Fancied A Dig? Missed It

[Mr Smithy]

Not sure if this is the right forum so move if you want.

Anyone know anything about this.
Would have been fun.

https://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-news/extraordinary-photos-from-an-abandonned-record-warehouse/

[Kevinkent]

 Gobsmacked.

[Mrtag]

 Gobsmacked.

 

 Likewise!!

[Roburt]

Looks like the majority of them were French released things, but I bet there were a few nice soul items among them ...... 

[Mr Smithy]

Regardless of what they were would have been hours of fun for all the family.
Get your wellies on and away we go.

[Roburt]

Regardless of what they were would have been hours of fun for all the family.

I don't know, I'm getting too old to be bend double for hours on end checking through 1000's of old 45's.

[Mr Smithy]

I don't know, I'm getting too old to be bend double for hours on end checking through 1000's of old 45's.

That's why you take the family, the comfy chair and the card table.

 

[Pete S]

This has been posted before, it was in South Africa or somewhere like that, the other shot showed the warehouse owner sitting on a giant pile of 45's outside the place

[Guest Andy Carling]

How many hard to find tunes where amongst that lot ? It's enough to make a grown man cry.

Edited August 6, 2013 by soul in the shed

[Mr Smithy]

This has been posted before, it was in South Africa or somewhere like that, the other shot showed the warehouse owner sitting on a giant pile of 45's outside the place

Hey Pete, How are you?

I figured it would have been but I must have missed it.

Just like the tele though, some reruns are always worth watching.

 

[Mach]

looks a bit like my bedroom

[Britmusicsoulfan]

According to the information I've read online and on Facebook, about 20 people got in there to dig, but the first guy really hit it big.  I was guessing it was in France?

[Guest john s]

This has been posted before, it was in South Africa or somewhere like that, the other shot showed the warehouse owner sitting on a giant pile of 45's outside the place

 

Different place, you're thinking of Frank Messner (big African collector) sitting on a pile of 45s outside a warehouse in, I believe, Benin. 

 

This place was in France, by all accounts.

[Ian Dewhirst]

This has been posted before, it was in South Africa or somewhere like that, the other shot showed the warehouse owner sitting on a giant pile of 45's outside the place

 

That was Voodoo Frank's African warehouse hit Pete.

 

I'm wondering if the French place could be the MPO plant? If so, there wouldn't be much in the way of Soul and it would mostly be 80's onwards......

 

Ian D

[Guest Matt Male]

It was on Facebook and said it was an old EMI warehouse. Probably all pop music.

Edited August 6, 2013 by Matt Male

[Roburt]

looks a bit like my bedroom

Funny you should say that ..................

Edited August 11, 2013 by Roburt

[night nurse]

oh my god swimming in a sea of records imagine that makes robs smiths  record shop positively  spotless

[Sutty]

I remember hearing about this at the time from someone who knew one of the people that got access. The owner of the warehouse passed away and none of his family knew anything about the property, and it had been untouched for 30-40 years (as you can see from the state of it). One of the family went to look at it, opened it up and went 'OMG!!!'.

I tried to get a lead on it but was told it had 'gone', presumably because they knocked it down as it was semi-derelict.

Something about a rare Psych record that was $500+ and there were boxes of them, untouched boxes of the Skullsnaps LP (which came out on EMI France at the time of release so could be right), and many other finds. Evidently with the Psych stuff in there, if it was all put on the market at once the arse would have dropped out of it for collectors price-wise. Guess we'll never really know!

cheers Sutty

[Mr Smithy]

I remember hearing about this at the time from someone who knew one of the people that got access. The owner of the warehouse passed away and none of his family knew anything about the property, and it had been untouched for 30-40 years (as you can see from the state of it). One of the family went to look at it, opened it up and went 'OMG!!!'.

I tried to get a lead on it but was told it had 'gone', presumably because they knocked it down as it was semi-derelict.

Something about a rare Psych record that was $500+ and there were boxes of them, untouched boxes of the Skullsnaps LP (which came out on EMI France at the time of release so could be right), and many other finds. Evidently with the Psych stuff in there, if it was all put on the market at once the arse would have dropped out of it for collectors price-wise. Guess we'll never really know!

cheers Sutty

By looking at it I would have guessed that probably 99% of it was pure top shelf dross, but 1% of that is a lot of rare vinyl.

I'm sure you could never look at a Sacha Distel record again after ploughing through it, but that's sorta what it's about really - staying power.

I'm glad someone did alright out of it.

[Guest MrC]

New York City Library have been selling of all their vinyl this weekend too, 22,000 items.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23644473

[Guest in town Mikey]

Couldnt have been a Northern Soul collector.

 

Had they been a soulies lot, they would have been organised by year/lable/colour/date/alpha/numeric etc etc.

Then lined up with the covers being aligned in military precision.

Philly and New York on the right. Detroit and Chicago in the middle and the West coast lables on the right.

[Guest john s]

New York City Library have been selling of all their vinyl this weekend too, 22,000 items.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23644473

Not all their vinyl, some duplicates that have been donated over the years.

 

99% showtunes, MOR, opera and classical, by all accounts. Also some dealers were let in the day before the public sale, so not much goodness surfaced on the day. The Facebook page has been a hoot, with a lot of people complaining, and a lot of posts being deleted by the admin...

[Guest john s]

I remember hearing about this at the time from someone who knew one of the people that got access. The owner of the warehouse passed away and none of his family knew anything about the property, and it had been untouched for 30-40 years (as you can see from the state of it). One of the family went to look at it, opened it up and went 'OMG!!!'.

I tried to get a lead on it but was told it had 'gone', presumably because they knocked it down as it was semi-derelict.

Something about a rare Psych record that was $500+ and there were boxes of them, untouched boxes of the Skullsnaps LP (which came out on EMI France at the time of release so could be right), and many other finds. Evidently with the Psych stuff in there, if it was all put on the market at once the arse would have dropped out of it for collectors price-wise. Guess we'll never really know!

cheers Sutty

 

There's an awful lot of 'ultra-rare' French stuff that's suddenly appeared in quantity after a warehouse find - prog, jazz, loads of EPs and 45s too.

 

Didn't make the connection with these pictures but could well be!

[Back Street Blue]

This has been posted before, it was in South Africa or somewhere like that, the other shot showed the warehouse owner sitting on a giant pile of 45's outside the place

[boba]

Not all their vinyl, some duplicates that have been donated over the years.

 

99% showtunes, MOR, opera and classical, by all accounts. Also some dealers were let in the day before the public sale, so not much goodness surfaced on the day. The Facebook page has been a hoot, with a lot of people complaining, and a lot of posts being deleted by the admin...

 

the bbc video was funny too, talking about how if you're upset you missed it you still have two more days to go. it's all about being there in the first hour...

[Steve G]

There's an awful lot of 'ultra-rare' French stuff that's suddenly appeared in quantity after a warehouse find - prog, jazz, loads of EPs and 45s too.

 

Didn't make the connection with these pictures but could well be!

 

Still not finding Candy & Kisses and Diane and Anita EP's - oh well.....

[bluesoulman]

https://voodoofunk.blogspot.com/

 

Half way down on the right hand side of the above home page there's a clip titled Lagos Disco Inferno,with a pic of a similarly frustrating mountain of abandoned vinyl..The implication is that it was taken in Nigeria (where I work....) but cannot verify.....

Am aware that EMI had a pressing plant here in the 70's,so there could well have been some interesting stuff in there :-(

[Louis]

When I looked at it I thought It looked a lot like Bernie Goldings barn after he bought Ian Levines collection,  although these weren't covered in dog turds like Bernie's was!

 

Louis

[Pete S]

untouched boxes of the Skullsnaps LP (which came out on EMI France at the time of release so could be right), 

 

Really?

[Roburt]

https://voodoofunk.blogspot.com/

 

Half way down on the right hand side of the above home page there's a clip titled Lagos Disco Inferno,with a pic of a similarly frustrating mountain of abandoned vinyl..The implication is that it was taken in Nigeria (where I work....) but cannot verify.....

Am aware that EMI had a pressing plant here in the 70's,so there could well have been some interesting stuff in there :-(

My mate Alan Omokhoje worked for EMI in London in the mid to late 80's (after running Move Records). His family were originally from Nigeria and so they (EMI) eventually sent him to work over in their Lagos office. Never thought to ask him to sort out all the locally pressed old soul 45's in their warehouse for shipment back to me here in the UK. 

[Sutty]

Really?

Really to what Pete? Did the skullsnaps come out on EMI France, yes it did, my copy is French. Did they find them there? I was told 300 unplayed copies in boxes, but like I say guess we'll never really know as anyone that went in there will be keeping schtum I expect!

cheers Sutty

[Guest john s]

The French issue of the Norman Haines Band 'Den of Iniquity' LP (heavy prog) was certainly there in quantity, as you can tell from Popsike!

 

https://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?pagenum=1&searchtext=french+norman+haines&incldescr=&sortord=ddate&thumbs=&currsel=

 

None before September 2009, 11 since, all mint. A dealer told me he had 20 copies stashed, and offered to get me some 'wholesale' if I wanted.

 

The French press of a previously very rare South African jazz LP by The Heshoo Beshoo Group is now on eBay pretty much every week.

 

Would love to know what other titles were in there!

[bluesoulman]

My mate Alan Omokhoje worked for EMI in London in the mid to late 80's (after running Move Records). His family were originally from Nigeria and so they (EMI) eventually sent him to work over in their Lagos office. Never thought to ask him to sort out all the locally pressed old soul 45's in their warehouse for shipment back to me here in the UK. 

Fascinating - the only soul -related Nigerian - pressed 45 I've seen around was on eb a while back,a Jimmy James Stateside demo.Still trying to locate that warehouse.....

[Roburt]

I seem to recall lots of EMI label stuff that they had licensed in from the US escaping there (stuff that came out here on Stateside, HMV, EMI Int, etc.).

ALSO ... lots of Atlantic stuff was also put out in Nigeria PLUS I presume Stax & Motown stuff.

The Nigerians always loved funky tracks, so I guess lots of James Brown, Sly & F Stone, Funkadelic, Meters, Ohio Players, etc also came out there.

[Roburt]

I seem to recall lots of EMI label stuff that they had licensed in from the US escaping there (stuff that came out here on Stateside, HMV, EMI Int, etc.).

ALSO ... lots of Atlantic stuff was also put out in Nigeria PLUS I presume Stax & Motown stuff.

The Nigerians always loved funky tracks, so I guess lots of James Brown, Sly & F Stone, Funkadelic, Meters, Ohio Players, etc also came out there.

Jumping back in time a bit with this post ...BUT .... thought some might be interested to see an actual Nigerian EMI 45 .....

[Guest john s]

Jumping back in time a bit with this post ...BUT .... thought some might be interested to see an actual Nigerian EMI 45 .....

 

I have a couple by the Rail Band on HMV, always looking for more afro-funk/afrobeat!  

[Derek Pearson]

My flabber was certainly gasted when I looked at the attached photos but.....and is it just me?

 

Why and how could any vinyl collector leave the records they didn't want in such a tangled mess like that?

 

I mean I wouldn't even do it to Gary Glitter records...erm, on second thoughts maybe I would.

 

Derek (slightly appalled in a very mild way)