|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This thing about the composers going in - we had this come up on previous Dean Street/Derek I remember on one thread, someone said that they were in the shop when John Barry was present. Barry happily signed a copy of the boot 'Walkabout' LP
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: |
May 23, 2011 - 10:55 AM
|
|
|
By: |
Miguel Rojo
(Member)
|
thanks for sparking my memory there Miguel, I remember ( finally ) doing business with them at the Drury Lane address, they must have moved to Covent Garden 79/80? You're welcome Timmer. Had some good times looking through the racks there. Spent a lot on rare LPs back then- would think nothing of paying 30 or 40 pounds for a really choice LP that just wasnt available anywhere else. Budd's Stone Killer springs to mind, which I think was 25. I paid something like that for a Wild Bunch too, long before the aussie re-release came out. A lot of money in 1979-80. Thats Entertainment used to - like Derek - buy up collections - and that was the only way people like me could get really ultra rare stuff- if someone older decided to part with theirs!! Collectors in these days of readily-available CD scores, dont realise how lucky they are and how frustrating it was back then spending years - years - hunting for something you'd heard in a film and simply not having access to it except from your cassette off the telly because the LP was rarer than rocking horse crap, and if was widely-liked, no one ever sold one and every one was after the same LPs. Sabata and Guns For San Sebastian were like that. Took me years to get copies. It was also funny that Derek's business in Dean Street and Thats Entertainment were like the (pardon the pun) the Rojos and the Baxters in Fistful of Dollars - two rivals at each end of town!! I remember being in Dean Street shopping and Derek saying out loud: "You don't go to that other place do you, whatisname, in Drury lane?" (Of course he knew Johnny Yap's name, I think they even did business together even though they gave the impression they were fierce rivals and hated each other - James F would know for sure). And then when I was at Thats Entertainment, Johnny would say: "We do good price for that Morricone, better than Derek!" James, yeah, that was it - rare records. Bought some soundtracks off you either at Ed Mason's film fair (westminster nowadays but back then may have been elsewhere) or the once-a-month one at the ecclestone hotel. Cant recall. Happy days.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I definitely remember a Harlequin with an excellent soundtrack selection in the very early 70s. I remember buying Deadfall there, but I can't remember where it was.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|