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- Gardener2
Today I discovered a schools musical LP about a time machine from 1968 complete with programme & press photo!
- Gardener1
Pretty good digging at a couple of early car boots at the weekend, I am off to Northamptonshire next weekend so I hope my finds are just as fine.
A previously unknown album on the Deroy label by the Buckhaven High School from 1977 which isn't all that good but it must be pretty rare.
UK issue of a Quincy Jones soundtrack from 1965, the film pays more than a passing nod to Hitchcock.
Unexpected find of the week was this album with authentic sounds recorded in The Grand Canyon as well as a full 11 minute track with narration by Johnny Cash.
Even more bizarre than the sounds of a canyon are the sounds of a 3,000 year old intrument called a Lur from the Danish Bronze Age.
Sleeve of the week winner is this one which looks like a giant box of matches.
Sleeve of the week runner up is this one with 4 ladies on the front not wearing any trousers.
A UK 10" from the late 50's featuring some great Hank Williams covers.
Even though it was only VG+ condition I was more than happy to pay £2 for this Trojan album I'd not come across before.
These two beautiful ladies were nestled in the same box at the car boot, I do have to get up bloody early to find gems like this you know!
I didn't even have to get off my arse to get this one however as I ordered it from the Buried Treasure Bandcamp and recommend you do the same here : https://buriedtreasure.bandcamp.…
- Gardener2
The high's and lows of vinyl digging this week.
The story behind how I came across this album is very nice. I met a chap in a charity shop who told me he had some records at home and I was welcome to come and have a look as he told me no longer played them. So I went to his house and went through the inevitable huge pile of Jimmy Shand and Alexander Brothers albums which seems to have been the staple musical diet for the over 70's in Scotland and came across this album. He was surprised why i had picked out this particular one out of so many as he said he was actually on it! He then told me the story of how his band the Angus Cronies had won a coveted Scottish TV talent show twice and that their prize was a fancy wooden bowl (which they had to return at the end of their year long reign) but they released this sole album in 1962. He then proceeded to go through all the names of the band members on the back and what they got up to when the band split up and who had died and which ones were still alive and where they lived!? It really was a lovely afternoon in his company and he kindly signed it on the back for me - he said that it was the only time he had ever been asked to sign an LP and that he was 92, such a lovely fellow and his name is Lyall and he played the mouth organ.
Beautiful chamber music by The Fires Of London with the prolific composer/conductor, the production was a presentation by the great film director Ken Russell.
On an unexpected trip to Edinburgh i came across these odd gems.
In other boxes at a car boot were these folk albums including 2 by the short lived poetry band whose gatefold sleeved debut was produced by John Peel.
I was very pleased to find this nice original US copy of one of the few albums by Nina I don't have.
Probably the most unexpected find of the week happened just as I was leaving a car boot, every stall had pretty much been picked over early on, so I was just loitering about trying to remember what else I actually need to buy other than records at 8:30 on a Sunday morning when I pass a stall with a pile of LP's on the table with a big piece of card saying £1 each. Of course it's usually Jim Reeves albums that are reserved for that honour but unbelievably there was a Blue Note album on the top! OK it was a re-issue but I lifted the pile of about 8 records up and noticed there were 4 copies of the same album by Kenny Burrell as well as some others by modern artists I didn't recognise - my son chastised me for not recognising the album by Olivia Rodrigo (who????) pictured in the middle. the bloke said I could have them all for a fiver - SOLD!! Have you any more I asked, yes he replied but he has his records in a storage unit on the other side of Edinburgh. He said I was welcome to come and see so we arranged a date and I took off on the long journey from my house on Tuesday morning full of optimism. Anyway to cut a long story short it was a massive anti-climax, yes he had hundreds of albums but no more Blue Notes or anything remotely modern so it proved to be a wasted trip but I did get the chance to dig around the city, just a bloody long way to go for slim pickings, but the car boot find probably paid for the petrol.
- lovely story about the 92 yr old dude <3... and nice Nina find! (I sometimes blast "'Nuff Said" while cooking)PonyBoy
- Gardener1
I was so pleased to find this album from 1979 recently, I never knew it existed and it wouldn't excite most collectors but the photo on the front was taken in my grandparents front yard! I really couldn't believe it when I found it as it features Kirkstile Inn on the right and Loweswater Church (where both my grandparents are buried) in the middle, the sleeve is now framed in my studio.
- Gardener2
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yellow 10" promotional flexi for Filmophone Records circa 1931
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- 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.
- Gardener2
Freddie must have taken note of this album title by the Israel Philharmonic as it came out in 1972
- Gardener1
I'm currently on a trip to my old hunting grounds, local car boots
& charity shops etc, I've had a few good finds in Scotland
including a huge jazz collection but for sheer I-never-know-what-is-gonna-turn...
Northamptonshire has few equals for surprises, although I
rarely stray further than Bucks so I'm kinda biased, but I did
find a few nice things at a boot and a shop with the weekend
finds to come.
Time was I'd pay little attention to the boxes the records were
in but this pretty 60's case was too good to leave for a pound.Some of the more interesting albums most of which were 50p
from the same car boot as the fancy case.
I assumed the 'Featuring CHILDREN' refered to the kids
on the front but it was to a composition of his own and sadly
not a cover of the Robert Miles tune either.
I've never come across a copy of this scarce album before,
the sleeve has wear but the disc is lovely.
A nice minty album of childrens songs released on a Topic
imprint, some good witchy (Ritual Games) tunes on side 1.
I find it incredible that an Appalachian folk album released
in 1977 to raise money for an obscure American coal mine
somehow finds it's way to a field in Northampton!
It's signed on the rear but I can't make out if it's either
of the artists - Rich Kirby or Michael Kline.
The tip shop in town had a lot of fresh albums but
I unearthed some interesting globe spanning singles.
Arabian release from 1962 by Saken Qassadi
Square flexi-postcard picture disc from Venice.
Obscure Welsh indie band from 1984.
UK one sided stereo test disc.
12" of the classic Planet Rock complete with Hip Hop sticker.
- Gardener2
all found for a pound a pop in a couple of boxes at an antique market
The theme to TV show Follyfoot - nice touch with the release
date stamped at top of the sleeve.
This has the release date stamped on the side of the sleeve too.
Four track EP from 1977
B side is The Finale sung by Edda.
Taken from their beautiful Barafundle album.
Demo for the theme from the 1968 movie of the same name
that starred Lucille Ball & Henry Fonda.
Best find was this gem by Broadcast, probably the first vinyl
by them I have ever found out in the wild.A few oddities
Despite it's title this doesn't sound like it has any Zappa
connection, it sounds more like a rubbish Rolling Stones song.
Described on her sole LP as a cross between Max Boyce & Pam Ayres
this is her blue vinyl EP featuring Viva La Wales (Viva Espania)
A great Century 21 adventure released in 1967,
luckily the token was not cut out of the sleeve on the back
- i have the arthur lee and the lps the broadcast and gorky's singles are from. there was so little vinyl being released around then tbfkingsteven
- Gardener2
Some vinyl finds from the last week or so, I went to Scotland last
weekend so it's not hard to guess which ones I found up there!
This caught my eye in a charity shop in Arbroath as it had a
track called Bagpipe Rock- which sadly turned out to be more
Bagpipe Jazz, it's just awful.
Film producers are looking for a Scottish James Bond to replace
Daniel Craig so maybe one of these guys could be considered?
then again perhaps not.
Sleeve redacted for health and safety reasons, obviously.
Lush covers of Elvis tunes, nice to listen to on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
More easy listening but a bit more upbeat.
Jake making a stab for the Xmas #1 in 1967
I only realised who this was after playing it, why it's Judie Tzuke!
before she did her solo thing, it's the same song but a different
version to the one on her great debut album a few years later.
oi gotta brand new football record and I got it for free, ooh arr
Best vinyl find of the week isn't actually a record at all as it's
completely blank and unplayable, instead it has etchings around
the label, and was only available to staff & special visitors to the
EMI Distribution Centre Open Day in May 1977 and the Queens
Silver Jubilee.
A rare case of the cover being better than the original.
A single-sided record promoting Fabergé products with old
ITV World Of Sport presenter Dickie Davies doing a bit of chat
on the end, only yellow vinyl copies were pressed according to
legend (Discogs) so this red one must be as collectibles as an
A&M God Save The Queen.
King Kenny plugging the other soft drink on this 1973 flexi-disc.
Mmmm... shunting- no youtube for "cheddar cheese"?
i am disappointhans_glib - nvm i found it.
https://www.youtube.…hans_glib
- no youtube for "cheddar cheese"?
- Gardener2
Vinyl finds over new year in the Dundee area charity shops
and Northamptonshire farm shops (!?)
There was no way on earth I wasn't going to throw 50p at this beauty!
This was the pick of a whole bunch of Polish albums on the
Sutton Sound imprint, many of which had interesting sleeves.
2 x Stooges 7"s in a record shop in Dundee for £2 a pop!
Released in the early 70's it consists of spoken word reports
from people who had been in Burundi and had witnessed some
of the horrors, it doesn't make for comfortable listening.
Disco Floyd!
Along with the bales of hay and dead pheasants there were
records to discover, including...
A bluesy one from 1968 which I had never come across before,
love the sleeve art more than the music to be honest.
Tales of woe, sample lyrics of the title track
It was Thursday the first of November, 1956 was the year
From Springhill, Nova Scotia, the sad news we did hear
An explosion there did happen, at the entrance to the mine
To save the lives of those within, it was a race with timeWell over a hundred miners were trapped in Colliery four
And hope of their survival grew dimmer by the hour
Wives and families huddled ’round the pithead in the cold
The tears they shed, the prayers they said, can never be retold...
An acetate for an un-released album by accordion maestro
Marcosignori, I actually have a couple of his other albums
so knew what I was getting into with my one pound purchase,
this later album below was even released on Parlophone.
I was kindly sent a copy of this excellent new album this week
by the chap who has recorded a couple of sessions for my show.
- 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
- zarb0z1
I have to say: a bunch of these are a proper joy to look at. Thanks everyone for sharing.
- Gardener1
with the car boot season in full swing allsorts of vinyl delights
are beginning to turn up
I just liked the sleeve of this 12" which turns out to be someone
called Dubble D and sadly not the inspiration for the Police tune
Walking On The Moon.
The sound of lots of old cars driving very...very... slowly...
from London to Brighton including BBC TV's Blue Peter team .
The 2nd LP by Ivor Biggun aka Doc Cox from the 80's TV show
"That's Life" features a whole host of erm, stars.
I have had this guy's How To Lose Weight album for years
but until I found this one I never knew he had done one on
smoking too, nice touch on the rear of the sleeve
where there is a cigarette burn!
Various cover versions arranged by the dad of the 4AD
record boss released on the Pinnacle label in 1974.
A nice pair of stereo originals, I have a friend in China
who'll have these off me!2 x compilations, the first is bands on the Bomp! imprint
including The Flamin' Groovies
and a pretty good mix of Avon based new wave and indie bands
a few nice singles turned up today, this electronic sounds
one is excellent and I like the copyright credit on the label
this 7" with it's signed sleeve has a great flourish on the signature!
I could hardly leave this oddity in a 50p box, a 10" album
in the back of an A3 sized book released in 1970 which
includes a history of the London drinking holes, I wonder
how many of these pubs are left today
- Gardener0
There was no way I was ever gonna leave this 12" in a 50p box,
but it made me smile (once) it is actually pretty annoying though.
South African Disco album which didn't have the outer sleeve
but it was cheap!
I kinda hoped this cover version compilation might be
reggae versions, but sadly they are not, so what's the point?
Unusual UK promo version of The Lady Sings The Blues s/t
by Diana Ross for a London clothing retailer, I could not find
anything more about this specially pasted over sleeve edition
so if anyone knows more?
One of the gems I have been listening to that was
from the boxes of albums I picked up the other week.the pick of the 7"s that have come from charity shops this week
This E.P. from 1970 is signed inside by the vocalist, but the
stand-out track on it is the organ heavy version of Soul Finger.
- kazoo trolls ffs! pretty things are deadly (and still great!) any other nice stuff in those boxes? or still sorting through? looked like quite the haul on fbkingsteven
- i've got that kazoo one too. staying alive is great on it.scruffics
- sleeve notes are hilarious tooscruffics
- more bits are revealing themselves kingsteven, cheers!Gardener
- Gardener1
I've picked up some nice albums recently including a
whole collection of Beatles from a guy I'd met over the
summer at a car boot and had given my card to then 3 months
later he actually rang me up! Other stuff included...
Signed by the band who sound like an unfunny,
low budget Barron Knights, but at least the sleeve is hilarious
A great German pressing of a compilation of 60's R&B.
Sealed but it's all up there on Youtube anyway.
The sleeve alone was enough to part me with a pound,
but it turned out to be soft Hong Kong pop, damn
I was more than happy to part with 100 pennies for this
first vinyl outing by John Cleese & two Goodies
Best buy of the week, by some distance was an entire Beatles
collection along with various solo stuff, I probably have them all
on vinyl or CD somewhere but this lot were in such beautiful
condition there are keepers and there were some pretty scarce
issues in there.
Some issues of the US 'Trunk sleeve' had the cover pasted
over the withdrawn 'Butcher sleeve', but judging by the small
tear to the bottom someone had tried to find it underneath,
without much luck.
There were 2 different issues of Abbey Road one with the
mis-aligned Apple sleeve.
Although it was a later issue to the first top-opening editions,
a numbered White Album with all the bits was nice to find.
