Flea market finds

Sunday March 26, 2006

Twenty-two albums! $42.50! Hope for the same amount, you enjoy your three new CDs or 42 iTunes downloads, o you hip cognoscenti sans turntables! Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha!!

First, we have the five title (six Lp)
Instant Rolling Stones Starter Collection:
SOME GIRLS
GOT LIVE IF YOU WANT IT (in mono!)
IT'S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL
THROUGH THE PAST DARKLY (BIG HITS, VOL TWO) (Not the stop-sign-shaped cover, unfortunately)
LOVE YOU LIVE (double Lp)

then, the
Mini UTOPIA Starter Set:
UTOPIA (self-titled first album on Bearsville)
TRIVIA (A 1986 album... don't even remember seeing this one when it was new. I also passed by a $2.00 copy of Rundgren's solo album FAITHFUL.)


...plus these other great hits

THE VERY BEST OF CONNIE FRANCIS
(this is a 1970s stereo reissue; undoubtedly some of the tracks are rechannelled; ah well)

Chubby Checker - LIMBO PARTY
(Cool Cameo-Parkway album)

Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra - GILLESPIANA
(A suite of pieces composed and arranged by Lalo Schifrin, mono, on Verve.)

Crosby-Nash LIVE
(1977 live set on ABC records. I have a Crosby-Nash live CD called ANOTHER STONEY EVENING... I don't know if this is the same stuff or not... haven't played this LP yet.)

Levon Helm - AMERICAN SON
(1980 solo Lp. Kinda remember when this was new... but it was sooooo long ago...)

Jimmy Smith - I'M GON' GIT MYSELF TOGETHER
(c 1969. How do I know? Tracks include "Spill The Wine," "Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay," and "Sugar Sugar." Do the math.)

Sonny Terry - SONNY IS KING
(reissue of a Bluesville-Prestige album featuring Sonny McGhee and Lightnin' Hopkins)

Diana Ross and the Supremes - REFLECTIONS
(Original stereo Motown Lp... title track is one of my favorite latterday singles of theirs; "In And Out Of Love," another great late single, is on here, too.)

Tommy Edwards - IT'S ALL IN THE GAME
(Original mono MGM lp)

Little Richard - THE ESSENTIAL LITTLE RICHARD
(Double pocket Lp of digitally remastered Specialty greatest hits. Ironic: I've been wanting to hear Penniman's version of "Baby Face" lately. And here it is!)

Fleetwood Mac - FUTURE GAMES
(1971; the first Danny Kirwan-Bob Welch-Christine McVie Mac album. Two tracks skip, but whattaya want for two bucks???)

Hoagy Carmichael - AT HOME WITH HOAGY
(Airchecks from 1944, 1952 and 1954, the 1944 shows "sponsored by Numade Mayonnaise")

Santo and Johnny
(self-titled album with "Sleepwalk")

Golden Earring - MOONTAN
(I bought this one for the cover. To this day, there's still something that feels ILLICIT about buying an album with a naked lady on the cover)

Beatles - REVOLVER
(This one was a disappointment and a lesson. Disappointment: the cover says MONO; I didn't inspect it closely and when I got it home, discovered the record was stereo. So now I have three stereo copies of this album. Lesson: READ LABEL CLOSELY!!!!!)