Phil Tate and his Orchestra - Quick Step - Rose Marie & Foxtrot - This Is My Lovely Day

 First released in 1957, records like this would be in he catalogue for many years selling in steady numbers to the many Dance Schools around in those days, there are some Phil Tate Foxtrots and Quicksteps on YouTube but not these ones, also it is not on 45Cat.

Oriole's Quality Control (did they have any?) seemed to have slipped there being bits of label in the  run-out track.

In the early days I would often find records labelled such as 'Paul and Sylvia's Record', it would have been played two or three times a night as the couple practised their routine for an upcoming competition/exhibition.

Last Wednesday I picked up 120+ singles, 2 LP's and 1CD.

Here are some scans of a couple of the records.

I remember the Flexi Discs being given away with Mad Magazine, in the USA they were issued on a LP.

I know nothing about this record, one of  two releases on the Oddball record label.

Chrispy And Company - Brazil

 Released 1stAugust 1975 reaching #26 in the UK charts, by 1975 I had given up buying records having moved into my first house and I was finding money tight, the record buying did not stop entirely as the nearest shopping centre at South Harrow had a market one of the stalls 'Sellandbuy' sold second hand records, they also had a shop in the main street selling new records.

This is not a style of record I would have brought in those days, and was put in the pile to make up a round number.

During the week I managed to fill up the 4TB drive,to make space I was transferring non essential bits to other drives and deleting duplicate tracks, I first saved the tracks at 192kbs now I save the tracks at 320kbs, I did look at buying some more additional memory 4TB SSD drive cost me about £250 and the 8TB SSD Drive £500. I looked and now people are asking over £1.000 for 4TB SSD drive and over £2,000 for a 8TB SSD drive, the demand for SSD memory for use in AI has caused the price to rocket, I know there are adverts on the internet for Chinese16TB and 32TB SSD drives for £30-£50, I tried one once and it killed both a 8TB SDD drive and a 20TB HDD drive, once bitten twice shy.

Crispy And Company - Brazil - Disco - 45 rpm Vinyl

Bee Gees - Lamplight

 I always preferred this side of the record, and it was played more than the 'A' side my copy was almost worn out, 1969 was the year I left School and started my first  job I realised that I had made a mistake with the job I had chosen but I continued and completed my apprenticeship, the final blow came with the 3 day week in 1974, the management found out they could have power for 6 half days so they jumped at it, we lost our day off so were working 6 days instead of 5 all we lost of the working week was the late night on Friday 2 hours, we had to be there at our normal start time though we were not allowed power until 10.00 and finish at 16.00 but we had to stay until 17.30 as management said someone mite want a comb out, there would only be 1 or 2 of these in a week more often none, they had almost 30 staff waiting for 15p's worth of work, the manageress who had just brought a new Mercedes sports car was moaning 'we are not taking the money we can not afford to pay the staff, I thought 'sod that for a game of solderers' and never went back, they said I would not get another job, I got one at the Water Board, I didn't last long at it but was going to leave anyway, recently I heard the Governments Chief Idiot (The Prime Minister) saying he wanted to take us back to the 1970's, I thought which part the 3 day week or the winter of discontent though that was in the early 1980's .

I survived the eye test and have now been fully discharged from  St Helliers Hospital, no more eye drops until my yearly eye test in April/May.

Bee Gees - Lamplight (Keep on Burning)

Bee Gees - First Of May

 

While looking through the records in one Charity Shop there was a pristine copy of the Bee Gees - First Of  May, my original copy is somewhat worn, I was a bee Gees fan and had most of their LP.'s but fiances would not let me afford the double album 'Odessa' but lucky for me they later released it as 2 single albums at 99p each on Polydors budget 99 label. 

Some early publicity shows that the catalogue number allocated to this record was going to be the title track from the double LP Odessa as Odessa Part 1 as the 'A' side and Odessa Part 2 as the 'B' side, this was amended quite early to First Of May and Lamplight. 

There were tensions within the Bee Gees at this time, Vince Melorney had left the Bee Gees after I've Gotta' Get A Message To You, it was a remark about First Of May by a DJ that caused Robin Gibb to leave the Bee Gees, I can remember hearing the remark but I can not recall which which DJ it was, he said " I see that Robin has been relegated to the "B" side".  

Recently I managed to find the one Bee Gees single that had eluded me "To Love Somebody".

BEE GEES FIRST OF MAY 

Maureen Evans - Acapulco Mexico

 

The 'B' side of Maureen Evans 'Tommorow Is Another Day'.

I will be  going into Epsom later today and will have another look around the Charity Shops for any records, i am not looking forward to tomorrow as I have an appointment at St. Helliers Eye Department in the afternoon, it is the last appointment about when I lost the sight in my right eye, the problem has like they said it would clear itself of its own accord.

Acapulco Mexico

Maureen Evans - Tomorrow Is Another day

 

Released March 1963, this record was amongst a small batch I brought in one of the Epsom Charity Shops recently, Usually the only Maureen Evens record that turns up is 'Like I Do' I was surprised when it  was a different record, her Embassy records turn up a little more often, I have often thought what would happen if Maureen Evans had a big hit with one of her Oriole records, who would record it for Woolworths Embassy label, by the time this record was released Maureen Evans had not recorded an Embassy cover track since 1960/1, Maureen was one of the few artists who transitioned to CBS when CBS decided to cease the Oriole (and Embassy) labels in late 1964.

One of the people I sometimes meet at boot sales had a big collection of Embassy records he was only six short of the complete set and I had at least 3 0f the missing ones, he decided to sell his collection I would have brought it but by the time I met him he had already sold it, but he kept all the Maureen Evans records.

Maureen Evans - Tomorrow Is Another Day

Billie And Lillie - Honeymoonin'

For some reason there is no scan of this side of the record on 45Cat, the typesetter has missed the apostrophe off at the end of  Honeymoonin', all the other copies shown on 45cat have the apostrophe.

(4) Honeymoonin' - YouTube