knobbydave
master brummie
Well ... I've still got the audio ... in digital form ... If I remember right I gave the T.Rex albums away years ago (along with all the other vinyl) when I got divorced and sold the cd's about 5 years back.
Cranes, in Old Square, was the only place in Birmingham that I bought records that was in the early 1950's. They were 78 rpm (breakable type ). They were always Classical.The Crane store was wonderful to look around, pianos .....
I reckon they would be my two favorite places to work especially in a HiFi or record shopMy mum worked in the record department in Rackhams and before that in Walker Brothers, she then went to London to work in a record store in Kings Roaf
The guy in the rag market was called Stan, he sold absolutely anything he could get his hands on, I reckon he used to maybe do house clearance work etc, never knew where he got his records from, some week's he had nothing then the next week a box full. I used to have a jukebox and had all my 7" singles off him to fill it up. You can normally find record's at car boots now, but half the time they've been sitting in the sun all day or the sleeves are ruined due to getting caught in a downpour.The record stall I remember was in the bull ring rather than the market. They had an exhibition there for a week or two called "The daily necessities fair of the People's Republic of China" and the stall was selling 5 LP's for £1. Some had little holes in the top right corner like they'd been hung on a string somewhere. Most of the material and the acts were ones that I didn't think anyone would have heard of (although there's an LP in the Diskery at £20 that I paid 20p for) and even the ones you had heard of weren't necessarily going to make it to the local record shops.
Not sure about that one Rob, I know there was a revolver record label
I thought there was to, Dalton street sprung to mind but thats where swordfish record's areI thought there was a Revolver record shop in Birmingham but I can't find anything on the net.
I have, however, found this about the founder of the record label who is from Birmingham...
Founder of Revolver Records honoured at University ceremony
Paul Birch, the music mogul who founded independent label Revolver Records, will receive an honorary degree from Birmingham City University next month.www.bcu.ac.uk
Edit to add: the bag was possibly a promotion for the label.
That, and the clipping of a corner was a standard practice to show that an album was discontinued and sold off by the label at a discount. It prevented unsold copies being returned to the label.Some had little holes in the top right corner like they'd been hung on a string somewhere. .
Revolver Record label's address is Goldthorn Hill, Wolverhampton.I can't see an entry in the phone book for Revolver
I've also heard that in some places the sleeve was punched and hung up by a piece of string on market stalls. These were holed by some sharp pointed instrument which always seemed to make that more likely.That, and the clipping of a corner was a standard practice to show that an album was discontinued and sold off by the label at a discount. It prevented unsold copies being returned to the label.