I am back from a busy trip digging down south which was a mix of luck and general right place/right time really, I visited 2 record shops that were just not interested in selling singles so were knocking them out for 50p each, including the ones below as well as the Slade flexi-disc I posted earlier, so how could I resist?! One guy told me a record shop had closed down and dumped their singles stock and he was happy for me to take away armfuls, though there were a lot without sleeves. As well as coming home with over 150 singles I had left a commission bid on 2 boxes of Techno/Acid mostly 12″s at an auction house before I left, which I luckily won for less than I had bid for, so collected them during my 9 hour drive north. There were some incredible Aphex/Orbital/Global Communications stuff that I have only just dipped into so far, but these are some of the 7″s that initially caught my eye.
January Vinyl Finds
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1,000 copies of this were given away at the NME Xmas party in 1977 and later 500 copies for a competition through the mag, I had one at the time but have long since lost it. The two live tracks on the flip are by Ian Dury & The Kilburns, the final phase of Dury’s pub-rock band Kilburn & The Highroads.
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A top copy of the Northern Soul classic from 1967 re-issued in 1978.
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A case where the DJ promo copy is worth only a fraction of the stock copy, which goes for £1,000+ This US mono/stereo promo is still a nice find though.
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An Italian jukebox release from 1968 with the unusual pairing of Hendrix with Bee Gees. There are 2 versions of this, the one with the correct Hendrix track according to it’s label and a mis-press that plays If 6 Was 9 and this does indeed play that wrong track!
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As well as a large pile of similar odd foreign pressings I have yet to go through but will post soon, there were a handful of 60’s Public Information 7″s that I was pleased to find.
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Presumably the most dangerous animal in the forest is a Trump supporter.