Trojan Records

Today's charity shop find, three Trojan Record albums, Greatest Hits Vols.1 & 2 and Reggae Chart Busters Vol. 3. What a smashing find, although they're all quite dirty, they all play well, even before cleaning, and each album is packed with cracking tracks. Very happy, man.

Oh happy day

To paraphrase Sun Tzu, if you wait by the river long enough, all that you seek with float by, and I've been standing on that river bank waiting for this to come into sight for an age now.  Bobby Gentry's 'Ode To Billie Joe'.  I've wanted a vinyl copy of this for years and knew one day (like many others I seek) it would turn up in a charity shop record box. I've searched those boxes regularly. Over the years I've come across two other Bobby Gentry albums, both nice, 'Fancy' (released in the UK as 'I'll never fall in love again') and 'Way down South' (the 1972 release of Gentry's 1968 The Delta Sweete'), and today there it was, a lovely condition, vinyl and cover, 'Ode To Billie Joe' for a quid. Oh happy day!

Search and you will find.......sometimes.

The gods/goddesses looked favourably upon me today, four great condition records for 50p each!  Oh happy day.  They may look good when you're excited in the poorly lit charity shop, though it's not until you get them home and onto the deck that you find out whether your excitement was well founded....today mine was. Even before cleaning (I like to give them a play before I clean, who doesn't love the before and after...wow, moment) they played, for the most part, without surface noise and what little was there will cleaned off or easily overlooked. Nice finds all.