Sold Date: November 24, 2023
Start Date: November 14, 2023
Final Price: £10.00 (GBP)
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You are bidding on a Bristolian piano music LP with rare acetate of unreleased performances:
BOB SHORT & PAT SMALL: Twenty Fingers In 'C' (Great Western Records, DM 007, no date stated, LP)
The duo was Pat Scott, who had various residencies in Bristol from the 1960s through to the 1980s, plus organist Bob Short, who seems to have sailed into port for this one. The acetate is by the pianist from the LP, Patrick Hope Scott, with vocals by Dave Staples.
The LP is of 'green room' cabaret style instrumental music, pianist with organ accompaniment (or the other way around), the organ adding rhythmic accompaniment.
The acetate is piano with vocal accompaniment. Side 1 is a spirited version of 'Jezebel', whilst the other side is a Patrick Scott original titled 'Somewhere You're Thinking of Me'.
The LP sleeve is well below VG - see the photos - but is dedicated by Pat Scott to Keith Dockray. The LP plays for the most part at EX with light background between tracks. The acetate plays with lots of background noise and two skips on side I. It might be salvageable if anyone knows how to get 40 years' worth of cigarette smoke detritus and mildew out of acetates.
So, provenance. My next door neighbour, Keith Dockray, was Pat Scott's lover in the 1960s, and Patrick dedicated the LP to Keith and his foster mother and her friend at some point in the 1970s. The acetate looks to be early 1970s. Keith lent the records to me when I was planning a book on rare Bristolian records…at which point Keith died. The book is no longer going to happen, so here are the records for anyone interested…and I don't suppose that anyone will be. So off to the charity shop with them after a few goes on eBay. De mortuis, eh.
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