Saaf

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Vinyl Perspectives volume three

Artist Song
Weird Paul  Whalin' the Shit Out of Guys 
Busby Lewis' International Discotheque Orchestra  Foggy Frug 
Terry Bradshaw  This Ole House 
Joel Denis  Je T'envoye la Main 
Coyle and Sharp  Carpenter 
B Lovers  Shakin 209 
Guckenheimer Sauerkraut Band  Second Hungarian Rhapsody 
Ted Knight  Hi Guys 
Sloan  Dirty Nails 
Lloyd and the Jays  Honeymoon Couple 
Swe-Danes  Swe-Dane Symphony 
Lama  Mun Pelko 
Sammy Davis Jr  Lulu's Back in Town 
Los Secretos  Ojos de Perdida 
The Amazing Kreskin  Brothers and Sisters 
Rod McKuen  What I Did for Love 
Squire  No Time Tomorrow 
Edmundo Ros  Hare Krishna 
Haircut 100  Nobody's Fool 
Leona Anderson  Rats In My Room 
Dollie Deluxe  Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll 
The Liverpool Beats  Got To Get Another Girl 
Noel Harrison  Sign of the Queen 
Minipops  Do You Really Want To Hurt Me 
The Light Company  I Wanna Be Free 
Harvey Matusow's Jews Harp Band  War Between Fats and Thins 

Comment:

This is another cross-section of obscure and eclectic tracks from vinyl, few of which are available on CD. Liner notes below.

Lo-fi youngster Weird Paul starts the proceedings with the nerd anthem, Whalin' the Shit Out of Guys.
A classic Kinks riff provides the inspiration for Foggy Frug, played by Busby Lewis' International Discotheque Orchestra.
Steeler legend Terry Bradshaw manages a surprisingly solid rendition of This Ole House.
Je T'envoye la Main is from Quebecois Joel Denis.
Next, the comedy team of Coyle and Sharp harass a Carpenter.
Shakin 209 is a B side from the B Lovers, an 80s band from Champaign, Illinois.
The Guckenheimer Sauerkraut Band murders Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Everyone says, "you have to be good to play this bad."
Ted Knight from the Mary Tyler Moore Show cashes in with Hi Guys.
The most recent track here, Dirty Nails is from a vinyl-only promo for Sloan's Action Pact CD.
Direct from the Divi Divi Beach Hotel, Lloyd and the Jays sing the amusing story of a Honeymoon Couple.
The Swe-Danes included renowned jazz violinist Svend Asmussen and female vocalist Alice Babs. Here they vocalize on Swe-Dane Symphony.
From a test pressing, Finnish punk band Lama perform Mun Pelko, which means "My Fear."
Sammy Davis Jr. introduces Lulu's Back in Town, then sings it in the styles of Mel Torme and Jerry Lewis!
Ojos de Perdida is from Spanish new wavers Los Secretos.
The Amazing Kreskin put out an LP to accompany a silly ESP pendulum game. On Brothers and Sisters, Kreskin will divine the number of siblings you have.
What I Did for Love (from "A Chorus Line") gets a disco treatment from Rod McKuen. This comes from a strange parody LP entitled "Slide Easy In... Disco," on the cover of which appears a hirsute guy's hand scooping out a big glob of Crisco from a can!
Mod bandwagon jumpers Squire jump across to the psychedelic bandwagon with No Time Tomorrow.
Edmundo Ros did a bunch of LPs for Phase 4 with just about any theme you could think up. From the inevitable "hippy" album comes a latin-flavored Hare Krishna that is guaranteed to make your jaw drop.
Nobody's Fool by Haircut 100 is from a flexidisc included in the short-lived Flexipop magazine. This is actually a solo demo from front man Nick Heyward.
Another deliberately bad act, Leona Anderson belts out Rats In My Room.
Norwegian duo Dollie Deluxe recorded a very strange LP that mixed pop tunes with operatic arias. The entire second side is a Beatles medley, but Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll from side 1 appears here.
Got To Get Another Girl is a beaty little tune from a Beatles cash-in LP, performed by The Liverpool Beats.
Golden throat Noel Harrison gets trippy on Sign of the Queen.
The annoying Minipops are next, squeaking Culture Club's Do You Really Want To Hurt Me.
Light rock unknowns The Light Company lightly perform the Monkees' I Wanna Be Free.
And finally (because nothing else could follow it), Harvey Matusow's Jews Harp Band twang their way through a strange tale of urban chaos, War Between Fats and Thins.

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Curtis_Burns
Date: 4/17/2004
Oh my this looks grand. I must hear the Ted Knight and hooray for Harvey Matusow's Jews Harp Band.
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Curtis_Burns
Date: 4/17/2004
...love the Coyle and Sharp too.
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p the swede
Date: 4/17/2004
why don't you start a real record company? I would buy all your releases, damn good work
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p the swede
Date: 4/17/2004
eller som vi sSger i Sverige Skitbra ;)
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Mixxer
Date: 4/17/2004
This looks like fun stuff all around. Will any of these guys make your top 1000 at the end of the year?
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stripey357
Date: 4/17/2004
Love Coyle & Sharp, and I have to hear Ted Knight... thanks :)
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Slack-a-gogo
Date: 4/17/2004
Top notch mix and cover as always. I remember buying that Liverpool Beats album becasue it looked like the lowest grade of Beatle rip-offs before mving onto the the EZ listening Beatles records. In an odd way it was pretty fun. I haven't thought about flexipop singles in years. None of my flexis survived the years - I still wish I had the Bongo's live version of Barbarella from a Trouser Press flexi.
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Thomas_Mohr
Date: 4/18/2004
There used to be about five different outfits calling themselves The Liverpool Beats. The English recording band (which I guess is what's included here) were a totally different group from the guys who, say, recorded Beatles songs in German and toured German Turnhallen and Bierkellers in the 60s. The rest o this looks just as enticiong, enlightening, and fasscinating as the first two vols. Excellency abounds. Great work, Len.
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Moe
Date: 4/18/2004
Another fabu edition in a great series! Please reserve a copy, if you'd be so kind. When was the last time the Mini-Pops appeared on mixes twice in the same month!?!
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joey de vivre
Date: 4/21/2004
more welcome weirdness! I'm going after your mp3s of ALL of these - thanks for retrieving them from obscurity!
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rohat23
Date: 4/21/2004
Where is the Bradshaw song from? Who released it first? Would love to know--please post answer!
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Saaf
Date: 4/22/2004
Bradshaw's gospel album, Until You, was released in 1980. "This Ole House" was written by Stuart Hamblin. His version reached #2 in the country charts in 1954, and Rosemary Clooney's version made it to #3 in the pop charts.
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valis
Date: 4/23/2004
A Top Ten Mix of the Week!
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Dom1
Date: 4/24/2004
Not a lot here I know but I love the look of it...great Sammy Davis Jnr Track!
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Dom1
Date: 4/24/2004
And while I'm here...I said it before I think...yr stuff ranks with the best on this site...I love looking at the covers and gazing at the trax, artists etc...really great stuff!
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Nicholas Vegas
Date: 6/26/2004
Nice Cover Image
& a Strange Mix here, but nice

NV