Today I picked up some Talking Heads singles (39p each) and was well pleased. Then I had a rummage in the sheet music box and found a bunch of original sheet music released contemporaneously with the singles. Much of it is silly fun stuff (Cliff Richard(Carrie), the three degrees, a couple of Drifters ones, some Status Quo. Really? You need sheet music to learn how to play the Quo?
They cost 50p each. Then, at the bottom of the pile, was a 1967 original song sheet (with original artwork by Klaus Voorman) for Here, there and everywhere. It’s worth a bloody fortune according to eBay apparently. I also found a signed one by Herman’s Hermits and a Pentangle one (“Take three girls). I know folk stuff goes well, particularly if it involves Thompson/Renbourne/Jansch. What a result!
The Smokie and David Soul might be going straight to the carboot though.
Hey! You trying playing the intro to ‘Down Down’!! It’s complicated, man!
I bought a signed Howard Keel LP from a charity shop today. I am expecting a 100% mark-up on my initial outlay of 50p. Result.
I had to go to Paris for work today,nowhere near as glamorous as it sounds, and I got this in some African record shop for 1 euro. It’s a re-pressing but who cares?
https://youtu.be/R3L6t3vXI28
It’s now on ebay, wish me luck! If it doesn’t sell it’s getting framed and mounted on the wall in the loo.
Which lyric does the Take Three Girls use?
The original song is about leaving the city, to “find a better place, miles and miles away from the city’s race” while the TV version is about going “down to London town; see the people there, rushing round and round, got no time to spare”.
PS The original is called “Light Flight”, while the (hard to find on disc) TV re-recording takes the title of the TV series for which it was used as the title soundtrack. Which I’m sure you knew!
The Beatles one went for 30 bucks in the end. Not bad!