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Monthly Archives: December 2009

#56: The Johnny Frigo Quartet – Afro-American Jazz Dance (Orion LP-115) Vinyl Download

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I picked this up for $1 from a guy who had thousands of records for sale on the top floor of a horse carriage barn next door to the Mad Hatter down here in Covington.  He had tons of cool maps up there and a whole slew of weird doo-dads tucked away in glass cases.

At first I thought I was walking into a trap after I walked through the second chain link fence inside the barn. Visions of zipper-lipped rubber masks and red rubber-ball gags danced wildly in my head. I was never meant to be a barnyard boy toy; it’s just not my style.

Luckily I was assaulted only by the stench of horse crap and gnats that hung heavy in the air.  My gamble paid off because he had great gobs of good stuff up there; each a buck apiece. I bought 20 records from him and plan to go back when the fever peaks.

The best part of this story is that I just found this album for sale online for $155. The moral is that sometimes your vinyl hunt’s gotta get weird if you’re gonna get lucky.

Enjoy.

Click here to download Afro-American Jazz Dance

**Update: The guy I bought this album from now has some of his vinyl for sale online with Free Shipping. Check it out here http://www.thevinyldays.com/

#55: Slim Whitman – The Very Best of Slim Whitman (1980) vinyl 320 download: Or, Slim Saves the Earth

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I feel that I must warn everyone that Slim Whitman will thoroughly violate the fleshy folds of your ears with his extremely moist vocal chords. If you don’t want his lip blanket gently bristling your ear lobes with a subtle sweetness never meant to be possesed by man then please click your back button. If you find the idea of Slim may impregnating your thorax with a Burt Reynolds/Norm MacDonald hybrid demon then PLEASE…do not listen to this album. However, before you make your decision there are a few things that you may want to know.

1. Michael Jackson allegedly sited Slim Whitman as one of his top ten favorite vocalists. Well, that makes sense. I don’t see how else Michael Jackson could perform the French Tickler with his Uvula without thoroughly studying Slim’s complete body of delicous love songs.

2. George Harrison looked to Slim as an early musical influence: “The first person I ever saw playing a guitar was Slim Whitman, either a photo of him in a magazine or live on television. Guitars were definitely coming in.” I mean I guess that’s noteworthy. George Harrison was in The Beatles, wasn’t he?

3. His 1955 hit single “Rose Marie” held the record for the longest time at number 1 on the UK charts until Bryan Adams broke the record with “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You” in 1992. Only Adams’ Robin Hood could slay Slim’s dragon.

4. Slim’s unearthly yodeling from the intro of his track “Indian Love Song” killed the invading Martians on the film Mars Attacks. Pause at 12 seconds.

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A1   North Wind 2:18  
  Written By – Rod Norriss
A2   Secret Love 2:36  
  Written By – Paul Francis Webster , Sammy Fain
A3   Rose-Marie 2:21  
  Written By – Oscar Hammerstein II , Otto A. Harbach , Rudolf Friml
A4   The Cattle Call 2:09  
  Written By – Tex Owens
A5   Indian Love Call 3:17  
  Written By – Oscar Hammerstein II , Otto A. Harbach , Rudolf Friml
B1   More Than Yesterday 2:43  
  Written By – L. Dickens
B2   The Twelfth Of Never 2:13  
  Written By – Jerry Livingston , Paul Francis Webster
B3   Guess Who 2:53  
  Written By – Jesse Belvin
B4   Something Beautiful To Remember 2:57  
  Written By – M Carpenter
B5   It’s A Sin To Tell A Lie 2:15  
  Written By – Billy Mayhew

#54: Buddy Holly – For The First Time Anywhere (1983) Vinyl Download

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The songs on this album were lost in the storage at MCA for over 20 years. You can find a pretty cool story about how these tracks were saved from the bowels of eternity here.

Click here to download For The First Time Anywhere

Tracklist

1. Rock-A-Bye-Rock

2. Maybe Baby (1st Version)

3. Because I Love You

4. I’m Gonna Set My Foot Down

5. Changing All Those Changes

6. That’s My Desire

7. Baby Won’t You Come Out Tonight

8. It’s Not My Fault

9. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man

10. Bo Diddley

#53: Vince Guaraldi Trio – A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965, 1988 mastering) Vinyl Download

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I vividly remember watching A Charlie Brown Christmas for the first time, which was coincidentally the same year this album reissue dropped. The funny thing is, the main thing I recall is the commercials. This is probably because my parents recorded it for my brother and me on a Beta tape. We watched it every year over and over, commercial jingles and all, until our Betamax bit the bullet roughly the same time as Kurt Cobain.

I really, really REALLY wish I still had my Sony Vidimagic Betmax Projector.

It goes without saying that A Charlie Brown Christmas is a classic. The story, the style, the characters…all classic. But I might be so bold as to say those commercials recorded on that midget VHS were just as classic. You just can’t top the 7-up dot dude crashing his fire truck into a Christmas tree. Nor will weathermen ever again look so cool giving forecasts of heavy Utah snow. And their torsos won’t ever look as square…we should really bring back shoulder pads.

Elegant, confident edges.

Will five-year-olds today think that this season’s commercials are classics 20 years from now? I can’t possibly see anyone looking back fondly at the Verizon dude.  Seriously, that guy can go straight to hell.

Merry Christmas, you filthy animals.

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