One record fair, half a dozen charity shops and 2 auction wins later…
Recent Vinyl Finds XXVIII
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Musings on the byways of popular culture
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One record fair, half a dozen charity shops and 2 auction wins later…
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7″s
Catchy Rockabilly single from the early 80’s.
Both titles are mis-spelled on this Doctor Bird release in an original company sleeve no less.
I was intrigued when I first saw the cover in the box, but it turned out to have the wrong record inside and after I turned it over and saw what was supposed to be on it wasn’t surprised someone had got shot of it, am still keeping the sleeve though.
One of only three releases on this Scottish label, which came in a hand stamped paper sleeve.
Groovy mid 60’s pop cover featuring an uncredited Jimmy Page on guitar.
Another mis-spelling, this B side of I Wanna Be Your Man was supposed to be Stoned so maybe that explains it.
Seems a bit harsh!
6 track Xian E.P. on Deroy.
albums
I bet old Neil was pissed when he found out there were only solo tracks by his other band members on this US promo compilation.
Rare Irish Folk.
Bizarrely in the same box was this Disco album by an Irish family of singers who won the talent show Opportunity Knocks at their first attempt but never reached the heights of The Nolan Sisters.
Beautiful German choral music recorded live in a H U G E cave, great sleeve!
A pair of cheesey South African pressings in great sleeves.
I never realised this had two one sided acetate discs inside until I got the box back from the auction, a well spent tenner +11% commission fees.
Splendid haul! I also found that CSN+Y album in a flea market in Berlin recently.
I also found a mint copy of ‘Beyond The Fringe’ from 1961, a gold Parlophone label, in a second hand record store here the other day. I put it on the counter after I paid for it and was chatting to the owner about it, who looked startled at the pristine gold Parlophone label and then his EUR12.50 price tag. I don’t know what happened next, but it didn’t find its way into my plastic bag of acquisitions. When I went back today to get it, he claimed it was now “lost”…
That gold label was the standard design for all UK Parlophone pressings, running from about 1956 to 1963. Other EMI imprints such as Columbia and HMV used similar designs, too.
The fuss over that label design applies to just the album Please Please Me. EMI changed the method they used to print their labels in early 1963, ditching those gold print designs in the process. This occurred just a week or two into the pressing run of stereo copies of Please Please Me, hence they’re really hard to find. The mono version was issued over a month earlier, and sold in larger quantities, hence they’re not as rare.
It’s the usual case of unscrupulous record dealers inflating prices through greed and ignorance. The same thing happens with London or Decca 45s with triangular push-out centres.
Graham McCarthy looks like that bloke on the Mastermind game