Track ID help on possible Jazzman Acid Jazz III tape

[Abominog]

I was given this tape by my cousin for Christmas in 1993. I was 10 years old at the time and found the music on this to be absolutely ghastly. Fast forward (eh?, eh?) 5 years and I reappraised this cassette only to realise how bloomin' excellent these tunes were. But even after all this time something eludes me. There is one more track at the end of side 1 than the tracklisting suggests. I still cannot figure out what the flipping thing is. Anybody else have or encountered any of these tapes and might know the track I'm talking about? I guess I can post a sample of the tune if needs be.

Secondly, anybody know if this tape was put together by Jazzman Gerald? I have a faint memory of my cousin saying that he purchased it from a guy in Camden Market.

[llmod1]

Yes from Gerald. He used to sell them on his stall. I've got some folk funk ones somewhere. No idea about the mystery track. Can you sing it for us?

[Abominog]

It goes "do do do do dodo do do da da da da dada da da".

Let's see if I can cobble together a link to a sample.

[someblokecalledfuz]

Just a guess but is it this one?

[Abominog]

No it's not that. But ta for trying. It's an instrumental tune with what sounds like an alto sax lead.

[Abominog]

Ok here's a link to a clip of the first 50 seconds or so.

http://www.filefactory.com/stream/tkxy66r6miz

[llmod1]

Sounds like Funk Inc or one of those other Prestige bands of the time

[bennyboy]

It's Booger Bear by Charles Williams. Mainstream records and that.

[Abominog]

It's Booger Bear by Charles Williams. Mainstream records and that.

Yes!! Thanks.

[Ian Townsend]

The Guardian crowd sourced memories of Camden Market just a few weeks ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2...-market-london

[Ian Townsend]

From the comments section:

I worked up at the stables market in the mid nineties, some memories: always cold, dragging a ton of tweed jackets up the cobbles in the rain on a clothes rail with one wheel missing; everyone was called Steve, Dave or Pete (Beardy Pete, Welsh Pete, etc); My pal shouting at John-Paul Gaultier "Discount, qu'est que c'est fucking discount?"; mulled wine for breakfast; the guy next door smoking crack behind his stall; Cissy Strut by the Meters being played all day long by the bootleg tape sellers; the Israeli bloke two stalls up telling us about juggling live grenades during national service; the stench of non-specific 'ethnic food'; the endless wall of people filing past; a job lot of 1970s Adidas tracksuits from a warehouse in Beirut; sitting on the radiator in a pub in Primrose Hill after work until I could feel my legs again; and so on and on and on.

[The Divine One]

I've still got all of my Jazzman tapes from Camden Market - would get a new one each time I visited the big smoke. Used to love getting the train back up to Glasgow and having some fresh sounds to listen to on my Walkman - funny how listening to a cassette on a portable cassette player with headphones felt exciting, like it was at the cutting edge of technology (even if the technological advance only facilitated listening to 20+ year old music!)

Think most of the tapes had a "mystery track" at the end. From tiny acorns...

[Abominog]

Think most of the tapes had a "mystery track" at the end. From tiny acorns...

Ah right, cool idea. Wish I could have stumbled upon my mystery track "naturally" but I think 18 odd years is long enough to wait. : )

[SirSlim]

The Guardian crowd sourced memories of Camden Market just a few weeks ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2...-market-london

I started going to Camden Market about 1979/80 - buying second-hand records, what would now be called "vintage" clothing and buying a sausage in a baguette from this fellow...

[peretti]

I moved to Camden early 90s and still live nearby but really miss the shabby eclecticism of the old style Stables, even if I'm inhaling fewer mould spores these days. My favourite was Tony, the very stinky guy under one of the arches, who sold his own home-made "ionisers" and other ingenious Heath-Robinson electronics, none of which did anything apart from expose you to the risk of massive electric shocks. Bafflingly, he never invented an effective deodorant. Gutted I didn't get to ID Booger Bear quicker as it's probably the only track I've ever recognised on here.