Artist	Song
Tim "Love" Lee	Exit 747 (from Just Call Me Lone Lee)
Shirley Bassey	The Liquidator (single)
Alma Cogan	Tell Him (single)
Peggy Lee	I Believe In You (single)
Paul Jones	My Little Red Book (What's New Pussy Cat OST)
Richard Barnes	Maria Elena (Richard Barnes)
Herb Alpert	The Treasure of San Miguel (Sounds Like Herb Alpert)
The Stylistics	Only For The Children (Rockin' Roll Baby)
Ken Boothe	Is It Because I'm Black (Let's Get It On)
Millie	Enoch Power (Time Will Tell)
Prince Far-I	Suru-Lere Dub (Cry Tuff Dub Encounter pt2)
Sadistic Mika Band	Time Machine (Black Ship)
Blue Mink	Somebody's Daughter (Only When I Laugh)
The Posies	Ooh Child (Different Door EP)
The Shadows	Goodnight Dick (Rarities)
Man	Ain't Their Fight (Back To The Future)
Copperhead	Roller Derby Star (Copperhead)
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels	Shakedown (Sock It To Me!)
PJ Proby	Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu (I Am PJ Proby)
Carl Phillips	Wigwam Willie (Rock & Roll Forever)
Silicon Teens	Chip 'n' Roll (Music For Parties)
Ewan MacColl	Ye Jacobites By Name (The Jacobin Rebellions)
Slade	How Does It feel (Slade In Flame)

Comment:

Tho' circumstances have conspired to keep me away me from these parts for the past coupla months, they haven't proved nearly strong enough to put a crimp my charity-shop vinyl-truffling habit.
Here's a selection culled from some of my recent acquisitions together with a few observations...

Tk 1:Know nothing about this album. It was a punt based on the sleeve & paid off handsomely. Soundtrack-in-search-of-a-movie kind of thing. Bits of it had me positing a bizarre hybrid of ZNR & Calexico.
Tk 2:Not the Harry J & The Allstars classic, but the Lalo Schifrin composed theme to a sub-Bond knock-off starring Rod Taylor. Shirl belts it out with customary gusto.
Tk 3:One of Lennon's best mates in a rare visit to the Brill Building
Tk 8: Thom Bell was still at the helm so they hadn't yet succumbed to the schmaltz they always flirted with. Remarkably unsentimental & pragmatic lyrics.
Tk 9: Ken reveals himself to be a lot more raw & fiery than you'd guess solely on the basis of "Everything I Own"
Tk 10: Political satire from Trojan & the "My Boy Lollipop"-er. Who'd a thought it?
Tk 12: I unaccountably missed out on the Sadistics at the time. What an idiot! Possibly the most ear-opening of my purchases. A word to the wise Super-Furry fan.
TK 13: Blue Mink were essentially a conglomeration of the best British sessioners of the early 70s. Naturally they could turn their hands to most styles as this chunk o funk demonstrates.
Tk 14: One of the loveliest songs of the past 40 years. I'd be amazed if the Wondermints hadn't heard this before they decided to cover it.
Tk15: Hank Marvin axe-hero!
Tk 18: Mitch starts casting a few interested glances in the direction of (gulp) psychedelia. A definite modal sound to those guitar-licks.
Tk 20 Know absolutely zilch about this or any of the other tracks on this suspicious-looking Dutch compilation. They all appear to be super-rare rockabilly sides and they are without exception teriffic! A great find.
Tk 22 Slade get all grown-up and serious on the opening track to the album tie-in of their only feature film (The Citizen Kane of pop movies according to one critic). A McCartney-esque piano vamp. Noddy sounding alternately exhausted, battered, bewildered & wistful. A rasping, riffing brass section. A running-length of almost 6 minutes. It shouldn't work. But it does.

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