Oh yes, Unhalfbricking - which I have recently digitised. Neil and Edna Denny outside the gate on the driveway, with some of the Fairports having tea in the garden. My mother and Edna were good friends, oh the boring hours of them gossiping. Sandy and I used to have a joke about being born in the same bed! She was a year and a half older than me. My parents were over on leave, some of my mother's family had moved into SW19 and SW20 so that is where they went. I was born in that little hospital (still there but changed function somewhat). The birthing room had one bed, hence our joke. We went to the Leather Bottle pub opposite a couple of times to toast the hospital. She could tip a pint or two, our Sandy. Even from 1978 to the present I terribly miss her.
So, I am biassed as hell. Despite that, she had the voice that other female folk singers aspired to have before and since and had she lived and cleaned up a bit would have just got better and better.
I also have What Is Soul? Not actually a bad mix for a sampler album. King Crimson, hmm, I listened to my now crackly LP whilst digitising and find it so dated, it is a jury out band for me now. Progressive music was not as good as the people selling it made it out to be. The use of the electric organ through to synthesiser now gets on my nerves although once I believed it uncool to listen to music without.
Growing up during the early 1960s, albeit going 'home' many weekends for many years from '66 on, with Richmond Jazz and Blues Club, Eel Pie Island and other wonderful jazz, blues and folk clubs and pubs throughout SW London, the Stones and so many others like the Yardbirds, Spencer Davis Band, the Pretty Things (etc, etc) were 'local' groups. Yes, they came from all over, but for them that was the 'scene' and there I was from 13-ish on part of a group of kids obsessed with music. Despite parental protest and being pre-'social workers falling over themselves to not let kids roam alone' we used every device such as back and side entrances of stations to avoid paying fares to travel about on the Southern Region trains that got us to neighbouring parts of (then still) Surrey such as Richmond, Twickenham, Barnes and Putney.
Oh yes, please pursue this compilation of favourite 14/6-worths (I have some with 12/6 labels still on them, njah-njah). There is no going back in time, no recovering the past but hearing it again is sometimes pure gold. One warning though. If you have a large collection, if like yours truly you set out to digitise it all, it takes ages. Firstly, there is always the album or single you just have to listen to rather than record just record, which probably means doubling the time because after thinking about whether to digitise or not you will inevitably do it, thus why did you not in the first place. Secondly, it takes ages anyway. I am about a third of the way through after pushing two years. I then have the ****** cassettes to consider :-(