, as this disc, too, is as near mint condition as you'll ever find.

All will come in either original or replica orange or sage company sleeves as appropriate. 

As you will appreciate, I cannot put them all on at once so please ask if you are looking for anything particular and if it is in my possession, I will load that record on Ebay for you

I play the A side of my sale records on an original Monarch turntable, the successor to the Dansette. These machines were tailor made for the early vinyl so if there was anything untoward, it would soon be found. If you disagree with the rating, don't make a fuss - ask for that refund!
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CHEAP POSTAGE and PACKAGING STARTS FROM AS LITTLE AS £1.80 (UK) AND £4.20 (EUROPE). SEE PRICE BREAKDOWN FOR UK DETAILS. You get up to three discs for the same price without having to ask, and it's not that much more for up to ten discs so enquire if you want to bulk buy. JOB LOTS priced according to weight.
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HonestDave'sRecords has been successfully selling 1950's and 1960's singles and LP's at record fairs for nearly 40 years and on Ebay since 2006. In fact I handle anything between 1954 and 1973, from any number of fields including: Pop, Beat, Soul, Northern Soul, Tamla Motown, Reggae, Instrumentals, Solo Girls and Boys and Girl Groups. If you want a fright, my photo and stall set out at a major London fair is on the mE button adjacent to my user name above, as is the means to get hold of me. I buy around 2,000 new items a year so I have no idea what I have or don't have. If you have a specific requirement, contact me and I'll see what I can find. If I have the item you want, I will load it on Ebay for you. At any one time I will have between five and eight thousand (5,000-8,000) singles and EP's. I rarely sell LP's these days - they are just too heavy for my poor old knees. Prices range from clearance items(£1.00 - £1.95), huge numbers in the next range up (£2.25 - £4.95), good, collectable items in the pop, instrumental, beat, girl groups and soloists, straight soul and northern soul (£5.95 - £19.95), and then the really rare ones all the way up to Eddie Holland singles on Oriole (£300.00 - £450.00). 99% of my stock are UK issues, though a few will be American or European and the description will say so; most will have the original or an exact replica of the company sleeve it was issued in and almost all will have the original centre intact - a very few desirable ones may be sold with the centre punched out.
My lowest sales category is Very Good although only a few will actually be found listed as low as that. I try to ensure that all items should be in Very Good Plus, Excellent or Near Mint condition as defined by Record Collector Price Guides. I never use the condition Mint as it cannot be proved to my satisfaction. However, there is always the odd bad one that slips through the net when you deal in the numbers I do, and don't forget that even in the Sixties, duff copies came off the production line and these could easily still be out there. 
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