Look in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…
Jesus and Superman!! Reverend Danny Nance.
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(76 votes, average: 4.12 out of 5) Loading ...Tasty Nuggets
The original Nuggets LP on Elektra (1972) “Original Artyfacts from the First Psychodelic Era 1965 – 1968” The seminal and influential double-record compilation of American garage band rock singles produced by Elektra founder Jac Holzman and Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith’s guitarist). I discovered this in 1978 in Boston’s Kenmore Square – fittingly at a used record shop called “Nuggets” (Nuggets was next to “The Rat,” i.e., the Rathskeller, a raw basement concert venue that featured many local punk bands.)
Nuggets spawned an entire cottage industry of small record labels dedicated to unearthing and releasing obscure but worthy garage and psychedelic rock music from the 1960s. Contrary to popular belief, more than a third of the original Nuggets were American Top 40 hits. Among them “Dirty Water” (Standells), “Liar, Liar” (Castaways), and at number five the highest-charting 45 of the bunch, “Psychotic Reaction” (Count Five). Several sides never made the Top 200 including “Let’s Talk About Girls” (Chocolate Watchband), “Don’t Look Back” (Remains), and “An Invitation to Cry” (Magicians). Nuggets influenced Patti Smith, The Ramones, The Talking Heads and R.E.M. . Each track is also given a brief bio which was researched and penned by Kaye. His comments go beyond the facts and figures of the typical discography, relating to the music as the personal experience that it was.
(61 votes, average: 4.34 out of 5) Loading ...Don’t go breakin’ my heart
Bobby “Blue” Bland “Ain’t Nothing You Can Do” Duke Records (1964) Cover art by Rene
When you got a heartache, there ain’t nothing you can do
When you meet a friend, you smile because you’re glad
When a friend deceives you, it makes you feel so bad
When you lose your loved one, it make you feel so blue
And then you got a heartache, and there ain’t nothing you can do
(35 votes, average: 4.26 out of 5) Loading ...The curious case of Benjamin Butt
“Mad About the Boy” Camp Records Hollywood, CA. From the same folks that brought you “Homer the Happy Little Homo” and “Stanley the Manley” The producers claim that the uncredited singers, musicians and arranger are all “well known Hollywood TV and screen personalities.” Songs include “Make the Man Love Me,” “It’s So Nice to Have a Man Around the House” and “The Gentleman is a Dope” all sung by men of course!
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Daniel Santos “!Candela! Fuentes Records This one is just gorgeous!
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Boppin’ in Paris
The Dizzy Gillespie Sextet “Jazz Time Paris” French Vogue Records (1952) NAT PECK – WADE LEGGE – ARNOLD ROSS – LOU HACKNEY – JOE BENJAMIN – AL JONES – BILL CLARK – JOE CARROLL – BILL GRAHAM
(44 votes, average: 4.77 out of 5) Loading ...The space race
Another sweet one by Lille Gerhard from Lp cover lover contributor, Ulf Gustafsson. Karusell Records Sweden.
(18 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5) Loading ...A pair a queens
“La Rubia y la Triguena” Billo’s Fonograma Records
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