Just back from a family trip to mid Wales, visiting caves, parks and buying paintings, fancy cheese and erm, records. After a stop-over at the beautiful Ingleborough Cave in Yorkshire we drove past a small town that had a charity shop on the high street. Stop if you want said my very patient wife, so I pulled over to the side of the road with my flashers on and popped in, I saw a box on the floor and asked the guy on the counter if they had any more, thousands round the back he said, but the bloke that sorts them is away for his lunch. So I left wondering what could have been out the back but we had to continue our journey and not hang about. I drive on about 100 yards and spot a 2nd hand shop on the same street and once again I get my wifes blessing to pull over and check it out. I walk through what looks like a large empty village hall and at the back spot a bloke eating a sandwich, are you the guy who sorts the records for the charity shop? I enquired and to my delight he said he was and asked if I’d like to come and have a look at them. He finishes his lunch and takes me round the back of the building to a lock up which he opens the door with a large pair of scissors (?!) inside is an Aladdin’s cave of books, records and DVD’s. Help yourself he says, big one’s a pound little ones 50p, oh but there’s also this shed over here and he takes me over the lane to a second hoard of audio visual media. This was all well and good I thought but I had left the family waiting patiently in the car, so I did one of the fastest record digs I think I’ve ever done, flipping through boxes in record breaking time and not checking condition just pulling whatever took my eye.
It wasn’t the greatest of hauls in 20 minutes and less than half of it is posted below but there were several gems including half a dozen UK stereo ED1 Columbia/Decca/HMV classical albums. Anyway I thought I’d share the tale of their origin as I didn’t find anything else on stops in Wrexham and Llangollen and no, I’m not telling you where it is as I may go back to those Yorkshire sheds one day!
Further August Vinyl Finds
I initially thought this was a nice find, but when I got home discovered some little shit had killed it!
A nice pair of LFC singles I’d not seen before, there were a few other footie discs but I already had them.
Old recordings from various movies.
Proggy Jazz from the early 70’s.
Mogul Thrash later gave us Colosseum’s James Litherland and King Crimson etc.’s John Wetton. Just that one album and a single and they were gone.
Progtastic!
I recall Mark Ellen often mentioning this lot, as a sort of shorthand for (something!) – always made me laugh.
Dixieland Jazz release from 1968 which I picked up for it’s cover and later discovered a sing-a-long tour programme inside, but I was more pleased with the psychedelic MGM Records inner sleeve.
I don’t normally pick up box sets but these were too good to leave and were each in beautiful condition.
A nice couple of 50’s 10″ discs.
When I got home this wee beastie had plopped through my letterbox, a 4″ exclusive from my Library of The Occult Records subscription club.
Hope that Mogul Thrash LP is in better nick than the steam trains disc – its quite highly sought after in progland.
Beecham’s Carmen! An absolute classic – and I’m sure my parents had it in the house when we were little.
Sweet digging find of 7 x original early 60’s Record Society albums and 10″s earlier today in Fife, never seen them before and all of them in beautiful condition, some even on red vinyl.
What a beautiful find. I wonder what history – tragedy or sadness – sits behind this collection’s finding its way to crate-digging land? I’m glad it has found an appreciative home. Will you keep them or sell them on?
Cheers, it’s an 80% keep, but it’s getting silly now I am running out of space! must… cull… I will be having a stall at the next Groovy Record Fayre in November – I have done the previous 4, I always take along good stuff as the tables are limited to the size of a coffee table! I am quite excited to learn today I won 4 boxes of books at the auction yesterday – I pick them up Monday, and there are some amazing 60’s/70′ songbooks in there from, Joni, J.J. Cale, loads of early Dylan and folk stuff – roll on Monday.
If you were to offer them separately, I’d be very interested in ‘The Songs Of The Maoris’ disc. I won’t be able to make it to the Groovy event, sadly, or I’d collar you there!