“Fire on the Strings” Joe Maphis, “King of the Strings”

(23 votes, average: 3.30 out of 5)

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Screamin’ Jay Hawkins…What That Is! Philips Records.   1969.   (Courtesy of Uncle Gil)

Hawkins, who first hit big in 1956 with “I Put A Spell On You,” used to have a flaming coffin in his wild stage show.   A surrealistic, theatrical performance piece that influenced Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper and other “shock rockers”.   He toured late in his life with The Stones and The Clash before passing away in France in 2000.   When he died he had more than 50 children with women around the world!

(22 votes, average: 4.55 out of 5)

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“The Glory (????) of the Human Voice”   “A Faust Travesty”   RCA Records.   Ms. Jenkins was a wealthy benefactor to the arts in the first half of the twentieth century.   She fancied herself an opera singer despite her complete lack of talent, pitch or range.   Never-the-less she performed and recorded with the utmost earnesty for friends and family.   She even went so far as to rent out Carnegie Hall and a full orchestra to perform with.   How or why RCA got involved, I have no idea.   Check her out on youtube.   Someone wrote that David Bowie is a fan of this record.

(29 votes, average: 3.14 out of 5)

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Word Records presents “The Addicts Sing” (Nine former addicts)

(41 votes, average: 3.71 out of 5)

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“Girl with Cat’s Eye”   (I’m assuming that this is just a awkward translation and that she doesn’t have just one cat’s eye but “cat eyes”.   But she seems so sad.   Cat eyes can be exotic and quite nice.   It’s not a disease or something.)   Regardless I like the graphics.

(19 votes, average: 3.32 out of 5)

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David Peel and the Lower East Side “Have a Marijuana” Recrorded Live on the Streets of New York. 1968.   This is the debut record by New York street musician and John Lennon protege David Peel.   Peel plays guitar and sings (mainly about marijuana), it’s all live.   Fugs parallels are hard to avoid and there is the same type of parody here – “I Like Marijuana” actually got kind of popular – it’s a parody of “I Like Peanut Butter”   “Show Me the Way to Get Stoned” is a killer, nothing bad on here at all, a great piece of underground wildness caught on tape. (Review by Carl Slim)

(30 votes, average: 3.43 out of 5)

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Shriners and steel drums — a winning combination!

(24 votes, average: 2.92 out of 5)

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A BLIMP, a WHIMP and a SKIMP. “On a Rocket Trip to the Moon! Via Skyway’s Rocket Ship From Your Launch Pad”   Featuring Miss Louis Lewis.   Skyway Records. 1964.   This is crazy!

(16 votes, average: 2.88 out of 5)

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