Souly pickups of late. All US originals apart from the JB one which I’m not sure about. (more…)

Have bought a lot of vinyl and sat it next to the record player recently. I’ve played a couple. Such is life.

I was meaning to photograph them all but have so far captured the above quartet. The rest must wait. There’s some gooduns though. Ethio-funk sevens that really need recording onto the computer. Good Jazz and Soul LPs. Real nice.

If I haven’t been doing much recently I have at least been picking up records. Here’s some bits I’ve grarpsedd in the last month or so.

Pretty much started and completed my Leon Thomas solo collection in one go. That Louis Hayes has a great “My Favourite Things” on it. The Impulse comp is a nice curio and “Bill Cosby Talks To Kids About Drugs” is just as good as you’re imagining.
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Sad.

Tomorrow is the final of the BBC’s The One and Only. It’s Pop Idol for tribute acts. A really long episode of Stars In Their Eyes.

It’s pretty lame as you’d imagine but for one thing… They have a ginger white dude blacked-up as Lionel Richie (!!!) and he’s great.

Watch this dude talking, normally, as him, and then watch him singing as Lionel.

OMG!?!
I think I like him better than Lionel. If he performed original songs (still with the prosthetic nose of course) I think he could be the biggest star in the world or something. He’d be like a reverse Michael Jackson but a little bit Al Jolson.

Anyways if you don’t want to watch the show ever (fair enough) you can find all Moni Tivony’s (what a name!) performances on the BBC youtube channel.

Kind of breathtaking right?