recent vinyl finds
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- Gardener2
Great find earlier today, still in it's original shop bag! This is a 10" 78rpm promotional disc for Dewar's Whiskey released in 1930, featuring Sandy McNab singing a Harry Lauder song on one side with Mancino's Orchestra performing Happy Day's Are Here Again on the flip.
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Had a big ol' crack in mine...
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TUNE!
- yesm silver cycles in regular rotation here, adore that record.kingsteven
- Gardener1
I've been up north and down south twice in the past month but still managed to find some sweet 7"s on my travels. There were plenty of albums too but these are a few of the singles I was pleased to pick up cheap, usually for £1 or 50p, though I did pay £30 for the flexi disc and that was a bargain as I haggled it down from £85 but the guy wanted it gone as he said he hated flexis.
This was an odd one I had not heard of before and it turns out to be a one off release in 1970. It's pleasant enough soft pop and the guys involved would later go on to release another single in '72 as Supporters United titled Up For The Cup, but both records bombed so that was the end of their short lived music career.
I was chuffed to bits to find this flexi as the only other one I had seen before belonged to DJ Food who has his copy featured in the Wobbly Sounds book to which I also contributed many of my discs to a few years ago. I knew it was rare as it was only available for a short time as a free disc with a book published in 1969 titled Young London - Permissive Paradise. I have several records by and connected to the great DJ Emperor Rosko - a lot more than ones by Jonathan King that's for sure! A cool connection with this disc is that the band playing on it, The Pleasure Garden are actually The Iveys who were soon to become Badfinger and the disc was one of the first to be recorded in the original Apple Records studio.
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Proving I will buy anything if it's trashy and cheap, this signed sleeve is by Mandy Smith who is probably best known for her relationship with 47yr old Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman in 1983, when Smith was only 13.
Also in the odd pile was this South African release by 13 year old Gwynneth Ashley Robin singing the praises of 10 year old Little Jimmy Osmond, it was also a hit in Angola and issued in this dubious picture sleeve, it was the 70's...
The thought of 21 Dutch pirate radio jingles appealed to me straight away but imagine my delight at finding that the A side on this record is a great funky instrumental from the late 60's.
One side of the label caught my eye, turns out to be a charity record for the ferry disaster in 1987 though oddly this came out the following year, I noticed on Discogs the singer has released over 60 albums!
A pair of US discs which have labels on that were cut out from the back cover of MAD magazine in April 1957, one plays Lollipop by The Chordettes and the other is Sugartime by The McGuire Sisters.
I've been looking for this MM record for years and it turns up in a 3 for a £1 box along with this rare Billy Fury one, crazy man, crazy!
- Gardener1
Recent tip/charity shop and car boot digging for albums.
Wellingborough has no shortage of crates, a bloke told me the tip shop in Kettering is 3 times bigger but I didn't have time to check it out. There were a ridiculous amount of DVD's, thousands 3 rows deep, I couldn't even be bothered at 10 for £1.
A tatty sleeve but the vinyl was fine, strong Depeche Mode, OMD electronic vibes coming from this one off private pressing by a Synthpop band in 1982.
I was pleased to find this new wave, post punk, South African compilation cheap in an Arbroath charity shop.
In the same box was this album by a guy who obviously loves kids but he is on the Spectrum, label.
Two fine jazz finds at the car boot on Sunday, didn't find much else there but this was good enough.
A great pair of compilations from the tip shop one of old blues 78's and the other of Indian ragas.
There were also a pair of lovely Indian sleeves only in the boxes, one green the other orange.
I picked this up with the earlier posted Flying Circus compilation as I knew this had a different sleeve to the UK issue (which was a double I recall). This South African issue has a single gate-fold with different tracks including Kate Bush, but the major surprise was it was on clear pink vinyl!
I did buy an album on eBay, an Al Bowlly album if you must know, but the sleeve came with the greatest stamped packaging I think I've ever had a record arrive in.
- Gardener3
I have quite a few albums with gatefold sleeves of course, but none come close to this superb Indian pressing of the s/t to the 1978 Bollywood film Shalimar. The music by R. Burman and Asha Bhosle is great in it's own right, but to come in such a lavish fold-out lotus sleeve like this is quite magnificent, see how it unfolds!
- Ahh top notch, can remember listening to this one on a R Burman deep dive but that sleeve is a treatkingsteven
- amazing packagingfooler
- Gardener2
Fab five track EP find today, will watch the movie Telstar: The Joe Meek Story TONIGHT in celebration!
- Gardener1
I've never seen another copy of this hand stamped sleeve elsewhere, it says "LUV FROM VIRGIN 2 YRS OLD TODAY"
- Gardener-1
Assorted album finds in the last few weeks.
A curious find but a dull listen (more than once). This copy is an American pressing which isn't surprising considering the stars on it but the same disc was also released in the UK too on Stateside Records. It would have found it more interesting if they had picked British stars for that one like Kenneth Williams, Tony Hancock or Sean Connery, but I'll be impressed if you actually make it through the whole record I've linked below.
I'm not the biggest fan of Herb (apart from Spanish Flea of course) but I'm a sucker for a Taiwanese red vinyl pressing.
Fine find in the same box for £4 each were these 2 early Prog albums from 1969. I am unfamiliar with the bands work but after listening through I am still not converted. However, Fatboy Slim sampled what is probably the best track on the Vertigo release called The Kettle for his track Ya Mama and it's also on Block Rockin' Beats by The Chemical Brothers, so they must have made a few quid from both of them.
Their debut album on Fontana.
I had to pick this up despite never seen or even heard of the film before. It came out in 1968 and as well as starring Connery and Bardot in the main roles it also features the curious pairing of Eric Sykes and Honor Blackman. A great trailer for it below features no dialogue!
I picked this up as it has a lot of harp on it, I am still on a bit of a harp tip and tbh I can go for hours listening to nothing else, and this one is superb. Beautiful, gentle Irish melodies from the 17th & 18th century played by Derek Bell alongside fiddles, pipes and whistles, I can highly recommend tracking it down if this is your kinda thing.
A cheap punt on a white sleeve/white label, in the run-out it has VIRUS 84 so I knew it must be interesting and it turns out to be The Last Temptation Of Reid by Lard, mmmm... Lard.
Another punt which it turned out to be a pretty nice listen, according to the sleeve-notes Shake is so named as he was a student of Shakespeare, hey, it might be true.
Sweet find in The Kingdom of Fife a few weeks ago. This Scottish compilation released in 1981 features a rare track by Electronica composer Janet Beat who many years later would have a compilation of her music specially released on Trunk Records. To cap it all she's only gone and signed the back of it.
A classic giant killing match between Colchester and Leeds Utd in 1971. Nicknamed "Grandad's Army" Colchester stunned Don Revie's star-studded side (who featured 10 internationals and led the First Division at the time) by taking a 3–0 lead. Leeds rallied but it finished 3:2 and is still one of the classic giant killing matches. I do have quite a few football records and certainly not the biggest collection in Scotland, that honour goes to my friend John Steele who has a book about his collection coming out soon. However much he tries to persuade me to part with it I do have one he really wants and he would do a great deal for it as John is a huge Rangers FC fan. It is the world's oldest football record, a 78rpm from 1907 that I found a few years ago that features the first Old Firm Derby on disc, but I did scan it for him to feature it in his book.
- fooler1
I feel like Gardener with this one. A friend found this one for me. When she gave it to me I thought it was real cats meowing but it's a 2 record set with The Zombies, Them, Cat Sevens and others...
