Episode 25: The Golden Disc (1958) & Garth Cartwright on Soho record shops The theme of episode 25 is record shops. Soho was, for a long time (and arguably still is?) THE place to go to buy records of all genres with dozens of shops packed closely together. In the first half of the show, Dom talks to Garth Cartwright, the author of two books about record shops, about the history of the Soho record shop scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru25udwTOeo (Kenny Lynch in Soho), including his shop, The Kenny Lynch Record Centre on Walker’s Court In the second half of the show. Ken Hollings talks about the 1958 B Movie, The Golden Disc – known in the US as The In Between Age. Starring Lee Patterson as Harry, Mary Steele as Joan and Terry Dene as Terry Dene, it’s a tale of https://olaf.bbm.de/nummer-19-ken-hollings-on-the-concept-of-brexit-covid-exceptional-success (Exceptional Success) as our heroes take a failing greasy spoon cafe and turn it first into a groovy coffee bar, then a record shop and finally a record label. We couldn’t find a trailer for The Golden Disc but here’s a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAoF4f-QFl4&list=PLfY8Yi7F1iaY2v8R2xRdJUktaGEkbQMn8&index=1 (short extract) from the film Here’s a short biography of https://www.allmusic.com/artist/terry-dene-mn0001569055 (Terry Dene) and he has a https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-jnKPqQGhRtleQIIar5zpw/featured (YouTube channel)! Renown Films (otherwise knows as the great Talking Pictures TV) have a CD for sale of Terry’s music. You can buy your copy https://www.allmusic.com/artist/terry-dene-mn0001569055 (HERE) You can buy Garth Cartwright’s books on record shops https://www.foyles.co.uk/all?term=garth+cartwright (HERE), check out his https://www.garthcartwright.com/ (website) and follow him on https://twitter.com/garthcart1 (Twitter). There’s a great website called http://www.britishrecordshoparchive.org/ (The British Record Shop Archive) on which you can read about some of the shops and characters mentioned by Garth including http://www.britishrecordshoparchive.org/soho-record-centrealex-strickland.html (Alex Strickland), http://www.britishrecordshoparchive.org/harlequin-london.html (Harlequin Records), http://www.britishrecordshoparchive.org/dobells.html (Dobells) and http://www.britishrecordshoparchive.org/dobells.html (Collets). And have a look at this map of https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHv9-TtWsAAlkT-?format=jpg&name=medium (Soho record shops). Ken Hollings has a http://kenhollings.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-german-artist-and-author-olaf-arndt.html (blog) and of course he’s on https://twitter.com/Hollingsville (Twitter). Read Ken’s essay on the The Golden Disc and the concept of https://olaf.bbm.de/nummer-19-ken-hollings-on-the-concept-of-brexit-covid-exceptional-success (Exceptional Success). Discover some of the locations in The Golden Disc (apart from the scenes shot in Walton Studios) on https://www.reelstreets.com/films/golden-disc-the/ (Reelstreets). The originator of Soho Bites, https://twitter.com/jinganyoung (Dr Jingan Young), has launched a new research project. Find out all about it on the http://www.citiesincinema.co.uk/ (Cities in Cinema) website and follow the project on https://twitter.com/Citiesincinema (Twitter). Thank you for listening. Follow us on Twitter Email us at sohobitespodcast@gmail.com Leave us a https://ratethispodcast.com/sohobites (rating & review) Please make a teeny weeny https://ko-fi.com/sohobitespodcast (donation)