Devil Dick Covid Recovery Mix

Been fighting this damn covid since xmas. had a small (7 people) get together of family and all 7 of us got sick. A few worse than others. i'm on the mend but the crazy thing is that all i can smell is faint cigarette smoke. I HATE CIGARETTES! This is a curse..... Here's some tunes i threw together. Bored. Some of these may have been used before. I can't remember and i can't remember (or care) what number mix this.... devil dick covid recovery mix

Jimmy Nabbie - Release Me

Weird cover of Eddie Miller tune Release Me. (later done by Elvis among others) Done in a crooner wanna be type style but with lots of backing wha wha guitar and lots & lots of tongue clicking......

Jimmy Nabbie - Release Me

Sharp - Combat Zone

Sort of cheesy, sort of cool....? Meh. Whatever. Here's SHARP w/ Combat Zone. Sorta punky power pop rocker from 1979.

Sharp - Combat Zone

Mr. Rock & Roll - Devil Dick Mix #37?

i think this is mix #35. But whatever. it's only rock & roll....

Mr. Rock & Roll - Devil Dick Mix #35

The Smoke - Half Past The End / My Mama

The Smoke (5) ‎– Half Past The End / My Mama

Label:
Smoke Records (5) ‎– 1316

Format:
Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single

Country:
US

Released:
1968

Genre:
Rock

Style:
Garage Rock

Tracklist
A Half Past The End 2:20
B My Mama 2:00

Credits
Written-By – Mark Sheldon (3)


The Smoke - Half Past The End

The Smoke - My Mamat

Salt - Long Way To Go

Rare garage / psych jammer with nice fuzz guitar solo. Sounds a bit earlier than 1970...

Salt - Long Way To Go

Feel Good.... Mix Tape 11/13/05

Another useless MIX TAPE, Almost 12 years ago already.... Time....

Feel Good - Side A

Feel Good - Side B

The Elephant's Memory - Jungle Gym AT The Zoo

I've always liked this tune and just picked up a cheapie copy. You're welcome.

The Elephant's Memory - Jungle Gym At The Zoo

Snow - Song Of The Sirens

A few weeks ago I posted a 45 by Snow here: This is an album cut from the self titled album on E pic records from 1968. This is a pretty heavy, dare i say doom-ish track for 1968. Maybe proto-doom? I mean Black Sabbath is a few years away and I can't think go too many bands that were playing this slow and doom like. Maybe Iron Butterfly or Blue Cheer, but at any rate this is a cool heavy track on an otherwise fairly light affair, that only hints at psych rock here and there, mostly playing the pop angle.

Snow - Song Of The Sirens

The Guided Tour - 50 BC Man

Another little known garage psych tune by "The Guided Tour". Info is scant. Not a ripper but a good tune with some psych vibes and organ. A little guitar break in the middle. Looks like this was from 1970 and out of Minnesota, other than that i just don't know....

The Guided Tour - 50 BC Man

Abie "Available" Baker - The Web

Abie "Available" Baker - The Web

Starlog Presents Galactic Sound Effects

Do you need some cheesy "galactic" sound effects from 1979? Of course not, but here they are anyway... Included as an "SFX" bonus in an issue of STARLOG magazine.

I'm sure in '79 a lot of 10 year old boys thought this was the shit but yeah, now it's pretty tame sounding by today's standards....


About the artists:

Audio:
"Ken Walker, author of this installment of Special Effects and contributor to CINEMAGIC magazine, is well-known for his fantasy film music utilizing electronic synthesizers. The GALACTIC SOUND EFFECTS were created by Ken on his own custom-built machine, and vividly convey the sounds of tomorrow. An electronics designer with a long musical background, Ken presides over his own sound-effects company and is STARLOG's Special Project Director.

Visual:
Jim Thompson, whose surrealistic painting "Reflections in Pisces" graces the front side of this recording, combines professional artistry with a love for the fantastic, and has had his work featured in both FUTURE LIFE and STARLOG. A philosopher at heart, Jim numbers, among his many interests, photography, astronomy and science-fiction - and his paintings perfectly illustrate an intelligent approach to the depiction of far-away worlds.


Starlog Presnts Galactic Sound Effects

Scab Cadillac - Tagged And Numbered...

underrated Philly gem from 1989.

Scab Cadillac - Tagged And Numbered...

Joe Gabriele - Sings

Some weird latin lounge. I like it.

Joe Gabriele - My Love

Joe Gabriele - He Couldn't Love You More

Joe Gabriele - Quando, Quando, Quando

Troy Shondell - Head Man

Fuzzy & funky slow cookin' country fried sleazy rocker from one time 50's / 60's rockabilly teen idle Troy Shondell. Whew....!

Troy's Wiki:

Troy Shondell (born Gary Shelton,[1] May 14, 1940,[2] Fort Wayne, Indiana[1]) is an American vocalist, who achieved a modicum of fame and recognition in the early 1960s. He became a transatlantic one-hit wonder, by releasing a single that made the record charts in both the US and the UK.[3][4] The song, "This Time" (or sometimes billed as "This Time (We're Really Breaking Up)" sold over one million records, earning gold disc status.[5] In a single year, sales were over three million copies.[1]

Biography[edit]
Shondell was born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and educated at Valparaiso and Indiana universities. He wrote his first song at age 14, which was recorded by Little Anthony & The Imperials. Shondell also learned to play five musical instruments.[5] His professional music career started as a teenager. Mercury Records released his first single, "My Hero", from The Chocolate Soldier, which he recorded in 1958 under his real name, Gary Shelton.[1]

He followed the next year with "Kissin' at the Drive-In", a rockabilly song that went on to become a drive-in theater standard. Shondell was on his way, at least in the Midwest. Chicago's Brass Rail, a major nightclub that usually hosted jazz and blues acts, brought him in for its first foray into rock and roll. The successful gig stretched to 16 weeks.[1] In 1959, Mark Records released "The Trance" and "Goodbye Little Darlin'". These sold well in the Midwest and a few other areas, but neither made it into the Top 40 of the national Billboard record chart. The singer cited his father as a major influence, among others. A song Shondell wrote about his father's death in 1960 from a heart attack, "Still Loving You", became a country hit when it was recorded by Bob Luman. Shondell's father's demise caused his career to falter, and he briefly returned to help run the family business.[1]

In April 1961, he recorded "This Time". The record was released during the last week in June on the tiny Gaye label and picked up by the small Los Angeles Goldcrest label, selling ten thousand copies during the first week. Six weeks after being released and played in Chicago, Shondell flew to Los Angeles and signed with Liberty Records. It finally hit the Billboard charts the first week of September, and landed in the Top 10 four weeks later, peaking at number six and staying in the charts for a total of sixteen weeks.[1][3] The track reached no. 22 in the UK Singles Chart at the end of that year.[4]

"Tears From An Angel" was his follow-up recording, released in March 1962. No further chart action was forthcoming, and Shondell quietly slipped away from the music industry the following year, despite his third single "Na-Ne-No", being produced by Phil Spector. However, in 1963, Tommy Jackson changed the name of his high school band from "Tom and the Tornados" to "The Shondells" in honor of Shondell (one of his musical idols).[1] Jackson became "Tommy James" and international fame followed for the act. Chicago band The Ides of March originally named themselves The Shon-dells, also in tribute to Troy. Shortly before their debut single, "You Wouldn't Listen" was released, the label found out that James had been using the name first, so they were forced to change it. In 1968, Shondell became a songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music in Nashville, Tennessee, and the first recording artist for TRX Records, a branch of Hickory Records, for whom Shondell recorded some gramophone record discs until 1969, when he went into the music publishing field. In October 1969, Shondell was appointed as Assistant Regional Director for ASCAP's Southern Regional Office in Nashville.[5]

In 2001, Shondell still performed at shows and other events. Along with Jimmy Clanton, Ronnie Dove, and Ray Peterson, Shondell was a member of the Masters of Rock 'n' Roll.[1] On October 2, 2007, Shondell traveled to Collins, Mississippi, to deliver a musical tribute to his fallen rock and roll colleague Dale Houston, who, with musical partner Grace Broussard, had reached no. 1 in 1963 with "I'm Leaving It Up to You" as the musical duo Dale & Grace.


Troy Shondell - Head Man

Young Holt Unlimited ‎- Wah Wah Man

Funky & fuzzy wah wah and talk box jam from 1971. Right up my alley. Not rare or anything just a great tune i dig a bunch... I'm sure a million people have heard it but if you haven't dig in, it's groovy baby. I'm not extremely well versed in Young Holt Unlimited's catalog so if anyone has more recommendations along these lines feel free to let me know what to search out. They have a pretty vast catalog.... I've said this before and i'll say this again, i do NOT claim to be an expert on music ( i know a few things... ) and i do this blog for fun and for me to search out info on records i come across and have collected. I'm not trying to post rare or unheard gems because I'm a bottom feeder when it comes to collecting really... And almost everything is out there already. I just like music and collecting records is fun and helps keep me out of trouble.... I do appreciate the few people that swing by every so often and leave comments. Please do so more often!

That being said, here's the wiki lowdown on Young Holt Unlimited:

Young-Holt Unlimited (also known as Young-Holt Trio), were an U.S. soul and jazz instrumental musical ensemble from Chicago, Illinois.
Drummer Isaac "Red" Holt and bassist Eldee Young, formerly members of Ramsey Lewis' jazz trio, formed a new outfit called the Young-Holt Trio with pianist Don Walker in 1966. They met with modest success, including the minor hit with "Wack-Wack", which charted at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 1968, the group renamed itself Young-Holt Unlimited, and replaced Walker with Ken Chaney. Under their new name, the group scored a number three Hot 100 hit with "Soulful Strut," the backing instrumental track from Barbara Acklin's "Am I the Same Girl." "Soulful Strut" sold a million copies with the gold record awarded by the RIAA in January 1969, less than 3 months after the track's release.[1] Unfortunately, follow-up releases failed to match "Soulful Strut"'s commercial success, and the group had disbanded by 1974, with Young and Holt continuing to play in Chicago small bands.
Young died of a heart attack on February 12, 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand, at the age of 71.

Holt was believed still to be active as of early July 2011

Young Holt Unlimited - Wah Wah Man

Phil Corso And The Singing Strings - Country Riff

Country Riff....
Phil Corso And The Singing Strings - Country Riff

Three Women In Black

Some gothy hard punkish rock by Three Women In Black on the Dionysus record label w/ a Sex Pistols cover. I know nothing about these girls but i've had this record since forever...

Three Women In Black - Grace Of God

Three Women In Black - Cards

Three Women In Black - Submission

The Gems - Monkey Faced Baby

She got hair on her face, built like a Missouri mule.... And i love her yes i do....

The Gems - Monkey Faced Baby

The Palisades - This Is The Nite - Relic Rock

Cool little record on a cool little label. Front side is a doo wopper and this being from 1964 they must have been hanging on to that sound for dear life, as that was the beggining of the end for that style w/ the British invasion and all. The back side is a soulful instrumental stroller. Nothing amazing but pretty neat.

The Palisades - This Is The Nite

The Palisades - Relic Rock