Aye, I’m aware of all these methods, but it seems like a lot of bother for a 50p single that still plays alright.

That looks great!

Top two-thirds of the LP sleeve of Frolic Diner Vol. 3 compilation, featuring a pink-tinted photograph of a topless woman pouring milk from a carton.

Great, sleazy, mostly-instrumental comp, image cropped on account of TIDDIES.

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Always worth a re-post.

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LP sleeve of Eddie ‘Cleanhead’ Vinson & Roomful of Blues, featuring a black and white portrait of Cleanhead blowin’ his horn and looking stylish in a turtleneck/sport jacket combo on a white background.

This was an excellent late-night choice of spin.

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My Instagram algorithm seems to be 50/50 comedy/literally anyone with a quiff. Fair.

ROBINS MY HEART'S THE BIGGEST FOOL YouTube video by Orlando Nicola

Haunting stuff from The Robins, led on this occasion by (at the time) newish recruit Grady Chapman.

The Robins - My Heart’s The Biggest Fool

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CHALONS OH YOU YouTube video by Orlando Nicola

Just leaving this here and breaking your hearts by proxy.

The Chalons - Oh You

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NO GOOD -THE MELLO-HARPS YouTube video by doowoplady43 doowop

Never met a Mello Harps side I didn’t like.

The Mello Harps - No Good

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Scrolling through my recent posts like a Normal Person, and realised the start of this makes no sense, since I deleted said weird question after nobody answered it and I felt like a daftie. And I was.

Johnnie Strickland - You've Got What It Takes YouTube video by Rockin' Bandit

Aww, cheers, Johnnie. Awful nice of you to say so.

Johnnie Strickland - You’ve Got What It Takes

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Side-on view of a 7” single with red and yellow Pye International R&B series label, playing on an Audio Technica turntable. Even in a still image, you can see the warp of the disc.

My copy of No Particular Place To Go is so warped, the surface bops along pretty much in time to the guitar when it’s playing. Still sounds good, though.

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Cool And Easy YouTube video by Sugar Minott - Topic

Cool and easier said than done, what with All Of The Everything right now, but a fine ambition (and a Tune).

Sugar Minott - Cool and Easy

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I am aware that he’s dead, btw - don’t worry, he’s eye-fucking us all from rock’n’roll heaven.

Screenshot of an Instagram story: Over a photo of the LP sleeve of Robert Gordon with Link Wray - Fresh Fish Special, featuring a bare-armed Robert Gordon adjusting his pompadour (and, to be fair, looking Good), sat atop one of my speakers behind a small stack of CDs, is white text, which reads ‘Having to endure the constant smouldering eye-fuck of Robert Gordon from across the room’.

Put this in my Insta stories last night, and it’s been viewed significantly more times than any of the ones about my radio shows. Dorty bastards owa there.

I do think ‘Relentless Smouldering Eye-Fuck’ would make a decent band name, though.

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I need to go to the shop, but it’s 17c and sunny (in Newcastle! In April!), so I greatly fear there will be some Taps Aff enthusiasts abroad in the streets.

I have really got the dancing on the spot whilst sorting the records bit down, though.

I really do need a second turntable, though - worth it if only to elevate the at-home experience.

Twenty one 7” singles laid out in the order I played them (note that if the b-side label is showing, that’s what I played): Gene Vincent - She-She-Sheila Sam Cooke - Another Saturday Night Gary ‘US’ Bonds - Quarter To Three Sir Douglas Quintet - She’s About A Mover Sandie Shaw - (There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me The Supremes - The Happening The Bobettes - Mr. Lee Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine Kenny Chandler - Wait For Me Bobby Darin - Dream Lover Chuck Berry - No Particular Place To Go Wallace Brothers - No More Lou Rawls - Not The Staying Kind Timmy Thomas - Why Can’t We Live Together Clarence Reid - Send Me Back My Money Lee Dorsey - Ride Your Pony Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves Brenda Lee - Is It True Jerry Byrne - Lights Out Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)

Celebrated my 45s’ new easy-access home by spending the last hour(ish) doing a nice little DJ set for me and the cat. Well, I enjoyed it.

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A Kiss in the Dark YouTube video by The Ray-O-Vacs - Topic

Something just ust lovely, from a group who were never anything less, and frequently more.

The Ray-O-Vacs - A Kiss In The Dark

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The Drivers Blue Moon YouTube video by DooWop Darrell

Another great song with many great versions - and if you’ve been following me more than 5 minutes, you know I love a good doo-wop/jazz mishmash.

The Drivers - Blue Moon

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Sonny Terry Ride and Roll (1955) YouTube video by randomandrare

Almost enough to make you wish you were on the bus (though since night buses in Newcastle are for some reason but a thing of the past, god knows where I’d be if I was).

Sonny Terry - Ride And Roll

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60e-odd years later, still sounds like it’s from outer space.

King of cocktails/the only one I usually bother making.

David Houston - Sugar Sweet (RCA Victor 6611) YouTube video by Vinyl and shellac by Starday

If you could see the ‘dancing’ that’s currently accompanying this tune, I suspect you’d lose any grain of respect you may have for me.

David Houston - Sugar Sweet

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Side note for fellow non-Londoners: if you’re ever round that way, they serve a GREAT cup of coffee & are some of the sweetest people you’ll encounter (though almost everyone I met that day was lovely, which I only realised on the train back north may’ve been due to me wearing a sundress & no bra).

*record fair

View from a bench on Newcastle Quayside. A just-budding spring tree intrudes to left of frame, to the right are the waters of the mighty river Tyne, spanned by the High Level Bridge, Swing Bridge, Swing Bridge, and Millennium Bridge (just in this photo - we do like a bridge up here), all under a bright blue sky.

I do miss spending more time wandering about London, but I had a nice little mooch along the Quayside and back into town after the record today, in actual warm-feeling sunshine.

Godspeed ye down that rabbithole

Three various artists compilation LPs laid out on a multicoloured harlequin patterned rug: Imperial Rockabillies Volume Two The Beat of Ace Rockabilly RCA-Victor Rock’n’Rollers

Well, I see what I’m in the mood for right now.

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