Bloodstone - Dumb Dude

I'm not much for slow soul stuff, i usually like my soul upbeat and funky but this is a pretty dope jam

Bloodstone was former American R&B, soul, and funk group, most popular in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Formed in 1962, in Kansas City, Missouri, the group was a high school doo-wop group, The Sinceres. The band consisted of Melvin Webb on drums, Roger Durham on percussion, Charles Love on guitar and vocals, Charles McCormack on bass, Harry Williams on percussion, and Willis Draffen on guitar. Later they renamed themselves Bloodstone, and after learning to play their respective musical instruments, moved to Los Angeles, California.

Bloodstone - Dumb Dude

Deon Jackson - Love Makes The World Go Round - You Said You Loved Me

I picked this up recently @ a 3 for 1 dollar sale. Good stuff. Janet Hurley had good taste...

Deon Jackson (born January 26, 1946), is an American soul singer and songwriter.
Jackson was born at Ann Arbor, Michigan. He performed in vocal groups and as a soloist in high school, he attended Ann Arbor High School and was signed while still in school by producer Ollie McLaughlin. His first single was his own "You Said You Love Me", followed by "Come Back Home"; both were regional hits in Michigan. Jackson toured heavily on the local club circuit before releasing his next record, 1965's "Love Makes the World Go Round" on Carla Records. The tune became a major pop hit, and a full-length album was released subsequently on Atco Records. Though he is often referred to as a one hit wonder, Jackson had two more successful singles, and recorded until the end of the decade, but after this faded from view, he performed mostly in the Chicago area. Jackson now works as a Student Supervisor at Wheaton Warrenville South High School in Wheaton, Illinois


Deon Jackson - Love Makes The World Go Round

Deon Jackson - You Said You Loved Me

The Moods - King Hustler - Hustlin

Great Funky Soul right here! I played King Hustler at my 1st 45 session way back when and have been sitting on it a long long while. Seems like a great time to drop it! From what i can find out these guys were a Philly band that evolved out of the group called "The Volcanos" - The Volcanos recorded several 45's for the Arctic label and later a 45 for the Harthon label. Sometime around 1968, Gene Jones left the group, re-christened himself Gene Faith and started recording for Philadelphia’s Virtue records. The rest of the group reformed as the Moods and recorded at least one 45 for Wand, ‘Rainmaker’ b/w ‘Lady Rain’. Then there is this 45 on Reddog ‘Hustlin’ b/w ‘King Hustler’

Ok here is where I need some help.

There seems to be some kind of a foul up on my copy of this 45 as i have heard the flip "Hustlin" on the web elsewhere and it is just the song King Hustler without the vocals. My Flip says Hustlin on the label but the song is singing about Holding An Aution On Love and has nothing to do with "Hustlin"... WTF? Can anyone confirm what this song is and is it even the same group?


The Moods - King Hustler

The Moods - Hustlin (Auction on Love?)

The Crusaders - Greasy Spoon - Pass The Plate

Greasy Spoon - Great slow rolling funky intrumental cut by The Cusaders w/ some killer guitar by Larry Carlton and cool sax. Flip - Pass the Plate.


The Crusaders are an American music group popular in the early 1970s known for their amalgamated jazz, pop and soul sound. Since 1961, more than forty albums have been credited to the group (some live and compilations), 19 of which were recorded under the name "The Jazz Crusaders" (1961–1970).

In 1960, following the demise of a few short-lived Houston-based groups called The Swingsters and the Nite Hawks , pianist Joe Sample, drummer Stix Hooper, saxophonist Wilton Felder and trombonist Wayne Henderson relocated to Los Angeles, CA. After changing their name to "The Jazz Crusaders," the group signed with Pacific Jazz Records, where they would remain throughout the 1960s. Employing a two-manned front-line horn section (trombone and tenor saxophone), the group's sound was rooted in hard bop, with an emphasis on R&B and soul.
The group shortened their name to "The Crusaders" in 1971, and adopted a jazz-funk style. They also incorporated the electric bass and electric guitar into their music. Bass guitarist Robert "Pops" Popwell and guitarist Larry Carlton joined the band, and featured on the group's albums throughout most of the 1970s. With this new style came increased crossover appeal, and the group's recordings started to appear on the Billboard pop charts. The height of the group's commercial success came with 1979's Street Life, which peaked at #18 on the pop album charts and the title track from the album made the Top 10 on the R&B chart and #36 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.
In 1975, following the release of their 28th album (their ninth as "The Crusaders"), Henderson left the group to pursue a full-time career as a producer. His departure created a void, permanently changing the character of the group. Another founding member, Hooper, left the group in 1983, thus signaling the end to the group's most popular period. Three more albums were recorded in the mid-1980s; however by the 1990s, "The Crusaders", for the most part, had disbanded, with a comprehensive discography behind them.

The Crusaders - Greasy Spoon

The Crusaders - Pass The Plate

The Equadors - Sputnick Dance EP

No foolin today just a great record:

I love this EP. 2 great rockers (Sputnik Dance & Stay A Little Longer) sandwhiched in between 2 classic Doo Waop ballads. I wasn't alive when this came out but this harkens back a little bit more of a simplier time, at least in my mind it does. But what do i know, things were probaly just as fucked up back then as they are now...

Alan Turner was the lead singer in The Equadors, a Philadelphia rhythm and blues band, composed the song “Sputnik Dance,” which the group recorded in early 1958. The Equadors later renamed the group The Modern Ink Spots, and sang for several years...

The Equadors - Sputnick Dance

The Equadors - I'll Be The One

The Equadors - A Vision

The Equadors - Stay A Little Longer

The Moby Grape - Omaha - Consolidated Cigar Promo EP

Anyone know what this is all about? Consolidated Cigar???

Weird little promo EP i picked up at the Flea Market. Great track by The Moby Grape. Dig it!

The flip has Tighten Up Your Tie, Button Up Your Jacket by Aretha Franklin & Kentucky Woman by The Union Gap.

The Moby Grape - Omaha - Consolidated Cigar Promo EP

The Devils Music - Devil Dick 78 Mix Vol. 14

i been jamming on some 78's of late and as i been spinning them i been recording some of the ones i dig...

here is a couple quick little 78 mixes from some recent 78's scores. All on glorious and noisy OG 78's records. No noise filters are any bullshit was used so you get it as it is... i for one think 78's have a certain charm with the noise they produce...

Hope you dig them as much as me and you can read my shit writing for the titles....?

The Devils Music - Devil Dick 78 Mix Vol. 14 A

The Devils Music - Devil Dick 78 Mix Vol. 14 B

The Parkays - Late Date

Great & groovy guitar and organ instrumental from 1961 from The Parkays. Good shit right here...

The Parkays - Late Date

Magic Christians - Come And Get It - Nats

So is this really Bad Finger under the Magic Christians moniker? Or The Magic Christains cashing in on the film? Come And Get It written by Paul McCartney and originally done by Bad Finger so I'm not sure what is going on here as this sounds pretty close to the original, either way the B-Side is the tits. It's not hard to do, but i'm confused....

Magic Christians - Come And Get It

Magic Christians - Nats

Wisdom - Nefertiti - What-Cha-Gonna-Du-About-You

Great funk instrumental backed with some 2nd hand Temps style funky soul.

Wisdom - Nefertiti
Wisdom - What-Cha-Gonna-Du-About-You

Click - Fat Lady In The Wicker Chair - Dancing Babies

I found out about Click when i stumbled across his self titled album in the bargin bin at a record store years ago. I bought it not knowing anything about it but the album looked a bit "psychedelic" and it was from 1969. A good year. I must have played that record one thousand times. Almost everyone i played it for found charm in that records grooves. A few of the songs have made mix after mix and i'd say it still holds a place in my musical heart. A burned copy is always in the car for long drives. Its an odd mix of folk & psych in a singer songwriter tradition but with a weird bend to it. And this 45 is no different really. Odd & great. I was really "psyched" (pun intended) when i found this 45 out at the local flea market because i did not know it existed. I only thought the full length "Click" album was the only thing Mr. Click Horning had released. You can visit his website and order this great rare and way out of print album directly from him HERE, if you so desire. I would recomend it. Looks like he still plays every Sunday afternoon in NH.

Click - Fat Lady In the Wicker Chair

Click - Dancing Babies

Carl Perkins- Shine Shine Shine

No need for any words on Mr Blue Suede Shoes...? This is little rockabilly number from later in his career, pretty sure sometime in the 60's. Still a cool little rocker.

Carl Perkins- Shine Shine Shine

Johnny Horton - Long Way Home Tonight

Most of Mr. Horton's stuff i can do without, but for a while there in the late 50's he was rockin and boppin with the best of them. Lots of folks tried their hand at Rock and Roll after it went big time. This track and Honky Tonk Hardwood Floor being my 2 faves from Johnny.

Johnny Horton - Long Way Home Tonight

The Weasels - Beat Her With A Rake - Im The Commander

Hints of Black Sabbath and an appreciation of early punk bands like the Sex Pistols and Dead Boys...? Sold! I am in!!!

Sorta like a better played Dayglo Abortions Acting like Black Sabbath...



The Weasels were best known for their dark-humored 1978 single "Beat Her With a Rake," the Weasels were an irreverent, sneering, in-your-face punk band along the lines of Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, and Dead Boys. One thing that separated the Los Angeles-based Weasels (who shouldn't be confused with a 1960s band that had the same name) from other late '70s punk outfits, however, was a definite heavy metal influence. At a time when it still wasn't fashionable to like metal in punk circles, the Weasels combined hints of Black Sabbath with their appreciation of early punk bands like the Sex Pistols and Dead Boys. The Weasels were formed in L.A. in 1977, when singer Mike Brophy joined forces with guitarist Greg Durschlag, bassist Richard Sakai, and drummer Jim Connelly. It wasn't long before they started playing the L.A./Hollywood club scene; their live performances didn't make them a huge name in the punk world, though they did acquire a small cult following in Southern California. In 1978, the Weasels released the metal-influenced single "Beat Her With a Rake" on their own Siamese label, and the equally metal-influenced "I'm the Commando" became the record's B-side. Though some women in the L.A. punk scene found "Beat Her With a Rake"'s dark-humored, misogynist lyrics offensive, others saw the tune as a sick, twisted joke and didn't take its lyrics seriously. Rodney Bingenheimer, who was one of the first American radio DJs to play punk, thought enough of "Beat Her With a Rake" to play it on his weekly radio show on L.A.'s KROQ-FM. The Weasels had been playing the L.A. punk scene for about five years when, in 1982, they decided to breakup and go their separate ways.

The Weasels - Beat Her With A Rake

The Weasels - Im The Commander

The Devils Music - Devil Dick Mix 13 - Just Some New Shit Mix

A mix of some newer 7's a just picked up on the cheap, a nice little collection of indie, alt, punk rock, shits or whatever you wanna call it. Being the old fuck i am i will admit i know nothing about any of these bands but some of the tunes aint so bad...

The Devils Music - Devil Dick Mix 13 - Just Some New Shit Mix

The Space Negros - Go to Russia...

This is a weird one... Starting with the name and ending with the music.... I mean "Space Negros"...? and the music sounds like twisted TV theme show music from a bad dream or nightmare. Even their take on the Beatles is a little unsettling. ART rock, or no wave, or post punk or whatever it is you wanna call just call it odd. Someone called it an exploration of exotic music and rock. I guess that works too...

All i could come up with in my 2 second search of the webs is that Erik Lindgren seems to be the main cat in this odd mess and he runs the label this was put out on, Arf! Arf! records.

Erik Lindgren (15 December 1954) is an American composer and keyboards player. He runs Arf! Arf! Records, and has led (or been a member of) several ensembles such as The Moving Parts, The Space Negros, The Rising Storm, and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic.

Lindgren was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in December 1954.[1] He attended Northfield Mount Hermon School from 1969–1972, and received his BA in Music from Tufts University in 1976 where he worked with T. J. Anderson. In 1974–75 he spent his junior year abroad in London studying composition at the Guildhall School of Music with Alfred Nieman and piano with Birgette Wild. Lindgren received an MA in music composition and piano performance from the University of Iowa in 1977 where he studied with Donald Jenni, Richard Hervig and Peter Lewis.

As a contemporary classical composer, Lindgren has a catalog of over five dozen works, ranging from solo piano pieces to chamber music to orchestral works. He also owns Foot Foot Music BMI which publishes all of his original compositions. In 1978, Lindgren established Sounds Interesting Productions, a commercial recording studio and music production company based in Cambridge, MA.[1] In 1998, he relocated his facility to Middleborough, MA. National and regional credits include original scores for ABC, NBC CBS and PBS, Eastpak, Boston Globe, Basketball Hall Of Fame, Jordan Marsh, Polaroid, Prentice Hall and the Christmas Tree Shops. Lindgren also markets The Well-Tempered Music Library that consists of seven CDs of stock commercial music that he composed and produced.
Lindgren was a founding member of the new music ensemble Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic that Billboard Magazine described as “a mesmerizing venture into the space age jungle.” The quartet has toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada and held residencies at Dartmouth College, Emory University, Duke, UNCA and the Massachusetts College of Art. Birdsongs’ has recorded for the Rykodisc, Cuneiform and Ace of Hearts labels and released an album in 2005. Recently the group collaborated with Duplex Planet editor/National Public Radio correspondent David Greenberger on 1001 Real Apes.
The composer celebrated his 50th Birthday performing live, original works, at The Longy School of Music, Pickman Hall, Cambridge, MA (June 4, 2005).

For over twenty years, Lindgren has run the Arf! Arf! record label which has released five-dozen archival CDs documenting ’60s Garage/Psychedelic Rock and “Incredibly Strange Music.” Arf! Arf! issued four CD retrospectives by his ’80s experimental studio group The Space Negros. Lindgren has also produced over one hundred records for such diverse artists as Willie Loco Alexander, the Rising Storm, The Turbines, The Cynics, Magic Mose & his Royal Rockers, featuring 'Blind Sam,' Ed “Moose” Savage And His Litany Of Complaints, and harmonica virtuoso Richard Hunter.

The Space Negros - Back In The USSR
The Space Negros - Go To Hell

Tony March - Baked Bean Baby

Tony here is trying hard to rock here and it comes across a wee bit, but falls short of Buddy Holly or whoever it is he is trying to imitate. (Elvis?) It has its charm though.

File Under: Not quite Rockabilly.

Tony March - Baked Bean Baby

Danish Lost And Found - The First Cut Is The Deepest - No No No No

Some Pop Garage rock from Denmark. Pretty chill version of The First Cut... Looks like this was also put out on Barry records. Couldn't find much more.

Danish Lost And Found - The First Cut Is The Deepest

Danish Lost And Found - No No No No

The Devils Music - Devil Dick Punk & Hardcore Mix Vol. 12

Just a mix of some of the HC & Punk crap i've been listening to lately... like it or not.

The Devils Music - Devil Dick Punk & Hardcore Mix Vol. 12s

The Mojo Men - Dance With Me

Kooky garage dance number. Cool organ.

This San Francisco group was organized, in part, by Sly Stone of Sly & The Family Stone fame. In fact, this group was originally called Sly & the Mojo Men. This song was a minor nationwide hit in late 1965, but the group's follow-up ("Sit Down, I Think I Love You") did much better.

The Mojo Men - Dance With Me

Denny Provisor - It Really Tears Me Up

Denny was a one time member of The Grass Roots. Here he is in 1965 a few years earlier on his own with a tune that has a great gritty vocal and a few nice Byrds guitar parts. Too me it sounds a bit like a cross between The Byrds, Steppenwolf and the Monkees. Go Figure...

Denny Provisor - It Really Tears Me Up