Latest vinyl finds Dec. 2009

Posted on Thu Dec 3 2009 at 8:27 pm in the category Latest vinyl finds -- Copyright notice

Last week I lucked out in finding two very friendly and generous people who simply wanted someone to enjoy the music they had on vinyl without making money on the deal.  And so I’ve picked up a large load of LPs in absolutely perfect condition (God bless the people who recorded their records to reel-to-reel tape and only played the record once or twice!).  A good number are original pressings from the 1960s in immaculate condition.  Quite a bit of world music and reggae, too, which isn’t all that common on vinyl in Kitchener.

This will keep me occupied for a good stretch, I would say!

  • Sunny Ade, In London (1977; Nigerian pressing)
  • Sunny Ade, Ijinle odu (1982; Nigerian pressing)
  • Sunny Ade, “Juju Music” (1982; Island)
  • Sunny Ade, Synchro System (1983; Island)
  • Sunny Ade, Ajoo (1983; Nigerian pressing)
  • Sunny Ade, Conscience “Eri Okan” (1983; Yaba pressing)
  • Sunny Ade, Vintage King Sunny Ade (1984 [1970?]; Nigerian pressing)
  • Sunny Ade, Aura (1984; Island)
  • Adedara Arunralojaoba, Yoruba Traditional Music (1981)
  • Chet Atkins, Finger-Style Guitar (1956)
  • Chet Atkins, The Most Popular Guitar (1961)
  • Chet Atkins, The Best of Chet Atkins (1964; German pressing)
  • Chet Atkins, Progressive Pickin’ (1965)
  • Chet Atkins, More of That Guitar Country (1965; German pressing)
  • Chet Atkins, The Best of Chet Atkins Volume 2 (1966; German pressing)
  • Chet Atkins, Solo Flights (1968; German Pressing)
  • Beach Boys, Surfer Girl (1963; German pressing)
  • Beach Boys, Little Deuce Coupe (1963; German pressing)
  • Beach Boys, Beach Boys’ Party! (1965; German pressing)
  • Beach Boys, Surf Beat Fun (1966; German pressing)
  • Beach Boys, Smiley Smile (1967; German pressing)
  • Blood Sweat and Tears, BST (1968)
  • Rose Brennan, Irish Pub Favourites (1963)
  • James Brown, The Dynamic James Brown (1966 ; German pressing)
  • T-Bone Burnett, Behind the Trap Door (1984 – Bono shows up on this one)
  • Dave Brubeck, Time Changes (1963)
  • Canned Heat, Canned Heat (1967)
  • Johnny Cash, The Walls of a Prison (1970)
  • Don Carlos, Harvest Time (1982)
  • Don Carlos, Pass Me the Lazer Beam (1983)
  • Ray Charles, Invites you to Listen (1967; orig. Tangerine/EMI UK pressing)
  • Ray Charles, Greatest Hits (1962; UK pressing)
  • Ray Charles, Greatest Hits, volume 2 (1964; UK pressing)
  • Ray Charles, Live in Concert [recorded at the shrine civic auditorium, LA] (1964; UK pressing)
  • Nat King Cole, The Beautiful Ballads (1967; Capitol orig. German pressing)
  • Dixie Flyers, Light, Medium, Heavy (1977)
  • Dixie Flyers, Just Pickin’ (1978)
  • Dixie Flyers, Cheaper to Lease (1978)
  • Dixie Flyers, For Our Friends (1980)
  • Dubliners, More of the Hard Stuff (1967)
  • Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited (1965 – orig. German pressing)
  • Brian Eno, Manzanera, 801, Listen Now! (1977)
  • Everly Brothers, The Very Best: Newly Recorded in Nashville (1963; German pressing)
  • Marianne Faithful, Broken English (1979)
  • Fats Domino, The Innovator of Rock and Roll Recorded During an Exciting Live Performance (orig. Dutch pressing, Mercury 196?)
  • Fats Domino, Million Sellers Vol. 4 (1969; German pressing)
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Swings Lightly (1958)
  • Flatt and Scruggs, The World of Flatt and Scrugs (2 LP; 1973)
  • Fleetwood Mac, Future Games (1971)
  • Aretha Franklin, Aretha Now (1968; UK pressing)
  • Aretha Franklin, Soul, Soul, Soul (1968; orig. German pressing)
  • Peter Gabriel, Birdy: Music from the Film (1985)
  • Bobbie Gentry, Ode to Billie Joe (1967; German pressing)
  • Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, Jazz Samba (1962)
  • Goon Show (Peter Sellers), The Best of the Goon Shows (1959)
  • Goon Show (Peter Sellers), The Best of the Goon Shows no. 2 (1960)
  • Eddy Grant, Going for Broke (1984)
  • Guitars Unlimited, Volume 2 (1966; French pressing)
  • Al Hirt, Live at Carnegie Hall (1965; German pressing)
  • Al Hirt, Soul in the Horn (1967; German pressing)
  • Billie Holiday, Stormy Blues (2 LPs; 1954-55 [1977])
  • Hollies, Romany (1972)
  • John Lee Hooker, The Blues (United Records)
  • Ian and Sylvia, Lovin’ Sound (1967)
  • Gregory Isaacs, Night Nurse (1982)
  • Gregory Isaacs, Out Deh! (1983)
  • Mahalia Jackson, Great Gettin’ Up Morning (1959)
  • Mahalia Jackson, In Concert (1967)
  • Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick (1972, with original news paper)
  • Jethro Tull, Living in the Past (1972)
  • Jethro Tull, Passion Play (1973)
  • Jethro Tull, War Child (1974)
  • Jethro Tull, Songs from the Wood (1977)
  • Jethro Tull, Heavy Horses (1979)
  • Jethro Tull, Strormwatch (1979)
  • Jethro Tull, The Broadsword (1982)
  • Jr. Walker and the All Stars, Soul Session (1966; UK pressing)
  • Juluka, Scatterlings (1983)
  • Juluka, Stand Your Ground (1984)
  • Juluka (Johnny Clegg and Savuka), Third World Child (1987)
  • Juluka (Johnny Clegg and Savuka), Shadow Man (1988)
  • Kingston Trio, Kingston Trio (1958)
  • Kingston Trio, . . . from the ‘Hungry i’ (live; 1958)
  • Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Umthombo Wamanzi (1982)
  • Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Shaka Zulu (1987)
  • Leveillee and Gagnon, Leveillee-Gagnon (1965; French pressing)
  • Claude Leveillee, 1 Voix 2 Pianos (1966)
  • Limelighters, Tonight: In Person (1960)
  • Little River Band, First Under the Wire (1979)
  • Bob Marley, Legend (1972-81)
  • Ziggy Marley, Conscious Party (1988)
  • Messenjah, Rock You High (1983)
  • Messenjah, Session (1984)
  • Messenjah, Cool Operator (1987)
  • Miriam Makeba, Pata Pata (1967)
  • Mama’s and the Papa’s, If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (1966; German Pressing)
  • Mama’s and the Papa’s, Deliver (1967; German pressing)
  • Bob Marley and the Wailers, Confrontation (1983)
  • Messenjah, Session (
  • Montrose (with Sammy Hagar), Montrose (1973)
  • Youssou N’Dour, Immigres (1988)
  • Dean Martin, Dean Martin Hits Again (1965; German pressing)
  • New Christy Minstrels, Ramblin’ (1963)
  • Bob Newhart, The Button-Down Mind of (1960)
  • Nice, Autumn to Spring (1968 [1973 release])
  • Ebenezer Obey, Current Affairs (1980; UK pressing)
  • Ebenezer Obey, Eyi yato (1980)
  • Ebenezer Obey, Solution (1984; African pressing)
  • Odetta, Sings Folk Songs (1963)
  • Sonny Okosun, Liberation (1984)
  • Peter and Gordon, Somewhere (1966; German pressing)
  • Peter. Paul and Mary, Peter Paul and Mary (1962)
  • Peter. Paul and Mary, Moving (1963)
  • Peter. Paul and Mary, In Concert (1964; German pressing)
  • Peter. Paul and Mary, A Song WIll Rise (1965; German pressing)
  • Peter. Paul and Mary, See What Tomorrow Brings (1965; German pressing)
  • Peter. Paul and Mary, Album (1966; German pressing)
  • Peter. Paul and Mary, Album 1700 (1967; German pressing)
  • Oscar Peterson and Stephane Grappelli, Quartet (2 LPs; 1973)
  • Reggae compilation, Crucial Reggae Driven by Sly and Robbie (1982)
  • Reggae compilation, Reggae Greats (2 LPs; 1985)
  • Pete Seeger, Pete Seger Now (1968; German pressing)
  • Pete Seeger, Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Other Love Songs (1967; UK pressing)
  • Pete Seeger, We Shall Overcome Recorded Live at his Historic Carnegie Hall Concert (1963; UK pressing)
  • Alan Price (of the Animals), O Lucky Man! (soundtrack; 1973)
  • Righteous Brothers, Best of the Righteous Brothers (1966; German pressing)
  • Sam and Dave, Hold On, I’m Comin’ (1966; orig US pressing)
  • Seekers, Come the Day (1966; German pressing)
  • Shadows, Shadow Music (1966; German pressing)
  • Paul Simon, Hearts and Bones (1983)
  • Steel Pulse, Reggae Fever (= Caught You; 1980)
  • Steel Pulse, True Democracy (1982)
  • Steel Pulse,Earth Crisis (1984)
  • Steel Pulse, Babylon the Bandit (1985)
  • Steel Pulse, State of Emergency (1987)
  • Billy Strange, 12 String Guitar: Folk Blues and Blue Grass (1963)
  • Supremes, Greatest Hits (1 LP; orig. British Pressing)
  • Tonio K, Life in the Foodchain (1978)
  • Tina Turner, Private Dancer (1984)
  • UB40, UB44 (1982)
  • UB40, Labour of Love (1983)
  • Vangelis, Chariots of Fire (1981)
  • Ventures, Walk, Don’t Run vol. 2 (1964; German pressing)
  • Ventures, Ventures a go-go (1965)
  • Ventures, $1,000,000.00 Weekend (1967; German pressing)
  • Tom Waits, Closing Time (1973)
  • Tom Waits, Small Change (1976)
  • Rick Wakeman, The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1973)
  • Rick Wakeman, Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1974)
  • Rick Wakeman, White Rock (1976)
  • Rick Wakeman, Criminal Record (1977)
  • Rick Wakeman, 1984 (1981)
  • Rick Wakeman, Silent Nights (1985)
  • Warner-Reprise “Loss Leaders” / Songbook compilations
    • Songbook (2 LP; 1969)
    • Record Show (2 LP; 1969)
    • The Big Ball (2 LP; 1970)
    • Schlagers (2LP; 1970)
    • Looney Tunes Merrie Melodies (3LP; 1970)
    • Non-Dairy Creamer (1971)
    • Menu Hot Platters (1971)
    • Together (1971)
    • The Whole Burbank Catalog (2 LP; 1972)
    • Burbank (2LP; 1972)
    • The Days of Wine and Vinyl (2 LP; 1972)
    • Appetizers (2LP; 1973)
    • All Singing, All Talking, All Rocking (2LP 1973)
  • Dione Warwick, The Windows of the World (1967)
  • Dione Warwick, Valley of the Dolls (1968; French pressing)
  • Weavers, Weavers at Home (1962)
  • Weavers, At Carnegie Hall, vol. 2 (1960 [1963])
  • Neil Young, Harvest (1972 -  better copy but not original pressing)
  • Neil Young, Hawks and Doves (1980)

Classical and related (German pressings):

  • Bach, Brandenburgische Konzerte (Baumgartner and Festival Strings Lurcerne / Archiv Producktion)
  • Debussy, La Mer… (Karajan and BPO)
  • Liszt / Brahms, Ungarische Fantasie fur Klavier und Orchester / Ungarische Tanze Nr. 5, 6, 3, 1 (Karajan and BPO)
  • Ida Presti and Alexandre Lagoya, Musique baroque pour deux guitares (1967)
  • Tchaikowsky, Ouverture 1812, etc. (Karajan and BPO)

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