GREAT MAMBOS & OTHER LATIN AMERICAN FAVORITES

by Perez Prado


CORONET RECORDS
CX-120
MONO
1960s





SIDE A:



GUAGLIONE
CUBA EN CHA CHA CHA
MAMBO MACABRE
LUCKY MAMBO
OY MARIA
LA EMPALIZA

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SIDE B:



ASI ASI
AZUQUITO CON LECHE
TU VE TU VE
LA CLAVE
SIEMPRE
AHORA SI TENGO UN AMOR

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Editor's note: cha cha cha! What else can you say about mambo? Well, I suppose that I could have said that I wished that I'd found the album below by Mr. Prado instead!

THE SEA OF LOVE

by The Adventures


ELEKTRA RECORDS
60772-1
1988
STEREO





SIDE A:



DROWNING IN THE SEA OF LOVE
BROKEN LAND
YOU DON'T HAVE TO CRY ANYMORE
THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL (WHEN THE RAIN COMES DOWN)

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SIDE B:



HEAVEN KNOWS WHICH WAY
HOLD ME NOW
THE SOUND OF SUMMER
WHEN YOUR HEART WAS YOUNG
ONE STEP FROM HEAVEN

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Editor's note: a late 80s band that had some success in the UK but almost none in the US. Which speaks to why I have never heard of these guys despite their being a pretty good outfit. Side 1 is the pathos of the album whereas side 2 is the bathos and the record goes from pretty good to very average with the flip of the disc.

INAUGURAL ADDRESSES

US NAVY
41242
1970s
MONO





SIDE A:



Franklin D. Roosevelt 8:02
Harry S. Truman 6:28
Dwight D. Eisenhower 7:46
John F. Kennedy 7:10

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SIDE B:



Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon 16:15

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Editor's note: shysters, all of them! Except for maybe JFK who took a bullet because he wanted to limit the Federal Reserve and restore some hard backing to the currency. Other than that he was most likely part of the shadow government as well. It doesn't really matter though since he could give a damn decent speech here and there and that's what this is all about.

THE LONE RANGER

SPECIAL RECORDINGS
LP-1001
1950s?





SIDE A:



ADVENTURE NO. 2

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SIDE B:



ADVENTURE NO. 1

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Editor's note: I apologize for the few skips on both sides but the record is laden with scratches and scuffs. This record was well before my time but it's still nice to hear two original and complete radio broadcasts. It's odd to think that radio was the television and computer of its time but it was. Odder to think that cowboys and indians were still a hot topic in the early quarter of last century.

JOHN BENTLEY & HIS BUDDIES

with Guy "the Bear" Richards, Roosevelt Sykes, Dave Gary, Babe Stovall


EUPHONIC SOUND RECORDINGS
ESR-1211
1976





SIDE A:



Trouble In Mind
Something A-Swiss
Cocaine Blues
Down The Road Aways
Two Fifths
Ships Is At The Landing
It Ain't Much

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SIDE B:



Can't Judge A Book
How Long Blues
Roll & Tumble
Trouble In Mind
Folsom Prison Blues
West Helena Fish Fry

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Editor's note: I hope that somebody out there likes piano because I have about 10 of these records from the Euphonic's Piano Series and have just begun to crack them open and shall do so once a week or so. The good part besides the music is that most are in very nice shape and have only been played lightly. I'm liking what I'm hearing so far.

WINNIE THE POOH AND TIGGER

DISNEYLAND RECORDS
DQ-1317
1968





SIDE A:



A RATHER BLUSTERY DAY
THE WONDERFUL THING ABOUT TIGGERS TIGGER SONG REPRISE
THE RAIN RAIN RAIN CAME DOWN DOWN DOWN
HIP HIP POOH RAY

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SIDE B:



WHERE OH WHERE
WHO'S AT RABBIT TABLE?
WHERE IS THE HONEY TREE?
BIRTHDAY, BIRTHDAY
WINNIE THE POOH

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Editor's note: some storyline on the first side but mostly the songs from the cartoon which many who watched remember. I just didn't remember W.T.P. being a dunce although I guess I recall he was obsessed with honey and often got lost in that endeavor. A nice record for the keeeeeds.

THE LAST SUNDAY

by the Cathedral Quartet


CANAAN RECORDS
CAS-9733
1973
STEREO





SIDE A:



Somebody Loves Me 2:03
The Family of God 3:04
The Last Sunday 6:16
When It's My Time 2:54
A Beautiful Life 2:32

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SIDE B:



I Believe He Died For Me 3:43
Everybody Will Be Happy 1:50
He Looked Beyond My Faults 3:37
The Lord You Know 2:20
I'm A Sick American 5:29

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ANDALUSIAN AND FLAMENCO DANCES VOL. 2

arranged by Marquita Flores/Music adapted and composed by John Childs


S&R RECORDS
NO. 419
1973





SIDE A:



ZAMBRA
PASO DOBLE
SOLEARES
FANDANGO

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SIDE B:



Alegrias
Ferruca
Seguidillas Manchegas
Sevillanans
Zorongo en Bulerias
Ritmos

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Editor's note: you may not like the style of dance but you cannot easily dispose of the very excellent piano playing and scoring by John Childs which steals the whole show. I expected something very different than this and almost passed on this quarter record for that very exact expectation. It's a good thing that I didn't because it's a seriously beautiful record.

DUMB POET

by Immaculate Fools


A&M RECORDS
SP6-5151
1987
STEREO





SIDE A:



Never Give Less Than Everything 4:33
Tragic Comedy 4:17
One Minute 3:20
Dumb Poet 6:13
So Much Here 2:52

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SIDE B:



Wish You Were Here 4:51
Don't Drive The Hope From My Heart 4:30
Pretty Prize Now 5:14
Stay Away 6:49

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Editor's note: man, I'm coming to realize that many of the bands from the 1980s which didn't make it big all kind of sounded like The Fixx! Which makes sense since The Fixx didn't make it as big as they should have considering how many classic songs they put out. Other than that they are pretty much a power pop group which comes off a little too lite for my tastes.

ENVIRONMENTS 11

SYNTONIC RESEARCH INC.
SD66011
1979
STEREO





SIDE A:



ALPINE BLIZZARD

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SIDE B:



COUNTRY THUNDERSTORM

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Editor's note: as is the case with all of these Environment records you either like them for what they aren't doing or hate them for what they are. A lot of people only want records to play music but I'm not one of those. I like them because they are non-traditional and aren't music. I actually prefer spoken word records the best but limiting myself to just that would make for a fairly boring record blog now wouldn't it?

THE RETURN OF THE CREPITATION CONTEST

by Robert Wotherspoon


LAFF RECORDS
A-193
1976




SIDE A:



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SIDE B:



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Editor's note: I'm sure that in 1976 that this was funny to a growing legion of Howard Stern types but for myself it's pretty craptacular! Yeah, I love Howard Stern but the two things about his show that always made me turn the dial were the farting shows and interviews with porn stars. I really hate porn stars! Not that I haven't watched some porn in my time but I just hate their stupidity levels and their "great business sense". Uhhh...yeah. Anyhow, farting contests also are just submoronic if taken beyond a one minute sketch or so. This is old school comedy so I won't be so harsh on it plus I like the name Lord Windesphere for some odd reason.

LIVING GUITARS PLAY

RCA CAMDEN RECORDS
CAS 733
1963
STEREO





SIDE A:



Baby Elephant Walk 2:35
Wheels 2:20
Chop Sticks 2:44
The Jitterbug Waltz 3:40
Rapid Fire 2:38

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SIDE B:



Theme from "Route 66" 2:16
I'm Movin' On 2:04
Steel Guitar Rag 2:35
Spanish Fireball 2:17
Ritual Fire Dance 4:05

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Editor's note: a jingly-jangly, thumpity-ump guitar slingin' extravaganza through ten staples of music history that do not disappoint like most of its ilk doesn't.

PASTYME WITH GOOD COMPANYE: A PROGRAM OF MUSIC OF KING HENRY THE VIII

performed by St. George's Canzona


DESTO/CMS RECORDS
DC 7187
1980





SIDE A:



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SIDE B:



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Editor's note: nice choral/orchestral music which is not unlike any good presentation of similar music. Nice but a little boring.

RAGAS OF MORNING & NIGHT

by Pandit Pran Nath


GRAMAVISON RECORDS
18-7018-1
1986
STEREO





SIDE A:



Raga Todi 24:58

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SIDE B:



Raga Darbari 24:16

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Editor's note: Make it stop! Make it stop! MAKE IT STOP!

THE MANCHESTER ANGEL

by Ewan MacColl w/ Peggy Seeger guitar, dulcimer and concertina


TRADITION RECORDS
TR 2059
1968
STEREO





SIDE A:



We Poor Labouring Men
Georgie
Barbara Allen
Sheepcrook and Black Dog
The Bramble Briar
One Night as I Lay on My Bed
The Grey Cock

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SIDE B:



To The Begging I Will Go
The Sheep-Stealer/I Am a Brisk Lad
The Manchester Angel
The Bold Richard
The Press Gang
Round Cape Horn
Through Moorfields
Homeward Bound

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Editor's note: didn't Nietzsche say that the only thing more boring than an Englishman is another Englishman? If not, he should have. This record is so dreary in parts that I almost forgot that I am sweating through a hot Michigan summer and not living near a moat in the foggy cool English countryside. I'm not a big fan of folk music because I mostly hate story poem songs but this guy is good at what he does. Saying that I don't like it is no crime.