Anoraks Corner

Happy days, eh Steve...and thanks for all the sales/trades in the past I still remember visiitng your place in Gloucester (waaaaaaaaaaay before Kettering!) and buying the Ascots 'Anytime' from you...and for some obscure reason I also recall you had this enourmous glass bottle full of pound coins in the living room...must've been £1000's in there! Hope all is well in Germany. Now, no more compliments please as I have to get a disc for Tony...the owner has already turned me down...twice...but I enjoy a challenge (A load of fresh sales titles will go on my site by the weekend...hopefully )

I better upload some fresh sales stock this weekend, then?! Thank you gents...I do my best

As Tony has already pointed out, the sound quality on the A to B LP is indeed spot on. The New Sounds LP is 'bass-y' as is the original LP on Turbo...so maybe the master tapes are the same (if they exist)? Shame as there are some corking tracks on it. Slight tangent...have a spare Whispers 'Shhh' LP on P-Vine, if anyone is interested?)

If you have no luck with a 45 I do have a copy of this on a 10" 78rpm...quite rare and in fabulous condition! Kinda belongs in a frame on the wall of a record room...maybe?!

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...and to complete the picture, here's a...'er...picture! (I've defo seen more vg copies than minters...maybe this should also be in Pete's thread?!)

I once came across this info...can't remember the link sorry: Footsee, the newest craze with the playground set! The toy consists of a plastic ankle ring to which is attached a30-in. string with a bell-shaped weight at the other end. The object is to twirl the string with one foot and hop with the other; well-coordinated youngsters can now twirl three Footsees at once—one on each leg and one on anarm. In the first three months on the U.S. market, about 4,000,000 of the $1.29 toys were sold. The reason cannot be novelty: a similar toy enjoyed brief popularity four years ago. Robert Asch, president of Twinpak Ltd. of Montreal, whichmakes the Footsee, is sure the game is far older; he got the idea while watching Arab children in Jerusalem playing with like contraptions.

This turns up (very) regularly over here...and always not a million miles away from being mint. In fact, the majority of the discs I turn up here are in fabulous condition, including loads of unplayed ex-warehouse stock...sometimes in quantity if I'm lucky! Guess we got the deadstock that was bought up many moons ago and shipped out over here...I see loads of SS7, Goldwax, Chess label stuff all the time! One thing I do have to watch for is 'storeage mould brown dots' on some labels / LP sleeves, possibly from the hot'n'humid conditions over here? Can't have it all, eh?!

I've got a spare Japanese copy if anyone fancies it...£20. More details >>> HERE <<<

Was a popular spin for six months or so during the mid 8T's...quite tough on a WD. It also appeared on an original 6T's Bob & Earl LP of Tempe and Chene recordings...can't recall the label though, sorry. If you like this track you may like their track on Tip called, 'Oh! Yea'...similar feel in places.

Love it...especially the keyboard break and brass stabs. Came out in Japan on a Bell 7" with pic cover.

Came out on German Decca back in '67. I like it....though it sounds much better when you don't watch the YouTube clip at the same time!