Fake "Classics;" two "new" painted covers
"Sorry" for all the quotation marks. Anyway, at my "Text" blog, I've put up some Classics Illustrated-related scans, including three Regents Illustrated Classics covers from 1981. These were...
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By popular demand
By popular demand, a doctored photo of your blogger, showing what he (I) would look like with red skin and yellow, Styrofoam hair. Blogger won't let me insert a trademark symbol after "Styrofoam."For...
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Let's All Sing--Acorn Chorale, Directed by John Johnson
This turned up at (where else?) Goodwill--it's been in my collection barely a week. If, as you gaze at the cover, you find yourself saying, "There's that lady again," you're right--she shows up on at...
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Um, no, meteors aren't "science"--they're rocks.
More priceless pontification from your blogger at Lee's Pontifications, where Lee pontificates. And Google's spell checker still doesn't recognize "pontification."To pontificate, according to...
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A little Burt won't hurt--Sunday edition
Oops--that's Bert Bacharach, Burt's dad. My mistake.Anyway, eight songs written by Burt Bacharach and the late Hal David. These are "off" versions, meaning, um.... Actually, I don't know what I...
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Hugo Winterhalter Plays Isham Jones for Dancing (1950)
Recorded in 1950, these Hugo Winterhalter versions of Isham Jones aren't nearly as blah as Hugo's other RCA work. In my opinion. Before joining RCA as musical director, Hugo was a big band arranger,...
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Designed for Dancing
Designed for Dancing catalog from Hugo Winterhalter boxed set featured last post. (Note that it doesn't include Hugo.) Click for larger image.Other sets I've found reference to on line:Gene Krupa...
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Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orch.--Designed for Dancing (Lion E70008)
Did I mention that the MGM subsidiary Lion had a "Designed for Dancing" series, just like RCA? Well, they did, and we will be hearing one from that group, a 1953 "Tops in Pops" collection performed by...
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Hugo Winterhalter--Music! Music! Music!
Googling, I found a release year of 1958 for this Harmony label LP, and I'll go with that. It sounds right. The tracks themselves date from 1949 and 1950. These are my favorite Hugo Winterhalter...
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Another fun image from Ignacio Esteban Hernandez Garcia!
An expertly revised version of my latest blog image. Thanks, Ignacio!Lee
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Top Six--Fake Hits from England!
From 1964, six budget "covers" from the Top Six label. And, from the looks of the catalog number (Six 1), this was the label's first issue. Woo hoo.As cheap sound-alikes go, these are pretty decent,...
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Fake hits of the fake sixties!
Above: Giant copies of Hit Parader and Song Hits 45s, with your blogger looking on and wondering how they got so big. Song Hits and Hit Parader records, by the way, were distributed by Capital...
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Fake hits of the fake sixties, continued!
More from the Song Hits and Hit Parader labels, named after the magazines and put out by the same folks (Charlton). Today, three Beatles covers, a Beatle-related novelty, a Burtsong (Anyone Who Had a...
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Early cheap-label cover versions (1948-1953), a repost.
Editor's note: And now, a timely repost of a September, 2010 post from this very blog. The "link" is still active, to use blogger jargon. (Bloggerese?) At this blog, when I talk about "cover versions,"...
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The fake Sixties keep on rockin' at MY(P)WHAE!
Your blogger (left), circa 1964. I was only seven, but I've always been bald and bearded....
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Fake hits of the fake sixties, part 3!
More gems from Capital Distributing Co. (Charlton), plus four Modern Sound tracks, taken from two title-less Modern Sound LPs. (Titles cost extra, so why bother?) Moden Sound, of course, is the LP...
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The fake sixties live on!
Today's fakes come from two Columbia Record Club LPs, dated 1964 and 1966, respectively--20 Top Pop Song Hits! and Top Pop Song Hits, Vol. 2 (see above). The former is a U.S. edition of a British LP...
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Fake sixties, Part 5!!
More sam shixties hits--I mean, more sham sixties hits.Today's guilty labels: Columbia Record Club, Arc, Top Tunes, and Song Hits.Click here to hear: Fake sixties, Part 5!Help!--Russ Loader and the...
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