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Teenage Fanclub and Jad Fair – Words of Wisdom and Hope Vinyl LP

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Can intense jangle pop brighten and revive the world? Testing this question with Words of Wisdom and Hope on the turntable is great place to start the research. Teenage Fanclub and Jad Fair introduced a collection in 2002 of mighty  love songs. This album pours out the phrase turns that bring the goods when it comes to making the listener feel gushy all over.

You may not be in love, but you are loved. Here’s the proof.

I don’t know much about either the band Teenage Fanclub or Jad Fair as separate artists.  Crush on You is the first cut I heard and I really enjoy where it goes.

Jad Fair’s ‘singing’ is more  of  a talking to the loved one (you). Listening to someone so confident in the adoration department is initially unnerving. Millions of song say, “You’re interesting and I want to know you”. This song states, “I know you better than you know yourself. You’re the most and everything is over the top because of you.” Any counter arguments will not be addressed in this song or the rest of the album.  Bask in this, only the facts over some sweet music about your greatness.

Turntabling has a copy of Words of Wisdom and Hope on vinyl LP for sale — first come, first served.

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Jen Kilzer 

 

 

In Search of Weird Vinyl: Bowel and Bladder Training LP

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The Turntabling Collection–an ever growing pile of strange, unusual, rare and hard-to-find LPs–is in dire need of MORE inexplicably strange vinyl records. In particular, I am searching high and low for bizarre medical vinyl records like the one I stumbled across while searching for bad album covers a while back. Look closely, this is NOT a Wayne Newton record.

I am actively purchasing weird records like this. If you own strange vinyl of any description, do get in touch via email: orders@turntabling.net to sell them.

I’m in search of medical LPs, self-hypnosis, oddball vinyl with freakish album covers, dirty/pornographic vinyl, and much more. Please get in touch to sell us your bizarre LPs–we are serious about our weirdness here.

–Joe Wallace

An Amusing Story About Two Great Soundtracks

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Danny Baker shares an anecdote on the television show Q.I. (Quite Interesting) from the superstar Anthony Newley about the soundtrack for the James Bond film, Goldfinger. Stephen Fry provides a brief description of Anthony Newley. Jeremy Clarkson mistakes him for the film’s writer.  Bill Bailey and Alan Davies listen in.

Further investigation has revealed, though the two songs are alike, most of this story is not correct on many levels.  The Goldfinger soundtrack did not win the statue for either soundtrack or song at the 1965 awards show.

Perhaps these events happened when  Newley was holding the Oscar for a friend.  He was nominated for a song in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in 1972, but not the winner that year.

Apparently, the connection between two songs is an open secret. How long did Henry Mancini know about this and his choice of action is lost to time.

Anthony Newley was quite a character, known for his energy as an all around (stage/screen/music) entertainer.  Look at the delight Newley’s  mention brings  the two (Stephen Fry and Danny Baker). One of my favorite performances from him is in the film The Cockleshell Heroes, an underrated war film from the mid ’50s.

The soundtrack for Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) was almost three years old by the time the song Goldfinger came on the scene. Mancini looks like a class act in this situation.

Both soundtracks are classics among collectors.



Turntabling loves to hear great music and soundtrack yarns. Unfortunately, they aren’t always true!

Jen Kilzer