Finds from a recent trip to Italy....some nice and interesting pieces soon to be sold

I took the wife on a long weekend trip to Milan about 6 years back. There, outside the main railway stn, they held a Sunday morning market. There were at least 2 / 3 record stalls on that market & I picked up quite a few decent 60's / 70's items. I would think that the local collectors & the likes of Nancy Yahiro (when she lived there) would have scooped up most of the best local 60's / 70's dancers a few years back though.

Lots of your find seems to be non-Italian made stuff, what's the best of the local records ??

Nice oddities to find are the tracks associated with the big song contest staged in Italy every year, the Sanremo Music Festival. In the 60's, overseas artists would enter every year (Dusty Springfield, Wilson Pickett, etc) & would record a special contest song (in Italian) that would be released on a label set up by the Festival people. I have the Wilson Pickett 45 from the contest here somewhere ...........

 

A few of the notable foreign singers who entered the music festival .......

• 1964: Peggy March

• 1965: Dusty Springfield,

• 1966: Gene Pitney,

• 1968: Dionne Warwick

• 1968: Louis Armstrong

• 1968: Wilson Pickett

• 1969: Stevie Wonder,

• 1971: José Feliciano

• 1990: Ray Charles

 

Didn't find any of the San Remo releases but did find some local stuff. The better and more valuable finds were all US/UK items.

I have put some in my discogs store already:

https://www.discogs.com/buy/Vinyl/George-McCrae-Please-Help-Me-Find-My-Baby-Take-It-All-Off/350725563

The SOUL & FUNK stuff.....

https://www.discogs.com/seller/silverfox45/profile?genre=Funk+%2F+Soul

 good tip adey........im going over  next week, and my son is working in palermo for a year...bought some nice things on e bay from italy over the years..ez

Some Italian Rifi label 45's ...........