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    My daughter & I will be in London for a week next month and wanted to ask:

    Does anyone have any restaurant recommendations?

    Also, anything off the beaten path to do while we are there?

    Thanks.

  2. Yesterday afternoon I had the house to myself, and there was nothing to watch on TV, so I turned it off and pulled a few 45 boxes off the shelf and spun the following:

    The Colt 45's - Lady, Lady 

    Wee Willie Denson - Strange Things Are Happening

    Eugene Church - Sixteen Tons

    The Webs - Tomorrow

    The Continental Four - How Can I Pretend

    The Lovettes - I Need A Guy

    Rene Bailey - I'm Just Gonna Be Missing You

    and to keep the good feeling going......

    Bobbi Row & The Englishmen - Why's You Put Me On

  3. Freddie's Dead is a great song, so many great lines in it.

    Especially "We're all built up with progress, but sometimes I must confess, we can deal with rockets and dreams, but reality, what does its mean" is fantastic.  

    I'm partial to "Pusherman", especially the opening lines.

     

     

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    I've been revisiting my ska records again recently, and I am not sure what Prince Buster is referring to in "Wine and Grine" when he talks about a "brush"

    " First thing she asks if you have your brush, 

    If you have your brush you can avoid the rush"

    He also references the "brush" near the end of "Rough Rider" - "I wore me brush"

    OK, so what is a "brush"? 

    If it's extremely lewd, send me a message. Thanks.

     

  5. Going through another box, I found an old sales list from a seller I must have found through Goldmine or Discoveries, Social Insect Records from Danville, IL There was also another sales list from Lew Staley.

    Funny that I don't have any of the magazines. I did find a Scootering mag from 2000. 

  6. 15 hours ago, Tomangoes said:

    What date range are you talking about? 1980 to 1996?

    Ed

    I was active from the late 80s to the late 90s. Buying records from dealers across the USA who had their small square ad in Goldmine or Discoveries and then you would get on their mailing list for their future auctions or sales lists. I also bought a number of UK mod revival & related records in the early 90s from a dealer in Canada from one of those listings, everything in great shape, some sealed.

    It never seemed a hassle, you just had to have some patience to wait for the auction end + a week or two to (hopefully) get the letter or postcard with any of the records you won. 

    When the migration to eBay happened, I remember seeing some of those same dealers and buying from off of them on eBay. 

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    was going through some boxes in my basement recently, and found a number of Discoveries magazines and a Lew Staley auction list in one of them. 

    the Lew Staley auction has 2 pages of label scans and 3 pages front & back of 45s up for auction. 

    Just having a flashback of record collecting before the internet.

    anyone remember the days of bidding on auctions through the mail? a money order or cash through the mail if you won?

  8. I would think there's:

    the major labels

    The large independent labels (Motown / Brunswick / Chess / Scepter / I am not sure of all the labels that would qualify, we could debate, Motown probably needs to be treated separately)

    the bigger local independent labels (I am thinking labels like Arctic & Phil-la of Soul since I am near Philadelphia, but others that are similar)

    the mom & pop / local labels with a handful of releases (I like the thought of a group or artist recording in the back or basement of a hair salon, which I read some where)

    private press I am not sure about, would need some examples (unless you mean the package deals that some studios had where paying for the session would also get the artist a 45 on the studio's label, like my neighbor's brothers band)

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    I started trying to get through the overflow 45s in my basement during the pandemic, and I'm still working on it and I noticed that someone modified the name of this 45 when I was cleaning it. I guess if he doesn't find a way, he'll have to find the modified song title.

    anyone else have any interesting modified labels?

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  10. Both years ago:

    A Trinikas 'Black Is Beautiful / Remember Me' M- original 45 buy it now for $70 one Saturday morning.

    Also, a box of 45s that I won for $100 that included a picture of the flip side of a Leon Gardener's "You Don't Care" funk 45 in the listing The box of 45s included The Incredibles "Nothing else to Say" and a few others I sold on to pay for the box of 45s. So I got the 45 I wanted for nothing.

  11. Robbk and Richard - sorry to hear that. 

    I did find the Frank Williams Rocketeers 45 late last night so could not give it a spin without the headphones on, but still sounded great. It was filed in a funk box under F because of side 2. Yes, I used to buy a lot of funk 45s and instrumentals...only to flip them over later and find what I have been missing.

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    13 hours ago, clevesoulie said:

    I'm in the process (very lengthy) of putting all my 45s in absolute alpha order...I'm hoping some of these just got put in the wrong box and I can get them sorted properly.

    Best,

    Mark

     

    This is the source of my problem. I used to be so particular about everything being in order alphabetically. And then I let that go, which leads to the resent situation. I have tried to start this process, combining the new 45s with the older titles that are in alpha order, but have never quite finished. I think I need to take a few days off work to sort it all out. I can see that going over well with my wife......I can't make the family vacation this year as I need to sort out the records.....

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