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The weirdest budget label EP of all time. Or, "Ya had enough, cats?"
This is the weirdest budget label EP of all time. Quite a big claim, I realize. But it's me making it, and you know the kind of stuff I collect and post, and I don't proclaim something weird,...
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Hurrah! Top Hits--Big Legs Jackson, The Freckles, Titus Rock, and Grainger T....
Big Legs Jackson, The Freckles, Titus Rock, and Grainger T. Worthington. What does that sentence tell you? That I believe in using the Oxford comma. What else?So, somehow the Hurrah! (Pickwick...
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Top 6 Hits, or Music for Those Who Think Young (Startime 1145)--Barbara Ann,...
Something--I don't know what--suggests that this EP was somehow connected with Pepsi. It's subtle, but it's there, if you look closely for it. What I don't get is the blank box and lines on the back...
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The Nash Family Trio--I Heard a Voice (1962)
Twice I looked for this LP in my stacks, and it was nowhere to be found. I'm sure I kept it (at least, I think I'm sure), but things do have a way of vanishing into the void here in the Media Room....
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Memorial Day, 2019--A Ballad from Vietnam, The Trumpeter, March for Americans
The playlist starts with the profoundly moving A Ballad from Vietnam (The Rain on the Leaves), recorded by Mitch Miller and His Gang in 1965 for Decca. Not exactly what we expect from Mitch--unless,...
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Less Common Burt, Part 6!--Immaculate Conception Combined Choirs, The Stereo...
The perfect post for those who have longed to hear Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head performed by the Immaculate Conception Combined Choirs of Dayton OH (hope they were spared the terrible storm damage...
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Sunday morning gospel: Where Will I Shelter My Sheep Tonight?
Two questions arise. 1) Why do song titles that take the form of a question so often lack a question mark (as here), and 2) why does the cover say Where Will I Shelter My Sheep Tonight but the label...
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More Fakes in a Row: Tequila, Short Shorts, The Stroll, Way Down Yonder...,...
The Stroll, Tequila, Short Shorts, Charlie Brown--ever wanted to hear up tosixdifferent fake-hit versions of these rock and roll classics? No? Oh. Well, that's what I have for you today, anyway....
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Eighteen Top Hits--Curtis Smith, The Hi-Fi's, Artie Malvin, Enoch Light, and...
I've had these tracks ready for the past week--they were a tough cleaning-up job, but it only took me a couple hours or three. However, writing this essay has turned out to be a near impossible task,...
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Drifting and Dreaming--or, Drifting n' Dreaming: Bennet Roy and His Orch.
A fairly easy rip, for a change. I first ripped it at 3 grams with my after-market Stanton 500 cartridge stylus, but I needed heavier tracking--too noisy, with the audio breaking up in the loud parts...
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Country & Western Million Record Sellers (But not the actual hits, of course)
That's some good jacket art. And I'm sure these all sold a million... on their original labels and in the original versions, that is. Yup, another fake-hits festival, and a fun one, even if the...
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Three tracks from last time, in much better (mono) sound
If anyone wants the entire LP pictured above (ripped, not mailed to you), I can probably do that. But for this post, I've grabbed only Country Boy (a fake version of the Fats Domino hit) from it....
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Hopefully, I'll get a Sunday gospel offering up today. It's the Blue Ridge Quartet on the Rimrock label--a great LP that I've been loving for 30 years now. Had you asked me at any point before...
View ArticleKipepeo Publishing--Nineteen of my rips, stolen and offered as CDs at Amazon
I have a respiratory infection going, and I'm hoping it doesn't get worse. I've been too dazed and drained to get a post together.Anyway, reader Steph Lambert just alerted me to this. A joint called...
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Hits a Poppin' (Prom 212)--Sugar Beat, Pat Vale, Donnie Rounds. (Donnie...
And so we have a new batch of fake hits. A new album of fake hits, to be more precise. 1959 is the year, and the guilty party is the Synthetic Plastics Co., on its Prom label. Discogs disagrees with...
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The World Famous Blue Ridge Quartet Sing the Old-Time Gospel
Rimrock Records put this out in at least two other editions, both with much cooler covers--I got stuck with the drab one. But the music is fabulous. This was one of the first LPs to turn me on to...
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Howdy. I'm recovering from bronchitis, which had been building up for a little over a week when I went to the local urgent care on Saturday. I'm starting to feel a lot better. I blame my bronchitis...
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Hits A' Poppin (SPC 108)--Fine records needn't be expensive, though it can't...
This hammered Synthetic Plastics Co. LP showed up last week in a local Goodwill, and I snapped it up without hesitation, despite the lousy condition, because for some unknown reason these things aren't...
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Chester (William Billings, 1778)
I wasn't able to put together a patriotic playlist this time--too sick. But last night I recorded myself playing William Billing's great patriotic anthem, Chester. Billings, a choral composer and...
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Didn't we just see these two?? Hits are A' Poppin' again.
Another Hits A' Poppin' (SP 206, this time), with the same couple from the last jacket, and in the exact same pose (almost makes you think it's the same photo), the guy still lugging the portable...
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