Tag: vinylfinds
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Jesus and Mary Chain, Send Me Away: Early Demos, 2011 on Swingshift Records.
Jesus and Mary Chain, Send Me Away: Early Demos, 2011 on Swingshift Records.
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Love and Rockets, Motorcycle 12″ single, 1989 on Beggars Banquet.
Love and Rockets, Motorcycle 12″ single, 1989 on Beggars Banquet. I’ve always been a huge fan of Bauhaus and their descendant bands. This is a great 4 song single
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Michael Franks, One Bad Habit, 1980 on Warner Bros.
Michael Franks, One Bad Habit, 1980 on Warner Bros. Picked this up as part of an Everything But the House lot and had never heard it – but really like it. Late seventies jazz / soul vibe – maybe you’d call it yacht rock now – at the time they called it the “Quiet Storm”…
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Talking Heads, Fear of Music, 1979 on Sire.
Talking Heads, Fear of Music, 1979 on Sire. Fantastic album from end to end – great pick up at a Mill No. 5 record fair event
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George Benson, Breezin’, 1976 on Warner Bros.
George Benson, Breezin’, 1976 on Warner Bros. Includes “This Masquerade” by Leon Russell
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Lightnin’ Hopkins, Double Blues, 1972 on Fantasy.
Lightnin’ Hopkins, Double Blues, 1972 on Fantasy. Continuing on the blues compilation front, this reissued tracks from the Prestige LPs Down Home Blues and Soul Blues from the 60s. Fantasy was a label out of Berkely CA that first issued Dave Brubeck and Creedence Clearwater Revival and then purchased rights to the catalogs of Prestige,…
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The Gerry Mulligan Sextet, Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet, 1955 on EmArcy.
The Gerry Mulligan Sextet, Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet, 1955 on EmArcy. Cover has white flocking where the old glossy cover delaminated, bit the record is in great shape. Mulligan on baritone sax, with Peck Morrison (bass), Dave Bailey (Drums), Zoot Simms (Tenor Sax), Bob Brookmeyer (Trombone), and Jon Eardley (Trumpet). This is just after…
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Hooters, Nervous Night, 1985 on Columbia.
Hooters, Nervous Night, 1985 on Columbia. Platinum selling major label debut – “And We Danced,” “Day by Day,” and “Wher Do the Children Go”
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Blondie, Autoamerican, 1980 on Chrysalis.
Blondie, Autoamerican, 1980 on Chrysalis. Autocorrect wants to make Blondie into Oldie but I resist. Blondie”s fifth studio album, with The Tide Is High and Rapture Via Spinnaker Records in Hyannis
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Thelma Houston, Any Way You Like It, 1976 on Tamla.
Thelma Houston, Any Way You Like It, 1976 on Tamla. Mid-70s disco greatness with Don’t Leave Me This Way
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B.B. King, The Best of B.B. King, 1973 on ABC.
B.B. King, The Best of B.B. King, 1973 on ABC. Early seventies compilation of “Blues Boy” King with an ABC logo. Two tracks from the Cook County Jail, most are studio cuts via @ebth
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Ella Fitzgerald, 30 By Ella, 1968 on Capitol.
Ella Fitzgerald, 30 By Ella, 1968 on Capitol. Thirty songs in ~53 minutes, across six medleys. Music by Benny Carter’s “Magnificent Seven” – Capitol reissue from the 70s or early 80s
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Oscar Peterson Trio, We Get Requests, 1964 on Verve.
Oscar Peterson Trio, We Get Requests, 1964 on Verve. Last of Peterson’s Verve output, recorded at RCA Studios in NYC in 1964, with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen.
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Various Artists, Comparative Blues, 1957 on Jazztone.
Various Artists, Comparative Blues, 1957 on Jazztone. Including Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, but also some klnow lesser known folks like Buck Clayton, Jack Teagarden, Eddie Bert. Via a Threads & Grooves event at Mill No. 5 in Lowell
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Professor Longhair, Crawfish Fiesta, 1980 on Alligator Records.
Professor Longhair, Crawfish Fiesta, 1980 on Alligator Records. At one point in my life, when I had hair, I could have been called Professor Longhair (or Dr. John, for that matter). Via an Everything But The House lot purchase
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Leon Redbone, On the Track, 1975 on Warner Bros.
Leon Redbone, On the Track, 1975 on Warner Bros. Love everything Leon Redbone released.
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James Taylor, Sweet Baby James, 1970 on Warner Bros.
James Taylor, Sweet Baby James, 1970 on Warner Bros. Early repress as it has the WB logo instead of W7 logo on label Steamroller, Sweet Baby James, Fire and Rain. With Danny Kootch, Carole King, Russ Kunkel. All Taylor originals except for an Oh, Susannah.
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Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Ed Thigpen: The Sound of the Trio, 1962 on Verve.
Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Ed Thigpen: The Sound of the Trio, 1962 on Verve. One of a series of releases recorded at the London House in Chicago in 1961. Black and silver Verve labels with MGM rim text since they bought Verve in late 1960.