recent vinyl finds
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- Gardener1
mostly 7" odds & ends in the last 7 days
The only record by the artist and the only release on the
Verdley label and even the herbicide it's promoting has been discontinued.
a few global discs
BOAC promo souvenir for flying from London to Japan
via the polar route
Middle East Airways promo for Lebanon from the film Farewell To Lebanon
This came with a bizarre, slightly rusty solid metal centre!
The Chile National Anthem
Some old EP's
Nice one-sided promo with a polite notice on the flip.
Another sound effects single but sadly not electronic music.
An American pressing but sadly not the rare UK issue,
nice sleeve though.
A 12" I got today for 30p which has a great picture on one side,
the music is by Joe Fagin from 1987.
- Gardener2
Lovely sunny weekend of car booting (next to a ballooning
festival) has turned up some nice vinyl gems.
Some balloons were quite discreet, passing by at a safe distance.One box turned up some original 60's albums in tip-top condition.
This old library album didn't have a sleeve but looked interesting.
Proof (as if it was needed) that I sometimes buy any
old nonsense and I don't even like cricket (I love it, yeah)*
*actually I don't love it at all to be honest
Some balloons chose to come far to close, but some folks
will do anything to get records these days!
This Christian folk album would be a different record altogether
with a question mark after their name.a few odd singles
A Coin Operator Release EP (for US jukeboxes maybe?)
I picked this up as I'd never come across this label before,
which features 2 schools on the flip.
I'd never heard of this before and was quite excited when
I came across it, but it turns out to be an old Bach tune
played on a synth.
- Gardener0
all sorts of finds in fields over the weekend
Unusual to find a flexi plugging a book and in a fancy gate-fold
sleeve with no expense spared, I hope it helped.
Guided tour of a Yugoslavian cave with bonus slides inside!
No relation to the band Slade, this Flame burned in the early 80's
on the Malta pop scene.
A Rock 'n' Rollin' BBC demo, I thought he sounded
a bit like Lonnie Donegan but that piano is pretty damn hot!
More BBC records in a pair of great old sleeves,
actually just as I found them.
I have all kinds of meditation albums but never knew of this
one before, on pink Charisma and produced by the guy behind
so many great records like The Who, Kinks etc.
Irish 60's Folk & spoken word
great Island Records compilation, including a rare Tom Petty track.
I couldn't find out much about this oddity which is a mix
of originals and Neil Young covers, it has a Deroy Records
matrix of DER 1272
I was happy to pay 50p for this LP as the first track
on side 2 caught my eye it's sealed but I'll bite the bullet.
- Gardener0
I won an interesting record selection in a pair of boxes
at the auction today, lots of things I had not seen before
and mostly in tip-top nick, there also seemed to be lot of
ladies on the sleeves which may/may not be related to the fact
that there were a LOT of old gentlemen's mags in the auction too!
it wasn't all about the ladies though, there were unexpected delights
these two were sold on a final reduction of 10p -
thankfully the stickers are the type that are easily removed
A 12" acetate that sadly turned out to be another bloody church service...
- zarb0z1
I have to say: a bunch of these are a proper joy to look at. Thanks everyone for sharing.
- Gardener0
car boot finds this week including a handful of scarce 7"s in lovely condition
An unusual French EP with a lenticular sleeve,
it's hard to photograph it in all it's glory but it's very pretty.
One member of the band went on to join The Animals.
Two members of the band went to to join The Troggs.
Most of the band went on to become Family.I was most pleased to come across a whole bunch of
original Durium discs which were all released in the 1930's,
I have 2 or 3 of these which are the only ones I'd ever come
across in years of collecting and then I find 11 of them in 1 box!
This one was issued at Xmas 1932 and features
a play performed by the Lloyds Bank staff.
Advertising info on the rear
Best of all was a bunch of one-sided brown Durium flexi's
all dating from the early 30's in a local record shop bag.
- Gardener1
bits and bobs from the boots
The first release on the mighty On-U Sounds label.
I've never come across one of these Virgin 7" promo's before
(one of my rarer Virgin singles by Captain Beefheart has a special hand stamped sleeve)
Old actor Vernon Greeves wanders around even older
English castles chatting away, as he does.
A pair of budget label issues featuring Duffy Power, Al Saxon
and some really twangy guitars and 15 tracks between the two
of them!
With a US issue in a gate-fold sleeve (the UK one is only
in a rubbish single sleeve) and a Dutch version on yellow
vinyl and now this slightly s p a c e y sounding Quad version,
no doubt I probably also have the CD and 8-track of it somewhere in the cellar...
The most unusual finds this week were a couple of mysterious
albums on the EMI Central Research Laboratories label that
was completely new to me and with the words Experimental
Record on them an absolute bargain at 50p a pop,
even if they were gonna be rubbish.
The best way, other than playing it, was to check the matrix
numbers in the run out but even these proved pointless as this
one with the number CWK 3001 on one side had never surfaced
before. It turned out one side was half of the record Holiday
Album by late 70's new wavers Radio Stars, and for some
'experimental reason' the other side was bizarrely a
Best of The Mamas & The Papas.
After a bit of research on this imprint I discovered only a couple
of these discs seem to have been released before, one featured
tracks by Wings from Band On The Run and the other (probably
very collectible) had tracks from the first Queen album on it.
Well unfortunately for me this one happened to feature the whole
of this very common album by good old Manuel and His Music
of The Mountains, damn.
- Stellar haul. Looks like Diggin in the Boots pays dividends.garbage
- Gardener0
An EP in a beautiful sleeve featuring songs from the 1930 film
released somewhat belatedly in 1957
Since I discovered one of the rarest Ron Grainer related records
a few years ago pre-releasing any of his soundtrack work)
I seem compelled to seek out all his other records and this was
one I'd not seen or heard of before.
This oddity (still in it's beautiful purple sleeve) features brothers
Tony & Keith sharing the one disc, there are versions on the
same record with Keith taking credit for both sides but maybe
that was because Tony was being kind as he was the more
famous of the two as drummer in The Shadows, there might
even be a signature on one of the labels too, though it's hard
to tell which brother did it.
the fantastic flip side (despite what label on video says)
This guy only made a few singles including this demo from
the mid 70's but he was still making music as recent as 2015.
Another demo from the same box as the Meehan bros 7" was
by the composer of the Hell's Angels '69 movie soundtrack.
A mid 70's acetate by The YC's of Hendon North - who I assume
are the Young Christians of that parish, I tried in vain to work out
quite which Sir Ian they are singing their praises to but it's either
ex BBC director general Sir Ian Trethowan or Gandalf,
I'm more convinced it's the former unless anyone knows more download here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/rr…
This Spanish band were so chuffed that someone bought
their single they all kindly signed it on both sides.
I was best pleased with this pair of thoroughly Scottish EP's
featuring songs and spoken word, there are 6 in the set in seems, hoots!- sorry this is the vid for Darkness Of My Life
https://www.youtube.…Gardener - Holy shit @ that Hooker Street track. Wow.scruffics
- sorry this is the vid for Darkness Of My Life
- Gardener4
I must start by saying this record and poster etc are not mine
but belongs to a friend, we had been chatting about the bands
we used to see in a pub in Milton Keynes in the late 70's,
my claim to fame was seeing The Specials AKA and
The Undertones among others in the tiny venue in MK.For some reason, maybe it was because there was another
show in town although I cannot remember what, but I decided
not to go and see this band called The Cure who were on there
first tour, I had just never heard of them at the time. My friend
did however go to see them and took his copy of their album
Three Imaginary Boys to the gig along with some other bits
and bobs he had related to them like some press pics his mate
at the local paper had given him as well as a poster he's got
from a local record shop advertising their debut single.He has had these things literally in his attic along with some
other stuff for 40 years, (the mind boggles what he has kept
but then again I'm just as bad!) So today I met up with him
and I had to take some pics of the record and poster as these
items and in this condition are virtually unheard of these days.
He has no plans to sell them as he's still a keen collector but I
thought I would share them with you as they are quite incredible.
My guess is each member has signed next to the
household item they relate too.
They also signed the inside sleeve - note Robert Smith
writing middle top where he's written 'my house'
1st press release & photos
A tiny stamp sized unused sticker with a pic of Lol Tolhurst
Promo poster which came from a record shop in Northampton
fully signed in the middle which he told me hasn't been out of
the record sleeve since May 1979! crackers.
- Gardener1
I've had a busy week of driving and digging, with a trip up north
to Arbroath & Dundee (where I will be moving to in the new year)
as well as a local car boot sale down south.
I didn't buy anything in the shops as there was an awful lot
of local music for local people. There were much better things
turning up at my local car boot, I was just lucky to get into a few
boxes first as there is a lot of competition for vinyl. I started by
tramping the streets of Arbroath on a grey and drizzly morning.
The local football ground/amusements.
There is a pretty harbour & lobster pot mountain.
I found one 2nd hand shop selling all manner of stuff but
the vinyl looked very well thumbed, not a good sign.
The prices ranged from the ridiculous to the 'naah yer alright'.
To grade the LP "fair" would be over-grading it despite a VG sleeve.
A surprise to find this lurking among the Jim Reeves but parts
of the sleeve were missing and the condition was VG/VG at best
so I left it as it was priced a round £100.
The charity shops were awash with records featuring bagpipes
The tills of Arbroath never saw my paper and iron, I even
skipped the chance of a smokie (smoked haddock snack)
To rub salt in the wound that a move up north may not yield
good vinyl I went to the mid-week car boot upon my return home
and turned up all manner of delights including a stash of weirdy
albums at £3 a pop. I've never heard or seen any of them in the
wild before so was happy again after my Scottish disappointment.
I also found a bunch of odd singles, this one being the pick of the bunch
- arbroath is a great place. if you like desolation.hans_glib
- and smokies.hans_glib
- which i dohans_glib
- well it's rubbish for records!Gardener
- did you get the cecil mcartney? king om is a local legend, met him a few times on the train. originals were fetching a wild price last time i checked.kingsteven
- bit of an acid casualty but he has some mad stories... last time i met him he said he wrote the first 7 notes of layla :Dkingsteven
- I did pick that up and yes, it's pretty nuts, in a good wayGardener
- fooler0
Mint sealed copy of Dag Nasty's 1987 album "Field Day".
This album was such an important part of my youth and it's not available on any streaming services I use. SO happy to find it on vinyl.
- Gardener2
With the open air car boots winding up for winter, though there
is a local one determined to carry on until the end of November,
I have had all sorts of records turn up near the turnips (possibly)
including these flexi-discs I found out in the fields, no really.
Chris Gunning has been involved in hundred of musical
projects since the 60's from film scores (Man About The House)
to working with artists as diverse as The Gods, The Hollies and
Cilla Black, however on this he threw his skills into an egg advertising campaign.
This is sadly not the hostess of 60's TV show Ready Steady Go
talking about ghosts and spirits but hair colour, damn.
Typically tasteless one-sided flexi from JK and it was all an act
on the sleeve as he actually preferred schoolboys.
One white promo flexi for a German textile company oh yes,
but there were apparently 2 discs in this original release, oh no!
This pretty gold disc came free with Isle of Man Colour Holiday
Book and features excerpts from the LP The Wonderful World
of Man which I still have somewhere...
The great voice of 70's kids TV show Animal Magic
plugs the long defunct holiday firm.
Brian Matthew has an enviable discography for voicing flexis
on Discogs but not this one, so it must be worth a lot then!
Another giant of the free flexi-disc voice over, Jack usually
worked for Readers Digest but here he adds his dulcet tones
to help sell Websters Universal Colour Dictionary.
A disc from the late 60's promoting the famous beer,
which is still getting folk pissed and singing since 1829 bless 'em.
Released in the early 80's to promote one of their finest
albums this features four excerpts including the lovely title track.
- Gardener2
Head Like a Hole in My Bucket Dear Liza
- fooler0
found (bought) on eBay and arrived just in time for Halloween.
- Gardener0
I picked up some nice and unusual 7"s in a couple of charity
shops this week some familiar and several I'd never heard of
before, including these demos.
Some other odds and ends
- Gardener2
Some vinyl finds from the last week or so, I went to Scotland last
weekend so it's not hard to guess which ones I found up there!
This caught my eye in a charity shop in Arbroath as it had a
track called Bagpipe Rock- which sadly turned out to be more
Bagpipe Jazz, it's just awful.
Film producers are looking for a Scottish James Bond to replace
Daniel Craig so maybe one of these guys could be considered?
then again perhaps not.
Sleeve redacted for health and safety reasons, obviously.
Lush covers of Elvis tunes, nice to listen to on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
More easy listening but a bit more upbeat.
Jake making a stab for the Xmas #1 in 1967
I only realised who this was after playing it, why it's Judie Tzuke!
before she did her solo thing, it's the same song but a different
version to the one on her great debut album a few years later.
oi gotta brand new football record and I got it for free, ooh arr
Best vinyl find of the week isn't actually a record at all as it's
completely blank and unplayable, instead it has etchings around
the label, and was only available to staff & special visitors to the
EMI Distribution Centre Open Day in May 1977 and the Queens
Silver Jubilee.
A rare case of the cover being better than the original.
A single-sided record promoting Fabergé products with old
ITV World Of Sport presenter Dickie Davies doing a bit of chat
on the end, only yellow vinyl copies were pressed according to
legend (Discogs) so this red one must be as collectibles as an
A&M God Save The Queen.
King Kenny plugging the other soft drink on this 1973 flexi-disc.
Mmmm... shunting- no youtube for "cheddar cheese"?
i am disappointhans_glib - nvm i found it.
https://www.youtube.…hans_glib
- no youtube for "cheddar cheese"?
- Gardener0
I only popped out to get some last minute booze and in town
I saw there were two charity shops open on Christmas eve,
so had a bit of a dig and came up trumps with a booze related
flexi-disc and in really nice nick, a sweet treat to myself.
the prize was one of these Achoic "Achiphon" Stereo Projection
Systems, they cost £70 then which is over £900 in today's money,
so they were pretty top of the range for 1966.
- Gardener2
Vinyl finds over new year in the Dundee area charity shops
and Northamptonshire farm shops (!?)
There was no way on earth I wasn't going to throw 50p at this beauty!
This was the pick of a whole bunch of Polish albums on the
Sutton Sound imprint, many of which had interesting sleeves.
2 x Stooges 7"s in a record shop in Dundee for £2 a pop!
Released in the early 70's it consists of spoken word reports
from people who had been in Burundi and had witnessed some
of the horrors, it doesn't make for comfortable listening.
Disco Floyd!
Along with the bales of hay and dead pheasants there were
records to discover, including...
A bluesy one from 1968 which I had never come across before,
love the sleeve art more than the music to be honest.
Tales of woe, sample lyrics of the title track
It was Thursday the first of November, 1956 was the year
From Springhill, Nova Scotia, the sad news we did hear
An explosion there did happen, at the entrance to the mine
To save the lives of those within, it was a race with timeWell over a hundred miners were trapped in Colliery four
And hope of their survival grew dimmer by the hour
Wives and families huddled ’round the pithead in the cold
The tears they shed, the prayers they said, can never be retold...
An acetate for an un-released album by accordion maestro
Marcosignori, I actually have a couple of his other albums
so knew what I was getting into with my one pound purchase,
this later album below was even released on Parlophone.
I was kindly sent a copy of this excellent new album this week
by the chap who has recorded a couple of sessions for my show.
- Gardener0
As well as the vinyl these were a bunch of the tapes I picked up too.
- Gardener0
I found a whole load of Polish and Eastern European
flexi discs yesterday, lots of artists I'd never heard of
and many of the Polish card discs have bizarre pictures
totally unrelated to the music, this is the pick of the bunch
