HW's USA Kings Of Speed promo 45s

[tajemtoe]

Mike, are you referring to the pair Tony has just sold on eBay? The £285 and £112 mono/stereo Atco promos? I know for a fact both of those came from the US many moons ago. Tony had his own copy and then was asked to sell another for somebody we both know but who shall remain nameless. 

I have one of those also, with PLUG SIDE on both the mono and stereo sides. In fact all of the copies I've physically seen of the promo have been of that description: I've yet to see the 'other' version for real, the one without PLUG SIDE or PROMOTIONAL on the labels.

So, if I've seen one several times and one never which is the rarer? Does that make sense? 

As for made for the British market, nah, I don't buy that. We didn't have mono/stereos over here. And surely KOS would have been on UA in the UK.

Anyway, thanks for the input, let's see if somebody else can join the fray.

HerB




--- On Fri, 24/4/09, mike coleman <insect.brain at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> From: mike coleman <insect.brain at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: HW's USA Kings Of Speed promo 45s
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> Date: Friday, 24 April, 2009, 8:14 PM
> On 4/24/09, tajemtoe <heresybint at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Just wond'ring aloud here....which of the 2 Kings
> Of Speed promo 45s is the
> > rarer or harder to come by?
> > Both are mono/stereo with white and blue Atco labels
> but the wording is
> > slightly different on each. Can a collector enlighten
> me?
> >
> > HerB
> 
> 
> This is a hard question to answer, and I believe there are
> 3 of these, but
> something has recently come to light:
> that there is a version that says "plug side", as
> well as promotional on
> both sides
> At first I thought I had this item in the past, and then I
> remembered it was
> Ande Tucker who had this, likely brought from England
> the first one of these that appeared sold for 285 pounds I
> believe, and then
> I did my magic trick and made another appear for my friend,
> don't know what
> he paid, yet......
> I am willing to bet money this version was pressed
> specifically for the
> British market, so if one of yours is as I describe,
> you've got a jem