Boot Sale Sounds Blog - Bands on tour

• The City Quads

  I can't believe I haven't uploaded some tracks from this LP before. Its one I found at Brick Lane flea market many years ago for a few pence. Its on the Polydor label and made in what was Rhodesia and is now a troubled Zimbabwe. Sleeve printed in Germany. No...(read full post)

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  • City
• Allan Sherman

  Found this 1964 LP by Allan Sherman at the roadside bookstall in All Saints in Manchester at the weekend. A few good novelty songs based on old standards given a Jewish twist. The only thing that spoils it for me is the canned laughter and applause on each track.Wikipedia says-"Employed...(read full post)

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  • Here ON TOUR (UK)
  • Paul Revere
• Laff Blasts From The Past

  A great Lp I found a few years back in Brick Lane in East London. It's a compilation of amusing r&b songs from the archives of Herb Abramson. Released in 1985 on the Red Lightnin' label."He was born in 1916 in Brooklyn, New York City and initially studied to be...(read full post)

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  • Here ON TOUR (UK)
• Bo Diddley 1928 - 2008

  Sad news about Bo Diddley who died yesterday from heart failure. A few tracks here from an old Pye International LP just called "Bo Diddley" from 1963."Born in McComb, Mississippi as Ellas Otha Bates, he was adopted and raised by his mother's cousin, Gussie McDaniel, whose surname he assumed, becoming...(read full post)

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  • You ON TOUR (UK)
• Bobby Thompson ( The Little Waster )

  I found this today in the Age Concern shop for 75p. The accent is a bit hard going at times and one can see why he really didn't mean much outside of his North East England patch."Famous for his broad North-east accent, self-deprecating humour and mastery of the mother-in-law joke,...(read full post)

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  • Here ON TOUR (UK)
• Singing Dogs

  Another 78 from the boot on Sunday. I remember this oddity being played on Children's Favourites on the radio when I was a nipper. "Carl Weismann - Danish legendary pioneer bird voice recording engineer, working for the Danish State Radio in Copenhagen - HATED dogs!Yeah, well - he hated their...(read full post)

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  • State Radio ON TOUR (US)
• Cranes Skiffle Group

  Another 78 from the boot sale today. On the Embassy label from 1957. Cranes Skiffle Group was actually Chas McDevitt and His band who had a big hit with "Freight Train" with Nancy Whiskey singing the lead vocal that same year."The group had already recorded 'Freight Train' for Oriole Records;...(read full post)

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  • Here ON TOUR (UK)
• Roy Hudd

  This LP is on the Flash Back series on Precision Record label from 1976. "A famous face in showbiz for thirty five years, Roy Hudd is natural comedy entertainer, a talented actor, playwright, sketch-writer, and performer. He broke into TV appearing on Not So Much A Programme, More A Way...(read full post)

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  • Here ON TOUR (UK)
  • You ON TOUR (UK)