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November, 2009

It’s a Revolution Mother

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Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “It’s A Revolution Mother”   “Recorded on the scene where the action is”   An Entertainment Systems, Inc. Release   Here’s an odd but nonetheless fascinating time capsule of late- Sixties social unrest filtered through the mind of Florida-based sexploitation producer-director HARRY KERWIN. Yup, the man who made Strange Rampage, My Third Wife George, and Girls Come Too.   But lacking the funds to make something along the lines of an Easy Rider or a Wild in the Streets, Kerwin blissfully dispensed with both fiction and actors and, instead, went out and filmed The Real Thing. Combining (rough, raw) authentic footage of bikers, peace protestors, and the crowd at a rock festival, he created the mondoesque It’s a Revolution Mother! a self-described “Documentary of Love” tied together with an exuberant (and often hilarious) anti-government-anti establishment-anti-Vietnam-war-pro-rebel lion rant delivered by an uncredited narrator who sounds like an AM disk jockey on speed. THE ALIENS are a biker gang who let Kerwin photograph them on the highway, inside their squalid headquarters, at a weekend beach party, and a clubhouse. “They candidly discuss their lifestyle (“I’d say Jesus died so we could ride'”); order drugs (“An ounce of speed and 200 trips'”); bitch about hassles with the cops, the courts, and their landlord; and explain the difference between “mamas and old ladies.” One of’ em even pisses in a beer can for us. “Don’t let it snap your mind. You’ve got to groove with the biker crowd to know where it’s really at'” – Something Weird

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And go-cart Mozart was checkin’ out the weather chart

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“Regalame esta Noche”   Mozart Brandao e suo Orquestra   RCA Victor (Brazil)

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Hey Negrete

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Jorge Negrete   RCA Victor (Spain)

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You can pick your friends, but not your family

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Llama Gila   Odeon (Spain)b

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Wanted man

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“Sing It Again, Sam!”   The inimitable song stylings of Sam Sacks   Arliss Records   For those unfamiliar with the wonder of WFMU’s Beware of the Blog let this be a welcome introduction.   Go to BOTB and listen to Sam’s fantastically awful mauling of standards.   A private recording on par with the best of the worst from Mrs. Miller, Lucia Pamela and Florence Foster Jenkins.   I gotta find a copy!

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“Oh baby baby … pump it real good”

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“Fox en Guitarra”   Roberto Rojas   Musart Records

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Bette Davis eyes

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Em Tempo De Tango   Carlinhos   Columbia Brazil

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Didn’t I blow your mind this time?

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“Blow Man Blow”   Jesse Powell   Jubilee Records   Calvin Boze does a great R&B version of this song.  

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Kids are us

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El Festival de los Ninos   Calesita Records   This one’s for you Fred at Frederator Studios if you’re listening!

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French dip

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“La Gambille Chez Bousca”   Musette Ensemble of the Bal Bousca   Dana Pacific Records

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