London Visit 2

 Yesterday managed to change the two records with wrong slleves to wrong albums at Intoxica! despite the owner being a surly miserable sod. He tried to claim that is why they were that cheap because the original albums for those sleeevs had ben lost and so he put similar ones in them! Preposterous!!! 

Anyway i stood myy ground and got three albums for the same price as those two, and mostly cheesy but fun stuff -

Franck Pourcel - Meets The Beatles (Studio 2) LP
Ronnie Aldrich - It's happening Now (Phase 4 LP)
Tony Christie - With Loving feeling (MCA Coral LP) - with that "Amarillo" track on it plus "Avenues And Alleyways"  plus a groovy version of "On Broadway" worth spinning at next gig,


Ftom Minus One further up Portobello Road and round the corner an album at half price (five quid only)  -

Various - 49 Minute  Technicolour Dream" (Past and Present) - classic  pysch-pop from the sixties, groovy man!

Some info from Wikipedia -

The 49 Minute Technicolor Dream is the fourth volume of Bam-Caruso's Rubble Series. Released in 1984, it spotlighted on Fontana and Philips, and featured bands such as Jason Crest, Finders Keepers, Unit 4 + 2, The Misunderstood, and a mystery track. It was reissued by Past & Present in 2003, and has recently gone out of print again.

Track listing

1. Jason Crest - Black Mass
2. The Mirage - The Wedding Of Ramona Blair
3. Caleb - Baby Your Phrasing Is Bad
4. Kaleidoscope - Flight From Ashiya
5. The Cymbaline - Matrimonial Fears
6. Finders Keepers - On The Beach
7. The Californians - The Cooks Of Cakes And Kindness
8. Rings & Things - Strange Things Are Happening
9. The Fox - Butterfly
10. Unit 4+2 - 3:30 AM
11. Kaleidoscope - A Dream For Julie
12. Tempus Fugit - Come Alive
13. The Misunderstood - Golden Glass
14. The Magic Mixture - Moonbeams (originally a mystery track)

Then a rekkie xchange at MVE i picked up another boppy jazz LP -

Paul Jeffrey - Family (Mainstream LP)


Bob Shad's Mainstream label certainly made some great undersung  jazz and popsike albums,esp in the popsike stakes Ellie Pop, Tiffany Shade and The Growing Concern to name a few.

Ellie Pop LP still cheap at Borderline for four quid if you want a copy.

Oh yeah,and i did a train job,and hence free pass and free travel to London along the First Capitol Connect route to Farrindon, plus free travel underground from Farringdon to Olympia as both stations have no barriers. (Circle Line from Farringdon to Kensington High Street and change there to a District Line service to Olympia for reference). Then a walk to Notting Hill MVE and Intoxica! 

So it didn;t cost a penny going to London.!!!

 

Groovy Scat

"Wattstax - Full Documentary (1973) - subtítulos español" (Watch on YouTube)

 Novi - Torpedo

More Crazy Scat Singing

 More wicked scat singing by Caterina Valente of a Paganini tune ,,,weird!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvSWBo6ioR4

Provider of this one turned off the embedding feature so had to lmk this way.

More Diggin'

Some finds today in the Trafalgar Street bookshop this afternoon -



Blue Mink - Best of Blue Mink (EMI)
Jim Mullen - Thumbs Up (Coda)
Man - Rhinos,Winos and Lunatics (UA)



10 CC - Original Soundtrack (Mercury)
Ray Parker Jnr - The Other Woman (Arista). 

Fifty pence a throw folks.

From a chazzer the following 12" singles -

Incognito - Change (Talkin' Loud)
Busta Rhymes - Get Out (Elektra)

Morning was too wet to do anything anyway.