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The Tiger Tamer Monitor Records (1958) The Georgian Radio Symphony Orchestra

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It’s a Revolution Mother

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Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “It’s A Revolution Mother”   “Recorded on the scene where the action is”   An Entertainment Systems, Inc. Release   Here’s an odd but nonetheless fascinating time capsule of late- Sixties social unrest filtered through the mind of Florida-based sexploitation producer-director HARRY KERWIN. Yup, the man who made Strange Rampage, My Third Wife George, and Girls Come Too.   But lacking the funds to make something along the lines of an Easy Rider or a Wild in the Streets, Kerwin blissfully dispensed with both fiction and actors and, instead, went out and filmed The Real Thing. Combining (rough, raw) authentic footage of bikers, peace protestors, and the crowd at a rock festival, he created the mondoesque It’s a Revolution Mother! a self-described “Documentary of Love” tied together with an exuberant (and often hilarious) anti-government-anti establishment-anti-Vietnam-war-pro-rebel lion rant delivered by an uncredited narrator who sounds like an AM disk jockey on speed. THE ALIENS are a biker gang who let Kerwin photograph them on the highway, inside their squalid headquarters, at a weekend beach party, and a clubhouse. “They candidly discuss their lifestyle (“I’d say Jesus died so we could ride’”); order drugs (“An ounce of speed and 200 trips’”); bitch about hassles with the cops, the courts, and their landlord; and explain the difference between “mamas and old ladies.” One of’ em even pisses in a beer can for us. “Don’t let it snap your mind. You’ve got to groove with the biker crowd to know where it’s really at’” – Something Weird

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Cycle-delic Sounds

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The Arrows Featuring Davie Allan   Tower Records   Includes “Devil’s Angels Theme” and “The Born Loser’s Theme” two biker movie classics from the Arrow’s surf-psych guitars.

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Star dreck

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The Green Slime (from the 1968 MGM Motion Picture)

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Rebel rebel

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Tribute to James Dean on Philips     He only made three movies!

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Gunn swinger

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Shelly Manne & His Men Play More Music From Peter Gunn – Son Of Gunn !!   Contemporary Records (1959)

Joe Gordon (tp) Richie Kamuca (ts) Victor Feldman (vib,mar) Russ Freeman (p) Monty Budwig (b) Shelly Manne (d)

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Pimp daddy

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“The Mack” Original Blacksploitation Soundtrack on American Artists Records.   Starying Richard Pryor, Roger Mosley and Max Juien.     1973   Great soul by Willie Hutch and Vocalist Eugene McDaniels.

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Themes like just yesterday

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“Big Terror Movie Themes”   Geoff Love and his Orchestra   MFP Records (UK) (That’s Music For Pleasure)   A surprisingly funky budget bin disk.

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“I hate those meeces to pieces!”

Mr. Jinks, Pixie and Dixie   Colpix Records.   Hanna Barbera   A regular segment of the television series The Huckleberry Hound Show from 1958 to 1962.   Starring the Voices of Daws Butler and Don Messick.

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Sam the man

Sammy Davis Jr.   “Sale e Pepe”   “SUPER-SPIE HIPPY!”   United Artists.   An Italian picture sleeve for the soundtrack to the movie “Salt and Pepper” from 1968.   Sammy co-stars with Peter Lawford.   Directed by Richard Donner (who went on to make bigger action adventure movies like   “Lethal Weapon” and “Superman” and “Sara T. Portrait of a Teenage Alchoholic”).   The movie’s tag line:   ” They held the fate of the world in their hands — and dropped it!”   (Sounds promising — it’s not,   But the illustration is straight outta ’68 and the Italian subtitle pretty much says it all.)

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