Hey guys... come there ina Switzerland.. we got Reggae Fever, with stocks of shopstock from the 70s... you have to dig a lot in the ranks of vinyls to find a great one... but that's a deal I like... First time I went there, I spent about 8 hours trying to have a look at all the stocks... I did that for a whole week... Then start again with stuff I didnt know... but with known labels... Then with conscious song titles... finally now.. I try to listen to what Ive never heard... and like doin dis!
If not.... let's build a record shop! I dont agree with Lee in the sense that I want to try to maintain this local place to go and seek for sound and share your impression... the web's definitely good for precise stuff but so cold...
Daddy Kool
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leggo rocker
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Re: Daddy Kool
I agree with previous post re DK's mailers. Daddy Kool uses uncool mailers - or used to. Which is just one reason why I don't deal with him often.
And given your comments re the hard case mailer, I think I may do a little more work on this.
And given your comments re the hard case mailer, I think I may do a little more work on this.
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Babirossa
Re: Daddy Kool
I also knew Daddy Kool shops in Dean Street(Soho)in early 80s and the other one near the Oxford street(Berwick street ?)in the mid 90s.
I first passed by the shop because the front glass was obstructed by dozens of old stickers.It was another rainy day on London town.
I stepped into that little room looking like a cellar,full of dusty records and paved with grey square stones as we've been used to covering the old streets.I remember the small ageless speakers on the desk. Same as the radio devices saved from the war time. Many tiles of singles that would have just needed a blow to collapse and reach the ground.
Even though, I could guess a large unaccessable range of waxes in the backroom.
I remember that some guys came in to purchase a long awaited Sammy Levi 12". I quickly understood that this tune had to be available that day but still jammed in the distribution circuit.
The shopkeeper was a very unpleasant white man with eyeglasses that seemed to ignore my requests.Fortunately,I had been warned he was a bit strange and I also remembered he never sent me the records I ordered by mail some months before.
After some minutes, when he saw I was not reluctant in searching in the dusty boxes, he showed me a booklet full of messy writings that was his current catalogue.
I realised I touched the purpose.
I'll never forget that peculiar character and that very unconventionnal trader.I got out with some gems and an odd feeling too ! You would agree with me, wouldn't you ?
In the other shop, I met 2 young men : a black and a white. The black man was not very pleasant(again). He refused to let me watch in the big boxes standing aside. I had to search in a small range of second hand singles. I found 3 old good ones for 3 quids and said good bye.
I first passed by the shop because the front glass was obstructed by dozens of old stickers.It was another rainy day on London town.
I stepped into that little room looking like a cellar,full of dusty records and paved with grey square stones as we've been used to covering the old streets.I remember the small ageless speakers on the desk. Same as the radio devices saved from the war time. Many tiles of singles that would have just needed a blow to collapse and reach the ground.
Even though, I could guess a large unaccessable range of waxes in the backroom.
I remember that some guys came in to purchase a long awaited Sammy Levi 12". I quickly understood that this tune had to be available that day but still jammed in the distribution circuit.
The shopkeeper was a very unpleasant white man with eyeglasses that seemed to ignore my requests.Fortunately,I had been warned he was a bit strange and I also remembered he never sent me the records I ordered by mail some months before.
After some minutes, when he saw I was not reluctant in searching in the dusty boxes, he showed me a booklet full of messy writings that was his current catalogue.
I realised I touched the purpose.
I'll never forget that peculiar character and that very unconventionnal trader.I got out with some gems and an odd feeling too ! You would agree with me, wouldn't you ?
In the other shop, I met 2 young men : a black and a white. The black man was not very pleasant(again). He refused to let me watch in the big boxes standing aside. I had to search in a small range of second hand singles. I found 3 old good ones for 3 quids and said good bye.
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john1111
Re: Daddy Kool
I do remember that there were two guys working in the shop, one looked a lot like John Lennon and the other just seemed, not with it.
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cih
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Re: Daddy Kool
Yep - they were fairly rude/aloof in that Dean st store iirc... I was big into ska at the time and used to get the odd Coxsone/Studio One lp in there. The man with the glasses I remember (though I suppose he probably had to deal with a fair amount of bullshit).
In Ganton Street off Carnaby there was a skinhead shop that was run by an Asian lady - 'Bubbles' - who was lovely - they had a few ska/early reggae things so I used to go in there. Lionel 'Sir Tropical Downbeat' Young used to be in sometimes and he'd ask you what you were looking for... you'd tell him, and then he'd sell you one of his Trojan compilations
In Ganton Street off Carnaby there was a skinhead shop that was run by an Asian lady - 'Bubbles' - who was lovely - they had a few ska/early reggae things so I used to go in there. Lionel 'Sir Tropical Downbeat' Young used to be in sometimes and he'd ask you what you were looking for... you'd tell him, and then he'd sell you one of his Trojan compilations
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sisaket
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Re: Daddy Kool
Yep
face to face Mr Daddy Kool was a pain-however as I lived in Redcar in the 70's he was the only supplier of JA sounds I could find and I particularly remember buying all the Joe Gibbs dub series on pre, and Brand Dub and also Chantelles Waiting in the Park-lots of Wailing Souls and Far Is under heavy manners -yep face to face a pain but he supplied me with a lot of music that I still rate as some of the best things out of the land of wood & water.
face to face Mr Daddy Kool was a pain-however as I lived in Redcar in the 70's he was the only supplier of JA sounds I could find and I particularly remember buying all the Joe Gibbs dub series on pre, and Brand Dub and also Chantelles Waiting in the Park-lots of Wailing Souls and Far Is under heavy manners -yep face to face a pain but he supplied me with a lot of music that I still rate as some of the best things out of the land of wood & water.
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frenchie
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Re: Daddy Kool
no easy way to say this but Keith was a bit of a c**t. Unfriendly and hard to deal with, but nuf tunes came out of that shop, but you had to be prepared to put up with his rudeness and ag. For me the best shops and sellers were, Bob brooks, dub vendor, Gladdy(wax unlimited),Lee (m&D), Pepe(youth sounds) eddie and trevor(regal music), Dougie and Bags(dub shack), Ting and Simon
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deadly
Re: Daddy Kool
hey mister frenchie come on , u mention shops but plenty of them didn t got collectors tunes only new tunes !!
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dan i
Re: Daddy Kool
More to the point deadly, most of them are shut and have been for some time!
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frenchie
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Re: Daddy Kool
Most of them ain't shut... they're all shut except Music Temple, but since the thread was about a now defunkt record shop I don't see the problem, though for the record Dubvendor, Simon, Bob brooks and Gladdy are still in business, though only Simon has a shop. And last I heard Bags was still selling out of his house and looking to get a shop up and running again. As for collectors tunes I've pulled them from all of those shops. Just depends when you brought them!