Year: 2014

Our preparations for the Music Palooza have been underway for the past few weeks and we are almost ready for the Record Fair on the Weekend of 5/6 July.  As usual we keep an eye out for the weather and …

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Let’s stay in the late 1950s and early 1960s for a brief look and listen to those instrumentals, mainly surf music, but also Duane Eddy, simple rockabilly and western tunes, the mighty Shads, and the novelty of Let there be …

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Where did it all start?  The first evidence of White Elephant Records emerged in the early sixties in a small backroom in West Preston in the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne.  It was 1963. The small collection comprised scratchy 7 …

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The Adelaide Record Fair, coinciding with Record Store Day and held on the Easter Weekend of 19 April at St Bede’s Hall  Semaphore was a great success. There were about 25 local sellers and 50 tables of sale stock – …

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