Andy's Records Ipswich
Name Ian Luck Comment: I probably spent thousands at the Ipswich branch in the 1980's. This was just a drunken stagger away from the Ipswich branch of Parrot Records, later Rex Records, in which I must admit, I spent much more. Andys 7" singles cost 2p more than Parrot charged, but no matter. Andys had a beguiling wall of independant singles behind the counter, including, I remember, a record entitled 'Nazi Punks Go Away' - not the title I knew it as, but a family friendly alteration by Andys staff. Upstairs were no staff, and loads of 12" vinyl, albums and singles. Can you imagine that today? No, me neither. It was here that I went through lots of copies of Art Of Noise, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, and Propaganda 12" singles, to find that the catalogue number on the sleeve said one thing, the matrix number said something totally different, and so, managed to get a lot of remixes. Oh ZTT, you band of pranksters! Towards the end of the 1980's, the shop changed premises, and some of the staff, the ones who didn't flinch if you asked about records by Foetus, or Shriekback, or Xmaldeutschland, left. I didn't use it much after that. They moved again, at the start of the 1990's, to a frankly poky shop in a nasty precinct. The last time I went in was in 1992, to get some cd's of music from Doctor Who. By that time, the writing was on the wall for the local record shop chain. To paraphrase Marty Di Bergi: "Andy's Records. Don't bother looking for it - it's not there now."ere to edit. (Dec 3, 2016)
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I have recently acquired a box of LP’s which belonged to my parents- now in their 90’s - would you be interested? They are predominantly orchestral by James Last, Joe Loss, Ray Coniff, Les Read etc with a strong Latin influence but include many of the 60’s performers such as Andy Williams, Tom Jones, Stevie Wonder, Bee Gees, 3 degrees, Engelbert, Earth Wind & Fire, Michael Jackson, Peters & Lee, Stylistics, Rise Royce, Max Bygraves, and Ella Fitzgerald. In addition there are several sound tracks from the big films of that era - The King and I, South Pacific, The Hlrnn Miller story and others with film track compilations.
l look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience
Name
Susie Dixie
(2020)
Comment
I have recently acquired a box of LP’s which belonged to my parents- now in their 90’s - would you be interested? They are predominantly orchestral by James Last, Joe Loss, Ray Coniff, Les Read etc with a strong Latin influence but include many of the 60’s performers such as Andy Williams, Tom Jones, Stevie Wonder, Bee Gees, 3 degrees, Engelbert, Earth Wind & Fire, Michael Jackson, Peters & Lee, Stylistics, Rise Royce, Max Bygraves, and Ella Fitzgerald. In addition there are several sound tracks from the big films of that era - The King and I, South Pacific, The Hlrnn Miller story and others with film track compilations.
l look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience
Name
Susie Dixie
(2020)
Opening 1980/81
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