A Word Of Warning

There is a lot of cheap Chinese SSD PC memory for sale i.e. 16TB for £13, the equivalent item if you can get it from a reputable manufacturer would cost in the region of £700+

Most places have sold out but a few were still showing it in stock at over £1,000+ some places are selling 8TB SSD divers for over £1,000, people are now asking over £1,000 for 4TB drives. it makes the cheap SSD drives look attractive.

A reputable SSD Drive

Do not Buy or Connect one of these cheap SSD drives to your PC, if you connect one and have other external drives connected the Chinese Cheap SSD drive will kill the other external drives.

Terry Knight - Saint Paul

 

A 1969 release, the story I head was that when the Beatles Abbey Road LP was released there was a rumour spreading that Paul McCartney had been killed in a car crash and that a he had been replaced in the band by a ringer, the cover of the Abbey Road LP was the first part of he announcement Paul McCartney has no shoes and the number plates of the cars parked in the road gave the rest of the information.  I can not recall where I first came across this track, possibly on a CD of reply/novelty or Beatles related tracks, I did get a limited edition CD that has 2 versions of this song and 2 other Paul McCartney tribute songs, I have since found a third version of this song, I do not know how limited the CD of Paul McCartney songs is as my copy is #66 other copies have been listed and they always seen to be #66.

"Saint Paul" - Terry Knight in Full Dimensional Stereo

More Additional Memory Woes

 Last week I received an email informing me that the SSD drive had been repaired and was being despatched to me, I later got 2 additional emails saying the consignment my package was part of was being held at Customs, a further email said that the whole consignment had been returned to the sender, I I then got an apology for the delay the next day another email my package has cleared customs and should be at my pick up point on Monday.

The consignment returned reminded me of the short time I spent in stores, the returned broken/failed items that were returned to the stores were sorted and returned to the manufactures for refurbishment or repairs one company all items in the box had to be listed, it was routine anything you put in that box was listed on the paperwork, one week the box was returned there was an extra item in the box, the box was unpacked and every item checked with the inventory, it all corresponded, in the bottom of the box was a small screw that had come off one of the other items, because the screw was not on the inventory they rejected the whole consignment, the screw was returned to the item it came from and the consignment was accepted.

No Artist - G.S. Parody

This is a custom record released 1965, It is not known how or to whom the record was targeted to, the song relates to the policies of the then President LBJ, and how his policies were affecting the country, sounds familiar. 

I first came across this record on WFMU 365 Days Project.

It's the first Hook Road Arena Boot Sale of the year today, there was quite lot of rain on Friday with some more rain on Saturday, the Arena is on clay soil and does not drain well or quickly in previous years when the early Boot Sales went ahead after rain many of the cars had to be towed out of the site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD8-3alMjh8

Additional Memory

 

The new memory hub arrived earlier this week, the 8TB drive is with Samsung for repairs, hopefully it will be back next week or two, I have downloaded over 200,000 tracks from the original drives, two drives was blank, the tacks were over 3 drives.

I have got out one of the boxes of CD's and started loading them on to the PC, a number are on the PC I used to save everything at 192kbps now I save them at 320kbps, the reason I saved them at 192kbps was a long gone site called 'Grumpy's Golden Oldies' often there would be requests, towards the end it became a general request site with people requesting tracks people that had the track would provide it, on Sunday at the Hook Road Boot Sale I found a Procol Harum single, I went to the PC to upload some of the records and there on Grumpy's wants list was the Procol Harum record I had just brought, I started the' Lord Of The Boot Sale' blog shortly before the demise of 'Grumpy's Golden Oldies'. When I stated the blog I was after a title like 'Worlds Worst Records' but that title was already taken, the person running it had a much better collection of that type of record than I did, for a couple of years he had a radio show once a week on WFMU, I think the shows are still in the archive, The Worlds Worst Records Blog was taken down a couple of months ago, I am not sure if it was voluntary or forced there had been no new posts for sometime, the names of closed blogs are released for reuse after 7 years.

To download the CD's I am using an old Samsung free standing CD/DVD drive dating back to the times when PC's only had a CD drive, later they would add a second separate DVD drive and later the drives would be combined.

Pinky & Perky - Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour On The Bedpost Overnight

Released 1959 and unusual for a UK released 45 some came in a Picture Sleeve, the arrangement of the song is taken direct from the Lonnie Donegan version including the jokes, in the introduction it is Perky who is snoring, to distinguish the puppets in TV's black & white days Perky always wore a hat, in more than one quiz this has come out as a queston, one young team had no idea who Pinky & Perky were.

Pinky & Perky ~ Does your chewing gum lose its flavour ~ 1959

Memory Failure

 

For some time I have been backing up all my music to an 8TB SSD drive, prior to this all my music was backed up to a pair of 4TB disc drives, I recently acquired some additional external memory and was backing up the data as I had realised that if the SSD was lost, stolen or failed I would lose all the data. half way through the transfer the SSD drive failed, the drive was still under warranty eventually after much correspondence has been sent for repair and will be returned with no data, I think the additional memory caused the problem so I have not used it since and will probably bin it, as a stopgap I brought a 20TB HDD drive and was going to buy a 16TB SSD drive unfortunately for me the SSD drive was out of stock.

I have a new connecting cable for the original drive on order and will transfer the data to the new back up memory, when I was doing the original transfer their was too much data to transfer in one go I was transferring it in blocks and was thinking shall I delete the block once I had transferd it luckily I decided not to delete once transferd.

Billy Jones & Ernest Hare - Does The Spearmint Lose Its Flavour On the Bedpost Overnight

The original of 'Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight, released 1924, I do not know if this record had a UK release, Spearmint was a registered trade mark this would have possibly restricted the playing on BBC radio, in the 1950's Lonnie Donigan changed it to  chewing gum.

In the early 1960's 78rpm records were common at jumble sales, I lived in Hampton, Middlesex until I was 21, their was a Farther and Son who went to all the Jumble Sales and brought all the 78's, their front room was floor to ceiling shelves full of 78's, in those days 45's were rare items at Jumble Sales/Junk shops but there were three that regulary turned up, the first was Lonnie Donnegan - Does Your Chewing Gum Loose It's Flavour On The Bedpost Over Night, the other records were Nina & Fredrick - Listen To The Ocean and Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren - Goodness Gracious Me, I have not seen a copy of these three records for many years.

I have in my collection two Lonnie Donigan vinyl 78's produced by Pye, these seen to be a bit of an oddity as when they were issued the people who brought 78's tended to have older record players that used traditional gramaphone needles, playing a vinyl record would destroy the record, people who had moden record players would buy the recording on a 45, Top Rank also produced vinyl 78's, these did not sell well and most ended up on Market Stalls being sold of cheap.

Billy Jones & Ernest Hare - Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight 1924

Hermione Gingold - Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour

 

Released 3rd March 1967in the UK,  Hermione Gingold was 69 when she made this record, she had a previous UK record release in 1955 and a second American release in 1967 with Someting Stupid.

Hermione Gingold 'Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour'

Here is the second American release from 1967, no one has yet posted a copy on 45Cat.

Hermione Gingold : Something Stupid

New Records

Irene 'Granny' Ryan - No Time At All

 

The second single from Irene Ryan, taken from the show 'Pippin', on March 10th 1973 Irene Ryan collapsed on stage during a performance with an apparent stroke, she was diagnosed with incurable brain cancer and died 26th April 1973. 

Irene Ryan is not an artist you would not associate with Motown, they had the musical rights to the show, other performers I have come across on unusual labels were Bing Crosby and Lena Zabaroni (not together) on Stax, if I recall issued in Vietnam.

Irene Granny Ryan - No Time At All 1973

Granny (Irene Ryan) - Granny's Mini Skirt

 

Granny played byIrene Ryan from the TV show Bevely Hillbillies released this record in 1968, this record has been mentioned as one of the worst records of all time!

Granny's Mini-Skirt by Irene Ryan

Squareabouts - Phrase Craze

 

Much to my suprise this record is on YouTube, the Squareabouts released 8 records in the USA, this was the 4th release and the only one with a German release.

The Squareabouts - Phrase Craze

Dave Dee, Beaky, Mitch & Titch - Mrs Thursday

 

Released 1968, the 'B'side of  'Last Night In Soho' apart from the title has no connection with the Kathleen Harrison record of two years earlier. 

mrs thursday - YouTube

Kathleen Harrison - Mrs. Thursday

Kathleen Harrison  23 February 1892 – 7 December,  1995 an English actress who appeared in many films and TV programs such as The Huggets, Mrs Dilber in the 1951 version of Scrooge and the 1966-67 TV series Mrs Thursday where a cleaner inherits a 10 million pound fortune and a controlling interest in a major company.

The theme music to the 1966 TV series Mrs Thursday was released as a single. 

Kathleen Harrison - Mrs Thursday / Call Round Any Old Tme (1966)

I had a visit to Epsom during the week and for a change I visited the Charity shops I brought about 20+ records.

Here are a few of the records.

I have no idea about this record, I suspect it is a German release, with dance instructions included.

Peter Cook & Dudley Moore a 1965 EP, this was at the back of the box.

Kenneth McKeller a 1966 release, songs for the Eurovision Song Contest. The UK finished 9th with the song, A Man Without Love.

Nat King Cole singing in Spanish no release date on this record.

Unusal for this Armrican record it has the year of release on the label, this record was not part of the recent purchases, it was part of a batch of about 100 I got last year, I am picking up another batch early in Feburary.

Musketeer Gripweed & The Third Troop - How I Won The War

 

I was outbid on this 1967 release more than once, I then discovered the track is on a LP, as luck would have it, I found a copy of the LP on eBay listed at £1, I put my bid in and much to my surprise I won the LP at my initial bid, the LP has been re-issued as a CD however this track is missing from the CD as they did not have the rights to use it.

In the film John Lennon plays the character of Musketeer Gripweed, he does not appear on the record, the record was possibly released to cash in on John Lennon's fame.

How I Won The War - United Artists : UP 1196 DJ (45s)

Wendy Richard & Diana Berry - Keep 'Em Looking Around

 

Wendy Richard had appeaed on Mike Saerne's1962 #1 record 'Come Oustaside'.

Wendy Richard And Diana Berry - Keep 'Em Looking Around

Wendy Burton - 17 Million Bicycles

 

 

Released 1962, The only record from Wendy Burton.

Seventeen Million Bicycles

Caroline Binkley - I Want A Baby Brother For Christmas

 

Wishing every one a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Caroline Binkley - I Want A Baby Brother For Christmas

Released 1965 only in the USA,  this was re-released as the 'B' side of 'Mr Pilot' a promotional only record in 1966. 

This record according to the cover notes was the Christmas record of 1965 challenging Denise Regan - Hole In My Socking for the accolade, in the event of things this record is the more common of the two.

1965 Carolyn Binkley - I Want A Baby Brother For Christmas

Caroline Binkley - All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth

Released 1965 the 'B' side of the first of 3 released for Caroline Binkley, though the 3rd release was a DJ only record. I have to confess that I have all 3 of Caroline Binkley's records.

 Carolyn Binkley - All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth