Records you're Still Looking For

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: sapper82
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 03:53 PM

A late '60s/Early '70s thing called Burundi Black. African drumming.

Guest Gerry, Crich Tramway Museum gift shop has some Judy Garland CDs at £1.99 or £2.99.
They might be worth contacting. Wife says that they might be available from Garages etc.

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: Big Jim from Jackson
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 07:40 PM

Thanks for looking, Jerry. And let me second pdq's comment about the Bob Gibson CD. I didn't hear Bob until 'way late, but he had to be the best of the '60's folkies. I've had the pleasure of meeting his daughter Meridian---very nice lady.

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 09:52 AM

Interest in this was expressed up a ways in the thread. I have it, it's a good un

The Old Bush Songs
A.L. Lloyd

Larrikin LRF 354 (CD, Australia, 1994)

Recording selection and executive production by Warren Fahey
Master tapes licensed from Topic Records, London
CD cover: Patrick William Marony, "Starlight's Hold-up at the Dance Hall", oil on canvas, courtesy of National Library of Australia
Tracks

   1. Waltzing Matilda (2:46)
   2. The Kelly Gang (3:30)
   3. The Drover's Dream (2:53)
   4. The Cockies of Bungaree (5:52)
   5. Flash Jack from Gundagai (2:06)
   6. Bluey Brink (3:10)
   7. Brisbane Ladies (3:27)
   8. The Derby Ram (3:11)
   9. Bold Jack Donahue (3:48)
10. The Wild Colonial Boy (5:34)
11. The Hold-Up at Eugowra Rocks (2:17)
12. Euabalong Ball (2:24)
13. Rocking the Cradle (2:46)
14. Lachlan Tigers (2:29)
15. The Lime-Juice Tub (1:45)

#1, 10-12 and 15 are from The Great Australian Legend: A Panorama of Bush Balladry and Song (Topic 12T203, 1971)
#2, 3, and 13 are from First Person (Topic 12T118, 1966)
#4-9 and 14 are from Outback Ballads: Songs from the Australian Bush and Outback (Topic 12T51, 1960)

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 10:52 AM

Guest: Thanks so much for posting that information about A. L Lloyd. One of my all-time favorite albums is the Bush Ballads album he did. To my knowledge, it's not out on CD (although I'll check again... you never know.) The CD you posted sounds gerat and I'll see if I can get it.

But, it don't have Maryborough Miner on it...

Sigh...........

Jerry

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 08:04 PM

sapper82 wrote,

    Guest Gerry, Crich Tramway Museum gift shop has some Judy Garland CDs
    at £1.99 or £2.99. They might be worth contacting. Wife says that they might
    be available from Garages etc.

Thanks. Cheap CDs of Judy Garland are available lots of places, but so far as I know
(and I've looked at many, many of these CDs) Bei Mir Bistu Sheyn is only on one of
them, an upmarket release that's unlikely to be remaindered for a while. Still, I'll
have a look.

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: Myrtle
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 03:21 PM

Mary Asquith's LP 'Closing Time'

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: Cool Beans
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 04:54 PM

OK, off topic, but since we're talking Bob Gibson, does anyone remember his Vermont Maid Syrup commercial? It aired the same time "Marching To Pretoria" was getting radio play. Around 1989 I got to tell him how much I liked it.

A cagey old pirate who lived in a tree
Loved syrup much better than golden jewelry.
He buried his treasure chest out in the glade
Filled with jugs of the syrup that's called Vermont Maid
So learn well this lesson from my serenade:
There's no finer syrup than sweet Vermont Maid
It's naturally flavored with the very best grade
Of real maple sugar -- that's my Vermont Maid.

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: number 6
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 10:09 PM

One record that I have been searching for over the years is "Stink" by the McKenna, Mendelson Mainline.

The search ended when 3 weeks ago my God Daughter (who happens to be quite a guitar player herself) came out here for a visit ... low and behold she had a pristine copy of it for me! God Bless her!

sIx

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 10:25 PM

I waited many years to get a copy of Bluebirds Over The Mountains by Ursel Hickey, and finally found a mint copy. It was the shortest record ever to reach the top 40. Small honor, I guess, but I always loved the song.

Hella-Hella-Hella, Bluebirds over the mountains,
Bluebirds over the sea-ee
Bluebirds over the mountains
Bring my baaby to me

Jerry

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: GUEST,jay galloway
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 10:44 PM

North Korean Blues
by L. Wainwright III

Oh Tokyo,
They got some saki, and sashimi, and some clean sheets,
Oh, kimono, oh, kimono,
Tokyo's the town that I love the best,
East may be East, and West may be West,
Forget about between, it'll drive you insane,
And teach you things you never knew before.

The chords start with G and alternate between G and D finger picking as you make the changes.

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: PSzymeczek
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 12:01 AM

Mine that are in storage in Augusta Georgia.

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: Bettynh
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 01:33 PM

My cassette player ate my copy of "Root Crops and Ground Cover" by Metamora (though I don't think they called themselves that at the time). The cassette came packaged to look like a seed packet (kinda cute). There was a great song about the monster that was supposed to live in Lake Champlain that was later used in the background of a documentary film. Can't find it anywhere.

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: Don Firth
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 02:00 PM

The Stranger from the Sea, by Joe Hanson.

Several good songs, including the best translation from the Welsh of "Venture, Gwen" that I've ever heard. Hanson had a kind of "reedy" sounding tenor and he accompanied himself on the autoharp. "Obscurity" label, 10", LP.

A web search failed to turn up the record, but I learned that Joe (Joseph) Hanson was a gay writer of mysteries (hated the term "gay," preferring straight out "homosexual") with several books out. At one time, he had a radio program entitled "The Stranger from the Sea" on which he sang folk songs. I ran across the record in a record store back in the early 1950s, listened to it, but discovered I didn't have enough money on me to buy it. When I came back the following day, someone had beat me to it.

Good songs, a couple of war horses (he does "Greensleeves"), but a few songs I've never heard anywhere else. All well sung.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: Suffet
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 05:06 PM

Bob Dylan, Let Me Die in My Footsteps 45 rpm single by Columbia Records. I have Happy Traum singing that song on a Broadside LP.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 10:23 PM

There's a live recording of Dylan doing Let Me Die at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rNPooTVM3Q and maybe a different version at http://www.mojvideo.com/video-bob-dylan-let-me-die-in-my-footsteps/20919031c8f4ea0c1dbd

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: Gurney
Date: 18 Oct 09 - 05:59 PM

I'd like to get Madeleine Peyroux's first CD, but I don't think any got as far as here, and we haven't got Ebay here but an equivalent, so I think I've got no chance.
There was also a talking country blues single called 'Hot Rod Jalopy' that I'd like to hear again. The Jag crashed, but the jalopy didn't. Likely story, eh?

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: Bettynh
Date: 18 Oct 09 - 06:21 PM

Gurney, are you talking about Dreamland
Looks like you can get an MP3 of it anywhere.

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: Gurney
Date: 18 Oct 09 - 09:02 PM

There was one before that, Bettynh, according to the website. I have all the rest, including the shared CD with William Gallison.

Dreamland was the first of hers that I got, almost by accident, a throwout from the local library.

She's doing a tour in NZ this year, sharing with several other notable jazzy ladies.

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: Charley Noble
Date: 18 Oct 09 - 09:03 PM

100!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 18 Oct 09 - 09:26 PM

Since I started this thread, some of the records I was looking for have come out, or surfaced on ebay. Maybe I should amend the title to say Records You're Still Looking For That You Can Afford....

Jerry

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: GUEST,Edthefolkie
Date: 19 Oct 09 - 09:57 AM

(There's a Blue Ridge Round My Heart) "Virginia" - the version I grew up with, owned by my late mum, was a 78 from about 1930 with an absolutely superb little trumpet break at the end, positively Satchmo.

"The Lass With The Delicate Air" by Mavis Bennett - again from around 1930. Originally from the period of the Beggars' Opera. It has been recorded since by Julie Andrews but errr....I don't think I want that version.

One which I first heard about 1968 on John Peel's programme was "Collegiana" by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - tracked that one down on a double album called "Rare Junk" also containing the deathless "Even Fat Boys Can Make It In Santa Monica"

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: GUEST,Edthefolkie
Date: 19 Oct 09 - 11:24 AM

Re the above, turns out the version of "There's a Blue Ridge Round My Heart, Virginia" is in fact by the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra. No idea who's doing the "vocal refrain" but the trumpet break is by a gent called Norman Payne in the style of Bix Beiderbecke, not Louis Armstrong. And a jazz collector in Derbyshire has a copy for sale!

Isn't the Web wonderful and aren't I a sad person, now to find a cheap Dansette on eBay.

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: GUEST,buspassed
Date: 19 Oct 09 - 11:52 AM

It totally staggers me the price some people are willing for old vinyl. I recently discovered that two much prized items in my collection, 'Bright Phoebus' and '3/4 AD' [still played regularly on an old but high quality turntable/tone arm/cartridge & stylus set-up] could prove a starting point for another pension!

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: GUEST,buspassed
Date: 19 Oct 09 - 11:53 AM

'to pay' might fit in there somewhere!

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: Edthefolkie
Date: 21 Oct 09 - 06:30 PM

"Bright Phoebus" is indeed very sought after (I wouldn't mind a copy myself). The reason WHY it's so rare is a sorry tale told many times in this part of the aether.

I thought of another one. Do sleeves count? I have the Young Tradition first album bought from an emporium above Kenton station - it's never had a sleeve. Did it end up on some folk club wall? I suppose nobody does that with CD inners these days!

Subject: RE: Records you're Still Looking For
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 21 Oct 09 - 07:40 PM

In pop and rock music there's a funny inverse relationship between quality and price. It all relates to rarity. If you want to get an original 45 rpm (or even a 78 rpm) of the Penguins singing Earth Angel, you can find one at a reasonable price because it was so popular that there are a ton of copies around. The Penguins were considered "one hit wonders" even though they recorded a lot of quality material. When they signed with Mercury, their agent made it a package deal. The Penguins were on the Dootone label and there was another unknown group who were label mates. Their manager insisted that Mercury sign the other group, too or the deal was off. The other group was the Platters.

Now if you want an original copy of the Penguins doing Oookey Ook in pristine condition, we might be able to do business.

Jerry