Yorko & The Greek Strings ‎– Snake Dance / Melancholie

Yorko & The Greek Strings ‎– Snake Dance / Melancholie

Label:
MGM Records ‎– K13751

Format:
Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single

Country:
US

Released:
1967

Genre:
Rock, Folk, World, & Country

Style:
Garage Rock

Tracklist
A Snake Dance 1:50
B Melancholie 2:06

devildick April 11, 2020

Pretty cool / weird 45.... Sorta exotica garage rock. A side sounds like "she's about a mover" but snake dance over top. Some guitar and big drums in spots... B side is like a B-grade 60's movie (porn?) soundtrack, kinda light psych.... Dig it

Yorko & The Greek Strings - Melancholie

Yorko & The Greek Strings - Snake Dance

Devil Dick Mix #35

To the best of my knowledge this is my 35th mix. Random weirdness i'v been listening 2 as of late.... Enjoy?

edit: i just noticed that i've gone over the 1.5 million mark in visitors to the site. Very cool. Thanks all!

Devil Dick Mix #35

The Eutopia - Chocolate Pie

Frantic keys, super fuzzy guitar and a dude screaming about "chocolate pie". What's not to like!?!???

The Eutopia - Chocolate Pie

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

Unknown Artist - Where Is Etan Patz?

I have no idea who this is but it's a pretty weird record. Etan Patz was apparently abducted on his way to school and his body was never found. Totally weird to make a record about this event, but here it is. Maybe it never came out because this is just a test pressing and i can find zero info about a song called "Where Is Etan Patz". Bizarre.

Unknown Artist - Where Is Etan Patz? Side A

Unknown Artist - Where Is Etan Patz? Side B

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

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)

John T. Williams - The Bull Fighter

Oddball rocker... Hear the flip HERE:

John T. Williams Orch. - The Bull Fighter

Nick Adams - It Could Have Been Different

Nick Adams - It Could Have Been Different

Lee Bonds - I'm Looking For Some Lovin'

Today we have some more country with lee Bonds Doing Looking For Some Lovin' from 1954. Sorta weird to hear that dixie land jazz horn thrown in there...

Lee Bonds - Looking For Some Lovin'

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

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

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

Holy Moses!! - Agadaga Dooley

weird little boogie pop psych number w/ some cool wah guitar by Holy Moses from 1971. Here is some info i lifted off the webz...

Though short-lived, Holy Moses came up with one of the psychedelic era's most enduring hard rock one-offs, packed with strong songs and blazing guitar parts by Ted Spelios.

The late-'60s and early-'70s musical landscape is marred with one-shot albums.

Thousands of bands took a stab, failed to hit the jugular, and disappeared quietly into the night, but only the good lord knows why such a fate was handed down to Holy Moses.

The band's lone, eponymous release has all the ingredients of a bonafide classic.

Recorded at Jimi Hendrix's newly built Electric Lady studio and produced by Kim King (Lothar & The Hand People) and Mike Esposito (The Blues Magoos), it sounds just as fresh and full today as it must have back then.

Billy Batson -- which may not be his real name, since it's the mild-mannered moniker of Captain Marvel -- wrote all the songs with a clear sense of humor and an undeniable swagger.

His roughhouse storytelling was propelled to another dimension by the six-string prowess of one Ted Spelios: a man who is said to have impressed a young Bruce Springsteen during his brief stint in another one-album band called Kangaroo.

"No Turnin' Back" is a sure mixtape highlight. Spelios' shredding is righteous, totally supporting the saloon piano and a tale of love -- half way out the door -- as moaned by Batson.

With a hint of southern revival cutting through the sombre barroom rowdiness, Billy's husky voice fleetingly wanes under the struggle, sounding like a clear influence on Kings Of Leon and other like-minded bands that would crop up decades later.

"Roll River Roll" hits roughly the same area, but with a church organ instead of piano.

The plinking tone that occasionally surfaces, care of Ted, sounds like Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" or something Tom Morello might use.

Typically, though, the album rambles through rockin' psychedelic R&B numbers, the band's bread and butter.

They were as good as anyone at the up-tempo numbers, yet the two dismal tunes are the most thoroughly engaging, the ones where they let their guard down and truly emote.

I cannot fathom why Holy Moses!! wasn't a gold record in its time, or why it's taken so long to appear on CD.

Didn't the world need a drunker Canned Heat (check "Agadaga Dooley" and you'll know)? I guess not, because the LP fizzled on release and the band followed suit shortly thereafter.

Sadly, Ted Spelios never got a third chance to fulfill his awesome promise and crumbled with mental problems, eventually becoming, -- according to legend -- a wine-making monk.

He could have easily been the next Robin Trower; the East Village already considered him the best guitarist alive next to Hendrix.

Teddy Speleos had earlier played with Kangaroo, whilst Bill Batson was later the leader of eighties new wave outfit Hypstrz. Marty David was also a session man, playing with Jackie Lomax, Van Morrison and others

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Holy Moses!! - Agadaga Dooley

The Human Jungle - Gorilla Milk

When you milk a gorilla you better be kind!

Back to some weirdness... A little rocking psychedelic novelty tune from The Human Jungle w/ Gorilla Milk from 1967. Not really sure what was going on with this...? A weird answer to doing "The Monkey"??? Kinda late for that since the monkey hit its peak in 1963.... Anyway, another weird 45 that sounds cool my weird ears.... maybe you'll enjoy it too....????

The Human Jungle - Gorilla Milk

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

The Links - Pyramid

Another little weird one.... What is this? Exotica? I like it but I'm confused....

The Links - Pyramid

Thunder Mountain Boys - The Girl In The Woods

Creepy little tune about obsessing over a girl the thunder mountain boys met in the woods... Not sure really what to make of this...? Creepy and weird vibes abound. Also, i'm getting tired of deleting countless spam messages from my comments folder. Can any real people leave some comments...???

Thunder Mountain Boys - The Girl In The Woods

One And Six-Tenths Shing-A-Ling

I just pulled this weirdo out of a box of trashed 45's @ the flea today... I have no idea.... The flip is a pretty standard Bossa Nova and the label just says "One In Every Six-Tenths Of A Second Bossa Nova". This little surfy garage diddy clocks in at just under 1 minuet.... Any one have ANY idea what this thing is....???

One And Six-Tenths Shing-A-Ling

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