Julie London – Julie Is Her Name Volume Two, Analogue Productions (2016)
This is Vol 2 45RPM version remastered by KG and pressed at QRP found this nearly mint copy for £40 inc postage. I’d like to add the BG cut Vol 1 when I find a reasonably priced copy.
My replacement of The 3 Sounds turned up which still clicks twice on the intro to both sides but doesn’t skip so it’s obviously another Optimal c*** up It’s such a fantastic record that I’ve decided to keep it as I just can’t be bothered to return it and the rest sounds good enough.
Arrived this morning, a trio of the AP Atlantic 75 45s.
Should be excellent!
Hall & Oates Abandoned Luncheonette
Charlie Mingus Blues & Roots
David Crosby
If I Could Only Remember My Name
A musically excellent but sonically rather uneven collection from DB and Sony Columbia. Probably most notable for offering the Pet Shop Boys’ Hello Spaceboy. Some tracks sound very good, but weirdly the ones that you know should sound fab instead sound flat (Let’s Dance, Modern love and China Girl for example). Maybe Sony didn’t get the original master tapes from the let’s Dance album.?
Julie London - This is Julie London, Analogue Productions (2016)
Cracking LP with reference quality sound the AP 45rpm Lady in Satin is very, very good but this better.
So, on my travels earlier today, I managed to pick up a US first vinyl pressing of Todd’s A Wizard, A True Star (complete with the funny cut inner and outer sleeves) for a mere five English pounds. Both sleeves, as well as the record, look to be in very decent nick. Result!
And from the same place, I got a first (1974) French pressing of the double LP Todd. Poster was missing so again, it was just a fiver.
Paul Weller - 66, Polydor Records (2024)
In his 66th year and his 45th of releasing quality popular music he has produced another top quality album really nicely mastered too it sounds excellent on my set up. I’ve only played the regular 33rpm version and not tried the 7" box set yet.
A Wizard… was the first Todd I ever bought. I adored it then and still do.
What a glorious album.
Bit of a shopping spree the last couple of days. I keep telling myself that I need to take a break but I just end up having to but more storage units …
Is ‘Ship Of Fools’ a cover of the Doors’ song?
There are those weasel words “cut at 45 RPM” when they mean that it plays at 45 RPM, so that LP is a no-no for me.
Nope. Nothing like it.
‘Weasel words’!
The b!stards…
How very dare they! 
My latest purchase arrived today - Rafael Kubelik’s November 1973 Chicago SO recording of Bartok’s Concert for Orchestra in DG’s wonderful limited edition The Original Source LP series, which is record number 1583 of the 3000 pressed.
Even though there is some awesome 45rpm material out there, I presume that the chances of you adapting one of those two gorgeous LP12’s to 45rpm is less than zero?
The prospect might be as high as 1%. I actually bought one of those Linn 45RPM adapter thingies (for about £45, if I recall correctly), but the amount of force that seems to be necessary to push it onto the motor pulley seems to be ridiculous, and there would need to be at lest as much effort to prise the wretched thing off again.
Some ‘helpful’ soul suggested trimming (ie cutting) the rubber O ring in the adapter, but that seems preposterous to me.
So I just have to be vigilant when I buy LPs not to buy those that play at the wrong speed. I have been largely successful, but three have slipped through recently - Gwen Stefani’s ‘Love `Angel Music Baby’ (two copies d*mnit), Mark Knopfler’s ‘One Deep River’, and The Jesus And Mary Chain’s ‘Glasgow Eyes’, all of which are 2LP sets, perhaps because of the short side lengths.
The ‘LAMB’ LP does have a prominent sticker about the wrong speed - which didn’t help, as I bought from Amazon.
