Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
The Liquid Guitar of Vinnie Bell
2 Frankie Calen: (Help Me) Telstar
3 Diane Renay: The Company You Keep
4 The Chanters: Bongo, Bongo
5 Bob Crewe: An Angel Is Love
6 The Moons: Gammera
7 The Baby Dolls: Now That I've Lost You
8 Kai Winding feat. Kenny Burrell: Surf Bird
9 The Cheese Cakes: Heading For A Heartbreak
10 Ichabod & The Cranes: Supermarket Of Love
11 The Vampires: The Creep
12 Johnny Thunder: Horror Show
13 The Crystals: My Place
14 Tracey Dey: Any Kind Of Love
15 The Tymes: Street Talk
16 Carmen Taylor: My Son
17 The Archies: The Weatherbee
18 Frankie Valli: Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You
19 The Bob Crewe Generation: The Black Queen's Beads
20 Johnny Cymbal: Robinson Crusoe On Mars
21 Gene Pitney: The Last Two People On Earth
22 Robert Mosley: Goodbye My Lover Goodbye
23 Bobby Shad & The Bad Men: I Want You Back
24 Rita Pavone: Don't Tell Me Not To Love You
25 Declaration Of Independence: Morning Glory Man
26 The Cinderellas: Please Don't Wake Me
27 Reparata & The Delrons: Saturday Night Didn't Happen
28 Quadrangle: She's Too Familiar Now
29 Errma Franklin: Abracadabra
30 Eddie Rambeau: The Train
31 The Cherry People: Don't Hang Me Up Girl
32 Ferrante & Teicher: Lay Lady Lay
33 Gene Pitney: Just One Smile
34 The Shangri: Las: Past, Present And Future
35 Teri Thornton: Why Don't You Love Me
36 Tracey Dey: I Won't Tell
37 Gene Stridel: Where Does That Leave Me
38 Shirley Ellis: I See It, I Like It, I Want It
39 Steve Karmen: Let's Get Down To It
40 The Heatwaves: Nowhere To Go
41 The Unclaimed: Memories Of Green Eyes
42 Diane Christian: It Happened One Night
43 The Brass Ring: Rosemary's Baby
44 Donna Lynn: When Your Heart Rings, Answer (Don't Hang Up On Love)
45 Vinnie Bell: Shindig
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Wolf Call
Earl Washington - Wolf Call (2:07)
The Rainmaker: Some Songs of Harry Nilsson
1 Little Richard: Groovy Little Suzy
2 Mary Hopkin: The Puppy Song
3 Micky Dolenz: Daybreak
4 Ella Fitzgerald: Open Your Window
5 New Christy Minstrels: A Travelin' Man
6 Modern Folk Quartet: This Could Be The Night
7 Mike Melvoin: One
8 The Mystic Moods Orch.: I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City
9 The Ronettes: Paradise
10 Tom Northcott: 1941
11 Patty Pravo: 1941
12 Kenny Everett: It's Been So Long
13 Kenny Everett: Without Her
14 Lulu: Without Him
15 Collage: Story Of Rock And Roll
16 The Yardbirds: Ten Little Indians
17 Cryan' Shames: Rainmaker
18 Rosyln Kind: (I Guess) The Lord Must Be In New York City
19 David Cassidy: The Puppy Song
20 The Shangri-Las: Paradise
21 The Turtles: The Battle Of The Bands
22 Astrud Gilberto: Without Him
23 The Ronettes: Here I Sit
24 Tom Northcott: The Rainmaker
25 Pandemonium: 1941
26 Astrud Gilberto: Wailing Of The Willow
27 Herb Alpert: Without Her
28 Eternal Triangle: I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Monday, May 5, 2014
Pure Country
Here's the Billboard magazine (10/08/1966) promoting Johnny Dollar's then-new 45rpm recording of Windburn. What tickles me is the reference to "pure country" which is perhaps a little surprising in light of the fact that the recording was positively saturated with the sounds of country fuzztone guitar! And that is, to be sure, a fine thing.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Gin & Bourbon
Here's both sides of a solidly rockin' mid-1960s effort from the Atlanta suburb of Marietta, Georgia. The top side's a booze-oriented tribute to / rip-off of The Newbeats' big 1964 hit Bread And Butter and the flip's the Little Walter standard.
Monday, April 28, 2014
Friday, April 25, 2014
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
The Neighborhood Vs. Wynonie Harris
I'd give just about anything to see a photo of the flashing sign on his Long Island lawn reading "The World's Greatest Blues Singer Lives Here." As the great Dizzy Dean once said, "it ain't bragging if you can do it."
Below: Wynonie Harris, via ACE records.
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Happy Record Store Day!
UPDATE: Third and final try...what we see here is R. Crumb's artwork, accompanying a story by Harvey Pekar. Thanks to Matt Fiveash for illuminating me.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The Iceman Cometh To Atlanta
Things could be far, far worse.
Monday, March 31, 2014
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Psychotronic Movie of the Week: Skidoo (1968)
A preview of our coming attraction,...
1968 - Paramount Pictures - D: Otto Preminger S: Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Alexandra Hay, Groucho Marx, Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark, Michael Constantine, Frank Gorshin, John Phillip Law, Peter Lawford, Burgess Meredith, George Raft, Caesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Arnold Stang, Slim Pickens, Richard Kiel, Harry Nilsson.
Now here's something completely different. And by different, I mean different compared to,... well, just about anything I've ever seen. Long left stashed in the Paramount vaults and only wondered about by those who missed it in its initial run, this is Otto Preminger's misguided attempt at one of those "generation gap" films that were becoming more and more prevalent around 1968. The plot is comedic mash-up of hippiesploitation and a gangster movie. Jackie Gleason is a retired mobster living a legit life with his wife (Carol Channing) and their hippie daughter. One day, a mob boss (named "God" and played by Groucho Marx!) sends a couple of guys over to pull Jackie out of retirement for one last hit on a snitch (played by Mickey Rooney). Resistant at first, he eventually relents and gets put in the same prison as Mickey so he can do the hit. But before that can happen, someone slips "the Great One" some LSD, Gleason trips balls, and his whole worldview is blown away. In a sense, it almost becomes a PRO-drug movie if you can believe it! While he's in the slammer, his house becomes a playground for his daughter's hippie friends, and eventually Carol Channing, dressed in full pirate regalia leads the kids in a siege of God's boat. Oh, and did I mention there's musical numbers? Or that it was endorsed by Timothy Leary? Yeah, this is one strange piece of celluloid - worth watching for its jaw-dropping absurdity, the parade of famous Hollywood actors who somehow signed on for this, and its time-capsule quality, but mostly because the scene where Jackie Gleason trips in his prison cell is positively epic.
And now, our feature presentation!
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Monday, March 17, 2014
Hey, Buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-bay-bee
Hey, remember when they used to make dopey records about speech impediments? No? Pretty sure I don't either, but here's proof. I have more.
Friday, March 14, 2014
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Psychotronic Movie of the Week: At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)
A preview of our coming attraction,...
1964 - Industria Cinematografica Apolo (Brazil) - D/S: Jose Mojica Marins
Today's selection marks the occasion of its creator's 78th birthday. Jose Mojica Marins, better known to the world as Coffin Joe, was born on March 13, 1936, and is still alive and kicking, frequently seen on tv in his native Brazil. He created the Coffin Joe character in 1963, for this film, possibly his greatest work, At Midnight I Will Take Your Soul. Marins described the conception of Coffin Joe in a 2006 interview:
"In a dream saw a figure dragging me to a cemetery. Soon he left me in front of a headstone, there were two dates, of my birth and my death. People at home were very frightened, called a Priest because they thought I was possessed. I woke up screaming, and at that time decided to do a movie unlike anything I had done. He was born at that moment, the character would become a legend: Coffin Joe. The character began to take shape in my mind and in my life."This was the first Coffin Joe film. It was followed by This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967), and, forty years later, Embodiment of Evil (2008), completing what is known as the Coffin Joe Trilogy. He revived Coffin Joe many times over the years, though not always as the central character, in films including Awakening of the Beast (1970), The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe (1974), and Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind (1978).
And now, our feature presentation.
Special bonus feature, Damned: The Strange World of Jose Mojica Marins (2001 documentary)
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Milt Dickey On Westport & The Story Of A Love Lost To Technology
In what might be the first (and only?) record label established solely to promote the musical stylings of children, Westport Records existed in Kansas City, Mo. from 1955 - 1962.
Westport put out a handful of great hillbilly, rockabilly, and r&b records, by artists such as Milt Dickey, Alvis Wayne, & Big Bob Dougherty.
photo courtesy of Al Turner
Read more about the Westport label here:
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Nipsey & The Strippers
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
The Super Volcanic Lloyd Price
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Psychotronic Movie of the Week: Werewolves on Wheels (1971)
A preview of the coming attraction,...
1971 - A South Street Production - D: Michael Levesque - S: Stephen Oliver, D.J. Anderson, Duece Berry, Billy Gray, Barry McGuire, Severn Darden
The Psychotronic Movie the Week is back and this time I've got a real doozy for 'ya, a one of a kind classic brought to you by the king of the biker flicks, Joe Solomon. A biker gang called The Devil's Advocates come across a cult of Satanic monks in the California desert. One of the gang's "mamas" is cast under a spell in her sleep and led into an occult ritual that weds her to the Devil. When she returns to the Advocates she bites her old man and turns him into a werewolf who rips apart another gang member and his woman who had split from camp to go get it on. The gang buries the dead the next morning and move on, but every night more grisly attacks follow. This one drags a bit in the middle, but the first and final acts are pure psychotronic bliss and it features a great guitar soundtrack by Don Gere, enjoy!
And now, our feature presentation.
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Thinking About Billy Strange And A Few Nice Things
Billy Strange played guitar on a million of my favorite songs, but here's one I didn't know.
The Fencemen - Sour Grapes (1962)
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Monday, February 17, 2014
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