That was me on the floor looking through the 'Cheap Shite' records for 50p a throw at 5:39, in the black polo shirt with the olive green trim and brown trousers! Apparently, 'Cheap Shite' equals a VG+ to NM 1974 album from Kirsti Sparboe and Benny Borg, entitled 'På verdens tak' ('Thank You To The World'), so named after its title track, a cover of The Carpenters' 'Top Of The World' - a very appropriate title given that Kirsti Sparboe was born within the Arctic Circle in Tromsø. The topical attraction of the record was that (a) it was from Scandinavia and (b) that it came from 1974, purchased the day after the Eurovision Song Contest celebrated the half-century on from ABBA's triumph in Brighton. I run a couple of music Blogs, one on female Pop singers of the satellite nations of the former Soviet Bloc, 'Girls Of The Golden East' and the other the Fan Blog for Valérie Čižmárová, 'Hotlips On The Horse Tram'. In that context it suited me that Kirsti Sparboe was born in the birth year of - going through the artists chronologically - Zsuzsa Koncz, Eva Sepešiová, Jana Kocianová, Angela Similea and Hana Zagorová, 1946 and that, in looking through some of Kirsti's performances, I get an awful lot of Valérie in her looks and attitude. The absolute bargain basement vinyl on a Scandinavian theme didn't end there. In the bag next to the 'Cheap Shite' LPs there were singles also going for 50p a throw, including a VG+ single made in Sweden from way back in 1955 of The Modern Jazz Quartet who are in my record collection thanks to their 'Place Vendôme' LP with The Swingle Singers from 1967. An important way station on the way to my Blogs was the French singer, Carene Cheryl, who later changed her stage name to Karen Cheryl before reverting to her real name of Isabelle Morizet. In amongst her many talents is drumming - just like The Carpenters' Karen Carpenter! - and she won First Prize at the Paris Drumming Conservatoire run by The Modern Jazz Quartet's Kenny Clarke. I recently featured Carene Cheryl's French-language cover of ABBA's 'Mamma Mia!', 'Oh! Mam(m)a mia' at my channel, BTW, celebrating the half-century on from her signing a recording contract of ten years' duration with her future Manager/Producer, «Mémé» Ibach, presenting it in my best French, of course! There were a couple of other acquisitions at Retro Tech UK 2024 of differing levels of satisfaction. One was an ITT-KB Tiny Super of the type I got for my twelfth birthday - on Isabelle Morizet's eighteenth! - in July 1973 that was DOA, I'm afraid to say and the other was an ITT Weekend Automatic that is fortunately in more or less perfect working order. I suppose it has to be said that - given that the former was £8 and the latter £20 - £28 would still have been none too bad for a fully functioning four-band vintage radio from what could be called the 'Silver Age' of radios, or maybe the 'Bronze Age', so that £8 is no great loss, really and I can still just show people the physical thing I got for that twelfth birthday! It was an enjoyable - if rather hot! - walk to and from Ryton-on-Dunsmore from Coventry railway station and I was generally very pleased with my navigation using an old 1991 street atlas of Coventry that didn't quite include Leamington Road and I managed to get back home to Belper before 8.30 pm...on a Sunday!
@@ERiC-1 Indeed I am! I should also have mentioned that 1955 was the (real!) birth year of Isabelle Morizet, unless one could have worked that out with a bit of simple mental arithmetic! I say "(real!)" advisedly, as the aforementioned «Mémé» Ibach thought it might be a good idea to instruct his young charge to make out that she was two years younger than she actually was, such that all contemporary records in the French entertainment press from the late Seventies and Eighties have her birth year as 1957, which confused me no end, making me initially think that all these Web-based sources quoting the birth year as 1955 were plain wrong! The pretence lasted all the way into the 1990s, apparently, by which time it had outlived its usefulness. It was terrible watching a children's Christmas-time TV show from sometime in the mid-Eighties, at a time when Karen Cheryl had been in a child-oriented feature film about meeting Santa Claus, where she was living that lie in real time in front of her ever-believing audience. "Don't tell fibs, children!"
Yes, Alan of 'cheap shit' fame sells some great stuff and we always enjoy looking through those bags. He often sells at Melton Record Fair too. There was also a fantastic record seller to the left of him, who had some real quality £2 LPs, of which we bought quite a few. Would be great to have links to your blogs. With what we bought, we couldn't have managed to get it all on a train, so I'm impressed with anyone who does that.
@@d.w.390EzraHawkwind Thanks for putting a name to the 'Cheap Shite' merchant. That's a shame that Alan doesn't go any nearer than that rail-travel-wise to Belper...and thanks for the compliments on my transporting things purchased at such events. I went equipped with my large weekend shoulder bag that's taken me around the Czech Republic and Slovakia on three occasions just in case there was a medium-sized valve radio going for a song. That still wouldn't have matched the case of my Pye VHF3D 'Stereophonic', which I took home from an old second-hand shop in Belper in a wheelbarrow since my parents were away on a summer's holiday at the time and I wasn't going to wait for their return to try it out! If you go to my UA-cam profile the Blogs are linked from there and I hope you enjoy some of the incredibly cool stuff the former Soviet Bloc devised, including 'Eastern Soul' - Northern Soul-like music composed entirely within the Bloc.
Very interesting, but try not to wave the camera around so much. I have, or have had some of that stuff over the years but had to downsize when we emigrated to France. Some of it was sold well below it's value as some buyers just wanted the valves and dumped the rest, which really p*ss*d me off when I realised. I could do with a place like that to offload stuff I've accumulated since being here and I'm running out of space. Cheers!
Thank you for your comments. We'll bear them in mind for future videos. I think we were just trying to film as much as we could without it taking too long, but we'll see what we can do next time. What a shame that some of your items were dumped. I'd have been very angry too. Long ago, I asked the council to collect a radiogram and was devastated when I saw it go straight into a crusher! I'm not sure what I was expecting them to do with it, but never again - I learned my lesson! Have you checked for similar events in France? I'm sure they will exist somewhere there:)
Thank you for your input. It was really just to give a feel of what was on sale that day, but your feedback is useful for future filming. As you'll probably have guessed, we're not professional video makers:)
That was me on the floor looking through the 'Cheap Shite' records for 50p a throw at 5:39, in the black polo shirt with the olive green trim and brown trousers! Apparently, 'Cheap Shite' equals a VG+ to NM 1974 album from Kirsti Sparboe and Benny Borg, entitled 'På verdens tak' ('Thank You To The World'), so named after its title track, a cover of The Carpenters' 'Top Of The World' - a very appropriate title given that Kirsti Sparboe was born within the Arctic Circle in Tromsø. The topical attraction of the record was that (a) it was from Scandinavia and (b) that it came from 1974, purchased the day after the Eurovision Song Contest celebrated the half-century on from ABBA's triumph in Brighton.
I run a couple of music Blogs, one on female Pop singers of the satellite nations of the former Soviet Bloc, 'Girls Of The Golden East' and the other the Fan Blog for Valérie Čižmárová, 'Hotlips On The Horse Tram'. In that context it suited me that Kirsti Sparboe was born in the birth year of - going through the artists chronologically - Zsuzsa Koncz, Eva Sepešiová, Jana Kocianová, Angela Similea and Hana Zagorová, 1946 and that, in looking through some of Kirsti's performances, I get an awful lot of Valérie in her looks and attitude.
The absolute bargain basement vinyl on a Scandinavian theme didn't end there. In the bag next to the 'Cheap Shite' LPs there were singles also going for 50p a throw, including a VG+ single made in Sweden from way back in 1955 of The Modern Jazz Quartet who are in my record collection thanks to their 'Place Vendôme' LP with The Swingle Singers from 1967. An important way station on the way to my Blogs was the French singer, Carene Cheryl, who later changed her stage name to Karen Cheryl before reverting to her real name of Isabelle Morizet. In amongst her many talents is drumming - just like The Carpenters' Karen Carpenter! - and she won First Prize at the Paris Drumming Conservatoire run by The Modern Jazz Quartet's Kenny Clarke. I recently featured Carene Cheryl's French-language cover of ABBA's 'Mamma Mia!', 'Oh! Mam(m)a mia' at my channel, BTW, celebrating the half-century on from her signing a recording contract of ten years' duration with her future Manager/Producer, «Mémé» Ibach, presenting it in my best French, of course!
There were a couple of other acquisitions at Retro Tech UK 2024 of differing levels of satisfaction. One was an ITT-KB Tiny Super of the type I got for my twelfth birthday - on Isabelle Morizet's eighteenth! - in July 1973 that was DOA, I'm afraid to say and the other was an ITT Weekend Automatic that is fortunately in more or less perfect working order. I suppose it has to be said that - given that the former was £8 and the latter £20 - £28 would still have been none too bad for a fully functioning four-band vintage radio from what could be called the 'Silver Age' of radios, or maybe the 'Bronze Age', so that £8 is no great loss, really and I can still just show people the physical thing I got for that twelfth birthday!
It was an enjoyable - if rather hot! - walk to and from Ryton-on-Dunsmore from Coventry railway station and I was generally very pleased with my navigation using an old 1991 street atlas of Coventry that didn't quite include Leamington Road and I managed to get back home to Belper before 8.30 pm...on a Sunday!
LOL top comment..... you are immortalised....
@@ERiC-1 Indeed I am! I should also have mentioned that 1955 was the (real!) birth year of Isabelle Morizet, unless one could have worked that out with a bit of simple mental arithmetic! I say "(real!)" advisedly, as the aforementioned «Mémé» Ibach thought it might be a good idea to instruct his young charge to make out that she was two years younger than she actually was, such that all contemporary records in the French entertainment press from the late Seventies and Eighties have her birth year as 1957, which confused me no end, making me initially think that all these Web-based sources quoting the birth year as 1955 were plain wrong! The pretence lasted all the way into the 1990s, apparently, by which time it had outlived its usefulness. It was terrible watching a children's Christmas-time TV show from sometime in the mid-Eighties, at a time when Karen Cheryl had been in a child-oriented feature film about meeting Santa Claus, where she was living that lie in real time in front of her ever-believing audience. "Don't tell fibs, children!"
Yes, Alan of 'cheap shit' fame sells some great stuff and we always enjoy looking through those bags. He often sells at Melton Record Fair too. There was also a fantastic record seller to the left of him, who had some real quality £2 LPs, of which we bought quite a few. Would be great to have links to your blogs. With what we bought, we couldn't have managed to get it all on a train, so I'm impressed with anyone who does that.
@@d.w.390EzraHawkwind Thanks for putting a name to the 'Cheap Shite' merchant. That's a shame that Alan doesn't go any nearer than that rail-travel-wise to Belper...and thanks for the compliments on my transporting things purchased at such events. I went equipped with my large weekend shoulder bag that's taken me around the Czech Republic and Slovakia on three occasions just in case there was a medium-sized valve radio going for a song. That still wouldn't have matched the case of my Pye VHF3D 'Stereophonic', which I took home from an old second-hand shop in Belper in a wheelbarrow since my parents were away on a summer's holiday at the time and I wasn't going to wait for their return to try it out! If you go to my UA-cam profile the Blogs are linked from there and I hope you enjoy some of the incredibly cool stuff the former Soviet Bloc devised, including 'Eastern Soul' - Northern Soul-like music composed entirely within the Bloc.
Just subscribed, so that we can have a better look. Hadn't thought of a wheelbarrow to transport a radio. Now, that's initiative!
Very interesting, but try not to wave the camera around so much. I have, or have had some of that stuff over the years but had to downsize when we emigrated to France. Some of it was sold well below it's value as some buyers just wanted the valves and dumped the rest, which really p*ss*d me off when I realised.
I could do with a place like that to offload stuff I've accumulated since being here and I'm running out of space. Cheers!
Thank you for your comments. We'll bear them in mind for future videos. I think we were just trying to film as much as we could without it taking too long, but we'll see what we can do next time. What a shame that some of your items were dumped. I'd have been very angry too. Long ago, I asked the council to collect a radiogram and was devastated when I saw it go straight into a crusher! I'm not sure what I was expecting them to do with it, but never again - I learned my lesson! Have you checked for similar events in France? I'm sure they will exist somewhere there:)
A headache video , you filming to fast , slow down your moving with your camera !!!
Thank you for your input. It was really just to give a feel of what was on sale that day, but your feedback is useful for future filming. As you'll probably have guessed, we're not professional video makers:)