Random grab-bag of vinyl LPs rescued from my parents’ house (some of these the first records I ever heard):
• Another 50 Children’s Favourites: sung and played by Wally Whyton (Pye Golden Guinea, 1963)
• Cambridge Anthology of English Prose: Record 1, Malory to Donne (Argo, early 50s)
• My Fair Lady feat. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews (Columbia Masterworks, 1956)
• Shakespeare Songs and Lute Solos by Alfred Deller and Desmond Dupré (“His Master’s Voice”, 1953)*
• The Soviet Army Ensemble cond.by Colonel Alexandrov (EMI, 1956)
• A Tapestry of British Bird Song recorded by V.C.Lewis (“His Master’s Voice”, 1964)**
• Winchester Cathedral: The New Vaudeville Band (Fontana, 1966)
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*This has “Where the Bee Sucks is Faulty” handwritten on the sleeve in red ink
**This has “All reproductions achieved without the use of parabolic reflectors” printed importantly above everything except the title.
