Mullardman
Moderately extreme...
Wish I could accurately remember names and locations!
There was one in Nottm Centre in the early 1960's that had every record ever. The window display included all those records of Bird Song and the Sounds of Steam Locos etc. I bought my first two LPs there. (Alexis Korner and Duke Ellington. Still have both.. 50 years on...) Upstairs they sold everything from Dansettes to Quad.
Another fave was the basement record shop in the Nottingham Co-op, which in itself was a palace of Art Deco. Fab place. In my mind's eye, I can still see wall displays of albums like 'Bo's a Gunslinger' and others now rare and valuable.
Yet another basement shop was where we bought most of our stock for the mobile disco. Somewhere in the Pelham St area? Dunno, but I bought 'The Late, Fantastically Great Elmore James' there. Still have that one too!
Probably best of all was 'The Sign of Four', in the Shakespeare Street area.
A very odd shop that seemed to sell everything from records to novelties and jokes and quite possibly had 'contacts' for all kinds of other purchases.
They sold Sue and Red Bird label stuff, obscure folk stuff on Transatlantic and mostly, massive amounts of Blue Beat/Ska/Rock Steady/ Ska etc.
I bought the Bert Jansch 'Needle of Death' E.P. there, as well as Winston Francis 'Too Experienced' on the Punch label.
By the early 1970s I was living in Merseyside and well remember Virgin and NEMS. The main point though is that there weren't just specialist shops back then. Newsagents, Dept. Stores etc. all sold records.
All gone now.
Mull
There was one in Nottm Centre in the early 1960's that had every record ever. The window display included all those records of Bird Song and the Sounds of Steam Locos etc. I bought my first two LPs there. (Alexis Korner and Duke Ellington. Still have both.. 50 years on...) Upstairs they sold everything from Dansettes to Quad.
Another fave was the basement record shop in the Nottingham Co-op, which in itself was a palace of Art Deco. Fab place. In my mind's eye, I can still see wall displays of albums like 'Bo's a Gunslinger' and others now rare and valuable.
Yet another basement shop was where we bought most of our stock for the mobile disco. Somewhere in the Pelham St area? Dunno, but I bought 'The Late, Fantastically Great Elmore James' there. Still have that one too!
Probably best of all was 'The Sign of Four', in the Shakespeare Street area.
A very odd shop that seemed to sell everything from records to novelties and jokes and quite possibly had 'contacts' for all kinds of other purchases.
They sold Sue and Red Bird label stuff, obscure folk stuff on Transatlantic and mostly, massive amounts of Blue Beat/Ska/Rock Steady/ Ska etc.
I bought the Bert Jansch 'Needle of Death' E.P. there, as well as Winston Francis 'Too Experienced' on the Punch label.
By the early 1970s I was living in Merseyside and well remember Virgin and NEMS. The main point though is that there weren't just specialist shops back then. Newsagents, Dept. Stores etc. all sold records.
All gone now.
Mull