Friday, April 20, 2012

Not Soul

Probably my favorite found sleeve note. And correct.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Audible Faults



Found in a copy of The Leather Nun's Cool Shoes/I Wish 45. I've often wondered how a defective record could meander its way from the UK to a Toronto Goodwill store, where I bought the single about a year after it was released. The funny thing is, the record plays fine, so maybe the quality control inspector was editorializing.

Friday, March 30, 2012

Collect The Following



RPM Weekly's Canadian Content chart, January 2, 1967.

There's tons more RPM charts available for your perusal.

Friday, March 9, 2012

RB Library



Now that I'm devoting all my potential blog time to posting on 45cat, I'm unearthing all kinds of oddball stuff from my record, um, accumulation. Actually, the entire accumulation is oddball. For example, these excellent radio library discards.

It's cool that these were the actual records played on air.

Also love the RCA-supplied filing sleeves.

Wonder if any remnants of this library still exist at the station?

Monday, January 30, 2012

Purgatory Blues

Kinda creepy-cool harmonica group sounds.


DC5 45s

A pile of Dave Clark 5 45s I picked up at the Goodwill. Seems Rita had excellent taste in beat combos.











Sunday, January 29, 2012

More Label Shots

I think I'll just post label shots to this blog. With the occasional witticism. Very occasional.



Friday, January 27, 2012

Rompin' Ronnie

So was Ronnie Hawkins the first rocker with his own label?


These sides are from 1965.



Skip ahead 20 or so years for this next one.

Ronn Metcalfe


This is my current favourite record.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Stuff Pops Up


Found this while poking around. Check out Joe Pesci as Lead Tenor of Chang Lee and the Zani-Acts. I knew he made a record in the 60s, but this is way cooler.