Solace - In The Flesh

Solace - In The Flesh

Wild Vybrashons - One Track Mind

Cool fuzzed out garage version of the Knickebockers track 'One Track Mind'. Could have used a bit more fuzz IMHO. Still cool.

Wild Vybrashons - One Track Mind

Elmer Conovitch & The Camarillo Crew - Born To Be Wild

The fact that things like this exist on vinyl makes me happy. I have no idea why it does but i'm glad it does. It's pure chaos. At one point you can hear the woman scream "Let's wreck this place!" And it sounds like Elmer yelps "Fuck" "Fuck" and shit is just flying around in the background and it ends with the woman weakly coughing as if she has hit her max destruction. It makes me wish a video existed to see what was really going on..... "Sounds a bit like something "Wild man Fischer" would do. As a young kid i loved the Dr. Demento show so i guess that is why shit like this still appeals to me. I love it. You guys got anymore weirdo stuff to recommend????

Elmer Conovitch & The Camarillo Crew - Born To Be Wild

Gil Bateman - Daddy Walked In Darkness

Gil Bateman from 1965 with a Hoyt Axton cover of Daddy Walked In Darkness. A nice fuzzy buzzy version that is more reminiscent of the song House Of The Rising Sun done by The Animals a year before, but who's first known recording was done by a 16 year old girl named Georgia Turner in 1937....

Gil Bateman - Daddy Walked In Darkness

Garland Jeffreys - Wild In The Streets

For many many years i thought the Circle Jerks wrote this song....

Garland Jeffreys - Wild In The Streets

Solomon Burke - Maggie's Farm

Funky soul version of Dylan's Maggie's farm from 1965 by Solomon Burke. Lets see how long this lasts....

Solomon Burke - Maggie's farm

Whalefeathers - I Don't Need No Doctor

Psychedelic Rock outfit from Cincinnati Ohio, Whalefeathers, doing the Asford & Simpson penned "I Don't Need No Doctor" most notably done by Humble Pie & Ray Charles, from 1971.

Whalefeathers - I Don't Need No Doctor

Jiri Schelinger - Metro, Dobry Den (A National Acrobat) - Podj (Heart Of Gold)

Pretty wild Czechoslovakian cover songs from Black Sabbath & Neil Young from 1975 by Jiri Schelinger.

Jiri Schelinger - Metro, Dobry Den (A National Acrobat)

Jiri Schelinger - Podj (Heart Of Gold)

49th Blue Streak - Fire / Foxy Lady

2 wild Hendrix cover songs. As blown out, fuzzed out and as wasted as you can get.... Sounds like a really wasted Blue Cheer.

49th Blue Streak - Fire

49th Blue Streak - Foxy Lady

Larry Sonn And His Orchestra - Congo Mambo

Coral 9-61759 (1956). Written by Guitar Gable and Jerry West. B side of "Desert Sunrise". Big band cover of Guitar Gable's Excello R&B classic. Happy birthday to my wife!

Larry Sonn And His Orchestra - Congo Mambo

The Tiffany System - Let's Get Together / Wayward One

Couple of pop/psych Byrds sound a likes from the Tiffany System from 1967 on the Minaret label. A side is a cover of the Chet Powers (aka Dino Valenti) penned song. It was covered by many people through the years. The flip is a very Byrds sounding pop psych tune. Pretty good stuff.

This Jacksonville, FL-based mid-'60s folk-rock trio was notable twice over, both for their actual sound, which was popular enough to earn them a more than decent living with local performances, and for the presence in their original lineup of future Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks, as well as future Santana bassist David Brown, and future Cowboy guitarist Scott Boyer. The band actually started out as "The Bitter End" circa 1966 at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Boyer, Brown, and Trucks had put the trio together with the intent of applying electric instruments to Dylan songs, à la the Byrds, and they became so successful just doing local and regional gigs that Boyer ended up dropping out of college. According to Boyer in an interview with Michael Buffalo Smith on the Swampland website, they crossed paths with lots of other local talent that showed promise, including an early lineup of Lynyrd Skynyrd (then still known as "The One Percent") and the Second Coming, whose members included Berry Oakley and Dickey Betts. The Tiffany System cut a single of "Let's Get Together" b/w "Wayward One" in 1968 for the local Minaret label, the B-side of which was impressive enough to end up as the opening track on Psychic Circle's The Electric Coffee House compilation, 40 years later.
After a move to Miami and some discussion, the group was re-named the 31st of February and signed to Vanguard Records, for which they released one self-titled album under that name in 1969, recorded at Bradley's Barn. Ironically, even as that album was making its way to stores -- and near total critical and commercial neglect, its Baroque pop sound being a little behind the times by then -- the group had evolved beyond a three-piece with the addition of a pair of brothers, Duane Allman and his brother Gregg. But that configuration, though they did play a lot around Miami, never got to make their planned second record for Vanguard, and went their separate ways. The Allmans went on to immortality, with Trucks as part of the band, whilst Boyer became part of Cowboy, alongside ex-We the People guitarist Tommy Talton et. al, and David Brown became a member of Santana in 1969, as well as working with Papa John Creach, Boz Scaggs, and others.

The Tiffanny System - Lets Get Together

The Tiffany System - Wayward One

Roy Buchanan - Down By The River

Nothing rare but a great cover by one of my favorite guitarists doing a song by one of my favoriye artists. cool vs. cool.

Roy Buchanan - Down By The River

Kingston Karachi ‎- In The Summertime

Today is my wife's birthday. And in completely unrelated news, here is strange cover of Mungo Jerry's In The Summertime. Here is to warmer days ahead and to when you could have a hit song about drinking and driving.

Have a drink, have a drive, go out and see what you can find.

Kingston Karachi - In The Summer Time

Gloria Walker - Them Changes

The great classic "Them Changes" penned by Mr. Buddy Miles and recorded with Jimi Hendrix and The Band of Gypsies, later to be recorded by Mr. Miles for his own album.

This is a great soulful slightly funky version done by Miss Gloria Walker from 1972 of the Federal label.

Gloria Walker - Them Changes

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:

The Valiants (Bumps Blackwell Band) - Good Golly Miss Molly

"Good Golly Miss Molly" is a hit rock 'n' roll song first recorded in 1958 by the American musician Little Richard. The song, a 12-bar blues, was written by John Marascalco and producer Robert "Bumps" Blackwell. Although it was first recorded by Little Richard, Blackwell produced another version by The Valiants, who imitated Little Richard, but sang the song even faster. Although the Valiants' version was released first, Little Richard had the hit. Like all his early hits, it quickly became a rock 'n' roll standard and has subsequently been covered by hundreds of artists. The song is ranked #94 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

The Valiants (Bumps Blackwell Band) - Good Golly Miss Molly

Little Roger & the Goosebumps - Gilligan's Island (Stairway) - The Wet Look

Supposedly Robert Plant's favorite version of Stairway To Heaven and done with Gilligan Island Lyrics.....

Heh...

Little Roger and the Goosebumps is a pop/rock band from San Francisco active during the 1970s and early 1980s and resurrected in 2006. It has been led throughout its history by Roger Clark and Dick Bright, with various sidemen.
The band is best known for its single "Gilligan's Island (Stairway)", a song combining the lyrics to the theme song of the television show Gilligan's Island with the music of "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin. The band wrote the song in 1977 as "material to pad the last set of the grueling 5 nights a week/4 sets a night routine," recorded it in March 1978, and released it as a single in May 1978 on their own Splash Records label. Within five weeks, Led Zeppelin's lawyers threatened to sue them and demanded that any remaining copies of the recording be destroyed.[citation needed] The song was reissued in 2000 on the CD Laguna Tunes with the song title renamed "Stairway to Gilligan's Island."

During a 2005 interview on National Public Radio, Robert Plant referred to the tune as his favorite cover of "Stairway to Heaven."

And not because you asked but beacuse i felt the need i give you the B side "The Wet Look" @ both 45 and 33RPM....

Little Roger & the Goosebumps - Gilligan's Island (Stairway)

Little Roger & the Goosebumps - The Wet Look - 45 RPM

Little Roger & the Goosebumps - The Wet Look - 33 RPM

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

Eddie Platt - Tequila - Popcorn

This shit is kind of hokey but it has a certain charm. A wacky cover of the Champs Tequilla and a goofy high energy Popcorn with a nice little guitar break.

Eddie Platt (b. Eddie Platakis, Dec. 8, 1921, Cleveland, Ohio; d. Oct. 3, 2010, Akron, Ohio) was an American saxophonist.
Platakis was raised in Rossford, Ohio. He began playing in a band there at age 16 and used the stage name Platt starting in high school (including at his graduation). He played gigs in Rossford and Cleveland until World War II, when he served in the Army and Air Force. After the war he played in strip clubs with the Johnny Pecon Band.
In 1957, he began playing the Hotel Manger in Cleveland, a gig he would keep until 1967. While there, he recorded his first single for Epic Records, "Rock 'Em" b/w "Chinese Lullaby". His next single was a cover of The Champs' song "Tequila", which climbed to #20 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1958. He also covered The Pets' hit "Chua-Hua-Hua", which in the 1990s was featured on the soundtrack to The Iron Giant.
Following the success of "Tequila", Platt appeared on Perry Como and Dick Clark's television shows, performing live where most acts lip synched. He remained in Cleveland to play shows but backed national acts when they toured there, including Pat Boone, Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin, The Everly Brothers, and The Brothers Four. He self-released a vinyl LP, Dance One, selling about 3,500 copies. The tune "Festival" from the album is the theme song of the Ohio All Nations Festival.
Platt died in Akron, Ohio, on October 3, 2010.

Eddie Platt - Tequila

Eddie Platt - Popcorn