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Record Album Sharity Round-Up

Basic Hip offers the marvelous Michel Legrand: Michel Legrand Plays For Dancers

Kiddie Records Weekly continues to deliver the coolest retro-fun on the 'net with this weeks selection - Woody Woodpecker and his Talent Show

Hepcat Willy has Man on the Moon, the flight of Apollo 11

Another great dustbin find.
(From the liner notes) "The successful flight of Apollo 11 has brought honor to the astronauts, to the U.S., and to all of mankind. Yet it cost the people of the United States 24 billion dollars. And it cost the country the lives of three of its finest men, Astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Edward White, who were killed in a tragic training accident. This record, then, is dedicated to all those who have worked so long and so hard to help turn man's age-old dream of setting foot on the moon into reality, and is issued in commemoration of the flight of Apollo 11."

Sweet Thunder offers

Beatles Sing Along/ Radio 1980 (4.16)
Nervous Breakdown of Hanna Barbera (9.05)
Here are some more Beatles sing alongs and a screwed up kids record collage from the Ken Sims collection.

Mister Swank thows a punky curve with This Is Phoenix, Not The Circle Jerks...

We're going to switch lanes here real quick and delve into an album that helped form the soundtrack of my high-school life back in the early 80's. There was some buzz on the Exotica list about early-80's punk awhile back, so I figure this is fair game - sure, it ain't TSOL or Shattered Faith, but this is the punk rock of my youth as a bored kid with a new driver's license, and it's what I loved.

And the ever extraordinary Record Brother has Rush to Judgement...

  "This spoken word offering  might be the First Lp voicing dissent from the Conclusion of The Warren Commission."

 

His Girl Friday At Cinematical

Link: Cinematical.

More and more films are falling out of copyright and into the public domain. I'm going to watch them all on the internet, and then I am going to tell you about them.

 

His Girl Friday has never been my favorite of the five or six masterpiece comedies Cary Grant made from about 1937 to around 1942 - it doesn't have the class-clash dynamics of Bringing up Baby, or the just-barely-repressed post-Code chemical sexiness of The Awful Truth - but still, it's one of those sex-and-pizza things, where even when it's not quite as good as it could be, it's still pretty damn great.

Bitty Browser embedded mini-browser

Bitty Browser embedded mini-browser

So cool, I originally had one in the previous post but the site design  made it look lousy and the RSS feed version didn't include the enclosure links so I 86'd it. Even in the example below I had to make the browser extra tall just so you could tell there was a site there to browse. This isn't Bitty browser's fault,  obviously, the Mystifyingly Glad site isn't designed for small screens. The Bitty Browser site shows a number of fine examples of sites that are very usable in the embedded format.

Mystifyingly Glad Show 7

Link: Mystifyingly Glad.

Mystifyingly Glad #7

Playlist:
Come Back And Shake Me ... Codagh Rogers
Mr. Hitmaker Man ... Sandy Kannon
Ah La ... Fighter Squadron
Hollywood ... Skyband
Carnival Time ... The Hardy Boys
Do You Like Boys ... Starbuck

tomorrow's transportation...

Link: tomorrow's transportation, future urban transportation systems,automated transportation.
via Incoming Signals

From buses on demand to personal scale mass transit this is what the future looked like in 1968...

Dracula Blogged

Link: Dracula Blogged.
via Incoming Signals

Bram Stoker's dated vampire masterpiece in blog format.

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse Film Site

Link: THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN'S APOCALYPSE

Coming soon to help wash that nasty HHGttG taste from your mouth...

Why Fidelity: Why Fidelity Podcast #5

Link: Why Fidelity: Why Fidelity Podcast #5.

Playlist:

• Dripsody ... Hugh Le Caine
• The Addam's Family Theme ... Dick Dia
• Tonko Bushi ... Aiko Bingo & Harold Sasahara
• Franklin & Cherry ... Russ Meyer
• I Believe ... The Foxymorons
• Of Angels and Angles ... The Decemberists
  
• Such A Sound ... Birdie
• AM Slow Golden Hit ... Hotel Lights
• Whipped Cream and Other Delights ... Album of the Week
  
• Where's Me Shirt ... Ken Dodd
  

Phyllis Arick at Pastor McPurvis' Weekly mp3 Talent Show

Link: Pastor McPurvis' Weekly mp3 Talent Show.

"Up this week we present some fun on the ‘High C’s’ (get it?) with cruise ship entertainer extraordinaire Phyllis Arick. Looks like Ms. Arick was a staple of the now defunct Commodore Cruise Line, singing on their ship the Bolero in the early seventies. Backed by an ‘orchestra’ of piano, trumpet, and drum set, Ms. Arick belts out your standard lounge fare for an appreciative audience of cruisers. Her voice sounds like it would be more at home on the stage rather than a club and she has a seriously wide vibrato that at times threatens to send the listener into epileptic fits..."

Roper: The Collected Short Stories PDF at The Cartoonist

Link: The Cartoonist.

50 Short Stories of the Week. The collected adventures of the Roper are now available as a virtual book, free of charge. Which means you don't have to pay for it. Free, as in "Free Beer". And it's the illustrated edition - have you ever wondered what Hercule Parrott might look like?

Moira at Hepcat Willy

Link: Exotica & space age pop.

The Hepster keeps the sweet sides coming with this obscuro gem...

Moira

The album starts off slow, but builds up speed by Maestro S.V.P., and simply kicks Quebecois butt thereafter. This is great 60's romantic pop with a French-Italian flair. Too bad there's so little of it available.

Little Gnawman at Kiddie Records Weekly

Link: Kiddie Records Weekly.

Little Gnawman

Description:

Our research on Dr. George Rockwell turned up little information other than he was a comedian.  He wrote and narrates this cute but otherwise lackluster story about a family of mice with different colored tails.

Martin Denny at Basic Hip Digital Oddio

Link: Basic Hip Digital Oddio.

A Moog classic at Basic Hip...

Exotic Moog

Martin Denny

J.R.R. Tolkien at RecordBrother: Vinyl Sharity

Link: RecordBrother: Vinyl Sharity.

"...it's J.R.R. Tolkien reading and Singing his Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers/The Return of the King it's a magnificent piece of audio and was recorded before the books publication.On this Lp Prof. Tolkien reads from his notes for the books as well as sings and chants verses of prose in elfish!, read the books in High School but I'm not a big LOTR fan boy by any stretch yet this recording always amazes me."

Billy Vaughn at Hepcat Willy's

Link: Exotica & space age pop.

Sukiyaka & 11 Hawaiian Hits, Billy Vaughn

This album makes a great backdrop for a late night, scorpion bowl swilling, blind-drunk episode at your local tiki bar. Somehow I feel it's a wonderful soundtrack for madness, like smashing a 100 gallon aquarium or setting fire to your yacht during a party at sea.

calendarlive.com: Upfront and center

Link: calendarlive.com: Upfront and center.

T'riff' coverage of the Network Upfronts. Smart, funny, good stuff....

Seeing Dead People: So here's how CBS' new "Ghost Whisperer" is like "Medium." Jennifer Love Hewitt sees ghosts of dead people even on her wedding day. She helps them reunite with loved ones with whom they have unfinished business. She has bad dreams and her hubby is very comforting.

Here's how it's different: She wears sexy clothes and nice lingerie with lots of cleavage. Sources tell us that the cleavage tested very well with young men. At this morning's press briefing, Moonves emphasized that his show was in development before "Medium."

But still. "Love," as her friends call her, appeared on stage in a red-hot baby doll dress.

Midweek bonus cuts at Why Fidelity

Link: Why Fidelity.

I've added a midweek bonus song to Why Fidelity. The songs will usually be additional tracks from artists featured on the podcast as well as encores of popular songs from older shows.

Here's a track from Ramses Shaffy, who we featured way back in Why Fidelity Show #1.

If you liked "Assemaleistos" I'm sure you'll love "Maya".

Mylene Farmer at THE TOFU HUT

Link: THE TOFU HUT.

Fantabuloso post on French pop starlet Mylene Farmer. Years ago i picked up one of her albums (on casette - that's how many years ago it was) from the import section at the Lincoln Center Tower Records on a whim. She reminded me a bit of Kate Bush at the time, though later albums I picked up through Amazon's french outpost  veered closer to a Madonna wannabe vibe... cool and sexy stuff all the same. Lots of good info and downloads at Le Hut.

Pastor McPurvis' Weekly mp3 Talent Show

Link: Pastor McPurvis' Weekly mp3 Talent Show.

Up this week is Don Mimmo - poet, musician, and Italian.  ... The arrangements are very good (although not penned by Mr. Mimmo), his singing voice is smarmy but competent, and his lyrics often times venture off into the surreal. He even makes a political statement of sorts in the song ‘In or Out’ where he implores women not to join the Women’s Liberation Movement because, “they will teach you how to hate, and live without a man!”. Some people need drugs to get high, Pastor McPurvis needs Don Mimmo. Have fun listening and as always, Enjoy!

XTABAY'S LOUNGE WORLD: New Download Duke of Burlington

Link: XTABAY'S LOUNGE WORLD: New Download Duke of Burlington.

"Sounds like a really good library record - groovin' instrumentals that work across different genres. There's a lot of cool, exotica-flavored music on here - "Indian Fig", "Black Panther", "Vibrating Harp" - you get the idea. While there's nothing as slam-happy as "Jungle Duke" or "Hammer Strokes" on the rest of the LP, "Sensorial" stands out for its strong rhythm section and funky vibe."

Motorcycle Music Mayhem at Record Brother

Lots of rip roaring action with..

Motorcycle Scramble (Motorcycle Music and SoundsThe Scramblers)
Motorcycles U.S.A. (The Hornets)

iowahawk: Newsweek Lutefisk Story Sparks Fury Across Volatile Midwest

Link: iowahawk: Newsweek Lutefisk Story Sparks Fury Across Volatile Midwest.

Decorah, IA - The debris-strewn streets of this remote Midwestern hamlet remain under a tense 24-hour curfew tonight, following weekend demonstrations by rock- and figurine-throwing Lutheran farm wives that left over 200 people injured and leveled the Whippy Dip dairy freeze. The rioting appeared to be prompted, in part, by a report in Newsweek magazine claiming military guards at Spirit Lake’s notorious Okoboji internment center had flushed lutefisk down prison toilets. Newsweek’s late announcement of a retraction seems to have done little to quell the inflamed passions of Lutheran insurgents in the region, as outbreaks of violent mailbox bashings and cow tippings have been reported from Bowbells, North Dakota to Pekin, Illinois.

Hopalong Cassidy at Kiddie Records Weekly

Link: Kiddie Records Weekly.

Another gem - this one comes with a storybook as well...

Hopalong Cassidy and the Singing Bandit

Rudy Rosa at Basic Hip Digital Oddio

Link: Basic Hip Digital Oddio.

A new share up at Basic Hip -

Computerized, Synthesized, Organized
Rudy Rosa
Custom Organ Services, Unlimited 60742 Stereo

tinfoil.com - Cylinder of the Month

Link: tinfoil.com - Cylinder of the Month.

One-of-a-kind souvenir records: one from the 1905 Lewis & Clark Exposition and one from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Old Time Music from 78s at Honking Duck

Link: Listen to Old Time Music from 78s.

This site contains 701 recordings of 78 rpm records in Realaudio format. The music is early country music, string bands, dance calls, sacred harp, skits, ballads, popular songs, etc. The recordings were made in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.

pixiesdiscs.com

Link: pixiesdiscs.com.

Another Pixies tour , another batch of super nifty limited edition CDs... they've got a freebie with pre-order deal going as well plus a new tee only avavilable to Pixiesdisc customers. This so rocks...

Own the night with limited-edition recordings of the Pixies 2005 US Tour. Each double-disc comes in custom packaging and will be individually numbered and include pix, a track-list and notes from the specific show recorded. These are not CD-R’s, but real, professionally mastered, silver-plated, pressed CDs.

MP3 Blog Megalist at THE TOFU HUT

Link: THE TOFU HUT.

Exhaustive list of MP3/Audio blogs broken down into broad catagories... Wow!

SURFMANIA

Link: SURFMANIA.

Rare and wonderful surf sounds....

Mystifyingly Glad: Mystifyingly Glad - Show 6

Link: Mystifyingly Glad: Mystifyingly Glad - Show 6.

• Kites are Fun ... Enoch Light
• There's Got to be a Word ... The Innocence
• Sleepy Hollow People ... Paper Fortress
• The La La Song ... Lt. Garcia's Magic Music Box
• Juliet ... Ola and the Jangers

Radio Memories Podcast

Link: Radio Memories Podcast.

Wonderful new OTR podcast....

Dansen in de lente at splusp!

Link: splusp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

" 'Dansen in de lente' (Dancing in spring) has become a recording which invites you spontaneously to put aside your table and chairs and to choose your partner for a nice dance. Eddie Warner and his orchestra take care of the music, assisted by The Nelson Boys" in a very special spontaneous way. They use their voices as an addition to the orchestra. They don't use words as most vocal groups do, but use their voices as instruments ..."

Why Fidelity 4

Link: Why Fidelity.

Why Fidelity Show # 4

Featuring tracks from Speed Limit & The Rhythm Machines, Sid Laverents,  Ergo Phizmiz and His Orchestra, David Fridlund, Martin Denny, Francis Lai, The Tony Hatch Sound, and The Texas Chainsaw Orchestra. Monty Python's Spamalot is the Album of the Week.

BBC ON THIS DAY

Link: BBC ON THIS DAY | Front Page.
via Cynical-C Blog  via Bibi's Box

WW II - European Landmarks and Memorials of World War 2 in Fullscreen QTVR 360 degree Panoramas

Link: WW II - European Landmarks and Memorials of World War 2 in Fullscreen QTVR 360 degree Panoramas.

1971 Peace Calendar

Takin' it to "the Man" one appointment at a time!

Selections from the 1971 War Resisters League Appointment Calendar. The theme was "When the Mode of the Music Changes" and the calendar featured song lyrics, poems and quotes from the likes of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Dylan, The Jefferson Airplane, Pete Seeger, Steppenwolf and many others.

I've scanned only those pages that contained illustrations and am making no political statement of any kind - I offer these as extracts from a cultural artifact, make of them what you will...

14 Images at Flickr...

Video Killed the Super 8 Star

Fascinating article from the April 1970 issue of Films in Review discussing the effect a pair of proposed "home entertainment" systems would have on the 8 and 16 millimeter projection market.  Much like the resistance to Laser from VHS enthusiasts and DVD from Laser buffs there was quite a bit of skepticism and hand wringing from home projectionists at the time... Two scanned pages available at Flickr...

Spring cleaning: 1940 Playbill forThe Male Animal (Some Vintage Ads)

Another beaten, battered and bruised Playbill from 1940 - it's failry well chopped up but a few vintage ads remain... 19 new images up at Flickr

The New Exotic Sounds at Vegas Vic's

Link: Vegas Vic's Download of the Month.

The New Exotic Sounds : Various Artists
Capitol Records SL-6567 Stereo

Zenith exotica compliation, released to commemorate their 50th anniversary. Enjoy - Vic

Great compilation featuring tracks from the likes of Les Baxter, Alvino Rey, Nelson Riddle and George Shearing.

Shock Music at Basic Hip Digital Oddio

Link: Basic Hip Digital Oddio.

An all time oddio classic available now at Basic Hip....

Shock Music In Hi-Fi :The Creed Taylor Orchestra

Compositions by Kenyon Hopkins

Plus you can vote for next week's download. The Anita Kerr album is magnificent but, since I already have it, my vote will go to Rocky the Flying Squirrel and his Friends

The Korn Kobblers at Kiddie Records Weekly

Link: Kiddie Records Weekly.

Krazy Kool kontent at Kiddie Records Weekly...

The Korn Kobblers play a Kiddie Korncert

On a par with Spike Jones and The Hoosier Hot Shots, The Korn Kobblers were a nonsensical novelty band popular in the 1940s.  Using their arsenal of horns, whistles, jaw harps, washboards and jugs, the six madcap members (which include space age pop musicmaker Marty Gold) perform a variety of kid's favorites.  It's a heaping helping of good old-fashioned fun!

Harry Potter & Narnia Trailers

My daughter, a huge fan of both the Potter and Narnia series, insisted that I post these trailer links...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Apple)

The Chronicles of Narnia (Moviefone)

Spring cleaning: 1940 Playbill for Walk With Music (Some Vintage Ads)

I'm going to start scanning random ephemera I find as I do a bit of spring cleaning. First up a few pages from a Playbill for the 1940 production of Walk With Music starring Kitty Carlisle, Mitzi Green and Frances Williams. Music by Hoagy Carmichael. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

Whoever originally had this Playbill cut out a bunch of pages, usually the vintage ads are mssing when i find a carved up mag. but this time many ads reamain. The Playbill is in rough shape, as you'll see, with staining and tears and all sorts of damage.Oh well...There are 15 images in all over at Flickr... I'll try and get another 1940 Playbill up by tonight.

working title

Link: working title.(QT movie)

Look up "too much time on their hands" in the dictionary and you'll be magically whisked to this presentation of the title screens from  over 3,000 films. This is one of those cool/not so cool things the Net does so well. It's a cool idea, there are lots of cool title frames from lots of cool movies but they fly by at tweaker speed and the soundtrack is fairly difficult listening (I hit mute pretty quickly).

Little Sparrow And His Singing Steel Pan at Mister Swank's

Link: Album Of The Moment.

Little Sparrow And His Singing Steel Pan

Angel, Angel Down We Go OST at RecordBrother

Link: RecordBrother: Vinyl Sharity.

Angel, Angel Down We Go...

If you've never seen this Film Also titled "Cult Of The Damned" stay up late and catch it, if ya can't wait till it shows up on TV you can peep a cut from it over at Cookie's place aka Bedazzled the Music is awesome! Dialog   Music = Eargasm yo! this has been on my top 100 for years, a few of these sonic morsels found there way on to the Biker Mix. Enjoy!

Gojira69's Ephemeral Treasures: "Blues in the Night"

Link: Gojira69's Ephemeral Treasures: "Blues in the Night".

Gojira69 shares Morton Gould's Blues in the Night.

From the Liner Notes...

The fantasies, which, Mr. Gould remarks, develop from the periphery of the blues, are improvisatory in feeling but written down on score paper as precisely as if they were a four-movement symphony in G-flat minor, in which key none of these is—or many symphonies, for that matter.

Even the electronic devices and techniques are part of the scores which Mr. Gould has prepared. This, then, is an amalgamation of individual inspiration and electric wizardry, but the free-jazz factor underlies Mr. Gould's writing. It does so because many of these men, who are experienced and resourceful in playing the symphonic repertory, are accomplished jazz artists also. They can bring to the performance of music on paper not only the surety of expert symphonic readers and stylists, but the necessary waywardness of the popular improviser. They can "play strict and keep loose," as the early-nineteenth-century conductors used to say to their bands, if this has been reduced to English correctly. The result is quite personal, both as to Mr. Gould's settings and interpretations and as to your reaction. Some of the compositions will have special associations, perhaps mnemonic twinges that recall some blues moments of your own. Others will be simply a few minutes of brilliant sound—and is that a misfortune?

Why Fidelity: Why Fidelity Podcast #3

Link: Why Fidelity: Why Fidelity Podcast #3.

Eclectic podcast featuring cuts from Jeff Wayne, Alex Keack, The Giallos Flame, Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band, Decastro & Badillo and The Camberwell Now (among others).

Zombie Astronaut

Link: Zombie Astronaut
via M Valdemar

Superb zine chock full of neat audio goodies...Highlights include sonically enhanced articles on Disney's The Black Hole, three adaptations of Stoker's The Judge's House, Blaxplotation trailers and more t'riffic genre audio than you can shake a bloody, flesh encrusted stick at. Essential!

Top 100 Coolest Pop Culture Vehicles at retroCRUSH

Link: retroCRUSH: The World's Finest Pop Culture Site.

A new countdown at retroCRUSH | Top 100 Coolest Pop Culture Vehicles. Starting things off is the Green Hornet's Black Beauty.