Feast or Famine: Today's Record Scores

After last weekends miserable record hunting scores (i only scored one 45 last weekend) i got up at the ass crack of dawn today after a night full of funk & soul at the Asbury lanes for the latest installment of the 45 sessions. I didn't get home until after 2 last night and was up a few hours later to dig. And it paid off... Even though i was dead ass tired. Another great time was had at the lanes last night. DJ pres puts together a good time and it was cool seeing all the folks and hearing some new tunes. Anyhoo, here is what i dug up today!

45's
Bell, Freddy and the Bell Boys - Hound Dog - Move Me Baby - Teen 101
Britt, Tina - The Real Thing - Teardrops Fell (Every Step Of The Way) - Eastern 604
Brown, Maxine - Oh No Not My Baby - You Upset My Soul - Wand 162
Byrd, Bobby - Keep On Doing What You Do - Let Me Know - BrownStone 4205
Chakachas, The - Jungle Fever - Cha Ka Cha - Polydor 15030
Charles, Sonny, and the Checkmates - Black Pearl - Lazy Susan - A&M 1053
Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes - Get Dancin - Part II - Chelsea 3004
Duke, Doris - To The Other Woman - I don't Care Anymore - Canyon 28
Dutones, The - It Just Aint Right - Uh Ooo Ooo Wee - Columbia 4-42789
Ethics - Sad Sad Story - Searching - Vent 1004
Everett, Betty - Take Me - There'll Come A Time - Uni 55100
Futures, The - Love Is Here - Stay With Me - Gamble 2502
George, Barbara - I Know (You Don't Love Me No More) - Love (Is Justs The Chance You Take) - A.F.O. 302
Harner, Billy - Homicide Dresser - Lavender Room - Karma Sutra 238
Holland, Eddie - Brenda - Leaving Here - Motown 1052
Johnson, Syl - Is It Because I'm Black - Let Hang High - Twinight 125
Junior Waters - My Life Is A Seven - I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Bernlo 1001
King Curtis - Mess Around - Strollin' Home - Capitol 4891
Laird, Jeri - Get It If It's Good - Get It If It's Good - Bell 45, 191
Lewis, J. G. - Let The Music Play - Let The Music Play - IX Chains 7014
Little Sister - You're The One Part 1 You're The One Part II Stone Flower 9000
Mar-Keys, The - Pop-Eye Stroll - Po-Dunk - Stax 121
Marvellows, The - I Do - My Heart - ABC Paramount 10629
Masqueraders, The - I Aint Gonna Stop - I'm Just An Average Guy - AGP 108
McLain, Tommy - I Need You So - Sweet Dreams - MSL 197
Mellow Moods, The - Tell Love Hello - If You See Him - North Bay 300
Midnighters, The - She's The One - Annie Had A Baby - Federal 12195
Mimms, Garnett - Get It While You Can Sad Song - Verve 10650
Otis & Carla - Tramp - Tell It Like It Is - Stax 216
Royalettes, The - It's Gonna Take A Miracle - Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind - MGM 13366
Sam & Bill - Beautiful Baby - For Your Love - Joda 100
Simon, Joe - Come And Get It - The Chockin' Kind - Sound Stage 7 2628
Tex, Joe - That's the Way - Anything You Wanna Know - Dial 4093
Tex, Joe - You Got What It Takes - You Better Get It - Atlantic 70.133
Turner, Ike & Tina - The Argument - Mind In A Whirl - Sue 772
Turner, Ike & Tina - I Idolize You - Letter From Tina - Sue 735
Velvelettes, The - Needle In A Haystack - Should I Tell Him - V.I.P. 25007
Vibrations, The - Daddy Woo-Woo - My Girl Sloopy - Atlantic 2221
Wingfield, Pete - Eighteen With A Bullet - Shadow Of A Doubt - Island ISO26
Z. Z. Hill - Second Chance - I Think I'd Do It - Mankind 12012

Lp's
Cocomotion El Coco - AVI 6012
Coltrane, John, Featuring Pharoah Sanders - Live In Seattle - Impulse AS-9202-2
Dovells, The - Discotheque - Wyncote 9052
Energetics - Come Down To Earth - Atlantic 19224
G.B.H. - No Need To Panic - Combat 8184-1
Hayes, Issac- Joy - Stax 5007
Honey Cone - Sweet Replies - Hot Wax 706
Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band - Hoodoo Man Blues - Delmark 612
King Curtis - Live at the Fillmore West Atco 33-359
Negro Prison Songs - Mississippi State Pen - Tradition 1020
Ponder, Jimmy - While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Cadet 50048
Pop, Iggy - TV Eye 1977 Live - RCA AFL 1-2796
Rodney Bingenheimer Presents - All Year Party Volume One - Martian 1714
Scott, Jack - s/t - Carlton 107
Scott, Jack - I Remember hank Williams - Top Rank319
Scott-Heron, Gil - Inside The Mind Of - Arista 8301
Smith, O.C. - Help Me Make It Through The Night - Columbia 30664
Ventures, The - Super Psychedelics - Liberty 2052
Ventures, The - Guitar Freakout - Dolton 2050
Ventures, The - Smash - Dolton 2006
Wonder, Stevie - Where I'm Coming From - Motown 5247

Forward To The Caves Play List 1/17/08

This will most likely be the last "long" set since the kids will all be back in school next week and there will be a DJ on after us but here is what we played last night for those keeping score at home!


Aphrodite's Child - The Four Horsemen

Still Life - People In Black
Stevie Wright - The Other Side
Ars Nova - And How Am I To Know
HP Lovecraft - Mobins Trip
The Open Mind - Thor The Thunder God
Armageddon - The Buzzard
Bubble Puppy - Hot Smoke & Sassafras
Dion - Purple Haze
Tucky Buzzard - Time Will Be Your Doctor -
Tucky Buzzard - Stainless Steel Lady

Tyla Gang - Speedball Morning
Boomerang - Juke It
Blue Ash - Smash My Guitar
Gypsy - Gypsy Queen Pt. 1
Ursa Major - Sinner
A Foot In Cold Water - Coming Is Love
Tractor - Little Girl In Yellow
George Brigman - DMT
The Stooges - T.V. Eye
Tiger - Lay Me
Lemon Pipers - I Was Not Born To Follow

Cheech & Chong - I Was Framed
Travis Wammack - Scratchy
Goatsnake - Black Cat Bone
The Devotions - Rip Van Winkle
Dance the Slurp
The Starfires - Fender Bender
Warhorse - I Am Dying
Pentagram - Review Your Choices
The Pentagons - Down At The Beach
Big Nurse - Hey Hey
Eugene Church & the Fellows - Pretty Girls Are Everywhere
Blackfoot - Good Morning
Sugartooth - Solid
Jimmy Carrol - Rumble
The Jesus Lizard - Mouth Breather

The Tracers - She Said Yeah
The Shaggs - My Pal Foot Foot
Plank - Utah
Aesops Fable - What Is Love
The Rainbows - Bala Bala
Frankenorange - Nero
The Egyptians - Love Train
The Flammin Groovies - High Flyin Baby
The Wheels - Let's Have A Ball
The Crickets - Not Fade Away
The Turtles - Buzz Saw
Egyptian Combo - Little Egypt
The Viscounts - Harlem Nocturne
Syndicate Of Sound - Little Girl
Stray - All In Your Mind
Grim Skunk - Loaded Gun
Grim Skunk - Nursery Rhyme

PW Long - You Would Have Never Crawled Alone


Dont forget tonights Asbury Park 45 sessions!

Cheers!
dd

J.D. Blackfoot - Epitaph For A Head

What we have here is some wild guitar driven psych. This cut is one of my all time faves.

American Indian J.D. Blackfoot was born Benjamin Franklin Van Dervort in Cleveland Ohio.
He was the frontman for an Ohio band called the Ebb Tides (as Benny Van), he re-formed the group under his own name around 1969 and started to dabble in acid rock and folk/country-rock. He cut a few albums that are now highly sought after by psych collectors:

The Ultimate Prophecy:
The Song of Crazy Horse:
Southbound and Gone:

This cut is his first release under his own name and is a non album cut, at one time it could only be found on 45. I believe it’s since been released on the CD version of The Ultimate Prophecy.
It’s a wild heavy, trippy, psychedelic ride full of insane guitar work (can you see the trend here?) I mean, it is REALLY is WILD! Don’t believe me? Click the damn link!

You can read the whole story here: JD Blackfoot at his official web site. And if you fancy any form of lost psych nuggets, might I suggest you pick up his albums. The Ultimate Prophecy being his finest work. Please buy directly from the man himself, he will even autograph all CD's bought from him! I’m still trying to track down an original vinyl pressing, any help would HIGHLY appreciated!

Cheers!
DD

J.D. Blackfoot - Epitaph For A Head

Crow - Black Sabbath - Ike & Tina Turner & The Ikettes

Crow - Black Sabbath - Ike & Tina Turner & The Ikettes

What's the connection you say?

Why it's Evil Woman, Evil Man....

OK so i took the day off from work today hence the double posting....

Anyway, it's 1969 and Minneapolis blues-rock quintet Crow release the single "Evil Woman Don't You Play Your Games with Me" & it cracked the U.S. Top 20, even though its distinctive horn arrangement was overdubbed against the band's wishes.

The same year in England Black Sabbath are set to sign with Vertigo records when their manager at the time thinks it a good idea to cover the Crow "hit" to try and cash in. It is their first single and it makes the UK version of the self titled Black Sabbath album released in 69 on vertigo. When the album is released in 1970 in the US on Warner Brothers it is not on the album. (My copy with Evil Woman is an 80's pressing on Nems) On the Sab cut the horns are replaced by a guitar solo by Tony Iommi but he mimics the horns identically.

Now the same year, 1970, Ike must hear this tune and thinks it would be funky enough to have his old lady Tina sing it and turn the lyrics into "Evil Man". Which brings us to this point here. This is how Crow, Black Sabbath & Ike & Tina Turner are forever connected in the annals of rock & roll history...

Funky fresh yo!

Crow - Evil Woman

Black Sabbath - Evil Woman

Ike & Tina Turner & The Ikettes - Evil Man

Majic Ship - Green Plant - Hummin' - It's Over

Here is a couple of cool and somewhat rare 45 cuts by NY band "Majic Ship".

I remember the old man telling me about the full length album he found about 10 years ago or so and sold it for around $750.00 bucks! So when I stumbled upon the "Night Time Music" / "Green Plant" 45 in a box of shit a few years ago I couldn't believe it. So I went on a mad hunt for 2nd single which i found on ebay for a few clams. The original LP is damn near impossible to find and fethces around $1,000 bucks now but there is a nice double album vinyl reissue that comes with all the 45 cuts (these 45 cuts were not on the full length album) and some of the bands prior material when they were called "The Primitives", it even has a little interview with the guys at the end of side 4. I think i paid about 30 bucks for it and if you dig these 45 cuts you should check into finding a copy.

Green Plant is the flip to the local "hit" Night Time Music and is a nice nuggets style garage rocker with some wicked fuzzy guitar and pounding drums and total 60's style organ, it's really a great track, while "Hummin" is a total 60's pop - blue eyes soul track full of horns and a bubble gum vibe. Totally different but great in a completely different way. It doesn't even sound like the same band. And the flip to Hummin "It's Over" is a light psych affair complete with flute, nice background wha wha guitar and more horns, and has a great vocal delivery. It's pretty wild the ground these guys covered, very varied... heh... Anyway, i really dig these tunes so check them out.

Here is some lifted info:
Arising out of adolescent garage band the Primitives, which played primitive covers of British Invasion tunes, the New Primitives came together in New York City in 1966, originally composed of a group of high school friends: Ray Rifice (guitar), Tommy Nikosy (guitar), Rob Buckman (drums), and Mike Garrigan (vocals). Soon, the band increased to a group of five with the addition of bassist/organist Gus Riozzi. They kept a busy performance schedule throughout the next few years when their high school commitments allowed it. In 1968, Rifice left the band to attend college, but at about the same time, former '50s crooner turned manager Johnny Mann saw the band live and promised to get them a recording contract. Philip Polimeni replaced Rifice on lead guitar, and the New Primitives became Majic Ship. Mann introduced the band to the Tokens, who produced their first single, "Night Time Music." It became a local hit, even gaining the band some national airplay, as did a second single, "Hummin." After much touring and a couple more singles, Majic Ship found their way to a studio to record their self-titled debut album in the summer of 1969. Majic Ship melded hard rock, pop, and psychedelia in a way similar to fellow New Yorkers Vanilla Fudge. The band continued on for the next couple of years with plans to record a second album, but those plans were nixed when the band's shared house in Staten Island burned to the ground in 1971, taking with it virtually all their recording equipment and instruments. Without any insurance, the band members called it quits. ~ Stanton Swihart, All Music Guide

Majic Ship - Green Plant

Majic Ship - Hummin'

Majic Ship - It's over

White Lightning - Of Paupers And Poets

I hope everyone had a great weekend? The East Coast here was supposed to be hit with a big snow storm last night but all we got was some rain, so on this wet Monday afternoon I give you some guitar driven garage rock to help you get through the wet...

"White Lightning", later to be just "Lightning" was formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1968 by ex-"Litter" guitarist "Zippy" Caplan and bassist Woody Woodrich. The two musicians had been jamming together for close to a year before they decided to become a group.

The song Of Paupers and Poets was written by Warren Kendrick. Originally a Pop-Bubble Gum style song, it was reworked into a heavier version and recorded before the band had stepped one foot on stage.

William, the flip side to Of Paupers and Poets was the first original song written by "White Lightning". The song was named after the group's equipment manager, Bill "William J. Animal" Pluta. Originally a wild scream by Pluta was planned and recorded just in front of the guitar solo, but Kendrick stormed into the studio room insisting it be deleted.

Although the song Of Paupers and Poets made the Top 40 charts in the Twin Cities and was the A Side of the nationally released Atco 45rpm , it is the flip side William that "White Lightning" is best known for.

Originally released on Warren Kendrick's Hexagon label, Of Paupers and Poets was later picked up by Atco (an Atlantic subsidiary) for national release but failed due to lack of promotion. Both Hexagon and Atco 45rpm records are hard to get and command decent money on the collector's market.

So if you can't find an original here are both sides for your minds eye...

White Lightning - Of Paupers And Poets

White Lightning - William

Forward To The Caves Play List 1/10/08

I know i said I'd be back next week but then I realized I forgot to post the play list for last Thursdays Radio show, a show that Lady Miss JJB so capably hosted solo!!

So without much fanfare here you are, the forward to the caves radio show play list for 1/10/08!

Meatjack - Blue
Entombed - Somthin' for Nothin'
500ft of Pipe - Detroit City
Motorhead - Fast & Loose
Boris - Rattlesnake
High On Fire - Fury Whip
Fleetwood Mac - Station Man
UfO - Silver Bird
Crabby Appleton- Go Back
Geronimo Black - Bullwhip
Traffic Sounds - You Got to be Sure
Tom Petty - Runnin' Down a Dream
Linda Hoyle - Mr Backlash

Nina Simone - Do I Move You
Bea Foote - I want long time Daddy
Billie Holiday - Now Baby or Never
Ella Johnson - Hittin on Me

Moby Grape - Fall on You
Dust - Pull Away
Budgie - In for the Kill
Bang - Mother
The Electric Prunes - Too Much to Dream
The Seeds - Can't Seem to make you Mind


The Nazz - Magic Me
Big Star - Can't Have Me
Bob Seger System - White Wall
Iron & Wine - Pagan Angel & the Borrowed Car
Mother Earth - Soul of a Man
Neil Young - Cowgirl in the Sand

Every Thursday Night: 8-10 EST

WLFR
91.7 Stockton State College, Pamona, NJ

http://www.stockton.edu/~wlfr/

The Golden Highlights - Vodka

Here is a little something to get you through the weekend! Some VODKA!

Obviously a play on "The Champs" on their 1958 hit "Tequila". I couldn't find too much about this little 45 here because every time I looked up Golden Highlights and or Vodka all i got back was taste testing results for vodka!!!

I did find a Hanover Records 45 discography that states this here little goof ball came out in 1959 and a little bit of info that the label was started by Steve Allen because of some dispute with Dot Records over the Non-release of a Jack Kerouac album called Poetry for the Beat Generation. A record that Hanover eventually put out after Dot pulled it. 100 or so copies came out on Dot before it was pulled. If in fact this is the same Hanover records...?

I hope you all are having some fun over here in my new little vinyl blog world. Because I'm having a blast sharing some vinyl love with you all!

So enjoy some Vodka! I'll be back next week for some more vinyl treats!

The Golden Highlights – Vodka

Devo - Be Stiff

Looooong before Nickelodeon's Rugrats there was Devo.

Progressive? Punk? New wave? new traditionalists? all of the above?

This is devo's 3rd single & was produced by Brian Eno in 1978 on Stiff records. i was 12 and listening to kiss... when i heard these guys for the first time i thought "what is this strange music?" kind of like when i first saw captain beefheart and i was never the same again...

Of course i dig on all the early devo but i have a fondness for this cut because of the sharp cutting & angular guitar.

I highly doubt that there is anything to add that has not been written about these Akron Ohio misfits of De-Evolution so if your not familiar or even if you are, i'm sure its been a while so dig in and be stiff!!!

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Panic Buttons - O-Wow

In honor of my man DJ Prestige of Flea Market Funk fame and his upcoming "Asbury Park 45 Sessions" Jan. 18th and my Philly/Upper Darby gal pal JJB and her Eye Eat Music web blog i bring you some early Philly Funk via "O-Wow" from the "Panic Buttons" on Gamble records. This was released 1st on "Chalom" records which was right in Upper Darby PA. I'm hoping that one day being as i spend a bunch of time in good old U.D. i may come across a first pressing but for now dig the re-issue from Gamble.

Regardless of what label this is on what we have here is a charging little funk diddy from 1968. Banging horns and some sweet & funky guitar playing. This is guaranteed to wake you up this dreary and wet, but warm morning here on the East Coast...

O-Wow!


Panic Buttons : O-Wow

Don Pearly - Drag Race

They say it's going to be 60 or more today so i think i'm going to take a half day off from work and maybe head down to the beach & boardwalk here at the jersy shore. (Yeah there is no such thing as global warming right?)
So here is a little hot rod rockabilly number for the warm weather. I thought this song was fitting. Looks like this was Mr. Pearly's only record. I couldn't find much about him personally but this cut has been on a bunch of hot rod comps, one of the coolest ones i found while searching is this one by artist Robert Williams called Chrome, Smoke & Fire. I'm going to have to track this comp down because it looks pretty keen. Anyway here's today's 45 cut. Enjoy the weather whereever you are...


Don Pearly : Drag Race