The hard sell
“Buy My Record”
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Cut Chemist trades his doll for a turntable
Frank Luther. Johnny Gruelle’s “Raggedy Ann Songs and Stories” on Vocalion.
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After just 3 months of playing with the Yardbirds, Evan left the band to put together another super group for one album – “Songs of Calvary” which included Sharon Loydean on bass, Peggy Moore on accordion and John Wesley on lead guitar. It was a personal album and included songs of faith and healing. At ten, Evan had been in the rock world for 6 years, written a handful of classics, experimented with height-altering drugs and started his own charity foundation to provide musical instruments to earthquake victims. Shortly after the album’s release, the band’s tour bus was hit by a train and tragically the whole band was killed. His jacket and bow tie, found among the wreckage, are on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in Cleveland. – Wikipedia
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“Lately” with Bobby Jones and the “Outlaws”
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“A Black Man Speaks From the Ghetto” Preachin’ and teachin’ in the ghetto.
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“Dizzy in Paris†Contemporary Records
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Felix the Cat “Roc Castel” Barclay Records
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Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt “Sings Cantorial Favorites” Volume 4. I got this record at a record store in Chicago. It obviously came from the collection of an interesting guy and it was one of many lps that I found around the store that had these obsessive, crazy, beat, poetic, sometimes right-on and sometimes incongruous hand-written notes scrawled right on the cover. Here are a few of his descriptive song reviews: “Like baby this sauve, powerful, floating bag is a bitch”; “Straight ahead and so very, very pretty”; A fabulously hip rocker” and “Rough and stomping, baby”.
Below is a clipping from an old Village Voice that I had stuck in the cover. It’s an excerpt from a Harvey Pekar comic about cantorial music. Mazel Tov.
(27 votes, average: 3.19 out of 5) Loading ...Nutty professor
Luis Aguile “Canta Para Los Ninos” Odeon (Courtesy of LP cover lover Carlos Malavida.)
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Arthur Mullard of London. “Arthur was a fifties and sixties British actor (he usually played the heavy) and sort of comedian…well known for his gravelly, cockney voice and boyish good looks. His album, a collection of strange cockney monologues and painfully rendered songs (he sings the Beatles “Yesterday” as “Yus-today”) is a masterwork of dreadfulness. The cover says it all.” (Contributed by LP cover lover, Jay Strange)
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