can anyone tell me the name of the old music shop that used to be on chaple walk iused to buy my late dads drum sticks from there

Philip Cann, The music man is the shop you are thinking of.;)
You could go down stairs into their record department, and sit in one of the soundproofed booths and listen to a whole side of an LP if you wanted.

Originally posted by owdlad
Philip Cann, The music man is the shop you are thinking of.;)
You could go down stairs into their record department, and sit in one of the soundproofed booths and listen to a whole side of an LP if you wanted. thought that was vallances???

Yes, it was Philip Cann, they moved there after many years on Dixon lane, they were eventually taken over by Vallance's, who in turn, packed up when the great "high fi" bubble died a death.

That's about right.

Two things I rmember most about Cannes. late 60's

I used to walk up Chapel Walk past the shop every morning to catch the 95 to Broomhill and in the Window was a Black Gibson Les Paul with Gold fittings (Guitar). I was 15 and earned £2-19/11d a week. The Guitar must have been around £400 - £500. I actually thought I could save up and buy it (How we Dream).

Downstairs were the soundproof record booths were you could get the assistants to put an LP on and listen to it with the intenetion of buying it, FOOLS. Buy it ,what with, after my mother had taken £2-10 shillings for board all I had left was 9/11d to last me the week and that included bus fares to work. If the fair was on at Woodhouse I could blow that in one night on the Speedway, Waltzer and a packet of Parkdrive and a packet of Polos to hide the exhaled evidence from my mum.

Great shop - and what really good service. In the 70's I needed some spare parts for a guitar. The bloke in the shop gave me a great handful of bits and said 'Just bring back the bits you don't need'. No charge at all.

I went in to buy a Medicine Head album. As I was looking for it a Billie Holliday song was playing over the PA. On a whim, I bought one of her albums instead. I Never looked back. It was a life changing moment.
The Medicine Head album by the way, was called "Dark Side of the Moon"

But what about a few memories of the Dixon Lane shop? In the early to mid 50s, the staff there were great, and I bought my first 78 there!

was'nt dark side of the moon by pink floyd

Remember going to see a pop group there, to launch their new album in the 70s, no one recognised them as they walked past, so they had to come out of the shop again, and re do it, was great, we all cheered. God, can I remember the name of them ?? Think it was Strawberry summat or other.

But what about a few memories of the Dixon Lane shop? In the early to mid 50s, the staff there were great, and I bought my first 78 there!

Wasn't Big Ada's fruit and veg stall outside?

I still have a number of 45's stored in Phillip Canns' Cardboard sleeves.

two things i remember are a group called child doing an appearance there and nearly getting crushed by the hordes of young girls and later on buying do nothing by the specials which i had to take back twice as they were scratched !

But what about a few memories of the Dixon Lane shop? In the early to mid 50s, the staff there were great, and I bought my first 78 there!

Here's a "visual memory": http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/Cann.jpg

But what about a few memories of the Dixon Lane shop? In the early to mid 50s, the staff there were great, and I bought my first 78 there!

The Dixon Lane shop is the one I remember. I bought my first trumpet there as a teenager. Cost me 17 guineas and I paid it off weekly out of my pocket money. A Selmer Lincoln as I recall.

I still have a number of 45's stored in Phillip Canns' Cardboard sleeves.

Me too - lots of Mum and Dad's 45s!

was'nt dark side of the moon by pink floyd

Dark Side of the Moon is one of the all-time classic albums by - Pink Ffloyd.

I always remember asking a middle-aged, female, shop assistant in Canns for "Lets Spend The Night Together" by the Stones.

"That's not a very nice title for a song" she replied - how times have changed.

Dark Side of the Moon is one of the all-time classic albums by - Pink Ffloyd.

Correct....
...but they only used the title a year after the Medicine Head album of the same name was released.

Two things I rmember most about Cannes. late 60's

I used to walk up Chapel Walk past the shop every morning to catch the 95 to Broomhill and in the Window was a Black Gibson Les Paul with Gold fittings (Guitar).

I don't want to be pedantic but you didn't catch the 95 to Broomhill.
51 52 54 55 60 take your pick.

Wasn't there a Bradleys Records on Chappel Walk, about half way down on the left from the Fargate end?

Not sure about Chapel Walk (the location you give seems like Cann's) but there was a Bradleys in Fargate, near the end of Norfolk Row.

[QUOTE=Lostrider;204395]Two things I rmember most about Cannes. late 60's

I used to walk up Chapel Walk past the shop every morning to catch the 95 to Broomhill and in the Window was a Black Gibson Les Paul with Gold fittings (Guitar). I was 15 and earned £2-19/11d a week. The Guitar must have been around £400 - £500. I actually thought I could save up and buy it (How we Dream).
i think it was a gibson black beauty lostrider i thought it was about 300 quid , polo mints and parkdrive ,got to be aline for a song some in that

Remember going to see a pop group there, to launch their new album in the 70s, no one recognised them as they walked past, so they had to come out of the shop again, and re do it, was great, we all cheered. God, can I remember the name of them ?? Think it was Strawberry summat or other.

Think it might have been Supertramp you saw there...

Not sure about Chapel Walk (the location you give seems like Cann's) but there was a Bradleys in Fargate, near the end of Norfolk Row.

No, there was one one Chapel walk as well, other side to Canns. Can't remember exactly where - may even have been facing Canns, but I think it was in the block between the back of M&S and the Crucible end.

[QUOTE=Lostrider;204395]Two things I rmember most about Cannes. late 60's

I used to walk up Chapel Walk past the shop every morning to catch the 95 to Broomhill and in the Window was a Black Gibson Les Paul with Gold fittings (Guitar). I was 15 and earned £2-19/11d a week. The Guitar must have been around £400 - £500. I actually thought I could save up and buy it (How we Dream).
i think it was a gibson black beauty lostrider i thought it was about 300 quid , polo mints and parkdrive ,got to be aline for a song some in that

Do you remenber the hi-fi bits in the display case on the stairs down to the record department - SME tonearm a fortune at around £30.

Fabulous memories of Philip Canns and the listening booths. At the beginning of the swinging sixties, I bought my first record from there. Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan