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Sheffield Lab

if anyone's seriously into vinyl and doesn't have a gaggle of Sheffield recordings (direct to disc) go and get some. They're startling! Anyone else value their old Sheffield LPs as I do?

Most amazing Sheffield buy- I was in an FYE store a few years ago that had a small used LP section. All LPs were either $1 or $2. I wound up buying a bunch of records- spent about$20, including LAB-5, Discovered Again by Dave Grusin- it was $2. Coincidentally, My first Sheffield LP, back in the day, was LAB-5. So now I have 2 copies?
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mofimadness
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I have everything Sheffield has ever done on vinyl. One of my first stores was a dealer for Sheffield, Reference Recordings, Mobile Fidelity, Nautilus, etc. back in the day.

I was fortunate enough to get a copy of all that we sold. I agree that the Sheffields are wonderful.
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I can't believe all the dissing of Sheffield. You need to understand that back in the day, Sheffield was a VERY small label and didn't have the budgets of Mobile Fidelity or Nautilus, so they couldn't attract the big boys.

Some of my best recordings are on Sheffield. One of the BEST records ever done on vinyl is Clair Marlo "Let It Go". How about The Blazing Redheads or the aforementioned "Growing Up In Hollywood Town" and "West Of Oz"? Tower Of Power, Thelma Houston, James Newton Howard? Come on guys.

Sheffield put out some very, very good titles and should be held in high regards for what they did at the time.

http://www.sheffieldlab.com/sheffield.pl
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Sorry, my mistake. The Blazing Redheads were on Reference Recordings not Sheffield.

I was thinking of the Usual Suspects and wrote the wrong group.
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