Back To The Buget Bin!
Naturally, I set my sights on cheap-jack artifacts from the 'sixties and I wasn't disappointed. Here are some high-lights from my outing.
Given my irrational fascination with Beatle cash-in records, I'd have to say the major "find" of this particular outing was the "Sing A Song With The Beatles" LP on the Tower record label.
It's one of those audacious rip-off where an inattentive consumer hight've been lulled into thinking this was a legit album by the four lads from Liverpool. After all, there are their full-color pictures right on the front cover! And look "THE BEATLES" is displayed in large print right there at the top!
Now, if you knew what you were getting, this was a pretty cool record. There are instrumental "backing tracks" from eleven then-current Beatles songs on the record. The gate-fold sleeve includes all the lyrics and guitar chords so that one could sing and play along.
I'd been stalking this one for years, but the typical $100 price tag put it out of my range. This copy had a $4 sticker on it, so I pounced. It's in nice shape, too, barring a split at the top of the jacket. Sweet!

4 kids + wigs + guitar + harmonica + bass + LP = BEATLES!
Yep, it had on of those $100 price tags, so back in the bin it went.
But a new search has started. Maybe I'll find an affordable copy by the time I'm sixty?


Hey! Wait a minute! Who are these guys and what are they doing here?
Well, I found a couple interesting-looking big band compilations put out by Circle Records in 1983 and though I'd take a flyer. I like big bands and at a buck-apiece, how could I lose?
The picture, above, is from the "Tiny" Hill (far left) and his Orchestra (1943-1944) LP.
I also got Ray Herbeck and his Modern Music with Romance (1942). Wow, what an unwieldy moniker, eh?
Oh, boy! Look what I found in the fifty cent bin! Man, a cool Mexican 45 with a really boss-looking picture sleeve. Los Pekenikes? Never heard of them! But the photo shows a quintet of angst-laden teens with electric guitars, so it has to be good, right?
Wrong!
Lady Pepa and Arena Caliente are two slices of prime musack from south of the border. This was really unexpected. Ah, well. It still is a pretty cool picture sleeve and I did manage to escape into the world of record collector geekdom for an afternoon.
Well, gang. That's my report. Now, the next big challenge will be to find time to listen to this stuff.
Labels: budget bin
5 Comments:
Little round slices of heaven!
Allan: More like slices of cheese, at least in this case!
So how many albums do you actually have these days?
You must have felt like a kid in a candy store.
Thanks for sharing your finds!
Hi, LOS PEKENIKES are a 60's spanish pop group.
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