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The Conveyors Quartet--Work for the Night Is Coming
Five members pictured in a quartet portrait? Heck, that's nothing--try seven.We can assume we're seeing the four singers plus three musicians. (I've never understood why "musicians" doesn't include...
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Ukraine Rocks the World
I wanted to direct you to an intriguing and inspiring essay by music journalist and critic Wayne Robins: Ukraine Rocks the Free World. Some fascinating historical analogies in this piece, and the main...
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Ultraphonic high fidelity! "Tops in Pops--All the Latest Hit Recordings"...
Such a natural cover pose, no? And, sorry, these are not "all the latest hit recordings," needless to say. They're copies of the latest hit recordings, to be precise--but Allegro was purposely...
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25 Prom/Promenade soundalikes--in stereo (!!)
The Golden Treasury of the American Hit Parade ("A Rollicking set of 100 Tunes from 1951 to 1960 with Top Ten hits from each year," no less) is a Tiara seven-disc boxed set which, unlike most Tiara...
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Twenty-two 45 sides: Mel-O-Dots, Betty Nickell, Paul Hampton, The Four Lads,...
Or, "A Mess of 45s, Part 2." Nineteen 45s from my collection that were crying out to be posted, with at least a few repeats from lost links gone by. For example, friend-of-the-blog Betty Nickell's...
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Wednesday afternoon gospel: The Valley Voices--What Will Your Answer Be...
I originally posted this wonderful LP by the West Virginia gospel quartet The Valley Voices back in February 2019, and someone just wrote me about it--and... that's when I noticed that the link was...
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Happy Easter 2022!! Eddie Brandt, Jerome Hines, Meadowlarks, Cincinnati...
Twelve Easter selections--six egg-cellent novelties, followed by six outstanding religious numbers. The novelties commence with Eddie Brandt (see Eddie's Wikipedia page) and His Hollywood Hicks...
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(Mostly) solid sound-alikes: "Top Tune Time" (SPC SP 106; 1959?)
So, this is a mostly very good collection of cheap sound-alikes, save for two tracks which, though the artists may try hard, don't quite make the 99¢ cut. I refer to the potentially good fake of...
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Warning! Highly exciting! Handle With Care! "The Sounds of a Thousand...
One of my favorite mood music LPs, budget or otherwise, stereo or mono. And this happens to be a stereo issue, and Crown Records really played up the stereo aspect: "This album is musical dynamite!...
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Twenty-five 45s: Guy Mitchell, The Voxpoppers, Jerry Vale, the Rivieras, more!
Twenty-five 45s. Or is that forty-five 25s? No, I got it right the first time. Confused myself a little, there.Projects like this always take longer than I expect, which is odd, since I do a lot of...
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Sunday morning gospel: Oak Ridge Boys--Just for You (Vista R 1230, 1971)
This essay is a rush job, since this LP is a last-minute substitute for a terrific LP by the Branham Family. While editing those tracks, I decided that the sound was simply too distorted (a bad...
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Teen Age Dance Party--Bobby Krane and Buddy Lucas. Or, Bravo gets things...
So, was there really a "Bobby Krane"? Well, in this case, Bravo (Pickwick) has juxtaposed big band recreations (source unknown) with hard-rocking numbers, the latter having been traced to a group of...
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Sunday morning gospel: The Branham Family--No One Knows What Jesus Suffered...
I had this LP ready to go last Sunday, but I decided to do a last-minute replacement (The Oak Ridge Boys) because of some defects in this pressing--defects which create occasional distortion. But...
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Hal David's 101st birthday! (Hal without Burt, 1946 to1962)
As she did last year, Diane reminded me that May 25th is Hal David's birthday--his 101st. So I'm reposting my 2021 tribute. The original text follows, plus a new link.Here are sixteen Hal David...
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Sunday morning gospel: The Home Gate Quartet Sing "Jesus Walked Upon the...
No, not a six-person quartet--the extra folks on the back cover photo are the excellent lead guitarist Sidney Bartram and the man who does the Nearer My God to Thee recitation, Frank Pittman. Not...
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Bobby Powers and His "Hits-A-Poppin" Orchestra (six-selection 78), and four...
I figured I could toss this post together in no time, but such was not to be. First off, the ten-inch hard-vinyl EP, while in much better condition than my previous copy, is still about a VG- (with...
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Let's have a Waldorf Rock 'N Roll Jamboree! Approximately 51 exciting minutes...
So, my fervent hope is that I ripped and labeled these things properly, because each EP has eight titles per side (!), and because I ripped them out of order, thus necessitating the moving of MAGIX...
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The King's Witness Quartet--I'll Meet You in the Morning (Diadem DLP 202; 1965)
Initial impressions can be deceiving--on my first listen, I heard what sounded like a northern edition of the Chuck Wagon Gang. Certainly, they have the same two-men/two-women SATB (soprano, alto,...
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Hits of the Month--1958 sound-alikes by unknown artists ("Jazz-O!!")
And things don't end with "unknown artists": Also unknown is the company which produced this, plus the label name, though we are informed that these tracks are "Real Cool!" and "Jazz-O!!" And who...
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In Living Stereo: biggest hits of '59 vol. 2--RCA Camden Rockers (RCA Camden...
And here it is--biggest hits of '59 vol. 2, in living stereo! Sorry for the delay, but I spent the past six days struggling with a mild but persistent bug (I suspect light stomach flu) that had me a...
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