Thrift Store Treasures

I'd planned to get some WV 45s I'd seen for our WV music hall of fame. But stopped someplace on a whim.

My pile just kept on growing. Here's what I got.

The Fly Bi Nites - Found Love - Tiffany
The Only Onz - When Teardrops Fall - Time
The Hysterical Society - I Know - UA
The Tropics - This Must Be The Place - Columbia
THE Yellow Payges - Jezebel - Showtime x2
The Trolls - There Was A Time - ABC
The Grammy Fones - Now He's Here - Brent
The Burning Bush - Evil Eye - Mercury
THE Poor - She's Got The Time - York (one sided)

That's just the garage stuff I found. All at one dollar each. I'd no idea how rare Fly Bi Nites was till I got home.

Some real cool RnB and Soul too.

Good day. Yipppee.
 
I've been back to the antiques shop I found The Fly-Bi-Nites a few times now. The second visit I got the soul 45s I'd left the first time one rather rare one, with a few lucky hits like this cool rockabilly flavoured thing.


Wednesday I went back one last time. Most of the Promos came home with me, well except the few that I knew were country. I was pleasantly surprised to find this fuzzed out groover when I got back.


That's about 60 45s I got from there at a buck each.

Thrifting Spirits have been good. Praise to the 7 inch idol.
 
Last week, I came home with a cute pink plastic "Rhythm Tote" 45rpm carrier book with some 45s inside it.

Living Daylights - Let's Live For Today - Buddah promo (Garage Brit Beat)
The Sacred Mushrooms - Break Away Girl - Minaret promo (Garage pop psyche?)
The Mulberry Fruit Band - Yes We Have No Bananas - Buddah (awful FUZZ NOVELTY?)
...reasonably happy for 12 bucks.

Today,
I went in a place I'd given up on a long time ago, but this time they actually had many 45s, all sleeved and in poly bags. Some rather high prices for me on the records I was interested (in fact 2 prices on many 5.00 / 10.00 or 25.00 / 50.00) many had no price on them. I'd left some great looking ones in the display boxes and went to counter. "Which price is correct on these, and how much for an unmarked one?" I asked.

the guy said all one price - $3.00 each or 5 for $10. Those prices written on them were what the person that sold them to the shop had wanted.
I ran back to his boxes

Conlon and the Crawlers - You're Comin' On - Marlin
Gene Vincent - Bird Doggin' - Challenge Promo

and some cool doowoppy R&B

I found a Jerry Reed and the Hully Girlies - Hully Gully Guitar/Twist-A-Roo which also made me happy
The best R&B 45 was probably Guitar Cable - Cool, Calm and Collected on Excello.
 
ratfinkie said:
I've done well on the local thrift store front. Here is a partial list of 45s that I remember picking up:
Sean & The Brandywines, The Squires (Atco), Decembers Children, LTD, Los Brincos (3), The Carnabeats, Team Beats Berlin, Tages, Spiders (Japan), Youngers, Tangents, Grey Things, Teddy Boys, Los 007, Lots pf Mexican 45s, Ronnie Vilar & The Firedons, Shandels, The Mystics (Hong Kong), The Bad Boys (Italy), The Avengers, The Chain Reaction, The Gants, Trans Atlantic Train, The Five Of Us, Neal Ford The Fanatics, The Sonics, Standells, Leaves, Music Machine, ? & The Mysterians, Emergency Exit, Elastik Band, Don & Jerry, Del-Vetts, Saturday's Children, The Dantes, Floyd Dakil Combo, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Court Jesters, Music Machine, Count Five, Syndicate Of Sound, Clefs Of Lavender Hill, The Choir, Shadows Of Knight, Castaways, Rationals, The Evil, Blue Things, Birdwatchers, Riot Squad,Beaten Path, Sessions, Bedforde Set, The Thoughts, Au Go Gos, New Arrivals, Palace Guard, Five Americans, Guilloteens, Thee Midniters, Front Page News, Gestures, Spokesmen, Hoppi & The Beau Heems, Rain, The In, The Jaguars (San Jose), Music Explosion, Kitchen Cinque, Pride & Joy, Terry Knight & The Pack, Sparkles, Uniques, New Colony Six, Mojo Men, Lavender Hour, Strangeloves, Living Children, Mc Coys, London & The Bridges, Moving Sidewalks, Don & The Goodtimes, New Breed (Sacto), Premiers, Reactors, US Four, A Wild Uncertainty, Episode Six, The Earthquakers (Surf), Raga & The Talas, Seeds, The Huck Fin, Togas and We The People.
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Sounds like you found the thrift store where they dumped Mark Crocker's collection (lol).
 
My local record shop moved to a larger premises recently and usually has only new and used LPs out. I'm rather friendly with the owner even though I buy nothing unless it's a 45. Today he showed me down his stairs to the basement and with the idea I rife through find what I want and help him sort the other stuff into what might be valuable and what needs tossing out.

After a few large boxes this came out. The local 45 I've been hunting as only a cheapskate could.

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I carefully carried it upstairs with a tear in my eye. I need this. Been searching 13 years in WV for it.

He said I could take it home. I owe him in hard labour.

There was one other 45 of interest down there.
A nasty thing I'd never seen or heard of.


He's saving it for me as a reward for hard work... 💟💟💟📻
 
Mike.

I have brought some 45s in the past. Traded for some good stuff too. Persistently losing on auction sites is no fun. I win more often rolling in old junk.

My thrifted garage collection ain't too shabby. But it's not anywhere near most of our members collections.

We do what we must to feed our addiction. You spend years researching original members in the hope one might still own a 45. Me I nose dive into trash.
 
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