Southampton Visit

A  really wet day and having to work doing a street survey didn't make me feel like jumping for joy. Had to go to the Portsdown district of Southampton to do a job about bingo. Short little questionnaires but few people would stop on a day like this.

Anyway shopped around he chaazers in the high street. It is quite amazing to see so many different charity shops in one main shopping street. having said that,most of them didn't have much in the way of interesting vinyl goodies. However beedy eye moi found a Peddlers single in one for the meagre sum of 50 pence "Birth / Steel Mill" (CBS 1969). "Steel Mill" is a great funky Hammond organ workout with punchy latin-ish percussion. Much better than the A side.

The other was an interesting LP called " Stereo Showcase" (Audio Fidelity LP) which has a number of nice jazzy and grroovy numbers. Tracks by the Peter Appleyard Orchestra,Don Shirley and The Seven Players are the ones that i found grroovy.A nice sampler LP for a £1

I also bought a Tom Jones album for a quid - well didn't want it to be left behind - "Delilah" (Decca 1968), perhaps not one of his best but it completes my sixties collection of his stuff. Ah,it reminds me too that i have two later Jones albums coming in the post (respectively from 1973 and 1974) from a freebie giveaway event on the VG+ site.