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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 9h
Said this before, but you could write an interesting book on the books/films/music that were huge in their time but rapidly disappeared from any collective knowledge. Only hardly anyone would read it, because they wouldn't recognise them.
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 6h
Classic!
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lovely chilled b-side on this too youtu.be/M6LKhwA0AgI
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Monsoon - Sunset Over The Ganges
YouTube video by Thomas Noël
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yesterday I belatedly (only about 30 years later!) learnt one of my favourite reggae tracks was a cover... 😳 Wonder if it was the original or the Jr Walker version they were covering? (there are a few JA covers of Jr Walker tracks)
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BluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Howlin' Wolf at the American Folk Blues Festival '64. 🎶'Love Me Darlin'' #blues #bluesmusic
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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
1950 - Yma Sumac - Taita Inty (Hymn of The Sun Virgin) An allegedly thousand year old song from the singer with one of the most distinctive voices, and filmed on actual video tape!
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DIMORPHODONS @dimorphodons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
a pile of junk in a trailer on facebook marketplace in Clacton. The price is £110, the title, ‘Mrs’
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Soundway stuff is pretty good value for money I think? Went to a local new records shop to get the Womack Sisters LP and also bought these two. 🇰🇪 Kenya Special is a triple LP with bonus 45 and bandcamp link (£31.99) and 🇬🇾 Yoruba Singers reissue was £12.99
Two LP sleeves - Kenya Special comp and The Yoruba Singers "Ojinga's Own" with the band wearing African robes in front of what looks like a little model version of the Georgetown lighthouse (red/white vertical stripes)
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Found this 70s Flamenco album in a local shop's pound box. I like flamenco a lot anyway but this has a couple of funky rumbas on too where they break out the wah wah guitars and brass 💃 Pretty uncool but I love it 😃 Amina - Improvaciones Flamencas youtu.be/ZizMPkenX-s
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Libre como el viento (Rumba)
YouTube video by Amina - Topic
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Al @ridebikes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Easily one of the greatest videos in the history of mankind 🪩 youtu.be/YKgmZTUlC94?...
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solla
YouTube video by ponhrokotsifi
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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 24/09/2026
Thanks but no thanks, Temu.
Cilla Black t-shirt
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is nice - reissue of a tape-only 80s release: Alice Damon "Windsong". A track is on the "I Am The Center" new age comp (which I've not listened to enough, the curse of the boxset). Was in the half price box in Casbah in Greenwich
LP sleeve in shrinkwrap, with pale blue neat lettering and a circular motif on a white background
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Remembered Sky Madrid 2024 #RememberedSky
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Charles Sheffield went for over £900 😞 I know it was a Carolina-soul auction and they always get top prices, but still...
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Ed Hodgson @edhodgson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#NowHearThis Day 20 Songs that deserve to be more widely known and loved Lorraine Johnson - Can I Hold You To It 15k plays on Spotify for a gorgeous 1973 soul tune youtu.be/HypFDDijHzE?...
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Lorraine Johnson - Can I Hold You To It
YouTube video by salvmac
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is interesting - a Taiwanese bootleg of a Studio 2 Big Ben Hawaiian Band LP with the Beatles on the sleeve!
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
25p CD from last week - The Red Stripe Ebony Steel Presents Popular Beatles Songs This was actually on my Discogs wantlist although I don't remember adding it, guess someone must have recommended it years ago? #NowPlaying
CD jewel case, booklet has picture of the sea with palm trees silhouetted against a very red sunset
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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Dunk on Yacht Rock music. Fine. But don’t suggest “it’s not a real genre” or use it for any mellow song released since the late 60s. It may be a retronym (as are most genres) but the originators of the term (actually identifiable, which is rare) have hosted a podcast for over a decade to…
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Guy at a local jumble trail this morning was selling a box of tatty pop 45s he'd had in a jukebox. Also in there were some of his mum's old "lovers rock" (his words). Besides uninteresting Trojan stuff etc there were a few more interesting JA 45s. £1 each 😃 Details in alt. #WeekendSingles
Lloyd Parks "Slaving" on a white label "blank"Baba Brooks "Distant Drums" / Larry Marshall "Too Young to Love" on Top DeckGiggs & Wilson "If you want Pardon" / Baba Brooks "Musical Communion" on a black Dutchess label Derrick Morgan "Me Naw Give Up" / Baba Brooks "Dreadnought" on Beverley's
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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Excellent Channel One thread:
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Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And if you ever wanted to see a live version of "Okolona River Bottom Band" as performed by Bobbie Gentry with that sultan of sultriness, Bing Crosby, at the Hollywood Palace circa 1968 - here you go. m.youtube.com/watch?v=vyAz...
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Bing Crosby and Bobbie Gentry - Okolona River Bottom Band
YouTube video by W Meeze
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wow, this is crazy
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Solitary charity shop find this week, Asha Puthli's fourth album "L'Indiana" (no poster). Don't have her others, this is ok euro disco. This copy is Italian, looks like other countries got versions with fewer tracks but extended mixes...
LP album sleeve with photo of Asha Puthli against a purple-ish lit background with her hands either side of her face, and the text "ASHA" and "L'INDIANA" in white block lettering on her hair/hat(?)
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Third and final record from the fair last week: Webley Edwards "Fire Goddess" He presented a long running radio show from Hawaii, and this is a bit more authentic than most Exotica LPs. Have another of his LPs somewhere and also a couple of good ones by a singer from his show
Laminated UK LP sleeve of Webley Edwards "Fire Goddess" on Capitol Records. Cover is solid black with a woman with heavy eye makeup (and no top on!) staring intently at the viewer and holding two burning bowls at arm's length
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Another purchase from the Spitalfields fair last week. Couple of tracks by the Chantells that aren't on the LP - I'll Never Fall In Love / Hey You (Think both are covers but can't remember who else did them now, b-side is loosely based on the Impressions "You Always Hurt Me")
Jamaican Phase One label 12" with yellow deep groove label and a white and red "Disco 45" company sleeve
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A long time want found at Spitalfields last week, hardly ever seems to turn up. Is a bit scruffy but was pretty cheap. Love a version of "Taboo" and this is one of my favourites. The Caribs were Australian (I think) musicians who recorded for Chris Blackwell in Jamaica before he moved to the UK
Close up of a slightly scruffy label of a UK "Starlite" 45, with gold type on a purple background.
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Also found this bit of nonsense (just on a normal turquoise HMV 45, no picture sleeve or anything) - Kenny Lynch "Puff (Up In Smoke)"
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Found this Ted Heath 45 for 50p today, never knew he covered The Sidewinder, not too bad a version I guess
Close up of a navy blue UK Decca label 45 with push-out centre in a Decca company sleeve
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That's a great photo!
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Realm of Dusk @realm-of-dusk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Preemo. Weird noises. Perfect. A lot of hip-hop beats sound flat without the rhyming, but this one is even better as an instrumental. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWc3...
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Jeru The Damaja - Physical Stamina (Instrumental)
YouTube video by Big Smoke
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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 13/09/2026
“There wasn’t no drums hardly in reggae music, period; you didn’t hear no high-hat, you didn’t hear no foot drum, you didn’t hear no snare … so we decided to feature the drum now, because the Americans was featuring the drum in funk.” Remembering Joseph Hoo-Kim, Channel One founder:
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Remembering Joseph Hoo-Kim – the legendary roots producer and Channel One founder — The Vinyl Factory
From running a jukebox business in Kingston to a record shop and pressing plant in New York, Joseph Hoo-Kim had the music industry in his veins. It was as founder of Channel One Studios however that the producer made his biggest impact. Following Hoo-Kim’s death in 2018 at the age of 75, David Katz looks […]
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years since I asked William Basinski to copy some tapes for me and he ruined them. I’m still mad about it.
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Brilliant thread
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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just wanted to point out the sax solo on The Valentines’ 1956 “The Woo Woo Train.”
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Solitary charity shop buy today was a tatty copy of this Lois Lane LP (Lois Wilkinson from The Caravelles) www.discogs.com/release/6426... More jazz vocal sounding than I was expecting, quite nice throughout
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Lois Lane - Lois Lane
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1968 Vinyl release of "Lois Lane" on Discogs.
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Joe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.co.uk · 01/09/2026
Why do I find this RCA logo so unsettling?
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Double Barrel etc are fun, but think I prefer him as a singer to a toaster. Superb singing voice, e.g. Set Me Free (b-side of Shocks of Mighty) youtu.be/CLt-AM0SFns
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Dave Barker - Set Me Free
YouTube video by Trasimedia
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In "keeping up with popular culture" news I finally heard Sam Fender and Olivia Dean's "Rein Me In" (number one in the UK for some ridiculous length of time) - Shazammed whilst having a wee in the Westfield toilets - and it sounded not bad?
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Saw this unexpected news the other day but completely forgot about it. I do like the earlier Czarface albums a lot, but has felt like they've got formulaic and not sure I even got round to listening to the last few
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Love threads like this, but they also remind me how out of touch I am (not that I particularly care, but it's nice to know what's going on sometimes). Don't know any Mumford & Sons songs and have never even heard of Avicii.
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Just caught a bit of Al Jazeera, and currently Canadian economist Armine Yalnizyan is being interviewed from home (presumably) in front of what looks like an impressive record collection
Screenshot of the Al Jazeera live feed showing a woman in a red top in the corner of what looks like a room full of vinyl
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Can never have too many versions of Caravan, right? Just found this slightly bonkers big-band-with-synth one locally, this track and the cover are the best things about the LP, the rest seems a bit snoozy, although bonus points for bird sounds and stuff between the tracks. youtu.be/3w9nbDMqyXY
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Caravan
YouTube video by Maurice Meleka
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What's with the constant 'Upstream Timeout' error messages, Bluesky? Sounds like an old Blue Note jazz album. #UpstreamTimeout
Fake Blue Note jazz album called Upstream Timeout
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A fun recent local buy - Sharon Prabhakar "Disco Mastana" LP from 1982 Various pop/disco covers in Hindi... youtu.be/sbbe0Mp1aQM
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Sharon Prabhakar - Aage Jo Hua (Vinyl - 1982)
YouTube video by FTV Records
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Not found much lately but did find a few nice early stereo classical LPs yesterday. Asked if they had any more in case there was more of a collection out the back, but not. Was also a Michael Rabin (w/orchestra) but it was only mono
David Oistrakh Beethoven Violin Concerto on blue/silver Columbia Rubinstein Beethoven Piano concertos 3 & 4 on RCA Living Stereo, Backhaus Beethoven piano concerto 5 on Decca, Klemperer Beethoven 4 on blue/silver Columbia
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just saw it was International Dog Day... 🐕 youtu.be/rTaYIvIQgk0
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Junior and The Classics - The Dog (Groove) 1964
YouTube video by DJ Pete Pop
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Damon Agnos @damonagnos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
EDITOR: You get those photos of Leonard for the album cover? PHOTOGRAPHER: Sure did, boss—real mob hitman, just like you asked
Leonard Bernstein in Budapest album cover. Leonard is in a white tracksuit jacket with a monogrammed name I can’t quite read but I think days “Big B”, brown gloves, baby blue pants. He’s looking at you through the camera like your life means nothing to him
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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Checking out the Oxfam site just now and spotted some bold pricing #VinylStupidity @vinylstupidity.bsky.social
50 quid for the Waikiki Beach Boys95 quid for Mary O'Hara80 quid for the Abbey Tavern Singers
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’ve been steadily acquiring items from a huge local jazz collection. The main interest being transcription discs that the previous owner made bespoke sleeves for. Here are 9 more. These sleeves are not prints. The last four have collage elements, but the Jelly Roll’s are entirely hand painted.
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