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September 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 252

Sid Phillips & His Band, Squeakin’ Shoes/Basin Street Blues [78] (1954) I bought a few 78s just to have – for the look and feel of them. I bought a gramophone a few years later, one of those replica-ones; it worked. Still works. I’ve just given it to my folks to store/display. I’ve run out […]

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September 23, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – After The Curfew/Lewat Djam Malam (September 24)

The Wellington Film Society showed Paris, Texas last week and record numbers turned out for that screening. This week it’s to Usmar Ismail, a pioneer of Indonesia cinema for Lewat Djam Malam – shown internationally as “After The Curfew”. Released in 1954, restored in 2012 this will be a must-see for fans of rare, rewarding […]

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January 24, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 760

Harry Belafonte, Mark Twain and Other Folk Favourites (1954) What an incredible talent he is. I got hooked – really hooked – on Harry Belafonte just a few years back, an amazing boxset filling in the blanks. I knew him my whole life of course, films and music, appearances on the Muppet Show, just someone […]

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May 24, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 890

Frank Sinatra, Songs For Young Lovers (1954) I love Frank Sinatra but I can only take so much of the big-band, brassy Rat Pack Frank. What I love is the earlier/mid-period Frank; the down-in-the-dumps Frank. Forlorn Frank. Lovelorn Frank. Love-torn songs – those homilies wrapped in such lovely arrangements. I picked up the newly minted […]

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March 19, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1164

Mario Lanza, Selections from The Student Prince (1954) I sometimes think it would be quite cool if you could still buy this sort of thing – a truncated version of the main album, an EP culled from the LP as it were; yes, yes, you can make this sort of a thing by only buying […]