This Train

The traditional gospel song redone by Wendy Bagwell and The Sunliters featuring Jesus as the locomotive.

 
Found at: Strattanpossum Bottom Feeder Vinyl and Cassettes

This kitty hates Johann Strauss II

nouvelle danse

A brand new blog dedicated to dance crazes music curated by legendary french vinyl records addicts: "a la piscine" and "rond carré".

http://nouvelledanse.blogspot.com



Let's begin with la yenka ... Yenka riketik






few years later ...

i dream i am ...

Ana Valentino / Ray McKinley And His Orchestra - on a tropical island

record envelope

A reference for vinyl geeks and graphic artists. Ms Kavel Rafferty's collection of company sleeves. http://crossedcombs.typepad.com/recordenvelope/

play that beat Mr. Raja #1

A little promotional here...

my friends from Cartilage Consortium (Paris) have made an incredible work digging out some selected oddities from the Tamil Film Industry (1984 - 1991) and released a compilation called "Play That Beat Mr. Raja #1" by Illaiyaraaja, Shankar Ganesh, Hamsalekha.
Vinyl only "s'il vous plait!", limited copies, great artwork by Moolinex, listen via Cartilage Records' bandcamp page.

Listen:

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Honest Jons

TWIGGY - GOOD FOR YOU TOO (1976) live TV performance

Debut LP 'Twiggy' on Mercury Records ©1976

Slowing It Down.

Diddy Wah has embarked on a fascinating series of posts of classic 45 rpm singles played at 33 rpm. Here's that beloved melancholy ballad, "Daydream Believer."

American Ingenuity - Part XII

My buddy, Chucky Neckman, had one of these bad boys back in the day. I think it worked for about a week before he got disgusted with the lack of a speed control mechanism and threw the contraption in the trash.




Link via:Dangerous Minds

Music for Lex's Offspring

It's such a challenge to try to find something more annoying that Lex 10's dancing baby post below, but by gorsh I'm gonna try!!!

A surfy version of Mammy's Little Baby Loves Shortnin Bread by The Astronauts surely qualifies....and see how nicely it goes with the dancing baby! Shake it, baby, shake, and in an age-inappropriate way!

Vintage LP Record Covers

Vintage LP Record Covers uploaded to Flickr by -=- G2 -=-.

Ralph Marterie 88 Strings

Thrift Store DJ shares Ralph Marterie 88 Strings.


Someone Who Reminds Me of You

A Vinyl Lover's Party.

I wonder what she's listening to?

[via Catalog of Visual Interestingness.]

La Farrah

I know a bunch of you are fans, and it's too exquisite, so here's a "song' by her via the energetic Franklin, Tennessee based Cranched For Now

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Mouth and McNeal

Yes, I might have mentioned them before: one of my favourite Dutch pop duo's from the seventies: a quick peek at the production process of their record company.



posted by beeld en geluid

The complete song Hello-A



Mouth & MacNeal was a pop duo from The Netherlands. They were formed in 1971 when producer Hans van Hemert brought together the solo talents of Big Mouth (born Willem Duyn, March 31, 1937) and Maggie MacNeal (born Sjoukje van't Spijker, May 5, 1950) together. Big Mouth had previously sung in a number of 1960's bands, including Speedway. In contrast, MacNeal had had an unsuccessful career as a solo artist.
The duo released their first single almost immediately. This first single, 'Hey You Love', reached #5 in the Dutch Top 40 while the next two singles 'How Do You Do' and 'Hello-A' both reached #1. In 1972 Mouth & MacNeal reached the top of the charts all over Europe, with their fame (especially in Germany) reaching almost hysterical proportions. "How Do You Do" was made popular in the United States by legendary radio personality Jim Connors. The song eventually reached #8 in the U.S. in July 1972. This propelled their 1972 US album How Do You Do into the Billboard 200 (US #77). More hit singles followed in 1973, and in 1974 Mouth & MacNeal represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest placing 3rd, behind ABBA and Gigliola Cinquetti with their song "I See a Star", which went on to be a #1 hit in Ireland.



In December 1974, shortly after their success with "I See a Star", Mouth and MacNeal suddenly parted ways. Big Mouth and his wife Ingrid Kup continued and formed the act Big Mouth & Little Eve, whereas Maggie MacNeal went back to solo performing.



"Big Mouth" Willem Duyn died from a heart attack in his hometown of Roswinkel on December 4, 2004 at the age of 67.

Like Beat Man

Skipper Bartlett has a record ... and a problem to share:

"Ok, so before you all go downloading this willy nilly, let me tell you a bit about it. I bought this album on ebay, the seller cautioned me that there was a lot of surface noise but he also posted pictures of the vinyl, and it looked pristine, so I figured, "meh, some record collectors are overly picky about sound quality, me, not so much. I'm mean it's a 50 year old record so I'm happy if it's listenable." So I got it for a steal. Problem is, half of the album is barely listenable. The vinyl looks beautiful so it must be a defect in the pressing, unless the club that it was recorded in was above a machine shop or something. The noise affects the first half of each side and then it peters off, I've tried to eliminate it using Audacity and Garageband but I'm no wizz with these programs and I can't seem to make it any better without removing much of the track itself. So I offer it up as is, in hopes that someone out there might be able to clean it up and share it back. ...."

Saroff and the Cool Ones - Like Beat Man, Live at "The Top Floor" featuring poetry readings by Pike Distahl.

The Spotnicks outfits

A scan from my collection, their records are quite easy to find on fleamarkets (in Europe i guess).
The band is still playing nowadays, mainly in Sweden, check their official website.


via atherdiscretion



Check the video in previous post by Andrew!
This is co-blogging!

New York, New York

Ernie (Not Bert) shares Harry Geller And His Orchestra - New York, New York.
The album is an epic, quite heavily (but lively), orchestrated tribute to NYC. The year was 1955. You can hear that. Nothing wrong with that. This was way before the pretentious conceptual albums of the 1970s. Thank god!
Beautiful gatefold sleeve as well!
Boomp3.com

Lex10's Hip Pocket Records

75% of 'em anyway.... we used to play them on my friend's stolen-from-school player, that had no automatic features, so it wouldn't reset if it got too close to the spindle, and a 5 lb. tonearm. Regular players couldn't handle 'em.