Club Nisei Orchestra And Singers - Japanese Rhumba - 49th State Hawaii Record Co.

1st post of 2014. Not much to say. This was a cheap thrift score and i really like the sound of this song. End.

Club Nisei Orchestra And Singers - Japanese Rhumba

Spooky Organ Vibes

spooky organ vibes: the cover of this organ record indicates love but when i played this thing it immediately gave me spooky vibes, sorta like the soundtrack to the great old horror movie carnival of lost souls. so i decided to make it even more spooky (or retarded) and mash up each song on each side. so each side condensed down to a few minuets. like a bad acid trip at the local county fair. now without further ado, i have more Philly beer week to attend to. have at it...

Spooky Organ Vibes Part 1

Spooky Organ Vibes Part 2

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

Los Viking's - Dame Una Lagrima Para Llorar & Fuera De Atraccion

I just picked this record and a bunch of other cool records i know nothing about. I've been super busy and not really able to gather any real information on this awesome latin late 60's? rock record but man this song is so cool i just had to share. Its awesome and weird w/ some cool fuzz guitar and a bit of a calliope sound (at least to my ears) and i have no idea what they are singing about but man i really dig this. anyone have any info on the Los Viking's??? Finding stuff like this is the reason i love record collecting..... you just never know what your gonna find.

PS - i hate the new upgrades blogger did.... i have no idea where anything is anymore, making an already computer illiterate that much more disadvantaged.... Ugh....

PSS - I added another track that is equally if not better then the 1st!

Los Viking's - Dame Una Lagrima Para Llorar

Los Viking's - Fuera De Atraccion

The Harvey Averne Barrio Band - S/T

Great Latin/soul/funk rock from The Harvey Averne Barrio Band 1994 reissue on Acid Jazz originally from 1971 & release originally on Heavy Duty Records. This one has plenty of rockin' fuzz guitars to keep the devils interest. If you like funky jams w/ some nice rock and fuzz guitars thrown in the mix then check this out. It's a good one.

The Harvey Averne Barrio Band - S/T

NIEMEN - dziwny jest ten swiat... ("Strange is this world")

Dziwny jest ten świat ("Strange is this world") - First Czesław Niemen's solo album released in 1967. At 20 December 1968, as first album in communist Poland, "Dziwny jest ten świat" was awarded with Golden record (160 000 copies sold).

Strange to find this Polish Garage Rock LP from 1967 in South New Jersey at a garage sale. South Jersey, where Monster Trucks and Deer Hunting abound and the only thing you are likely to hear coming out of car radio's is Sweet Home Alabama.....

This record was obviously played quite a bit by someone down in the South JERZ.... Pretty cool poppy garage rock sung in Polish. Check out some selected tracks...

NIEMEN - dziwny jest ten swiat...

Georges Moustaki - S/T

Yussef Mustacchi, known as Georges Moustaki (Greek: Ζορζ Μουστακί), (born in Alexandria, Egypt May 3, 1934) is a French singer and songwriter of Italo-Greek Jewish origin, best known for his poetic rhythm, eloquent simplicity and his hundreds of romantic songs. He has written songs for Édith Piaf (including "Milord"), Dalida (including Gigi l'amoroso), Françoise Hardy, Barbara, Brigitte Fontaine, Herbert Pagani, France Gall, and Cindy Daniel, as well as for himself.

His parents, Nessim and Sarah, came originally from the island of Corfu, Greece, and were Corfiot Italian Jews, but they moved to Alexandria, Egypt, where Georges learned French. They had a bookshop in the cosmopolitan city where many communities lived together.
At home, everyone spoke Italian. In the street, the children spoke Arabic. At school, young Joseph learned and spoke French. His parents were very attached to French culture and put him into a French school, along with his sisters.
Moustaki went to Paris in 1951 and was inspired by the young Georges Brassens. He changed his name to Georges Moustaki, in honor of him.

Moustaki sang songs in French, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, English and Arabic.
He married at twenty and has a large family in France, Israel, Brazil and Venezuela.

I have no idea what he is saying but I dig this record...

Georges Moustaki -

Del Reeves - Gettin' Any Feed For Your Chickens?

Some selected tracks off of Del Reeves - Gettin' and feed for your chickens Lp from 1966. Some good twangy country rockers with some fine guitar pickin'....

Del Reeves - Gettin' Any Feed For Your Chickens?

this is what happens when you leave your dog at home while you go to a record show... she eats your records. ironic....???

anyone have an extra copy of the challengers k-39 or how about a mexican pressing of CSNY - deja vu....???

Mister Rogers - Good People Somtimes (Do Bad Things)

creepy is as creepy does...

Mister Rogers - Good People Somtimes (Do Bad Things)

John Prine - S/T - 1971

In what has to be one of the best stories of how someone got into the music biz...

In the late 1960s, while Prine was delivering mail in Maywood, Illinois, he began to sing at open mic evenings at the Fifth Peg on Armitage Avenue. Prine was initially a spectator, reluctant to perform, but eventually did so in response to a "You think you can do better?" comment made to him by another performer. Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert heard him there and wrote the first review Prine ever received, calling him a great songwriter.

In 1971 Prine's self-titled debut album was released. He and friend Steve Goodman had each been active in the Chicago folk scene before being "discovered" by Kris Kristofferson (Kristofferson remarked that Prine wrote songs so good that "we'll have to break his thumbs"). The album included his signature songs "Illegal Smile," "Sam Stone," and the folk and country standards "Angel from Montgomery" and "Paradise." The album also included "Hello In There", a song about aging that was later covered by numerous artists and "Far From Me," a lonely waltz about lost love for a waitress that Prine later said was his favorite of all his songs. The album received many positive reviews, and some hailed Prine as "the next Dylan." Bob Dylan himself appeared unannounced at one of Prine's first New York City club appearances, anonymously backing him on harmonica.

I just picked this up for 99 cents. i love the flea market....

John Prine - S/T - 1971

Cher - Masters Of War

Great cover of the Dylan classic. Pre-plastic surgery Cher was one of my 1st pre-pubescent crushes when i used to watch the Sonny & Cher show as a little tyke....

Cher - Masters Of War

Brook Benton - Funny How Time Slips Away

Another year is over and yes, it is funny how time slips away....

Not my favorite version of this Willie Nelson penned classic, that would belong to Jimmy Elledge, but when a song is written this great from the start its really hard to get a bad version. I alway wondered how the real country crowd took to black artists doing country records? Anyway, I do own the Elledge version on 45 but i can't seem to find it so here is a 1966 version of Funny How Time Slips Away by Brook Benton. A worthy replacement for the time being.

Brook Benton - Funny How Time Slips Away

And for good measure here is the youtube verion from Jimmy Elledge:

Truk - Truk Tracks

Band Members:

J. Martin (Moby) Anderson, bass & vocals
Danny Cornett, drums & vocals (original drummer)
Bill (Willie) Daffern, drums & vocals (on last 4 songs cut--lead vocal on Winter's Coming On)
George Michael (Mike) Graham, lead vocal
James Patrick (Pat) Graham, organ & vocals
Glenn Ray Townsend, guitar & vocals

"Criminally overlooked hard-rock with some psych elements thrown in and great multi-layered vocals. No one seems to know this..."

"A hard rock outfit from Oklahoma, with histrionic vocals and loud organ. Their album contains a cover of "Gun's Yellow Cab Man"; the other cuts are self-penned. "You" is a beautiful ballad.

In 1973 Glenn Townsend resurfaced with Johnny Rivers and later Willy Daffern played with the reformation of Captain Beyond."

"A lost little slab o' sludgy early 70s rawk from Truk -- who, as far as we know, only ever cut this one LP for Columbia Records. Truk obviously had a pretty strong affinity for the trailblazing trudge of titans like Cream, and the powerful, messy drunken genius of early Guess Who. It's the kind of record where the drums and electric guitar crunch buries the sound right into the middle of your chest when it's played loud enough. The sound was surely found at a dime-a-dozen in '71, but they sure don't make them like this today! 10 tracks, including "Country Woman", "Got To Find A Reason", "Pretty Lady", "Yellow Cab Man", "Silence Ending", "Max", "Sun Castle Magic" and more."

"Dewey Martin produced Truk and later became a mechanic. In the late '70s he also played sessions on a Hoyt Axton album. Buddy Emmons kept on recording hundreds of country sessions, Harvey Kegan rejoined Doug Sahm and Augie Meyer, and Steve Lefever became a session man, notably with Alexander Harvey. Darnell, Bradstreet and Alden are currently playing in country-rock outfit The Electric Range."

"Truk Traks Album cover picture shot at the East-West Truck Terminal in Orange County during a strike by the Teamsters. The L.A.P.D. was called by the security dude, who was not told we had permission to shoot the pictures."

All of the above info is stolen from CROTCHBAT. The record and rip are mine...

Truk - Truk Tracks

Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons - So Young

Sometimes i wonder why i like a certain thing and this is one of those cases. I make no apology for liking crappy music. i like A LOT of stupid shit. I have a wide pallet when it comes to music, but i do wonder sometimes.... This here crap falls somewhere between Asbury Park N.J. City Rock Ala Bruce Springsteen and South Side Johnny and the Asbury Jukes and at times some sorta Bluesy New Wave, but all from Australia which makes it even more strange. I still can't put my finger its appeal to me..... Elvis Costello thought so much of Jo Jo Zep and The Falcons' single "So Young" that he recorded a version himself. Not sure what that says about me liking this.... maybe i just like the album cover..... Yeah, i think that's it.



Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons - So Young

The Troggs - The Troggs 1975 PYE REcords

The Troggs were one of the toughest and most gloriously unpolished bands to emerge from the U.K. during the British Invasion era -- the leering, monolithic pound of "Wild Thing" and "I Can't Control Myself" was about the closest thing to the Stooges that emerged on vinyl before James Osterberg reinvented himself as Iggy Pop, and lead singer Reg Presley all but defined the word "lascivious" with his guttural howls and moans on their best recordings. The Troggs had dropped off the charts by the end of the '60s, but they were the sort of band that simply didn't believe in giving up, and in 1975 they returned to the studio to cut their first album in five years. Simply called The Troggs, the album found the group updating their sound just a bit, with the results at times suggesting a cross between Status Quo-style boogie and blue collar glam in the manner of Slade, especially on the honest self-celebration of "Full Blooded Band." The Troggs is dominated by covers, boasting only three new songs, but one of them, "Summertime," was inspired sleaze in the classic Troggs tradition (and features the best rudely suggestive stutter since "My Generation"), and you can't argue that the grimy and stripped down re-imagining of the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" (which rewrites the opening line as "I like the clothes she almost wears") took the song someplace Brian Wilson never would have imagined. The Troggs' take of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" doesn't need to go on for five-and-a-half minutes, and the reggae-influenced recut of "Wild Thing" doesn't work especially well, but The Troggs demonstrate that these guys never forgot how to be rude and crude in the studio, and at their best they turned it into an art form -- not that they'd ever dream of calling it that.

This is a weird record....

The Troggs - The Troggs 1975 PYE REcords

Charlie Ryan - The Hot Rod Lincoln Drags Again!

Charles "Charlie" Ryan (December 19, 1915, Graceville, Minnesota – February 16, 2008, Spokane, Washington) was an American singer and songwriter, best known for co-writing and first recording the rockabilly hit single "Hot Rod Lincoln".

Ryan grew up in Polson, Montana and moved to Spokane in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II. After the war, he worked as a musician and songwriter, touring with artists such as Jim Reeves and Johnny Horton. In 1955, he and W. S. Stevenson wrote "Hot Rod Lincoln", and Ryan recorded the first version of the song (as "Charlie Ryan and the Livingston Brothers"). Ryan released a remake in 1959 as "Charlie Ryan and The Timberline Riders"; the song was later covered by Johnny Bond (1960) and Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen (1972), among others.

Birth name: Charles Ryan
Born: December 19, 1915
Origin: Graceville, Minnesota
Died: February 26, 2008 (aged 92)

From Wikipedia.

I just picked this @ the flea market for a mere 2 bucks. Most of the songs are just different takes on "Hot Rod Lincoln" and the ones that aren't.... well, meh. But its still a fun little record and the cover w/ the Hot Rod & Guitar is aces Daddy-O!!!

Charlie Ryan - The Hot Rod Lincoln Drags Again!

Mother Night - S/T

Funky progressive latin soul jazz rock mix from NYC circa 1972. Some cool guitar work here and there.... Not my fave record of the day but it has some moments... Some of it gets a little long winded in the jazz/prog progessions and i wish they highligted the guitar a bit more. The horns reach a little into the Chicago (the band not the city) area too.... Meh. This coulda been a little bit more funky but as i said before it has some moments. Check it out!

Side A:
Mother Night - Scuffle

Mother Night - Today's Another Day

Mother Night - Julie Nixon

Mother Night - Utopia

Mother Night - Take A Trip



Side B:
Mother Night - Fools Are You

Mother Night - Warm Spot

Mother Night -Groupie

Mother Night - Guitar Man

The New York Rock & Roll Ensemble - You Know Just What It's Like

The New York Rock & Roll Ensemble


The New York Rock & Roll Ensemble - You Know Just What It's Like