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"WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS"
by Rev. O. W Bud
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'What The Bible Says About Flying Saucers' by one Rev. Bud Spriggs and issued on Nashville's World Wide Records. Rev. Bud Spriggs called himself the 'Chaplin of Hell' a title he received from the Mayor and City Council of Hell, Michigan (according to liner notes). The opening dialogue sees Bud in fine UFO Shtick form complete with canned laughter on the non-existent punch lines. | ||
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"WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS PT. 1"
by Rev. O. W Bud
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Track one is the Chaplin of Hell's biblical interpretation of Ezekiel along with his own Cold War conspiracy theories of UFOs. | ||
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"WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS PT. 2"
by Rev. O. W Bud
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Track two has Bud interviewing Sergeant Snider a Police Officer who personally observes a UFO for over two hours. | ||
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"WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS PT. 3"
by Rev. O. W Bud
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The final track sees the Rev. Spriggs telling us on the world's next catastrophe and repercussions from the return of Christ. | ||
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"CHECKERBOARD TIME RADIO SHOW RECORDINGS"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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All tracks are sourced from 16" transcription discs for the Checkerboard Time Radio Show (circa 1940s) | ||
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"CHECKER BOARD TIME INTRO (RALSTON PURINA FARM PRODUCTS)"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"THE FIRST WHIPPORWIL SONG"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"LIL' LIZA JANE"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"YODEL LADY"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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""
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"TRAIL HEARDIN' COWBOY"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"A SPANISH CAVALIER"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"PEACH PICKIN' TIME IN GEORGIA"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"SWEET EVALINE"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"OLD DAN TUCKER"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"TRAIL HEARDIN' COWBOY"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"LITTLE GOLDEN LOCKET"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"OH MONA"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"JUNGLE TOWN"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"SIPPIN' CIDER THROUGH A STRAW"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"I LOVE A LITTLE WHALE"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"SHANGHAI ROOSTER"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"HILLBILLY WEDDING IN JUNE"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"WHEN I YOO-HOO IN THE VALLEY"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"HILLBILLY BILL"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"ROLL ALONG, JORDEN"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"CRAWDAD SONG"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"SILVER BELLS"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"BIG BALL IN TEXAS"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"MY HONEY MOON BRIDGE BROKE DOWN"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"DUDE COWBOY"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"THE DUDE RANCH COWHANDS"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"SING HALLELUJA"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"YOU NEARLY LOST YOUR MIND"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"TAKE ME HOME BOYS TONIGHT"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"YIPPI-YIPPI-YE-OW"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"MY HORSES AIN'T HUNGRY"
by The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters
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"HONEYSUCKLE BOULEVARD"
by People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz
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Self-released 10 inch by People Like Us (Limited Edition 500 numbered copies). This is the debut collaborative release by artists People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz, available for free at selected galleries and independent record stores in the UK, the continent and US. Both artists operate on the cusp of both experimental and pop culture, creating radio, audio and DVD releases, film and A/V multimedia. Their work combines an irreverent approach with a probing curiosity that explores crossover points between media. By appropriating and recontextualising found footage, they craft collage with equal inflections of wit and impending doom. This record presents a progressive change for both artists involved. It references their past works, but moves into new territory, resulting in a very collaborative work, much more than the sum of two parts. The music is fundamentally electronic (but not usually sounding so), with references to 1920's ballroom music, 1950's easy listening, jazz, cartoon and classical music, seamlessly melding diverse elements into a dynamic, rhythmic patchwork. They combine appropriation with live instrumentation and vocals, with very open tangential musical structures. With nonsense lyrics that are equally Brothers Grimm and Edward Lear and accompanying slapstick interjections, the result is in an exciting and humorous work. | ||
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"HONEYSUCKLE BOULEVARD"
by People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz
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"BEYOND PERPETUUM"
by People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz
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"HONEYSUCKLE ROSE AND PERPETUUM MOBILE"
by People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz
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"MERRY GO-ROUND"
by People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz
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"FAT HENRY'S MAMBO"
by People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz
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"OH NO NOT ANOTHER CHA CHA"
by People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz
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"BAD RESTAURANT BOOGIE"
by People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz
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"SOCIAL FOLK DANCE"
by People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz
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"SING WITH ME"
by Anna Maria Del Maestro
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This is the ultimate budget-priced vanity recording. A low noise cassette and photocopied inlay 'card' are home to a series of cheaply recorded songs with Anna Maria Del Mastro singing in English which was clearly not her first language. The songs are backed by a very nasty synth and are surprisingly sung with little enthusiasm. Ms Del Maestro often sounds like she was doing it under duress, although she occasionally makes up for it by shouting some of the words causing distortion in the mike. Watch out for the over-loud 'Hooray!' on her take of the holiday hit Y Viva Espana. | ||
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"YOU'RE MY WORLD"
by Anna Maria Del Maestro
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"PAL OF MY CRADLE DAYS"
by Anna Maria Del Maestro
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"Y-VIVA ESPANA"
by Anna Maria Del Maestro
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"O MEIN PAPA"
by Anna Maria Del Maestro
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"ONE DAY AT A TIME"
by Anna Maria Del Maestro
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"SAVE YOUR LOVE"
by Anna Maria Del Maestro
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"SANTA LUCIA"
by Anna Maria Del Maestro
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"LOVE THIS IS MY SONG"
by Anna Maria Del Maestro
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"HOBO CONVERSATIONS AND INTERVIEWS"
by Hobos
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The only writing on the cassette is "Hobo Conversations and Interviews - Conversations with Sidedoor Pullman Kid Hop-A-Long Chet Dante and Austin John". Step inside the boxcar, the whistle is about to blow. | ||
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"PART 1"
by Hobos
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"PART 2"
by Hobos
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"PART 3"
by Hobos
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"PART 4"
by Hobos
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"PART 5"
by Hobos
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"PART 6"
by Hobos
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"PART 7"
by Hobos
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"PART 8"
by Hobos
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"PART 9"
by Hobos
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"PART 10"
by Hobos
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"PART 11"
by Hobos
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"TRUE MURDERS"
by Johnny Legend
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Song-Poem record? Or something much creepier? | ||
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"BUGSY SIEGEL"
by Johnny Legend
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"BLACK DAHLIA"
by Johnny Legend
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"CAROLE TREGOFF"
by Johnny Legend
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"MANCHESTER MOOR"
by Johnny Legend
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"BONNIE AND CLYDE"
by Johnny Legend
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"THE TOWER"
by Johnny Legend
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"ALFRED E. PACKER"
by Johnny Legend
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"BOSTON STRANGLER"
by Johnny Legend
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"SMITTY"
by Johnny Legend
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"CHE GUEVERA"
by Johnny Legend
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"NAT TURNER"
by Johnny Legend
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"TALL EUCALYPYUS"
by Johnny Legend
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" 28 PARTYKNULLER ZUM TANZEN"
by Various
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28 of the grooviest, hippest and most danceable songs, whose assembly was inspired by the vintage vinyl compilation "28 Partyknüller zum tanzen" (that's german for roughly "28 entertaining party songs for dancing" but Knull in swedish means... ehhh... well... fuck. | ||
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"MOJ DOM GDZIES DALEKO (MY HOME IS FAR AWAY)"
by Czerwono Czarini
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A polish group, little is known about them. However, since this was made during the cold war, no one in poland was allowed to make a record if it was not given clearance to be released by the government. Not only did they control that the music did not contain any politically unacceptable statements but also that the music itself was good enough to be released. So now we can sit back and enjoy some communistic approved easy soul. | ||
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"TAM, ODKUD PISE MI LASKA (THE LETTER)"
by Eva
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Also from Poland. The whole album is great but this cut has killer production. Just wait until the end of the song. | ||
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"KEEP ME UP TIGHT"
by Pat and Lolly Vegas
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Pat and Lolly later formed Redbone. Probably more known in the U.S. than in Europe. | ||
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"MOJO WORKOUT"
by Bill Cosby
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What can be said that hasn't already been said about Mr. Cosby? This song is not funny. But Bill is a really good singer and the song is actually very enjoyable and, not in the least, danceable. | ||
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"RANK-OUT"
by Joe Reni Complex
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Never heard of the book, but according to Amazon, it exists. Haven't read it, though I can't imagine that it can hold a candle to the record. | ||
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"GONE, GONE, GONE"
by Pussycats
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A Norwegian 60s group. | ||
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"MADEMOISELLE"
by Frank Valdor
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"SOULBROTHER CLIFFORD"
by Frank Valdor
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rank "the king of the dynamic party sound" Valdor, the true king of German 70s easy listening. There isn't a single fleamarket in Sweden that does not sell a record of Valdor. | ||
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"BARFUSS IM REGEN"
by Frank Valdor
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rank "the king of the dynamic party sound" Valdor, the true king of German 70s easy listening. There isn't a single fleamarket in Sweden that does not sell a record of Valdor. | ||
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"DIAMOND HEAD"
by The Royal Guitar Ensemble
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Great music and wonderful cover but little to no info at all on The Royal Guitar Ensemble themselves. According to the sleeve it was recorded with "Channel 20 Sound [...] the delicacy, precision and engineering brilliance that characterize Japan's present-day technological achievement." | ||
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"LADY MADONNA"
by Unknown Artist
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These non-stop-party records are literally a dollar a dozen in Swedish fleamarkets. No info on who arranged it, who the musician is or anything, but they are great party records. | ||
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"SIMON SAYS"
by Unknown Artist
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These non-stop-party records are literally a dollar a dozen in Swedish fleamarkets. No info on who arranged it, who the musician is or anything, but they are great party records. | ||
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"YOUNG GIRL"
by Unknown Artist
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These non-stop-party records are literally a dollar a dozen in Swedish fleamarkets. No info on who arranged it, who the musician is or anything, but they are great party records. | ||
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"JOSHUA FIT THE BATTLE"
by The Tequila Brass
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A great party song. | ||
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"MDSSAN"
by Loffe
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Loffe is a well known comedian/actor in Sweden, few know he made any records. He started as the drummer for the Swedish psych act "Hansson & Karlsson" (Loffe being the Karlsson part) but switched his career to acting when the 60s ended. In the mid 70s his career was kind of slow so he recorded four easy listening party records were he tells jokes between the songs. This is from one of those. The lyrics are in Swedish, but don't mind that as they really don't make any sense. It's about a priest who asks the church bell ringer what he can see from the church tower. The ringer answers that he can see an old woman with a chicken. That's it!? | ||
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"FIREBALL"
by James Last
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James Last, from Germany (of course, that's where the bulk of European easy listening in the 70s was produced), is probably the artist whose records you will most likely find in a Swedish flea market. Here he does Deep Purple. | ||
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"BOOZE BOOZE"
by Bourbon Family
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An German party band singing about booze. Now my english is bad, but this is on completely other level. But then again, with lyrics like "Booze, Booze, Booze in the morning time, Booze, Booze, Booze in the afternoon" you cant go wrong. | ||
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"SUPER CHASE"
by Maxwell Davis
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From the album "Batman theme and other batsongs", so i guess that this is a batsong. | ||
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"SPECIAL DELIVERY"
by The California Poppy Pickers
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Great American psych studio project from the man behind "The Monster Mash". | ||
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"SUNNY DAY"
by Gustav Offermann
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Gustaf Offerman from Czechoslovakia is an overaged drummer and bandleader of this party style band with his own name and you can't deny that this makes you want to dance. In contrary to the rest of the eastern Europe bands on this record Gustav and his orchestra have English lyrics. Well... almost. | ||
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"LEAVE ME ALONE"
by Gustav Offermann
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Gustaf Offerman from Czechoslovakia is an overaged drummer and bandleader of this party style band with his own name and you can't deny that this makes you want to dance. In contrary to the rest of the eastern Europe bands on this record Gustav and his orchestra have English lyrics. Well... almost. | ||
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"GIANT MAN"
by James Last
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James Last, from Germany (of course, that's where the bulk of European easy listening in the 70s was produced), is probably the artist whose records you will most likely find in a Swedish flea market. This one from his by far, best record, "VooDoo-Party". | ||
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"YESTERDAS GONE"
by The Mariachi Brass!
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Another brass band doing a great version of Yesterdas Gone. | ||
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"A TASTE OF HONEY"
by Stef Meeder Grand Hammond Medley
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A great hammond player from the Netherlands. Not much info on him on the net that is not in Dutch, but as far as I understand, he is still going strong. | ||
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"CAN'T BUY ME LOVE"
by Stef Meeder Grand Hammond Medley
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A great hammond player from the Netherlands. Not much info on him on the net that is not in Dutch, but as far as I understand, he is still going strong. | ||
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"A DEDICATED FOLLOWER OF FASHION"
by Stef Meeder Grand Hammond Medley
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A great hammond player from the Netherlands. Not much info on him on the net that is not in Dutch, but as far as I understand, he is still going strong. | ||
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"L.S.D."
by Pop Classic Workshop
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The Beatles have been covered in all kinds of musical styles, so why not a string version of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds with a great drum groove during the chorus? | ||
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"LOVE YOU, TOO"
by Sounds Nice
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According to some internet sites the A-side of this single (Je T'aime) was a hit but there is little to no info on them. Great, melancholic hammond groove none the less. | ||
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"POTATOES"
by Various
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here's a companion album: Potatoes, an out-of-print collection of folk songs that was released on vinyl in 1987 and on CD in 1989 with a slightly different lineup. Here's the complete collection of material from the CD version (including folk songs by Reverend Howard Finster, Mark Mothersbaugh, Half Japanese, Bongwater, The Tinklers, The Residents, Snakefinger, and Negativland), along with a couple bonus Potatoes tracks sliced from a vinyl version of the album (the version pressed with potato-brown vinyl). | ||
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"BRIEF HARMONICA INTERLUDE"
by Howard Finster
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"HAUL ON THE BOWLINE"
by Renaldo and the Loaf
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Here is an old sea chantey from Liverpool adapted in multicultural fashion for your multi-coloured pleasure. | ||
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"BERTAS HAMMER"
by Rhythm and Noise
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A medley adaptation of two southern state prison songs. Portions released as Berta and All teamed up in Angolas mule lot, used by kind permission, Chris, Arhoolie Records. | ||
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"T FOR TEXAS (BLUE YODEL # 1)"
by Half Japanese
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I'd rather be in Westminster than in earthquake ravaged San Francisco with the Memphis blues again. | ||
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"I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY"
by The Residents
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"PREMONITIONS"
by Tom Cora and Hans Reichel
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Put your tows in the ocean and set them free. Rest up premonitions but keep in touch with me. Tom Cora - Cello Hans Reichel - Guitar and Dachsophone. | ||
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"RANK STRANGER"
by Terra Incognita
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We would like to dedicate our recording to Carter Stanley who passed away December 1, 1966. | ||
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"WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN"
by Howard Finster
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"Sometimes I hear a sound ya know like comin' down from above. God may give me a sound someday that just a charm the hearts of the world. You don't never know. God can do that." | ||
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"MY HOME TOWN"
by Mark Mothersbaugh
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It's my home town, it's my home town, it's Akron, Ohio! | ||
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"THE BILLY BEE SONG"
by Unknown Artist
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When scorned, a woman might drink to forget about it, sing to tell about it, or both. (Ed. note: song credited to Sheenah Fair) | ||
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"THE BALLAD OF SAWNY BEAN (SAWNY'S DEATH DANCE)"
by Snakefinger
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My offering on this outstanding collection is a cheerful little self-penned ditty, gruesome above and beyond the call of tradition, and best of all...it's all true! | ||
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"IF YOU WANT NICE KIDS BE NICE TO YOUR KIDS"
by The Tinklers
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Kids will do as they are shown by those whom they respect so it stands to reason, it's so important to be nice...especially to kids! | ||
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"PERFECT SCRAMBLED EGGS"
by Negativland
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If it sells to turn a horse upside down and beat it with a stick, it's good advertising. | ||
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"FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN"
by Blitzoids
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Legend has it that this song got its name when an old time fiddler played so fast that his instrument caught fire, burning a whole mountain down. | ||
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"SPLASH 1"
by Bongwater
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We chose to do this song because Roky Erickson is the greatest living folk hero working in America today and we love the shit outta this song! Bongwater = Ann Magnuson + Kramer + Dave Rick. | ||
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"JAPANESE SONG TOO"
by Clubfoot Orchestra
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An adaptation of an ancient traditional Gigaku folk song. | ||
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"POTATOES"
by The Step One Just Plain Folk Singers
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As performed by some of the teachers at the Step One Nursery School, Berkeley, Ca. (Line-up listed on LP as Sue Britson, Mark Hosler, Betsy Nachman, Jane Timberlake, and Charlie Vincent.) | ||
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"CANTO DEL PILON"
by Maria Marquez and Frank Harris
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(from the LP) Gossip is the dialogue in this traditional Venezuelan folk song of a woman at work mashing corn. While preparing corn for mealtime, the woman talks in pitch and rhythm about the current events of the local town. Except for the voices, all of the sounds were created and performed on the Synclavier digital music system. | ||
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"MAMMA MADE ME DO IT"
by Voice Farm
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(from the LP) This song was inspired in part by the Calogero Salvos film La Juarija. Mamma made me do it is dedicated to Helen Brown-Hansen. | ||
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"THE MASHED POTATOE"
by Mark Hosler
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(from the LP) A razor tape by Mark Hosler of Negativland, using bits from the above songs. Created as a promo piece for Potatoes, it was included as a bonus track on the CD release. | ||
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"BOLD BEGINNINGS: AN INCOMPLETE COLLECTION OF LOUISVILLE PUNK 1978-83"
by Various
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Compilation from Noise Pollution is full of obscuro punk/post-punk sounds from Louisville, Kentucky. While by no means complete, it gives a pretty good scorecard on who was who in a town that seemed as unlikely an outpost of punk circa 1978 as anyplace could be. Liners detail the seeds planted by No Fun that sprouted into a pretty diverse scene and familar names like Tara Key, Wink O'Bannon, Cathy Irwin, and Janet Bean pop up in combos like the Blinders, Skull of Glee, and the Dickbrains. Definitely one of the better compilations of the year. | ||
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"THE DEFECTORS"
by The Endtables
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"BABY BOOM"
by Babylon Dance Band
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"MONSTER JAM"
by Monsters
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"SONGS THE BONZO DOG BAND TAUGHT US: A PRE-HISTORY OF THE BONZOS"
by Various
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British Dance Bands of the period between WWI and WW2 were the stuff of pure mania; in terms of social youth rebellion, your night out Charlestoning to a band doing jazz novelty songs like "Masculine Women and Feminine Men" wasn't a whole lot different than say going to see the Sex Pistols touring the UK was in 1977, and the bandleaders were notoriously famous in their own right. The economic climates were somewhat similar as well, and the escapist factor multiplied with disillusionment towards the older warring generation also added in. So later on in history, when discussing who might be the most punk rock band to eminate from Britain, one might believe that some 1960's artschool heads doing absurd takes on 1920's-30's junk shop records should earn that title. Vivian Stanshall, Neil Innes, Legs Larry Smith and company, aka the Bonzo Dog Band, have left behind one of the stranger bodies of work in the history of recorded music. Their legacy remains pretty tall, and this great collection on the Lightning Tree label traces back some of the original 78s of songs the Bonzos covered, and endeared to their fans. | ||
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"I'M GONNA BRING A WATERMELON TO MY GIRL TONIGHT"
by Savoy Havana Band
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"MY BROTHER MAKES THE NOISES FOR THE TALKIES"
by Albert Whelan
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"TUZVIHAR"
by Omega
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1975 monster fuzz-death jam by Omega. The band definitely emerged from a more trad background (apparently they started out around the early 60's covering Beatles and U.S. pop bands), but "Tuzvihar" hints at some heavier directions to follow. | ||
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"EXCERPT FROM AN ARCHIVIST'S NIGHTMARE"
by RLW
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German experimental music stalwart Ralf Wehowsky (PD, P16D4) produced a sound piece for London's Resonance FM in 2003, now issued on CD. Perhaps the ultimate love letter to a record collector, from a record collector. | ||
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"PURPLE AND 'SCUSE ME SASSOON"
by Kenny Meyer
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A terrific, totally off-kilter record sung by a clearly untrained eleven-year-old | ||
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"PURPLE AND 'SCUSE ME SASSOON"
by Kenny Meyer
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A kidhood masterwork of considerable weirdness. Little Mr. Meyer is from the "food as art" school of thought and postures that stains make the man; jelly drips and "a great big grape mustache" are, dontchaknow, the signature assets of a stylish juvenile. Although the lyrics are silly and cheerful, the production is surprisingly restrained. | ||
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"'SCUSE ME SASSOON"
by Kenny Meyer
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"YOUNG SOUND"
by Young Sound
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Here's a song from a split LP released in Korea in 1973 (where apparently it was still 1965 musically). Side One features a female singer; Side Two is devoted to a five-piece male pop combo called Young Sound. Most of the album is pleasant but forgettable easy listening music, but this track--the only non-ballad on the entire album--is quite a peppy little number. | ||
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"STAND BY YOUR MAN"
by Wendy O'Williams and Lemmy
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Wendy O' Williams and Lemmy circa 1982, perhaps trying to undo the damage of the Captain and Tennille to the 70's. | ||
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"NO CLASS"
by Wendy O'Williams and Lemmy
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Wendy O' Williams and Lemmy circa 1982, perhaps trying to undo the damage of the Captain and Tennille to the 70's. | ||
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"I BELIEVE HE'S GONNA DRIVE THAT RIG TO GLORY"
by Craig Donaldson
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It's a country truck-driving tune called "I Believe He's Gonna Drive That Rig to Glory", sung by Craig Donaldson with "Narration by: Ralph Harrison." This is actually the B-side of the 45. The "plug side" is a shorter version without Ralph's narration. I hope to be putting more stuff here in the future! | ||
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"MY LOVE SONG"
by Johnny Rix and Pat Martin
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You would have thought that by 1977 Al Jolson impersonators would be a thing of the past but there was at least one in the shape of British cabaret entertainer Johnny Rix. He made this vanity 4-track EP with his singing partner Pat Martin on their own label (the only release no doubt), which was sold at concerts and personal appearances. It is, of course, signed. The songs are covers of 1950s hits Croce Di Oro (originally by Patti Page) and Broken Wings (The Stargazers / Art and Totty Dodd) plus two self-penned duets Maybe It's You and My Love Song. Unashamedly old-fashioned, with a piano-led trio backing these aren't bad songs but Johnny's delivery is so much in Al Jolson mode it sounds like he's singing with a mouthful of kapok. They try to modernise the sound with use of a string machine but it's all a bit of a mess. My Love Song is probably the worst offender with both singers not so much in harmony as in competition with each other to see who could get to the end first. | ||
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"MAYBE IT'S YOU"
by Johnny Rix and Pat Martin
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"BROKEN WINGS"
by Johnny Rix and Pat Martin
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"MY LOVE SONG"
by Johnny Rix and Pat Martin
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"CROCE DI ORO"
by Johnny Rix and Pat Martin
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"THIS IS OLDSMOBILITY"
by Bill Hayes and Florence Henderson.
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This is Oldsmobility, Oldsmobile's 1958 dealer announcement show starring, "The singing sweethearts" Bill Hayes and Florence Henderson. | ||
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"OVERTURE"
by Bill Hayes and Florence Henderson.
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"DON'T IF YOUR LIFE AWAY"
by Bill Hayes and Florence Henderson.
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"BACK TO ROCKPORT, INDIANA"
by Bill Hayes and Florence Henderson.
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"GOTTA GET A CAR"
by Bill Hayes and Florence Henderson.
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"R-R-ROUGH"
by Bill Hayes and Florence Henderson.
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"HE'S GOT IT"
by Bill Hayes and Florence Henderson.
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"JOHNNY'S DREAM"
by Bill Hayes and Florence Henderson.
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"I NEED A GUY"
by Bill Hayes and Florence Henderson.
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"FLOATING ON AIR"
by Bill Hayes and Florence Henderson.
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"RIDIN' THE RANGE"
by Bill Hayes and Florence Henderson.
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"OH I FEEL LIKE SHOUTIN"
by Bill Hayes and Florence Henderson.
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"THIS IS OLDSMOBILITY"
by Bill Hayes and Florence Henderson.
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"FINALE"
by Bill Hayes and Florence Henderson.
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"BOB LARSON BATTLES "THE KEEPER""
by Bob Larson
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Bob Larson is a longtime radio minister, based out of Denver, whose emphasis has been on such perennial bogeys of the looney right as subliminal messages hidden in rock records, the straightening of gays, curing Multiple Personality Disorder and exorcising literal demons. Removing the laying on of hands from the equation, he's frequently performed his services via telephone, live on radio. As such therapies make for inherently compelling radio, it was in Larson's interest to set aside whatever skepticism he might've otherwise had and take on virtually all appeals for his help. Such openness, however, also formed a tacit invitation to pranksters, and indeed Larson's "Talk Back" program, at the height of its popularity in the mid 1980s, was a cacophony of ersatz babblers and overreaching lispers, mixed in with the occasional sincere sufferer. The recording here, of Larson driving out a demon he calls The Keeper, is remarkable in and of itself, yet was little more than another day at work for the redoubtable Rev. Bob Larson. | ||
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"BOOTS"
by Mrs Miller
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The first cover version of the Nancy Sinatra original, also from 1966. Offbeat in every sense of the word. | ||
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"BOOTS"
by Gypsy Boots and the Nature Boys
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Recorded in 1968. | ||
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"BOOTS"
by The Residents
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The first song on their first LP Meet The Residents from 1974. | ||
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"BOOTS"
by Crispin Glover
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From Crispin's first (and unfortunately only) album The Big Problem ? The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be, from 1989. | ||
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"100 YEAR OLD WOMAN INTERVIEW"
by 100 Year Old Woman
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This isn't your quick fix. It's a 60 minute interview with a 100 year old woman. It takes some patience. We all have a history and this is HERstory (you like that?) The year is 1978. It sounds like the girl is in college, conducting this interview for a class report. The old woman's voice is reminiscent of Ma Kettle, without the spunk. From what we gather, this was recorded in Kansas. Hence, somehow over the past thirty years, this cassette has migrated from Kansas to Ohio. That's roughly many miles! | ||
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"100 YEAR OLD WOMAN INTERVIEW SIDE 1"
by 100 Year Old Woman
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"100 YEAR OLD WOMAN INTERVIEW SIDE 2"
by 100 Year Old Woman
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"LAYTON-O-RAMA!"
by Eddie Layton
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The organ was once universally known as the "King of Instruments", be it pipe or electronic. This was especially true in the 1950's, when organ became a significant voice in pop and 'easy listening' music. The moniker was due to the fact that the organ could serve as a one-person orchestra and simulate many different sounds, and the player could play all instrumental parts, including the bass parts with his/her feet. So, in addition to becoming wildly popular in homes throughout the world, where amateur organists by the score could create miraculously full sounds with only a modicum of ability (especially when all of the 'auto-play' features came around), the organ developed its own roster of 'stars'; virtuosos. Eddie Layton may not have been the biggest star, but he was a bright one, and was surely one of the most imaginative organists of all in the 1950s. Michael Burke, who ran the New York Yankees after CBS bought the team.offered Layton a job playing the organ at Yankee Stadium starting in 1967. Layton held the job for 37 years until the end of the 2003 season, and became as nearly as indelible a part of the Yankee Stadium experience. He claimed to invent the now de rigueur bugle-esque "Charge" (F-Bb-D-F---D-F!), although this is open to debate. Layton, along with Gladys Gooding, Jane Jarvis, and many others, helped put the sound of the organ in everyone's ears as part of the baseball game fabric, and it exists to his day, although not as prevalently as in the past. Layton also played for the Knicks, Rangers, and Islanders along the way, making him the answer to an oft-bantered trivia question about who 'played for' all these teams. | ||
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"AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'"
by Eddie Layton
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Organ Moods In Hi-Fi featuring Eddie Layton (Mercury MG 20208) | ||
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"BANJO MEDLEY"
by Eddie Layton
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Organ Moods In Hi-Fi featuring Eddie Layton (Mercury MG 20208) | ||
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"BY THE WATERS OF THE MINNETONKA"
by Eddie Layton
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Organ Moods In Hi-Fi featuring Eddie Layton (Mercury MG 20208) | ||
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"HEARTACHES"
by Eddie Layton
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Organ Moods In Hi-Fi featuring Eddie Layton (Mercury MG 20208) | ||
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"HOT CANARY"
by Eddie Layton
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Organ Moods In Hi-Fi featuring Eddie Layton (Mercury MG 20208) | ||
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"PATRICIA"
by Eddie Layton
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Organ Moods In Hi-Fi featuring Eddie Layton (Mercury MG 20208) | ||
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"STEIN SONG"
by Eddie Layton
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Organ Moods In Hi-Fi featuring Eddie Layton (Mercury MG 20208) | ||
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"THE DIPSY DOODLE"
by Eddie Layton
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Organ Moods In Hi-Fi featuring Eddie Layton (Mercury MG 20208) | ||
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"GRANADA"
by Eddie Layton
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Great Organ Hits (Mercury SR 60639) | ||
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"THE HAPPY ORGAN"
by Eddie Layton
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Great Organ Hits (Mercury SR 60639) | ||
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"TICO TICO"
by Eddie Layton
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Great Organ Hits (Mercury SR 60639) | ||
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"CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO"
by Eddie Layton
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Organ Sounds & Percussion (Mercury PPS 2029) | ||
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"CUMANA"
by Eddie Layton
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Organ Sounds & Percussion (Mercury PPS 2029) | ||
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"LOVE"
by Eddie Layton
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Organ Sounds & Percussion (Mercury PPS 2029) | ||
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"MARCH OF THE SIAMESE CHILDREN"
by Eddie Layton
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Organ Sounds & Percussion (Mercury PPS 2029) | ||
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"SABRE DANCE"
by Eddie Layton
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Organ Sounds & Percussion (Mercury PPS 2029) | ||
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"SKYLINER"
by Eddie Layton
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Organ Sounds & Percussion (Mercury PPS 2029) | ||
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"THE DONKEY SERENADE"
by Eddie Layton
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Organ Sounds & Percussion (Mercury PPS 2029) | ||
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"THE SHEIK OF ARABY"
by Eddie Layton
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Organ Sounds & Percussion (Mercury PPS 2029) | ||
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"BRIGHT LIGHTS OF BRUSSELS"
by Eddie Layton
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Better Layton Than Ever (Mercury MG 20377) | ||
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"HAWAIIAN WAR CHANT"
by Eddie Layton
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Better Layton Than Ever (Mercury MG 20377) | ||
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"NOLA"
by Eddie Layton
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Better Layton Than Ever (Mercury MG 20377) | ||
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"SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT"
by Eddie Layton
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Folk Sounds (Mercury MG20814) | ||
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"BUTTON UP YOUR OVERCOAT"
by Eddie Layton
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Skatin' With Layton (Mercury SR 60258) | ||
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"HOT NOODLES"
by Eddie Layton
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Skatin' With Layton (Mercury SR 60258) | ||
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"TWELFTH STREET RAG"
by Eddie Layton
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Skatin' With Layton (Mercury SR 60258) | ||
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"APPLES AND BANANAS"
by Eddie Layton
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Eddie Layton Plays Lawrence Welk's Greatest Hits On The New Hammond Organ (Epic BN 26215) | ||
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"CALCUTTA"
by Eddie Layton
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Eddie Layton Plays Lawrence Welk's Greatest Hits On The New Hammond Organ (Epic BN 26215) | ||
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"LAWRENCE WELK POLKA"
by Eddie Layton
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Eddie Layton Plays Lawrence Welk's Greatest Hits On The New Hammond Organ (Epic BN 26215) | ||
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"TOOT DE TOOT MAMBO"
by Eddie Layton
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The singles (45 RPM) | ||
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"I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU"
by Eddie Layton
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"A VERY SPECIAL WAYNE BUTATE X-MAS (EXCERPT)"
by Wayne Butane
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Wayne Butane has taken to scrambling the visual medium with the same vigor as his famed audio cut-ups (and he's offering a lot of that too, not to mention some of his collected MP3s in case you really feel the need to hear a Mick Jagger/Sam Kinison duet on "Under My Thumb"). | ||
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"DINING AND DANCING"
by Olaf Sveen
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This gem of a concept album is an album of accordion music made in Canada by a Norwegian, presumably aimed at Norwegians and those of Norwegian extraction who now call Canada their home. The music is ok if you like listening to bland standards played in a matter of fact sort of way on an accordion. If that's what floats your boat this is your lucky day. | ||
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"MEDLEY- YELLOW BIRD/SPANISH EYES"
by Olaf Sveen
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"MEDLEY- SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES/THE OLD LILAC TREE"
by Olaf Sveen
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"BLUE RIVER WALTZ"
by Olaf Sveen
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"RAMBLING ROSE"
by Olaf Sveen
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"HAPPY TIMES POLKA"
by Olaf Sveen
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"RANGER'S WALTZ"
by Olaf Sveen
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"MEDLEY- MY SWEET TEZAS BLUE BONNET QUEEN/ THE FIRST NIGHT OF THE FULL MOON"
by Olaf Sveen
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"MEDLEY- ANNIVERSARY SONG/ WHATEVER WILL BE WILL BE"
by Olaf Sveen
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"THOSE WERE THE DAYS"
by Olaf Sveen
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"GALLOP FROM NORWAY"
by Olaf Sveen
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"THE BALLAD OF JIM AND TAMMY"
by Tammy Faye Bakker
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Tammy Faye succummed to cancer after battling it for several years (though even that didn't prepare anyone for how she looked on Larry King). Her tarnished PTL reputation was saved in her later years as she did a lot to champion gay rights (getting close to JM J Bullock can change a person), and became a mother-figure to Vanilla Ice. | ||
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"THE LEE HAZLEWOOD AUTOBIOGRAPHY"
by Unknown
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A death that really touched our musical guitar strings was the loss of Lee Hazlewood. Here isthe story of his life via a promotional 7" that's been popping up on the internet lately. | ||
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"MOUNTAN PARK SOUNDS"
by Various
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A selection of audio clips that were rescued from 8-track tapes used for the attractions at the now defunct Mountain Park in Holyoke, Massachusetts. It's been closed for years now, but only recently were the old buildings destroyed. As Six Flags takes over the world, it's nice to hear a bit of what fun used to be. | ||
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"OUT OF THIS WORLD FUNHOUSE RIDE SOUNDTRACK"
by Various
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"ZOLTAN THE FORTUNE TELLER"
by Various
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"ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT"
by Elvis
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Live stage performance of, "Are You Lonesome Tonight (14 Years Right Down the Drain)" | ||
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"JOHN PEEL PLAYING REALLY GREAT MUSIC AND TALKING ABOUT HIS KIDNEY STONES"
by John Peel
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Egg City Radio has fifteen hours of classic John Peel radio shows from the late 80s in their entirety. These were the pre-recorded shows that were distributed throughout Europe. While in the US we were watching Rick Dees interview Timmy T, in Finland they had John Peel playing really great music and talking about his kidney stones | ||
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"IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME"
by Joe Berluck
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Joe Berluck and his Erotic Voice. | ||
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"YOU THINK YOU'RE A MAN?"
by Divine
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The new Hairspray movie seems to be a hit, but for me nobody in a fat suit can ever top the glory of the real Divine. Hey, Travolta, "You Think You're A Man"? Well, yeah, I guess you are. But Divine was the real shim! | ||
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"ROCKBERRY JAM"
by LA Dream Team
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Oh my word, they completely lost the funk...and somehow I really like it. Could just be the name. | ||
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"MOVIN' ON UP (THEME FROM THE JEFFERSONS)"
by The Transitones
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Don't miss the haunting beauty of lounge singer lovers The Transitones. | ||
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"GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: ELVIS TRIBUTE SONG-POEMS"
by Various
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"Gone But Not Forgotten" is a collection of sappy country songs with lyrics sent in by regular folks who paid their hard-earned bucks to Nashville, TN-based Royal Master Records to have their poems set to music by staff composers Jim Ward (who also sang) and Alex Zanetis. Almost every song is the same - mournful country ballads whose lyrics, sung with grave solemnity, declare Elvis to be the world's greatest and most beloved entertainer who will live in our hearts forever, though he now sings with the Lord's choir, etc. "E.L.V.I.S." and "Mansion To Mansion" are representative of much of the album. But "Elvis Was The Biggest Thing" breaks with the format, and is the better for it. The usual slick country band sound is replaced with a demo-like solo piano backing, making the already awkward lyrics seem even more clumsy. It's a lovely piece of musical naivete. | ||
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"E.L.V.I.S"
by Various
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lyrics by Frances C. Jenkins, sung by Jaye Pauley | ||
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"MANSION TO MANSION"
by Various
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lyrics by O.B. Franks, sung by Matt Vincent | ||
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"ELVIS WAS THE BIGGEST THING"
by Various
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lyrics by John Townsend, sung by Jim Ward | ||
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"SHAPED BY TWO/THREE/FOUR"
by IX-Ex-Splue
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With six members, its good that this band knows how to exercise restraint. While the mix is often dense and intricate, sparser sections (and silence) are used to great effect. Mangled drum loops figure in largely with support from sample manipulation and a slew of electronic noises. | ||
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"DEPTH/ ON THE MOVE"
by Dislocation
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Another large group who often performed with video artist Kiyokawa Keishi. Complex ambient drones on this track with recurring sax freakouts. As with most of these tracks, many experimental styles are nicely tied together. | ||
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"INVISIBLE CITIES"
by PGR
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Poison Gas Research, then solo moniker of seminal ambient technician Kim Cascone. At this particularly prolific point in his career, Kim ran the groundbreaking Silent label and edited sounds for David Lynch and Thomas Dolby. Pure ambient microsounds, the most minimal track on this record. | ||
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"AO 705.4 LIVE IN BOULDER"
by Architect's Office
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Glitched out samples soaked in ambient static, digital bleeps, hypnotic synthesizers and what I can only identify as the aural equivalent of smoldering wreckage. Like Cascone and Dislocation, AO was notable for collaboration with various visual artists, among them pioneering avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage. | ||
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"DUO NO. 1-NO. 14"
by Hirose + Otomo Duo
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Junji Hirose's acoustic self made instruments mean that this track features textures unlike anything else on this comp. Yoshihide Otomo, also a multi-instrumentalist, works with turntables and CD players; though the liner notes don't mention it, it seesms that tape manipulation is also involved. Excellent plunderphonic work abounds - samples from Zappa, Webern and Homer Simpson. | ||
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"YOUR CHEATING HEART (A-SIDE)"
by Reg Luckhurst
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There has long been a tradition for sports personalities to make records. Such luminaries as Muhammad Ali, Vinnie Jones and Paul Gasgoine have put voice to vinyl, and some even made the charts. However occasionally a lesser-known name world cut a disc, which were always heading straight for the bargain bins. One such name was English speedway rider Reg Luckhurst. He came to fame in London in the mid-1960s as a team member of the Wimbledon Speedway team (The 'Dons'). Somehow he got the chance to make a couple of singles in 1971. | ||
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"WAS IT RAIN"
by Reg Luckhurst
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There has long been a tradition for sports personalities to make records. Such luminaries as Muhammad Ali, Vinnie Jones and Paul Gasgoine have put voice to vinyl, and some even made the charts. However occasionally a lesser-known name world cut a disc, which were always heading straight for the bargain bins. One such name was English speedway rider Reg Luckhurst. He came to fame in London in the mid-1960s as a team member of the Wimbledon Speedway team (The 'Dons'). Somehow he got the chance to make a couple of singles in 1971. | ||
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"IN THE MISTY MOONLIGHT"
by Reg Luckhurst
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There has long been a tradition for sports personalities to make records. Such luminaries as Muhammad Ali, Vinnie Jones and Paul Gasgoine have put voice to vinyl, and some even made the charts. However occasionally a lesser-known name world cut a disc, which were always heading straight for the bargain bins. One such name was English speedway rider Reg Luckhurst. He came to fame in London in the mid-1960s as a team member of the Wimbledon Speedway team (The 'Dons'). Somehow he got the chance to make a couple of singles in 1971. | ||
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"HOME"
by Reg Luckhurst
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There has long been a tradition for sports personalities to make records. Such luminaries as Muhammad Ali, Vinnie Jones and Paul Gasgoine have put voice to vinyl, and some even made the charts. However occasionally a lesser-known name world cut a disc, which were always heading straight for the bargain bins. One such name was English speedway rider Reg Luckhurst. He came to fame in London in the mid-1960s as a team member of the Wimbledon Speedway team (The 'Dons'). Somehow he got the chance to make a couple of singles in 1971. | ||
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"WRECKAGE"
by Phantasm
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Instead of renting city blocks for 18 months to record pointless records and paying group therapists more per month what most people make in a year, can't Metallica just buy an island somewhere, move, and give someone at a label some serious green to bolster the legacies of some underappreciated metal heroes, like for instance Katon DePena? Best known for Hirax, DePena rose from the same toxic Cali pool that spawned Exodus, non-suck era Metallica and others and ripped things up real good with a brand of thrash/speed metal that allowed some serious ragged edges amidst the hypertechnical precision and one powerful voice. Seems like the nostalgia for the 80's thrashers is coming to a new head these days (in fact Hirax has reformed and even plays NYC once in a while), so fair time to note Katon's short-lived band circa 1987, Phantasm. They get most mentions for the fact they contained pre-Cliff Metallica bassist Ron McGovney, but this band ruled on quite a few levels. In 2001 Deep Six put out a disc called Wreckage containing their 6 song demo, and a live show they played in Phoenix with Nuclear Assault, and let's say the grotty blown-speakers element here is a thousand times more effective than any Bob Rock pixiedust. | ||
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"PRAY FOR POWER (LIVE)"
by Phantasm
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"BLOWN TO OBLIVION"
by Phantasm
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"ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE DEAD"
by Electronic Communications With The Dead
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From a 1971 Flexidisc. | ||
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"BREAKTHROUGH - SIDE 1"
by Electronic Communications With The Dead
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"BREAKTHROUGH - SIDE 2"
by Electronic Communications With The Dead
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"EVP"
by Electronic Communications With The Dead
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"CLUNKY SHOES"
by Unicard
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From an ancient commercial demo of the 70s. Here you are urged to spend as much as you want on purple pantyhose, clunky shoes, wiglets and the like with your UNICARD charge card! | ||
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"NEW ENTRIES"
by Random House Dictionary
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Here you learn some of the hip, new words that are in the Random House dictionary, circa 1972. | ||
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"GAY CRUISING"
by WBAI (Larry Josephson & The Laughing Cavalier)
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Here's a cart that played on WBAI that was certainly lost to history: The pre-AIDS era is in evidence as this promotes a show on Gay Cruising. "After all - you can't get cherry pie in the hardware store!" Bracketed with appropriate commentary by the Laughing Cavalier, Classical Music DJ, and Larry Josephson, veteran WBAI crabcake. Early 1980s. | ||
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"FLAMINGO/ COUNTRY SONG"
by Rossi Forgione
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Rossi was a client of our local mental health service and was part of a therapeutic music project that I read about in a local paper. I contacted the owner of the studio where the recordings were done and as I was the only member of the public to show any interest he sent me one of the (only) 50 CD's that had been pressed. Rossi is the highlight of the CD but there are other things of interest on it too. Turns out Rossi is the MC of "Club Wild" a semi-regular "all-abilities" night club that happens here in Melbourne, Australia. - Contributed by Philip Jackson |
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"WORDS WE LIVE BY"
by The Ken Nordine Group
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A-Side to this. | ||
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"KISSIN' COUSINS"
by The Kossol Sisters
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A well-scrubbed group of singers called the Kossol Sisters singing about socially acceptable incest. It ain't Elvis' similarly named Kissing Cousins, but like Elvis, we assume they find true love in a cousin who isn't too closely related... although it's unclear. Disclaimer: Warning: not overtly 'incorrect', more of an amusing curiosity. Excuse the extreme scratchiness. | ||
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"ROYAL VIKING STAR WALTZ"
by The Tapiola Secondary School Chorus
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Schoolchildren from Finland singing. | ||
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"WALTZ/ BEER SONG (POLKA)"
by Heileman Old Style
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Old Style is a regional Midwestern beer made from 1902 onward. This promotional 78 is likely from the 1950s, a piece of midcentury nostalgia for an even simpler time, yet long enough after the wars for a jolly German to MC. Play the polka to pump up your beer party, and save the waltz for when you're soused. | ||
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"PHONE MESSAGES"
by Mrs. McWiggin
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Phone message received in 1999. I've never owned a dog, it was the wrong number each time. It hurt to call her back and tell her so. - Contributed by Mike Harras |
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"WE'RE TALKIN NORTHERN TELECOM"
by Nortel Coast to Coast
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[Intro, Sonet Blues, Movin Down the info highway, Deregulation Rap, Lyon Willy - Untitled Xmas Song, Winward The Skinnard, Au revoir Distance, Nortel Success, I want an OC192 for Christmas, The 12 days of Christmas, Ian Craig Babble, We Built Our Success, Goodbye, Disclaimer Rap 1, Disclaimer Rap 2, Disclaimer Sad] | ||
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"PLAYHOUR RECORDS COLLECTION"
by Various Artists
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These songs come from a series of 45's from the Playhour children's record label. I don't know the date on them, but the early 70's would be a pretty good guess.
The records are very scratchy, and a couple of them are also hissy. The songs have been filtered so that the quality would be as tolerable as possible with these records. The records deal with different categories, such as "Neighborhood / House Record", "Clothing Record", and just wait till you get to the "Social Development Record"! They consist of a cacophony of different musical styles, from standard "kiddie" fare to country to "groovy" 60's rock. - Contributed by: Sammy Reed |
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"SESAME STREET"
by Various Artists
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"EVERY MOUSE HAS A HOUSE"
by Various Artists
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"BRINGING THE GOOD THINGS TO TOWN"
by Various Artists
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"GO ON THE GREEN"
by Various Artists
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"DOWN MY STREET"
by Various Artists
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"BRAINPOWER"
by Various Artists
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"TRY!"
by Various Artists
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"A HUNDRED THOUSAND WHYS"
by Various Artists
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"WHAT DO YOU KNOW"
by Various Artists
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"THE B SONG"
by Various Artists
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"ALPHABET TUNE"
by Various Artists
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"I GOT A LETTER"
by Various Artists
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"A LITTLE BOOK"
by Various Artists
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"RUBBER DUCKIE"
by Various Artists
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"WINTER'S DAY"
by Various Artists
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"WASH AND WEAR"
by Various Artists
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"WHAT'LL I WEAR TODAY"
by Various Artists
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"ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE"
by Various Artists
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"THE ONE AND ONLY ME"
by Various Artists
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"THERE'S ENOUGH ROOM FOR YOU AND ME"
by Various Artists
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"THE SHIP THAT SAILS THE SKY"
by Various Artists
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"HASCH MICH, MäDCHEN"
by Keks
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The most profoundly retarded punk anthem ever recorded in the German language. The song title roughly translates to "Catch me, girl", and the lyrics consist of countless repetitions of the song title, mixed with unintelligible gibberish. Released in 1983 by the band Keks (Cookie), it shows once again what socialist societies were capable of. By the way, only two years later the band was officially outlawed in East Germany. Maybe they were just too far ahead of their time. | ||
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"SPANISH FLEA"
by The Modernaires
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99 other tracks emulating The Tijuana Brass Sound may be downloaded here. | ||
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"CINNTE"
by Nouveau Noise
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Nouveau Noise are two chaps from Dublin who mix live percussion and various string insturments with lots of programmed goodness. | ||
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"FELA"
by Lukid
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Lukid is a guy out of London whose Onandon CD on werkdisks came out earlier in the year and is well worth checking out. He namechecks Can and J Dilla as influences. | ||
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"IGBO ABUCHI"
by Celestine Ukwu
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A giant of Nigerian highlife music whose work is criminally out of print here in the US (save for the odd track or two on various highlife comps). | ||
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"OME IFE JIDE OFO (PART 1)"
by Celestine Ukwu
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A giant of Nigerian highlife music whose work is criminally out of print here in the US (save for the odd track or two on various highlife comps). | ||
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"EGO EJU AKA"
by Celestine Ukwu
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A giant of Nigerian highlife music whose work is criminally out of print here in the US (save for the odd track or two on various highlife comps). | ||
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"WHEN THE CLOUDS CLEAR"
by Charlie Alex March
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Charlie Alex March specializes in short, lush tracks replete with strings, vibraphones and other plunky things. He aptly covers Daniel Johnston's "True Love Will Find You" on his recent ep along with three instrumentals, one of which sounds quite a bit like Neko. | ||
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"I'M YLEARNING"
by Batfinks
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"Im Ylearning" covers a lot of ground in seven minutes... the last few minutes are great. | ||
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"CASPER THE FRIENDLY GHOST - MUSICAL ADVENTURE IN MAKE-BELIEVE"
by The Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus
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The Friendly Ghost Casper In A Musical Adventure In Make-Believe... Featuring The Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus. | ||
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"CASPER, THE FRIENDLY GHOST"
by The Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus
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"IF I COULD BE ANYTHING"
by The Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus
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"I'M A LITTLE HELICOPTER"
by The Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus
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"I'M A TRAIN"
by The Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus
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"MOTORCYCLE POLICEMAN"
by The Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus
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"I AM A TRUCK"
by The Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus
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"WINDSHEILD WIPERS PARADE"
by The Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus
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"IF I COULD BE ANYTHING"
by The Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus
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"THE SKY IS VERY GREEN"
by The Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus
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"GOOD HABIT SONG"
by The Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus
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"THE ANIIMAL SQUARE DANCE"
by The Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus
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"I AM A TUGBOAT"
by The Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus
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"I'M A ROCKET"
by The Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus
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"I'VE TRIED TO BE EVERYTHING"
by The Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus
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"CASPER THE FRIENDLY GHOST (REDUX)"
by The Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus
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"DOWN BY THE STATION"
by Tinkerbell Records
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An album of train-themed children's songs, put out by Tinkerbell Records in the 1960's. | ||
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"DOWN BY THE STATION"
by Tinkerbell Records
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"A TRIP IN A ROCKET"
by Tinkerbell Records
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"THE SUBWAY TRAIN"
by Tinkerbell Records
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"THE HAPPY TRAIN"
by Tinkerbell Records
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"RECIPE FOR FUN"
by Tinkerbell Records
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"SLEEPY TOWN TRAIN"
by Tinkerbell Records
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"HA HA THE CLOWN"
by Tinkerbell Records
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"I'VE BEEN WORKIN' ON THE RAILROAD"
by Tinkerbell Records
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"CHOCOLATE TRAIN"
by Tinkerbell Records
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"OUR FRIENDS IN STORY AND SONG"
by Unknown
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The Paperboy, the Postman, the Policeman, the Milkman and the Grocery Man are saluted on this children's album from, we're guessing, the 1960's. | ||
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"SIDE 1"
by Unknown
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"SIDE 2"
by Unknown
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"CHARLIE THE HAMSTER TEACHES BIBLE STORIES"
by Floyd Robinson
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What does a crepuscular rodent know about the Bible? Quite a bit, actually - as we discover on this delightful children's album. | ||
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"IT'S FUN TO LIVE FOR JESUS"
by Floyd Robinson
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"SUNDAY SCHOOL"
by Floyd Robinson
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"STAND UP FOR JESUS"
by Floyd Robinson
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"TWELVE DISCIPLES"
by Floyd Robinson
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"JESUS"
by Floyd Robinson
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"A, B, C'S"
by Floyd Robinson
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"HAMSTER HARMONY"
by Floyd Robinson
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"I'VE GOT JESUS"
by Floyd Robinson
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"THE B-I-B-L-E"
by Floyd Robinson
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"SAY A PRAYER"
by Floyd Robinson
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"YOUR FIRST YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL (VOLUME TWO)"
by Guidance Associates of Pleasantville, NY
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No date given on thia album geared towards the junior high students of Pleasantville, NY. | ||
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"PART ONE"
by Guidance Associates of Pleasantville, NY
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"PART TWO"
by Guidance Associates of Pleasantville, NY
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"COLLECTED SONGS"
by Merigail Moreland
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Read more about Merigail Moreland here on the WFMU Blog. | ||
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"REPUTATION (WITH HARMONICA SOLO)"
by Merigail Moreland
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"REPUTATION (WORKING ON ENDING)"
by Merigail Moreland
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"REPUTATION (WEIRD ENDING)"
by Merigail Moreland
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"REPUTATION (FINAL 1953 VERSION)"
by Merigail Moreland
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"MOMMY DADDY BYE BYE"
by Merigail Moreland
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"HEADCHEESE (VERSION 1)"
by Merigail Moreland
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"HEADCHEESE (VERSION 2)"
by Merigail Moreland
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"THE SONG FROM MOULIN ROUGE"
by Merigail Moreland
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"I'M WALKING BEHIND YOU"
by Merigail Moreland
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"I WANT MOMMY AND DADDY TOGETHER FOR CHRISTMAS"
by Merigail Moreland
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"REPUTATION (1957 VERSION)"
by Merigail Moreland
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"CAUGHT IN THE RAIN"
by Merigail Moreland
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"I FEEL SO BLUE"
by Merigail Moreland
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"UNCHAINED MELODY"
by Merigail Moreland
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"OO-LEE, OO-LEE, PAPA, OO-LEE"
by Merigail Moreland
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"WE'D LIKE TO TEACH YOU TO SING"
by Bob Anthony
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From a self-help album found in a charity shop many years ago. The project was the brainchild of one Bob Anthony and his company Pro/Mu/Sing Ltd. He demonstrates all the vocal exercises and sings the songs on the album. However a different, anonymous figure introduces each section. The record claims to be the first teaching LP of singing. It may well have been but at just 33 minutes playing time it's a bit light and there are actually not that many exercises to try. A lot of side 2 is taken up with a series of instrumentals in different tempos 'to practice singing to' as well as showcasing Bob's new song 'Time' which appears several 'times' in both vocal and instrumental versions. | ||
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"INTRODUCTION"
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"FINDING YOUR SINGING RANGE"
by Bob Anthony
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"BREATHING - THROAT AND VOCAL CORDS"
by Bob Anthony
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"PRODUCING THE CORRECT AMPLIFICATION"
by Bob Anthony
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"VOWEL EXERCISES"
by Bob Anthony
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"VIBRATO"
by Bob Anthony
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"VOWELS AND CONSONANTS"
by Bob Anthony
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"RHYTHM EXERCISES ON SCALES"
by Bob Anthony
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"TIME DEMONSTRATION RECORD"
by Bob Anthony
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"TIME BACKING TRACK"
by Bob Anthony
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"CONTEMPORARY EXERCISE"
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"BIBELPREIK"
by Oral Constitution
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Eerily sexual, nightmarishly mystical, gloomy, pounding, angry, demented and hypnotic folk music: sure to produce psychosis in high doses, especially for the young and impressionable. On Germany's Artware Records. | ||
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"BARBIE'S SANG"
by Oral Constitution
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"ODDNY'S SANG"
by Oral Constitution
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"CHRISTINE'S SANG"
by Oral Constitution
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"EN HYMNE FOR SVENE"
by Oral Constitution
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"???"
by Oral Constitution
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"GO TO A PARTY (1982 VERSION)"
by The Fems
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The Fems were a legendary Buffalo hardcore band of the 1980-82 era, who still play reunion gigs in Buffalo every five years or so. They had a lot of different lineups. The version of "Go To A Party" that's available here was digitized from a cassette of the Fems' no-label self-released 1982 7" single. The single itself sells for about $400 on eBay on those rare occasions when it can be found there; only 500 copies were ever pressed, and the masters were lost. | ||
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"IS IT LIVING?"
by The Fems
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From the original 1982 EP put out by the legendary Buffalo hardcore band of the 1980-82 era. | ||
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"GO TO A PARTY (1990 VERSION)"
by The Fems
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From a 1990 reunion cassette put out by put out by the legendary Buffalo hardcore band of the 1980-82 era. | ||
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"GO TO A PARTY (2001 VERSION)"
by The Fems
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From a 2001 reunion CDR put out by put out by the legendary Buffalo hardcore band of the 1980-82 era. | ||
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"OPEN END INTERVIEW/ TONES"
by Lionel Casson
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Not all "interview minus one" promos were of macho TV actors who suddenly viewed themselves as the second coming of Tom Jones. For example, there is this fill-in-the-blanks interview (issued on a 7") of the eminent maritime historian Lionel Casson, to promote his 1964 book "Illustrated History Of Ships And Boats." Side 2, by the way, consists entirely of tones! | ||
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"JOSEPH & ELIZABETH'S WEDDING"
by Harry Sands Orchestra
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The bulk of this material was recorded live at a wedding reception somewhere in Northern New Jersey, sometime in the mid-1980s. The band hired for the occasion was the Harry Sands Orchestra, Mr. Sands being the drummer, lead vocalist, and MC. The other players are unknown. This tape succeeds and enlightens on a number of levels. For one thing, it does take you right there, to a real New Jersey wedding reception, giving you every important element, from the intro of the bride and groom through the 'Hokey Pokey' (and Sands' brilliant 'everybody coicle, make a grea-big coicle'), right down to the signoff and the band actually congratulating itself on a job well done! Also, it gloriously allows Mr. Sands to reveal his full credentials as an musical 'outsider', both behind the drum kit and on the microphone. It also includes everything that give wedding bands a bad name: the corny (and demeaning) patter, the complete lack of real groove and taste, the horns blaring continuously over and through vocals, the rhythm section guys throwing needless jazz quotes in whenever possible, the hideous quality of the vocals themselves, the botched-up lyrics (especially Sands, who sounds like he is near seizure in trying to remember some of the words), and much more. |
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"INTRO"
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