recent vinyl finds
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With the car boots pretty much dried up, or rather too
waterlogged if today is anything to go by, I'm reduced to
my knees in shops and checking out the local auctions.
I had a massive clear-out last week and took 3 big boxes
of albums that had been sitting around here in the cellar for ages
to my favourite charity shops, hey it's good karma man,
but maybe it was just to make room for some more...
The past few days have turned up some quite unusual things,
like this album which I nearly left in a £1 bin but thought I'd take
a punt on and was so pleased I did as it's really nice. I did some
deeper searching on the artist and he's gone on to do TV themes
for everything from The Windsors to the ITV News and loads
more,
this was his debut album.
Luckily my copy isn't as scratched as this track sounds on Youtube
The one below was in the same box but wasn't half as good.
I met with Trunk Records label boss Jonny Trunk earlier in
the week to discuss a forthcoming book on flexi-discs we are
putting together with DJ Food for publication in the new year.After I was waffling on about flexis and Milton Keynes radio
he suddenly said how much he'd been looking for a Milton Keynes related flexi which I quite fortunately had a spare copy
of. So he very kindly offered to swap it for his new soundtrack
album which landed on my doorstep the day after. He was a
lovely chap and I look forward to the book launch sometime
around March 2019 at The British Library in that London.This is the video I put up a while back featuring the music on it,
don't be surprised if it turns up on a future Trunk release.
I couldn't resist this pair of signed old folk albums,
by old folk no doubt.
I came across this unusual 7" slipped between some rubbish
records in a box in a shop, I couldn't find anything about it
anywhere but it seems like it was a special pressing for the
birthday party of the lady on the cover. She was married to
Tommy Tucker, who I assume is the same one who hit the
charts in the early 60's with Hi Heel Sneakers and their friends
must have got together to make a one off single to celebrate
her special day, it's a likely theory unless anyone knows more?
My best auction win of the week (for £6 + commission) were
2 x Century 21 albums from the mid 60's that were both in
beautiful, excellent+ condition. I have seen other copies before
but they are usually pretty well played and scratched as those
pesky kids just didn't think to look after their records back in '65.
But it seems likely these were only played a couple of times and
stored which is most unusual for Century 21 records.
