Weekend Finds

[llmod1]

One of my local charities just got an ex DJ's 45 collection in. Most of it (around 1000 records) is terrible chart pop acts but did manage to find the following for 10p each:

Eric B and Rakim - The Microphone Fiend
Kurtis Blow - If I ruled the World
Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince - Summertime
Malcolm Mclaren - Double Dutch
Eric B and Rakim - I know you got Soul (Double Trouble remix)
Definition of Sound - Wear your Love Like Heaven
Queen Latifah + De La Soul - Mama Gave Birth
Sweet Tee - It's Like That Y'all
Stetsasonic - Sally
Whodini - Magic Wand
Top Billing - My Thing
Stretch - Why did you do it
Atomic Rooster - Devil's Answer
Patrick MacNee - Kinky Boots
Brand New Heavies - Don't Let it go to your Head
Brand New Heavies - Trunk Funk
James Brown - Sex Machine
George Shearing - Bossa Nova
Michel Polnareff - Lipstick
Jane Birkin - Je T'aime
Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Girls
Crispy and Co - Get it Together
Cozy Powell - And then there was Skin
Big Audio Dynamite - Rush
Isley Brothers - Fight the Power
Mike Morton - Burning Bridges
Mary Jane Girls - All Night Long
John Holt - You Baby
Desmond Dekker - Sing a Little Song
Judge Dread - Christmas in Dreadland

[Rich Hero]

Just bagged a Carole Lee-Scott LP from Oxfam...

[Paul-K]

arrghh i been traveling round for the past few weeks car booters and charity shops and nothing is turning up at all..

i got whistle - just buggin for 10p though so not to bad
and a themes library record which i havent played yet.

but round here seems empty at the moment or im looking in the wrong places.

[Sie Vulture]

Just bagged a Carole Lee-Scott LP from Oxfam...

[Sie Vulture]

... I tried to give record hunting a rest this weekend and enjoyed a bit of a trek around London enjoying the sights, sounds (and smells) of the Big City...

.. but as I walked and perused the sights, my computer conspired to serve up Beau Dollar "Who Knows Where The Soul Trees Grow" 45 on King for a fiver. Nice.

[The Divine One]

my computer conspired to serve up Beau Dollar "Who Knows Where The Soul Trees Grow" 45 on King for a fiver. Nice.

Err, Sie... Sorry to disappoint you, I think you'll find you've got "Where The Soul Trees Grow" on both sides.

The weekend has been pretty good to me, although only one was found in the wild. From record fair, trades, shops, carboot and the net:

Klaus Doldinger - Doldinger (with Sitar Beat and other Paul Nero goodness)
Nucleus - Alley Cat
The Chequers - Check Us Out (cheers Lee!)
Hymns A Swingin'
unknown - Egg Roll (test pressing 45, next best thing to the acetate!)
Kay Robinson - The Lord Will Make A Way Somehow (King 45 - JB production)
DJ Format - Rap Machine 12"
Six Organs Of Admittance - School Of The Flower
Linda Hoyle - Pieces Of Me (dodgy re-issue)
John Cale & Terry Riley - Church Of Anthrax (50p from the carboot)
Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa LP
Pete Winslow - Girl On The Testcard LP

[left hand corner]

Egg Roll? Is this being reissued by Jazzman? Has any more info been found on this record?

[Sie Vulture]

Err, Sie... Sorry to disappoint you, I think you'll find you've got "Where The Soul Trees Grow" on both sides..

:doh: .. proves that you should always read the fine print, children...

[Rich Hero]

:doh: .. proves that you should always read the fine print, children...

Schoolboy error... Still, I probably won the 'wrong' Vernon Garrett.

And I'm afraid I'll have to bail on tonight Sie, far too much to do before Thursday.

[Sie Vulture]

No probs Rich, I realise you're up for a long *big* weekend in Scotland this weekend and a meet-up before was gonna be a rush...

I'll email you the V.G 45 title again...

[Mumbles]

I finally got round to buying my first records of the year this weekend - it's got to get better from now on.

'The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown' S/T - Polydor. Had to get it for the cover alone. Classic! I reckon he's responsible for the heavy metal falsetto as perfected by Deep Purple et al.

Theo Bickel 'A New Day' - Reprise. Another impulse purchase for the cover. I'm a sucker for infra red photos. Some Donovan and Beatles covers done rather politely - he's an actor/singer and apparantly co- founded the Newport Jazz Festival and I was hoping he'd go off on some Richard Harris style histrionics but alas ... no.

Sergio Mendez & Brasil 66 'Crystal Illusions' and 'Fool On The Hill' - A&M.

Peddlers 'Three In A Cell' - CBS. Always pick up a copy.

Nilsson 'The Point' - RCA. Nice little soundtrack to a cartoon about a boy with a flat head in a land full of pointy headded people.

[bongolia]

Nilsson 'The Point' - RCA. Nice little soundtrack to a cartoon about a boy with a flat head in a land full of pointy headded people.

brilliant record, a childhood fave... make sure you pick up a copy with the comic book still inside though

anyone seen the film?

[wayne]

45s

The Hesitations – I’m Not Built That Way (Kapp)
Dee Edwards – All The Way Home (D-Town)
Timmy Thomas/Betty Wright – Ebony Affair (Glades)
The Mugs – Music To Think By (Jonny-A)
Juan Amalbert – Brok’tit Off In Harlem (Golden Earth)
Lenis Guess – Workin’ For My Baby (SPQR)
Intastella – Century/Strawberry Jam (MCA)

33s
World Of Twist – Quality Street (Circa)
Eric Burdon – Declares War (MGM)
Grant Green – Iron City (Cobblestone)

[Xavier_Blake]

Spent the afternoon trawling the charities in the Poole area whilst my fiance went to a wedding fair with her sister and mother. Didn't turn up much, just a few (mostly crappy) Swedish folk LPs, but also a copy of a Swedish release of Abba's Greatest Hits - bought purely for the unusual (for Abba) cover art(and the fact that it was only 50 pence)!!!

[Brainbomb]

bought purely for the unusual (for Abba) cover art(and the fact that it was only 50 pence)!!!

Purely for that? Abba is excellent Swedish popmusic with great production and incredibly catchy tunes. yeah there are a couple of dull tracks, but every Abba album has at least some worthwhile tracks. I picked up all their LPs for less than a £ and don't regret it one bit.
And... keep in mind that I'm from Sweden where we were (and still are though not as frequent) bombarded by som much ABBA I near threw up during my youth.
or maybe...
i'm just overenthusiastic about finally giving in this summer and picking all those records up for cheap and discovering that they weren't as horrible as i remembered...