Ike & Tina Turner River Deep-Mountain High

Every Saturday night my family would do a roast dinner. Without fail between 4-6pm Fleetwood Mac, Kate Bush or Billy Joel would be pumping on the giant 70s speakers my dad had. These were the sounds when mum was cooking. Sometimes Dad would be off from work and he'd get the roast ready and have the run of the stereo. He would usually play Ike and Tina. I'd slide around in my socks dancing.

It's now getting cool and I think I'm getting a cold so my partner is making Congee for tea. It seemed fitting to pop this one on this evening.

Picked this up from Clarity's secondhand section cheep when they first opened.

Ironically, we watched the 1981 film Possession last night. Gosh that was hard work but perhaps still lingering noting this Phil Spector / Ike and Tina a choice. 

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Rita and Sakura - Hitmakers

After meeting in a club in the late 60s in Malaysia, Rita and Sukura became much-loved Singapore A-Go-Go queens.

I first discovered them when I picked up a couple of records from the old Licorice Pie shop. I'd spin them often on our radio show. Their album covers always look cool as fuck.

This is my second purchase from the smokelovers fair. I bought it from the same guy who sold me the Lijadu Sisters few years ago. He remembered selling me that apparently. He was stoked I was buying this and I knew them. We talked about how he'd bought the local Australian Broadcasting Corporation's vinyl Asian music collection (oof) and there were two copies of this. Was a great record buying chat.

This album is their first record and appears to be a collection of singles. The first song made me question the album title and my purchase but thankfully it picks up on the second track.

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RIP Marianne Faithfull.

Picked this up as a teenager from the Animal Welfare League Op Shop in my home town for $2.

Her come back 2004 collaboration album was such a quiet hit at the time but still holds up now.

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