Lost record shops of Glasgow

[onyirtodd]

Lost in Music de Courcey's market off Byres Road will be closing in the summer according to staff today. The owner has sold his share in the market for lotsandlotsofmoney.
You'll be pleased to hear that it will become a coffee shop/deli as there seems to be a severe shortage of them in the West End at the moment.
Where am I going to find, for example, Dinah Washington singing 'Big Long Sliding Thing' now. I knew I'd get it at Lost in Music and I knew that the guy behing the counter would know the song.
(For those of you who don't know it, try the link below.)

Le durachd,

Eddy

http://ohmygodot.blogspot.com/

You could try Lost Chord at 11 Park Road G4 9JD Glasgow. Phone: 0141-334 5528. http://www.lostchord.co.uk.

[Hugh Wrang]

that's them gone now, bit sad.

I recommend Mixed Up records in Otago Lane. Lost Chord is a bit dodgy... (they do seem to have rather a lot of magazines for jazz enthusiasts, I mean)

[onyirtodd]

that's them gone now, bit sad.

I recommend Mixed Up records in Otago Lane. Lost Chord is a bit dodgy... (they do seem to have rather a lot of magazines for jazz enthusiasts, I mean)

All musical tastes are catered for at Lost Chord http://www.lostchord.co.uk/

[tombro]

When we lived in 'The Drum' during the late 1950's Dad, a radio nut, not only built little crystal radios but also converted our Gramophone so that it played sound through our normal radio.

Our early purchases were on the Embassy label, bought from the Woolworth's store which, from memory, was in Renfrew Street, where Dad could then board either an Alexander's bus or a Corpy number 20 bus for home.

The first few records he bought were Perry Como singing 'Catch A Falling Star', Slim Dusty singing 'A Pub With No Beer' and Cliff Richard singing 'Living Doll'.

Now, that's buying records !

Regards,
Tombro

[Dexter St. Clair]

There are some semi official CDs of Embassy records floating about somewhere and some of the original records are collectible. Which is not to say they are worth anything much. i have a version on Embassy of a Who tune which I could pass off as a long lost American sixties garage band..

[myfriendstan]

Give us a clue, Dexter.

[dimairt]

Does anyone remember Rex Record Salon in Cambridge St?

Le durachd,

Eddy

[myfriendstan]

When was that pic taken?

[Dexter St. Clair]

Must be early sixties, the Esquire shirt shop and the barbers were there later on.

[Roxburgh]

Looks like a Ford Consul on the pic.

[dimairt]

The picture is dated 1960.

Le durachd,

Eddy

[mrsam]

The picture is dated 1960.

Le durachd,

Eddy

Hey pop pickers, just a thought but whilst perusing a stack of 78's here in Stirling I cam accross a sleve for a long lost shop in Stirling,

Are there glasgow examples of the shop 'own brand' record sleve and would they help fill in the blanks of the early record shops?

Mr Sam

[Dexter St. Clair]

Hey pop pickers, just a thought but whilst perusing a stack of 78's here in Stirling I cam accross a sleve for a long lost shop in Stirling,

Are there glasgow examples of the shop 'own brand' record sleve and would they help fill in the blanks of the early record shops?

Mr Sam

http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1506&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=165

[mrsam]

Hey pop pickers, just a thought but whilst perusing a stack of 78's here in Stirling I cam accross a sleve for a long lost shop in Stirling,

Are there glasgow examples of the shop 'own brand' record sleve and would they help fill in the blanks of the early record shops?

Mr Sam

http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1506&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=165

Helps to search

Got bored after page 3 and cut to my eronius suggestion

Good recovery Dex

Mr Sam

[Charlie Endell]

There are others whose name escapes me - a second hand shop opposite STV in Renfield Steet

If it's the same place I'm thinking of then it was Rebel Records. The Strathclyde Programme Shop was in the same tenement building (now demolished) above it. I used to spend many a lunch hour in these two shops in the early '90s - I remember buying Spacemen 3 and Loop LPs in Rebel Records (they also sold new stuff) as well as second-hand Broons and Oor Wullie books