More New Finds!

-"All In The Family" T.V. soundtrack
-"In Harmony" [Comp. W/ Doobie Brothers, Dr. John, etc.]
-"Music To Live By" [Kitch Cover]
-"You Look Marvolus" [BIlly Crystal]
-Hark! The years! [comp. of spoken word pieces]

Also, a bunch of Cassettes, Including a French Billie Holiday tape!
Oh, and some Sci FI vintage paperbacks, sealed.

The All In The Family, has the theme song, along with other pieces the cast sing.

Recent Finds

Ok, I thought I would make a list of some recent vinyl [and cd's] :

"Wild Life" [Wings] [w/Promo sticker & Apple vinyl]
"Reflections of a Wicked World [Ogden Nash]
"Unsupervised" [Mono Puff-Rykodisc CD]
"American Political Songs 1800's-1994" [CD]
"The World of Shelly Berman [Shelly Berman]
"Pac-Man Fever [Bucks & Garcia]

I'm sure their's more, but I can't think of the titles off hand.

And Remember, the WFMU Record show is beyond the horizon. LP's, CD's, Cassettes, 8-Tracks, and lost of other lost mediums. Rock, Punk, No Wave, World, Folk, Rockabilly, Surf, New Wave, Indie and more! Go to wfmu.ord/recfair.

The Addicts! Sing!

Ok, I've shown you albums by Celebrities, Musicans, and The Mentally Insane, to name a few, but here is the strangest. The Addicts Sing was a bizarre concept from the start. 9 former Heroin Addicts + Musicial Ability [or lack of it] = A Hit Record [Or so they thought.] In terms of information about the group, they WERE nine former heroin addicts, who were released from jail, and decided to sings their tales of the life of a junkie. It was released in 1965, and the whereabouts of The Addicts are unknown. The back cover may have the weirdest part of all, an illustration of a hand about to inject a needle into themself. Strange, man, strange.

An Iconic Photograph relating to Outsider Music

So, I decided to pick an iconic photo for my topic. It is rather hard for my topic, becauce 99.9 percent of iconic Photos would not make sense here. So, I decided to pick an Album cover instead. "Satan is Real" by The Louvin Brothers is a true iconic weird album cover. The Red, glowing Devil in the background, and the posed brothers in the front, looking for Satan.



I like it, because It has a retro-cool-kitch-weird vibe to it. I mean, Would you doubt that this was made in the 1950's or 1960's. It is kind of a Legend among Religous record collectors & weird album art collectors. It's just cool, period.

Music For the Gifited

I found out about this Album on another blog actually, and it sounds like something that I would enjoy. The idea was conceved by Dr. Alan Melinger, and was recorded in mental health facilities in Colorado. To me, I would rather hear some raw, and unmixed music, then hear a song that has added vocals, and numerous overdubs, like much of popular music nowandays. The Doctor gets into the act, and records a couple songs. It would be great to find this LP, and hearing about it makes me glad that their are Thousands and Thousands of Home-made Religous recordings, Weird Rockabilly, Music recorded by Midgets, and other happy sounds

Note : [I could not get it picture, but the album cover is no Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.]

And Now, for something completly different :

The WFMU record fair is shortly approching! November 2, 3 & 4th in New York City. This is the fair to go to for VInyl, CD's, Tapes and Fragments of Pop Culture that you have most likely forgotten about. For more info go to www.wfmu.org/recfair.

Record Albums you will mostly likely see in Trash cans.

Whenever you walk into a Goodwill, or a Salvation Army, or any thrift store for that matter, their are certain records you will find :

#1: The First Family - This Spoof on John F. Kennedy and his family was made in 1962, and by mid-'63, it had sold over 7 Million copies. It even won a grammy for album of the year. After JFK was assassinated, sales plummeted, because nobody wanted to buy the LP, for obvious reasons. Before the tragedy, a second volume was released which is slightly harder to find [This means you might have to go to 10 Goodwills].

#2: Thriller - Yes, I'm talking about the album by Michael Jackson, back when he made music, and was not just a clue in the People magazine puzzle. I think that everybody must have bought this LP, and 1/2 of them donated them. I don't think that I could give this one away, really.

#3: Whipped cream and other delights - this record by Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass is more of an in-joke among record collectors, than it is an LP. Millions and Millions of these were pressed, and Millions and Millions were boughts, and Millions and Millions of these were donated. The LP itself is probley worth less than a penny.

Now, for one album you don't see to often [at least not me] :



#1: Orbit in Space - This comedy album, By Jose Jiminez, is Not rare, but just hard-to-find. The one copy I saw in a dollar bin in a record/book store, had the back covered with mold, which was sad.

Ok, a bonus record you don't see too often :

#5: Anything by Redd Foxx. His stuff is harder to find than buried treasure. I mean, it's not that hard, but I'm talking about finding his records for a buck or two, not 20.00.

The Odd Couple Sings!

Did you know the odd couple could sing ? Neither did I. This record is truly bizarre as it features two actors, who are trained singers, crooning away to songs. Why did this one not get to the top of the Billboard charts ? We'll never know. If I ever found this one in a thrift store, I would Definetly pay a buck for it.

Telly Savalas Vs. The Music World

Telly Savalas, Famous for Chomping down Lollypops, and saying "Who loves ya, baby", got into the celebrity/record idea, and recorded his versions of such songs as "You've Lost That Loving Feeling". When Telly was asked about his recent involvement in the music biz, he said [at the time] "I was asked to make a record". Many questions will probley never be answered, such as "Who Bought it" and "Why, Kojak, why ?".

Colonal Sanders, the musician

Everybody probely thinks that Crl. Sanders, the foudner of KFC [Kentucky Fried Chicken], made millions of dollars, because everybody bought his chicken, and his lived on a huge estate in the South. Wrong. The Crl. made very little money off KFC, because he sold the franchise in 1964. They just kept him as their spokesman because, I guess, He brings a Southern Hospitality-kind of feeling when you bought the chicken, I don't know. So, he released a couple albums of Cajun & Folk recordings in the 1960's, before he died on December 16th, 1980 of Leukemia. I don't believe his recordings are avalible, and I am sure KFC has no plans to re-issue them, after all KFC is not a record label, it's a fast-food restaurant.

James Chance

James Chance is a brillant, yet still underground musician. Starting in the No Wave scene of NYC, James was a combo of James Brown, and Ornette Coleman. His songs were very punk, but also very jazz at the same time. Combine this w/ Fancy Footwork, and a Underground legend is created. His early lp's with his backup band "The Contortions" have classics like "Contort Yourself" and "I Can't Stand Myself". Never gaining a huge fanbase in the US, he still records and is very popular in Europe, where he peforms on occasion