Sleeve is in VG Condition
Vinyl in VG condition. 1969 LP MiddleEarth MDLS303
Scottish band ‘Writing On The Wall’ made it big on the underground rock scene in the late 1960’s
through a highly dramatic stage act.They regularly played the Middle Earth club, went on tour with
the likes of Ten Years After, held a lengthy residency at the Marquee where they were supported by
up and coming acts such as Wishbone Ash. As others retreated to “be-denimed slothfulness”
Writing On The Wall became more theatrical, featuring choreographed fights, dressing up as a Caveman,
a High Priest, a Monk and a Witchfinder.
Melody Maker felt sufficiently disturbed to comment that the band had "the reputation of being violent
to frightening extremes". However John Peel was suitably impressed and the band recorded two Top Gear
sessions for Radio 1.
This LP is a decent sample representative of any number of blues-influenced bands that worked their way
through psych and into mildly progressive territory while searching for a defining sound in the late sixties.
WRITING ON THE WALL - POWER OF THE PICTS - £125 - Reduced in Sale to £100
Sleeve is in Excellent Condition
Vinyl in Excellent condition. 1969 LP Verve 2353 051
Playback was released in 1969 on the Verve label. Both John and Terrence Boylan were the brains
behind this project that is divided into three acts. It’s an inventive pop album with great songs,
strange sound effects, comedy bits and trippy dialogue in between some of the tracks.
Playback was released in two different album covers (both covers are great) and was supposedly one of
John Lennon’s favorites from 1968. Some of the tracks suggest the boys may have indulged in too many
psychedelic drugs.
TRACK LISTING
1 Altogether Overture: ...In the Beginning/Hightower Square 3:16
2 Lullaby :25
3 Saturday Morning 1:53
4 Nevertheless It Was Italy 2:15
5 I Wonder If Louise Is Home 2:10
6 Chez Louise 1:02
7 "E" Train 1:00
8 Meanwhile :15
9 Brother Speed 3:15
10 You're the Biggest Thing in My Life 3:35
11 Don't Blame It on Your Wife 2:50
12 Sorry State of Staying Awake 3:54
13 Barefoot Boy 2:43
14 Lotus Flower 2:16
15 What a Way to Go 2:50
APPLETREE THEATRE - PLAYBACK - £100 - Reduced in Sale to £80
Gatefold Sleeve is in Excellent Condition
Vinyl in Excellent condition and plays great throughout. 1973 LP Charisma CAS1072
One of the most important and loved italian prog bands,
and one of the most famous among foreign listeners.
Le Orme were another of those bands coming from the beat era
that had the most convincing musical evolution in the 70s.
1973 saw the release of an ambitious concept album, Felona e Sorona,
based on the story of these two planets. A beautiful album, containing
a long suite, it also gave the band high placements in the LP and singles
charts (with the single Felona in this case).
The sound was more original,with the keyboards of Pagliuca being the leading
instrument and the delicate original voice of Tagliapietra giving a distinctive touch.
Felona e Sorona was translated in english and released by Charisma in the UK.
TRACK LISTING
1. In Between (8:43)
2. Felona (1:58)
3. The Maker (1:57)
4. Web Of Time (3:47)
5. Sorona (2:28)
6. The Plan (3:25)
7. The Balance (3:29)
8. Return To Naught (4:08)
9. Ritorno Al Nulla (3:34)
LE ORME - FELONA & SORONA - £60 - Reduced in Sale to £48
Sleeve is in Excellent Condition apart from a 4"seam split at top edge
Vinyl in Excellent condition and plays great throughout. 1960 Stereo LP ERA Records ES-700
Bob Dylan has called DORSEY BURNETTE one of the best songwriters ever.And, with great compositions like "Tall Oak Tree,"
and "Hey Little One," both of which became major hits for Dorsey in 1960, it's easy to understand why. Dorsey Burnette is
best remembered today as the brother of Johnny Burnette and a member of the Johnny Burnette Trio, He had a solo career of
his own, however, during the early 1960s, and also wrote over 350 songs covered by the likes of Rick Nelson, Jerry Lee Lewis,
Waylon Jennings, Glen Campbell, and Stevie Wonder, among many others.
TRACK LISTING
Big Rock Candy Mountains
Hey Little One
Hard Working Man
Lucky Old Sun
Suddenly There's A Villey
Lazy Bones
Red Roses
Noah's Ark
Swing Low
Wayward Wind
I Got The Sun In The Morning
Tall Oak Tree
DORSEY BURNETTE - TALL OAK TREE LP - £150 - Reduced in Sale to £120
Sleeve is in Excellent Condition - Vinyl in Excellent condition.
UK Hard Rock private pressing on the Goodwood Music custom label. Twin guitar, great vocals, self penned songs.
Very rare and sought after LP. Not to be missed. GM 12326 1980 UK Pressing. Part of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal.
BAND
Clive Murray (vocals)
Dave Cooper (guitar)
Steve Birley (guitar)
Gary Pinning (bass)
Sev Lewkowicz keyboards)
Paul Humfreys (drums)
TRACKS
Troublemaker
Can't you see
Broken Heart
Little Lady
Isn't life lonely
Hide away
Give me your love
Mystery girl
Not you Can't stop crying
Through for you
WARRIOR - TROUBLE MAKER LP - £150 - Reduced in Sale to £120
Sleeve is in Excellent Condition - Vinyl in Excellent condition.
LABEL: Windmill WMD 118 UK 1972
Clem Alford was born in Glasgow, Scotland, where he studied the Scottish national instrument, the bagpipes.
He was introduced to the sound of the sitar in the mid sixties. He travelled to India and studied under Pandit
Sachindranath Saha, principal of the Midnapore Music College in West Bengal. He secured the diploma of Sangeet
Sudhakar for expertise in sitar from Surer Maya Sangit Samaj of Calcutta in 1970.
Clem's first major recital was in Bombay in November 1970, an event which the Times of India flashed in its
headlines as "American's astounding skill, ease in sitar" (a slight case of mistaken nationality!). It was this
sitar recital at the celebrated Kal-ke Kalakar Sammelan of Bombay which won Clem the rich accolade of 'Sur Mani'
(a jewel of notes). Since then Clem has performed not only in the West but also in India, Japan and other Asian
countries. He has been hailed by many experts and the press as the best western sitar player of today.
An example of this recognition was his participation in the concert held in 1975 in the Royal Albert Hall,
in which he was presented along with the leading Indian vocalist Laxmi Shankar.
In 1970 he formed a group named Sargam with two other musicians - Jim Moyes (guitar) and Keshav Sathe (tabla) - and
this innovative trio (see picture above) recorded an album inappropriately released as Pop Explosion Sitar Style!
under the band name Sagram, misspelt by the Windmill recording company, which issued the recording without the band's
consent or knowledge. This LP has since become highly collectable and is offered for sale here today.
SAGRAM - POP EXPLOSION SITAR STYLE LP - £50 - Reduced in Sale to £40.00
Sleeve is in Excellent Condition - Vinyl in Excellent condition.
DJSL 026 STEREO Silverline Records - Distributed BY DJM in the UK
GUEST MUSICIANS ARE RONNIE ROSS, WILLIE GARNETT, ALAN BRANSCOMBE, PETE CHAPMAN, BILL EYDEN
TRACK LISTING SKIDROW
POLKA DOTS AND MOONBEAMS
THIS CAN'T BE LOVE
BODY AND SOUL
GOOD QUEEN BESS
BENEATH THE SUN
I FALL INLOVE TOO EASILY
OUT OF NOWHERE
Jimmy Skidmore was a natural jazz player. He didn't have the ultimate technical finesse that was required
of a studio musician. But when he began to solo he played with an eloquence and fire that made his playing
unique. If you like stonking good Jazz, this is the LP for you! Rare and hard to find - Excellent throughout!!
JIMMY SKIDMORE AND FRIENDS - SKID MARKS LP - £50 - Reduced in Sale to £40.00
Gatefold Sleeve is in Excellent Condition and so is the 16 page book which is still attached.
Side 1 has a few light surface marks, nothing serious (VG), sides 2, 3 and 4 are in Excellent condition throughout.
Nonesuch Records HC-73018 - Distributed in Great Britain by Transatlantic Records Ltd
For better or worse, Paul Beaver and Bernie Krause probably had more to do with introducing the synthesizer into
rock music than anyone else. Beaver was a veteran of the Hollywood studio system, known as a sound effects man but,
in fact, something of an innovator in electronic music. Krause, a dozen years younger, had moved from Detroit to
Cambridge to L.A. to San Francisco, working as a guitar player, folk singer, and session man, and was becoming
interested in electronic music.
They met through Elektra Records president Jac Holzman, who was looking for someone to add electronic effects to
a record Mort Garson was arranging: The Zodiac: Cosmic Signs. Remembering Beaver from a recording session, Krause
contacted him and the pair agreed to collaborate. They also realized that there was a potential to land other
recording deals if they had the equipment to produce weird sounds to order. Beaver contacted the synthesizer pioneer
Robert Moog, enticing him with an offer to act as Moog's sales rep on the West Coast. Moog flew out, and after
convincing the pair of the road-worthiness of his synthesizer by shoving it off a table and then playing it again,
they decided to sink their life savings into buying a Series III, Moog's most expensive model.
The partners spent fruitless months trying to get someone in Hollywood interested in using it. They decided to set
up a booth at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and on the airplane ride back, Holzman decided to release an album
demonstrating the possibilities of the Moog on his label, Nonesuch, which was already one of the more interesting labels
around, with a very diverse catalogue. The Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music ended up as the label's top-selling album
for several years after its release in late 1967. We were unable to locate another UK pressing of this LP for sale anywhere worldwide
BEAVER & KRAUSE - THE NONSUCH GUIDE TO ELECTRONIC MUSIC LP - £100 - Reduced in Sale to £80.00
Sleeve is Excellent with minor age wear. Vinyl Record has quite a few light
surface marks but nothing serious enough to cause any jumps, just the occasional
click or background crackle which is more prominent on the quiter tracks.
This is one of the hardest LPs in the world to find for the Motown Collector
and therefore a fast purchase is highly recommended.
we were unable to locate another copy of this LP for sale on the net.
Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius is the third album and first live album by
Stevie Wonder. Released in 1963, the album finally gained success for the child prodigy
thanks to the famous raucous live version of "Fingertips". Not only did the song reach #1
on the pop and R&B singles chart but the album made history for Wonder when he became the
first artist to have a number 1 album and single simultaneously after the album reached number
1 on the pop albums chart. The album also made Wonder to this day, at thirteen, the youngest
artist to have an album go to number 1 on the charts eventually selling over a
million copies and making Wonder a teen idol.
Stevland Morris was born prematurely in Saginaw, Michigan to Lula Mae Hardaway.
It is thought that he received excessive oxygen levels in his incubator which
led to retinopathy of prematurity, a destructive ocular disorder affecting the
retina, characterized by abnormal growth of blood vessels, scarring, and sometimes
retinal detachment. Common among other prematurely born children in the 1940s and
50s, this is considered to be the ultimate cause of his blindness.
Hardaway instructed her other children (there would eventually be five boys and one
girl in the home) to treat Stevland the same as any other child, and not to tease or
over-assist him because of his blindness. As a result, Stevland had a balanced childhood.
The family moved to Detroit, Michigan and Stevland began singing and playing instruments
in church at an early age. He in particular took to the piano, congas, and harmonica.
In 1962, at the age of 11, Stevland Morris was introduced to Ronnie White of the popular
Motown act The Miracles. White brought Morris and his mother to Motown Records. Impressed
by the young musician, Motown's Berry Gordy signed Morris to the Tamla label as Little Stevie Wonder.
At the age of 13, Little Stevie Wonder had his first major hit, "Fingertips (Pt. 2)",
a 1963 single taken from a live recording of a Motortown Revue performance. The song,
featuring Wonder on vocals, congas, and harmonica, and a young Marvin Gaye on drums,
was a #1 hit on the US pop charts and launched him into the public consciousness.
Dropping the "Little" from his moniker, Wonder went on to have a number of other hits
during the mid-1960s, including "Uptight (Everything's Alright)", "With a Child's Heart",
and "Blowin' in the Wind", a Bob Dylan cover which was one of the first songs to reflect
Wonder's social consciousness. He also began to work in the Motown songwriting department,
composing songs both for himself and his labelmates.
TRACK LISTING
"Fingertips" (Cosby/Paul) 6:40
"Soul Bongo" (Gaye/Paul) 3:01
"La La La La La" (Paul) 2:34
"(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over" (Magidson/Wrubel) 5:13
"Hallelujah I Love Her So" (Charles) 2:48
"Drown In My Own Tears" (Glover) 3:23
"Don't You Know" (Charles/Gordy) 3:19
LITTLE STEVIE WONDER - THE 12 YEAR OLD GENIUS LP - £175 - Reduced in Sale to £140.00
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