recent vinyl finds
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I have just had another busy week digging down south in England. I spent one day with friends tramping the charity shops of Milton Keynes in the morning and Northampton in the afternoon with mixed results. There was a fantastic (bloody lucky) 7" find was in a shop in Bletchley in MK, which used to have 11 charity shops on it's high street but as of last weekend that has gone down to 7.
There were regular bargains to be found in The Bakehouse - a vintage stall centre in Northampton which was sadly having a closing down sale, all the albums were £1 a pop and singles 10 for £1.
Best find of the week was this disc by the band who used to back Johnny Kidd sitting in a cheap box with some other mid 60's singles.
Other finds included a lovely tri-fold-out-gate-fold sleeved Robert Wyatt 7" and other delightful oddities.
This one was a promo disc for the record pressing company Damont, both sides are completely blank hence the selling tag '5 minutes of peace'. The only other completely blank disc I have is for The Wit & Wisdom Of Nigel Farage which came out 10 years ago.
I am still the proud owner of the world's oldest football record (a 78rpm disc from 1907) and have quite a large collection of football vinyl, but I pleased to pick this up for 30p in Milton Keynes as I have never seen it before. Several of my discs of FA and League Cup Finals are on albums so it was surprising to find one on a single and with a great sticker on the front that was added to later editions and is quite scarce.
I also came across 3 albums featuring harp music, I was familiar with Dorothy Ashby's work as I have a copy of her excellent Afro-Harping however I was slightly disappointed with this earlier album of hers despite being a bargain at £3.50 but didn't touch me quite as much as the Osian Ellis record which made for a beautiful Sunday afternoon soundtrack.
This was another pleasant surprise which again sounded great this Sunday afternoon, but it may sound bloody awful come Tuesday morning.[img]https://i.imgur.com/wZoQITb...
A market stall find for a fiver, love the different colours on each side of the disc.
- Finest football record ever is the 1982 Scotland World Cup Team 'We have a dream!'.microkorg