“Enrico Plays For Girls”  Enrico Neckheim  Europhon Records (Amsterdam)

“Music To Make LOVE By”  The Syd Dale Orchestra   Surprise Records (UK)   What’s on your playlist?

“Drinks After Midnight”  Sasha’s Piano  Ace of Clubs Records (UK)

The Accordion Swingsters  Polydor Records EP  (UK)

“Hit Melodies in Latin”  RCA Victor Japan

Billy Cafaro con Lucio y su Conjunto  “Besame Pepita!”  Columbia Records (Argentina)

“Ping Pong!”  Alvino Rey His Guitars and Orchestra  Capitol Records  What a crazy party!

“12 Hits … with Damiron”  Venevox Records  (Mexico)  This dame is one tough lover.  She’ll seduce any man and not think twice about leaving him broke and broken.   (File under:  Bad Girl Art)

Listen here:   El Touchy

Buy it, and check out the other cool reissues, here:   Companion Records!

Some years ago, a Los Angeles area collector stumbled across an orphaned copy of the “Touchy” in a thrift store. It was shared through tape trading networks and bootlegged on vinyl — now, Companion Records is proudly offering this first official “Touchy” CD release.

Luie Luie has to be the most jaw-dropping one-man-band lounge act found to date. The “Touchy” serves as an conceptual dance album, an experimental album, as well as a sort of healing LP for ’60s burn-outs. What can his music be compared to? Nothing that we know of.

Luis Johnston is a Southern California screenwriter, painter, and musician who’s spent the past 30 years working in almost complete obscurity. But he’s also written and starred in a feature film and shaken hands with Elvis Presley. Luie has been playing live at various restaurants, lounges, and country clubs for three decades and is still going strong. He released a handful of 45s in the ’70s and one full-length LP, “Touchy” in 1974. And he continues to record unknown quantities of yet to be released CDs.

This deluxe CD version is housed in a digipak sleeve, includes a 20 page page booklet with rare photos, concert flyers, art work, and a new introduction from Luie himself which sheds some light on his original inspiration for the album. As an added bonus, we’ve printed up 500 “Touchy” buttons!   Each “Touchy” CD ordered from our website will receive a pair of these buttons, one for him/herself and one for his/her dancing partner. They are inspired by the original “Touchy” buttons issued with the original LP and read “Touchy Me Here” — instructions (from a song on the CD) will be included. According to public record, former Germs drummer Don Bolles is the only collector known to own an original “Touchy” button although it would make sense that the estate of Sun Ra and Queens rapper Biz Markie have originals filed as well.

Honky Tonk Percussion & Piano

“Quiet Music”   (Volume 6)   “Relaxing with Cugat”   Easy Listening For Your Relaxation   Columbia Records   Maybe its me, but this sure looks like a scary scene.       I can imagine this on the cover of a lurid 50′s pulp mag or paperback novel.   Should be called “Quiet, Or Else!, Music” or “Music for a Date Rape”.