Big tent tots in Tiny Town
Tony has every Circus record ever. Here’s “Circus Time Fun” on the fun Moppet Records label. Musical Songs and Stories with the Tiny Town Orchestra!
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The Hi-Lo’s “On Hand” Starlite Records. Cover by Frank Werber.
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Louis Prima’s “Just a Gigolo” on his own Prima One label. Of course with Sam Butera and the Witnesses. This one’s from the early Seventies I’m sure. Here’s a great clip of the song with Louis, his wife Keely Smith and the boys back in the late Fifties.
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“Skid Row Sounds” Songs and Stories from the Salvation Army. 1968.
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“Bailando en el Espacio!” Los 4 Planetas. Microfon Records.
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I’m at a loss of words!
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“For Adults Only” Kent Records, 1969. This is actually a raunchy blues album by Johnny Otis and his son guitarist Shuggie “Inspiration Information” Otis, (thirteen at the time), and vocalist Delmar “Mighty Mouth” Evans under assumed names. The cover looks like R. Crumb, but I read somewhere that Johnny Otis did it (?). This album was “Rated X” and sold in Adult Bookstores.
After “Signifyin’ Monkey,” (which also opens the classic Otis blues LP “Cold Shot”), “Snatch” continues with other examples of classic toasts “Poolshootin Monkey,” (here as “Signifyin Monkey part 2”) and “Hey, Shine” (a Bo Diddley beat with the melody of Otis’ own “Willie and the Hand Jive,) and “Stack a Lee”. “Dirty Dozens” (aka “Yass Yass Yass”) is a classic.
R.I.P Johnny Otis – January 2012 OBIT
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These old Folkways Records were very special to those in the New York City music scene that Dylan came upon circa 1962. He writes of meeting Cisco Houston at a party on Fifth Avenue down in the Village. Cisco was a compatriot of and fellow traveler with Woody Gutherie. The real deal. Dylan imagined getting a recording contract with Folkways — never dreamt of recording for Mitch Miller’s Columbia until John Hammond signed him. These Folkways covers are distinctive for their think, heavy cardboard covers. This one includes a nice line drawing by artist Ben Shahn. Shahn did numerous covers in the Fifties and early Sixties for various labels.
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“Black Velvet Eyes” Art and Dotty Todd on Dart Records.
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