The Spinners - Heebie Jeebie's

I think this is The Spinners first record from 1961? And it's a far cry from the smoother soul sounds they would later find huge success with in the 70's and 80's, this is a straight rocker with nice stinging guitar work. Tight.

The Spinners - Heebie Jeebie's

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

Cliff Martin And His Cliff Dwellers - Back Street Affair

Some more early country music w/ Cliff Martin And His Cliff Dwellers doing Back Street Affair on the Crest record label. Scant info on this, so again, i have no idea what year but has to be the 50's? Any help DrunkenHobo? This one kind of slinks along with some creepy fiddle and steel guitar and a kooky vocal delivery from Mr. Martin which creates a pretty somber tone. Nice.

edit: Bob The Scared Data Miner said 1953. Thanks Bob!

Cliff Martin And His Cliff Dwellers - Back Street Affair

The Ray-O-Vacs - Party Time

Ripping early R&B Rocker. Man it's hard to beleive this is from 1955/56 because it rips so hard. Great guitar and just an killer uptempo groove. When these guys say "It's Party Time!" They mean it! I would have loved to party with these dudes... Plus they named themselves after an old battery company. Killer. Looks like they were from New York.

a bit more info HERE: Also a good blog peice on them HERE: @ Be Bop Wino:

The Ray-O-Vacs - Party Time

John Hartford - The Category Stomp

Sticking w/ the weirder side of things today w/ The Category Stomp from Mr. John Hartford. I'm not familiar w/ and don't know much about John Hartford but this song is pretty damn weird and awesome. It's some hillbilly bluegrass psychedelic hybrid complete w/ backwards guitar solo. Seems Mr. Hartford was taking the piss out of the whole "psych" thing in the year 1968....? Intentional or not, it rules. Seems from what i've heard most of Mr. Hartford's other material is a bit more on the "standard" bluegrass side.

Here is a bit of info from wiki:

John Cowan Hartford (December 30, 1937 – June 4, 2001) was an American folk, country and bluegrass composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of Mississippi River lore. Hartford performed with a variety of ensembles throughout his career, and is perhaps best known for his solo performances where he would interchange the guitar, banjo, and fiddle from song to song. He also invented his own shuffle tap dance move, and clogged on an amplified piece of plywood while he played and sang.

read the rest >HERE;

John Hartford - The Category Stomp

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

Marty "B" - Lucky Old Sun - Puppet On A String

This is great & bad.... Sounds like a drunk Elvis wanna-be and the backing band is just as tanked. Marty "B" mumbles and stumbles his way through "Lucky Old Sun" & "Puppet On A String" in very "i wish i was Elvis" hap-hazard manner. The Guitar player is doing his best drunk noodle-ing but falls a bit short. It's so bad it is great. I'm sure there were a million of these Elvis wanna-be's out back then cutting their own records. I wish i could see what Mr. "B" looked like but I really could find NOTHING out about this record on The Big "B" Recording Inc. label out of Levittown, Pa. or who Marty "B" was but this is a pretty awful/awesome 45. If you know anything about it feel free to drop it here. I live for finding crap like this. Enjoy!

Marty "B" - Lucky Old Sun

Marty "B" - Puppet On A String

The Virginia's Employment Commission (Hire Through) - John Fuzz

First post in a few weeks due to life being crazy and Hurricane Sandy.... Any way just gonna jump right into the music w/ this little funky R&B 45. This here sounds a bit like a little more funky version of "The Coasters" I could not find much about this 45 except from what i lifted below from the great "FUNKY VIRGINA" blog.

Enjoy.

"John Fuzz" is rockin' R'n'B that could be straight outta the early 60's. Opening with the theme from "Dragnet", "John Fuzz" lays out the misadventures of a sad sack cop who gets hit in the head with a mustard jar while trying to break up a domestic dispute, slips on a banana peel while walking his beat, and ends up in the hospital with a busted jaw after trying to recover a stolen car. Then in the final verse there's a slight change of heart as the cop's tormentors sort of take pity on the poor underpaid officer, a nice enough guy who never complains, even when he saved that kid stuck in a pipe. "He's alright!", they declare. Gee, thanks!

"John Fuzz" is more in line with the "novelty" tag applied to many of Guida's records. Apparently, Frank must have believed in this odd ball ditty on some level, because he waited another two years to re-release it (not an uncharacteristic move) as the debut of his New Faces '69 label. This time around "Fuzz" was preposterously credited to The Virginia's Employment Commission with the parenthetical tag "Hire Through". Is there any way the actual state agency known as the Virginia Employment Commission signed off on this? Seems unfathomable, but Mr. Guida could be very persuasive, and it was the late 60's.

The Virginia's Employment Commission (Hire Through)- John Fuzz

Uge - Mad Charles - Mad Charles Love Theme

Hey Red Boy look what i found...!

From Sommerville NJ its Mad Charles: the World’s First Singer, Songwriter, Karate Robot who CRUNCHES the evil opposition! He seeks peace BUT he will fight and destroy all EVIL!

Fats Pinto don't stand a chance!





Uge - Mad Charles

Uge - Mad Charles Love Theme

Johnny White - Lickety Split - Shakey

Well i couldn't find much out about this record. Actually i couldn't find anything out about this record so if you know the deal, spill the beans... Its a cool little nugget of rockabilly guitar boogie Rock & Roll with a slight 60's pop/psych vibe on the flip but i have no idea what year this came out....??? its been well played and like a good record should be. It was a freebie from when i bought a few other things @ the Flea market last week so i aint complaining...

Johnny White - Lickety Split

Johnny White - Shakey

The Detroit Night Riders - Getting Funky - Night Time In The Ghetto

I'm always down with songs about getting funky and the ghetto. These 2 are no exception. 2 Killer funk cuts by The Detroit Night Riders. Even that group name is cool. I hear this is from 1968...? but could find little else out about The Detroit Night Riders... The A side is a raw instrumental that's pretty amateurish, which adds to the funk if you ask me. Flip is a cool and funky vocal. Cool 45.

The Detroit Night Riders - Getting Funky

The Detroit Night Riders - Night Time In The Ghetto

Cough Suppressant Alcoholics - Metal Is Not Dead - The Tab At The Liquor Store Is Evergrowing - Cunt Suppository Aeronautics

Mash up Flipper, The Butthole Surfers, Highly potent THC and Brown Acid in a musical blender and you might get close to what this loser of a record sounds like. Obviously recorded by a metal reject in his moms basement, one can only wonder what actually happened to The Cough Suppressant Alcoholics.....? My guess is, probably living in Canaduh....

In 20 years people might discover how awesome this peice of shit is, but for now no one but me gives a rats ass....

Cough Suppressant Alcoholics - Metal Is Not Dead

Cough Suppressant Alcoholics - The Tab At The Liquor Store Is Evergrowing

Cough Suppressant Alcoholics - Cunt Suppository Aeronautics

Cough Suppressant Alcoholics - Zip

Shank And Maydiea - Bye Bye Baby (My Pride) - Why Don't You Tell Me

Shank & Maydiea; Ed Wells previously of The Six Teens and his sister Maydiea Wells Cole

After The Six Teens ran their course and then faded away. Ed Wells made one more Flip recording, with his sister Maydiea Cole: "Bye Bye Baby (My Pride)"/"Why Don't You Tell Me" was released on Flip in July 1962, as Shank and Maydiea.

Weird and great all at once and at the same time too...

Shank And Maydiea - Bye Bye Baby (My Pride)

Shank And Maydiea - Why Don't You Tell Me

Wallace Brothers - Precious Words

I'm re-upping this file because it was dead and by request: I originally posted this back in Dec. 2008! So here you go Marie...

Some mid week 60's soul and another one of the faves here @ the devil's music:

I usually dig my soul on the heavy & funky side of things but when i dug this little gem up a few years back i really fell in love with it. The raw emotion and feeling in this cut really hit me hard. From 1964 here are the Wallace Brothers with Precious Words.

The Wallace Brothers, who were actually cousins Ervin Wallace and Johnny Simon, started in the music business as young teenagers and were among the first black artists to record at Fame Studios. Their early recordings were raw, unpolished soul and although the production values weren't necessarily the highest, their uninhibited vocals were highlighted by that very lack of sophistication. The emotion and intensity in the tracks come through as strongly now as they did some 30 years ago when they were cut. Their later Jewel 45s were more sophisticated – classic period Muscle Shoals music – but still had that same vocal intensity.

The guys came from Atlanta, attending the Archer High School there, and if you can believe the info on the back of their only US album, by the ages of 14 and 16 respectively they were apparently on the road with their own 6-piece band, not only sharing the vocals but with Simon playing sax and Wallace trying his hand at guitar. But much of this may be marketing tosh as these "facts" are accompanied on the sleeve of a picture of 3 smiling young teenagers in tuxedos and four similar gents on the back!

Their first disc was cut locally in Atlanta for the tiny Royal concern and, as its name “Faith” implied, heavily sanctified soul. A funeral slow number featuring an organ and a meandering sax, its the young harmony vocals that grab the attention, as the uninhibited gospel phrasing very much set the tone for their subsequent recordings. It obviously caught the ear of Russell Sims in Nashville as he picked it up as part of his increasing interest in R & B. Their next 45, “Precious Words” was, if anything, even more church based than their debut, and may well have come from the same initial Atlanta session. This had good chart success and was built on by “Lover's prayer” which became their biggest 45.
http://sirshambling.com/artists/W/wallace_brothers.htm

Wallace Brothers - Precious Words

Fringe Benefit - Fringe Benefit

AAAAAAHHHHHHH..... It's saturday morning, the kids are asleep and the lady is out food shopping and the dogs are being surprisingly quiet, (probably eating my shoes again) so I am on my 2nd cup of coffee and i actually have time to write something! So here is a record that has been on my plate for the last week solid. Self titled from 1977 by a band called Fringe Benefit.

I had never heard this record or even knew it existed until I stumbled upon a copy in a record store in Philly the other day. It was CHEAP (1.99) and looked interesting. So I bought it.
It kind of had a punky glam cover and being from 77 and on the capricorn label, a label associated with more Southern Rock then glam, took a shot. Even though it happens to be from 1977 it sounds older in most spots, 74 or maybe even early. At the heart of it all it’s just a nice well played & produced AOR record but there are plenty of other sounds going on. Some late 60’s pop ala string and horn arrangements on a song or two, some west coast singer songwriter type sounds, even a Queen meets Rush heavy prog mash up that could have been a extra track from Yes - Fragile/Close to the Edge era; Even a little Glammy pub rock via Slade/Sweet, but mostly acoustic guitars rule the roost here. Also throw in a few covers, All Shook Up/Elvis and Suzanne by Leonard Cohen… Sounds like a strange mix but it all works. Maybe I’m getting old but really dig this record. It has not left my player to and from work all week… By the looks of the cover the band had some high hopes for success.... not so much.

So considering I'm pretty sure this thing is way out of print and is very under the radar here it is in its entirety.

Was God an Astronaut and When She's Next Free being my 2 fave tracks but all are worth a listen, who know you may just enjoy it as much as me... If not, oh well. maybe next time.

PS... The Devils Music Blog has quietly crept past 1/2 a million hits.... Not all that impressive in the web world but not to bad for my crappy little corner of the music blog world.... cheers to those of you who continue to support this little slice of musical retardation.


Fringe Benefit - Fringe Benefit

INDIGO: The Devil's Most Prized Record!!! ONE OF A KIND! PRICELESS!!!

Here it is! The Devil's Most Prized Record!!! So RARE! A limited edition of ONE!!! Unplayable brown SPARY PIANT colored vinyl with hand drawn SKULL graphics and signed by the artist himself, my son Indigo!!! This record means more to me than any other record in my collection. It has hung on my wall since my boy did this for me several years ago. He must have been about 5 or 6 or so years old or so when he did it. This one will stay with me FOREVER!!! Jealous? I know you are...

Morgen - Of Dreams - She's The Night Time

Another small gift to myself for the Holidays and another psych kvlt classic...

ABC Record's valiant attempt at the 'hip/youth' market, Probe, released many memorable LP's by such groups as Saint Steven and The Litter along with debut offerings by Zephyr, Soft Machine and Rare Bird, but none generate the frenzy at this late date quite like the quartet led by guitarist/vocalist Steve Morgen, first unleashed in 1969. This is the rare 7" mono versions of 'She's The Nitetime' and 'Of Dreams'. Radio stations didn't bite on the single, Probe closed up shop, and the world became a decidedly sadder place."

Singer/guitarist Steve Morgen and company (bassist Rennie Genossa, drummer Bob Maiman and rhythm guitarist Barry Stock) originally hailed from (of all places) Long Island, New York. Signed by ABC's short-lived Probe subsidiary, their 1969 debut Morgen teamed them with producer Murray Shiffrin (Steve Morgen is given the co-production credit). After this superb debut, the entire band quite simply disappeared. If you're into heavy psych guitar, then this is for you. You're looking at a pseudo-classic slice of psychedelia that largely explains the huge asking price of an original copy.

Morgen - Of Dreams

Morgen - She's The Night Time