Exchange on Folkways Records.   “Friendship Around the World Thru Tape Exchange”   Tony Schwartz, the father of the mixed tape!   Tony was homebound but traveled the world through the audio recordings he traded for with friends around the globe.   Long before the web brought people together with instantaneous communication and digital recordings and downloadable files, Tony built a network of like-minded anthropologists, sociologists and collectors.

(19 votes, average: 4.11 out of 5)

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I don’t remember where I picked this record up, but it’s signed by the man himself. It’s scribbled: “To Princess Marge the beauty. May you swing with love. Love Lord Buckley.”

“Way Out Humor” on World Pacific Records. Royal Concert Performance Ivar Theater Hollywood (1959)

Lord Buckley died in 1960. I recommend you dig him a bit deeper! There are some cool clips of LB on youtube including his appearance on “You Bet Your Life” with Groucho from 1956. Remarkable.

(18 votes, average: 3.39 out of 5)

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“She’s a Bad Motorcycle” by The Risers. Imperial Records.

On a personal note, my buddy Scott provided me with the unique opportunity to DJ the opening party of The Motorcycle Show at the Guggenheim Museum a few years ago. Of course I played only “biker” music, but I also set myself up behind a display of covers like this one for maximum effect.   Dennis Hopper was there, the place was packed and the music was loud.

(16 votes, average: 3.31 out of 5)

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One of the rarest drug-related records I’ve ever found. “Tripping Out” “Designed to acquaint you with the drug experience without exposing you to it’s dangers” This is from 1970. Each track is a virtual, simulated high of one kind or another. From acid to goofballs to smack and pot. This is a drug education record that tells it like it is man! Straight talk about flipping out. Check out the graphics, illustrations and typography.

(18 votes, average: 2.39 out of 5)

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Look who’s trippin’!   Mrs. Miller “Does Her Thing.”   Check out the song titles.

(33 votes, average: 3.42 out of 5)

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Outsider musical hero Ron Schmeck. “Easy Living The American Way” featuring my personal favorite “I’m Proud to Own a Mobile Home”. Maybe some day I really will.

(15 votes, average: 2.33 out of 5)

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“What’s Next?” Foster Edwards’ orchestra featuring the elephants Bertha and Tina on drums and lead guitar.   Note the Beatle wigs!

(33 votes, average: 3.61 out of 5)

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Rod Hart “Breakeroo!” including the trucker hit C.B. Savage.   Rod Hart was one-hit wonder who scored a minor hit single in 1977, “C.B. Savage”, which charted on both the Billboard pop and country charts. The song was a gay themed takeoff on the citizen’s band radio fad and featured a “smokey” (slang for a highway patrolman) pretending to be a gay truck driver over the CB radio. It appeared on his album Breakeroo.

(21 votes, average: 3.86 out of 5)

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Canadian professional wrestler Sweet Daddy Siki (aka “Mr. Irresistable”) “Squares off with Country Music” Canadian Arc Label.   The black, Gorgeous George of his day.

(26 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

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Holy shit! “LSD Battle for the Mind”

(52 votes, average: 4.06 out of 5)

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