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- Gardener0
some sevens found in fields over the weekend, and an album in a charity shop this morning
The unpredictability of going through singles boxes
at car boots is the joy of coming across gems like this.
This is probably a pretty rare charity single featuring
the Spriguns of Tolgus singer Mandy Morton, signed too
5 different versions of the same tune O! indeed
Edited from 3 x Best of... albums!
YMO on yellow vinyl
Alan Hull (Lindisfarne) related single by Robert Barton
who had previously been in a folk band called Becket,
this single was actually a minor hit in Holland in 1975.
2 x classic new wave tunes released together to plug a comp.
Pretty piss-poor Pistols parody - more info https://punkygibbon.co.uk/bands/…
Mo-dettes tribute to the East-End gangster
Kenny slags off some quite frankly rubbish records,
but all in the best possible taste!
The only LP of note this week was one I had to buy for
the title of track #8 on side 2 alone, sadly after hearing it
I need not have bothered.
- fooler1
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I decided to spend $50 on vinyl instead of $50 on a reunion ticket
- Gardener0
mostly sevens seemed to be turning up this week
but there was one album, phew
The best find was this strange single probably released
for schools in 1977 - I couldn't find much online about it
but the book is available on Amazon.
Scotlands fateful bid for World Cup glory in 1978
The hit song for the successful jeans ad campaign in
the mid-70's issued (as a freebie?) in a g/f sleeve
Lovely to find an original picture sleeve of this DB classic
but I really wish Kathy hadn't written her name on the front, twice!
Promo disc from 1968 no doubt handed out as you
boarded the plane after your Jamaican holiday
Signed release by tenor saxophonist Betty Smith
Scottish folk EP also signed
I took a punt on this religious album and wasn't disappointed
as it has several surprisingly good tracks
Translated as The Pleasure Gas, this spoken word
German 7" sadly isn't quite as sexy as the sleeve suggests- damn! that blue aquarius track is dope. great find!scruffics
- Gardener1
some 7" bits & bobs I picked up recently
great one-sided, late 60's cleaning machine promo single.
I picked up another copy of this silver promo flexi yesterday,
my pretty rubbish old YouTube video has had 40,000+ views!
The oddest, unexpected things turn up in 50p boxes.the pick of the albums, I picked up a huge collection of Elvis
that turned up at the car boot but these were more interesting
OST from a TV show I wasn't familiar with but I liked the sleeve,
shades of Police Squad in the theme tune.
I wouldn't normally buy an ABBA album (honest)
but this one looked unusual.
This was probably the best find of the week, but alas
had no sleeve, if anyone has one to trade please pm me!
A lavish (and a bit weird) picture disc album with huge booklet
inside the gate-fold and instead of Dalglish or Rush or Souness
for the LP cover I thought it was kinda cool that they chose
little Sammy Lee.
- lol@central milton keynes
...more like 'i've never heard anything like it'Bluejam
- lol@central milton keynes
- Gardener1
A nice find just this morning in a charity shop where
the guy who runs it is really rude (not just to me but
to pretty much everybody) but he's actually a bit of sweetheart
having been homeless for years and has now been given a
animal charity shop with flat above to look after, even so he
still moans all the time. He let me have this 10" coloured vinyl
flexi-disc for 20p and then told me to fuck off! haha
- Gardener0
I picked up some great 7" singles at the weekend,
an old boy turned up at the car boot with bags & bags
of LP's which were mostly 60's pop including Beatles,
Stones but lots of them were tatty so I concentrated on
the sevens in a dozen boxes which were spread out over
blankets on the ground, no-one else seemed interested in
them probably because it's usually a family & kids boot
with toys and buggies everywhere,
so at £1 a pop how could I resist?!
A nice pair of 007"s
Italian issue - 1972
UK issue - 1970
Dutch issue in a bizarre not actually T.Rex pictured sleeve -
anyone know who this is?
2 x TV theme demo
A pair of sweet rock n rollers
Original UK issue with the backward print on the B side
- the music is the A side played backwards!http://i144.photobucket.com/albu…
A couple of mighty Link Wrays
Japanese issue - 1977only a couple of albums of interest turned up, I thought that
this was a locally related record but it turns out to be the
Northampton in America, but pressed in the UK by Deroy,
what were the chances?
I took a punt on this Polish Funky Jazzy LP as it had a version
of Shaft on it, but it turns out it's a pretty great album overall
- *have now found out the mystery band
are an American rock group called RexGardener
- *have now found out the mystery band
- Gardener1
this weekend's vinyl car booty
7" in a hand stamped sleeve from my dad's old shop,
he actually paid me in records to stamp sleeves in the 70's!
I really love the way his name is in SUCH LARGE LETTERS
(as it should be really) it's a non-album track too
almost poppy version on the B side of a scarce 7"
a very nice copy of the original UK EP
http://i144.photobucket.com/albu…
late 60's rocker, the band would soon feature
a pre-Sweet Andy Scott and his brother
this is the version I grew up with in the 70's
obscure country folk signed by the great man himself!
cheesecake alert, the LP is pretty rubbish but love that sleeve!
excellent early 70's compilation of Buddah stuff,
check that tracklisting
Milton Keynes proggers who once had the distinction
of playing Reading Festival, making the front cover of
top music rag Sounds which featured (if you look really hard)
on the sleeve of the debut Marillion album
it's signed inside by the violinist
- Gardener1
Found some nice bits on a trip east to Peterborough yesterday
including some nice summery Jazz including Brubeck and
Quincy Jones, but I'm digging Sergio's groove today.
It was fate really, I go to see the new Mission Impossible film
and then pop into a charity shop on the way home and bingo!
a Lalo Schifrin album I have not seen before, the track-listing
is intriguing too.
A pair of old folk albums by a singer who used to be on Harvest Records
In the same box was this signed album by 60's star PJ Proby,
his message on the front reads :
'Steve, I personally can't stand my voice, but if this album gives
you some pleasure I'm happy, keep it - all my best PJ Proby Jim'
In a tip shop in Peterborough I came across this old acetate,
I gave it to a friend to sell as it's not my cuppa tea but is a rare
thing indeed.
I met an old punk at the tip shop and we got chatting and he
told me he only lived around the corner and asked me if I wanted
to go and see some of his old records, which of course I had to do.
We were walking to his house when we started chatting about
this & that and he suddenly announced he had just come out
of prison. Oh aye, I said, what for? "Armed robbery" he replied,
haha I said with a slightly nervous laugh and decided there and
then not to delve deeper. He had a few boxes of really scratched
singles but a handful of albums and he wanted a fiver for these 2,
hey I wasn't gonna argue! He was a nice chap though, probably just took a wrong path...
- I had no Idea ENO did a version of the wimoweh song!fooler2
- Gardener0
Rain has been a factor in keeping me off the fields
of Northants this week, but I had a nice win at the local
auction and a few unexpected finds in the local charity shops,
hopefully the sun will return soon.
A great sleeve for this 7" which came complete with it's insert.
1960's one sided promo advertising 7" for Alpine Lager.
2 x LP promoting Polish bands from the 80's with some
good tracks on, and a few not so good.
A 50p find earlier today, I picked the UK single up recently too.
In the same box was this I'd not seen before, turns out
to be a Philip Glass project which he produced & plays on.
I couldn't resist this but it's not as cheeky as I'd hoped.
Free (actually 50p)
Best buy of the week was a lot of Indian soundtrack
albums/singles in the auction which I won for £40
The nicest of them all was this one which came in a beautiful
fold-out lotus sleeve, unfortunately torn inside but the album
is great.
- Gardener0
The results of one car boot + three charity shops,
could have been worse...
An original song book find inside an album by the late,
great Jake, also nice to find it signed inside by him and
his bass player Alan Williams.
Unusual to find 3 Mary Hopkin LP's in the same box also
with a surprise insert of a UK programme with her supporting
'The Hump'. One of the copies of Postcard is Malaysian and
the other is an original UK mono.
A signed mid 70's release by those hilarious masters of
the comedy song, who are still going strong since 1960!
non-signed mid 60's release by the prime minister of Ireland, quite possibly interesting...
As promised on the cover it does indeed contain the words.
Old Blues singer in tatty sleeve but the vinyl was fine.A couple of road safety singles were lurking in the same box
This one features the Dixon Of Dock Green copper offering
advice, with a clown telling his story on the flip, pretty bizarre!
mind how you go, especially when there is a psych folk band on the flip, bizarrier!
Blimey, it's in Spanish, who knew? apart from the Spanish no doubt.
- Gardener0
No 7"s turned up at the car boots today but I did find 3 rather lovely LP's
A French album from 1972 best described as neo medieval prog!
A quintessentially Scottish folk album from 1970 by The Incredible String Band
The best find of the week was this LP of far-out music
created by students and primary schoolkids in the late 60's
- Gardener0
Some discs I picked up just before I went to Spain last week
and a few I picked up earlier today.
An OST for a film I admit I've never seen but if the music/dialogue
on it is anything to go by I don't think I've missed much.
Test pressing for the LP that came out in the 80's with kids singing pop hits on a TV show, the original record is a charity
shop classic.
The first of several albums released by this Corby based school band.
Both of the original 78rpm discs of this mix of music/narration
were together in the same box as the Mini-Pops
This was a nice find, a unique sleeve for the record that was
offering employees of the 'M Wholesale Group' an opportunity
to go on a 4 day holiday to Majorca. I couldn't find any more info
on this once in a lifetime competition.
the record inside
A twice signed 7" but the great botanist -
I had to double check he was still alive too and happily he is!
A personally recorded 5" disc recorded in seaside booth
"in Weymouth Pier" probably in the 60's.
A nice mid-70's folk album, the guy I bought this from told me
he still keeps in touch with the singer so I gave him my email
and told him to let him know I'd have him in for an acoustic
session if he's interested.
a couple of other old albums with lovely gate-fold sleeves
I bought from the same bloke
- Gardener1
I picked up some nice original pressings at the car boots this morning
The final album by The Move who had been reduced to Roy, Bev and Jeff by 1971
A double compilation album from 1970 on Blue Horizon
A lovely laminated UK first pressing with a numbered booklet
It's unusual to come across a record that I can't find anything
about online or the mandolin player John Dorsett or indeed
any of the other folk on it, but this is one of those albums,
unless anyone knows more?
I am old enough to have a soft spot for Kojak on Saturday night
TV as a kid, but still wish I'd come across a Star Trek or Batman
edition of this comic/album edition
Best find of the week for just a £1 was this Sci-Fi movie s/t
composed by David Campbell, I checked out his CV and he's
worked on so many records from Adele to McCartney and
composed soundtracks from Boogie Nights to World War Z,
and he's also the father of Beck! I am too tempted to find a
download of this to be honest and keep it as I found it, sealed!
- Great finds this time around!scruffics
- full Night of The Comet movie
https://www.youtube.…Gardener
- Gardener2
I won several interesting boxes of mixed vinyl for £55
at the auction over the weekend.There was a lot of chuff
but some real gems tucked away including original Stones, Dylan etc.
Although there was a Satanic Majesties with it's daft 3D sleeve
I was most pleased with this 1st UK mono pressing of my 2nd
favourite Stones album (there was sadly no first issue of Let It Bleed
not that I'm complaining, honest)
I knew nothing about this until I noticed it was on the
Sarah label and then a nice surprise to discover it's stupidly rare.
This was a lovely listen, old folk just rabbiting on about
sheep and thatching and working with oxen, etc.
Out of a really odd mix of albums this Todd Rundgreny album
of Power Pop stood out with some strong tunes.
A private pressing by a raucous local covers band, couldn't
find much online about them except that their drummer is dead.
There was a whole bunch of unused flexi-disc greetings cards,
probably from the late 50's.
Not a flexi-disc but tucked inside this EMI Xmas card sleeve
was the comedians debut from 1968, but I definitely have an
earlier disc by him though in the shape of a flexi in a
'Do-It-Yourself Comedians Kit', somewhere...
On the same label and in the same box was this early 7"
by Leonard Cohen, someone certainly had eclectic taste.
I had not come across this disc before, released by the
Crackerjack 70's TV show star, alongside him is an early
sighting of Lenny Henry who doesn't actually feature on
the record, with it's cheeky b-side.
Locally stamped sleeve for the only release by the
R&B band who would turn into Family a few years later.
This UK demo is signed on the label but am damned if I can
make out who's name it actually is, it doesn't look like Cissy's.
One of the stranger discs in the boxes was this Swedish
kinda proggy oddity by Ola & The Janglers.
This is the only 7" I have ever come across with it's own Zoetrope!
- Gardener0
all sorts of singles cropped up this week
The first KC 7" with the LP title track split over 2 sides
A pope-ular disc in it's day no doubt
Some old bands debut on a UK test pressing
Cheeky Jacko related cash-in
Tatty sleeve but a great tune
Groovy picture disc by the old Hawkwind fella,
the B side is a bit suss
Flexi of the week was this career opportunity offered with Sainsburys
- Gardener0
a handful of SFX EP's + some 60's South African electronic
dance albums found in a field today, I was most taken by the
sleeves of some but it turns out the music is pretty good too.The 7"s were all by the same duo and the LP's were all
by the same guy - though he is not to be confused with
the same Dan Hill who had a big hit in the 70's with
'Sometimes When We Touch'
- Gardener1
3 mysterious cases offered to me unopened at a garage sale,
I couldn't resist so took a £20 punt on them, with mixed results...
Among an awful lot of rubbish I dug out a few gems
including these 3 decent compilations.
The title of this turned out to be better than the Dutch band's music.
A nice early solo album by the great Bonzo's & Python's singer.
Along with dozen Slade & Elton John albums
was this nearly mint copy of just the one T.Rex album.
I thought this selection of Stones albums might be the best
of the bunch until I turned up an album in a plain white card sleeve.
A private pressing from '73 featuring various folk acts
I contacted my friend Wild Willy Barrett who features
un-credited on the last track on side 1 and he replied
"it was recorded at Turville Heath folk club run by Len Harman.
The club was held on a Dutch barn full of hay and straw bales
with milk churns full of hot water for heating."
- Gardener0
A midweek charity shop trawl has turned up some very odd
unexpected vinyl. I can only assume it's because most folks
are at work that these records were either still in the racks
or waiting by the counter (a smile and a bit of cheek can go
a long way with ladies of a certain age)A fresh batch of albums had "just been put out this morning"
at 49p a pop, how could I resist?
I had no idea what this was but it was cheap and I liked the
sleeve so I took a punt, turns out to be a lovely Brazillian LP
A box of records that had just been put out was full of
Bowie/Prince/Tangerine Dream albums along with a
shit load of picture discs...
...along with this Joy Division double album which I was
very surprised to find as it still had it's ribbon and outer sleeve,
there was a bit of water damage to the front of it but I was
hardly going to put it back now was I?!
- Gardener0
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.
- Gardener0
A couple of nice and cheap vinyl surprises turned up at the tip
shop under piles of old clothes right in the corner, just over there
by the bins. The top one is a soundtrack album which featured
an odd mix of garage rockers The Pretty Things and Library
Music giant Alan Hawkshaw!
But I was most excited by this one below as the label can
turn up real obscure gems, the label had 'Folk Rock 1969'
written on one side of it which sounded very promising
- however after listening through it turns out to be a school
production of Handel's Messiah. Damn, that monster rare
and previously un-heard of Folk Rock classic had alluded me.