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- Gardener3
I found 3 x beautiful German flexi-disc soundcard picture discs earlier today. Dating from the early 60's they all feature German singers and actresses.
Romy Schneider
The Kessler Twins - Alice & Ellen
Vera Tschechowa - she died earlier this month aged 83
- Do you or any of your peers digitise your finds?Nairn
- great findkingsteven
- I listen to everything but can't be uploading or digitising all my stuff, I play bits in shows though, these are nice things to keep really, they will be framedGardener
- retouched photos
https://www.qbn.com/…imbecile - woah, nice one imbecile, I love them!Gardener
- Gardener2
A nice pair of 78rpm finds this week.
Released in 1912 to raise funds for Titanic survivors.
and a one sided disc issued in the early years of WW1
- Gardener6
Well this is a bit of a turn up for the books, I have found that just about every compilation record that carries a well known name - such as Cocteau Twins, has been well documented and it's pretty much impossible to discover something unknown that no collector, DJ, record dealer seems to not know something about, this was until last weekend. I did a clear out of my mum's garage on Saturday to make up some boxes for a fair in Reading the following day. I came across an album I have no memory of ever having or even it's origins so I did a bit of research to find out more. I found absolutely nothing. I've had a couple of 7"s for years that are still a mystery but this album (pictured below) was something quite different. The label, the bands compiled on it, Cocteau Twins alongside punk band Conflict was very odd to see, but I couldn't find anything on Discogs etc so took it along to the fair and asked as many sellers as I could. I even bumped into Mark Lamarr who also drew a blank, none of the traders at the fair, some who are specialists in mid 80's Indie, Mute/Factory etc said they had never seen or heard of this album before. I rebuffed several offers too as it is probably worth something to the right collector and I would rather know more about it before passing it on. The labels show 4 tracks on each side, the labels and rear of sleeve may state this however... there are 6 tracks on each side!
The disc came in a black bin bag type inner sleeve with the Circuit logo on one side, the labels are printed as proper labels with performance rights details but no dates and the envelope sleeve has the Circuit logo embossed on the front. The label address on the rear is important as it is for the studio where Mute Records recorded the early albums by Depeche Mode, Yazoo etc. To add extra spice to the mystery when I played both sides of the record it actually plays Dionne Warwick's greatest hits.
So, it could be some bizarre art project from pre-Mute days, an in-house only promo (but I would have assumed the music would have matched the labels/sleeve notes. It's quite a mystery and I LOVE a good mystery record, I've dropped Mute Records an email about it in the hope they may know more but it is a curio that I needed to share in case anyone knows more and can shed further light on such a find.
- when I worked at virgin/emi we created promo samplers like this all the time (must have done over a thousand of them in my time)Gnash
- unusal not to have a "not for sale / resale" line, or "promotional use only" - also doesn't have a DPRO number.Gnash
- coulda been a noob marketing manager who would have got shit after it was printedGnash
- You had me up to Dionne Warwick :D. Someone's degree work i'd guess.kingsteven
- Yes, the DW connection kinda spoilt it for me but I've never come across such an item as this beforeGardener
- pseud3
Got this the other for very little $
- Gardener1
I made another trip down south to Northants at the weekend, not just for digging but to clear out more stuff in storage at my mum's house. I was pretty ruthless this time ditching loads of albums to the local charity shops which can sometimes have a karmic effect of blessing me with finding vinyl things I actually want to keep, and so it proved to be this time. The journey home to Scotland was awful though taking over 11 hours thanks to jams in Berwick and Edinburgh and I was glad to make it home safe as I saw several cars broken down with the drivers trapped and having to sit and wait for hours to be rescued.
Beautifully stacked singles in one shop "please put them back as you find them" said the manager who kindly let me dig in their cellar, there were so many LP's I'll have to make a second trip in the new year.
I pulled about a dozen 7"s from the pile which were a pound a go but he let me have them for a tenner. The most unusual one was this sole release by a twee Indie Northampton band released in the mid 80's I had not seen or heard of before. It wasn't until I got home to clean the records that I discovered a poster for one of their local gigs inside the sleeve.
I never realised the once popular entertainer had even released a record so was surprised to come across this one which is his cover of the well known Beatles tune. A quick Google search reveals he was a school pal of Lennon and has been in the news recently by smashing his car into parked cars for which he was fined £716 and received five penalty points, but he is 83 bless him.
Lovely summery Beach Boys harmony pop.
Not really my cuppa tea but produced by Bill Wyman and on Deep Purple's label, I'd have thought this would have been better but one to flip I guess.
Mysterious white label fully signed by the band but I could find nowt about them online.
A lovely promotional picture disc for the German chocolate company Suchard released in 1987.
A nice UK picture disc for an early Scritti Politti single, though I admit The Sweetest Girl is even nicer.
A scarce gay Cold Wave single issued in the late 80's.
Russian Folk music from the late 80's, lovely sleeve but not sure of the meaning in the translation.
Quite possibly the worlds first square 7" single*
*can't be arsed to fact check but wouldn't be surprised.
- I had to go back and listen to Scritti Politti "Perfect Way". I bought that and Motley Crue's "Theater of Pain" on cassettes on the same day in 1985.fooler
- Gardener0
Despite arriving late (8am) I picked up a handful of nice albums at the car boot this morning, a Malaysian couple had a box of LP's most folks seemed to have ignored as I assume they just thought it was weird foreign music. There were a several I took a punt on because they looked interesting and were cheap, along with a few by Teresa Teng who is rarely spotted out in the wilds of Scotland!
Reg Guitar or Reggie Verghese as his mum knew him was a famous guitarist and producer in Singapore during the 60's/70's and had his own band called The Quests who were comparable to The Tornados or The Shadows. Released in 1974 this album is one of his several solo albums.
A more traditional folky instrumental collection in the box from 1969.[img]https://hosting.photobucket...
I guess the couple must have travelled around the world a few times too from New Zealand...
To Spain...
Love that little sticker on the front!
Other odds and ends.
I found the same chap's Lost Sheep 7" recently and this is his first single issued on 12" and produced by Ron & Russell of Sparks.
I'm a sucker for a good poetry album.
Oddity from 1963 which features a calypso tune and the future Tory MP Sir Keith Joseph giving a speech on the flip asking to Keep Britain Tidy. He was later to become Thatcher's Secretary of State for Education and was involved in the introduction of GCSE exams.
A drug company promo to persuade doctors to prescribe the sedative Lormetazepam on one side and 2 pieces of classical music on the othe......zzzzzzzzzz- that other Spanish LP
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- that other Spanish LP
- Gardener2
I had a great day here last weekend, I have been to the previous 2 Groovy Record Fayres but this one seemed to be the busiest so far. Celeb spotting was always fun but I didn't see Stewart Lee or Thurston Moore this time but chatted to Gilles Peterson who picked up some Albert Ayler albums and DJ Food found some nice singles on my stall. I spent over £100 on LP's & 7"s but took over £600 so it was worth the ULEZ charge, parking fees and even the 3 hour journey home (thanks for playing at home on the same day Arsenal, cheers!) These are just a few of the singles I found and most were only £1 each, some incredibly good stalls on the two floors, one guy had dozens of singles priced at over £3,000 each! but it certainly helped me to be there early to find the cheap stuff.
I was quite excited to find this one had a selection of photos inside the sleeve as I flipped the disc out, they could have been Beatles related but instead turned out to be someone's early 60's climbing adventure.
Lovely sleeve for this early 70's advert sung by Samantha Jones for the Ford TC-1.
I'd never come across a good copy of the UK debut 7" by one of my favourite bands, love that price sticker too.
I've a white label test pressing of this great and truly fucked up record, but have never come across an original stock copy before.
Sadly not a bra advert disc as the record that comes with it is a promotional EP featuring Scott Walker & Dusty Springfield, could have been worse I guess.
How could I leave this in a pound box?! Sadly not from the TV show of the same name but a West End musical from the late 60's.
This was probably the rarest find, I picked it up for the title alone and it's musical style is chutney.
The top one caught my eye as it was written by Jeff Lynne and it turned out to be released the same month as his debut LP with The Idle Race and the one below name checked Robert Smith's band.
This French band hit both big mid 70's trends with one record.
Great mid 60's EP by Georgie Fame with a sleeve photo by Dezo Hoffmann.
Anything on this label is always of interest and this one doesn't disappoint.
It's not all that rare but I've never seen or heard this one before.
This one though is pretty rare, the debut record by Dame Edna himself released in Australia only in 1958.
- PhanLo4
Random spotting on Insta, is that you Gardener?
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- Gardener1
I came a cross a stash of really tatty Beatles albums today for £5 each, the sleeves were all well beyond repair but bizarrely all the albums were OK. There was the first Jobette credited With The Beatles, and a beautifully clean stereo Revolver but best of all were 2 Please Please Me copies, one yellow & black Parlophone disc in EX+ (again, I couldn't save the mouldy sleeve) and a very first Black & Gold mono which despite a few light marks has cleaned up to be VG condition. Am happy to keep the discs as they will be good for upgrades when I find scratched vinyl copies in the future.
Black & Gold labels, with the Dick James Music song credits, changed soon after on all later releases.
- Gardener1
A rarely seen and by the look of it a never played disc by the legendary budgie called Sparkie Williams. According to his Wiki page he was acclaimed as the world's most outstanding talking bird in the Guinness Book of Records, EVER! He only released one single and most of the 20,000 sold in 1958 were 7"s this is the rare 78 copy.
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- Gardener2
A Beach Boys compilation used for a sun tan cream advertising campaign in 1981 which neglects to mention the band on the gate-fold sleeve, however it was later remedied when it was re-issued as 14 All Time Greats.
I have at least 3 different driving courses on albums but this is one I'd not come across before, I guess this one has got to be good as it's especially for the Metropolitan Police.
Delightful stories & verse for children to the accompaniment of a harp which was used in schools in 1970.
More beautiful harp music on these 2 mid 60's singles by Héloise Russell-Fergusson.
A nice looking soundtrack for a film I must admit I've never heard of.
Music and cabaret from the Hollywood hot spot which was to later feature in the 1969 Raquel Welch film Flareup.
The pick of a whole bunch of Hawaiian records that an old lady had on her stall, I just bought them all and they are very nice indeed, I must be going a bit soft as I remember a time I wouldn't have entertained this kind of music.- ever convert any of your oddities to digital? I'd be interested in hearing half of your posts, but so little of it is online. Sign me up for the driving coursesimbecile
- Gardener2
Today I discovered a schools musical LP about a time machine from 1968 complete with programme & press photo!
- Gardener0
I picked up an Iranian single the other day which came with it's original picture sleeve. Amazingly it is signed by the lady herself who signs as Gougoush, I could find no other example of her signing a record or anything, so this could be unique!
how beautiful to draw a candle next to her name!
- this is iconic Iranian singer Googoosh
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- this is iconic Iranian singer Googoosh
- Gardener0
Sunday digging at a couple of boots today, I didn't go to Errol (Scotland's largest car boot) so no idea what I missed out on, but I did find other things across the River Tay.
I brought home what just seemed like an unusual embossed sleeve classical record, I never checked the condition as it was in with others but imagine my surprise when I took it out when I got home to find it's a an promotional picture disc album for the German company's Endoscopy camera system, lovely!
I was really pleased to pick up this ridiculously badly shopped 12" picture disc and also a stone mint original vinyl limited edition double pack of Faith No More's magnificent Angel Dust which was a great deal as my own copy of the album is totally battered, both of them for £20 which is probably the most I've paid for a record at a car boot in years.£1 to £3 album finds
Jackson Browne bootleg from 1975
Millie Small in a banana boat
A couple of quid bargain for this early 70's Howlin' Wolf album on the Rolling Stones label.
Which was alongside this soundtrack album featuring Ron & Ronnie.
An unusual privately pressed record by Dundee poet Peter Trust reading the notoriously bad poetry of William Topaz McGonagall.
An unplayed 10" of music from the beautiful Orkney cathedral in Kirkwall.Only a couple of singles today.
Music played by Jan Rosol along with French phrases for schools issued on BBC Records in the early 70's.
A set of 3 promo card backed flexi-discs issued by Payne's Poppets, which are still available in the shops, I should know I bought a packet from Asda only yesterday!
- 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
- Gardener0
7" finds on a recent dig in Northampton, from 3 x car boots + 8 x charity shops
Anything on Marmalade is interesting and this one singing the praises of pirate radio stations Big L and Caroline is well groovy man!
Also on a sea tip is this cover version of the Sutherland Brothers song which I prefer to Rods' version.
The classic Coke jingle has been re-issued in many versions but it's the B side that makes this disc worth keeping.
Promo flexi for Pepsi featuringthat jingle multiple times.
I was surprised to hear this version of the well known theme, this is much more upbeat than the original.
From the same year as the Steptoe & Son single is this very early Ska release by the splendidly named Ernie Faulkner & The Planets.
Christmas Cambridge Childrens Hospice charity single by oddly named Jailbreakers who have kindly signed the label.
Scottish synth tune featuring Craig Ferguson under the pseudonym Adam Eternal on drums, the label is signed by bassist Paul McMahon .
Issued with Revell modelling kits, most likely with one of their rockets and featuring the sounds of spacemen on the moon.
Nicest find was this single by Arthur Lee's Love with it's beautiful graphic logo, not sure about that writing credit though.
- that exposure track is greatkingsteven
- I love that 45 label.CyBrainX
- 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.
- Gardener1
7" & 6" singles finds this weekend, just before the rains came.
UK issue of the French childrens TV series from the late 60's, the Scottish band took their name from it but changed the e to a.
A 1972 EP of tunes from New Britain Island, east of Papua New Guinea.
Scottish rockers who only released one single and a live album in their short lived lifetime.
This Scot also only released one single too though he did win several Boxing Championship belts.
I found a whole bumch of kids records which included curious titles like Eavesdropping and Tripping but I'm gonna guess not on LSD.
A couple of odd flexis including a 6" Cliff freebie from Serenade Books magazine from 1960.
Late 70's Power Pop band who only released a handful of singles including one on Chiswick.
One of Roy's very best tunes, a John Peel fave.
Scarce release by the Peterborough Panters Speedway team in 1974.
available as a free download here: http://www.peterborough-speedway…- i’ve got a few of those nursery 7-inches too. worth owning just for that 345 logo alone. love itscruffics