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A great and sadly lost record shop
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Paul N
(2018)
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There was a branch of MJM on Tolworth Broadway
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Jak Ripley
(2020)
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I was a customer of the New Malden shop for many years up to the time it closed, the owner Rod was brilliant, would love to know if he is still around?
I was introduced to the shop by my brother Les "Mixdoctor" Adams who sadly passed away last year.
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Paul Adams
(2020)
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I worked at MJM New Malden and Tolworth. MJM Records was a chain of Record Shops owned by ''Rod Fursman''. ''Ian Gray'. and 'Reg Chamberlain''. The ''New Malden'' branch was opened in 1974, followed by ''Tolworth'', ''Surbiton'' and ''Worcester Park''. This was all in 1975, ''Rod'' ran ''New Malden'', with ''Nigel Lines'' as the manager, Ian Gray ran ''Tolworth'', with ''Juanita Baldwin'' as his manger and ''Reg Chamberlain'' ran the short lived ''Kingston'' branch.
I started work there (New Malden) in 1979 and had to learn about distributors and labels e.g, EMI, who had ''Chrysalis'', ''Capitol''. ''Motown'' and ''United Artists''. There was also ''WEA'', ''RCA'', ''Decca''. ''Pye''. ''Polygram'' and the biggest, which was ''CBS''. This was the year of ''Blondie'', ''Dr Hook''. ''The Police'', ''Tubeway'' ''Army''. ''Barry Manilow'' and ''Abba'. The ''2 Tone'' bands were also big news and sellers, What was unusual, was that albums that were expected to sell well, didn't sell! I would have to ''masterbag'' albums, meaning, ''Put the inner sleeve in an envelope behind the counter''.We sold tons of ''Police'', Pink Floyds (The Wall) and ''Manilow Magic''. The was a queue down the street for ''ELOs'.' ''Descovery''.
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Graham Lowe-Lauri
(2021)
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This local Chart Shop was my 1980's go-to. A short bike ride from school to pick up the latest releases with bonus t-shirts/tapes/picture discs etc etc the record companies produced to get singles further up the charts.
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Mark Sparrow
(2022)
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Hi guys,great to hear from you all.Great days with MUM lovely staff and customers.Lost touch with Reg but Rid is still about.
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Ian Gray (2023)
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Was regular customer from 75 to its close. Loved that sold ex chart singles. I then sold records into the store for Telstar. Great memories.
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Ian Fowler
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