2020 Finds

[troggy]

I haven't seen a finds thread posted for 2020 yet, so I thought that I'd start one. Despite being a tough year, I did manage to find a bunch of stuff. I don't land the "high end" things a lot of folks here manage to snag but still had loads of fun digging around for these.

Garage:

The Boys From New York City: I'm Down Girl (Laurie)
The Mothers of Invention: Trouble Comin' Every Day (Verve)
Don & The Goodtimes: Little Sally Tease (Dunhill)
The Grass Roots: Depressed Feeling (Dunhill)
The Seeds: Satisfy You (GNP Crescendo)
The Surfaris: I'm A Hog For You (Decca)
The Honeycombs: Can't Get Through To You (Warner Bros.)
Mickey Finn: Night Comes Down (World Artists)
Them: Call My Name (Parrot)
The Nashville Teens: T.N.T. (London)
The New Colony Six: Woman (Sentar)
The Five Americans: Don't You Dare Blame Me (HBR) w/longer title
The Five Americans: I See The Light (Abnak) first label
The Clique: Gotta Get Away (Scepter)
The Fantastic Zoo: This Calls For A Celebration (Double Shot)
The Count Five: Teeny Bopper, Teeny Bopper (Double Shot)
The American Breed: Short Skirts (Acta)
Four Fifths: If You Still Want Me (Columbia)
The Band: Mr. Guitar Man (Tener)

Other cool stuff:

The Ventures: Fuzzy and Wild (Dolton)
Howlin' Wolf: Down In The Bottom (Chess)
Little Luther: Ever Lovin' Baby (Apt)
Slim Harpo: I Need Money (Excello)
The Del Knights: Compensation (Unart)
The Wild Tones: Shut-Ups (Madison)
Ike & Tina's Kings of Rhythm: Prancing (Sue)
Earl King: Baby You Can Get Your Gun (Ace)
Bobby Bennett: The Boss Turn (Len)
The Memos: The Biddy Leg (Memo)
Pretty Purdie: Soul Clappin' (Date)
The Coasters: Wild One (Atco)
The Surfaris: Point Panic (Decca)
The Champs: Panic Button (Challenge)
The Knights: Night Train (Felsted)
Big Ron & The Rhythm 4: Shufflin Guitar (Coin)
Joe (Guitar) Tubbs: Loaded Guitar (Epic)
Tiny Dee & The Dots: Telegraph (Success)
The Goofers: The Head Hunter (Port)
The Charlatans: High Coin (Philips)
Rex Garvin & The Mighty Cravers: Sock It To 'Em J.B. (Like)
Johnny Jones & The King Casuals: Purple Haze (Brunswick)
Tommy Roe: Carol (ABC-Paramount)
The Dixie Cups: Two-Way-Poc-A-Way (ABC-Paramount)
Curly Moore: Get Low Down (Sansu)
Jo-Jo's Second Hand Band: She's A Bad Woman (Big 5)
Bobby Marchan: Gimme Your Love (Dial)
The Traits: Harlem Shuffle (Scepter)
Joe Hicks: I'm Goin' Home (Scepter)
Georgia Soul Twisters: You Shot Me Through The Grease (Mainstream)
Albert Washington & The Kings: Bring It On Up (Fraternity)
Tender Joe Richardson: The Choo Choo (Veep)
Alton Joseph & The Jokers: Where's The Place (Loma)
Kent & The Candidates: Take Me By The Hand (Double Shot)
Du-Ettes: Please Forgive Me (One-derful!)
The 3 Degrees: Drivin' Me Mad (Swan)
Warren Smith: Miss Froggie (Sun)
Wayne Walker: Bo-Bo-Ska Diddle Daddle (Columbia)
Joey Farr: Movin' On Down (Eagle)
Sanford Clark: Usta Be My Baby (Dot)
Ron Wiggins: Someday (Falcon)
Bo Diddley: Greatest Lover In The World (Checker)

Please do add your finds!

 

[~erry~]

2020 has been my first year of collecting and I managed to add some new records to my father's collection, so:
FROM ITALY:

1 FROM ITALY + 3 FROM U.S.

 

[sonnyboypaco]

Under the biggest snowstorm in decades, overwhelmed, concerned, and bruised but alive. Could've been a much better year record-wise. Could've been worse though.

USA
- The Kenetics - “Put your loving on me” (Nashville)
- Corruption Inc. – “She’s gone” (HR)
- Little Phil & The Night Shadows – “So much” (Dot)
- The Basement Walls – “Never existed” (Senate)
- Nobody’s Children – “Good times” (GPC)
- The Others – “I can’t stand this love, goodbye” (RCA)
- Operations – “Reincarnation” (Chance)
- The Headstones – “Bad day blues” (Pharaoh)
- Lincoln St. Exit – “The bummer” (Ecco)
- The Fabulous Bachelors – “Not like she” (Rick)
- The Chocolate Watch Band – “Misty lane” (Uptown)
-13th Floor Elevators – “She lives (in a time of her own)” (IA)
-13th Floor Elevators – “May the circle remain unbroken” (IA)
- The Hogs – “Blues theme” (HBR)
- Paul Butterfield Blues Band – “Born in Chicago” (Vedette)
- The Knickerbockers – “As a matter of fact” (Challenge)
- Captain Foam – “No reason” (Bold)
- The Solid Soul ‎– “The price of loving you” (123)

EUROPE + AUSTRALIA/NZ
- Los Polares – “La droga” (Sonoplay)
- The Family – “Scene through the eye of a lens” (Liberty)
- The Frays – “Keep me covered” (Decca)
- The Action – “Wasn’t it you” (Hansa)
- Nix-Nomads – “She’ll be sweeter than you” (Decca)
- The Birds – “Leaving here” (Decca)
- Cheynes – “Goin’ to the river” (Columbia)
- Pete Kelly's Soulution ‎– “If Your Love Don't Swing” (Decca)
- Billy J. Kramer ‎– “Chinese Girl” (Polydor)
- Outsiders - “Thinking about today” / “Lying all the time” (Relax)
- Outsiders - “Touch” / “Ballad Of John B.” (Relax)
- Outsiders - “Keep on trying” / “That's your problem” (Relax)
- Outsiders – “Summer is here” / “Teach me to forget you” (Relax)
- Outsiders - “I've been loving you so long” / “I'm only trying to prove to myself, that I'm not like everybody else...” (Relax)
- Screaming Lord Sutch – “Jack The Ripper” (Decca)
- Somebody’s Image – “Hush” (In)
- Downliners Sect – “Glendora” (Columbia)
- The Boots – “Gaby” (Telefunken)
- Les Rivals – “Got love if you want it” (Triola)

Plus a few dozen punk/power pop 45s.

 

[MopTopMike]

Work and health has kept me away from actively buying records and doing other "fun" stuff for most of 2020.
I did add some long time wants and a few badly needed upgrade copies of garage 45s.
I think the term 2020 Buys is much more apt in my experience than 2020 Finds.
I did not "find" anything!

The best of the lot (dozens of obscure and under the radar 45s aside)

Chaz & Classics "Girl Of the 13 Hour"
Detours "My Girl"
Emeralds "Like Father Like Son"
Keggs "To Find Out"
Madd, Inc. "I'll Be The One"
Shapes Of Sound "Lost Week End"
Sound Of Five "It's A Thing Of The Past" (unissued acetate)
Universals "In Your Heart"

 

[Heitkotter77]

Out of curiosity, was the Keggs a longtime want or badly needed upgrade?

 

[Dave Baldwin]

Work and health has kept me away from actively buying records and doing other "fun" stuff for most of 2020.
I did add some long time wants and a few badly needed upgrade copies of garage 45s.
I think the term 2020 Buys is much more apt in my experience than 2020 Finds.
I did not "find" anything!

The best of the lot (dozens of obscure and under the radar 45s aside)

Chaz & Classics "Girl Of the 13 Hour"
Detours "My Girl"
Emeralds "Like Father Like Son"
Keggs "To Find Out"
Madd, Inc. "I'll Be The One"
Shapes Of Sound "Lost Week End"
Sound Of Five "It's A Thing Of The Past" (unissued acetate)
Universals "In Your Heart"

Is the Sound Of Five acetate the song where the singer slurs his words
so much it sounds like he's saying "It's a thing in the bag"? Cool score!

 

[Frantic]

MADD INC. COOL. Nice condition?

 

[MopTopMike]

To answer your queries:

1 - No, never had an original Keggs 45. The person who sold it to me stated the Keggs was discovered in a couple of boxes of old 45s, all from the 1960s. A family who had the boxes relocated to his town from the Detroit area. It was the only "non-hit" 45 , and he immediately knew what it was, being familiar with '60s garage. He said he looked in TeenBeat Mayhem to see if it was an original or the repro, even though he thought it was real to begin with. Has a person's name written on the "Girl" side. I'd grade it a solid VG but plays VG++ on both sides. Looks like it was hardly played much, tossed in a pile of 45s that were not kept in sleeves.

2 - Yessir, that'd be the tune, although I don't hear the singer slurring the title. Must be the midwest accent.

3 - A strong VG+ lotsa shine, never kept in a sleeve so some hairlines, another 45 hardly played at the time.

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

Finds.

Emergency Exit - Why Girl
Frank Virtuoso - Mountaineer Twist (x4)
The Deltas - She's My Girl
Oliver and the Twisters - Locomotion Twist
Eddy Seacrist - Shakin' with a Flavor/Down by the River
Lloyd Price - Down by the River
Dick Robinson and the Makebelievers - Boppin'Martian

Garage.
The Lyrics - Mr Man
The Nightrockers - Junction No 1 (traded)
Limey and The Yanks - Out of Sight Out of Mind
The Loved Ones - Country club Life
The Mark IV - Hollow Woman
Five Americans - Don't Blame Me
Jelly Bean Bandits - Generation
New Colony Six - At the Rivers Edge
The Leaves - Too Many People
Mickey Finn - Night Comes Down


A lot of decent Soul. A few late60s early70s pysche / hard rock - traded for garage

 

[Rythmn Boy]

I usually buy lots of records from Singapore-Malaysia and Indonesia, but most sellers now seem to think every record they have is worth hundreds of dollars. However, no one seems to buy them, as they advertised again and again. There are still some realistic sellers, but postage has got outrageously expensive. In response to Covid, Malaysia has actually ceased all international mail (I am not sure how this is supposed to help) and the only option is very expensive courier mail. One result of all this is a renewed focus locally

Australia
Bobbie & Laurie – Hitch Hiker (Cum Sunt Ambulant) LP. Parlophone, PMCO 7535
Some of Bobbie & Laurie’s material is a bit light-weight pop to my ears, but there are some stellar garage tunes on this LP right from the first track, an Alan Brite original, ‘No Next Time’. Good album. On a side issue, I always thought the subtitle must be Latin, but the online translator suggests Romanian for ‘How I’m Walking’. Huh? PS. Alan Brite = Laurie Allen and Bobby Bright

The Master’s Apprentices – self-titled debut LP. Summit, SRA 250-524
Of course, I’d prefer to have got the Astor original release, but when a nice copy (at a nice price) of the Summit release from a few years later came along, I couldn’t resist. All the original tracks are killer, but some of the album-only covers were a bit of a surprise to me, although they mainly work well. Jim Keays’ spoken dedications to the ‘masters’ Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry is a nice touch

Motivation – Boy Meets Girl/ Running And Hiding (All Of The Time). Ramrod, RS 1008
The A-side is a nice little fuzz-guitar and organ-drenched affair. Motivation later cut another two records for Ramrod, but I’ve yet to hear them

Johnny Noble – Lonely City/ Tough Enough. Linda Lee, HK 752
The B-side is a remake of a late 1950s song by Johnny Otis. Invite any of your garage-fiend friends around to listen to Johnny Noble’s version and they might agree that it is indeed just tough enough. Play them the A-side, however, and they’ll be liable to throw you out of your own house

Steve and The Board – Now That I’m Older/ So Why Pretend. Spin, EK 1463
Great double-header

Tony Worsley and The Fabulous Blue Jays – Tony Sings. The Blue Jays Play LP. Calendar, R66499
Missed out on the original label again, which was Sunshine in this case. Not the wildest garage album by any means, but there are some good tracks here by Tony. The B-side is the band without Tony. For me, the standouts on that side are a pretty good version of ‘Louie, Louie’ and the instrumental ‘Jay Walker’. A funny thing about my copy is it still has the price sticker ($2.95) that shows it was purchased at Nock & Kirby, which was a Sydney-based hardware chain. I don’t remember them selling records. Did they get Joe The Gadget Man to spin the discs in-store? (you’ve got to be an old plodder from Sydney, like me, to get the last bit. N&K used to have this fella called Joe on TV promoting all the latest gadgets, like orange juicers, knife sharpeners, potato peelers etc)

Tony Worsley – My Time of Day LP. Calendar, R66506
Another Sunshine release re-issued on Calendar. It’s a bit of a mixed bag, but also has some great garage tunes. Worth owning just for the super-tough version of The Birds’ ‘How Can It Be’

Indonesia
Tikki, Takki, Suzy & Lies [Dara Puspita] – Welcome To My House/ I Believe In Love. IBC Recording Studios
A 1970 recording and dance music, not garage, but still good. Anything by Dara Puspita is worth having. And this is also my first-ever acetate. Woo-hoo!

Italy
Caterina Caselli – Cento Giorni/ Tutto Nero. The B-side is ‘Paint It Black’ sung in Italian. Maybe not garage, but super cool. Purchased following a tip from forum member ~erry~

The Netherlands
The 4 Strangers - Seventh Heaven (ich tanze mit dir in den Himmel hinein)/ Sloppin’ The Blues. Life, 4 011
I bought this record on the Malaysian Life label expecting this could be a Malaysian band. Turns out The 4 Strangers were from Rotterdam. Life obviously had some sort of deal going on in the Netherlands, as I have another record on the label by Dutch band Willy & His Giants. This single is two instrumentals from 1964. The A-side is a German tune dating back to the 1930s; sounds like it too. The B-side is a livelier and less-kitschy original

Various Artists – Wow! A Special Shell/Philips Presentation. Philips, 112201 DE
Presumably, this EP was available for free or at a special price for consumers of Shell products. I also assume it was available in both Singapore-Malaysia and the Netherlands because the three bands on it are Dutch, but the EP often appears for sale in the former places. The record appears here because of the inclusion of the great Chapter II song, ‘She Won’t Even Let Me In’

New Zealand
The Underdogs – Sitting In The Rain/ Shortnin’ Bread. Zodiac, Z 45 1306.
I always liked The Underdogs’ version of the John Mayall song on the A-side. I was expecting to be embarrassed by the B-side. Instead, I am just bemused

Singapore
Ahmad Daud & Swallows Orkestra - Dendang Pontianak/ Dikau Jauh. Parlophone, DPE 8182.
The A-side song is the one for you here. The title translates to something like ‘Ghost Song’ or ‘Vampire Song’ and originally appeared in the film Pusaka Pontianak (Inheritance from a Vampire). The comic-actor/singer Ahmad Daud is a regular crooner, but his backing band are a bit more interesting and later released a few classic Malay garage records simply as The Swallows. The instrumentation is certainly lively, but more like surf music than garage. Fun

UK
The Dave Clark Five – Nineteen Days/ I Need Love. Columbia, DO 4738
The Dave Clark Five - I’ve Got To Have A Reason/ Good Time Woman. Columbia, DO 4757
The Dave Clark Five – Everybody Knows (We’re Through)/ Concentration, Baby. Columbia, DO 5036
The Dave Clark Five – Red Balloon/ Maze Of Love. Columbia, SC 8199
Thanks to Ed and Jim of this forum for putting me onto the DC5. I heard ‘Good Time Woman’ and thought this is great and then I heard ‘I Need Love’ and I thought this is fantastic. I then discovered ‘Concentration, Baby’ and ‘Maze Of Love’ as well. All great stuff. The first three listed above are the Australian releases and originally just came in company sleeves, but my copy of ‘Good Time Woman’ is in the US Epic picture sleeve. I am happy to have it, but the seller didn’t respond when I asked how this came to be. Meanwhile, my copy of ‘Maze Of Love’ is the Jugoton release from Yugoslavia. Surprising what a communist regime allowed to be released at the time

The Pretty Things – Midnight To Six Man/ Can’t Stand The Pain. Philips, BF-245
The Pretty Things – Honey, I Need/ I Can Never Say. Fontana, TF537
Great, but nothing rare. I only mention it because I was after the Australian version of ‘Midnight To Six’ for quite a while, but sellers always wanted more than I was willing to pay. I scored this copy in a batch of eighteen 45s for less than the last price I saw for the single. Other records were the other Pretty Things’ 45 plus The Easybeats, The Byrds, Eric Burdon and The Animals, other 60s 45s and some interesting early 70s Oz records, among others. Not a bad haul

USA
The Left Banke – Desire’e/ I’ve Got Something On My Mind. Smash, S 2119
Another record bought following a tip from someone on this forum. Thanks, Jim. ‘I’ve Got Something On My Mind’ is really special

 

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[Dave Baldwin]

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'Like Father, Like Son" by The Emeralds. Yow! I remember that Tim W. played
that over the phone once, back when it was pretty much an 'unknown' after
trying to describe the sound to me. I remarked that it sounded kinda like Eric
Burdon & The Animals on HGH.

 

[Dave Baldwin]

Weird year (lol) to say the least. Slim on the U.S. killers, but some nice NM upgrades and really clean UK 45s,
which was a big surprise for this Century:
Scott McKay - I Can't Make Your Way (UK Columbia) nice upgrade
Four Fifths - If You Still Want Me (Columbia) Finally a red stock copy
Kai-Ray - I Want Some Of That (Brite-Star) nice upgrade
Mark Four - Try It Baby (UK Mercury)
Don & Dewey - Miss Sue (Shade) nice upgrade
Cascades - Bet You Won't Stay (UK Liberty)
Mourning Reign - Evil Hearted You (Contour) finally scored one...
Doug Sahm - Just Because (Renner) nice upgrade
Slender Plenty - Silver Treetop School For Boys (UK Polydor) toxic '67 Bowie freakbeat
Leon Russell - It's Alright With Me (UK Pye)
Gold - No Parking (Golden State) found this in a box when I moved...don't know where the hell it came from

 

[MopTopMike]

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That Sound 70 45 is a pretty damn raer...been looking for a copy for quite a while.

 

[Frantic]

That Sound 70 45 is a pretty damn raer...been looking for a copy for quite a while.

shall we start the bidding at $1000?

 

[Rich Strauss]

New purchases for 2019 & 2020:

I forgot to post my list for 2019, so I am combining them. None of these are "finds", although some of them were purchased at a under market price.

My favorite new 45s are 2 from the top 5 of my want list:

New Yorkers - Things Are Changing / City Girl (by Fury Four) - Santana 6602 OR 66
Marquis - The Drifter / Love - Earl 1004 - OR 1-68

Other PNW 45s:
Little Bill - Louie, Louie Topaz 1305 WA 61 - finally got a nice clean copy.
The Sonics - Boss Hoss - finally got an original red label copy.
Adam Wind - Gotta Be Goin' / High Rain - Cat 5621 WA ?68?
Mr Lucky & The Gamblers - I Told You Once Before / Koko Joe United Int 4403 OR '66

Garage 45s from the rest of the U.S.:
Georgy & The Velvet Illusions - Mini Shimmy / Hippy Town - Metro-Video 311 CA 11-67 Finally have all the VI 45s.
Liv'in End - She's A Teaser / The Orange Rooftop of my Baby's Mind - Ricklin 7 TX 68
Oscar Hamond - Got To Have Your Lovin' / Soulfinger - USA 878 IN 7-67
Frantics - Human Monkey / Someday - Action 1113 CA 7-66 - Pre Moby Grape
The Menaces - Till I Met You / If You Want Me - Dramel 22767 AZ 3-67
Infinitives - Heidi / Thousand Tears - Ka-hill 6060 - IL 5/66 - snagged one of the quantity find
Tree Stumps - Jennie Lee/ Listen To Love -Records Inc 20013 OH 5-66
Kee-Notes - Quit Changing Your Mind - Essar 116 CA 12/65
Jet Set (acetate) Boys / Treat Her Right CA ?65?

 

[bosshoss]

I have no idea what I got this year, but it wasn't much. A lot of lesser rated and common stuff mainly. It's all in the label scan set that I posted a few weeks ago.

 

[Heitkotter77]

2020 was a pretty good year for general scoring, considering all that was going on. Most of it was from online, but I did buy a lot at Allentown in the two days at the hotel, plus some true finds digging through a few of the local stores and thrifts. I did fairly well in adding some good hard rock/bonehead (A-town & Bay) and a few garage psych 45s (courtesy of the Bay and FM list). Also, a good amount of punk,/post-punk mostly 90s & up, but a few good 70s/early 80s. Most of what I got falls into the realm of general oddball sounds, the highlight of which is a 45 called "Not Raising Hogs" by one Robbie Robison. I'm not 100% certain, but I'm pretty sure it's the same Robbie Robison who was married to Sandy R from Peanut Butter Conspiracy and we know best from Brain Train (and that Werewolf thing).

GARAGE/PSYCH:

Bridge: Love Is There (Kirzo)

Free Form Experiment: There Will Be Light (Inner Ear)

Glass Harp: Where Did My World Come From (United Audio)

The Nightshades: American Boy (Gear)

T.P. and the Indians: Ally or Enemy (Dellwood)

BONEHEAD HARD ROCK/METAL:

Amitee: Rockin’ Steady (Master Trak)

Bois D’Ark: Dressed To Kill (DeLaO)

Myth: Satan’s Lair (no label) (my purchase of the year)

Satin Steel: Kick Me Where It Hurts (no label)

Whitehawk: No Place to Hide (no label)

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

but it wasn't much.

COUGH, COUGH

 

[Jim]