Thrift Store Treasures

[pfft]

Great comp, Gavin! And I really like that Pyramid song. The mannered vocals was slightly annoying at first, but it's really grown on me. Do you have a label scan/picture?

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

Great comp, Gavin! And I really like that Pyramid song. The mannered vocals was slightly annoying at first, but it's really grown on me. Do you have a label scan/picture?

I can scan it for you. When I get a little time.

I felt the same about the song it's from the 70's I'm a 65/66 kinda guy but it was more interesting to someone here, maybe. But the more I tried to copy it (there was an annoying skip that came out running at 33 & 1/3 and some extra weight) the more I like it. I guess the vocal effect was there to add spookiness or waves of water and doom.

It also rounded the comp off nicely with the other disaster song about a mine fire also true starting the comp..

The Buffalo Creek Flood was a disaster that occurred on February 26, 1972, when thePittston Coal Company's coal slurry impoundment dam#3, located on a hillside inLogan County,West Virginia, USA, burst four days after having been declared 'satisfactory' by a federal mine inspector.[1
The resulting flood unleashed approximately 132,000,000 US gallons (500,000 m3) of black waste water, cresting over 30 ft high, upon the residents of 16 coal mining hamlets in Buffalo Creek Hollow. Out of a population of 5,000 people, 125 were killed, 1,121 were injured, and over 4,000 were left homeless. 507 houses were destroyed, in addition to forty-four mobile homes and 30 businesses.[1] The disaster also destroyed or damaged homes in Lundale, Saunders, Amherstdale, Crites, Latrobe and Larado. In its legal filings, Pittston Coal referred to the accident as "an Act of God."

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

here is the Pyramid - Buffalo scan which actually has "Buffalo Creek" etched in the run out. The flip is way more proggy to my ears.... And I did put this as Studio 4 on the comp label didn't I!!! Sorry all.

Oh and here if you'd rather go MP3 here is a link to down load - http://www.mediafire.com/?fccx1x8j2r7cv

Wave files - http://www.mediafire.com/?xb9haqqgjd9eq

 

[JGTiger]

Hey Gavin, pretty cool. I have had 1 or 2 other from that label, but they were crappy 70'd country songs. I know of only 1 or 2 other 45's from the WV area that dealt with that disaster, notable a Jean Crowder on a Wes-Virginia label. There was a documentary about this flood, and one picture shows a bunch of LP's & 45's buried in sludge...may explain why the 45's from Southern WV are so incredibly scarce, since the mountaintop removal is a disaster to the environment in itself, and the people wonder why there is constant flooding there... gee you move the earth and take from it, and only put it back 25%, well, that's gotta create a whole new terrain, and water needs to find itself somewhere! I went to the library in Williamson, WV to research Yolanda's studios, and there was quite a write up about how that recording studio was prolific for years until it was destroyed by this same flood. Overall the tunes are unusual and sure beat the country stuff that was recorded. Thanks for sharing.

 

[pfft]

Thanks for the scan!

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

Yesterday I took another WV trip on a Christmas present ....ah hum shhhhhh record..... hunt. I revisited an old coal mining town Rainelle 30 miles east of me. There was one thrift store with a big vinyl mess I had been through before months ago. This return turned me up

Electric Prunes - Too Much to Dream...
James Ray - Itty Bitty Pieces on Caprice - good smackhead R & B from 1960, he ODed early 60's.
The Jive Five - No More Tears on MUSICOR - decent '67 soul
..AND The Black River Circus - A Ritual Melody / Loves Gonna Carry Me on MRC (same label as Hollie Hellems) this is thee top from this bunch except the both sides looks like it got in a fight with a few mountain lions skipping twice a side.

Also got me a '68 Bluegrass Gospel LP from some checked jacketed hillbilly punks Roy Crockett & The Pleasant Valley Boys that got close to making vol 1 on my Flung Thrifted and Black comp with a 45 I had found.

So onward Eastwards a few more miles, a place called Rupert, had a few more Thrift stores nothing there for me but on the way back towards Rainelle a big sign "BIG SALE" on the road side, a short drive up a one lane mountain track brings me to a house like barn. I step inside, fearful the BIG SALE was a weekend event that the sign was old news. Phew, "yes we are open" a middle aged lady and her father greet me. I poke around a little, some 78's, then round a corner a large amount of LP's, no 45's.

So from this pile I gets me -
Five Americans - Western Union
DC5 and the Playbacks one of those budget thins that would have pissed you off for the content of 2 DC5 instros and the rest of the album of an unknown studio band. It is very likable to me.
The Wild Angels soundtrack..

...and mid search.... fuck... that lettering is exactly like the lettering on ... well at home it's not the boulders comps I thought (but someone compiler ripped it off ) and then I see the label - Accent - with the tick/checkmark, I think The Human Expression and look at this nasty sleeve again. Buddy Merrill - Upbeat M.O.R.

where the hell does Accent get off putting out thee best psyche ever and Buddy Merrill friend of Lawrence Welk together...?? Anyway as you'd guess Buddy is "upbeat MOR" guitar instros from 75. But now I own an Accent release - mint too.

Passing back through the town I spot a few small antiques and come out with Shortnin' Bread / Nicotine by Paul Chaplain and His Emeralds on Harper. Fuckin' amazing stomper.

I did get some Xmas gifts too and wished I more cash as one of the Antiques had a zither for 30 bucks and a toy or cheapo bass drum that looked from the 50's....

Oh Rainelle thumbs up?

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

Got me The Standells - Riot on Sunset Strip / Black Hearted Woman for a buck. Still going around on the turntable can't stop flipping and playing. So damned good.

Also Peter & Gordon... I Go To Pieces LP ....ummm I'm surprised it is not so bad (the skin tight trousers and the red phone boxes sold me)
and The Searchers - The New Searchers LP surprised it is not better.... both 50 cents.

Back to The Standells. Their singles are really top notch grit n' spit ain't they! I kind of forgot.

 

[M.T. Wallet]

I've just read in Tommy James' biography that some people used to think the Standells were british because they used to talk with a fake accent; does anybody know more about this story?

 

[greenfuzz]

I've just read in Tommy James' biography that some people used to think the Standells were british because they used to talk with a fake accent; does anybody know more about this story?

Countless groups used to do this, including The Turtles.

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

...and some of us Brit-beaters would put on a fake American twang to be cool.

 

[M.T. Wallet]

I knew about the Beatles wigs but didn't know about the accent ; I thought it was some Ed Cobb's bizness plan!

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

It has been a while since I found much good in the WV mountains, that is excepting 10 or so home recorded Recordio discs from 1947ish, I came back with last week from Charleston. - J.R. L.V. Bill & Mac "Fly Around Pretty Little Miss" is a winner for me, The Log Cabin Boys "River of Jordan" pleasing.

But what do you do with things like this?

https://soundcloud.com/agentugly/fly-around-pretty-little-miss
https://soundcloud.com/agentugly/river-of-jordan-log-cabin-boys


I must say I really want one of these Recordio things now. As 78rpm is the future for LoFi.

Yesterday, I tried going in the direction of Beckley which other than a Sister Rosetta Tharpe album, that I promptly lost by placing on top of the car while loading up my boy and driving off, has not turned up much. So first we stopped at some thrift stores in Oak Hill, a nice little pile of 45's which turns out:

Chuck Berry - You Never Can Tell

i once owned this leopard print waistcoat till a girl ripped it off me

Bill Pinkney - I Do the Jerk on Fontana a super piece of R n' B growling.


Angela Martin - Dip da Dip - decent girl pop from 64
The Drifters - The Outside World which is a great fuzzy soul thing
The Kingsmen - Long Green
A nice mix of decent stuff.

So I was pretty pleased with this bunch of 15 or so 45's I nearly turned around and went home. But a big city Starbucks cappuccino was too much to resist. Sorry to all the antistarbucks crowd but out here a latte is called a cappuccino and filter coffee is made so weak. They set a good standard.

So I stopped at a few antiques, nothing, then in a Salvation Army I find The Embers - Burn A New One on EEE. I found another of theirs on JCP, when I lived in NC, OK this is more Souly than Fratty by the biggest bunch of square geeks ever. but the singer has a top notch voice.



Then further on discovered some, new to me, antiques. The guy in the first said "yes I have some records" and I help him pull out a heavy box from under some junk, he opens the crate. Right there on top - The Standells - Hot Ones. "oh Yeah" I exclaimed "that is what I was looking for", not my usually cool feigning disinterest, I reached for it and it flops in my hand, no record in it. Aaaarrghhh.... the rest was dull after that and I left with nothing. Next door I found. The Beachnuts - Cycle Annie on a budget compilation "Out of Sight" which slightly compensated for the lack of wax in The Hot Ones.

And yes that cappuccino tasted amazing

 

[paul messis]

I love your thrifting stories Gavin.... I am somewhat jealous, it sounds so fun, I like all the non-garage stuff you find.

Btw I recently got Riot On Sunset Strip 45 too.... it's recorded so well, it's an instant kick in the head whenever it's played.... whoever produced them knew what they were doing.

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

Yes they are great. the flip is a favourite of mine, Cobb was a good fiddler of knobs and a pretty good fiddling conman too I guess. I'd have been pissed to be the Chocolate Watchband to hear Sweet Young Thing when you never played a note on it.

 

[franku]

Couple cool thrift finds out here in snowy Ann Arbor last weekend (snowy today - 62 degrees yesterday!). Got the first single on Fortune's Strate-8 imprint, "Drunk Driver's Comin'" by the Richard Brothers (great crude blues), plus a quasi-garage big band 45 (yes!) by Les and Larry Elgart and the Un-Four-Given on Columbia, "The Early Bird Catches the Bomb." Anybody else hip to this enjoyable "Hang On Sloopy"-esque novelty?

 

[howlin' hoosier]

It has been a while since I found much good in the WV mountains, that is excepting 10 or so home recorded Recordio discs from 1947ish, I came back with last week from Charleston. - J.R. L.V. Bill & Mac "Fly Around Pretty Little Miss" is a winner for me, The Log Cabin Boys "River of Jordan" pleasing.

But what do you do with things like this?

https://soundcloud.com/agentugly/fly-around-pretty-little-miss
https://soundcloud.com/agentugly/river-of-jordan-log-cabin-boys

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I must say I really want one of these Recordio things now. As 78rpm is the future for LoFi.

Yesterday, I tried going in the direction of Beckley which other than a Sister Rosetta Tharpe album, that I promptly lost by placing on top of the car while loading up my boy and driving off, has not turned up much. So first we stopped at some thrift stores in Oak Hill, a nice little pile of 45's which turns out:

Chuck Berry - You Never Can Tell

View attachment 832 i once owned this leopard print waistcoat till a girl ripped it off me

Bill Pinkney - I Do the Jerk on Fontana a super piece of R n' B growling.
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Angela Martin - Dip da Dip - decent girl pop from 64
The Drifters - The Outside World which is a great fuzzy soul thing
The Kingsmen - Long Green
A nice mix of decent stuff.

So I was pretty pleased with this bunch of 15 or so 45's I nearly turned around and went home. But a big city Starbucks cappuccino was too much to resist. Sorry to all the antistarbucks crowd but out here a latte is called a cappuccino and filter coffee is made so weak. They set a good standard.

So I stopped at a few antiques, nothing, then in a Salvation Army I find The Embers - Burn A New One on EEE. I found another of theirs on JCP, when I lived in NC, OK this is more Souly than Fratty by the biggest bunch of square geeks ever. but the singer has a top notch voice.

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Then further on discovered some, new to me, antiques. The guy in the first said "yes I have some records" and I help him pull out a heavy box from under some junk, he opens the crate. Right there on top - The Standells - Hot Ones. "oh Yeah" I exclaimed "that is what I was looking for", not my usually cool feigning disinterest, I reached for it and it flops in my hand, no record in it. Aaaarrghhh.... the rest was dull after that and I left with nothing. Next door I found. The Beachnuts - Cycle Annie on a budget compilation "Out of Sight" which slightly compensated for the lack of wax in The Hot Ones.

And yes that cappuccino tasted amazing

Bottom right corner of the Embers caught my eye - that dude looks like Richard Deacon aka Mel Cooley on The Dick Van Dyke Show/Fred Rutherford on Leave It To Beaver...

 

[Westex]

I actually found some "thrift store treasures" today. First thrift I hit has been dry for a bit, but they'd recently gotten a bunch of new records including a handful of jazz lps and a few unplayed 45 RPM odds and ends.



Never heard this one before...

... neat enough "Satisfaction" cop.

Got excited when I found this one...

... great up-temp R&B.

Brought home a couple of jazz lps...

... with this being the big surprise (popsikewise).

A few stops later I spied a big box of sleeved 45s. I could tell before even touching it that it was gonna be full of black mold.

I dug and dug and came away with this which cleaned up okay.

 

[howlin' hoosier]

The pickings are definitely better elsewhere - around my area, it's Barbra Streisand lps a go-go...

 

[howlin' hoosier]

This makes up for my lackluster ARC. Less than a dollar.

Needs a soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou4TfkQXhxE

 

[MopTopMike]

Not thrift store finds, but REALLY cheap finds buried within boxes of totally uncollectible dreck at a highly competitive record show. In the crowd was the legendary, now shadowy Bill N., first time I'd seen him in about a year!
Needless to say, it didn't take long for these sides to find welcoming homes....

HIGH TENSIONS - Poor Man (Hitt)
KYNDS - Find Me Gone (Mo-Foag)
SAVAGES - No No No (Duane)