tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-109239522012-01-23T04:33:37.535-08:00Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02758857328480768088noreply@blogger.comBlogger5651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10923952.post-1130816092199023672010-12-17T11:00:00.000-08:002010-12-17T11:10:38.113-08:00

UPDATE 12/10: This little post ended up causing a few of Billy's biggest fans to become upset, and while I've tried to explain that this site is typically written tongue-in-cheek and expresses opinions, and that I actually enjoyed his music, it's kind of hard to convince someone who's never been to our blog before that it's really all in fun. Anyway, a nice thing that happens here sometimes is

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:: Columbine :: :: Roses For Mama :: C.W. McCall knows a hot topic when he sees one - he’s the man we can thank for bringing us “Convoy” and lesser-known gems like "'Round the World with the Rubber Duck" and “Kidnap America,” released during the Iran hostage crisis.  But this track was, for once, not an opportunistic grab at

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:: Ayatollah, Let 'Em Go! :: :: Wings To Fly ::Hi,Ok, I know, we've been sloughing off lately. We go for months without posting, then we come back and post 3 or 4 times, then go away again indefinitely. We've been doing this for years now. I mean, we had 2 or 3 really good years that make up the bulk of what we've done, and I'm proud of that, but when it comes down to it, Record Robot is like a

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Hey all, if you live in the LA area and want to come out and hear myself and other Robot friends play some records, this is the month to do so. We're doing at least 3 Mondays at the Mandrake Bar near Culver City. Fun and funky little spot and you know the music will be tight. Happy New Year, and hope to see some of you soon!Tony

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The entire yule-log-lovin' album (ZIP)(from liner notes)THE MUSICIf you are looking for something different in Christmas music - if your Christmas office parties or gatherings at home have been too much the same for the past few years, and you would like to introduce a refreshing new note into the proceedings - let pianists Ferrante & Teicher take you on an ADVENTURE IN CAROLS. The paths along

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:: One Christmas Catalogue :: :: Relax ::We all know who Captain Sensible is, right? Well, then again, you may not. He was Co-founder of the British punk band The Damned in 1976. The Damned have the distinction of being the first British punk band to issue an LP (Damned, Damned, Damned 1977) and a classic it is. They went through a lot of personnel changes over the years, and disbanded quite a

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:: Interlude :: :: Sweet Music :: :: Outside :: :: Magic ::The airbrushed van art quality cover lured me in, the shout out to the inmates of Sing Sing on the back notes sealed the deal. I would buy you, funky looking private label soul record presumably from some time in the early 80's, and I would give you a good home. I would even take you out sometimes when I DJ, though I have so far been

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Entire albumThe following is a repost from 2005. Originally I put up only 1 song from the album, so I'm correcting that here. Also corrected are a few "facts" that I had wrong the first time around. Enjoy...Shorty's Portion was centered around singer/composer Steve Salazar. Steve was born with a hole in his heart, and underwent 2 corrective surgeries by the time he was 10. Unfortunately both

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Ah, to those in the Robot Nation who did not make Tony's fine spinnages last month at the Verdugo (see post below), shame, pure shame. To those who did make it (and there were more than a few including yours truly), the Record Robot spirit shone brightly within the crowded confines, and everyone was happy, happy, happy. Happiness is the goal when you go out on a Saturday night. And if your

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Or as close as it's ever gonna get. Our friend and excellent Robot guest contributor Alec has a regular night spinning records (called Verdugo-A-Go-Go) at Verdugo Bar here in Los Angeles, near Eagle Rock. This Saturday I'll be joining him and spinning old junk, cool funk, 80's, weird newer shit, and maybe even a few platters of strange I picked up from Scott Soriano's s-srecords. That's this

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:: Our Beautiful Flag is Crying :: :: Angels of Mercy ::The 4th of July is a great opportunity to take stock of the bounty of things that help make this country great. But, it never hurts to take a look at the many problems that face our nation as well. For example, the fact that we no longer love our beautiful flag causes her to cry. That sucks. Many thanks to Roy at Record Recycler in Torrance

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:: Suge Knight Sweetheart :: :: New Shoes ::Hello, do you miss us? I'm not sure we're actually back yet, but I hate to think we're nothing but a mausoleum of dead links these days. For those many who keep posting that some of our older links are dead: yes they are. We keep things up a generous amount of time, in many cases 6-8 months, and we don't have the server space to keep up the audio to

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:: Henson - Do Me Wrong, But Do Me ::Update, 2/20/2009Well as The Dude himself has said, "New shit has come to light."I've recently been in correspondence with a relative of Tim Henson's who informed me that while the police ultimately ruled the death a suicide, an independent private investigation came up with his death being a murder. I would like to write a more complete tribute to Tim Henson

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:: Songs of Safety Part One :: :: Songs of Safety Part Two :: :: Manners Can Be Fun Part One :: :: Manners Can Be Fun Part Two :: :: Health Can Be Fun Part One :: :: Health Can Be Fun Part Two ::Fun. We all like to have it, especially kids. When I first popped this on, I couldn't believe how unfun it sounded, especially when I tried to imagine being a kid and being bombarded with these

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:: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ::Have you heard enough of the Christmas classic, “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” to last you a lifetime? Of course not, especially when you can hear this one - brought to you by a sixties Taiwanese all-girl band called, The Five Petals. After you’re all through, though, I dare you to head over to www.radiorudolph.com and attempt to listen to the other

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:: Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay :: :: Lies :: :: Call of The Wild :: :: Megalomania :: :: Cactus Fruit :: :: You're A Dancer :: :: And You Know :: :: Bandit :: :: Get Down Woman :: :: Visions Through an Empty Glass ::While searching through the new arrivals bin at Amoeba one fine day, I did a double take when I laid eyes on this one. I could tell immediately it was a "vanity" record. In other

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:: Moonlight Masquerade ::Taken from Mickey Rooney Jr’s 1978 solo album, aptly titled Crazy Ideas, “Moonlight Masquerade” is a shameless rip off of Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood’s 1972 hit, “It Never Rains In Southern California.” While the production, harmonica lick, and chord progression sound just like it, the lyrics are much lighter, such as with the opening lines:When I first saw you

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:: The Rake :: :: Wild Times :: :: Don't Think Twice :: :: Stone and Steel :: :: Baby Eyes :: :: Boil the Kettle, Mother :: :: Butterly Kiss :: :: Short Circuit :: :: Just Who :: :: The Inner Sounds of the id ::Yet another uncredited lp by the late great session guitarist, Jerry Cole. This one is different though: The id were a full on pop group with vocals and radio ready pop tunes and the

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:: Uncle Sam & Anti-Nuke ::Lola VS. Powerman, Magneto And Titanium Man, Dr. Heckyll And Mr. Jive. And now, in this proud tradition of comic book style faceoffs: Uncle Sam & Anti-Nuke. OK, so this is nothing like those other songs in any way, and there's no real faceoff. There are however, enough wanking and pinch harmonics to set any ex Guitar Center employee ashudder.Caesar has quite a roster

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:: Get Up & Get Down ::When I was about 9 or 10, me and my best friend were cracking each other up by trying to sound black. We had heard the Ohio Players for the first time in our lives and were in awe, didn’t quite know what to make of it yet. So we were trying to say “Ow!” like the singer, taking blind stabs at this idea and attitude of funk. When we were busted moments later by my oldest

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Mike suggested I repost this, since it is actually not too bad a time to be an American. So I will. Well, I'll post this link and reactivate the mp3:http://recordrobot.blogspot.com/2006/01/man-does-it-feel-good-to-be-american.htmlTony

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Zipped up in one fantastic saxophone crime package, but limited time only! :: Man With A Gun :: :: You Crossed My Mind Today :: :: Lost In Love :: :: Love Me :: :: Can't Wait Anymore :: :: I Wan'ta See Jesus :: :: Miss Ruby Lee :: :: Young Soldier :: :: My Own Washington State :: :: Dog Track Blues :: :: This Man Is My Father :: :: Surrender :: :: Sounds Like Hurt :: :: You're The Reason Love

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:: Merry-Go-Round :: :: I Think A Cloud Blew Out The Moon :: :: The Animals On The Farm :: :: Just For Fun :: :: The Wind :: :: The Stately Trees :: :: Sleep My Baby Sleep ::Most of the children’s records I’ve come across are horrible, mainly because the vocalists seem to think amusing children requires campy, cloying performances. Like the creepy hosts of children’s tv shows, they

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:: The Star Spangled Banner :: :: The Yankee Doodle Boy :: :: America The Beautiful :: :: You're A Grand Old Flag :: :: Conquest of the American Wilderness :: :: The Stars And Stripes Forever ::It just dawned on me that the weird little Christmas album I have that I haven't gotten around to posting is by the very same guy who did this, which I picked for the very same reason -- something "

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:: Creedence Medley :: :: McArthur Park Medley ::Yet another night club act who had no business documenting their musical indiscretions on vinyl, yet here it is: The Chandler Conspiracy. The time: The early 70s. The material: Medleys of current day hits - some with Christian overtones. The look: Sideburns (except for the lovely ladies of course). The sound: Well, you decide.For some reason, I

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Entire Album, Zipped (YSI) :: Lying Here Loving You :: :: Goodbye Unspoken :: :: Cross Country Driver :: :: She's My Lady :: :: Sweet Street Lady :: :: Dues :: :: Let My Imagination :: :: Also Ran :: :: Goodlight (Show Me Home) :: :: Picture of Mom And Dad ::Note from Tony: Alec is a good friend of ours who shares a similar interest in weird and wonderful vinyl, and whose ".25¢ Record

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:: Bedrock Rap/Meet The Flintstones :: :: Take Me Out To The Ballgame ::We all get bad ideas; terrible concepts, the perfect band name, plays on words that seem remarkably clever upon conception. And most of us later realize that our ideas aren't quite so remarkable, either by the cold hard light of later reflection, or even more quickly by a "who farted?" look from the first person you tell.

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:: 007 Rides Again :: :: Mo Jo :: :: Ripple Blues :: :: Mustang :: :: Dang Thing :: :: Coming On :: :: Unchained Soul :: :: One For The Money :: :: Great Scott :: :: Movin' On. ::A couple of years ago, I posted this article about Jerry Cole in these very pages. The last paragraph went like this: Funny how at the time it was like, "yeah, these old guys are pretty good", but when you learn a

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:: The Andy Griffith Show Theme - The Fishin' Hole :: :: I Spy ::Earle Hagen, who passed away last week at age 88 may not have had the most recognizable name, but his compositions are among the most iconic of the mid to late 20th century. With the advent of television, Hagen's style found a new home when a tune he wrote in the late 30s while doing stints in big bands as a trombonist became the

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:: A Jolly Theatrical Season ::Robert Morse and Charles Nelson Reilly were creatures of Broadway whose paths crossed during the stage production of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Apparently the two hit it off well enough to want to make this album together, and I was lucky enough to find a copy some 35 years after it first appeared on the shelves. Their enthusiasm for the

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:: Classical Gas :: :: Witchita Lineman :: :: I Don't Want To Be With Me :: :: Harper Valley P.T.A. :: :: Little Green Apples :: :: Fire Engine Red :: :: Kansas City ::Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. Fancy threads like Robert Wagner mighta worn when he was courtin' Natalie Wood, and a double necked lavender gee-tar with a sparklin'

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:: The Letter People, A-Z ::[note from Tony: When I imported these into iTunes, the artist showed up as simply "People," so adjust your tags accordingly]This record and I go back a ways. No, I wasn't brainwashed by it as a child because by the time this record came out I was busy buying Black Sabbath records. I have been aware of it though for about 15 years now, and the story of how I became

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:: Ich Hab' Ehrfurcht Vor Schneeweißen Haaren :: :: La Mamma :: :: Mamatschi :: :: Schwalbenlied :: :: Ja, Ja, Wenn Mutter Lacht... :: :: Weißt Du Muatterl, Was I Träumt Hab'? :: :: Gute Nacht, Mutter :: :: An Die Freude :: :: Wenn Du Noch Eine Mutter Hast :: :: Ave Verum Corpus :: :: Ich Möchte Dir So Gerne Sagen :: :: Ais Die Alte Mutter :: :: Ave Maria :: :: Schlafe Mein Prinzchen ::Born

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:: I've Got You Under My Skin :: :: You Are My Sunshine :: :: Ikaw :: :: A Lot Of Livin' To Do :: :: La Bamba :: :: Drumology :: :: Just One Of Those Things :: :: River :: :: Girl From Ipanema :: :: You Gotta Love Everybody :: :: San Antonio Rose ::Firstly things firstly, that's one awesome cover. If by chance this record was putrid, I knew I had, at the very least, yet another wall decoration

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:: Galveston :: :: Wichita Lineman :: :: By The Time I Get To Phoenix ::I'm sure you can imagine how excited I was when just after having seen Mike complete an impressive run of nine Wichita Lineman covers, I stumbled across another. OK, it wasn't that exciting, but my eyes did light up a little, and I immediately turned to my friend and stuck it in his face. He's a veteran of record stores, and

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:: Chinook :: :: Earth :: :: The Stars ::‘Tis Spring, ‘tis Spring! Flying bugs have materialized in my living room to announce it. Ants are making their yearly pilgrimage from the dirt outside and through the walls to my kitchen. Pollen floats in the air directly towards my reddened, itchy eyes and my increasingly sneezy, snotty nose. Hooray! Spring is here!Let us celebrate with the music of

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:: Yellow Submarine :: :: Over, Under, Sideways, Down :: :: Sunshine Superman ::We've covered easy listening heavyweight Enoch Light before, and I am sure we'll cover him again. You remember him, the guy that liked to experiment with stereo separation and record onto 35mm film, with a definite weakness for the Cha Cha and other dances the kids definitely weren't doing.There are probably no

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:: Die! Die! Die! - Blue Skies :: :: High Dependency Unit - Stupormodel ::Die! Die! Die! is a band us here Robots like very much. Personally, I've seen them 5 times in the last 2 years. Not bad for a band from New Zealand who don't tour the States all that often. Fronted by guitarist/vocalist Andrew Wilson, the trio is anchored by bassist Lachlan Anderson and drummer Michael Prain. While

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:: Anna ::This has been a very emotional, painful few days for me. You see, the SXSW festival is occurring right now, and I’m not there. Right about now I should be cracking open another Lone Star tall boy, and having my ears bludgeoned by the 20th band of the day after having quaffed down a tasty Buffalo burger at Casino el Camino. How does one cope? Bacon flavored lollipops just weren’t

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:: California Suite ::Fuck New York, and New Yorkers. I mean, just listen to this "Eddie" character. Who would you rather associate with? Eddie or Sammy? I'll take Sammy and L.A. any day of the week. We've got cool cats like Sammy, and hot chicks hanging out with Sammy in a compound in the Hollywood Hills smoking some radical sinsemilla. No wait, that was that other Sammy Davis Jr. record, but

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:: Half Past A Heartache :: :: It Takes A Lot Out Of Me :: :: If The Devil Wants To Talk :: :: Count Down ::Famous for a song that may have marked the beginning of trucker music, 1952's "Diesel Smoke," Doye O'Dell's name might not sound familiar to you. Even though I'd heard that song before on a few of the trucker comps I've picked up over the years, I don't think I really paid attention to who

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:: Night Fever :: :: Shadow Dancing :: :: Stayin' Alive ::There's a heavily sequined horse fitted with an open collared silk blanket and mirrored saddle. It died of a cocaine overdose. This is the dead horse I like to beat here on the Robot; its name is Disco. I am constantly finding further evidence that Disco saturated nearly every fiber of popular culture during the late 70's, even though the

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:: Song #3 :: :: Song #7 :: :: Song #8 :: :: Song #16 :: :: Song #17 :: :: Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep ::Here’s a few selections off of a recent addition to my slowly expanding sixties Singaporean “Non-Stop Dancing” collection. At least, I think The Saints are from Singapore. They could be Malaysian. It’s hard to tell after some half-hearted Googling of the Internets and the lack of clues on

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:: Just A Little Kiss :: :: Caravan :: :: Baker St. Mystery :: :: Bye Bye Blues :: :: Guitar Boogie :: :: Ebb Tide :: :: Carioca :: :: Golden Wild-Flower ::Regardless of whether or not his name rings an, um...bell, you've certainly heard his guitar. Unless you've never listened to popular music, in which case I am now going to have to ask you nicely to leave. This man is such a part of popular

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:: Georgia On My Mind ::I guess I picked this album up because I liked the cover and because I find it hard to resist the wonderful sound quality of early RCA stereo pressings. I don't have much interest in owning any Eddy Arnold records generally because he's not exactly what you would call edgy. If anything he's the exact opposite of edgy. In my world you gotta have some edges, or you might as

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:: George Morgan - Wichita Lineman :: :: The Lettermen - Wichita Lineman :: :: Sammy Davis Jr. - Wichita Lineman ::And now the last of my Wichita Lineman posts for a while anyway, until I obtain more of 'em anyway. I did in fact save the best for last. The George Morgan version is nice. George is mainly known for his late 40s hit, "Candy Kisses". By the time he made this album, Sings Like A Bird

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:: Out of Limits :: :: Hyper-Space :: :: Saturn ::It’s reasonable to say that America went surf crazy in the early sixties, and The Marketts (lit. trans. “Sea-ketts”) were a good part of that madness by charting some instrumental surf-pop. The original band was formed by main songwriter and guitarist Mike Gordon in 1960, who took what became their first hit single, “Surfer’s Stomp,” to

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:: Wolfwhistles ::Two European lads hook up with a female Japanese singer in one of the world's most famous metropolises. That's the story of Blonde Redhead. It's also the story of Agaskodo Teliverek, if you swap Hungary for Italy and London for New York City. We very rarely put up any new music here on the Robot, but every once in a while I just gotta spread the love. I have been listening to

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:: Perdonname :: :: Never Can Say Goodbye :: :: Chinese Children :: :: Dance With Me :: :: I Want To Be A Puppy :: :: I Wrote A Simple Song ::Bimshire is what many locals call their island home, Barbados. Lord Radio has been a fixture of its music scene for over 55 years. That's probably the most education I've ever delivered in the opening two sentences of a post.So this is ostensibly an album

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:: The Electronic Concept Orchestra - Wichita Lineman :: :: The Ray Charles Singers - Wichita Lineman :: :: Boots Randolph - Wichita Lineman ::Here's a few more Wichita Linemen for your consideration. 1) The Electronic Concept Orchestra - Tony covered another one of their albums a few years ago. A loose configuration of studio musicians featuring Eddie Higgins on Moog. Sublime. 2) The Ray

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:: Sing :: :: Danny's Song :: :: Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree :: :: Harbor Lights :: :: Love Train :: :: Vincent :: :: Killing Me Softly With His Song :: :: Teddy Bear Song :: :: Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got) :: :: Everything's Been Changed :: :: Also Sprach Zarathrustra (2001) ::What better way to start your Valentines Day than the almost lunatic cheeriness of Lenny Dee

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:: Bassman :: :: Amalia Rosas :: :: Rhapsody In Blue ::Aside from the occasional Sesame Street episode in the seventies, or grooving to DeBarge’s “Rhythm of the Night” at roller skating rinks in the eighties, the steel drum has played a minimal role in my life. Thankfully, that's all changed as I'm now the proud owner of this platter of percussive gold from 1974, featuring Trinidad’s

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:: Accountability :: :: Kneepower :: :: I'm Fired Up For Jesus :: :: Antiseptic Christian ::Buying goofy records from the Christian section is always a bit of a gamble. For every ten hilarious covers you see, you should feel lucky (blessed?) if one of them has something chuckle-worthy. I've found that you really increase your chances of amusement if you pick up something that involves Gary S.

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:: Tom Jones - Wichita Lineman :: :: The Heartaches -Wichita Lineman :: :: Enoch Light & The Brass Menagarie - Wichita Lineman ::The Record Robot has proven time and time again that you can never post too many versions of Wichita Lineman. The Jimmy Webb composition, originally a huge hit for Glen Campbell in 1968, is one of those songs that simply had to be covered by every recording artist of

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:: Saturday At 3PM :: :: Now You Can Buy Love Too :: Supposedly a part of the early 80's Los Angeles Paisley Underground scene, I reckon Darius and the Magnets fit about as well as anyone else did into that loose grouping. To me, I can even hear a little Oingo Boingo and The Truth, so if nothing else, this band sounds like Los Angeles in first part of the eighties.The A-Side pulses along

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:: Beautician Blues :::: Wichita Lineman ::I'm beginning to think it's slightly incriminating to begin posts with sentences like, "I was browsing the Ferrante & Teicher section when...," but I suppose if I didn't type things like that, I wouldn't be doing this in the first place. So, yes, I really was looking through the F&T section at one of my favorite vinyl haunts, with the intent of finding

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:: Something In The Air ::Yeah, ok, this cover shot makes it obvious to anyone why I bought this album, but when I came across it, it had even more significance to me than you might think. See, I work with a guy named Mike Cavanaugh who, legend has it, moved to L.A. from Baltimore in the late 80s along with his hair metal bandmates to make it in the music biz. Now, Mike's kind a what you might

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:: Help :: It was 20 years ago this year, when Markus Pepper...oh, never mind. So this looked promising, based on the homemade looking cover, and the come hither stare of the Sean Astin-channeling-Taco-looking young man plastered on it. Once I heard the first two tracks on this short 4-song EP, I could hardly wait to check out what he did to the Beatles' Help. But I had to wade through one more

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Hey, kids. While the Robot is almost ready to go live again after its winter hibernation, I see there's been quite a bit of clamoring for one of my favorite 80's albums, All The God's Men by Blue In Heaven. I hear you, and I want to help. I really wish they'd reissue this on CD with some bonus tracks, but until then, scratchy vinyl rips of this will have to tide us over. Those of you who

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:: Country Girl :: :: Fireproof Money Belt :: :: He'll Leave You Crying :: :: I Don't Think I Love You Anymore :: :: Walk By The River :: :: A Fool Of Her Too ::Joan Harris. Sounded familiar, I must know the name from somewhere.OK, maybe not. But anyway, this is probably from the later 60's or the earlier 70's, and it's pretty decent country music. She doesn't have what I'd consider a classic

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:: Heidnik's House Of Horrors :: :: 20th Century Cannibal :: :: Graveyard Serenade :: :: The Illegitimate Son of Ed Gein :: :: I Am The King :: :: Love Letter to Jamie Lee Curtis :: :: Blood 'N' Guts 'N' Rock 'N' Roll :: :: Teenage Bloodlust :: :: Dead Bitch :: :: Dark Side of the Serial Killers ::From time to time I get emails requesting the Serial Killers, so I figured Halloween might be a

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:: Attila, The Album ::Once, many years ago, a friend and I were watching "Behind The Music:Billy Joel", not because either of us liked him, in fact I despise themotherfucker, but only because we had nothing better to do at thatmoment. Suddenly, without warning, the show revealed the fact thatJoel had been in a band in the late '60s called Attila, and theyshowed a publicity photo of Joel and his

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:: Beyond Antares :: :: Uhura's Theme ::It’s been a consistent hundred and ten degrees inside my home for the last week and about the only thing I’ve been good for is complaining and going to movies for air conditioning. Now that the temperature is down to an uncomfortable ninety-five, I thought maybe I’d bang out a quick post before my ass sticks permanently to the chair. And what a post it

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:: Kentucky_Moonrunner :: :: Mercy Day :: :: Dad I Gotta Go :: :: C.B. Rock :: :: The White Knight :: :: Jaw Jackin' :: :: Who We Got On That End :: :: Cledus's C.B. Lingo Dictionary :: :: C.B. '76 ::Much like his contemporary, C.W. McCall, Cledus Maggard was a made upcharacter concocted by an advertising executive. While working atLeslie Advertising in Grenville, SC, Jay Huguely recorded aCB/

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:: Nixon's the One :: :: Pre-Impeachment Blues ::Well, I thought I was making quite the timely purchase when I came across this single, containing a song called “Pre-Impeachment Blues” on the b-side. Of course, that’s just wishful thinking. It appears that nothing will be happening on that front. But we can transport ourselves back to the good ol’ days of 1974, when actions sometimes had

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:: Do Me Wrong But Do Me :: :: Like Baby Could :: :: Love Could Be So Easy :: :: Goin' Through The Motions :: :: Don't Wait Too Long :: :: God Only Knows :: :: Spread Your Love On Me :: :: Part Time Lady :: :: Crying Alone In Your Sleep :: :: Laugh Til I Cry ::Some time back I wrote a piece about a 45 that had become beloved to me, and some time after that, a friend happened upon the full length

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:: I Remember Elvis Presley :: :: What Will We Do Without You :: :: Goodbye King Of Rock And Roll :: :: Dark Cloud Over Memphis :: :: Candy Bars For Elvis :: :: Goodbye Elvis ::This is a repost of my piece from two years ago for The Elvis Death Week Memorial Celebration Celebration, but I've updated it with more songs. Long live the King, and those who can't ever get over him.Sure, I remember

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:: The King Is Gone :::: If Not For The Love Of Jesus :::: Walking Through Georgia In The Rain :::: Heartbreak Hotel ::Here we go again. Another Deathiversary is upon us and so we pay tribute to the King. Or, at least, pay tribute to those who have paid tribute to him. This time around we’ve got Ronnie McDowell, who gained life through Elvis’ death. The Vietnam veteran was working as a

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:: Introduction By Wally Fowler :::: A New Star In Heaven :::: He's Never Been Alone ::For a guy who devoted his life to Southern Gospel music, and who wasnot so impressed with Elvis when he first met him, Wally Fowler wassufficiently moved by Elvis' death 30 years ago to record this albumfor him. Such was Fowler's clout, that the album includes performancesby Nashville hotshots and Elvis

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:: I Couldn't Take It :::: Changing Life ::A friend at work came in the other day with a big paper grocery sackfull of 78s. The records weren't in sleeves or anything, just tossedinto a double bag with nothing but the good Lord to protect them. Joecame into my cubicle with a sly look on his face. "I have to show yousomething", he said and then produced the bag. He asked, "Can you play33s?". I was

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:: Test Tube Baby :::: Python Snake Man ::I remember when I was a kid and the whole test tube baby thing was going on. I remember hearing that Orioles pitcher Mike Flanagan had a kid that way. No one really talks about test tube babies anymore, but at the time they were all over the news, both legitimate and tabloid. Naturally, novelty artists picked up on this, and that's how you end up with

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:: Take Life A Little Easier :::: World of Love ::I know, these songs appear on various 70s cheese comps, and the record's been covered by other high minded bloggers who beat me to the punch, but maybe you've missed all that, so to you, this is brand new! Maybe you're too young to know who the heck Rodney Allen Rippy is. Ok, I'll tell you: He was a lucky kid who, at age 5 in the early 70s made a

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:: Searching For Love :::: Ave Maria :::: I Sing For You :: :: Spring Tide ::Note to self: Learn Chinese for to make my posts about Chinese pop 7"s better. As far as these things go, I was actually able to find some decent info related to this EP. It's from the 1969 Shaw Brothers production Dark Semester. I don't know what it's about, but it was a drama, and it was directed by Wu Jiangxiang,

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:: Zee Complete Devil's Daughter ::Fast Floyd (real name Robert Mckenzie?) apparently used to play with man-out-of-time Willy Deville, so this delightful menu of mostly old R&B hip shakers (the only originals appear to be the title track and Catwalk) was probably exactly what he was born to do. Is that Candy Barr on the cover? It might be. Basically this album sounds like its cover looks -- a

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:: War Games ::By the time The Lovin' Spoonful made this album at the end of 1968,they were no longer a band having lost lead guitarist Zal Yanovsky toa drug bust the previous year, and the departure of singer/songwriterJohn Sebastian to pursue a solo career. The band's drummer andsometime singer/songwriter Joe Butler carried on using the band's namefor a brief period, and turned out this album

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:: Moonshadow :::: On the Road to Findout :::: Where Do the Children Play :::: Wild World :::: Miles from Nowhere :::: Longer Boats :::: Father and Son :::: Hard Headed Woman :::: Maybe You're Right :::: Peace Train :::: Sad Lisa :::: Changes IV :::: Into White ::Soft rock radio was what my mom and dad always had playing after they crammed me and my four little sisters into our 1972 Buick

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:: Birthday Message ::I pick up these kind of things now and again, just in case there's something extra amusing or kitschy on them. This here is a birthday message that starts out as warmly normal birthday tidings and quickly veers into some bizarre born again jive, with Mr. De Moss even divulging his "second birthdate." Creepy. A little research into Arthur De Moss, and I see that he made his

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:: Kelly N.S.A. :::: Catch Me, I'm Falling :::: Horizon Cinema ::Do you believe in delayed nostalgia? Let me explain, or try to. Sometimes I hear something that I've never heard before, or at least don't think I've ever heard before, and it reminds me of a certain time in my life. You know how certain songs have attached memories, with the reason usually being that you liked, or heard constantly

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:: Drums A Go Go :::: From Russia With Love :::: The In Crowd :::: Bullseye :::: Bongo Rock :::: Skokiaan :::: Watermelon Man :::: Harlem Nocturne :::: Taste Of Honey :::: The Creeper :::: No Exit :::: Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White::I didn't know who Mel Taylor was when I bought this record, I just thought it had to be good with a cover like this. When I first listened to it, I still

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:: That's My Kick :::: Shadow of Your Smile :::: Like It Is :::: It Ain't Necessarily So :::: Autumn Leaves ::I’m not much of a piano music connoisseur, but I’ll check it out if it comes wrapped in a big photo of a guy wearing a “Who Stole My Pudding?” look on his ugly mug, like Erroll Garner here. Best remembered as the artist who composed the standard that everyone loves, “Misty,” Garner was a

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:: The Going Places Sounds Of Tommy Miles (ZIP) ::Ugh, it's hot. And this is some hot organ playing. Well, sort of; it's right up my alley. I am actually pleased and relieved that I cannot find any info on Tommy Miles, because I am lazy, hot, and lazy, and hot. All you need to know you can get from looking at that cover and listening to the tunes, man. Tony

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:: Goin' Skinny Dippin' :::: I Don't Care :::: Lord, I Love Mashed Potatoes :::: Rockin' Damn Roll :: With a name like Mayf Nutter, it better be good. Well, itain't bad I guess. This album fits right in with the time in which itwas made. The mid 70s was when the country went nuts over CB radiosand the music that came with it, and a TV show about some countrybumpkins tearing up the backwoods in a

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:: The Stars and Stripes Forever :::: I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing :::: Put Your Hand in the Hand ::This Korean Children’s Choir record might have made a fine Independence Day post. Alas, posting anything around that date would have interfered with my personal pursuit of happiness (alcohol consumption) and that is surely something our forefathers would have frowned upon. Put out in 1972

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:: Voice Of Freedom :::: The Star Spangled Banner :::: The Star Spangled Banner (Moogstrumental) :::: Satan Spangled Banner :: Wow. OK, let me first say that I always tell myself there's no reason for us freedom loving, freedom abusing guys here at the Robot to do pieces related to current events or holidays, but then some holiday rolls around and I remember this one thing I picked up, and next

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:: I Love Women ::I can totally relate to where Heather Bishop is coming from because I happen to love women too. However, Heather seems to appreciate women from a slightly different point of view. She like, really cares about their feelings and seems to be turned on by the kind of woman who is comfortable in her own skin, crap like that. Whatever. I dig chicks that dig other chicks, cuz I like,

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:: It Ain't Right (Lovin' To Be Lovin') :::: Contact High :::: Keep On Walkin' (Don't Look Back) :::: Evil Man ::There was once a time when you could not escape Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got to Do With It.” It was everywhere, and I’d often think that if I heard it one more time I might just rip my hair out and run naked and screaming through the streets. And up until a short while ago it wasn’

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:: 01 Nothing Means Nothing Anymore :::: 01 Give Me A Little Pain :::: 06 Nothing Means Nothing Anymore :::: 08 Give Me A Little Pain ::One thing about alley cats; you can't get rid of them. You can throw old boots at them as they howl in the night perched on an old knot-holed fence, but you wind up hitting a metal trash can instead, causing even more racket. And still the alley cats howl. Yes,

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:: Caesar In Camerun :::: High Moon Enters Heaven :::: Metasamba :::: Chipmania :::: O Queen Of Saba :::: Memorymetropolis ::The other month, in the flurry of a 30% off sale, I found myself with an armful of vinyl and a headful of worry about how much I was about to blow, even after discount. Then I had to just check out one last section before I forced myself out of there. Unfortunately it was

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:: I Can't Stop Loving You :::: Cowboy Sunset ::Oh, Simon. I had such high hopes for you. With your slicked back hair and your stylish red polyester jacket, and the words “I Can’t Stop Loving You” emblazoned across your EP, I thought you’d surely be the Chinese Elvis. Alas, I’m a sucker. You knew that I, and many like me, would be quick to purchase based on that title, and you fooled us all.

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:: The Whole Shebang ::Bobby Troup wrote Route 66 and starred with his incredible wife, JulieLondon on Emergency. I need say no more. I will add that he was a heckof a good piano player, and he could sing. He had a distinctivesinging style, and that may be why he never became known as a singer,really. Let's put it this way, his delivery was a bit odd. You canhear what I mean. A bit too much of a

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:: Coat & Tie :::: Just For The Moment ::WHO is Alan Wolfson? Well, I don't know. There's an artist who does kickass mini-sculptures named Alan Wolfson, and there's also a dude with a CD on CDBaby.com with a CD out, of all things. He could be one of, both of, or neither of those Alan Wolfsons.But let me tell you about my Alan Wolfson. Well, my Alan Wolfson 45. This has long been in my pile of

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:: Lady of Spain :::: Ebb Tide :::: Swinging on a Star :::: Come Back to Sorrento :::: Flying Home :::: Peg O' My Heart :::: Ciribiribin :::: Begin the Beguine :::: Baby, Baby, All the Time :::: Nature Boy :::: Arrivederci Roma ::Dick Contino is one cool accordion player. He has the distinction of being the only real-life person to be exploited by novelist James Ellroy in a story while still

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:: Your Good Time Party Awaits ::Being a child of the 60s, my fondest summer memories are from those years. Summer meant sunshine, warmth, and the backyard pool. If I had been an adult during those years, I would have liked to have been Bob Moore. By the looks of this cover shot, he dug summer for many of the same reasons, but from an adult perspective. In other words, life was a "Good Time Party

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:: Aquarius :::: Something :::: Everybody's Talkin' :::: MacArthur Park :::: Shook My World :::: Theme From Love Story :::: Little Green Apples :::: Please Don't Give My Daddy No More Wine :::: Just A Closer Walk With Thee ::Sure, there's been lots of bands called The Executives over the years. All genres, all eras -- there's always been a band called The Executives. But I doubt many bands went

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:: Side 1 (4 Hits For Your Party!) :::: Side 2 (4 More Hits For Your Party!) ::Nothing rejuvenates my soul quite like the sounds of those Singaporean songsmiths, The Stylers. They released a massive amount of these instrumental dance records, drenched in heavenly farfisa sounds, throughout the sixties and seventies - and it is my goal in life to have them all. I’d love to travel to Singapore

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:: Let It Out:::: Go Girl, Go ::Ah gosh, I remember this song from when it used to get played on "Boss Radio" 93 KHJ, and KFWB "Channel 98" and of course KRLA which no doubt had some kind of catchy slogan too, but I can't remember it now. It's a heck of a dumb-ass song anyway, and that's its charm. It sounds kind of Tex-Mexish, but these guys were from Memphis, and as with all one-hit-wonder

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:: Cabaret :::: Yellow Days :::: Long Ago And Far Away :::: Satin Doll :::: Stella By Starlight :::: Misty :::: El Cumbanchero :::: Poinciana :::: Edelweiss :::: Willow Weep For Me ::Do you believe in magic? The other day on my lunch break, I decided to take a little walk, and something inside my head said, "Hey, Tony, now that you've firmed up your thighs a little, why not take 11th Street

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:: All Of It And Prissy Poo, Too ::Troy Cory is one of those guys who survived and thrived on the fringesof show business. As David Hasselhoff is to Germany, Troy Cory is toChina. An American entertainer who took full advantage of greater fameoverseas, Cory took a career that began and ended as a teen heartthrobin the early 60s and stretched it for all it was worth for over 40years.It's not real

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:: The Young Lovers (Theme Song) :::: Cupid :::: For Both Of Us :::: The Ambition Of A Youth :::: The Silvery World :::: Lover In My Dream ::While I sure love these Hong Kong Pop EP's, I'm getting kind of tired of my ignorance about them. This might not even be Hong Kong Pop! There are different vocalists on this EP, and it sounds like they all sing on the theme song, so my guess is that this

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:: Big Shot :::: Tie Me To Your Apron Strings Again ::Ace Cannon is one of the most recognizable sax stylists of the early rock & roll era, and is a Memphis studio legend. Born in Grenada, MS in 1934, he was hanging in Memphis during the early Sun Records days, cutting many a side there with all the early icons of rockabilly. In 1958, bassist Bill Black left Elvis' band over a pay dispute and

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