A swell Feller
Sports Records proudly presents “The Heritage of the Cleveland Indians”. Keeping the Tribe alive! A greatest hits package featuring the great Bob Feller.
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Sound-O-Rama Presents The Windy City Four “Don’t Let the Devil Ride” This is a very rare soul-gospel lp that goes for hundreds of dollars when it seldomly comes on the market. For me the value is in the cover – I’m a sucker for a hot girl in a devil costume.
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From Japan. “The Best of Blue Latin” Paquito Toledo & His Latin Aces” Columbia Records
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“You Be A Disc Jockey” Cameo Records “Commercials – Interviews – Jingles – Weather Report – Time Check – Script” U B A DJ! Learn how to put the record on! Drop the needle! Use the mic!
(And you’ll hear the truth behind the secret world of real-life, pay-to-play DJs! Here’s your chance to make extra money, coke, gifts, tickets, and hookers from record promoters peddling their sides.)
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“The JET Age” Features the “speedpicking” of Julian E. Tharpe on Steel Guitar. Midland Records. This was recorded at the Johnny Cash Studio in Hendersonville, TN. The Alabama Steel Guitar Association inducted Julian Tharpe into The Alabama Steel Guitar Association Hall Of Fame on February 26th, 2006 at The Hank Williams Museum, Montgomery Al. But it’s the crazy, DIY art on this relic from the early Seventies that speaks to me.
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“Instant Sex” Que Records Sexsational Songs Sung by Madame Mame Check out the song titles!! Including the very subtle, single entendre, “I Wanna Do It Right Now” This one is “For Mature People” (I’m not sure that’s true really.)
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“The Mack” Original Blacksploitation Soundtrack on American Artists Records. Starying Richard Pryor, Roger Mosley and Max Juien. 1973 Great soul by Willie Hutch and Vocalist Eugene McDaniels.
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A gunslinger of a different sort — Don Byas Savoy Records
“Years ago the game was vicious, cutthroat. Can you imagine Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Don Byas, and Ben Webster on the same little jam session? And guess who won the fight? That’s what it was–a saxophone duel. Don Byas walked off with everything.”
— Sonny Stitt
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“Blood on the Saddle” Tex Ritter Capitol Records Listen as Tex really slows down and stretches out the lyrics on this baby. Nice pulp Western painting on the cover.
John Ritter’s pappy was well suited to the role of singing cowboy. He looked and acted the part and was singing the type of songs he loved best. Although Ritter’s films never had the production values of films starring Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, he still enjoyed considerable success at the box office.
In 1942, after a decade of recording with little success, Ritter became one of the first artists signed by the newly formed Capitol Records. He soon began scoring major hits with records such as “Jealous Heart,†“ Rye Whiskey,†“I’m Wastin’ My Tears on You,†and “You Will Have to Pay.†Ritter would record for Capitol for the rest of his life.
In 1952, Ritter recorded the movie title-track song “High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin’) which became a hit. He sang “High Noon” at the first Academy Awards ceremony to be televised in 1953, and it received an Oscar for Best Song that year.
He achieved significant success with “Jingle, Jangle, Jingle,” and in 1944, he scored another hit with “I’m Wastin’ My Tears On You,” which hit #1 on the country charts and #11 on the Pop charts. “There’s A New Moon Over My Shoulder” was a country charts #2 and Pop charts #21. In 1945, he had the #1, #2 and #3 songs on Billboard’s “Most Played Jukebox Folk Records” poll, a first in the industry. Between 1945 and 1946, he registered seven consecutive Top 5 hits, including “You Two Timed Me One Time Too Often,” a country #1 which spent eleven weeks on the charts. In 1948, “Rye Whiskey” and his cover of “Deck Of Cards” both made the Top 10 and “Pecos Bill” reached #15. In 1950, “Daddy’s Last Letter (Private First Class John H. McCormick)” also became a hit.
Tex bit the dust in 1974.
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“Cocktail Swing” Jack Sterling and his Quintet Columbia Harmony Records
“Idol Worship of the Worshipped Idols” a piece of original art by John Purlia.
A solo exhibit of John Purlia’s Lp cover-inspired art is coming to Distinction Gallery in Escondido, California. The show is titled “Plastic Prophets of Vinyl Redemption” and will run from February 14-March 7. Check it out!
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