Car boot was pretty good this morning. These were a fiver each. One still sealed. And these were £3 and £2. I also picked up a Hanna Barbera record for my nephew; hello Auntie of the Year award.
She grew up in Windsor Road, Palmers Green which is about 400 yards from where I live. Unfortunately there's no blue plaque. She was ubiquitous on Page 3 in the 1980s and her brother Mark was indeed a recording engineer; mainly reggae, I think.
I have the soundtrack to the first film, on CD, by Herbie Hancock. I imagine this one will be quite different!
I really do hope they go to a good home. I would hate to think that they just get picked up by someone who is going to flip them. Although I wouldn’t be bothered by some of those I think at least 80% would be worth hearing.
A nice pick-up. Not heard that Melody Gardot one, it's a great cover reminiscent of the 70's Roxy albums. The Cowboy Junkies is a bit special, a great ambience to it. They are currently in the news with a follow up album to The Trinity Session that wasn't released. it was also recorded with one microphone, this time in a temple.
Not being on Facebook, they won't even let me see what I'm missing, I'm guessing Big Band or Trad rather than Hard Bop.
Going back a number of pages, about spotting a Technics CD player at my mum’s Oxfam: Finally got a chance to check today, £29.99. No idea how that compares, but it has been there for a while now.
Not too bad, quite expensive for a charity I suppose but a good price for a Technics if it still works perfectly. I'd pay if it was here for a back up player.
Quite a few Miles Davis and ECMs, even a copy of Voodooism by Scratch. I’m not on Facebook but for some reason I can see the pictures.
300 discs. Quite a bit of Miles Davis, Coltrane, Jarrett, Monk, Mingus, Hancock + 1 Magma that I can see! I just got covid today so I'm not going anywhere.
Wow, I'd be all over that, if I was in Oxford, did Facebook and had a car, even if I already had most of it, plenty of family members would like those, I know people who hang around Marketplace and from what they tell me those would have been grabbed within five minutes. I hope the Covid is mild, booked my next jab last week.
I have most of the tracks on R.D. Burman and Asha Bhosle CD compilations, but I wasn't going to leave it behind all the same!
I don't know the answer to that, but throughout lockdown 2020, every Tesco which I went in was playing the Co-Op's radio feed. It was exceedingly odd.
I just checked. Val Doonican, Harry Secombe and James Last are all adequately represented and preserved on streaming services. Begin the eradication!
I started buying thrift shop records probably about 30-35 years ago. The same ones that no one bought then are still there now. These records failed to get picked up during the easy listening/exotica revival of the 90s and were left behind again during the Great Vinyl Revival of the past 10 years. Time they were put out of their misery. I just can't foresee a big revival of interest in Barry Crocker/Kamahl/Max Bygraves/Andre Kostelanetz, etc happening anytime soon.
There are several James Last LPs that I would buy if I could find them and they were cheap. I couldn't say the same for Val and Harry though. There is a James Last track (Bolero 75) on the excellent D-Funk compilation that I found some time ago.
Yes, there are a few James Last tracks, and I think there's a Japanese LP that fetches money, but that's no reason to keep all the other James Last LPs out of landfill, there's possibly some in my bin, unless they went last week, with zero regret, I do have those mentioned by Minibreakfast, along with a couple of others, I'll let her know if I find more copies for pennies though postage is a killer these days.
I'd much rather find one myself in the wild, so no problem! I agree that the vast majority of Last's enormous catalogue belongs in landfill. It's just unlistenable.
