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Seven inch finds in the last few weeks
I came across the city rivals Dundee Utd's record last year and now I have their arch enemies only single release too, woo and indeed hoo(ts)!
Original UK copy of the classic tune which only hit UK charts at #30 first time around, but finally broke the Top 20 another 20 years later.
Freebie disc demonstrating the sound of Bush electronics, it's certainly BIG and also came with a personally signed letter to the previous owner.
Soft Psychedelic disc I'd not seen/heard of before but their name caught my eye
Early single by one of my fave folk bands, I don't think it originally came in this titled sleeve as that belonged to their debut 7" but it's still very nice.
The first release on Stiff Records in it's original sleeve turned up in an auction lot of mostly 60's records.
In the same box was this debut disc by Bill Nelson's brilliant band, great tag line above their name too.
Sadly no picture sleeve for this TV theme but a curiously stamped paper sleeve.I found several Reggae singles in a charity shop on a recent trip to England including these three.
Great one off single produced by Vangelis, no relation to the Disco band with the same name.
Alan Partridge's fave flexi featuring the very best of The Beatles.
- Gardener0
I won a box of old records at the auction and found this one sided 78rpm lurking inside. It is from around 1904 and as well as being one of the oldest 78's in my collection is most likely the oldest football related record in the world!
- Do you have the means to play it?Brabo_Brabo
- It is old and it is beautiful...Brabo_Brabo
- it is! I've listened to it and it's a comedian talking in a really fast Scottish accent describing the match with crowd roars and that's the jokeGardener
- rear of disc says 'reproduced in Germany' lolGardener
- Gardener2
I've been quite lucky these past few weeks getting in commission bids at auctions on boxes of LP's and leaving it to fate whether I won them or not. Thankfully some gems have turned up most notably a very unusual edition of Sgt Pepper which I'd not seen before along with a collection of Blues & Folk albums.
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From the front it looks like any other copy of The Beatles classic but it turned out this one was the censored issue pressed in Singapore in 1970.
Because of supposed drug references in 3 tracks: A Day In The Life "went upstairs and had a smoke" and Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds LSD I imagine
and of course "I get high..." With a Little Help From My Friends these were removed and replaced by songs from Magical Mystery Tour and they still mis-spelt I Am The Walrus, incredible!.jpg)
These are a few of the Blues albums, it was a big box which I am still digging through.
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A couple of cheeky albums I couldn't leave in a £1 box at a car boot sale
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gotta love that sticker!
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I have a couple of Blowfly's other 12 inchers but not come across this one before, arf!
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some cheap seven inches
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Discovered this lovely tune on this EP a close cousin of his classic Midnight, The Stars & You
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A delightful folk tune singing the virtues of cigarettes in an eastern European style..jpg)
No proper sleeve but great spooky sound FX from electronic wizard Frederick Charles Judd..jpg)
Mid 70's Indian EP from a Birmingham based duo which I picked up as it had a track called Fish 'n' Chips.jpg)
Bizarre 7" by the diminutive comedian which features the talents of Peter Gabriel, Robert Fripp, Phil Collins and Sandy Denny among others!
- Daaamn! Some really good stuff there - good work. Would love to try the whole auction thing one day but have no idea where to even beginscruffics
- Hey thanks for these, except that Beatles one, fuck the Beatles!
But the rest are top! Let's see if I can find some of these on Apple Musicgrafician - Ignore the troll. This is the mother of all albums. What a fascinating piece of sacrilege that is.CyBrainX
- Gardener2
A few 7" odds & ends I seem to have acquired in the last week or so.
I do already have a copy of this but this fresh one is in way better condition.
Not as groovy as I imagined but hey, it was only 50p.
Maybe not as awful as it could have been, I didn't even know he'd made any records until I found this.
Someone else who's music had passed me by all these years, a singer who became famous for her complete lack of rhythm, pitch, tone and overall singing ability from liner notes:
"After a taxicab crash in 1943 she found she could sing 'a higher F than ever before'. Instead of a lawsuit against the taxicab company, she sent the driver a box of expensive cigars."
A far more enjoyable singer (and harpist) was Miss Russell-Fergusson who's beautiful track The Lochan was featured on a mix I recorded for Tak Tent_Radio recently.
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A nice pair of picture sleeves singles I found in the same box.
The only pair of singles released by the family folk group from Dundee including one singing the praises of the Discovery ship
launched in 1901 and the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in the UK, she's still docked at the sea front.
3 beautiful red vinyl records of Beatrix Potter tales, also available on blue, green and black vinyl too.
Another 3 records which are on mottled blue, green, red and black were these Greek discs from the 60's including one by Mikis Theodorakis.
- Gardener2
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yellow 10" promotional flexi for Filmophone Records circa 1931
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- Gardener9
blue 10" flexi circa 1930 released to promote a movie on British Lion Films
- the audio is so poor I couldn't even make out what film it was meant to be promotingGardener
- to be played immediatelyhans_glib
- and I did! and it sounded awfulGardener
- Did Kanye have anything to do with it?scruffics
- before his time, thankfullyGardener
- https://eadn-wc01-20…grafician
- tsk, does he have any original ideas?Gardener
- video
https://youtu.be/Mbh…Gardener - turns out to be this film
https://www.imdb.com…Gardener
- Gardener0
I have a 7" single by Red Rum but this is a mid 70's LP about a
lovely horse called Mill Reef, there is a statue of him in America.
Another LP from the mid 70's, this is not a horse or even a Centaur but a scary Snake Lady!At a local boot a bloke turned up with boxes of stuff a fiver a go,
I found all sortsa things but these four were the pick of the bunch.
pinky Mott.
tri-riverboat Reprise.
2 x clear Global Communication.
red OST.
Not too surprisingly I always seem to come across Scottish
records, this was #213 of 550 copies.
Pretty (simple) sleeve for an album of choral music titled Songs of The Sea.the odd few singles
Folk EP by a band called Nashville Skyline who were
quite well known around the area where I live in the late 70's.
2 x classic TV themes by Laurie Johnson.
Debut EP from the traditional Irish folk family.
I love that description at the bottom of the sleeve, the mic was in Japan for this one.
- caterpus3
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- yes!futurefood
- Eno was so fantastic before he started making well-respected elevator music.CyBrainX
- Gardener1
As well as lots of flexis finding their way into my racks recently
I also came across an unusual market stall with boxes and boxes
of 7"s for a £1 a pop. I picked out all sorts of things which were
hit and miss but I kinda went with my gut feeling rather than
knowledge as several of them I'd not seen before.
Belgian
Funky & Jazzy
Daphne Oram & Vera Gray EP from 1962
Miles & Coltrane play Monk
Acid Pysch from 1970
Martin (Williams) & Derrick (Morgan) released in 1962
(still in stunning condition)
early 60's beat group on a label I'd never seen before
JW produced the same year he released his own War Of The Worlds
tatty sleeve / lovely disc
this never had a hope in heck of ever troubling the charts,
it would have been nice to see the vid on TOTP though
Hong Kong EP from '64 by 張露 obviously
specially etched / one sided debut
- Gardener0
It's been a while since I went digging anywhere and have since
moved to Scotland, but rather than go back to England just yet
I found myself digging in Wales, however just while I was visiting
friends there.
These were found in a handful of charity shops, nothing too
shabby & there were a load of cheap folk EP's I couldn't resist
picking up and I am certainly now the owner of far too many
singles on the Cambrian label.
Nice poster I couldn't persuade my mate to part with even for some lovely Beatles albums, can't blame him.
£1 boxes
No shortage of action! or girls! on this cheesy mid 70's film
soundtrack I'd not come across before, though it should have
come with a warning sticker, contains Robin Askwith.
Really enjoying this one from 1968.
Sadly no paper bag sleeve with this flexi but it does feature
the first recording by whistling Roger Whittaker under the
pseudonym Hank And The Mellowmen.
I couldn't find anything online about this pair of acetates, 1 a 5" t'other 10".
One of only a couple of singles ever released by the Daily
Telegraph newspaper, narrated by a suitably plummy voiced lady.
A flexi-disc personal message to cereal growers about the
different varieties of barley, nice postal sleeve.
Another flexi-disc, this one is narrated by the English character actor Vernon Reeves, okay yah.
Maybe it's because of dull songs like this that politicians are
not releasing singles anymore, this one features the leader
of the Liberal Party throughout the 60's.
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Best of the bunch of 50p EP's I picked up, nicely signed on the back.
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- It's not a Saturday morning without some amazing finds from you. Keep DITC, cheers.garbage
- Gardener0
Some odd finds from a few of charity shops and a recent record
fair. These 2 were cheap and had nice sleeves, the music is a
bit generic 80's synth though
Polish electronica by Władysław Komendarek who was
an ex-member of symphonic rockers Exodus
A Russian electronic pop album, signed by Дисплей, obviously...
A curious novelty pop disc I had not come across before
it also came with a colour-it-in-yourself insert, similar to the
one that came with Ringo Starr's album Scouse The Mouse
also released a year later in 1977 and on the same label too.
In the same box was this mid-80's issue, on Knotty Ash Records
no less, and nicely signed on the front
now then, now then...
One of a handful of Beatles albums sitting in a box at
the Age Concern shop, I didn't quibble a a quid a pop
In the same box as the Fabs was this mid 70's cabaret recording
by Jimmy Crawford, whooooo?
Best find by far at the fair for a fiver was this bizarre
electronic album from the mid 70's by Mort Garson
- Władysław Komendarek in 2014
https://www.youtube.…futurefood - cheers ff, check Ataraxia
https://youtu.be/gbW…Gardener - wow! good pick!brt44
- Władysław Komendarek in 2014
- Gardener2
Bits & bobs picked up on a recent trip to the beautiful city
of Perth, I was pleased to find this handful of early 60's card
flexi-discs which were given to doctors from drug companies
as promo discs to persuade them to use their products..jpg)
Some drugs like Nialamide offered here once used to treat
depression are now long out of use due to unforeseen side
effects like Hepatotoxicity..jpg)
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Diabinese is still in use today.
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Terramycin is no longer available in many countires due to side effects.
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This vinyl disc promoting high blood pressure drug Centyl came
in a wrap around sleeve featuring the same design as the actual sleeve..jpg)
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Away from drugs and away to the Mediterranean was the
way ahead for Jan Cunningham who boarded the SS Uganda
in Dundee for her trip of a lifetime..jpg)
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When Jan and friends came back from their trip on the high seas
with all that rich food she would have given this promo disc many spins..jpg)
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One of the stars of The Rocky Horror Picture Show movie
released this cheeky red vinyl 'triple B side' single in 1978..jpg)
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The ultimate chill-out record for plants, which turns out to be mostly classical music, who knew?
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- Gardener2
Freddie must have taken note of this album title by the Israel Philharmonic as it came out in 1972
- Gardener0
I've picked up some strange odds and ends in the past few
weeks, I dunno if it was a karmic payback for dropping a load
of albums and singles at my local Shelter but I came across
a lovely stash of folk and classical albums in a charity shop
warehouse just hours afterwards, so I like to think what goes
around comes around.
No doubt quite a story behind how these 2 Scottish paper bag
and video ad cards turned up inside a South African album sleeve.
I have 4 of these South African albums somewhere but this one
goes up to 11 and includes an unusual choice of Lennon cover.
I love discovering unusual Scottish singles I never came across in Northampton.
Another nice find to add to my football vinyl collection.
Best find was a EX+ copy of this Trojan album by
Tommy McCook & The Supersonics which has at least
half a dozen stunning standout tracks.
A John Hassell private pressing of a meditation record
from 1966, it looks unplayed and came with a card insert.
I'd never seen or heard of this odd album from 1975
which is hit + miss but I think the right word is "interesting".
- Gardener1
I'm back down south for a few days and after digging in a
handful of local charity shops came away with some curious
singles.The first stop though was an antique centre where 7"s
were £1 a pop, I'd actually have been tempted by more if they were 50p...
I was the most likely chap in town to snap this one up,
initially thought it was a joke disc, but no it's for real
Debut disc by a power-pop duo called France/Angleterre
titled Carte De Visite in a signed fold-out sleeve.
Odds 'n' ends found elsewhere I've not listened to them all yet, but they took my fancy.
Orange/silver 2 x French EP released on Stampa Alternativa in 1987.
Nicest find in a 50p box at the tip-shop was this old acetate
featuring 4 covers of rock 'n' roll tunes by an unknown/forgotten
band from the early 70's.
