The Best of Kermit Shafer “For Those Who Have Everything” on Jubilee Records. Gatefold. With a nice illustration of Alfred E. Neuman on the cover. From the guy who gave us all those “Pardon My Blooper” records.

Shafer was the first to transform other people’s flustered speaking, slips of the tongue, and inadvertent solecisms from television and radio broadcasts into gold. In his hands, a blooper wasn’t just a mistake. It was a noteworthy event, a slice of everyday media life, otherwise evanescent, that he shined up for display. There was the Vick’s 44 Cough Syrup commercial that guaranteed “You’ll never get any better!” Or as the stumbling newscaster said, “Also keeping an eye on the Woodstock Rock Festival was New York’s governor Rockin Nelsenfeller.” — Fritinancy on the meaning of word “blooper”

(33 votes, average: 3.27 out of 5)

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“Sixteen Tracks of Non-Stop Superfunk” “Funk Paarrrty!”   The first track is “Kung Fu Man” by UltraFunk.   Thats a good one.   Also on this British compilation from 1974 is Oliver Sain’s “Bus Stop”, “Party Bump” by Gentlemen and their Ladies (this record has been posted here before), “Dance Master” by Willie Henderson and “Let’s Jam” by Bobby Williams.

(37 votes, average: 4.35 out of 5)

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“Honky Tonkin'” Jimmy MacDonald and Supersonic HiFi Electric Piano   “A Real Gasser”   “Hearin is Believin'”   Tampa Records.

(30 votes, average: 3.17 out of 5)

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Acerina y su Danzonera   Discos Columbia

(22 votes, average: 3.64 out of 5)

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Los Tres Reyes   Musart

(32 votes, average: 3.47 out of 5)

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Chick Willis “Stoop Down Baby, Let Your Daddy See”   Laval Records (1972)   Features funky cuts like the 20- minute title song and my favorite, a salacious take on B.B. King’s “Mother Fuyer” – about a furry little animal called a “fuyer.”   Dirty Red also put out a version.   I remember finding the single of “Mother Fuyer” in the basement of a record store in Boston.   Sometimes you remember where you found a record.   I don’t know why.   Chick shouldn’t be confused with his cousin “the King of the Stroll” Chuck Willis, whom he played with in the fifties.   No doubt his stint in the sixties playing with Rudy Ray Moore led him to the raunchy material he became best known for.

(45 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)

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J.B. de Carvalho O Rei Da Macumba “Na Onda Jovem”

(41 votes, average: 3.49 out of 5)

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“The Wierd and the Beard”     Dale Stevens & Jack Clements [1961]   Fraternity Records.

(29 votes, average: 2.83 out of 5)

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Ice Capades presents Alice in Wonderland. The mad hatter, Alice and the white rabbit on ice!

(55 votes, average: 3.76 out of 5)

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“Alice in Waterland” “At Weeki Wachee” From the “Alice in Waterland Revue” Sung by Marlin and the Mermaids” ABC-Paramount

(45 votes, average: 3.64 out of 5)

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