recent vinyl finds
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I have picked up all sorta interesting singles and albums in the last few weeks, I visited my old digging grounds down south and found some gold in them thar shops. The car boots are about dried up for the year but the auctions and charity shops still deliver the goods. The rarest album I found was an original Jackson C. Frank on UK Columbia but most of these singles came from the Groovy Record Fayre II which was in North London at the end of October. Many familiar faces came along including Jonny Trunk, DJ Food, Thurston Moore and Stewart Lee, there was a free disco in the evening with Jarvis Cocker on decks but I was there early to dig deep, will post up the albums soon.
One stall turned up some great cheeky 7"s at £2 a pop, I picked up about 20 of them from a lovely lady's stall, including these ones.
This was probably the oddest of the lot, a 1985 split single issued on Rebound Records between Wanda and Fifi, but the sleeve has been doctored as a 'Greetagram' for a chap called Brian Pennington ('bi bi Brian') added to the front and it also includes a specially typed poem inside the gate-fold, I bet Brian was delighted!
On a far less smutty tip, this record celebrates the joys of the city of Leicester, however the singer blotted his cv with his next 7", a pro Tory record titled Maggie Will Always Be Around.
A pair of 7"s of only 3 ever released by this middle aged chap, who needed his surname explained on the sleeve (bless) however his backing band were the excellently named The Venatics.
The debut single by another old chap who was to become a familiar face on British TV in the 70's/80's.
I don't need this to teach me to say the longest place name in Wales, I learned it from a very early age in fact I even speak a bit of Welsh - true!
I picked up a load of these kids records a month or so back but a kind stall holder kindly gave me the wee bag that they would have originally came in for free, some folks are very kind.
The debut release from the man who will forever be the definitive TV Jesus, for me at anyway.
No prizes for guessing who this promo is for, I wonder if they still care as much as they claim?
Just one of the joys of travelling on a Trident plane in the 60's would have been given this free gift as you got off.
I was really pleased to find this sole single by the American singer who was so nearly nearly a star, he sadly died just a day or so before David Bowie.