recent vinyl finds
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Some more records from my recent trip down to England.
This was a lovely find, a 10" promo for a special day - October 23rd 1961 if the label is to be believed, when shoppers at the Talk of The Town in Leicester Square were offered the chance to buy special acrylic fibre garments to the sound of easy listening music. Issued by chemical giant Dupont, the catchphrase Better Living Through Chemistry on the back of the sleeve was later to be used by Fatboy Slim as the title for his debut album.
A music/spoken word goodie I had not seen before, I still have fond childhood memories of Animal Magic.
Deserved modesty for this 7" 3 track EP from the mid 50's Jazz pianist and his 2 mates.
Giving the impression of a military invasion this one sided US promo explains to record shop staff how to sell more Mercury discs in June 1959.
Scottish Synth-pop that charted for a few weeks in America in 1981 but didn't trouble UK pop-pickers, it might even be signed by keyboard player William Perry on the label.
This single is a complete mystery to me, according to the internet they don't exist but they sound like Splodgenessabounds if they were a Ska band, nice sleeve though.
A 50p picture disc which I am resisting the temptation to push a drawing pin in the middle and stick it on the kitchen ceiling.
This is the original (superior) version later covered by popular fops Toploader in the late 90's.
An album of recordings made by Alan Lomax of Blues musicians on St. Simons Island just off the Georgia coast in 1935.