Record Collector magazine has teamed up with Secret Records to re-issue classic “lost” albums from the Sixties.

 

The partners are to re-issue records originally released by Morgan Blue Town, which Secret product manager Mike Mastrangelo calls “a classic old British psychedelic label whose records command vast sums of money”.

 

The label was set up by singer / producer / publisher Monty Babson and his partner Barry Morgan. It released singles and albums from acts including The Academy and Cliff Wade, but all sold poorly and have now become collector’s items.

 

The first release – which is being offered exclusively to Record Collector readers – will be p*ssy Plays by p*ssy (produced and arranged by Danny Beckerman). It will come out on 180 gram vinyl, with a numbered certificate signed by Rare Record Price Guide editor Ian Shirley.

 

Future re-issues will include The Smoke’s It’s Smoke Time and possible an unreleased record by Red Dirt.

 

 

Source: MW

Cool, the Smoke are great (My Friend Jack :wub:) but more appropriate in retro :)

Never heard of any it mentions.

Cool, the Smoke are great (My Friend Jack :wub:) but more appropriate in retro :)

 

bloody hell tom!!!! thats an obscure track to know, theres not many oldies who know that one... remind me of your age again, anyway i give you a big and respect your knowlege (even if not your waterman taste! :P ) :lol:

 

Never heard of any it mentions.

 

then why bother saying so?

 

im not going to put up with this type of post where i mod, it adds nothing to discussion so in future will be deleted.

then why bother saying so?

 

im not going to put up with this type of post where i mod, it adds nothing to discussion so in future will be deleted.

 

 

My point was that if people like me who know a lot about music, bands and albums haven't heard of them how can they be lost "classics" I've heard of all the classic albums. That was my point!

My point was that if people like me who know a lot about music, bands and albums haven't heard of them how can they be lost "classics" I've heard of all the classic albums. That was my point!

 

... but tom kay who is half your age is familiar with smoke.... id suggest you dont know as much as you claim.

 

mostly its a generation thing, the acts highlighted were even before MY time! lol, but im not arrogant enough to claim to be the pop oracle.. this info will be of interest to people familiar with the psychedelic scene in the late 60s, and they will be around 60 years old themselves now unless they are (like tom) retrospective fans. so its a niche market..

... but tom kay who is half your age is familiar with smoke.... id suggest you dont know as much as you claim.

 

mostly its a generation thing, the acts highlighted were even before MY time! lol, but im not arrogant enough to claim to be the pop oracle.. this info will be of interest to people familiar with the psychedelic scene in the late 60s, and they will be around 60 years old themselves now unless they are (like tom) retrospective fans. so its a niche market..

 

 

Fair enough. I don't claim to know everything as I mainly know mainstream chart music.

I'm 25 :lol:

 

Basically i got very bored and disillusioned of pop circa 2002-3, I totally stopped listening to it 2004-6. I started listening to a lof more obscure music, going to mod and northern soul nights and buying that sort of stuff. I even saw Love live (Forever Changes is one of my top 10 fave albums EVER). There are two kinds of music IMHO - good and bad. And The Smoke is good :)

It was covered by Boney M and is on a lot of their compilations.

 

Wasn't a big hit though in either version though:

 

The Smoke - #45 (Mar 67)

Boney M - #57 (Apr 80)

Edited August 28, 200915 yr by grebo69

I'm 25 :lol:

 

Basically i got very bored and disillusioned of pop circa 2002-3, I totally stopped listening to it 2004-6. I started listening to a lof more obscure music, going to mod and northern soul nights and buying that sort of stuff. I even saw Love live (Forever Changes is one of my top 10 fave albums EVER). There are two kinds of music IMHO - good and bad. And The Smoke is good :)

 

 

i had a similar genesis myself.... i didnt like the music in the early 70's, glam rock, prefering older sounds from the 60's, hence i turned my back pretty much on my era music and collected 60's music instead.

 

 

It was covered by Boney M and is on a lot of their compilations.

 

Wasn't a big hit though in either version though:

 

The Smoke - #45 (Mar 67)

Boney M - #57 (Apr 80)

 

i didnt know boney m covered that.

here it is

 

 

uploaded by a friend of mine! jimmytheferret.... a metal detecting m8.

 

actually looking through what jimmy has uploaded, theres alot of rare psychedelic hits worth a listen too... worth looking them up i think :)

Bugger me, I knew I had this somewhere.

 

It was on a CD given away by Uncut called Acid Daze.

here it is

 

 

uploaded by a friend of mine! jimmytheferret.... a metal detecting m8.

 

actually looking through what jimmy has uploaded, theres alot of rare psychedelic hits worth a listen too... worth looking them up i think :)

 

Will check that later, thanks

 

I buy Record Colelctor every month btw :cheer:

 

And I am aware of the Boney M version, but the original is way better, and I knew it first...