Monday, March 30, 2009

Trini Lopez - Sinner Man


I'm not a huge Trini Lopez fan but this is a good tune and something the devil knows a little something about...

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone...

Trini Lopez - Sinner Man

Friday, March 27, 2009

Bobby Cole - The Omen - Holly



Songs removed due to someones pussy having sand in it....

douche

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Bobby Cole - The Omen



Originally posted 9/5/08, I've added the flip "Holly" because i've had a few folks ask for it. (Sorry no label scan now but I'll get one up at work next week)

If you didn't catch this the 1st time around here you go!

Here is another odd one:
From one time Jazz cat and lover of Judy garland.

Here’s part of the story:

BOBBY's first album “New New New” was issued in mono and stereo by Columbia.
Not all that different from what other jazz trios were doing, about the only thing NEW NEW NEW was Bobby himself...his youthful voice already having a smokey burr to it. I thought he was effective on "Ebb Tide," "I sound like I have a sock in my mouth!" he said.
There are some "tasty" arrangements (as they used to say) and one trademark tune is "The Lady's In Love With You." This would be one of Bobby's piano-pounding up-tempo trademarks on the bistro circuit. I'm sure he sang it to many a ringsider couple...the guy feeling proud, and the girl...staring and dreaming about Bobby.
Bobby could've gotten a deal with Capitol through his pal Sinatra...but Bobby didn't want to be doing what Frank and Dino were doing. Or do what he did on the Columbia album. It was do it his way, or not at all
So it was not at all

In 1963 Bobby and Judy Garland became an item, and Bobby became the conductor and arranger (replacing Mel Torme) as "The Judy Garland Show" sputtered toward the end of its run .

Here's where it gets a bit more interesting:

One night in Greenwich Village, Bobby saw Jerry Jeff Walker strumming a little tune called "Mr. Bojangles." It wasn't much...but Bobby saw its potential. Seized with new energy and purpose, he worked all his magic in trying to get backing for a single. He was so worked up over the arrangements and what he would need, he barely even considered the B-side
"Mister Bojangles" (released on Columbia's subsidiary Date Records) was a little masterpiece, something George ("For the Benefit of Mr. Kite") Martin would've been proud of. With its sorrowful violin and sweet calliope, the orchestration set the tone for an elegy to an old vaudevillian, and Bobby's world-weary vocal made the sentiment truly ache
The big surprise was the B-Side, a folk-rock original called "Bus 22 to Bethlehem." Excellent lyrics here on the commercialization of religion. Bobby just tossed it off with some guitars and a beat...but it was a very worthy companion to "Mister Bojangles."
Unfortunately for Bobby, Atco signed Walker and Jerry Jeff's country version fought a regional war with Bobby's production. Depending on where Columbia and Atlantic had better coverage and strength, radio stations played one version or the other, and the two versions hovered around bottom of the Top 40 without either breaking through.
But it was Bobby's version that led to ballad-jazz versions from Sammy Davis Jr. , George Burns and others. Walker's version yielded another twangy try via the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Bobby was asked if that was his only single. And he said yes
But actually, a second single appeared on the Date label. Bobby may have been correct that it was pressed in white label demo versions but not really "released" in a meaningful quantity. So it wasn't really an official second "single." Or, he may simply have not thought much about "The Omen," a kind of heavy "message" effort with heavy, symbolic lyrics (very fitting for the time).

Info lifted from: Bobby Cole Music

So that being said: here’s the date single….

Songs removed:

Monday, March 16, 2009

Zip-Codes - Sweet Meat Part 1



Alright peeps, switching gears here with something funky from the Zip-Codes on Better records that will have to hold you over for the next week or so because I'm taking me and my sunny disposition on the road and out to Texas for SXSW (South By South West), where yours truly and my band Solace will be playing Friday the 20th @ the Room 710 in Austin.

A quick search of the interwebs came up goose eggs on the zip-codes except that a few peeps are selling this thing, but I'm shouting this out to my man DJ Prestige because i was planning on spinning this at the last 45 session but the Guinness got in the way so maybe next time!

See you 'round the way...

Zip-Codes - Sweet Meat Part 1

Friday, March 13, 2009

Marvin Rainwater - So You Think You've Got Troubles





Going to stick with the country/hillbilly side of things and give you some Marvin Rainwater from 1957 for the weekend. This dude kicked in Jersey and man could he rock a headband = way cooler than you.

Marvin Karlton Rainwater (born July 2, 1925 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American country and rockabilly singer who had several hits during the late 1950s including "Gonna Find Me a Bluebird" and "Whole Lotta Woman." He was best-known for wearing Native American outfits on stage. He is 25% Cherokee.

Rainwater was one of country's most noteworthy stars in the 1950s, when his good looks and baritone voice made him popular. One of the first rockabilly songs he recorded was "Gonna Find Me a Bluebird." Released in 1957, the song became a big country-pop crossover hit, making Rainwater one of the first country singers to appeal to a pop market. The song reached number five on the country charts. During the song's success, Rainwater re-located to the New Jersey-New York area. His next single, "So You Think You Got Troubles," was a successful follow-up on the country charts, but not on the pop charts.


Ya know, whenever I'm feeling down, i put this little tune on and think to myself, yep, life still sucks...

so I'm puttin' me a bar in the back of my car and drive myself to drink.

Marvin Rainwater - So You Think You've Got Troubles

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Bonnie Lou - Tennessee Wig Walk





Going to stick with the King label here and some more early country rockin' style, this time from 1953.

Bonnie Lou (born Mary Jo Kath October 27, 1924, Talawanda, Indiana) is an American Rock and Roll and Country Music singer. During the mid 1950s, rock and roll was the hottest selling music on the market. Few women however ventured into this territory, like Bonnie Lou. Bonnie Lou was one of the first female Rock & Roll stars who proved to the public that female singers could indeed sing rock and roll.

Bonnie Lou's real name is Mary Jo Kath, and she was born in 1924 in Illinois. Mary grew up listening to Patsy Montana and her band "The Prairie Ramblers", and was greatly inspired by her. Mary learned how to yodel, which was from the help of her Swiss grandmother. As a child she learned how to play two instruments, the violin and guitar. By the young age of 16, she was singing and performing on a local radio show in Bloomington, Illinois. By age 18, Mary went on a bigger radio show, which aired in Kansas City, Missouri. Her exposure on this radio show in Kansas City, helped her land a job as a singer on WLW Radio in Cincinnati, Ohio, where station executive Bill McCluskey hired Mary as a singer a yodeler for his radio show called Midwestern Hayride Country & Western Radio Program. McCluskey was the one who gave Mary Jo the stage name she would be known by for the rest of her life, "Bonnie Lou". While on the radio show in Cincinnati, Lou performed regularly with Country Music girl group the Girls of the Golden West, which Lou listened to as a child.

Bonnie Lou continued radio performances until the end of the 1940s. Her radio performances were even cut to acetate and released to the public. However, Bonnie Lou never truly broke as a recording artist until the 1950s.

In 1953, Lou signed on with her first record company called King Records in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the beginning stages of her recording career, Lou recorded Country Music material and released it. Bonnie soon had big Country Music hits with "Tennessee Wig Walk" and "Seven Lonely Days". Both songs were Top 10 Country hits. The flip side of her hit "Seven Lonely Days" featured the song "Just Out of Reach", which would later be covered by other Country singers, like Patsy Cline, Billie Jo Spears, Jean Shepard, and k.d. Lang.

Soon, Bonnie started recording Rockabilly or Rock & Roll. In 1954, she recorded the song "Two-Step Side-Step", which was written by Murry Wilson, who is the father of The Beach Boys, Carl, Brian, and Dennis. In 1955, she released her first Rock & Roll record called "Daddy-O". The song was a Top 15 Pop hit that year, and turned Lou into a major Rock & Roll star overnight. The song was later covered by The Fontaine Sisters on the Dot Records label. It wasn't until 1958 though that Bonnie had another hit, this a duet with Rusty York called "La Dee Dah". They soon recorded a Teen Pop song together called "I Let the School Bell Ding-a-Ling". Soon, Lou left the King label for another Cincinnati record label called Fraternity. She released several different singles for Fraternity, one of which were as successful as her singles for the King label.


Bonnie Lou - Tennessee Wig Walk

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Neal Burris - The Sissy Song



Not much i could find out about Mr. Burris here 'cept this;

He was born March 11, 1929 and this is a 1951, cover version of the Billy Briggs song. Don't ask me how there are pictures of Neal on the interweb but no info.

Also, I'm pretty sure this Mr. Burris never shot himself in the leg... (OK the spelling is different but it's phonetically the same, you get the joke no?)

Neal Burris - The Sissy Song

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Forward to the Caves 3/5/09 Play List:

On the air now 8 to 10 PM EST

www.wlfr.fm

Playlist:

union carbide productions - born in the 60's
duochrome - theremin
steel pole bath tub - quark
daisycutter - elektrokill
barkmarket - radio static
6L6 - Goodbye
steel pole bath tub - pause
the wretched ones - bottles & cans
instant death - the enabler

bubblegum thunder - 2x4
bubblegum thunder - cheater
bubblegum thunder - coward
craw - 405
cough suppresant alcoholics - cunt super aeronaut
guinea worms - i'm a cobweb
dr gunni - eddi hnifur
dr gunni - gott mal
dr gunni - nonni stubbur
snakefinger - the spot
drain - flower mound

aviso hara - how to feed your family
transmegetti - mercitron
cough suppresant alcoholics - metal is not dead
monsterland - plastic
aviso hara - raspberry beret
bubblegum thunder - regret
transmegetti - rent a rocket
craw - stomp
cough suppresant alcoholics - tab at the liquor store
monsterland - vegas hate fuck
transmegetti - yes i can read

union carbide productions - ring my bell
unsane - vandal-x
scientists - there's a monster in me

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

The Life - Snake Bite






This was originally posted on 8/26/08 but I'm re-posting this little number because i had a very cool comment left and because this post is so old would most likely would not be seen by many, but one of the members of "The Life' left a very informative comment. So while maybe i'll bitch about no one leaving comments (see previous post) events like this make it worth my while, knowing that members of long forgotten bands are out there and approve of the devil trying to keep their memory alive is very cool. So please if you didn't check this tune out the first time around please do so now and leave some more comments!!!

I couldn't find anything about this kooky little garage number here except that it is from 1967 or 1968? But that might not even be correct because this sounds earlier unless these guys were just stuck in time.... Every time i searched all i came up with was "records" of people losing their life from snakebite! And not the good kind of records but those lame ass ones cops put in folders and then box up and go on your permanent RECORD...

So enjoy this little odd garage type number on HI records and recorded in Memphis in 1967? and written by Walt Stewart.

Here is the additional info given by Bill of "The Life"

Dick,
Great to come across "Snakebite" on your blog. Here's a bit more info about "The Life". We recorded this in about '67, along with about five other songs by Walt. "Snakebite" was a "pick-hit" in a handful of cities in the South, but faded from play in a few months. "The Life" was the recording name for our group, otherwise known as the "Hungry I". We were a seven piece (keyboard, bass, 2 guitars, 2 trumpets & drums) group that did a lot of traveling across the south in the late 60's, based in Auburn, AL, where most of us were students at the university. Walt Stewart was lead singer & guitarist, and did a good bit of song writing. Marvin Taylor was lead guitarist, Stacy Goss and Mike Stough-trumpets & vocals, Bill Stubblefield on keyboards & vocals, Ed (Sunshine) Roberts on drums & vocals and Bill Baggett (me) on bass.
Can't recall how the opportunity to record in Memphis came about, but we were all pretty hyped about finally getting what we considered to be, our share of sunlight. Although the group was a good combination of talent and personalities, we finally split up after a couple of years and everyone went in different directions. A web search today indicates that most have stayed in music and have done very well for themselves, although a couple of us eventually headed in a different professional direction. The visual arts turned out to be my calling.
I've got a great photo of the group that was a publicity shot made around the time of the recording, but don't know how to enter it on the blog.
Keep up the good work. I appreciate your ear for the choices you consistently shed a bit of light on.
Bill
February 28, 2009 11:18 AM


Bill if your still out there many thanks! and email me that photo so i can add it to this post!
DD

Check the comments for a link the more info!!!

The Life - Snake Bite

Monday, March 2, 2009

Jokers Wild - All I See Is You



Testing, testing...

Is this thing on?

Is there anybody out there?

The few, the proud, the demented...

Today on this VERY snowy day you get a kinda punky garage psych tune... Has a little bit of a 66 vibe but goes for some psych moves and what the fuck with the crazy theremin sound? is that theremin or one of those plastic whistles with a slide? I don't know anything about these guys but from the sound i'd say this is 1967 but what the fuck do i know. Ah, fuck it, no ones listening anyway...

Matters.

Jokers Wild - All I See Is You

Friday, February 27, 2009

Rusty Draper - Hip Monkey


Wow!
How about that Planet Mondo? Mondo Insane-O!!!

Excuse me but I'm a bit tardy on my current events, as I've had a bit of the blogging blues, but in light of semi-new news news I'm sending this post out to the woman who had her face ripped of by a mad monkey named Travis: for anyone out of the loop, read about it here:

The Monkey or Chimp to be exact was shot dead by the fuzz after ripping the eyeballs out this woman's head.

And while I don't think it's particularly funny that this woman got hurt severely, you gotta ask yourself, do i REALLY want to go hang out with a 72 year old woman and her monkey? Let this be a lesson to everyone, monkey's aint hip, they don't want to wear a diaper, smoke cigarettes, fetch your fucking newspaper or clean out your drool cup; they just want to swing from trees in the jungle with other monkeys and rip your ugly face off!

So like, if yer pals have a 200 pound chimp and they invite you over for some "fun" maybe you should stay home....

As for Rusty Draper well... Whatever.

Rusty Draper - Hip Monkey

Friday, February 20, 2009

The Devil's Music Guest Mix - Planet Mondo - 33 And a 3rd Eye



Ok all you devil’s disciples out there, we have a very special guest mix for you all from Mr. Planet Mondo himself today and this (Good) Friday.

It’s something we been kicking around for a good long while now when me and the JJB strung together a few little ditties for him on one of his Funky Fridays!!!

When I 1st started this goofy @ss blog Mr. Mondo was one of the 1st few folks that would stop by and check out what we were dishing out over here and with high praise from someone who knows his music, as he does, his taste is impeccable, well; it gave me all the more incentive to keep it up! So many thanks Mr. Mondo!

And with any out further ado, here is the guest mix we’ve all been waiting for!

Before anything I must thank Devil Dick for the invite to rustle up a mix for his hot-rocking blog, following DD and Lady DD's swinging trip to Planet Mondo last year - and his patience in waiting for so many months for me to get it together.

So the essence of today’s mix, and the moment I'm hoping to capture with this patchwork of tracks, is that hair-bare era from 67-71 when mods became rockers, rockers turned hippy and hippies got heavy. With the mood of the tunes being one of frizzy hair, fuggy clubs, open-air freakouts and underground festivals. Topped off with a revved-up ‘Easy Rider’ attitude, dressed in suede tassle jackets, (maybe with patches about 'Pollution' and 'Peace'), granddad shirts - or for some Wild Things, perhaps a run out to a few 'scene' boutiques like Granny Takes A Trip, Mr Freedom (later the site of McClaren's proto-punk Sex/Seditionaries shops), I Was Lord Kitcheners Valet or The Chelsea Drugstore as referenced in the Stones lyrics and seen in Clockwork Orange......A few points worth watching out for on this trip around the tracks are...

The Pretty Things in disguise as Electric Banana

The Spencer Davis Group in mufti as The Murgatroyd Band

Prog-God Vangelis and man-mass Demis Roussos hiding in Aphrodite's Child

Norah Jones cousin Anandar Shankar,giving it some sitar hero twang on Jumping Jack Flash..

As well as influences on rock and punk's heaviest-hitters from The Creation - whose tune Through My Eyes was a sometimes Sex Pistols live number, and guitarist Eddie Phillips guitar bowing technique was later borrowed by Jimmy Page.

And finally The Pink Fairies - a hairy bunch of biker-rockers, that gigged with their biggest fans The Damned, at Punk's first recorded Festival, an event where the Fairies rechristened The Damned's Ray Burns as Captain Sensible..

But, for now that's quite enough pyshco-babble from me. So bloggers, blogettes, rockers, rollers, strummers and stoners, please - unlock your ears, free your mind, turn on, tune in and R.O.C.K out to...

33 and a 3rd Eye



Hold On - Ipsissimus
The Kettle - Colosseum
Blows Your Mind - Electric Banana
Towards The Skies - The Gods
Father's Name Is Dad - Fire
Coke Ad' - The Who
How Does It Feel To Feel - The Creation
I'm Not Your Stepping Stone - The Flys
Crying Shame - Frijid Pink
The Battle Of The Locusts - Aphrodite's Child
Instant Whip - The Tremeloes
Jumpin' Jack Flash - Amanda Shankar
Bad Trip - Bo Diddley
Hey Big Brother - Rare Earth
Magpie - The Murgatroyd Band
That's The Life - The Good Earth
Fire - Pegasus
I'm A Man - Wynder K. Frog
Magic Mirror - Aphrodite's Child
Get Out Your Rock And Roll Shoes - Crocheted Doughnut Ring
Shake 26 - Underground Set
Walk Don't Run - The Pink Fairies


PS There's a couple of cuts that didn't quite make the final edit on today's Funky Friday posting - should you fancy getting the full set...

Monday, February 16, 2009

Rose Davis - Sittin' and Drinkin' - Yes I've Been Crying



Ok, i took a few days off from posting but i have the day off today in honor of a bunch of dead assholes...
So today you get you get something i plan on doing a little bit of on my day off from work, “Sittin’ And Drinking” by Rose Davis.

“Sittin’ And Drinking” is blues number witth some good guitar work. It's a cover of a Christine Kittrell song. This was 1st issued in New Orleans on the "Play" label and later picked up after it became semi popular by Excello.

The flip is a little funky number with some strange horns and then shifts into a 50's kind of shuffle. Cool but strange tune.

Rose Davis - Sittin' and Drinkin'
Rose Davis - Yes I've Been Crying

Friday, February 6, 2009

The Devil's Music: Devil Dick Covers Mix Vol. 6


A few cover songs strung together for the 6th devil's music mix:

I make no bones about it; I'm a rock guy @ heart. Here is a little thing i threw together w/ some Rockin' cover songs i happen to dig. I think I'm gonna take a little break from posting for a while. I'm kinda bored & burnt out on this shit and i think i need a break...

Till next time, dig the tunes...

Colosseum: Theme for an imaginary western - English Rock Jazz, Prog band do Mountain.

Neil Merryweather: 8 miles high - Neil was some sort of funky space alien guitar god, here is his take on The Byrds classic.

Slade: Move over -Good time glam boys and their take on Janis Joplin classic. ( i like this one more)

McPhee: I am the walrus -Australian psych/prog band doing the boys from Liverpool.

Juicy Lucy: Willie the pimp -Saucy blues-rockers give us some Frank Zappa.

Leslie West: This wheels on fire - the great fatsby does some folkie gone electric.

Houston Fearless: Mr. soul -Don't know shit about Houston Fearless - i picked this record up for .99 cents about 15 years ago. Cool take on Neil Young's tune.

Taste: I'm moving on -Before the boogie guitar god of Ireland was a solo lad he was in a "Blues" rock band. Here he is in Taste and a version of a Hank Snow cut.

The Devil's Music: Devil Dick Covers Mix Vol. 6

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Forward To The Caves Play List 2/5/09

www.wlfr.fm

the cramps - human fly
stooges - little doll
u-boats - street tough
peter & the test tube babies - banned from the pubs
black flag - i've heard it before
overkill - hells getting hotter
stains - revenge
blitz - someone gonna die tonight
husker du - real world
dk's - kill the poor
the partisans - police story
demob - no room for you
DOA - human bomb
GBH - race against time

robert ashley - comic strip rock and roll
frankie baldo - strange guitar
neil burris - the sissy song
bobby williamson - i need everything
little jimmy dickens - truck load of starving kangaroos
teddy randazzo - be kitten little chicken
the spats - gator tails and monkey ribs
len barlow - hades highway
dick kent - backin up the devil
bobby moline - devil get behind me

bintangs - demons
comus - diana
country joe & the fish - not so sweet martha lorriane
tonny dee - velvet acid
allman joys - i'm snding you back
jackie lomax - eagle laughs at you
evil - whatca gonna do about it
lincoln st exit - sunny sunday dream, half man, time has come time to die
mimi & richard farina - reno nevada
sweetwater - windlace
clease - weird one
crying wood - blue eyed witch

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Moon Mullican - I'll Sail My Ship Alone



Aubrey Wilson Mullican (March 29, 1894 - January 1, 1967), known as Moon Mullican, was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and pianist. However, he also sang and played jazz, rock 'n' roll and the blues. Indeed, Mullican was one of the main influences on the formation of rock 'n' roll, he predated what would be done in rock 'n' roll by 20 years. He was associated with the hillbilly boogie style which greatly influenced rockabilly; Jerry Lee Lewis cited him as a major influence on his own singing and piano playing.
Moon Mullican - I'll Sail My Ship Alone

Monday, February 2, 2009

Pee Wee King And His Golden West Cowboys - Waltz Of Regret



Devil month is up, i hope you enjoyed the Devil tunes @ the Devil's Music for the 1st month of 2009...?

Something a bit different today on some fancy green vinyl:

Pee Wee King, born Julius Frank Anthony Kuczynski (February 18, 1914 – March 07, 2000), was an American country music songwriter and recording artist. He was born in Milwaukee to a Polish American family and lived in Abrams, Wisconsin, during his youth.

King learned to play fiddle from his father, who was a professional polka musician. In the 1930s, he toured and made cowboy movies with Gene Autry. King joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1937.

In 1946, while the bandleader of the Golden West Cowboys, King, together with the band's vocalist, Redd Stewart, composed "The Tennessee Waltz", a song inspired by "The Kentucky Waltz" by bluegrass musician Bill Monroe. King and Stewart first recorded "The Tennessee Waltz" in 1948, and it went on to become a country music standard.

King's other songs included "Slow Poke" and "You Belong to Me". His songs introduced waltzes, polkas, and cowboy songs to country music.

He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1974. He died of a heart attack in Louisville, Kentucky, at age 86.

This aint the Tennessee Waltz or the Kentucky Waltz but the "Waltz of Regret"

Anyone want to dance with me...???

Pee Wee King And His Golden West Cowboys - Waltz Of Regret

Friday, January 30, 2009

Ilmo Smokehouse - Devil Take My Grandma



Short-lived outfit from 1971 but innovative prog band from Illinois with ex-Gonn members Gerry Gabel and Craig Moore. "We were heavy as hell, anti-war, pro-drug hippie all the way", remembers Moore. Without Gabel the group turned into Smokehouse, now presenting their progressive styles with glitter and make-up.

Formed in 1969 by the Tieken brothers from Quincy, Illinois. They'd previously been in the long-lived Freddy Tieken and The Rockers who'd been going at it since the late fifties. As The Gonn disintegrated in 1968, first Slink Rand and then Craig Moore joined 'The Rockers. Craig:- "Fred changed the name to The American Music Band, stealing it sort of from The Electric Flag. We played EVERYWHERE... Then when the horn guys all quit, we became Ilmo Smokehouse, heavy as hell, anti-war, pro-drug hippie all the way. When that eventually ended Slink, Dennis and I became 'Smokehouse' as a really heavy progressive trio. Later on we had Micki Free on guitar (later with L.A. soul group Shalamar). We wore glitter and make-up before Kiss, but they made it we didn't. It's all nuts, convoluted, insane, I can't believe I did all of this crap!"

Their album was recorded in Memphis at 'Beautiful Sound' Studio, owned by Dan Penn of Box Tops fame (as a songwriter producer). He engineered part of the session, with his partner Jim Johnson.

Extra nugget of useless info: Steve Gaines breifly played with the group before joining and then dying with Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Ilmo Smokehouse - Devil Take My Grandma

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The Fifth Order- A Thousand Devils Are Chasing Me



Some mid week light psych garage pop music for you with the fifth order from Columbus Ohio via 1967.

Their 1966 garage classic Goin' Too Far b/w Walkin' Away was a tremendous regional success, at the time becoming the biggest selling seven-incher from Columbus, Ohio. Their second local hit, A Thousand Devils (Are Chasing Me) b/w Today I Got A Letter, was picked up by Laurie for national release. These two records have long been recognized as sterling examples of Ohio's vibrant mid-60s garage rock scene. But the story of the Fifth Order has remained untold, until now...

If you dig the scene check the full story here:

The Fifth Order- A Thousand Devils Are Chasing Me

Monday, January 26, 2009

Lotti Golden - A Lot Like Lucifer (Celia Said Long Time Loser)



From the Lotti Golden Motor-Cycle album released on Atlantic Records in 1969 and produced by Bob Crewe, which is a weird soulish psych album that i find intriguing.

Starts off mellow and kinda goes big band girl group with some psych moves and fuzz guitar.... strange little record and a strange little song.

There is not a lot of info out there at least that i could find so if you know this chicks deal drop the knowledge...

Lotti Golden - A Lot Like Lucifer (Celia Said Long Time Loser)

Friday, January 23, 2009

Dick Kent - Backin' Up The Devil



i got a few more devil posts if ya'll can handle it?

Gonna stick with the "country" vibe here by way of Hollywood? California and the M.S.R. label.

M.S.R. was one of those record labels where folks would send them their words or "songs",(along with about a few hundred bucks) these records are often called poem songs, and M.S.R. would then turn it into a song using their studio musicians and then send a box of this crap to the "writer" so he/she could bore his friends with it. Not unlike most bands do today...

Read more about the Song Poem Here:

So good old Dickie here or was it Perry H. Hopkins? paid good hard scratch to have his "poem" turned into this little dittie for your listening pleasure now!

Dick Kent - Backin' Up The Devil