WHERE THE MOUNTAINS MEET THE ROAD B/W MELANCHOLY BABY

by Arthur Godfrey


CROWN RECORDS
BL 114/115
78 RPM


SIDE A:


WHERE THE MOUNTAINS MEET THE ROAD

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SIDE B:


MELANCHOLY BABY

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Editor's note: I don't know squat about Arthur Godfrey except what I just read on the interwebs. Most of which detailed his radio and television work, lung cancer, Chesterfield Cigarettes, his fall from grace for firing an effeminate sidekick on the air and blah blah blah.

A SWINGIN' SAFARI

by Billy Vaughn


DOT RECORDS
DLP 3458
MONO
1962

SIDE A:



A Swingin' Safari
(It's No) Sin
Born To Be With You
Alone
Glow Worm March
In The Chapel In The Moonlight

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SIDE B:



Sunday In Madrid
Love Letters In The Sand
Blue Flame
A Fool Such As I
Throw Another Log On The Fire
When The Saints Go Marching In

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Editor's note: as I approach 1,000 albums posted I realize how pointless this all is. It's being done from mania and not a love for the music. An hour misspent every day. I've already pretty much stopped buying records and save for the fact that I have about 100 sitting unlisted and un-listened to I probably wouldn't be posting this. Maybe the mood will change. It better by Monday because I only have one more LP in queue.

ANIMAL TALK

narrated by Jack Lippert


SCHOLASTIC RECORDS
SCC 18208
1972

SIDE A:



Rooster
Hen and her chick
Goat and her kid
Chimpanzee in the zoo
Cougars in the zoo
Indian elephant in the zoo

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SIDE B:



House wren
Pig frog and cricket frog
Croaker
Drum fish
Dolphin
Humpback whale

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Editor's note: this is what it purports to be and is quite good with the animal sounds. It's a bit short but these are obviously geared to younger children with short attention spans who would bore of a full-length LP. Luckily, we are immature enough to have the proper attentiveness to enjoy and digest this in whole and still ask for more.

KINGS OF THE STEEL GUITAR

by Pete Wade, Leon McAuliff, Herb Remington, Jenks Carmen


PICKWICK RECORDS
SDLP-627
STEREO
1965

SIDE A:



PETE WADE

Original Twist

LEON MCAULIFF

Orange Blossom Special
Columbus Stockade

HERB REMINGTON

Sweetnin'
Yes, He's Gone

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SIDE B:



HERB REMINGTON

A Light Touch
Big Dance at the Windmill Greasin'

JENKS CARMEN

Hilo March
Kahila March
Hillbilly Hula

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Editor's note: this is another one of those twang dang doodle guitar-slinger specials that is worth the price of admission whatever the cost may have been. What do you figure a buck or two back then. It hasn't held up well to inflation cost-wise but the sounds are more than a bargain. Although musically it's not a companion piece to the Hits Made Famous By Country Queens the covers definitely share a kinship and probably were designed by the same person or firm.

CONTRASTS

by David Carroll and His Orchestra


MERCURY WING
MGW-12146
MONO

SIDE A:



SWINGING SWEETHEARTS
DO YOU EVER THINK OF ME
YOURS (QUIERME MUCHO)
THE SKI SONG (SLALOM)
LIVE A LITTLE
THUNDERBRID

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SIDE B:



TWICE AROUND THE ISLAND
DUCKY
ALL I DO IS DREAM OF YOU
A BEAUTIFUL LADY IN BLUE
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN LONELY
CUTE LITTLE WIGGLE

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Editor's note: I've struggled to get through the last two weeks of records because I've been extremely busy. In fact, I am falling asleep while writing this. Bobbing and swaying from the bedside. Which is bad form since this is such a velvety good spin. Poppy tunes and melodies meet the cover album. Old classics meet dime store prices and re-purposed for an ungrateful audience. Such is the greatness of this blog. You are not worthy.

CASTAWAYS THEME SONG

by Kaii and his Serenaders


NO LABEL
78 RPM


SIDE A:



CASTAWAYS THEME SONG

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Editor's note: you know as much about Castaways as I do after listening to this record. It was some sort of resort in Miama, Florida and from the look and sound of this record you'd have to think it was from the 1940s or thereabouts. Hell, maybe earlier. All I know is that it's as obscure as Ruby Paulk.

SLIMNASTICS

by Charles A. Bucher


DECCA RECORDS
7-34546
1959

SIDE A:



FOR MEN

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SIDE B:



FOR WOMEN

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Editor's note: Charles Bucher comes from the echo chamber to teach you slimnastics. And you need it since you've been getting fat with all these free dishes of fresh hot wax.Being the enabler it's now my responsibility to slim you down until that fateful day when I starve you out never to eat again.

YOU MUST BE...BORN AGAIN

by Jack Van Impe


VAN IMPE RECORDINGS
771130
STEREO

SIDE A:



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SIDE B:



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Editor's note: with Jack Van Impe you know what you're getting: fire and brimstome every and all the time. That's how I like it.

BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

by Kenny O'Dell


VEGAS RECORDS
VS 401
MONO
1967

 
SIDE A:



BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
KENTUCKY WOMAN
SUNSHINE DREAMIN'
I'M GONNA TAKE IT
DIFFERENT DRUM
FLOWER GIRL

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SIDE B:



TAKE ANOTHER LOOK
MASSACHUSETTS
YOU'LL BREAK ME YET
NEXT PLANE TO LONDON
IF MY WORLD FALLS THROUGH

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Editor's note: this may be the first record in the almost 1,000 that I have recorded which I didn't listen to most of the first side before posting it. I was busy, got busier, am still busy now and will be busy until Sunday morning. I'll get around to it sometime. Maybe tomorrow while I'm at work. Who knows. What I heard I liked. It's less country than promised in O'Dell's other works and even less of the supposed psychedelic that some proclaim it and more folk rock than anything. Maybe somebody will actually comment without begging for an upload and tell me what's what with this disc.

CHEVROLET SINGS OF SAFE DRIVING AND YOU

by Lou Adessa & Vince Benay


COLUMBIA RECORDS
CSM 838

SIDE A:



An Exciting Thing (Driving a Car)
Grown-Up Baby (Driving Psychology)
Cities and Towns (Driving in City and Heavy Traffic)
Nowhere Fast (Observance and Enforcement)

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SIDE B:



Gentle Things (Adverse Driving Conditions)
When the Wrong Thing Happens (Stopping Distances)
The Natural Laws (Laws of Motion)
Man-Made Laws (Common Sense Driving)

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Editor's note: I was enjoying this one just fine until the second side decided to start skipping without cause. Not your ordinary vinyl skip, pop and sha-loop but a digital kind of fast forward. Or at least that's what it sounded like to me. Otherwise, it's pretty good-bad in the most cheese-erific way possible.

SACRED BELLS OF STONE MOUNTAIN

by Herbie Koch


STONE MOUNTAIN RECORDS
W4RM-6946

SIDE A:



How Great Thou Art
Onward Christian Soldiers
Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
Holy Angels
Just A Closer Walk With Thee
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (condensed)
Ave Maria

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SIDE B:



In The Garden
Kamennoi Ostrow
The Old Rugged Cross
He
Arioso
The Lord's Prayer

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Editor's note: I stupidly recorded this at 45 RPM and didn't notice until recording the next LP. Thus, I have only heard it at a faster speed and can't judge the proper speed version since I rectified it with Audacity. I have to admit though that I liked it at 45 so I'd probably feel the same about the regular speed.

A WINNER WALKIN' HOME: THE BALLAD OF DAN WALKER

by Stan Hitchcock


CENTURY 21 MUSIC
4111S17
STEREO

SIDE A:



A WINNER WALKIN' HOME: THE BALLAD OF DAN WALKER

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Editor's note: Dan Walker's 2,000 mile walk across the state of Illinois in his 1971 successful Gubernatorial bid was the highlight of his political career. After one turbulent term in office he was ousted and later convicted of bank fraud, spending some time in prison. This song commemorates the walk he made that led to an unlikely political victory 2 years later.

HITS MADE FAMOUS BY COUNTRY QUEENS

by Faye Tucker & Dolly Parton


SOMERSET RECORDS
SF-19700
STEREO
1963

SIDE A:



FAYE TUCKER SINGS HITS MADE FAMOUS BY PATSY CLINE

CRAZY
I FALL TO PIECES
BILL BAILEY
WALKIN' AFTER MIDNIGHT
SINCE YOU WENT AWAY

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SIDE B:



DOLLY PARTON SINGS HITS MADE FAMOUS BY KITTY WELLS

IT WASN'T GOD WHO MADE HONKY TONK ANGELS
MAKING BELIEVE
LETTER TO HEAVEN
RELEASE ME
TWO LITTLE ORPHANS
LITTLE BLOSSOM

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Editor's note: I bought this unsuspecting that a teenage unknown named Dolly Parton would be part of the package. She sounds young and unpolished but in a good way since I can't really stand the refined Dolly. But she also sounds like her voice is melting within the syllables. Faye Tucker is better on this record in my eyes but I'm not sure if that's because she's singing Patsy Cline songs. Whichever, she'll be forever known as the unknown second singer on album with an also unknown named Dolly Parton.

TOO MUCH NOISE

by Ann McGovern


SCHOLASTIC RECORDS
CC 0614
33 1/3
1967

SIDE A:



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SIDE B:



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Editor's note: I had never heard of this one and that's a good thing because it's garbage in, garbage out. The new mantra of the day philosophically.Oh, joy.

GLORY ROAD

by Al & Jane Shroyer


GOLDEN VOICE RECORDING CO.
780365
STEREO

SIDE A:



LET JESUS TURN YOU ON
I KEEP FALLING IN LOVE WITH HIM
WITHOUT JESUS YOU WON'T MAKE HEAVEN
SAY, I DO
ONE DAY AT A TIME
LORD BRING ME CLOSER TO YOU

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SIDE B:



SHELTER OF HIS ARMS
GOSPEL SHIP
THEN I FOUND JESUS
HE'S GOT EVERYTHING
MY RELIGIONS NOT OLD FASHION
I'LL SEE YOU IN THE RAPTURE

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Editor's note: a little country western Jesus mayhaps? Suuuure. This couple (and I presume their children) aren't the finest examples of vocalists but this is a decent effort. Not quite equal to the recording company name but we're here to present music not a full critique of technique, accomplishment in the field or greatness. I mean, we are both religious and general cretins so who are we to say what's great or not? All right, it's not the strongest singing but the music is okay.