Preachin'

Uncle “D” Talks with Charlie and Sheila.

“Jack Tells It Like It Is About Drugs” (Somehow I don’t think he’s reading Hunter S. Thompson here.  And the guys in the background aren’t having a prayer meeting.)

Holy shit! “LSD Battle for the Mind”

Larry & Phyllis Richards “In His Service”  Thanks to Margaret Still for this awesome cover.

Before she shelved the trombone and picked up “Little Marcy” for a career praising Jesus and prosthletizing to little kids through her ventriliquest act.

“Startling!” is hardly a dramatic enough word to describe “This DEEPER dimension PROPHETIC record album” This looks like a bootleg of a Luke Hollandworth tent revival sermon. When would you want to put this baby on the turntable anyway? $5 was kind of expensive for a record in the early 60’s, I bet Luke did okay with his doom and gloom prophesies back then.

Would you buy redemption from Jim and Mary Jane Sellers?  I bet these two were kinky as hell.  They actually look pretty cool in a late seventies-early eighties new wave punk rockabilly B-52’s kinda way.

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out with Dr. Timothy Leary, the LSD-inspired Harvard professor turned shaman to a generation. This is a Mercury records soundtrack release to an exploitation flick about Leary. One of four or five albums featuring Leary that came out in the sixties.

Made in Houston, Tx.  1970!

From the back cover:  “This message discusses the uniqueness of the female nature, VD, abortion, and the subtle way in which the modern style of women’s clothing reduces precious womanhood to the status of cattle on the auction block.  Every single teen-age girl and young married woman should hear this message.”

“Nicky Cruz was running wild on a one-way street to the electric chair and hell!  Millions know him from The Cross and the Switchblade as well as his own book Run Baby Run. Nicky Cruz shares his full life story on this special record. ”

Nice primitive painting of a multiple murder juxtaposed by the sunny, smiling face of former JD, born again Cruz.  Kids do the craziest things sometimes.

This from Bob Selcoe of NewJazz Records: An absolute CLASSIC of the weirdo outsider genre - a “dramatic” comparison of death and heavenly ascendance using the metaphor of an airplane trip! It’s a recorded “play”, with a full cast, airplane sound effects, and “angelic” music provided by the Trevecca Nazarene College choirs. Brainchild of Evangelist Forrest McCullough, who wrote, produced and acts as “narrator”. Inspired while on an airliner the day following his father’s funeral. I can’t do justice describing it - you’ve gotta hear it to believe it! Original private-press with no label (surprisingly, it was later issued on the Word label).

I bet the “Reverend in Rhythm” Father Robert White can really bust a move when he gets off the pipe.

This is just amazing. Was on my want list for a long time. This is the quintessential over-the-top, tent revival preacher, miracle worker put on. The record is by AA Allen who made many of these bible belt recordings with the “actual sounds” of exorcism and healing. This one is from the fifties and came in a neat blood red vinyl. The guy on the cover is laughable and goofy. Others in this genre can get pretty ugly. I’ll show you some in the future.