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- Gardener0
An afternoon in Aberdeen turned up some interesting finds.
I Googled 'charity shop warehouses' and discovered a couple
of vinyl drops, with one offering a fine selection of walking sticks
and the other picnic hampers.
I am sure I have another copy of this 2 x LP spoken word tour
of The Pyramids somewhere, but I know it doesn't have the little booklet insert.
A pair of early 70's Dana Gillespie albums, the best (red) one
has a cover of Andy Warhol with Bowie & The Spiders From Mars backing her.
First Jamaican pressing of the second album by a priest who
sings a strangely delightful hybrid of Christian Folk and Reggae.
Dunno wtf this is tbh but it was signed and was on SRT
which is an imprint that turns up unusual tunes.
Another odd album, the sleeve and it's exclusive availability
through the NY Herald Tribune paper piqued my interest,
might be just rubbish though.
odd singles, like the DVD's & CD's in the store they were 10 for a quid!
released in a limited edition of 200 copies
Catchy power pop, does kinda sound like Blondie
Signed by Ruthie herself, whoooo?
The Belgian Tornadoes!
Very scarce (ie hardly anyone bought it) charity 7" from an
Edinburgh band released in '82, note mis-spelling on front of sleeve.
Nicest find was this Canadian kids picture disc released in 1948
- That Buddha track is ace. Also I’ve got that Son et Lumiere Record too. The sleeve on it is quite enticing.scruffics
- Gardener1
Visited my first Scottish car boot on Sunday, the field slowly
filled up but there were some very dodgy looking characters
about, so I had to watch my step but I found a few albums and
just missed getting into a good box first and I was up at 6am.
These are some of the folky things, there were more a lot more, at 50p a pop.
Not a Scottish folk album in the same box as the three above
shock!! a great sleeve for this one from '73On Saturday morning I had visited a Northampton boot before
I drove to Dundee (bloody hardcore me) and found a few things
I liked.
A local rap act 12" from the early 90's released by the Northampton Musicians Collective, inside was a flyer to
a local festival, below.
A well loved but playable copy of Stevie's 2nd single from 1962.
I couldn't find anything online about this 10" disc, possibly because typing Marley Vinyl into a search engine throws up
quite different results!
I admit I only picked this up for the cheesy sleeve,
but listening through it's not that bad either.- "Marley vinyl rainwater goods made their first public appearance at the London Ideal Homes Exhibition in 1959" - https://marleypipesy…webazoot
- & much respect for all these early starts!webazoot
- cheers, but am paying the price now though and I've only had a glass of wineGardener
- Errol and Crail are probably the best car boots in your area.Doris_McSquirter
- Secret Bunker (near Crail) is worth a visit.Doris_McSquirter
- thanks for the heads-up!Gardener
- You're welcome. My ex went to St Andrews Uni so I visited that area alot. Be sure to visit the Isle of May also.Doris_McSquirter
- 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.
- Gardener4
Hits and misses at a couple of tip shops this week, I doubt the
Scottish ones I'll soon be visiting will be quite so eclectic or fruitful....jpg)
Despite heavy racks of vinyl I only found a couple of bits in here.
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This isn't all that rare but it caught my interest to find out what
a Bond era Connery has to say on it..jpg)
This kind of single is catnip to me, I have yet to hear it though as
I've already packed away my deck but I'm sure it has some merit..jpg)
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All sorts of things turned up in these ramshackle piles..jpg)
I have the Trunk OST album but never seen this US copy
with actual episodes on before..jpg)
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I don't remember this version at all and I'm old! The New Seekers
version is on the flip though and everyone knows that one..jpg)
Rarest find was this 1st pressing (of only 250 copies)
of the debut release by The Deep Freeze Mice..jpg)
The most curious was this Mexican 12" club mix by Jabba's Palace Band
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- Gardener2
A very early start dug up a few gems in a packed field this
morning, I awoke early and after putting the kettle on and
looking up at the time then realised I was an up an hour too soon
so went back to bed until 6:15 and then merrily drove off to sit in
a queue outside the massive car boot in Northampton.
There were plenty of singles and one guy had 2 huge boxes
at 25p a go, so I pulled loads including Iron Maiden, Pink Floyd
and even an 80's re-issue of The High Numbers I'm The Face
which was an unexpected treat but this 7" was the pick of the
bunch for me as I never knew the French drink Pernod had
released a record on it's own label before and it's pretty good.
I saw a bloke dipped down over a big box of promo card & pvc
sleeved promo CD's and started to dig when the woman said
[i]"these were my ex-husbands, he used to have a record shop,
you can have the lot for £8"[/i] which was so cheap I couldn't
haggle so just said yes straight away and the bloke who had
been going through them was a bit miffed but he had a handful
of them and she told him to just keep them.
There were so many I have pulled out loads of compilations to
listen to on my trips up to Scotland and will give a mate who is
helping me to move all the rest. The smiley face sleeved disc
turned out to be a great surprise, it's by someone called
Dr. Coca Cola and it's worth the free download : http://www.duckworthsquare.com/A…
I couldn't resist these which were all on the same stall at 2 x fiver,
the Screaming Lord Sutch is a keeper!- aceeddieScissors
- A morning well spent!webazoot
- I sold that HIStory last year for 100€ but could have easily sold it for 300€.oey_oey
- spot133
A random selection from my brother's dnb bin:
- 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
- Gardener4
sorting through the 12"s I came across this wee gem,
a 1 sided test pressing with press release & unsent reaction sheet
- Gardener0
finds from a weekend trip to Dundee and a day out in Reading.
Perhaps the only place I was ever going to find a fully sealed
England football LP was going to be a charity shop in Scotland.
Bizarrely these 2 old rockers were in the same box in an Age Concern shop.
Weirdest find was this album of salesmen seminars by the
Combined Group Of Companies, complete with booklet insert.
A great double LP of Poe stories with excellent gruesome sound effects.
No nasty sound effects on this album that simply explains how
you can win your scouting badges, zzzzzzzz......
No sexy sound effects here but a couple of good Donna Summer covers.
Mildly interesting unknown fact from a lifelong LFC fan :
The day he retired in 1974 my parents brought home a new pet,
a myna bird who I named Shankly in tribute to the great man.
One of several excellent albums I have enjoyed
after buying a big Jazz & Blues collection recently.
I found a handful of singles too and this one is a stand out oddity.
An over sized 78 flexi stuck onto card available in exchange for chocolate wrappers.
- Gardener0
nice Jazz score at a local antique shop today
all £3 a pop, some real gems too, guy said he just wanted rid of
the lot but I spent over £150 by pickinghttps://i144.photobucket...
- 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.
- Gardener2
Head Like a Hole in My Bucket Dear Liza
- 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"?
- Gardener0
I picked up some nice and unusual 7"s in a couple of charity
shops this week some familiar and several I'd never heard of
before, including these demos.
Some other odds and ends
- Gardener1
I've had a busy week of driving and digging, with a trip up north
to Arbroath & Dundee (where I will be moving to in the new year)
as well as a local car boot sale down south.
I didn't buy anything in the shops as there was an awful lot
of local music for local people. There were much better things
turning up at my local car boot, I was just lucky to get into a few
boxes first as there is a lot of competition for vinyl. I started by
tramping the streets of Arbroath on a grey and drizzly morning.
The local football ground/amusements.
There is a pretty harbour & lobster pot mountain.
I found one 2nd hand shop selling all manner of stuff but
the vinyl looked very well thumbed, not a good sign.
The prices ranged from the ridiculous to the 'naah yer alright'.
To grade the LP "fair" would be over-grading it despite a VG sleeve.
A surprise to find this lurking among the Jim Reeves but parts
of the sleeve were missing and the condition was VG/VG at best
so I left it as it was priced a round £100.
The charity shops were awash with records featuring bagpipes
The tills of Arbroath never saw my paper and iron, I even
skipped the chance of a smokie (smoked haddock snack)
To rub salt in the wound that a move up north may not yield
good vinyl I went to the mid-week car boot upon my return home
and turned up all manner of delights including a stash of weirdy
albums at £3 a pop. I've never heard or seen any of them in the
wild before so was happy again after my Scottish disappointment.
I also found a bunch of odd singles, this one being the pick of the bunch
- arbroath is a great place. if you like desolation.hans_glib
- and smokies.hans_glib
- which i dohans_glib
- well it's rubbish for records!Gardener
- did you get the cecil mcartney? king om is a local legend, met him a few times on the train. originals were fetching a wild price last time i checked.kingsteven
- bit of an acid casualty but he has some mad stories... last time i met him he said he wrote the first 7 notes of layla :Dkingsteven
- I did pick that up and yes, it's pretty nuts, in a good wayGardener
- Gardener4
I must start by saying this record and poster etc are not mine
but belongs to a friend, we had been chatting about the bands
we used to see in a pub in Milton Keynes in the late 70's,
my claim to fame was seeing The Specials AKA and
The Undertones among others in the tiny venue in MK.For some reason, maybe it was because there was another
show in town although I cannot remember what, but I decided
not to go and see this band called The Cure who were on there
first tour, I had just never heard of them at the time. My friend
did however go to see them and took his copy of their album
Three Imaginary Boys to the gig along with some other bits
and bobs he had related to them like some press pics his mate
at the local paper had given him as well as a poster he's got
from a local record shop advertising their debut single.He has had these things literally in his attic along with some
other stuff for 40 years, (the mind boggles what he has kept
but then again I'm just as bad!) So today I met up with him
and I had to take some pics of the record and poster as these
items and in this condition are virtually unheard of these days.
He has no plans to sell them as he's still a keen collector but I
thought I would share them with you as they are quite incredible.
My guess is each member has signed next to the
household item they relate too.
They also signed the inside sleeve - note Robert Smith
writing middle top where he's written 'my house'
1st press release & photos
A tiny stamp sized unused sticker with a pic of Lol Tolhurst
Promo poster which came from a record shop in Northampton
fully signed in the middle which he told me hasn't been out of
the record sleeve since May 1979! crackers.
- Gardener0
An EP in a beautiful sleeve featuring songs from the 1930 film
released somewhat belatedly in 1957
Since I discovered one of the rarest Ron Grainer related records
a few years ago pre-releasing any of his soundtrack work)
I seem compelled to seek out all his other records and this was
one I'd not seen or heard of before.
This oddity (still in it's beautiful purple sleeve) features brothers
Tony & Keith sharing the one disc, there are versions on the
same record with Keith taking credit for both sides but maybe
that was because Tony was being kind as he was the more
famous of the two as drummer in The Shadows, there might
even be a signature on one of the labels too, though it's hard
to tell which brother did it.
the fantastic flip side (despite what label on video says)
This guy only made a few singles including this demo from
the mid 70's but he was still making music as recent as 2015.
Another demo from the same box as the Meehan bros 7" was
by the composer of the Hell's Angels '69 movie soundtrack.
A mid 70's acetate by The YC's of Hendon North - who I assume
are the Young Christians of that parish, I tried in vain to work out
quite which Sir Ian they are singing their praises to but it's either
ex BBC director general Sir Ian Trethowan or Gandalf,
I'm more convinced it's the former unless anyone knows more download here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/rr…
This Spanish band were so chuffed that someone bought
their single they all kindly signed it on both sides.
I was best pleased with this pair of thoroughly Scottish EP's
featuring songs and spoken word, there are 6 in the set in seems, hoots!- sorry this is the vid for Darkness Of My Life
https://www.youtube.…Gardener - Holy shit @ that Hooker Street track. Wow.scruffics
- sorry this is the vid for Darkness Of My Life
- Gardener1
bits and bobs from the boots
The first release on the mighty On-U Sounds label.
I've never come across one of these Virgin 7" promo's before
(one of my rarer Virgin singles by Captain Beefheart has a special hand stamped sleeve)
Old actor Vernon Greeves wanders around even older
English castles chatting away, as he does.
A pair of budget label issues featuring Duffy Power, Al Saxon
and some really twangy guitars and 15 tracks between the two
of them!
With a US issue in a gate-fold sleeve (the UK one is only
in a rubbish single sleeve) and a Dutch version on yellow
vinyl and now this slightly s p a c e y sounding Quad version,
no doubt I probably also have the CD and 8-track of it somewhere in the cellar...
The most unusual finds this week were a couple of mysterious
albums on the EMI Central Research Laboratories label that
was completely new to me and with the words Experimental
Record on them an absolute bargain at 50p a pop,
even if they were gonna be rubbish.
The best way, other than playing it, was to check the matrix
numbers in the run out but even these proved pointless as this
one with the number CWK 3001 on one side had never surfaced
before. It turned out one side was half of the record Holiday
Album by late 70's new wavers Radio Stars, and for some
'experimental reason' the other side was bizarrely a
Best of The Mamas & The Papas.
After a bit of research on this imprint I discovered only a couple
of these discs seem to have been released before, one featured
tracks by Wings from Band On The Run and the other (probably
very collectible) had tracks from the first Queen album on it.
Well unfortunately for me this one happened to feature the whole
of this very common album by good old Manuel and His Music
of The Mountains, damn.
- Stellar haul. Looks like Diggin in the Boots pays dividends.garbage
- zarb0z1
I have to say: a bunch of these are a proper joy to look at. Thanks everyone for sharing.