London Visit

Internet and TV are fine now. Lorna phoned to say that TV was working when she arrived home from work,so cancelled the engineer for tomorrow.

Anyway a good day in london. Picked up loads of free albums from VG+ colleagues Willie Fogg and Bongolia. Also a lovely meal at The Goose in Croydon as i did a mystery shop there.

Fopp are still going at Charing Cross as i bought a DVD for six quid there "The Devil and Daniel Johnston".

Beanos is still going,just about. I bought some singles there and three albums including The Singing Postman "Recorded Delivery (Parlophone LP). A bit of a novelty recordd i suppose.

It was nice geting two Timi Yuro albums though from Michael (a.k.a Bongolia) and will complement the on e i have already by her.

I was going to lis them all,but for now will just list the ones i have actually bought this day (not given as freebies).  


45s

Lena Horne - Sometimes I Feel like A Motherless Child EP (Bravo!)
Peter Hawkins - le Poulet etc EP (Barclay)
Herb Alpert - Lollipops and Roses EP (Pye)
The Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein (Epic) - heavy rock funk monster!!
Tommy Hunt - Crackin' Up (Spark)
Curtis Lee - Pretty Little Angel Eyes (Charly)
Buzz Hungry - The Envictor (Sol)
B B King - Better Not Look Down (MCA)

LPs

Edson e Tita - Gosto Tanto ((Whatmusic)
Joe Pass - The Best Of (Pablo) - a nice funky "Que Que Ha? in CTI stylee
Oscar Peterson Trio - Travellin' On (BASF)
John McLaughlin - Devotion (Douglas)
Seigen Ono - The Green Chinese Table (Virgin Venture)
Joe South - Introspect (See For Miles)
Lord Jim Soundtrack (Colpix)
The Singing Postman - Recorded Delivery (Parlophone)
Elmer Bernstein - Return of The Seven (UA)

From the freebies were a couple of albums my mate Gareth would like -

Memories of Steam (Hallmark LP)
Threshing And Cultivating By Steam Power (Abbey LP)


As well as that got Lorna something special and some new summer sandles from a Camden boutique shop.Didn't spend much really,the ,most being on the wife and then the sandle reduced from £40 to £15..


 

The Weekend Playlist Part 1

Weekend playlist time -

1/ Alan Moorhouse and His Bond Street Brigade - Funky Fever (MFP LP track)
2/  The Aquarius - Let The Sunshine In / Aquarius (Marble Arch LP track)
3/  Gail McDermot - DisInHairited (RCA LP)
4/ Ben E King and Average White band - What Is Soul? (Atlantic LP track)
5/ Black Eyed Peas feat. Macy Gracy - Request + Line (Island 12")
6/ Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground (LP track)
7/ Frank Sinatra - Aqua de Beber (Reprise LP track)
8/ Eminem - The Real Slim Shady 12"
9/ Unknown - Venus (LP "Help Yourself To Hammond")
10/ Peggy Lee - Black Coffee (Brunswick LP track)
11/ Jackson Five - Looking Through The Window (Motown LP track)
12/ John Keating and His Orchestra - Listen (Phase 4 LP track) 
13/ Lena Horne - Hesitatimg Blues (Allegro LP track)
14/ Country Joe and the Fish - i'm On The Road Again (Vanguard LP track "Live") 
15/ Timi Yuro - Fever (LP track)


All the above are from freebie albums and 12" singles from the great VG+ freebie bonanza 

Records,Watches and Risque Cover Albums

 Picked up a few more albums (six for a quid) from the Heart Foundation shop. A mixed bag - the best two being Peter Hurt Orchestra "Lost For Words" (Spotlite LP)  and Various "Great Ellingtonians" (World Record Club 2xLP) ,whilst a few i listened to and thought not for me really which will get recycled. Still at less than 25p a disc you can take risks when you are unsure of the goodies contained within. Why i picked up a late 1988 Status Quo LP is something that even mystifies me as needle dropped a few places on the record revealed nothing of interest.

I am a sucker for LPs with scantily dressed ladies on or no clothes on at all. A lot of the 12 Tops albums on Stereo Gold Award are like that as well as those classic Top of the Pops albums and the Hot Hits ones from MFP. My favourite one being the Ohio Players "Honey" album. Sex sells didn't you know that, so endeth my scat.

Got  a new phone with answerphone today as the old Binatone answering machine and the landline phone device were getting quite old and not working properly,with messages being cut-off mid sentence for no apparent reason.

L went on a shopping trip to London flushed with £500 but only spent £75 on a leather DKNY handbag in John Lewis,and some Clarins cosmetics.

Decided to get a better turntable which i might buy tomorrow. Still undecided between a Rega or a Project or even splash out on a Linn deck. The latter can be a bit fiddly to set up though and the other two are much simpler in design and a lot less money.Also i still want to have two direct drive turntables and a mixer for my DJ habit,and i have already eyed up a classic Technics deck for one of them.

All i needed today was a new watch and rather than spend silly money  on some designer one i got a cheap Casio analog for a tenner in H Samuels. Rather spend the money on quality vinyl or a CD box set. Yeh,music is my blood man. Designer stuff don't cut ice with me and all that bling don't impress me.