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Great post, zooba! When I was four or five, circa 1966, we were a one-car family so my mom and I would walk to Woolworth's. Their lunch counter was the big draw for me; she'd usually get me a little something. I can remember wanting various merchandise and not grasping the concept that money was severely limited, and her trying to explain it to me. "We can't afford it." What the heck does that mean? Now you've got me wondering what the LP deals were in that store.
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We had Woolworths in the uk, of course, but none of the great deals you lot are talking about. In the 70s ours was just a standard department store with record section in the corner and all the soundtracks were retail prices.
Plenty of MFP and Geoff Love and the RCACAM Fistful of Dollars/Few Dollars More but no Battle of the Bulge or Cast a Giant Shadow!!! Cor, what a treat that wouldve been!
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We had Woolworths in the uk, of course, but none of the great deals you lot are talking about. In the 70s ours was just a standard department store with record section in the corner and all the soundtracks were retail prices.
Plenty of MFP and Geoff Love and the RCACAM Fistful of Dollars/Few Dollars More but no Battle of the Bulge or Cast a Giant Shadow!!! Cor, what a treat that wouldve been!
I got my Fistful of Dollars/For a Few Dollars More and Great Movie Themes Composed by Miklós Rózsa album from Woolworths, plus several Geoff Love LP's.
Those were the days, when you could pop down the local High Street and buy soundtracks.
Now it's internet or nothing.
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We had Woolworths in the uk, of course, but none of the great deals you lot are talking about.
Not even "Orance Of Arabia"?
There may have been an 'Orans of Arabia' - (nerr) - as they were quite widely available back then. I never saw an Orrence though. Tone!
Yeah Timmer - bloody Top of the Pops LPs with smiley bikini women or girls in wispy, see-through beach dresses - they brought one out about every 3 weeks in those days and they had some seriously crap cover versions - they were nearly as frequent as T-Rex singles! Still, there mustv been a market for them. Single 7inchs were about 50p then and a 12-ish track TOTPs LP was about £1.50.
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Our Price, HMV, Virgin, Tower Records... all sadly missed.
Our Price and Virgin were more late 70s early 80s! My memory says our high street was more WH Smith record department with little private booths where you could listen to the LP (like the Python sketch, "I'm sorry the record's stuck"! and jasper Carrot's unhelpful record shop assistant "What? You wanna hear the WHOLE of the first track?!!")
Plus the Co-op record department (a little bit like Woolworths) with the same selection.
And one or two small independent local record shops whose names would mean nothing on here but all had one section of "films AND shows" as a single category and no more than about 30 LPs - and it was all the same old suspects!
Oliver, Fiddler of the roof, 2001 Space Oddyssey, Shaft, Across 100th street, The Godfather Part 2; Funny Girl; The Good The Bad and The Ugly; Easy Rider, Orrence or Orans of Arabia and, if you were lucky, a Bond score. Usually Goldfinger.
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Our Price, HMV, Virgin, Tower Records... all sadly missed.
Our Price and Virgin were more late 70s early 80s! My memory says our high street was more WH Smith record department with little private booths where you could listen to the LP (like the Python sketch, "I'm sorry the record's stuck"! and jasper Carrot's unhelpful record shop assistant "What? You wanna hear the WHOLE of the first track?!!")
Plus the Co-op record department (a little bit like Woolworths) with the same selection.
And one or two small independent local record shops whose names would mean nothing on here but all had one section of "films AND shows" as a single category and no more than about 30 LPs - and it was all the same old suspects!
Oliver, Fiddler of the roof, 2001 Space Oddyssey, Shaft, Across 100th street, The Godfather Part 2; Funny Girl; The Good The Bad and The Ugly; Easy Rider, Orrence or Orans of Arabia and, if you were lucky, a Bond score. Usually Goldfinger.
We had W.H. Smith, Boots, Brady's, Woolworths and The Wayfairers, where they kept a little yellow book containing all the latest releases, and if you asked nicely they'd let you browse through the Film and Show releases, they got most of my trade, Wild Bunch, Two Mules For Sister Sara, Duck You Sucker, Sicilian Clan, Love Circle etc. if was in the book, they'd get it for you.
I think most of my wages were spent at that shop.
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