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Easter and some late Good Friday shellac!
Some late Good Friday and pre-Easter Easter selections, starting with Emma L. Ashford's famous chroal work, Lift Up Your Heads, which ends with a dose of All Hail the Power the Power of Jesus' Name....
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From Britain with Beat; That English Sound--More bad fakes from Modern Sound...
When are British Invasion comps not British Invasion comps? When they're fake, of course. And I have two fake-hit British Invasion comps today, the first--From Britain with Beat--blessed with one of...
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78 break--Original Dixieland Jass Band, Anna Wheaton, Earl Fuller's Famous...
I think we all need a 78 break. Of course, "break" and "78" in the same sentence seems like bad luck. I will say, and I think it's true (not positive), that I have only broken four 78s by accident...
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Another 78 break (No cracks, please)--1904-1939
With this batch of shellac (sixteen sides!), I was testing my new after-market 78 stylus for my Stanton 500 cartridge. Now, I could have gotten a custom-made stylus for more than four times the cost,...
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Beattle Mash--The Liverpool Kids (Palace 777; 1964)
Is this the worst of the budget label Beatles knock-offs? Sure seems to be, but since I haven't heard them all, I can't really say for certain. Meet the three Liverpool Kids, all of whom appear to be...
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Sunday morning gospel: The Singing Farmer--Bob Parrish (GMA Records, circa 1964)
A thrift gift from Diane (thanks, Diane!), this LP features robust, loud, take-no-prisoners gospel singing of the Jerome Hines/George Beverly Shea type. A fourteen-track revival in your living room!...
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Repost: An Hour of Lousy Sound Star Dust--Royale Concert Orchestra
The back jacket promises "full fidelity," which would normally be a good thing, but not when the label is Royale.Royale, of course, was a member of the Record Corporation of America's stable of...
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Sunday evening shellac--Gabriel, Sankey, and "Church Scene," oh my!
I'm rushing to press, so I reckon I'll start with Charles H. Gabriel's 1900 Glory Song, which was one of the biggest-ever gospel hits--Gabriel reported that over twenty million (printed) copies were...
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Music Masters, and other fake-hit labels--A Neely Plumb and La Bastre...
You are here in search of early Neely Plumb. You may not even know who Neely was, yet you feel a need for early Neely. Well, you came to the right place. In the early 1950s, Neely was the bandleader...
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Sunday morning gospel, Part 1--Paul Mickelson Plays for Youth (Word W-3064;...
One of the coolest covers of all time, and the Sharpie writing above the first two miniature teems (now invisible) was easy to clone out. There was a price (1.00) and "B1." Maybe the identity of a...
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Sunday morning gospel, Part 2--Big 6 Records
This is a repost request from Monkey D. Sound--country and bluegrass sides from two EPS on the Big 6 Records label, which I posted in 2013 and sometime before that. Bob the Scared Data Miner, who...
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Buddy Tate, The Rock and Rollers Orchestra (Halo 50322)
Look at that cover--I had to grab this one. This was an inexpensive eBay acquisition--I'm still Covid-avoiding the thrifts. Too many central Ohioans think the virus is a joke, and I don't feel...
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That Funny Jas Band from Dixieland (1916), and more!
Twelve tracks, all swiped from the Internet Archive and sound-edited by me. All of the pre-doctored rips are by George Blood LP, the outfit which uses the four-tonearm turntable. Its sound files are...
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Memorial Day 2020--"Then came the journey over the foam, but all that went...
An all-78 rpm Memorial Day salute, with every rip but one courtesy of George Blood LP--this was my second raid of the amazing Internet Archive's 78 rpm offerings. I ended up doing a good deal of...
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The Blue Beats--The Beatle Beat (A.A. Records AA-133; 1964)
I was going to start by describing this as one of the odder Beatles knock-offs. But it may, in fact, be the oddest.The Beatle Beat, Featuring the Blue Beats. That's what it says on the front jacket....
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Sunday morning gospel: The Speer Family--Won't We Be Happy (1965; re. 1981)
This LP had my a bit confused at first, what with its copyright year of 1981. I was sure I had previously owned a much earlier edition, and it turns out that I was correct--this is a 1965 gem reissued...
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Friday popcorn--Merv Griffin, "Love Story" (1957)
This 1957 Merv Griffin single usually goes for too much money on eBay, and because it's a "popcorn" standard. I got it for cheap, and probably because it's a Mexican pressing. But it sounds...
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The Pan-Harmonic Musical Education Society presents... Songs of Faith,...
These Golden Record Library LPs are thrift store staples, and I could have had the entire set at one point--at 99 cents apiece. Nah. And I haven't lived to regret it, either. But this one looked...
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Top Hit Tunes time--Joe Hollis and the Gang, Joe Perkins, The Monarchs, more!
These tracks hail from a strange time in the history of Waldorf Music Hall/Waldorf Record Corp. (which I simply call the Waldorf label, to keep things simple). I refer to late 1957 through 1958 or...
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"We've been invaded!"--Montgomery Ward (British Beat A-Go-Go; 1965)
"Teens, you'll like Wards....because Wards is really 'with it'...has been for over 90 years." People were "with it" in the late 1800s?Other than this, there's no attempt made in the liner notes to...
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