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

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue Vinyl LP

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A driving, psychedelic piece introduces the soundtrack for The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue.  The lively first track of this album (John Dalton Street) is named after a street in Manchester. Building over the film’s opening montage of motorcycling out of London to the title’s location, this piece seems more like a backing for a caper flick.

Only when the second cut (Surreal) hits the needle, does one realize something is wrong with the vibrant life of the first track. The tone becomes uneasy. Low groans and whimpers seep into album.  Echoes and laughter bring chills to spine.  When the John Dalton Street orchestration returns, the sinister has taken over. What has happened?

Murders happen in this movie. The police suspect a couple of outsiders, with devil worship as their motive.  The actual culprits includes the unborn, the recently deceased, and the government’s latest idea for pest control.

As an individual experience, this soundtrack is amazing.  Death Waltz Records released a Vinyl LP of The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue that any fan of the movies and soundtracks should seek out. Composer Giuliano Sorgini, horror expert Steve Thrower, and cover artist Luke Insect provide the liner notes.

Turntabling has a copy of The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue Vinyl LP for sale on Discogs.com.  — first come, first served.

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue Vinyl LP For Sale