58 Dean Street Records

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Name: Steve Jones
Comment: 58 Dean Street was actually quite a small shop inside but it did issue a catalogue from time to time and advertised in Films and Filming magazine - now also defunct. For me the main point of interest was its huge stock of import soundtrack LPs and singles from Italy which you could not get anywhere else in London. For Morricone collectors there was nowhere else to go in the early 1970s.
(27 June 2014)

Comment: First opened by Keith Prowes and then by the Ali family who sold it to Harleqiun Records.
(24 October 2013)

Name: Jimmy The Moonlight
Comment: 58 Records was the place to go for soundtracks and cast recordings. I think it relocated to Covent Garden before closing down in the late 1990s.
(18 January 2013)

Name: Gerry W
Comment: Found a gem of a soundtrack I had been searching for years for in 58 Dean Street Records, after a customer I served who bought a lot of OSTs mentioned trying there when I worked in Tower Records. To my disbelief they had it. Took the tube there that day after work and 25 years later the LP is still mint. Indy record stores like this are sorely missed.
(26 August 2015)

Name: Keith Schooling
Comment: Spent many a hour in there - I remember a guy called Donald and the twins who helped me with Marilyn Monroe records and memorabilia.
(29 April 2016)

Name: John Grey
Comment: I travelled from deepest, darkest Wales in 1979 to visit this wonderful shop. Spent a couple of hours there and came away with some imported OSTs... The Reivers and Cinderella Liberty, both by John Williams. It was a fascinating shop. I loved it there.
(2018)

Name: Mark Eade
Comment: Loved this shop, went there every time l was in London, spent hours looking for John Barry and Jerry Goldsmith soundtracks, really nice guys who worked there, miss it a lot.
(2020)

Name: John Mansell
Comment: Always went there nearly every week and found something. Derek was the owner when I went there with the twins as well behind the counter, also Michael Jones was there before them. Great shop.
(2023)

Danny Griffith-David

21 Jun 2023 at 03:44

Derek Braegar, who I believe owned the shop, was a great friend of my mum, Norma. He was a kind, funny and generous man and a good friend. This was the only shop to stock Ben Bagley compilations and Broadway cast records and Bobby Short showtune albums.

Dave Harwood

08 Nov 2024 at 04:57

I found this 'Q&A' piece in the 'Aberdeen Press & Journal' dated 19th October 1988:
“Q. Can you identify the theme music of the serial 'James Clavell's Noble House', shown recently on BBC1? Is it available commercially? K.G., Peterhead. A. The music, written specially for the series, is available on a soundtrack album, “James Clavell's Noble House”, available by post from 58 Dean Street Records, 58 Dean Street, London W1, at £7.95.”

David Derbes

29 Mar 2025 at 08:04

I loved the movie 'The Year of Living Dangerously', and really wanted the cue when Mel & Sigourney go blasting through the roadblock. Bought the soundtrack (Maurice Jarre) here in the United States. The desired music was not on it. Next trip to London (I'd discovered the shop on a previous visit) I beelined to Dean Street, asked the guy behind the counter. He didn't know about the missing music, and suggested I come back after lunch and ask his colleague. This I did. The much younger man knew at once; "It's called 'L'enfant', and it's on Vangelis' 'Opera Sauvage'," which he sold me. No one younger than 50 has any idea of the wealth of knowledge to be found in these independent stores half a century ago.