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Pantomime Everywhere It’s Christmas The Beatles’ fourth Christmas 7″ flexi distributed free to their fans through the fan club. Recorded November 1966. Produced by George Martin. Illustration by Paul McCartney!
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“I Am An Ex-Convict From A Florida Chain Gang” All songs written and sung by Floyd McClellan Sagitario Records (1978) Side One: Title track and “Last Train to the Gallows” Side Two: “Toll Bridge of My Heart”, “Moon Intrigue”, “Highway of Loneliness”, “If I Owned the World”, “Truckdriver’s Prayer”, “Rebel Superstar”, “Ironworker” and “I just Closed the Door on Love”
From the Liner Notes:
“This record album tells the true story of my prison life in the Florida State Penitentiary in the late ’40’s. Convicted for the crime of armed robbery, I was sentenced to serve seven years in a Florida Chain Gang. The songs that you will hear in this album are some that I wrote while I was in prison. They portray the brutalities and atrocities that I endured during that time.
I was born in the state of Florida and was in the United States Army and the U.S. Merchant Marines during World War II. At this time I am married to a lovely woman, Carol, and have a three year-old son David.”
– Thank you, Floyd McClellan (Ex-convict)
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“Goodies Out Behind the Barn” By Justy and the Keybenders
Shephard of the Hills featuring the “Ballad of Jim Lane”
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We love to showcase examples of homemade album covers just like this one. Whoever this DIY, cover art iconoclast was, he or she wanted to improve on the packaging of this run-of-the-mill record by the Ray Charles Singers. Using just scissors, paste and pen (and the cut-up of a nude Jayne Mansfield), the result provides a personal, yet universal, response to the title, “Things To Do On A Rainy Night”. Thanks to Will at ShowandTellMusic for showing this one-of-a-kind find.
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Little Miss Jeri Kelly – 1o Year Old Songstress from Picayune, Miss. “Poor Ol’ Santa Claus” b/w “Hide and Seek”MPI (Music Plus Inspiration) Records
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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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Emil Nargi IS Elvis “It’s Now or Never” There are so many records by Elvis impersonators you can’t imagine. Each one stranger than the last. Emil looks like he could be one of the little dolls or porceline statuettes that my Grandma Loretta kept in a glass case.
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“Heaven’s Satellite” with The Good News Singers from Bakersfield, California. Vision Records This one is highly sought after and rarely found.
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“Sweet Caroline” Neil Diamond Uni Records (shown here with a very special spindle girl – my sweet Caroline!)
Officially released on September 16, 1969, Neil only recently revealed that he wrote this after seeing a Life magazine photo of Caroline Kennedy riding a pony in the mid-sixties. But every Caroline owns it. The song has been a tradition at Boston’s Fenway Park since 1997, and since 2002 it has been played at every game in the middle of the eighth inning. Elvis liked to sing it.
Sweet Caroline
Good times never seemed so good
I’ve been inclined
To believe they never would
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