Chuck Murphy - Who Drank My Beer (While I Was In The Rear)

I hate when this happens... Not much has changed since 1952.

Here is what Billboard had to say about it Jul 19, 1952: Pleasant ditty is given good pace by a spirited western featuring a honky tonk piano. Murphy half-talks half-sings the lyrics with proper dolefulness while the boys in teh band add a gang vocal in spots. Should do okay in tavern jukes.



Chuck Murphy - Who Drank My Beer (While I Was In The Rear)

Zarla - I Hate Work

Zarla - I Hate Work
i hate work....

The Barracuda - Sleeping Out The Storm - Julie (The Song I Sing Is You)

One of my all time fave records is the 1968 mellow psych masterpiece by the band "Gandalf" An original copy has been on my want list for years but has escaped my clutches since it doesn't turn up often and when it does it is pretty much out of this bottom feeders price range. One day i will own it, but in the meantime i sussed out this 45. It is one of guitar player and singer of Gandalf Peter Sando's other projects "The Barracuda" from 1969, a year after the Gandalf record was released. It's a bit more on the "pop" side and not nearly as dreamy & ethereal as the Gandalf stuff but still a cool pop psych nugget and when i found it on the cheap in OG company sleeve i couldn't say no

Bad Cat Records has a nice write up on Gandalf and The Barracuda HERE: if your not familiar with the band or Mr. Peter Sando.

The Barracuda - Sleeping Out The Storm

The Barracuda - Julie (The Song I Sing Is You)

Sir White And His Sounds ‎– Doin' The Scratch

Here is a cool little soulful mod rock n' romp, w/ a couple of nice guitar breaks on the Redbug label from Dayton Ohio. It dates from 1961.

Sir White And His Sounds ‎– Doin' The Scratch

The Stanley Brothers - Whiskey

A cautionary tale from The Stanley Brothers.

The Stanley Brothers - Whiskey

Jim Edward Brown & Maxine Brown - Here Today And Gone Tomorrow

For Drunken Hobo...

Jim Edward Brown & Maxine Brown - Here Today And Gone Tomorrow

Jim Edward Brown & Maxine Brown - You Thought I Thought

HONEY! SHUT UP!

Jim Edward Brown & Maxine Brown - You Thought I Thought

Eddie James - Her Mamma Won't Leave Us Alone - Sad Sad Feeling

Just picked this 45 up on the cheap and thought i'd throw it up. I aint got much to say but I've been getting some awesome spam on the blog that i thought i'd share.

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If it isn't two people and a bed, with a fleshlight on one end, and a viewer should be able to reach the orgasm. Why treat it like something is 465 people. Some 12-step programs are available for viewing.

Occasionally browsing through videos online I'd see others using their artificial vaginas, and you can do to improve or maintain the count and quality.

However, there are bacteria on those tiny holes on your Artificial Vagina because this sex toy out there, from vibrators since it seems Walrus semen is the Arctic Sea's version of Nessie and Bigfoot.

Lol They just released a new life like anatomically correct Artificial Vagina! On the Anonymity of Singing Assholes Now Pink Flamingos plays on television! Strange ticking noises from appliances or walls/roof.

As for Eddie James, i got nothing, but i found some info on the awesome and always informative Sir Shambling's Deep Soul Heaven:

Eddie James probably cam from Tennessee as all his recordings came from the state. His Startown single appeared on a Chattanooga label and is a simple but effective midpaced item which suffers from a low budget production. Both his King 45s from the early 70s are much better. They were cut at the Starday/King studios in Nashville and benefit from the experienced session men there. Reap What You Sow is a fine country slowie featuring subdues strings and some tasteful electric piano but (I Can’t Get Used To) Livin’ Without You is a real gem. A beautifully rendered country soul ballad with some lovely picked and chorded guitar and piano fills. Eddie’s voice is gentle and concerned with just enough “rasp” to make the lyric meaningful.

These are real throwback discs at a time when wah wah guitars and funky keyboards were all the rage – no wonder they didn’t sell. But the timeless nature of this sort of music means that it lasts so much better than the transient nature of “today’s sound”.

Eddie James - Her Mamma Won't Leave Us Alone

Eddie James - Sad Sad Feeling

Heather Black - Circles

Heather Black: Texas band that included Gaylan Latimer (aka Gaylan Ladd). Gaylan Ladd cut a great fuzz stomper back in 1965 that I've had my eye on for some time, so I've been trying to track down his other stuff and came upon this 45 from 1977 on the American Pla-Boy label & produced by Huey Meaux. It's a hard rocker w/ a slight southern rock vibe ala The Allman Bro's. Pretty cool.

Heather Black - Circles

The Novas - The Crusher

Reginald Lisowski (July 11, 1926 – October 22, 2005) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, The Crusher (sometimes Crusher Lisowski to distinguish him from other Crushers, such as Crusher Blackwell).

In 1964, the Minneapolis-based garage rock band The Novas wrote a song dedicated to him called "The Crusher", with lead singer Bob Nolan imitating the raunchy voice of Crusher Lisowski (and his trademark yell at the beginning of the record). The tune, which included the lyrics "Do the hammer lock, you turkeynecks!" was popular in the upper Midwest and made it to #88 on the national Billboard chart. It was later covered by The Cramps on their album Psychedelic Jungle. The song has received a resurgence of popularity in recent years, as David Letterman has often played it on his late-night talk show. The Ramones released "The Crusher" paying tribute to Lisowski on their last studio recorded album, Adios Amigos.

The Novas - The Crusher

Zager & Evans - 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)

A few selected tracks from Zager & Evans - 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) - The title track was a hit in 1969 and as a youngin' i can remember it being played on the radio. Fast forward 40 years or so and now my own kids love it too! 2525 has been a car ride staple for years, so i picked this album up on the cheap for my son who now has his own record player and record collection. I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. If you've never heard the whole album i picked a few of my faves to give ya a taste.

As for 2525 here is the Wiki 411 if you need it:

"In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)" is a hit song from 1969 by the American pop-rock duo of Dennis Zager and Richard Evans. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks commencing July 12, 1969. The song was written and composed by Rick Evans in 1964 and originally released on a small regional record label (Truth Records) in 1968. A year later, an Odessa, Texas, radio station popularized the disc, which RCA Records quickly picked up for nationwide distribution.

"In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)" opens with the words "In the year 2525, If man is still alive, If woman can survive, They may find...". Subsequent verses pick up the story at 1010-year intervals from 2525 to 6565.[1] Disturbing predictions are given for each selected year. In the year 3535, for example, all of a person's actions, words and thoughts will be preprogrammed into a daily pill. Then the pattern as well as the music changes, going up a half step in the key of the song, after two stanzas, first from A flat minor, to A minor, and, then, finally, to B flat minor, and verses for the years 7510, 8510 and 9595 follow.
The song has no chorus. Amid ominous-sounding orchestral music, the final dated chronological verse is,

In the year 9595, I'm kinda wonderin' if Man is gonna be alive.
He's taken everything this old Earth can give, and he ain't put back nothin', whoa-whoa...,
The summary verse concludes:
Now it's been 10,000 years, Man has cried a billion tears,
For what, he never knew. Now man's reign is through.
But through eternal night, The twinkling of starlight.
So very far away, Maybe it's only yesterday.

The song goes back to the beginning, starting all over again, with 2525 before the song's fade.[1]
The overriding theme, of a world doomed by its passive acquiescence to and overdependence on its own overdone technologies, struck a resonant chord in millions of people around the world in the late 1960s.[2]
The song describes a nightmarish vision of the future as man's technological inventions gradually dehumanize him. It includes a colloquial reference to the Second Coming (In the year 7510, if God's a-coming, He ought to make it by then.), which echoed the zeitgeist of the Jesus movement.

Legacy

It is unusual for a recording artist to have a number one hit and then never have another chart single. "In the Year 2525" actually gave Zager and Evans this status twice; they remain the only act to do this in both the U.S. and UK singles charts. Their follow up single on RCA-Victor, "Mr. Turnkey" (a song about a rapist who nails his own wrist to the wall as punishment for his crime), failed to hit the main music charts on either side of the Atlantic (although it did manage to make the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #106).
The song has been covered at least 60 times in 7 different languages.[3] A notable version of In the Year 2525 is sung by the Italo-French pop singer, Dalida; another one by the UK new romantic group Visage;another one by Greek singer Takis Antoniadis in the 70s, another version was used as the theme song for the short-lived science fiction series Cleopatra 2525. It is also featured in both parts of the two-part second season finale of Millennium where a man-made virus is threatening to wipe out humanity.[4] The Slovenian industrial group Laibach edited the lyrics in their cover version to make it appropriate for 1994's NATO album. More recently, it was covered by the gothic rock band Fields of the Nephilim, by the electronic body music band Project Pitchfork (album Dhyani, 1991) and by Ian Brown on his 2009 album My Way.

Zager & Evans - 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)

Zager & Evans - Bayoan

Zager & Evans - Fred

Zager & Evans - Cary Lynn Javes

Zager & Evans - Taxi Man

Mabel Lee - Dearest Dream - He's My Guy

Rare Mid 50's Doo Wop Ballad & Rocker 45.

Mabel Lee - Dearest Dream

Mabel Lee - He's My Guy

The Underbeats - Annie Do The Dog

Midwest garage from 1964 on the Bagar label featuring some future members of the psych band Gypsy from the early 70's.

You can read a bit more, see some band pics and the discography
HERE: or HERE:

The Underbeats - Annie Do The Dog

The Holidays - Watch Out Girl

I've been bored and digging through boxes of old 45's at home while recouperating from surgey. The one good thing is that I'm finding some nice 45's i didn't even know i had. This is another one. Great little Detroit soul nugget from 1966. Not rare or anything, just awesome.

As for The Holidays:

The Holidays were a Detroit group who are remembered for a record, "I'll Love You Forever," (1966) that their members didn't even appear on. Edwin Starr sang lead and J.J. Barnes and Steve Mancha supplied backing vocals, and some say that Eddie Anderson made the session too. When the record hit, producer Don Davis revitalized The Holidays with new members to capitalize on the song's success. Starr, Barnes, and Mancha never performed as The Holidays.
The original Four Holidays began as the Fresandos, who cut "Your Last Goodbye" on Star-X Records in 1959. Renaming themselves the Four Holidays, they did "Deep in My Heart" in 1961 on Master Records. Jimmy Holland, Jimmy Ruffin, and possibly the Barksdale brothers (Cleo, Robert, and James Mitchell) were the other members; all may have sang with the group at one time or another, with one bouncing in as another bounced out.
Ruffin recorded a solo shot, "Don't Feel Sorry For Me" b/w "Heart," on Motown's Miracle label in 1961. He was drafted and didn't resume recording until his duty was over. Two singles fell on Markie Records in 1963-1964 -- "Grandma Bird" and "I'll Walk Right out That Door." Nothing was selling, and their next appearance was an uncredited backing of Emmauel Laskey on "Lucky to Be Loved By You" b/w "Our World" (1965). It's believed that Ruffin recorded on the Markie releases; he signed with Motown upon returning from active duty and began recording on their Soul subsidiary in 1964.
A stint with Golden World Records followed, and their first release, "I Love You Forever," soared to number 36 in 1966. After a second single on Golden World, they went with Revilot Records for three flops (1967-1968). The group now consisted of Jimmy Holland, Jack Holland, Jay Reid, and Tony Hestor. Hestor was a songwriter; he wrote the B-side of a Marvelettes' single, "A Little Bit of Sympathy, A Little Bit of Love," on Tamla Records in 1964. He also did a solo, "Just Can't Leave You" b/w "Watch Out," on Karate Records in 1966. The Holidays next appeared on Soulhawk Records with "My Baby Ain't No Plaything" b/w "Maybe So, Maybe No" (1969); Hester and Richard Wylie wrote both sides, it made a little noise locally and Westbound Records picked it up and credited it as the New Holidays in 1970. Jimmy Holland also cut a non-selling solo release on Blue Rock in 1965 and one for Syco Records.

The Holidays - Watch Out Girl

Nova's Nine - Pain

Nova's Nine from Statesville, North Carolina.

The band formed from Gary Brown's earlier band, Creations, and the Mann brothers', Firebirds. Ultimately they became students of Huxley and changed their name to Brave New World. As Nova's Nine, they recorded "Pain" in 1968 on Heritage Records, later picked up by ABC.

For a nice little "pain" story check out Echo's In The Wind.

I see this tagged as Northern Soul (must be the horns?) but it has a Garage rock feel to me.... Love that organ in the background.

As with many songs from the era, it is way too short and man, it sure woulda been cool if they threw a fuzz guitar solo in there.

Any way, cool tune. Check it out.

Nova's Nine - Pain

Merrell Fankhauser & HMS Bounty - I'm Flying Home

Merrell Wayne Fankhauser is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s with bands including the Impacts, Exiles, Fapardokly, HMS Bounty, Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and MU.

In 1960 he joined a local band called The Impacts as lead guitarist. Their Ventures-influenced sound developed a strong following at the start of the surfing scene. In 1962 they recorded an album which was later released, without the band's knowledge, by Del-Fi Records, and which included a tune "Wipe Out" which Fankhauser suggests later provided the basis of the hit by the Surfaris.

Fankhauser left the band and moved to Lancaster, California. There he met Jeff Cotton (later of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band), and in 1964 they formed The Exiles. The band - which also included John "Drumbo" French - had some success but broke up. Fankhauser moved back to the coast, formed a new band, Merrell and the Xiles, and had a minor hit with "Tomorrow's Girl" in 1967. An album followed which included old Exiles songs and newer psych folk material. For the album the band was credited as Fapardokly, taking its name from the surnames of the original members - Fankhauser, Dan Parrish, Bill Dodd and Dick Lee. Despite its later cult acclaim, the album was not a success. Fankhauser and Dodd then formed another, more overtly psychedelic, band with Jack Jordan and Larry Meyers, naming it HMS Bounty. They won a recording deal with Uni Records, and their self-titled album was released in 1968, followed by the single "Tampa Run". However, success was again thwarted, by personal and record company problems and the band split up.

Reuniting with Jeff Cotton in 1970, Fankhauser then formed the group MU. In 1971 their first album was released and became a radio hit. Increasingly fascinated by legends of the lost continent of Mu, Fankhauser then relocated to the Hawaiian island of Maui in Feb. 1973. A second MU album, without Cotton, was recorded in 1974, but not released until the 1980s. Fankhauser then recorded a solo album, "Maui", issued in 1976.

Fankhauser continued to record, occasionally with friends including John Cipollina and more recently Ed Cassidy of Spirit, as well as producing new surf albums credited to The Impacts.

I just pulled this out of a box of junk 45's. It's a little played w/ some snap, crackle & pop but a pretty great little psychedelic nugget. Very happy to have found it. Enjoy.

Groovy baby....

Merrell Fankhauser & HMS Bounty - I'm Flying Home

The Grasshoppers - Twin Beat

Nice instrumental garage / surf rock jam from 1965 from The Grasshoppers on the Sunburst label out of Cleveland Ohio. Has a bit of a Tequila vibe, cool drums and nice guitar. This 45 was later picked up by Warner Brothers.

And oh yeah, one Benjamin Orzechowski (later Benjamin Orr, bassist/vocalist for The Cars) was a member. How's that for some hidden trivia???

The Grasshoppers - Twin Beat

Sir Mack Rice - Dark Skinned Woman - Part 1 & Part 2

This record makes me feel good. And not just because the tunes are great but because this was a gift from a friend that came just at the right time. I hadn't been feeling to well starting last wed. night and on through the weekend. I wound up going to the hospital Monday night with what i found out was acute appendicitis. With in a few hours i was in the operating room. A quick night at the hospital and return home to a new package sent from a record friend who has been more generous through the years with vinyl than i can ever re-pay him back. So i know i've gone on rants before about record ass-wipes and how many unscrupulous record jerks there out out there but for everyone of those there seems to be more "good guys" than bad. This is from one of them. The good guys.

Thanks brother!

As for Sir Mack Rice and this track:

Mack Rice (born Bonnie Rice, November 10, 1933, Clarksdale, Mississippi), is an American songwriter, whose compositions have been performed by many well-known artists, including The Staple Singers, Ike and Tina Turner, Albert King, Johnnie Taylor, Shirley Brown, Rufus Thomas, Etta James, Billy Eckstine, Eddie Floyd, Buddy Guy, The Rascals, Wilson Pickett, Albert Collins, Busta Rhymes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Otis Clay and The Blues Brothers (in Blues Brothers 2000).
Some of his better-known songs include "Respect Yourself", "Betcha Can't Kiss Me (Just One Time)", "Cheaper to Keep Her", "Cadillac Assembly Line", "Money Talks", "Cold Women With Warm Hearts", "Do the Funky Penguin, Pt. 1", "It Sho Ain't Me", "Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'", among others. His best known composition and only hit as a solo performer is "Mustang Sally."
Rice began his work in the R&B field in the 1950s based in Detroit, performing with the Five Scalders in 1956 and with the Falcons (fellow band members included Eddie Floyd, Wilson Pickett and Joe Stubbs) from 1957 to 1963. He performed as a solo vocalist in the years to follow, but his biggest successes were as songwriter for other artists on labels like Stax and others in the 1960s and following decades. He began his solo vocalist career at Stax in 1967, recording on Atco Records beginning in 1968. Rice is one of the few musicians whose career touched both Motown and Stax Records.
In 1992, backed by the soul band The Dynatones, Rice released his first solo album, "Right Now" on Blue Suit Records. On it he reprises a number of his hit songs along with a mixture of new tunes.
Rice lives in the Detroit area, and is still performing.

The tune from 1975 but it right at the year when funk started turning disco but it's still funky enough to stay clear of the disco ready for the dancefloor production or corniness of later years disco syrup....


Cheers!
dd


Sir Mack Rice - Dark Skinned Woman - Part 1

Sir Mack Rice - Dark Skinned Woman - Part 2

Kane's Cousins - Support Your Local Bands

A buddy of mine just shared the follwing statement from LA Times writter David Ackert and i thought i'd share as well....

“Singers and Musicians are some of the most driven, courageous people on the face of the earth. They deal with more day-to-day rejection in one year than most people do in a lifetime. Every day, they face the financial challenge of living a freelance lifestyle, the disrespect of people who think they should get real jobs, and their own fear that they'll never work again. Every day, they have to ignore the possibility that the vision they have dedicated their lives to is a pipe dream. With every note, they stretch themselves, emotionally and physically, risking criticism and judgment. With every passing year, many of them watch as the other people their age achieve the predictable milestones of normal life - the car, the family, the house, the nest egg. Why? Because musicians and singers are willing to give their entire lives to a moment - to that melody, that lyric, that chord, or that interpretation that will stir the audience's soul. Singers and Musicians are beings who have tasted life's nectar in that crystal moment when they poured out their creative spirit and touched another's heart. In that instant, they were as close to magic, God, and perfection as anyone could ever be. And in their own hearts, they know that to dedicate oneself to that moment is worth a thousand lifetimes.”

- David Ackert, LA Times

With that being said this one goes out to all those struggling musicians and lifers who continue to push forward even when the odds are stacked against them and to the folks who do in fact support them. If you don't support local music..... well, you really should.....

As for the 45, it's a bit goofey but the words are true.

Let's give a hand to your local band 'cause they're really grand and the work very hard!

Kane's Cousins - Support Your Local Bands

Kill City - Secret Smile - Beggin For More - Cancer of the Mind

Kill City was an LA punk & rock band that consisted of members of The leaving Trains (Tom Hofer) The Web (T. A. Black & Andi Hayes) & Brad Holtzman (Darb) from The Need.

Their only single on Dionysus is a nice rocking slab of female fronted rock punk that splits hairs with X (Billy Zoom guitars) & The Stooges w/ a lil' dirty sounding Blondie thrown in....

Love the cover, and the cool color vinyl made this 99 cent addition well worth it....

Kill City - Secret Smile

Kill City - Beggin For More

Kill City - Cancer of the Mind

The Poor - She's Got The Time (She's Got The Changes)

1967 garage pop from Colorado. Written by Tom Shipley of Brewer & Shipley fame (One Toke Over The Line). Nice little tune that is way too short....

The band consisted of sevreal members through the years but bass player Randy Meisner later went on to play with Poco, Linda Ronstant and The Eagles. Randy Meisner was also in the Drivin Dynamics before all this. I posted one of The Drivin Dynamics 45's HERE: way back when.

A little more info about the band and its members and other realeases can be found HERE: on a Randy Meisner band info page.

The Poor - She's Got The Time (She's Got The Changes)