This weekends Charity / Boot Finds

[Moogaloo]

Well I got a few tresures this weekend, the highlights being..

Enoch Light - Discotheque (dance...dance...dance) (Groovy instro versions of C'mon and swim, night train, ya ya and Watermelon Man and with a great cover to boot)

Adamo - The number one continental Singer (All tracks dogy except for the go-go french dancer "Le Neon" with bublbly hammond and big orchestral arrangements)

Jaikishan Shankar - Sangam - (Middle of the road bollywood LP)

Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual (Kansas City is a top version with Memphis Tenesse and Detroit City being ok too)

Tom Jones - 13 Smash Hits (at 25p I could not resist picking up a 2nd copy of Toms best groovy LP)

Lee Hazelwood - The Very Special World of Lee Hazelwood (Nothing too groovy or funk here but still some lovely orchestral arrangements and and a so-so version of "These boots were made for walkin')

The New Hollywood Orchestra - Great Film Themes No. 2 (Nice arrangements no9thing for dancefloor except for the ultra fast stabbing version of the James Bond Theme

Chris Allan and His Music/The Pop Paraders - Hit Parade 1964 (Groovy version of The Hitchhiker, Comin' home Baby and I'm the lonely one)

The Elminators - Guitars & Percussion (2nd copy for me and from the cover and track listing you would think it would be alot better than it is, pretty middle of the road covers here)

[Cunningham]

First post.
A couple of nice things this weekend from a flea market...
Play School-Bang on a Drum,nice break on the tittle track
Rock Generation vol 3-Sonny Boy Williamson+The Animals,Graham Bond
The McCartney Interview,Maca interview from about '79 i guess,was before Lennon was shot.
The Best of Bill Cosby,Great cover of him on a go-cart
Master Ace-Sitting on Chrome 12
Professor Griff-Kao's II Wiz *7*Dome
Brecker Bros Collection Vol 1

All £3.

[Brainbomb]

ARGH!
Nothing but eBay "finds" for me... Foetus Ache was a very nice one though (if pricey) -can't wait til I have it in my hands...

I hate this - working weekends now that spring is finally here!

No time to go to all the fleamarkets... I should have thought twice about helping my colleague go raving in Amsterdam... now I have to work two weekends in a row!!
But I'm gonna demand he at least covers for my next Sunday since I'm covering for him right now...

[maWhie]

Found a copy of the Funk45 reissue 'tra la la la' been looking for a copy of this for a while. what this record was doing at a car boot? you may be wondering.It was in a box of 70 odd 12" and 7" of varying styles of music from tecno to reggae and indie stuff. The woman sold me the whole box for a £5 (I would have paid this for the tra la la single). Turns out they were all or part of her sons record collection.

Isnt there some kind of dj thing were you get sent records in bulk from distributers, I believe this is the reason for the varying styles of the records.

Picked out a handfull Ill probably keep, an ill sell on the rest.


Also picked up,

a nice exotica LP called 'Taboo Vol.2' by Arthur Lyman. Nice moody easy listening with lots of tiger growls an intersting sounds. Features authentic shrunken heads on the cover too.

An lp of morricone covers from from fist full of dollers etc.. Played by the hollywood soundmakers small kinda pop group sound but dissapointingly the drums a way too quiet or lacking for it to be of any worth.

John windemere, his orchestra and singers Up, Up and away, (easy listening thing, gonna give it another listen

raymond lefevre and his orchestra (no good)

Picked up an intersting 'spoken word' 45 containing two soliloquies narrated by jackie gleeson.
A side 'to a sleeping beauty'

Side B 'apology at bedtime'

Bizarre record for children with a narration from a father figure talking about watching them in thier bed at night while thier asleep, hmmm.

[Paul-K]

found a new boot sale about 10 mins from my house on a saturday morning.
loads of records and a box of soul singles 4 for £1 the guy in front of me bought the lot while i was waiting for him to clear off.. grr but still found a few good things

7"
upsetters - return of django
james brown - brother rapp
al green - lets stay together
ohio players - fopp
ohio players - fire
parliament - party people
bonzo dog band - urban spaceman
bros johnson - get the funk outta my face
bar kays - do it
bar kays- freaky behavior
titanic - sing fool sing
isaac hayes - do your thing
o jays - 6 track ep
oc smith - the son of hickory hollers tramp
stevie wonder - superstition
curtis mayfield - underground / freddies dead
crown heights affair - foxy lady
love unlimited orchestra - loves theme

lps

the story of the old testament for young people, gatefold lp with booklet!
love unlimited - in heat
love unlimited orchestra - white gold
tremeloes - chip dave alan rick
war - deliver the word
love unlimited orchestra - rhapsody in white
sleep - sleep

and a dodgy cheese (gristle) burger and change from £20..

[Lord Thames]

John windemere, his orchestra and singers Up, Up and away, (easy listening thing, gonna give it another listen

This one's a bit of a curio - I've got no idea who John Windemere is, but I reckon one of the singers is Barbara Moore (I can spot her sibilants a mile off!) Probably a bit twee for most people, though I like the arrangements - it'd be better without the vocals.

[wayne]

Picked up an intersting 'spoken word' 45 containing two soliloquies narrated by jackie gleeson.
A side 'to a sleeping beauty'

Side B 'apology at bedtime'

Bizarre record for children with a narration from a father figure talking about watching them in thier bed at night while thier asleep, hmmm.

I've had this one, too - actually worth a listen, as it's kind of unintentionally rather creepy in an interesting way...

As for the weekend, been watching the pennies (so no joy for the seller offering a battered Electric Prunes Lp for £40, but then there was never going to be, even if I'd ben trailing streams of banknotes, frankly) but instead a nice clean copy of Bobbie Gentry's 'Billie Joe/Mississippi Delta' 45 and the following mixed bag of LPs:

Ornette Coleman: An Evening With Ornette Coleman (Polydor 2xLP box)
Ramsey Lewis: Goin' Latin (Cadet)
The Simon Sisters: Sing For Children (Columbia, 1973 issue of Carly & Lucy Simon's extremely nice folk LP originally put out in 1969)
George Shearing: The Way We Are (MPS - the one with nice latin versions of Aquarius, Eleanor Rigby, Superstar & World Is A Ghetto on it)
Cleo Laine: Portrait (Philips - cheers to whoever charted Night Owl off this, it's indeed very fine. Quite a listenable LP all round, in fact...)

For the rest, it's doubles & trades...

Joe Albany: Bird Lives! (Interplay) 1979 be bop jazz trio, produced by Toshiya Taenaka, nice set, bit straight up for my taste...
Richard Austrian: Blue Danube Boogie (Different 12") 1978 moogy disco novelty version of the Strauss tune - the OTHER 2001 theme...
Love Unlimited Orchestra: White Gold (20th Century) I know I ought to like Barry, but never quite feel able to commit, 'f y'know'wha'ah'mean...very funky cut called Satin Soul amid the cheese, though.
Living Guitars: Hits For Guitars (RCA) easy guitar LP, OK versions of 'Quiller Memorandum' and 'Casino Royale' themes, and a cut called California Nights with a few touches of fuzz, but nothing to really get too excited about...
Aimi MacDonald/Ronnie Carroll: Promises Promises (Fontana) Keith (Birds'n'Brass) Roberts produced Bacharach musical...probably not quite as exciting as that might sound, unfortunately.
Lulu: The Most Of Lulu (MFP) the second one, with Johnny Harris production, Show Me, Gimme some Lovin', Mighty Quinn etc...thought I'd have another go, but no, still sounds too much like...well, Lulu.
Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy In Paris (Ember) nice enough but fairly inessential 70s issue of a live set from 1952/3...

Only had a tenner to start, so after buying fags, a polystyrene cup of coffee and a couple of paperbacks, what was left over amounted to about the total cost, give or take change for a paper and pint of milk on the way home. No complaints from me, then

[wayne]

love unlimited orchestra - white gold

do we say 'snap!' when this happens?

maybe happy families, when between us we acquire a complete back catalogue of a weekend...

[john stapleton]

no booters for me this weekend, but a few goodies from the charities:

Osibisa First LP (with 'Music for Gong Gong')
Osibisa 'Woyaya' LP
Sly and The Family Stone 'Riot Goin' On' (nice mint UK copy as an upgrade)
Vinegar Joe 1st LP (Island original - looks unplayed)

Alan Tew 'Latin Style' double
Barrington Levy 'here I come' 12"

and a Tractor LP arrived in the post

[Col Wolfe]

and a Tractor LP arrived in the post

Cool - I like tractors

not much for me either...

in the field:
a handful of common Trojan 45s (Dave Ansell/Upsetters/Greyhound)
a handful of common Northern 45s (Disco Demands/DJM/Spark)
a battered Mandingo 'Black Rites'
'another' Big Jim H

through the letterbox:
Second Thought - Get Ready/Slingshot
Chuck Carbo - Can I Be Your Squeeze/Take Care... (cheers Rich!)

[Brainbomb]

'another' Big Jim H

How many are there? I quite like the cheese-funk...
I got 2 and know there's one with Jungle Fever on it too...

[son of stan]

Just back from a couple of weeks in out of the way places which used to yield satisfying riches...and.....nowt much. Is it me that's getting indolent or is this getting harder?

Only two charity finds of any note whatsoever:

Nick Ingman "JCS"
Can "Tago Mago".......

[platerpus]

Is it me that's getting indolent or is this getting harder?

definately getting harder to cop good gear in the wild......maybe the solution is to adjust your expectations.....for instance.....just found a crap 7inch from 1965....restaraunt band promo thing.....An Evening At Il Pirata.....an ep with a gatefold sleeve with pics of the restaraunt which appears to have been converted into half pub/half pirate ship......with half a ship sticking out of the main entrance of the pub.....extraordinary.
just completely unable to resist this sort of thing even though you know it's going to be crap before you even get it near a turntable...

[Rich Hero]

How many are there? I quite like the cheese-funk...
I got 2 and know there's one with Jungle Fever on it too...

Can I recommend a visit to the main VV site?

One solitary record from the wild for me this weekend. The Play School LP (yellow cover) with 'Fearless Fred's Amazing Animal Band'. It features a one bar break from Ollie The Octopus that Shadow used for 'Lonely Soul' off the first Unkle LP, (as spotted by Beardy Gav ).

[Matt Hero]

Can I recommend a visit to the main VV site?

One solitary record from the wild for me this weekend. The Play School LP (yellow cover) with 'Fearless Fred's Amazing Animal Band'. It features a one bar break from Ollie The Octopus that Shadow used for 'Lonely Soul' off the first Unkle LP, (as spotted by Beardy Gav ).

Clem Cattini I believe ? Killer break though.... a real fave of mine.