Pics of bits n bobs that I have picked up in the last few weeks.
Recent Vinyl Finds Vol: 247
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Musings on the byways of popular culture
Pics of bits n bobs that I have picked up in the last few weeks.
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I got this for the Pink Floyd cover version (a collecting side hobby if ever there was one) but turns out to be not that different from the original (!?) I was hoping all the tracks would be sung by kids, especially Going Underground but it’s more like an old TOTP album of dodgy cover versions. The only copies I could find online were on brown vinyl (appropriate for such a shit album) but for some reason this one is on white vinyl.
I was best pleased with this great pair of compilations of weird garage and freak out 60’s singles linked with samples from trash movies & TV, one was a test pressing too.
I got this for the stupid sleeve.
And this one for the sampling possibilities.
I have this. There is an interesting video about the play.
Other album & single charity shop finds.
First UK pressing from 1970 with no EMI logo on the label.
geddit?!
A classical 8 piece group recorded in Ambisonic UHJ surround-sound, sounds like Radio 4 closedown music.
A one sided promo of electronica & spoken word some copies came with a book, this one doesn’t.
An excellent, lost funk & soul gem released on Holyground in 1972. This is John as in John Paul Joans eccentric Led-Zep-member-name-nicking Northern comedian, who made the Top 30 with The Man From Nazareth.
A Beatles cover version which went to #1 in Australia by Elvis Costello’s dad, yes really!
In 1979 John Lydon dismissed the writer/performers of this song (aka Hudson/Ford, The Monks, Strawbs etc) on the TV show Juke Box Jury and they tried to get their own back with this lame tune first issued that year. For some weird reason they changed their name 9 years later and reissued it with a B side featuring a faithful cover of John Otway’s Oh My Body (Is Making Me), it was still crap.
Lovely 4 track E.P.
That’s Patti “Layla” Boyd on the cover of the Bob Crewe album, I believe.
A great haul there. I wish charity shops round here still had anything like that interesting.
I travel as far north as Montrose and as far south as Milton Keynes (every 6 weeks) so my net is cast wide. I found the Michael Chapman in Morpeth near Newcastle on a stop over for lunch! Ta for the Patti fact, I wasn’t aware.
Morpeth’s my neck of the woods (ish)! Last time I was in a charity shop there, they had a copy of the first Neu! album for £100!
Morpeth is lovely, I’d consider moving there if I didn’t live in the lovelier Carnoustie
Born and raised in Pont. Left. Now want to move back up and live in Morpeth. Mrs Beezer (not a Geordie) is in agreement.
Now Pont really is my neck of the woods.
Good Lord. A Diamond or Blackbird man?
The fact that I have no idea at all what you’re talking about proves that I’m an incomer! (Schools or pubs?)
I’m currently living halfway between Medomsley and Shotley Bridge so Pont is just down the road. But I’m looking to move and Pont is very much in my catchment area.
Aha. You’re outside Consett. I get ya.
Both are pubs in the village. There is, or was in my youth, a constant to and fro between them at weekend nights. Not forgetting The Seven Stars,of course.
Hold on, hold on… You mean *Ponteland*, not yer actual blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Pont! I was struggling to imagine how you could possibly fit two boozers into about as many streets.
Yep, Ponteland. Referred to as Pont by the locals. And those that were.
Move to Pont (eland) and I’ll buy you a pint. 😁
I did a job at Eshott Hall about 25 years ago, can’t remember the client sadly but I do remember the drive up from Surrey and on seeing The Angel of the North, thinking “nearly there.” I wasn’t.
Deeply envious of the Michael Chapman disc – assume that’s the gatefold sleeve enclosing the thing? That’s a really cacking LP, that one. Is it in good nick though? If it’s scratched/worn out to buggery my envy level will fall away to nil, but if it’s mint I’ll be chewing my fist.
Cacking? I heard it was pretty good 😉
cRacking, darn it!
sorry but yes, it’s the original g/f and in EX condition, not VG+ or EX+ just EX, hope that means you may just be chewing your nails. It was £3 but that probably doesn’t help, sorry…
*sobs*
Re: Michael Champan’s “Fully Qualified Survivor”
Yeah, that’s a great record. I particularly love “The Aviator”.
I believe those songs were Mick Ronson’s first recordings as a professional musician.
Me too, what a great find! Love that album. I’ve been chipping away at “Naked Ladies and Electric Ragtime” on the parlour guitar for about 2 years and can just about get through it glitch free.
Picked up Little Feat’s ‘Hoy Hoy’ double vinyl with booklet insert from the Henley Oxfam for £7.99 yesterday.
Henley Oxfam must be better priced than their counterparts in Lichfield and Birmingham. Mahavisnhu Inner Mounting flame was priced at £25 in the window of the Lichfield branch. Outrageous.
Last time I visited Oxfam Music (about 6 months ago) it was Cash Only. Shame as there were some nice looking, keenly priced artefacts on show (and not the usual “overpriced cos it say so in the Record Collectors Guide” items).
May have changed now … a re-visit is in order
You could always take some cash along: desperate times, etc…🙂
Oxfam is the last place I’d look for cheap records, from Broughty Ferry to Olney they are priced to the max, “well people buy them” a regular cry from staff. I’m not down on a charity making money as I support several here and spent 5 years sorting the records for Willen Hospice in Milton Keynes but imo they don’t do it right.
I will repost a tale about when I needed to get rid of thousands of records in Glasgow a year or so ago.
I had a call recently from a woman in Glasgow who was moving out of the city and she said she wanted rid of her late husbands record collection as she didn’t want to bring them with her when she moved. She explained how he was a collector and also a bit of a dealer so my interest was piqued especially when she said they were ALL classical records which I do know a fair bit about. So I bit the bullet and took the long drive to Glasgow which I had never been to before, but thanks to the sat nav found her right in the heart of the city. There were a few thousand albums, which seemed great but I would have needed a big van to take the lot if she accepted my offer. So I explained how I’d be happy to pick say 100 for £200 and she was happy with that on one condition, that I would have to dispose of the rest among the local charity shops of the city. Seemed like a fair deal I thought so I cherry picked from this incredible collection and even though I was often pulling ones out by instinct or I just liked the cover (haha) I probably pulled nearer 200, “that’s OK” she said, “take what you want as I just want them gone!”
So I was then left with the conundrum of where to get rid of the rest of these albums, I filled the car and headed to the local Oxfam Music shop, they accepted a few hundred but said no to the rest as they claimed to have too much stock (probably coz your a bit over-priced, I muttered under my breath.) Bear in mind these were NOT rubbish classical I must add, so quite why they turned the majority of thousands of records down was a mystery to me until I saw the floor to ceiling piles they had out the back, ridiculous amounts of over stock, just incredible. Salvation Army claimed too that “no-one buys records anymore” WTF?! they also said they had so many out the back they didn’t want anymore, I didn’t even have time to go and have a look! I was confused and also getting slightly desperate to get rid of these records. Finally I found a small second hand shop in a back alley, I think it was called Relics and he was grateful for all the rest, around 2000 of them which ended up being 5 car trips from house to shop. The lady at the house also said I could help myself to any of them for free too as I was doing all the toing and froing, in the pouring rain I should add.
I was really happy with the ones I picked, so I shall flip a couple of course to pay for petrol etc but the majority are keepers and the condition of all of them (apart from a 78 of Lenin’s speeches which was cracked) was near mint.
Yes, card payments these days. That Henley Books and Music branch is fantastic. We donate lots of books to it. I miss the equally fantastic one in Marlow which closed a few years ago. An absolute treasure trove.
Oh yes, the Henley branch. I have picked up some good stuff there – a couple of Camel albums, Caravan, Soft Machine. Cantebury scene stuff was obvoiusly popular in South Oxfordshire.. Methinks a visit tomorrow is calling (and stuff the badly organised Reading branch)
Must have been a ‘Rare and Collectable’. The Henley. branch wanted £49.99 for an original Live At Leeds.by The Who.
I picked up a 7″ of Band on the Run for 50p from Break in Cromer last weekend, in a plain paper sleeve which has “Paul McCartney £15” pencilled on it. A victim of the Trump slump?
I reckon someone tried to flog it at a record fair, suprisingly had no takers, and offloaded it.
£7.99 for a decent Hoy Hoy is an utter belter of a bargain – better than a Sears & Robuck socket for 25 cents..
I thought so. I did a little yelp.
My most expensive Oxfam purchase was “The Beatles” (White) at the Marylebone location in London. It was 45 quid if I remember correctly. Pricey, however it was an original mono UK pressing with a number around 1000, so almost certainly sold on day of release in Nov 1968.
Certainly not in mint condition, Beatles albums never are as people played them a lot. Was also missing inserts, but I thought it was a bargain. Proved to be when a few years later I sold it on eBay for considerably more. Kind of wish I still had it, but I was a bit short of cash at the time.
“A Beatles cover version which went to #1 in Australia by Elvis Costello’s dad, yes really!”
Not really – #16 that I can find, and I’m blessed if I know where because it certainly wasn’t in these parts.
Sorry I was just going by the statement on the Youtube for the song, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnnZ2kQQ5vM
I’m a volunteer in an Oxfam music shop, it’s great fun. With regards to pricing in the shop I help out at it’s typically in line with Discogs etc, if anything often slightly cheaper taking lack of postage / packing into consideration. Vinyl sells well, CD’s are particularly good value and typically priced around £3-£4.
There isn’t a great demand for classical vinyl (cd’s are still appear to be much more popular with our classical buyers) which is why some shops aren’t keen to take large classical vinyl collections as space is usually at a premium.
PS it’s great fun volunteering at an Oxfam Music shop, would highly recommend it if anyone has the time (ie retired!) and inclination.