2021 - a year in wax

[pomonkey]

A fairly busy year, lots of news, mostly unreleased, best garage record I sold went to someone who's already on this page, top 10 fave pick ups:

Garage sounds
Vandals - She caught the wind (acetate)
Bobby and the Innkeepers - Sometimes I walk
Rogues - Tell me no lies
30th Street Station - Expansion (acetate)
Eccentrics - Baby I need you

Soul sounds
Doll & Odds & Ends - Gonna keep on lovin' you (acetate)
Ercel Jones - That's my man
Chuck Vallent - I love you baby (acetate)
Brenda Jo Harris - Your old standby
Soul Sisters - No no more (acetate)

 

[MopTopMike]

Eccentrics was a $60 small quantity find from Doug Hanners. Kept my spare for a long time.

 

[Rich Strauss]

Garage sounds
Bobby and the Innkeepers - Sometimes I walk

That is a great and rare 45 from Tacoma, WA that is somewhere between Garage & Soul.

 

[Dave Baldwin]

Eccentrics was a $60 small quantity find from Doug Hanners. Kept my spare for a long time.

Quantity straight out of the Sugar Hill/Huey Meaux "bust" load (lol). If I remember correctly,
the original Houston Chronicle arrest story mentioned that Meaux had produced Freddy Fender,
Doug Sahm and John Eric and The Isosceles Popsicles (!!!) That was 'above the fold' on page one.

 

[Sebastian]

Regarding 'Come See Me'...it's a stone soul classic by J..J. Jackson. The Pretties had discerning tastes...

That Loma 45 is from 2 years after Pretty Things (1966). Johnny Maestro also did a version in 1966. Wouldn't surprise me if there's a Sidney Barnes or J.J. Jackson demo version from 1965 or 1966. As far as I know, the Pretty Things version was the first that was released.

 

[Laurent Bigot]

Wouldn't surprise me if there's a Sidney Barnes or J.J. Jackson demo version from 1965 or 1966. .

here's the demo

 

[Dave Baldwin]

here's the demo

The Pretties were wise to speed it up enough to deflect from the inevitable comparisons to "Hi-Heeled Sneakers" (lol)

 

[soundog III]

I just posted this list somewhere else. Some of it is even garage. I'm on a budget, so average cost here is about $3 each.]

My favorite finds of 2021:

Leon Peels: Cottonhead Joe (Whirlybird)

Excellent catch, I've been chasin' curious ol' time tunes for a while and this rated as a superior score decades back. Even though I'm about 110% certain its a repro. Make that 100% w/ 10% appended in the interest of full frontal disclosure.

That you found one in the wild restores faith in fortune favoring the bold...





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[Frantic]

Excellent catch, I've been chasin' curious ol' time tunes for a while and this rated as a superior score decades back. Even though I'm about 110% certain its a repro. Make that 100% w/ 10% appended in the interest of full frontal disclosure.View attachment 5290

That you found one in the wild restores faith in fortune favoring the bold...

[/QUOTE]
huh? that's a super common record in Cali. Like 5-10 bucks. I betcha I have 10 copies around here somewhere.

 

[Sebastian]

here's the demo

Ah! Interesting! Never heard that version. That's J.J. Jackson on vocals, apparently penned and recorded while he was in England. The Pretty Things getting their hands on it makes sense at last.

 

[sonnyboypaco]

Well, first time I've posted my list this late! As usual, it could've been a better year... A few top wants crossed out though. Entry restrictions for the US due to Covid-19 kept me stranded in Madrid in the end and wasn't able to make it to Austin Record Convention. Here 'tis:

USA / CANADA
- The Snaps – “Polka dotted eyes” (East Coast)
- The Kreeg – “Impressin’” (Lance)
- We the people – “In the past” (Challenge)
- We the people – “Mirror of your mind” (Challenge)
- The Chocolate Watch Band – “Are you gonna be there (at the love-in)” (Tower)
- The Chocolate Watchband – “Don’t need your lovin’” / “Sittin’ there standing” – OST Riot on Sunset Strip (Top 4 / Iranian double EP from '67)
- The Sparkles – “No friend of mine” (Hickory)
- The Zakary Thanks – “Bad girl” 8Mercury)
- Phil Gary – “Wet bird” (Ironbeat)
- The Legends – “High towers” ( Railroad House Rcds.)
- Danny’s Reasons – “Triangles” (Carnaby)
- The Haunted – “1-2-5” (Quality)
- Bill Allan and The Fugitives – “Come on and clap” (Trend Recordings)
- The Troyes – “Help me find myself” (Space)
- Limey & The Yanks ‎– “Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind” (Loma)
- Carlos Guzman y Los Fabulosos Cuatro – “96 Lagrimas” (Bego)
- The Beaver Patrol – “E.S.P.” (Columbia)
- The Hogs – “Blues theme” (HBR)
-Tommy Jay – “I don’t care anyway” (M.O.C.)
- The Lollipop Shoppe – “You must be a witch” (UNI / promo)
- The Jads – “Miss Pretty” / “Hottie-Toddy” (Ashley Records)
- The Mad Hatters – “I need love” (Ascot)
- Osgood – “Everybody sing” (Golden Voice)
- Thomas & Richard Frost – “She’s got the love” (Imperial)
- Link Wray – “Run chicken run” (Swan)

UK + EUROPE + CANADA + SOUTH AMERICA + AUSTRALIA/NZ
- The Morloch – “It’s time you realised” (Parlophone)
- John Hatton and The Devotions – “I’m gonna stay” (Havoc)
- Christian’s Crusaders – “Honey hush” (Columbia)
- Howie G. Conder – “The fix” (Fontana)
- The Motions – “Everything (that’s mine)” (Havoc)
- Katch 22 – “Major catastrophe” (Fontana)
- The Outsiders – “You mistreat me” (Muziek Express)
- Tony Jackson and The Vibrations – “Fortune teller” (Pye)
- The Haigs – “From now on” (Polydor)
- Downliners Sect – “White caterpillar” (Juke)
- Chapter II – “East of my place” (Philips)
- Q65 – “Cry in the night” / “The life I live” (Decca)
- Billy Dean – “Tick tock” (Ariola)
- Nicky and The Shouts – “Guilty man” (CNR)
- Jet Harris – “My lady” (Fontana)
- Les Baroques – “Working on a Tsjing Tsjang” (Whamm)
- Nirvana – “Rainbow chaser” (Island)
- De Maskers – “Batman” (Artone)
- First Gear – “The In Crowd” (Pye)
- Simon Dupree and The Big Sound – “Day time, night time” (Parlophone)
- The J.J. Band – “Nicky’s at the P.C.” (Palette)
- The Shakers – ”I can tell” (Polydor)
- The Pretty Things – “Road runner” (Fontana)

 

[eleelandc]

I did not keep a list, but looking over the IG posts and such... Here is some 2021 45rpm goodies. Some were $1-$5. Some were far more. Some not garage so potentially of limited interest to y'all...
Alex Brown "I'm Not Responsible"
Eddie Cochran "20 Flight Rock"
Don Hayes "Big River"
Fun & Games Commision "It Must Have Been The Wind"
Jim Kent & Sonny Hall "The Salt Grass Trail"
Five Americans "Say That You Love Me"
Chuck Cowan "Sweet Frenzy"
Cucumber "Don't Make Me Cry"
Bobby Fuller "Nervous Breakdown"
Bobby Fuller "Gently My Love"
Bobby Fuller "Guess We'll Fall In Love"
Fugitives "Till The End Of The Day"
Brother L Congregation "Bringing Me Down"(condition upgrade)
Jolly Roger "Joker In The Fokker"
The Rogues - "Tell Me No Lies"
The Rogues "Don't You Wish You Were Mine"
Independence Hall "Party Line"
The Rolling Stones "Stoned"
Z.Z. Top - "Salt Lick"
The Frank Davis Foundation "Grand Candy Young Sweet" Test Pressing
The Fever Tree "The Sun Also Rises" Test Pressing
Frankie & Johnny "Right String Baby " Test Pressing
The Coastliners "Alright" International Artists (condition upgrade)
The Coastliners "Big Mike The Sidewalk Surfer"
The Nightcrawlers "Let's Move"
Mel Douglas "Box Lunch"
The Tribunes "Hearts Are Not Made"
Eloise Laws "Love Factory"
Grady Gaines "Who She Ku She"
Tom Harvey "It Happens" (condition upgrade)
Tom Harvey "So Ah In Love" (condition upgrade)
Frankie Lee "Another Love" (Cinema Promo variant)
Bobby Stone "Walking With The Blues"
Koonie Kerry "Florence Jean"
The Town Criers "I Walk With The Sun" (Horizon version)
The Answer "I'll Be In"
The Cramps "Surfin Bird"
Carolyn Bennett "So Sad To Bad"
Chubby "Just Five Miles"
Laughing Kind "I Who Have Nothing"
Jerry And The Radiants "Trash"
Little Joe & Latinaires "Ain't No Big Thing"
Johnny McAdams "Nine O'clock"
and about 53 more 45s on the G.M. label out of Gladewater TX (which I apparently gotta collect all of)

 

[undertheclock]

1. Drums Joey Bellomo
2. Wild Cherry on Staehle-Tudor
3. Phoenix Pyre on C.A.V.U.
4. Hangmen of Fairfield County (3)
5. Daedalus on Audio Specialties (2022)
6. Collage on Coliseum
7. Fonograf Four on Resettic
8. Sunny and the Four Shades on Glo

 

[down-n-out]

Was that this year? I've lost track

Assuming you meant Knoll Allen & The Noble Savages "Animal", and the upgrade to m- Savages "The World Ain't Round"?

You got the Savages on eBay?!?! I could swear I have a saved search for this and never got a notification.

 

[bosshoss]

You got the Savages on eBay?!?! I could swear I have a saved search for this and never got a notification.

No it wasn't on eBay. It was a private sale.