Might thy aural newbies tickle my eye

[mansson66]

Wow! Finally haha! Thanks Thomas... now time for a coupla aural newbies then :)

What a killer this is - and purdy cool to find here in Stockholm for 100 SEK (ca 10€)

Superb French EP with a coupla of his absolutely best tracks

Killer r-a-b 2 sider, of course

 

[mansson66]

Always liked this moody pop gem (with the el cheapo fuzzbox on 11 during the break)

Fakedelia never sounded better :)

Almost as good as The Spiders/Nazz, this one :)

 

[Mr.Segment]

Fakedelia never sounded better :)

Yeah, I also really like this one. On the endless list of 45s that deserves to enter my cellar but has yet to do so.

 

[mansson66]

A few more newbies here...

I've always really liked this psychedelic take on the Nancy & Lee classic. Good flip too

With this I finally have all their 60's rec's - 2 LP's and 2 45's

The US pressing is big bang for the bucks

I really dig this cool '65 mover

Wonderful trash

 

[Mr.Segment]

A few more newbies here...

The US pressing is big bang for the bucks

Isn't this a different version/edit than the UK release?

 

[mansson66]

Nope - it's the same + the pressing sounds great

 

[Mr.Segment]

A few $1 grabs from an estate sale and the flea market...




Some of the records-if not all of them- came from the collection of a local guy that had a habit of customizing sleeves with cardboard cutouts, masking tape, and markers. The above Astronauts disc is one of the more extreme examples I've seen over the years. The record in the sleeve was "Go Go Go", which is a great record, but he customized a "For You From Us" sleeve. Weirdness.

Hah! It's got a certain sharm for shure. This guy took it further and just glued stuff he thought represented him well onto a cut manila folder. Actually the handwriting on the Astronauts cover is almost identical in style to what's written on the inside of this folder.

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

Here are some of my thrifty finds.

One Westex may know? Can't find anything about this Country/Rockabilly thing out of Texas.



My 2 yr olds favourite find. Superb dragstering Rockabilly.


A bunch of garage finds. How rare is the Mojo Men?


All thrifted except the Hullaballoos which was a $20 antique shop purchase and feels like I wasted $15 for it.

 

[MopTopMike]

Relatively common

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

A couple of decent early 60's Girl pop rockers




A great surf doowopper


Decent Tom Jones soundalikey soul stomper

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

Relatively common

Do you mean the Mojo Men?

 

[MopTopMike]

Yes. "Off The Hook" is about a $30 record near mint. "Dance With Me" was a regional hit, that is a $10 record with a gun, as that famous New Orleans based record dealer used to say....

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

thanks Mike, shots of "off the hook" were impossible to find on the net. As you can see this is far from NM.

 

[Westex]

While running through central Texas on vacation I grabbed this for a quarter on a hunch... okie dokie 80s punky pop with a Brit feel. No picture sleeve though.

And from the same twenty-five cent box...

... fun Diddley beat 45 by country singer Dallas Frazier.

A favorite haunt here in town just picked up a couple of 100 45s that looked to have been unused juke stock. I dug through in a hurry and spent $10 on these and a couple of other less interesting discs.

Crazy, fun record.

Fun and ragged chick group R&B shouter.

BIG want. Finding this local chick's 45 was some kinda nice as it is super scarce. She's from a small town just north of here, but recorded this with Slim Willet over in Abilene. It's also significant because it's the first recorded performance by local guitar slinger/songwriter Jack Smith. Fun and ragged record. Absolutely no finesse on the break... just strum as hard you can.

I'll go back next week to look a little closer when I have more time.

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

Some really scorching finds. Elwood James a Lee Hazlewood production? he gets around a bit, genre hopping anything he touches seems enjoyable to me.

 

[Mr.Segment]

Cool finds! Would not mind owning any of those. Chardon Square was nice as well bearing in mind the year it was released. The Ambassadors was the winner for me, need to own!

 

[Westex]

The Ambassadors was the winner for me, need to own!

Seems to be a $35 single when it pops up... not too terribly expensive.

 

[Mr.Segment]

I usually post a label scan but tonight my scanner refuses to accept the Mac so a YouTube clip will have to suffice. A splendid 2-sider purchased from a strong grader, maker of the comp featured and also a sleeping member of this forum. Thank you Mike!

 

[EXPO67]

A post Teddy Boys and pre Mortimer trip out on Mercury.



Uploaded with ImageShack.us

 

[Dominic]

And from the same twenty-five cent box...

The cover by the Millionaires is good, too. And it's usually cheep!