MR. JAWS/IRV'S THEME

by Dickie Goodman


CASH RECORDS
CR 451
1975
MONO


Bill Ramal Music BMI (PVT 1085 & 1086)

PRODUCED BY BILL RAMAL & DICKIE GOODMAN


Click pictures to enlarge

SIDE A:



MR. JAWS 2:03 (B. Ramal-D. Goodman)

downoad



SIDE B:



IRV'S THEME 2:15 (D. Goodman-B.Ramal)

download

Editor's note: Dickie Goodman is the first known recording artist to sample other songs within a piece of original work. By our standards these records sound rather cut and pasted though for the time they were very innovative. His first record, "The Flying Saucer,"...co-written with partner Bill Buchanan, and featured a description of a news-covered invasion of earth from a Martian space ship. While Goodman asked questions of pedestrians, scientists, and even the Martian himself, their responses were 'snipped' from lyrics of popular songs of the day, including tracks from Fats Domino, Elvis Presley and Little Richard." got him into legal trouble. He was sued by the various record companies for copyright infringement. A judge ruled in Goodman's favor citing that the "break-in" records were parodies and burlesques and not plagiarism. The matter was later settled outside of court.

Mr. Jaws, an obvious parody of the movie Jaws, went to #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The B-side, "Irv's Theme", according to Wikipedia is "the same as 'Herb's Theme'. Someone probably mis-heard the title before printing the label for one or the other. Dickie came up with the name for this label when someone asked who to make a check out to."

Sadly, Goodman died in 1989 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. For more on his life and work check out this article.

JOHNNY AND GERALD AND THE GEORGIA MOUNTAIN BOYS SING GOSPEL SONGS

by Johnny and Gerald and the Georgia Mountain Boys


ATTEIRAM RECORDS
V-1126
1973
STEREO





SIDE A:



MY LORD'S GONNA SET ME FREE
SING UNTO HIM
WHAT A FRIEND
WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN
COMING HOME
WHERE THE SOUL NEVER DIES

download


SIDE B:



LITTLE COMMUNITY CHURCH HOUSE
PRAYER BELLS OF HEAVEN
WINGS OF ANGELS
I LIKE TO HEAR THEM PREACH IT
I SAW THE LIGHT
AMAZING GRACE

download



Editor's note: now that's the gospel! Bluegrass and strumming along singing the Lord's praise and prayers. A few of these guys are still playing in organized bands and the others could just as well be for all I know. Listen and enjoy because next Sunday you're getting a stern warning from Mr. Van Impe. You've been warned!

MY CARIBBEAN VACATION

by Various Artists


MELODY RECORDS
LPB-001
1950s?




SIDE A:



CALYPSO POT-POURRI
LET'S VACILATE
COMO GOLONDRINA (AS A SWALLOW)
HERNANDO'S HIDEAWAY
QUIMERA (WILD FANCY)
JAMAQUEATE (SWING IT)

download


SIDE B:



HOJAS MUERTAS (AUTUMN LEAVES)
UN BORICUA MERENGUERO (A PUERTO RICAN MERENGUE DANCER)
GULIVER
MAMBO LINDO
YUYO VERDE (GREEN SHRUB)
MI PIANO CANTA PARA TI (MY PIANO SINGS FOR YOU)

download



Editor's note: this one is pretty hit or miss. Some tracks are very good (JAMAQUEATE & HOJAS MUERTAS) but most are just your garden variety island music mostly played in a lounge style. I don't really know what else to say about it other than that. Oh yeah, the last track sounds a little Ricky Ricardo-ish if that makes it any more enchanting for you all.

SUNSHINE ON THE ROCKS

by Gary Dean Growden


LITTLE NASHVILLE RECORDS
LN 214
1977
STEREO





SIDE A:



Gonna Have a Baby 3:38
Artificial Homes 3:00
It All Came So Suddenly 3:42
The Better Side of Me 3:35
This I Call Home 3:10

download


SIDE B:



Sunshine on the Rocks 3:00
Gitchy Goomy 3:40
Such a Little Girl 3:28
There's No Place Like Home 3:31
My Sweet Goodby 2:50

download



Editor's note: this is a brilliant folk rock album. I don't know where this dude came from or went to but this a great testimony for a life's passion as music surely is with him. I did do a google search on his name and found a court case vs. the US gov't so maybe he's off fighting the man. I couldn't tell you but the man can't stop this record. I hope.

LONELY HARPSICHORD: RAINY NIGHT IN SHANGRI-LA

by Jonathan Knight


DOT RECORDS
V36011
STEREO


SIDE A:



SHANGRI-LA 2:15
STRANGER ON THE SHORE 2:30
CAST YOUR FATE TO THE WIND 1:56
PAGAN LOVE SONG 2:18
YELLOW BIRD 2:11
QUIET VILLAGE 3:05

download


SIDE B:



FLAMINGO 2:20
BALI HA'I 2:55
TIKI WATERFALL 2:00
DREAM THEME 2:10
MIDNIGHT HIDEAWAY 2:20
SOFT SANDS 1:50

download



Editor's note: this album is all wrong! Side two is the harpsichord side while side one dabbles in it but the overall tone on it is banal piano music played on a harpsichord. I'm sure the brain trust behind it thought that there should be a gradual build up alongside the rainstorm ambiance but by the time the torrent arrives the girl on the front cover sucking her finger is eating ice cream and watching Dark Shadows,the mood having passed her by.

VICES

by Kick Axe


PASHA RECORDS
BFZ 39297
1984
STEREO





SIDE A:



Heavy Metal Shuffle
Vices
Stay on Top
Dreamin' About You
Maneater

download


SIDE B:



On the Road to Rock
Cause for Alarm
Alive & Kickin'
All the Right Moves
Just Passin' Through

download



Editor's note: this ill-fated Pasha outfit from Canada probably never really had a chance to be what they wanted to be. I say this because another band on the Pasha label, Rhythm Corps, was a Detroit act that had their songs butchered by the meat-cutters there at the record company. I was privy to knowing a band member and heard many of the band's demos and they blew away the final product. Not only that but the songs left off the records were often times obvious cuts that should have made it. Anyhow, I'm sure these guys like most other bands were dealt this dictatatorial hand and folded because of it. Which is why I stick with records nowadays and will never buy another CD again (until my daughter asks for them when she gets older :)).

INSTANT REPLAY (TWO SIDES OF FOOTBALL)

by Tom Patchett & Jay Tarses


DECCA RECORDS
75300
1971
STEREO





SIDE A:



SUNDAY MORNING (1:54)
GETTING SEATED (:58)
"RED" KNECKMAN INTERVIEW (1:20)
IN THE BOOTH (3:48)
HOWARD HARDSELL (1:29)
OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM (:24)
CAPTAINS AND OFFICIALS (2:45)
PRE-GAME PRESENTATION (3:51)
COMMERCIAL (2:40)
IN THE HUDDLE (1:19)
IN THE MEN'S ROOM (1:44)

download


SIDE B:



THE HALFTIME SHOW (5:03)
COACH AND THE BENCH (4:05)
HOWARD HARDSELL II (4:05)
THE WRAP-UP (1:22)
IN THE LOCKER ROOM (4:12)
COACH AT BEDTIME (2:20)
RUN FOR DAYLIGHT - Song (3:15)

download



Editor's note: a football comedy album! Hell, here in Detroit football is a comedy of errors. No joke. But in honor of the start of the exhibition season here you go. Outside of the half dozen or so skips on the first side there are bad football-related jokes, racist sketches and lots of canned laughter. All perfect ingredients for a late-night World's Funniest Videos episode. There are a few laughs in here but you have to listen all the way through to catch them. Bring your stick-em because you'll need it.

REFLECTIONS (For Grandmother)

by Pat D'Aguanno


MUSICARD SALES/EVA TONE
1976
STEREO


SIDE A:



download


Editor's note: and you thought your mp3 birthday card you gave your chica was cool with a K! How about a flexi 45 record then, dude? Talk about dedication to receiving a present. Not only did you have to open up the turn table but then you had to sit through a generic greeting given to other grandmothers as well. Yet, I still like the concept. If I could get enough money saved for a frivolity I think I might press 500 records of my little girl just being herself. How cute would that be?

IT'LL BE WORTH EVERY MILE OF THE TRIP

by The Burns Trio


MASTERTONE RECORDS
BT-5368
Circa 1976
STEREO


SIDE A:



IT'LL BE WORTH EVERY MILE OF THE TRIP
HE'LL BE THERE TO SEE ME THRU 2:50
I'M SO GLAD HE FOUND ME 2:51
HE'LL WIPE AWAY THE TEARS 2:16
JESUS WILL GUIDE ME 2:15
O, WHAT A SAVIOR IS MINE 3:45

download


SIDE B:



WHILE AGES ROLL 2:12
BRING YOUR BURDENS 2:37
I KNOW I'M SAVED 1:57
MEDLEY ABOUT HEAVEN 3:45
BETTER FARTHER ON 3:11
O, WHAT A DAY 2:22

download



Editor's note: these grand gals sure could belt out the gospel for Jesus. As of 2002 some form of The Burns Trio was still performing according to this church bulletin. I don't know if it was the same line up shown on the LP cover or a second generation kind of deal but if it was the original then these grand gals must be grand grand grand gals by now.

A side note to my scant research on this record: Rev. Ralph Sexton, Sr., pictured with the gals, was known as a fiery public preacher and apparently in his early 20s he published a book called "Church Asses" which is up for sale on eBay. It's only $2.50! They were some of his favorite "clean" singers so maybe you can make him one of your "grittier" preachers.

LITTLE POLISH GIRL

with the Syl Rutkoski Orchestra


RIDGE RECORDS
LP 1002
1968
STEREO


SIDE A:



HE LIKES THE GIRLIES
LILLIAN
CASCADE
TATUSIU
I'M A DOCTOR
SILK HANDKERCHIEF

download


SIDE B:



FRANCES
HAPPY DAY
GREEN GRASS
DOUBLECROSS
LITTLE POLISH GIRL
YOUNG and GAY

download



Editor's note: this album is a bit of a misnomer as it should be called The Syl Rutkowski Orchestra with Token Appearances by the Little Polish Girl because she hardly sings on it! The one time she does on SIDE A it's a wedding song and she's singing as a 19 year old girl who is about to be hitched. Ummm, yeah...a little creepy to package it this way. That and the first song is called HE LIKES THE GIRLIES and is sung by some guy with a hormonal swagger. Which is all fine and dandy but not on an album called LITTLE POLISH GIRL! No no...I'm not suggesting anything is afoot just that it's a bit bizarre. Anyhow, a pretty snappy polka LP but it would have been better if the little girl were the actual star and could actually be heard when she sang and not so much good old Syl despite his obvious genius for polka. I mean, polka's polka but add a dog, a little kid or a banjo and it's polkalicious. Now who sounds like the weirdo, huh?!?!

TIM HAZEL

by Tim Hazel w/ Brush Creek


CORONATION RECORDS
RFL-1104
Circa early 1970s
STEREO



SIDE A:



North to Alaska
Jet Plane
Johnny B. Goode
Sunday Morning Coming Down

download


SIDE B:



Green Grass of Home
Cracklin Rosie
Singing the Blues
Everybody's Talking
El Paso

download


Editor's note: with a blank back cover and only a newspaper clipping to surmise from after Google came up with no specific search results, I can only guess that Mr. Hazel was a local Detroiter active on the bar scene as a cover artist. I think the newspaper article refers to his supporting band as Brush Creek but I can't be sure since it is a little tattered at the end where the pertinent information is. Anyhow, his band mates were: Charlie Jakubowski, Marcia Clum and Duane Wiggs. Maybe one of them will do a search and find this and spill the beans about the whole Tim Hazel experience.

SYLVIA

by Sylvia


VIBRATION RECORDS
VI-129
1976
STEREO


SIDE A:



L.A. Sunshine
You Sure Love To Ball
He Don't Ever Lose His Groove
Next Time That I See You

download




SIDE B:



Sweet Stuff
Taxi
Mr. Bartender
Standing at the End

download



Editor's note: haha, somebody's frisky aren't they. A song called "You Sure Love To Ball"; a man-slave on the ground begging for Sylvia's touch; golden, sparkling adornments and all the colors of hell make this one sultry LP. She wants you! You know you want her too.

JOY

by Apollo 100 featuring Tom Parker


MEGA RECORDS
M31-1010
1972
STEREO


Lord Kenneth Clark, of "Civilization" fame, said of Johann Sebastian Bach: "He is the spectator of all musical time and existence, to whom it is not of the smallest importance whether a thing be new or old, so long as it is true."

This most listenable Apollo 100 album owes much to the group's hit, "Joy," written by J. S. Bach as "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring."

Careful research suggests this is what Bach himself might say of Apollo 100:

"Here are some accomplished British musicians respecting the actual music, but tastefully innovating, as with sax and vibes on my 'Air for the G String' and organ, harpsichord, and brass on my 'Joy.' Tom Parker also beautifully arranges works by Mendelssohn, Grieg, Saint-Saens, and Leroy Anderson, as well as material by himself and other contemporary composers, as in the soaring 'Reach for the Sky.' This is made possible as an album by Mega, which means million; and I doubt not that there will be 1,000,000 sales.

"Considering everything here, I remember I once said: 'The aim of final reason of all music should be none else than the Glory of God and the recreation of the mind.'"

--J. S. Bach


Thank you for everything, Mr. Bach!


A YOUNGBLOOD PRODUCTION
PRODUCED BY MIKI DALLON

By arrangement With Tara International

Liner Notes By Jesse Burt, Ph. D.

PRINTED IN U.S.A. MEGA RECORDS & TAPES, INC., NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

ART DIRECTION: HERB BURNETTE; PHOTOS: JOHN DONEGAN; PINWHEEL STUDIOS; NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE


MEGA STEREO RECORDS may be played on any present day phonograph equipped with a lightweight tone arm. You will hear excellent sound reproduction on a monoaural player and full stereo sound on a stereophonic player. Caution: This or any stereo record should not be played with a worn or damaged needle as it will result in permanent damage to the record.





SIDE: A



JOY (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring)(ASCAP) 2:44
MAD MOUNTAIN KING(Hall of the Mountain King)(ASCAP) 2:10
MENDELSSOHN'S 4TH (First Movement)(ASCAP) 2:32
LIBIDO (ASCAP) 2:36
JAZZ PIZZICATO (ASCAP) 1:39
TAMARA (BMI) 2:27

download


SIDE B:



REACH FOR THE SKY (ASCAP) 2:31
EVIL MIDNIGHT (Danse Macabre)(BMI) 2:22
AIR FOR THE G STRING (ASCAP) 3:41
EXERCISE IN A MINOR (BMI) 2:43
CLASSICAL WIND (ASCAP) 2:21

download



Editor's note: in my uneducated opinion, jazz has always been the classical music drop-out genre. Not that many or most jazz musicians couldn't have been classical players but they chose to bud the seedier side of the garden instead. Seeing as classical music is the only true music, I tend to classify all other music as elemental fringe. Perhaps good but never the greatness of the masters. This is a pretty good record nonetheless. A nice companion piece to chocolate pudding and Pilsner Urquell on a sunny springtime Sunday afternoon.

PS...who is this Tom Parker chap? There's only scant info on him on the internet. No offense, but he looked a little alternative to say the least. Interesting as well.

WOODY WOODBURY LOOKS AT LOVE AND LIFE

Fun, Foolosophy and a Frantic Piano for Frisky Adults Only by Woody Woodbury


STEREODDITIES, INC
MW-1
1960





SIDE A:



download


SIDE B:



download



Editor's note: this guy apparently was a leading comic in the 1950s and 60s. In fact, he was a candidate to take over the Tonight Show, having served as a guest host on occasion, but was beaten out by Johnny Carson for the spot. This record, by many accounts, is one of the first comedy albums ever put out, preceding even Bill Cosby, Bob Newhart and the other leading comics of the day. I don't find it particularly funny but that doesn't mean that you won't laugh you dinky minx!

THERE'S NO END B/W STORMY MONDAY

by Latimore Brown


GLADES RECORDS
1716
1973
STEREO

SIDE A:



THERE'S NO END

download


SIDE B:



STORMY MONDAY

download



Editor's note: here...let somebody with actual musical knowledge tell you just who Latimore Brown was/is. I'll just spin the record and let you know that it feels like hot summer music. You're listening to a crackling radio and pressing your forehead against the frosted window of the freezer trying to make sense of why all of this nothingness of existence feels quite all right. The vocal is most remarkable though there is some tackiness trying to pass itself off as seduction but it doesn't quite work except to amuse me.

ENERGIZIN' LOVE

by Paul D. Davis


SPIRIT RECORDS
ND 3006
1980
STEREO


SIDE A:



SPIRIT MOVE YA'
YES I KNOW
NOTHING LIKE KNOWIN'
REACH OUT
RESURRECTION

download



SIDE B:



LIGHTSHINE
YOU'RE THE FATHER
FLYIN' AWAY
ENERGIZIN' LOVE
JUST AROUND THE BEND

download



Editor's note: while I'm away in Nashville you'll be listening to this and wondering why somebody would record this album and post it on the internet. Well, look at this cover and witness the energizin' love Paul Davis put into this music and then ask no more! It was meant to be heard and I'm going to make sure that somebody hears it! Tell one, tell all, just don't tell the Spirit Record suits or I'll be sued for doing their job and all that copyright infringement malarkey.

MUSEUM OF LOVE

by Alexander Kalianov


(I CAN'T READ RUSSIAN!)
C60 28597 000
1989
CTEPEO (STEREO)


SIDE A:



Old Cafe
Stowaway
In Your Country
My Distant Brother
Mother

download


SIDE B:



Restaurant Is Swinging
Puta
You're Dancing
Museum of Love
We Don't Live Long

download



Editor's note: a cross between a humorless Serge Gainsbourg and an Italian Elvis Costello with Latin roots. Of course I have no clue what he's singing about so it's all speculation on my part. Other than that you can make up your own mind. I didn't mind it at all.