2014 Official Year Roundup

MopTopMike said:
Because teenagers are living for the moment - "now" sounds, not something antiquated 'n' dated
Thankfully they looked forward in '64, not backward.
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I was 16 in 1963, the year Beatlemania hit England. I can assure you that I was looking anywhere other than the Merseybeat dominated pop charts. Mostly I was looking to what was and had been happening in the Blues world of Chicago, Ska sounds from Jamaica, R'n'B imported to England by US servicemen and record stores in areas with recently arrived immigrants from the West Indies. These 'new' to my ears sounds were like waterholes in a desert in comparison with what the UK music biz was forcing upon us. Maybe I was just looking sideways.

In their favour, I will be forever grateful to the Fab 4 for avidly promoting Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry and other antiquated 'n' dated favourites of theirs. Without the Beatles advocacy, it is possible that those old timers would never have toured the UK.
 
jerry dickens said:
No Keb, I bought mine from a UK collector who is pruning his collection. He also sold me The Tempests 'Rockin' Rochester', which is definitely not a 'garage' record.

Regarding those 3 Casino label rockers - how did US teens fall for the Fab 4 hype when they had music like 'Do The Dog' in their own backyards? Not to mention The Sonics, Wailers, Florian Monday, etc. Still, their UK counterparts were guilty of the same crime.
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I've long felt that most people just go for what they are exposed to. That's hardly a unique thought of mine. But following that to present day, as much as we'd like to fancy otherwise, I don't think kids in the 1960's necessarily had that much better taste than the kids today. They were fortunate enough to be fed a steady diet of some of the greatest music of all time...The Stones, Beatles, Kinks, Beach Boys, Raiders etc.. Today...they are not so fortunate. But I think if today's kids were constantly exposed to Les Grys-Grys they would be buying their records and going to their shows. I'm not trying to defend the youth of today, just making what I believe is at least a somewhat accurate observation.
 
Here are some of the 45's I picked up this year.

The Remains--I Can't Get Away From You/But I Ain't Got You (Epic)
The Marauders--Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind/Jugband Music (Laurie)
The Senders--She Told Me/Sometime Good Guys Don't Wear White (IGL)
The Vestells--Won't You Tell Me?/Please Walk Away (Bo Jo)
Five Of A Kind--Never Again/I Don't Want To Find Another Girl (Vandan)
The Pastels--'Cause I Love You/Don't Ya Know (What You Do To Me) (Phalanx)
Jerry Waugh & The Skeptics--For My Own/I Told Her Goodbye (Thrush)
The Druids--Cool, Calm & Collected/Sorry's Not Enough (MNO)
The Mods--Days Mind The Time/It's For You (Cee Three)
Ron & The Starfires--Why Did You Cry/The Grass Is Greener (Lee-c)
The Dagenites--I'm Gone Slide/Now That Summer's Gone (Heigh-Ho)
Barry Ebling & The Invaders--I Can Make It Without You/Sunny Day Rain (Norman)
The In Mates--The Same/London Town (Palladium)
The Members--I'll Get By Without You/Come On Everybody (Label)
Midnight Shift--Every Day Without You/Just Another Day (MSI)
Phil & The Frantics--Say That You Will/Till You Get What You Want (ARA)
The Shillings--It Was My Mistake/Not The Least Bit True (Fantasy)
The Six Deep--Girl It's Over--I Must Go (De'Lynn)
The Surfaris--Hey Joe, Where Are You Going/So Get Out (Decca)
The Tropics--I Want More/Goodbye My Love (Freeport)
The Young Tyrants--I Try!/She Don't Got The Right! (IN)
The Chants--Hypnotized/Elaina (B. Ware)
The Trademarks--If I Was Gone/I Need You (By My Side) (Palmer)
The Soul Shakers--Catch That Girl/It Really Works (Ace)
Sid Herring & The Gants--Another Chance/What's Your Name (Statue)
Moving Sidewalks--Every Night A New Surprise/Need Me (Wand)
The Morning Dew--Go Away/Be A Friend (Fairyland)
The Converts--Don't Leave Me/A Guy Without A Girl (Rampro)
 
Though I wasn't as lucky as some of you (a few truly amazing lists here!), I still managed to keep the cool vinyl coming in. On the LP front, new acquisitions included the first Our Generation album, Bran's “Hedfan” and the “Danmarksmestrene I Popmusik” 10,” and the following singles found their way into my 45 boxes:

The Bojax - “Fast Life” (Panther)
The Byrds - “Turn! Turn! Turn!” (Columbia red wax DJ)
Chubby And The Turnpikes - “I Didn't Know The Inside Story” (Capitol DJ) (northern soul)
Phil Cordell - “Red Lady” (Janus) (Fading Yellow favorite)
Los Delfines - “Now She's Gone” (Uruguayan London) (awesome South American psych-pop)
The Emulations - “Story Of My Life” (Emulate) (sweet soul – am hoping to reissue this one)
The Escapades - “I Tell No Lies” (Arbet)
Facts Of Life - “I've Seen Darker Nights” (Frana)
The Four Pro's - “Just Another Girl” (Carla) (northern soul – MopTopMike's “Mon Petite Chow” comp turned me on to this one!)
Nora Guthrie - “Emily's Illness” (Mercury) (Only In America)
The In-Be-Tweens - “Girl Child, I Am An Evil Witchman” (Highland) (my first “Insane Collection” acquisition...)
Gloria Jones - “Tainted Love” (Champion) (northern soul classic)
Just Four Men - “There's Not One Thing” (U.K. Parlophone) (pre-Wimple Winch pop-beat)
The Litter - “Action Woman” (Scotty)
Los Saicos - “El Entierro De Los Gatos” (Peruvian DisPeru)
Thee Sixpence - “Heart Full Of Rain” (All-American)
Things To Come - “Sweetgina” (Starfire) (finally a nice upgrade! Now looking for a home for my very noisy but playable old copy...)
The Velvet Underground - “What Goes On” (M-G-M DJ)
 
Would his name have been Barney per chance Jerry ? I sold him a Tempests about a year ago, and he sold it on for a profit...
 
HarvestmanMan said:
Just had a couple of cool year-end finds - the Pineapple Heard on Diamond and the Turtles' "Outside Chance". Both rather beaten-up, but still playing great!
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I'm pretty sure I picked up the Pineapple Heard too this year (great song!), the Turtles 45 remains beyond my reach tho'.
 
JohnH said:
Though I wasn't as lucky as some of you (a few truly amazing lists here!), I still managed to keep the cool vinyl coming in. On the LP front, new acquisitions included the first Our Generation album, Bran's “Hedfan” and the “Danmarksmestrene I Popmusik” 10,” and the following singles found their way into my 45 boxes:

Things To Come - “Sweetgina” (Starfire) (finally a nice upgrade! Now looking for a home for my very noisy but playable old copy...)
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:boggle:
 
keb darge said:
Would his name have been Barney per chance Jerry ? I sold him a Tempests about a year ago, and he sold it on for a profit...
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No, it was not Barney K, who I know rates 'Rockin' Rochester' very highly. If my memory is correct he got a copy about 7 years back from Pascal P in a trade. Personally, I think the A side is very contrived and sounds like a typical vocal from an instrumental band. The instrumental flip is great to my ears. Just a matter of personal taste, I suppose. My idea of upstate NY rock'n'roll is Terry Daly's 'You Don't Bug Me' which currently rates at less than half the financial value of the Tempest's 45.

My copy of 'Rockin' Rochester' came, a mentioned previously, along with The Senders 45, in a trade with a non-scene (unseen may be a more apt description) English collector who periodically 'purifies' his record stack. One of the pioneering band who used to visit 'Breathless ' Dan Coffey when he lived in Newport in the late '60s, this man is now in his early 70s and retains all the mannerisms, prejudices and dress codes of an old time Teddy Boy - despite the fact that he is a PhD! Very difficult to deal with and one has always to remember that, until the mid '80s he played his 45s on one of those old 'Dansette' type players which had needles instead of a stylus. So discs that look mint may not play that way. My end of the trade was a spare copy of Leon and Carlos 'Rock Everybody', a quantity find some 30 years back by Virginian, Denis West, later convicted of wife murder. Anyone on this Forum remember Denis? A clever operator who succeeded in convincing you that you were one of his favoured few who he'd let have his only copy of ________ as a steal for $200. Later, you would discover that you were one of maybe 25 members of the 'favoured few'. This trick would not be possible nowadays thanks to social media and the internet.
 
Being new to the forum, I can't look back at last year's list and try and figure out when some discs arrived. So I'm just going to list stuff that hasn't been filed yet...but fortunately I haven't filed in a good long time! So this is probably more of a second half of 2014 list..U.S. stuff first, then foreign.

The Birdwatchers- Mary Mary (Mala)
The Bondsmen- I Don't Want Your Lovin Anymore (Fleetwood)
Alan Burn and The Ushers- Whirlpool (Tuesday)
Chancellors- On Tour (DC)
The Citations-The Day That She'll Go (Pre-Sav)
Ronnie Cook- Super Fine Girl (Show-Biz) (first found out about this one on the forum)
The Elite U.F.O.- Now Who's Good Enough (MAI)
The Escos- Mojo Workout (Dub) (killer frat)
The Grateful Dead- Cream Puff War (Warner Bros) (it's in TBM!)
Larry Herman & The Fabulous Prophets Combo- Gurtrud (Combo)
The Illusions- I Know (A.C.P.)
The Islanders- King Of The Surf (Islander)
The Kegsmen- Gloria (Edgewood Acetate)
Larry & The Gang- Theme Song (Crescent-City) (beat to shit though)
The Lords- One Of These Days (Zero)
The Lykes Of Us- Tell Me Why Your Light Shines (Molt)
The Marauders- Bad Girl (Rockland)
The Markal's- I'm Jealous (Marjon)
Me and The Guys- I Can't Take It (Pla Me) (replaced screwed up copy)
The Merlynn Tree- Look In Your Mirror (Dixietone)
The Monuments- African Diamonds (Alvera)
The Mystery Men- I've Got A Feeling (Ceva) (replaced cracked copy)
Psycho- You Need Me (Frantic)
The Rejects- Just A Little Bit Of You (Cabell)
The Rogues- How Many Times (Lyn Lou)
The Rogues Inc.- People Say (Associated Artists)
The Rondeus- Anymore (Magna)
The Scepters- All Night Long (no label) (cool frat)
The Secrets- Somethin Good For Me (Raven)
The Templars- Chafungie (Paragon) (not listing instros but this seems more of a garage record to me)
Thee Saints and The Prince Of Darkness- Groovy World (Champ)
The Things- Jazz-Rock With Soul (Ray Pro)
The Toddy Rockers- Sally Uno Por Cinco (Direct) (very cool unknown frat)
The Weeds- It's Your Time (Teenbeat Club)
The Yardleys- The Light Won't Shine (Foundation)
The Action- French EP (Odeon/EMI)
The Artwoods- I Feel Good (Decca/U.K.)
Los Beatniks EP- (Estudio 15/Brazil)
Peter Best- Casting My Spell (Mr. Maestro/U.S.)
The Bristols- A Rolling Stone (Music Corner/Denmark)
Cherry-Stones- The Things She Says (Jo May Produktion/Sweden)
I Corvi- EP (w/"Bang Bang" and "I Ain't No Miracle Worker) (Vergara/Italy)
The Dukes- I'm An Unskilled Worker (Flash..I think French pressing?)
Gli Uragani- Gusto O No/Vuoi Arrivare Su (Carisch/Italy) (great versions of "I'm Your Body Not Your Soul" and "Anyhow, Anywhere, Anyway")
The Tony Hendrix- Work All Day (Vogue/Germany) (nice Mark Four cover)
The Hush- Grey (Fontana/U.K.)
Mad Comics- So Down (Nashville/Sweden)
The Naughty Boys- Heart (Fantastic/Canada)
The Nightbirds- The Night Birds (Columbia/EMI/Italy)
One In A Million- Use Your Imagination (CBS/U.K.)
The Peasants- Let's Get Together (Columbia/U.K.)
Sooner Or Later- Harlem Shuffle (Fontana/Sweden)
The Wild Colonials- Get The Picture (His Master's Voice/Australia)
 
It's great seeing so many cool records are finding themselves to the deserving collector. You would think at this stage of the game the lists would be getting shorter with fewer of the monsters. I'll have to put together a list over the weekend!
 
Here's a few of the more memorable ones I picked up this year.
The Bondsmen- I Don't Want Your Lovin Anymore (Fleetwood)
The Bonnevilles -You Just Can't Tell Her (Fleetwood)
The Soothsayers- Black Nor Blue w/PS (Acropolis)
The Cobras- Instant Heartache ( Big Beat)
The Effects- Don't You Ever Make Me Blue (MW)
The Lost Souls- Step Inside (Musicor New Talent)
Glass Threads - Monday Fading (Snap)
Jacks Wild -What Do You Expect (Lyn-Tone)
The SInders- Get Out of My Life (KeyTone)
Dimensions-Pilot (Vibra)
The Minutemen-Lat-In-Da (Minutemen)
Alan Burns- Whirlpool (Tuesday)
The Glas Managerie-Mod Threads (Romain)
The Blazing Sons-Society's Child (EAB)
The Impact V-Riptide (Agar)
The Perils-Hate (Velvo)
The Roaches- Someone With a Heart w/PS (Springfield Record Co.)
Melotones/Greenwoods EP
The DC Arctics- Gloria (no label)
Chain Reaction -Life (Francis Record Co.)
The Idols/Joey Tedeschi- True Luv Gone Astray (Luv)
The Undertakers- Unchain My Heart (Studio 7)
Gaylan Ladd- Repulsive Situation
The Creations- Crash PS (Top Hat)
The Gemini Five-Go Go Baby (Planet)
The Gladiators-Turn To Stone (Donnie)
The Phaetons -I Love You Baby (VIN)
Mike Fern- A Bomb Bop (Demo)
The Reddlemen-I Can't Go This Way (Custom)
Velvet Illusions-Velvet Illusion (Metro-Video)
Velvet Illusions-Town of Fools (Metro-Video)
Fountain Of Youth-Hard Woman (Sur-Speed)
The Cobras IV-Are You Ready (Snap)
Ronnie Cook- Goo Goo Muck (Astra)
The Cornerstones-You Rule Me (Metrobeat)
The Five of Us-Hey You (Current)
Caretakers of Deception-Cuttin Grass (Sanctus)

Here's a few garage albums that found a new home as well!
The Chaplains - More Soul
Tino and The Revlons -By Request At The Sway-Zee
The Nomadds
Badger A Go Go
The Spontanes-Play Solid Soul
The Kan-Dels- Our Most Requested Songs
Johnny and The Hurricanes- Live at The Star Club
The Chaparells- Solid Soul
The Aquinos S/T
The Aquinos -More Adventures of
The Mcgraw Bros-A Go Go
The Thunderbirds -Meet The Fabulous (Red Feather)
Harry Deal and The Galaxies- I Feel Good All Over

All things considered it was a great year. Many finds in the field and by way of private deals. Tons of cool R&B, Surf, and rock and roll records as well as garage i didn't list.
 
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