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Well, couldn't wait. A few interesting bits from round and about –
Blue Mink – A Time Of Change (Regal)
Marvin Welch & Farrar – Marvin Welch & Farrar (Regal)
Quincy Jones – The Wiz OST (MCA)
Twilight 22 – Street Love/Street Love dub (Vanguard) – looks like 1984 disco stuff, but still sealed and not sure if it’s worth opening…
Cyril Havermans – Cyril (MGM) – ex-Focus chap sets out solo on psych-folk-prog opus…
Bench – Trip & Twist (Placid Casual) – downtempo stuff, featuring Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals somewhere…
Morgan – Organised (Source) - sort of like JTQ mixed with electronica and a dash of cheese…
My Bloody Valentine – Tremolo EP (Creation)
Andy Williams – Get Together With (CBS) – superb take on the hippy anthem title cut, sitars, the lot…actually a pretty good LP if you start with the third track on side 2…
AndÂ…
Don Estelle – Lonely Wine (Lofty Records) – yes, him, tackling the likes of Lionel Richie’s ‘Hello’ and The Cars’ ‘Drive’ with predictably compelling car-crash results. And it’s signed, very extravantly, for a certain ‘Vera’, who clearly didn’t appreciate the ageing Loftster’s gesture and dumped it in the ‘4 for £1’ bin I pulled it from this lunchtime...Now, don’t all rush at once to offer trades for this one. I’m sure another will turn up.
Best of all, though is what looks like a private-press Florida LP by The Ben Champion Trio on Callaghan Productions. Sort of soft-pop/jazz/scat crossover stuff, with one of the best covers of ‘Fool On The Hill’ I’ve heard (vibes + flute + TWO hammonds) and some nice originals like ‘The Swing Tree’, ‘The Bogeyman’ and ‘It Ain’t Necessarily Bird Avenue’, which is apparently a version of a North West Orient radio jingle they did for a DJ named Bob Swanson…anyway, brilliant stuff. I need to post up a pic so you can all delight in the ‘interesting’ facial and head hair displayed by the pencil drawings of Ben, Kurt and Ike on the sleeve as much as I have since I found it…
as well as those a bunch of videos for 50p each (including a colorized version of ‘Dawn Of The Dead’, Fred Williamson in ‘Black Cobra’, ‘Logan’s Run’, Terence Fisher’s 1959 Hammer ‘The Mummy’ and ‘Trees Lounge’), and a signed first edition copy of Jeff Noon’s ‘Automated Alice’.
All of which beats queueing for a BLT, anywayÂ…
This was after opening this morning's bumper postbag including 'Cleopatra Jones OST', 'Kosmos' and Merit Hemmingson's 'Bergtagen'...
...and it's been sunny as well. Bound to p*ss down tomorrow, then...
Blue Mink – A Time Of Change (Regal)
Marvin Welch & Farrar – Marvin Welch & Farrar (Regal)
Quincy Jones – The Wiz OST (MCA)
Twilight 22 – Street Love/Street Love dub (Vanguard) – looks like 1984 disco stuff, but still sealed and not sure if it’s worth opening…
Cyril Havermans – Cyril (MGM) – ex-Focus chap sets out solo on psych-folk-prog opus…
Bench – Trip & Twist (Placid Casual) – downtempo stuff, featuring Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals somewhere…
Morgan – Organised (Source) - sort of like JTQ mixed with electronica and a dash of cheese…
My Bloody Valentine – Tremolo EP (Creation)
Andy Williams – Get Together With (CBS) – superb take on the hippy anthem title cut, sitars, the lot…actually a pretty good LP if you start with the third track on side 2…
AndÂ…
Don Estelle – Lonely Wine (Lofty Records) – yes, him, tackling the likes of Lionel Richie’s ‘Hello’ and The Cars’ ‘Drive’ with predictably compelling car-crash results. And it’s signed, very extravantly, for a certain ‘Vera’, who clearly didn’t appreciate the ageing Loftster’s gesture and dumped it in the ‘4 for £1’ bin I pulled it from this lunchtime...Now, don’t all rush at once to offer trades for this one. I’m sure another will turn up.
Best of all, though is what looks like a private-press Florida LP by The Ben Champion Trio on Callaghan Productions. Sort of soft-pop/jazz/scat crossover stuff, with one of the best covers of ‘Fool On The Hill’ I’ve heard (vibes + flute + TWO hammonds) and some nice originals like ‘The Swing Tree’, ‘The Bogeyman’ and ‘It Ain’t Necessarily Bird Avenue’, which is apparently a version of a North West Orient radio jingle they did for a DJ named Bob Swanson…anyway, brilliant stuff. I need to post up a pic so you can all delight in the ‘interesting’ facial and head hair displayed by the pencil drawings of Ben, Kurt and Ike on the sleeve as much as I have since I found it…
as well as those a bunch of videos for 50p each (including a colorized version of ‘Dawn Of The Dead’, Fred Williamson in ‘Black Cobra’, ‘Logan’s Run’, Terence Fisher’s 1959 Hammer ‘The Mummy’ and ‘Trees Lounge’), and a signed first edition copy of Jeff Noon’s ‘Automated Alice’.
All of which beats queueing for a BLT, anywayÂ…
This was after opening this morning's bumper postbag including 'Cleopatra Jones OST', 'Kosmos' and Merit Hemmingson's 'Bergtagen'...
...and it's been sunny as well. Bound to p*ss down tomorrow, then...
However did I find some really old looking ( 1950's ? ) Lego in it's original packaging - anyone know anything about this sort of thing ( 
!? ), or sites with info - I've googled quite a bit with surprisingly few results . . .
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