"Guitar Mania" Vol. 6 of 23

Part 6 of a fantastic instrumental guitar / rock 'n roll / pop music album series with all different guitar groups and artists from Europe. Recommended to fans of good instrumental guitar music and 50's 60's rock 'n roll.

trax:
1. Lover's Guitar - The Sky Devils 2. The Third Man - The Sky Devils 3. Midnight In Malaya - The Sky Devils 4. The Happy Whistler - The Sky Devils 5. It's A Man's World - The Shadoogie 6. Flyder And The Spy - The Shadoogie 7. Quatermaster's Stores - The Shadoogie 8. Parisienne Walkways - The Shadoogie 9. The Cruel Sea - The Blue Explosion 10. Dark Eyes Beat - The Blue Explosion 11. The Breeze And I - The Blue Explosion 12. Swingin' Creeper - The Blue Explosion 13. Theme From 'Shane' - The Blue Explosion 14. Cosy - The Jumping Strings 15. Hello - The Jumping Strings 16. South Of The Border - The Jumping Strings 17. Till - The East & West Rockers 18. La Paloma - The East & West Rockers 19. Gitarren Spielt Auf - The East & West Rockers 20. Yellow Jacket - The East & West Rockers 21. The Lonely Bull - The Sparks 22. Telstar - The Sparks 23. Guitar Tango - The Sparks 24. The Boys - The Sparks 25. Wheels - Dixie Aces

The Fourmyula "The Fourmyula" 1968

Formed in 1963 in Heretaunga in the Hutt Valley, north of Wellington by writer and guitarist Wayne Mason as Southern Auroras, and then Sine Waves and Insect before finally becoming Fourmyula in 1967, with the lineup that made most of their records...

…Winning the national Battle of The Bands, they were signed to His Master's Voice (NZ) Ltd later that year by Howard Gable and over the next three years had a string of hits that made them one of the most successful New Zealand bands of their time. Moving to London in 1969 they developed a live sound that was substantially harder and heavier than their psychedelic pop of earlier years. Their 1969 single Nature, composed by Mason, was their biggest hit in NZ, won the Loxene Golden Disc (the equivalent of the Record of the Year) in 1970, and in 2003 was named the Supreme New Zealand Composition of the previous 75 years at their celebration of that anniversary. They split in 1971 but reformed in 2010 with the re-release of their catalogue in a boxed set. Chris Parry stayed in the UK and, as A&R manager at Polydor discovered and signed The Jam, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and The Cure, who he also managed and released via his Fiction label. - discogs

trax:
1. The Dodo Song 2. Alice Is There 3. I Can Show You 4. Mr. Whippy 5. Just Round The Corner 6. Toffee Apple Sunday 7. Have You Heard The News 8. Try Me 9. Go Now 10. As Long As I Got You 11. Hitch It To The Horse 12. Watcha Gonna Do 13. Something You've Got 14. Honey Chile
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"Hillbilly Bop, Boogie & The Honky Tonk Blues" Vol. 2 (1951-1953)

The second in our series of Hillbilly Bop & Boogie 2 CD sets, packed to the hilt with another 48 tracks of rompin’, stompin’, toe-tapping music from 1951 thru 1953. The kind of music that Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley were listening to in their formative years.
Dim lights, thick smoke, and loud loud music - hillbilly music with a beat. Bobby Bland (the blues/soul singer) once said "I think hillbilly music has more of a story than people give it credit for". This set includes a booklet with informative liner notes by Al Turner.

trax disc 1:
1. Ball and Chain Boogie - Mervin Shiner 2. Stomp That Thing - Louie Innis & The String Dusters 3. Fifteen Miles from Dallas - Jimmie Davis 4. Salty Dog Rag - Eddie Hill 5. Hillbilly Bessie - Okie Jones 6. Bomb Bosh Boogie - Jack Rowe & His Wichita Mountain Boys 7. She's Got Something - Jimmy Ballad 8. I Can't Take It with Me - Curtis Kirk - Red Hayes Fiddles 9. Help Me Lose the Boogie Woogie Blues - Bobby Soots 10. Sissy Song - Neil Burris 11. Pick up Blues - Johnny Hicks & The Country Gentlemen 12. I Love You Boogie - Laura Lee & Dickie McBride with The Ranch Hands 13. Hard Time Hard Luck Blues - Leroy Jenkins 14. Dirty Dishes - Cliffie Stone & His Hometown Jamboree Gang 15. I'm Hog Tied over You - Ella Mae Morse & Tennesse Ernie Ford with Cliffie Stone's Orchestra 16. Automobile Baby - Jimmie Osborne 17. Tom Cattin' Around - Ken Marvin 18. Grinnin' Lilke a Possum - Idaho Call & Boots Faye 19. Beatin' out the Boogie - Lee Bell 20. Honky Tonk Blues - Eddie Marshall and The Trail Dusters 21. How About a Date - Ken Marvin 22. Milk Cow Blues - Joe Martin 23. I've Lived a Lot in My Time - Jack Rhodes & His Lone Star Buddies 24. Hill Top Rag - Jack Rowe & His Wichita Mountain Boys
trax disc 2:
1. While The Getting's Good - Billy Wallace 2. One Wheel Draggin' - Loyd Weaver 3. When You Make Up Your Mind, I'll Be Around - Blackie Crawford With The Western Cherokees 4. Goose Rock - Bud Hobbs With His Trail Herders 5. Paper Boy Boogie - Texas Bill Strength 6. Where Have You Been - Hardrock Gunter 7. Payday Saturday Night - Zeke Clements With His Men From Music Mountain 8. Howlin' & Prowlin' - Jesse Rogers With The Saddle Pals 9. Drive On - Luke McDaniel 10. Tight Shoe Boogie - Donnie Bowshire 11. She Buys, & Buys & Buys - Billy Ray 12. Waxahatchie Dishwasher Boy - Jim Boyd & His Men Of The West 13. Mama Loves Papa (& Papa Loves The Women) - Jack Rhodes & His Lone Star Buddies 14. I Want A Bowlegged Woman - Jimmy Ballard 15. Boogie Woogie Baby - Louie Innis & The String Dusters 16. Knock Out The Lights (& Call The Law) - Jack Hart & His Hired Hands 17. Bullfrog Boogie - Earl Slone 18. I Can't Go - Luke McDaniel 19. If They Ever Get Together - Johnny Rector With The Western Cherokees 20. Steppin' Out & Sneakin' In - Loyd Weaver 21. Jump Jack Jump - Blackie Crawford With The Western Cherokees 22. My P'roxide Blond - Toby Stroud 23. You're Just A Female Hound Dog - Charlie Gore & Louis Innis 24. Buckshot - Eddie Hill
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"The History Of Vancouver's Rock & Roll!" - Vol 4 - 1991

"If ever there was any doubt that Vancouver's '60s bands were the creative equals of their American counterparts, this CD should settle that issue forever. From raw punk and blue-eyed soul, to folk-rock and sublime psychedelia, all bases are covered. Highlights include Mock Duck (a silkier and more sophisticated Iron Butterfly), the Northwest Company (whose fiery guitar bursts strafed the musical landscape with Kinks-like intensity) and William Tell & the Marksmen (surely on anyone's short-list of great undiscovereds).

Mock Duck's "Do Re Mi" is a stunning original which richly deserved, like many tunes here, U.S. exposure that it never received. With its dark, time-shifting melody and ethereal organ, it had all the makings of an international hit. So did "Mary Jane" by William Tell & the Marksmen -- a finer slice of psychedelia you'd be hard pressed to find. "Hard to Cry" perfectly embodies the Northwest Company's rhythm blitzkrieg approach (circa 1967) and stands proudly beside any Yank or Brit garage punk of that era. West Coast guitar stylings à la Moby Grape or Spirit are suggested by Long Time Comin's "Paper Rose." "My New Love," by the Eternal Triangle, seems a hybrid of "Put the Clock Back on the Wall," by the E-Types, and We Five's "You Were on My Mind." English-flavored bubblegum best describes "In a Whirl" by the Look. The Collectors' "Eyes" gets a thumbs-up as a catchy folk sing-along.
Neither the Shockers nor the Silver Chalice Revue particularly impressed this reviewer, but that's a matter of taste. And while the One Way Street's offerings are middlingly strong psychedelia, the fact that their tunes mistakenly appeared on Louisiana Punk, Vol. 2 (Eva) merely confirms the obvious -- they sounded just like everybody else. Spring's "A Country Boy Named Willy" is unmistakably an early '70s tune -- it just has that countryfied-boogie feel. If you're looking for variety in your pop-music diet, you can't ask for much more than this compilation serves up. Check it out. It's definitely worth a listen." - Stansted Montfichet

trax:
1. Hard To Cry - The Northwest Company 2. Get Away From It All - The Northwest Company 3. Eight Hour Day - The Northwest Company 4. Mary Jane - William Tell & The Marksmen 5. Love Is A Beautiful Thing - The Shockers 6. My New Love - The Eternal Triangle 7. Paper Rose - Long Time Comin' 8. Part Of The Season - Long Time Comin' 9. Listen To Me - The One Way Street 10. Tears - The One Way Street 11. Do Re Mi - Mock Duck 12. In A Whirl - The Look 13. Eyes - The Collectors 14. Don't Feel Bad - The Collectors 15. Soul Drifting - The Silver Chalice Revue 16. Country Boy Named Willie - The Spring

"Guitar Mania" Vol. 5 of 23

Part 5 of a fantastic instrumental guitar / rock 'n roll / pop music album series with all different guitar groups and artists from Europe. Recommended to fans of good instrumental guitar music and 50's 60's rock 'n roll.

trax:
1. Snoertje Van Bloed Rode Kralen - The Blue Moon Rockers 2. Exodus - The Blue Moon Rockers 3. Ajoen Ajoen - The Blue Moon Rockers 4. Johnny On His Strings - The Blue Moon Rockers 5. Ave Maria No Morro - The East & West Rockers 6. La Golondrina - The East & West Rockers 7. Barcarolle - The East & West Rockers 8. Sari Nande - The East & West Rockers 9. Ginchy - The Blue Comets 10. Midnight - The Blue Comets 11. Golden Earings - The Blue Comets 12. Donauwellen - The Blue Comets 13. Meet Mr. Callaghan - The Starlights 14. Amapola - The Starlights 15. Moonshot - The Starlights 16. Carioca - The Starlights 17. Cosy - The Desperates 18. Black Eyes Rock - The Desperates 19. Second Street - The Desperates 20. Geronimo - The Desperates 21. Dance On - The Red Angels 22. Joey's Song - The Red Angels 23. Last Date - The Red Angels 24. Poisoned Ground - Vintage 25. Tomorrow's Love - Vintage

Quincy Conserve "The very Best of…" - Compilation, ed. 2001

But in truth, the plug was pulled shortly afterwards, when a side project called The 1860 Band stole Quincy Conserve’s pub residency, leaving Malcolm Hayman high and dry without a band to front. Hayman ended his professional career with the rock group Captain Custard, where he seemed to retreat to playing for bucks…

...When I spoke to him in 1986, Hayman was melancholy but proud of his group’s achievements in the recording studio. “It was a highly… personal thing. We got to the stage where we used to do a number, and if we put a number down that wasn’t what we wanted, I used to get a magnet and just wipe the tape off. I’m not going to sell that to the public, you know? It’s not what I want it to be. And they used to think I was a nutcase. I’d spend four or five hours in the studio doing a band track putting it all down, but if it wasn’t what I wanted, I had to go away and rethink it. And of course we had the ability to do that because everything we did sold well. They [HMV/EMI] would look and say ‘the last five records have sold well, he must know what he’s doing.’”
When Quincy broke up in 1975, it was the end of Hayman’s dream gig, but it had already been on the slide for a while. “I had a nine-piece band, and the money was phenomenal, but we had to earn two-and-a-half thousand per week to support the band. So slowly the band went smaller and smaller, and then soon the general basis of economics broke it up. The hotels started budgeting, cutting back. So it’s back to four-piece R’n’R.”
While he talked with admiration of his chums in Captain Custard, it was clear that Hayman missed his halcyon years in Quincy: “I find it limiting. I always like to do something I know can be done well, but I haven’t got enough instruments to do it, and therefore you compromise. I always feel compromise leaves something lacking and I don’t like to feel you can’t produce what you hear in here [pointing to his head]. It’s an expansion of something – I can hear this other instrument playing all the time, and it annoys me. You get frustrated with yourself. It’s not the ideal end to it all.” - AUDIOCULTURE

trax:
01. Ride The Rain 02. Roundhouse 03. Aire Of Good Feeling 04. I've Been Loving You Baby 05. Hallelujah 06. All Right In The City 07. Soul Thing 08. I Feel Good 09. Lulu Belle 10. Keep On Pushing 11. Lovin' Look 12. Everybody Has Their Way 13. Somebody, Somewhere, Help Me 14. Going Back To The Garden 15. I'm So Proud 16. Here's To The Next Time 17. My Michelle Charm 18. Keep On Playing That Rock and Roll 19. Slu 20. Volcano
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"Hillbilly Bop, Boogie & The Honky Tonk Blues 1948-1950" Vol. 1

Continuing our very successful country series, here is our first 2CD set. 48 rompin’ stompin’ examples of hillbilly boogie, bop, and the honky tonk blues from 1948 to 1950. The kind of music that Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley were listening to in their formative years…

...Dim lights, thick smoke, and loud loud music - hillbilly music with a beat. Bobby Bland (the blues/soul singer) once said "I think hillbilly music has more of a story than people give it credit for". This set includes a booklet with informative liner notes by Al Turner.

trax disc 1:
1. Brother, Drop Dead - Redd Stewart & His Kentucky Colonels 2. Rootie Tootie - Paul Howard & His Cotton Pickers 3. Keep Your Motor Hot - Sam Nichols with The Melody Rangers 4. Diddy Wah Boogie - Al Dexter 5. Mountain Boogie - Wally Fowler & His Georgia Clodhoppers 6. Georgia Boogie - Curley Williams & His Georgia Peach Pickers 7. Hootin'-Nanny Papa - Buchanan Brothers & The Georgia Catamounts 8. Lazy Mary - Bud Hobbs with His Trail Herders 9. Easy Payment Blues - Roy Hogsed 10. Mind Your Own Business - Jesse Rogers & His 49ers 11. Grandpa's Boogie - Grandpa Jones & His Grandchildren 12. Cotton Picker's Special - Paul Howard & His Cotton Pickers 13. Jug Band Boogie - Louis Innis & The String Dusters 14. Spookie Boogie - Cecil Campbell's Tennessee Ramblers 15. (I Had) A Good Man In Memphis - Esmeraldy 16. Juke Box Gal - Claude Casey 17. Big Chief Boogie - Spade Cooley (King Of Western Swing) & His Band 18. Sugarfoot Boogie - Eddie Crosby & His Sugarfoot Shufflers 19. What A Price To Pay For Love - Jimmie Osborne 20. Everybody's Sweetheart - Art Gibson & His Mountain Melody Boys 21. 49 Women - Jerry Irby with His Texas Ranchers 22. It'll Make A Change In Business - Lonnie Glosson & His Railroad Playboys 23. Better Back Up Mama - Louis Innis with The String Dusters 24. Hadacol Boogie - Jesse Rogers & His 49ers
trax disc 2:
1. Hillbilly Boogie - Jerry Irby with His Texas Ranchers 2. Jelly Bean Rag - Jack Rivers 3. Boogie Man Boogie - Chet Atkins & His Guitar Pickers 4. Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - Kenny Roberts 5. Rubber Ball Bounce - Buz Butler 6. My Dreamboat Struck A Snag - Louis Innis & His String Dusters 7. The Haunted House Boogie - Happy Wilson 8. Loose Your Blues - Smokey Rogers & His String Band 9. Who Puts The Cat Out When Papa's Out Of Town - Sam Nichols with The Melody Rangers 10. Virginia On A Saturday Night - Bob Eaton & His Lone Star Boys 11. Birmingham Bounce - Leon Mc Auliffe & His Western Swing Band 12. Tamburitza Boogie - Smokey Rogers & His String Band 13. Hi De Ho Boogie - Al Dexter 14. Blues Stay Away From Me - Eddie Crosby 15. Motor City Boogie - The York Brothers 16. Byrd's Boogie - Jerry Byrd & The String Dusters 17. I Ain't Gonna Let It Happen Anymore - Tennessee Ernie Ford 18. Good Morning Judge - Louis Innis & His String Dusters 19. Lovin' Ducky Daddy - Carolina Cotton 20. Long Gone Daddy - Jimmie & Leon Short 21. You've Got To See Mama Ev'ry Night - Ann Jones 22. The Hard Way - Jene O'Quin (sic) 23. Nothin' Clickin' Chicken - The Down Homers 24. Hoe Down Boogie - Red Perkins
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"Guitar Mania" Vol. 4 of 23

Part 4 of a fantastic instrumental guitar / rock 'n roll / pop music album series with all different guitar groups and artists from Europe. Recommended to fans of good instrumental guitar music and 50's 60's rock 'n roll.

trax:
1. Moon Of Manakoora - The Desperates 2. Morgen - The Desperates 3. Honky Tonk - The Desperates 4. Mister Sandman - The Desperates 5. Lief Java - The Kiliaan Brothers 6. Bogaloose Stomp - The Kiliaan Brothers 7. 18Th Century Rock - The Kiliaan Brothers 8. Lovesick Blues - The Kiliaan Brothers 9. Cosy - The Spectacles 10. Besame Mucho - The Spectacles 11. Al Capone - The Spectacles 12. Darktown Strutter's Ball - The Spectacles 13. You Are My Sunshine - The East & West Rockers 14. Patricia - The East & West Rockers 15. Should I - The East & West Rockers 16. Traditional Guitars - The East & West Rockers 17. Walk Don't Run - The Romantics 18. Sabre Dance - The Romantics 19. Apache - The Romantics 20. Little B - The Romantics 21. Mustang - Shadoogie 23. Spanish Tears - Shadoogie 24. Alentejo - Shadoogie 25. Two Guitar Rag - Charlie Gracie

Quincy Conserve "The Quincy Conserve" 1975

The first album didn’t eventuate until 1970. Listen To The Band featured the group’s best song, the Bruno Lawrence-penned ‘Ride The Rain’, but its tacky cover and unnecessary cover versions prevented it from becoming quite the classic it should have been. Lawrence had joined the band on drums, but his wayward, uncontrollable personality would quickly prove tiresome to disciplinarian Hayman, who sacked him after an infamous debacle at the Loxene Golden Disc Awards...

...The group’s most consistent album is Epitaph (1971), which featured Hayman, Mason, Orams, Rehu and McCormick from Mk1 with the addition of drummer Richard Burgess (who would later, improbably, move to England and work with New Romantic groups Visage and Spandau Ballet) and trumpeter Barry Browne-Sharpe. Sadly, the album’s hugely enjoyable blend of jazzy funk (and brilliant tracks like ‘Aire Of Good Feeling’ and ‘Alright In The City’) failed to prevent its quick descent into bargain bins, mainly because the band had decided to break up before its release.
Hayman quickly changed his mind on the band’s demise, and reformed the group in 1972, and in 1973 the comparatively disappointing rock oriented Tasteful album was released to wide indifference. An attempt to capture the group live in the studio (albeit with no audience), it felt jaded, and lacked the inspired grooves and horn arrangements for which the band was famed. In many ways, The Quincy Conserve’s last, self-titled album, released in 1975, is their best, with the stellar work of up-and-coming jazz musicians like Billy Brown (drums), Peter Blake (keyboards) and Rodger Fox (trombone) sending the sound in a very jazz-rock-fusion direction. Hayman’s vocals have evolved to reveal one of our best, most emotive stylists, and all the original compositions are first-class. Unhappily, this album has never seen the light of day on CD, nor have any tracks from it turned up on the two compilation CDs… to be continued - AUDIOCULTURE

trax:
01. Person to Person 02. What Are We Doing Here 03. Gisborne Swimming Pool Song 04. Havana Strut 05. Cecilia 06. Rockin' Chair 07. Leigh's Hymn 08. Funky Stuf 09. 'K' Road Blues 10. Fault Line
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"Itty Bitty Treasure Chest" Vol. 4 (Fortune Records R&B)

Yet mo' low down Motor City groups from the godlike Fortune label!

trax:
1. Oh Lover - The Del Victors 2. Acting Up - The Del Victors 3. Come On And Let Me Love You - The Destinations 4. You Tickle Me Baby - The Royal Jokers 5. You Don't Know My Mind - Jim San & The Montclairs 6. Bad Luck - The Lapels 7. Too Small To Dance - Little Earnest Tucker 8. Just Go - Gino Parks 9. Yum Yum - Lee Thomas & The Don Juans 10. Your Star - Gene Allison & Jeanettes 11. We're Gonna Rock - Jim San & The Montclairs 12. Dusty Roads - The Lapels 13. It's Nice - Marsha Renay & Don Juans 14. Maybe - The Utopias 15. Oh My Love - Cozy & Creshendals 16. Big Feet - The Starlighters 17. A Place I Know - Nathaniel Mayer & Twilights 18. Blue Stroll - Jim Myers & Montclairs 19. Lovey Dovey - The Royal Jokers 20. Ooh Ooh Those Eyes - Jimmy Burke & Sequins 21. Don't Press Your Luck - Lee & The Leopards 22. The Storm - Armond Adams aka Arlando King 23. I Don't Wanna Cry - Richard Smith & Group 24. Go Go Inn - Gene Cooper & Group 25. I Found Out - The Soul Disciples 26. Hey Lover - Gene Allison & Jeanettes
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Babik Reinhardt "Babik Joue Django!" 1974

Quand on est le fils d’un guitariste aussi marquant et reconnu que Django Reinhardt, c’est difficile de trouver sa place. Babik Reinhardt y est arrivé en trouvant un son, un style. Pourtant beaucoup de monde attendait à retrouver Django dans le jeu de Babik. Mais il a su résister à cette tentation. C’est en cela que ce CD, une réédition d’un disque vinyle 33-tours enregistré en 1974, est unique dans son genre. Le fils reprend les morceaux écrits par son père. Et pas des moindres : Djangologie, Manoir de mes rêves, Nuages, Flèche d’or... Pour cela il va s’entourer du contrebassiste Alby Cullaz, Roger Berthier au violon, Alain Dersy au Saxophone, Marc Hemmeler au Piano et Marcel Sabiani à la batterie. On est loin du Quintette à cordes de Django et Stéphane Grappelli mais pas si loin des derniers enregistrements de Django, à la guitare électrique en 53. Ce n’est pas Django, mais on retrouve le même amour des belles phrases dans un swing plus flottant. Un bel hommage d’un fils à son père. - from: http://www.djangostation.com/Babik-joue-Django,1060.html"

If there is an argument for the theory that talent is purely inherited, then Babik Reinhardt should be the greatest living Gypsy jazz player." -- Andy Mackenzie While many jazz artists have followed in the footsteps of Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, one inherited his legacy naturally: Babik Reinhardt was Django Reinhardt's second son. "Despite being the second son of Django," noted Mackenzie, "Babik has demonstrated little interest in recreating his father." Born on June 8, 1944, in Paris, the younger Reinhardt learned the basics of guitar from his mother, Naguine Reinhardt, and learned more from uncles and cousins. His father, meanwhile, taught him piano (believing there would be more work for a pianist), though the young musician eventually chose the guitar. Babik Reinhardt was nine when his father died.
Coming of age in a different era than his father, his influences branched beyond acoustic jazz guitar and included electric guitarists like Wes Montgomery and Jimmy Raney. "...Babik prudently developed an electric guitar style that was sufficiently personal and far-removed from that of his father to allow him his own identity and to avoid unwanted comparisons," wrote Mackenzie. He recorded his first album, Swing 67, in the 1960s with the Arvanitis Trio, though writer Fred Sharp expressed the opinion that Reinhardt's skill had not fully developed at this point. Reinhardt would eventual embrace jazz fusion, sometimes relying on no more than his Gibson ES-175 and a backing bass player. He also recorded with other fusion players, including Larry Coryell and Didier Lockwood.
Like his father, Reinhardt was also a composer. "He composed many pieces and his ballads have all the warmth and expression of his father's compositions," wrote Sharp. Babik Reinhardt died of a heart attack on November 13, 2001, in Cannes on the French Riviera. He was 57. "The music and legend of Django Reinhardt has lived on for over 65 years," wrote Sharp. "Babik has surely inherited all the musicality of his father, while not trying to copy him...." ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr.

trax:
01 Djangologie 02 Manoir De Mes Rees 03 Tears 04 Fleche D'Or 05 Sweet Chorus 06 Anouman 07 Minor Swing 08 Lentement Mademoiselle 09 Dinette 10 Swing 42 11 Swingtime In Springtime 12 Nuits De St. Germain-des-Pres 13 Porto Cabello 14 Nuages

This music is dedicated to the tradition of Johnny Diego's Rock 'n' Roll Free Sunday! 

"Guitar Mania" Vol. 3 of 23

Part 3 of a fantastic instrumental guitar / rock 'n roll / pop music album series with all different guitar groups and artists from Europe. Recommended to fans of good instrumental guitar music and 50's 60's rock 'n roll.

trax:
1. Mirananda - Blue Explosion 2. Red Hot Navigator - Blue Explosion 3. Wrong Planet - Blue Explosion 4. Two Guitars - Blue Explosion 5. La Golondrina - Dizie Aces 6. Barcarolle - Dizie Aces 7. Geronimo - Dizie Aces 8. Sari Nande - Dizie Aces 9. Jumping Melody - The Jumping Strings 10. Wien, Wien, Nur Du Allein - The Jumping Strings 11. Happy Days - The Jumping Strings 12. Red River Rock - The Jumping Strings 13. Rosita My Love - The Kiliaan Brothers 14. Black Eyes Rock - The Kiliaan Brothers 15. San Antonio Rose - The Kiliaan Brothers 16. Al Capone - The Kiliaan Brothers 17. Long Long Ago - The Red Angels 18. Happy Guitar - The Red Angels 19. Ajoen Ajoen - The Red Angels 20. Once - The Red Angels 21. Old Spinning Wheel - The Sky Devils 22. Gunshot - The Sky Devils 23. Lili Marlene - The Sky Devils 24. China Rock - The Sky Devils 25. Sunrise In Malaysia - The Sky Devils

Quincy Conserve, Blerta, Lutha & Desna Sisirich "Live" 1973

The relentless seven-night weekly residency, along with work backing pop singers, undoubtedly allowed Hayman to keep Quincy’s professional footing firm, and to nurture the style that they encapsulated on their own records, which still sound fresh today...

...It all started in late 1967, when Hayman scoured the country for the best players he could find to play a residency at Wellington’s popular Downtown Club. The Quincy Conserve Mk1 solidified around bassist Dave Orams (The Underdogs), keyboardist Rufus Rehu (Quin Tikis), saxophonists Dennis (aka Denys) Mason and Johnny McCormick (both Sounds Unlimited) and drummer Raice McLeod (after brief stints by Breakaways drummer/singer Bryan Beauchamp and Earl Anderson), although the line-up would weave a complex series of fluctuations thereafter.  
The group’s first single, ‘I’m So Proud’ b/w ‘I’ve Been Loving You Baby’ was released through HMV in June 1968, and like all subsequent singles and albums, it reviewed well but was commercially inconsequential… to be continued - AUDIOCULTURE

trax:
Lutha:
01 Student Demonstration Time 02 Andrianna 03 Stop! The Music Is Over
Desna Sisarich:
04 Lay My Weary Head 05 Uncle Seymour 06 The Entrepreneur
Quincy Conserve:
07 Jive! Jive! Jive! 08 Where Would I Be 09 Music For Gong Gong
Blerta:
10 Hullo, Hullo 11 Captain Shit 12 Goin' Back / Dance Around The World
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"Itty Bitty Treasure Chest" Vol. 3 (Fortune Records)

Yet mo' low down Motor City groups from the godlike Fortune label!

trax:
1. Come Home With Me - The Diablos 2. Little Senorita - The Swans 3. Not A Hand To Shake - The Five Jets 4. Baby Only You - The Earthquakes 5. Jump, Shake & Move - The Diablos 6. Help-Murder-Police - The Hi Fidelities 7. Mister Cool Breeze - The Swans 8. Tell Me You'Re Mine - The Five Jets 9. Life Of Ease - The Four Arcs 10. Booga Bear - The Creators 11. Since I Fell For You - The Diablos 12. Spring - The Royal Jokers 13. Soft, Sweet And Reallyy Fine - The 4 Dukes Of Rhythm 14. You Don't Mean Me Right - The 4 Kings 15. The Trap Of Love - The Premiers 16. Baby Child - Joe Weaver & The Don Juans 17. Grandpa's Gully Rock - The Montclairs 18. Someday We'll Meet Again - The Royals 19. Fools Rush In - The Diablos 20. This Is A Miracle - Little Eddie & The Don Juans 21. Playboy - Melvin Davis & The Nite Sounds 22. Come Home My Love - The Ferros 23. Give In - The Five Jets 24. When You Are In Love - The Premiers 25. Old Macdonald (Drops On Original Tape) - The Diablos 26. You Came Along - The Royal Jokers 27. Tough Cat - The Ferros 28. I Won't Be Your Fool - Melvin Davis & The Nite Sounds 29. I Want A Woman - The Five Jets
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"The Incredibly Strange Record Club" (Inspired By The Cramps Crazy Collection) Vol. 1: Fungus, Stockings, Torture, Beatniks, Robots & Nonsense

Inspired by the Cramps' crazy record collection and concentrating on fungus, black stockings, beatniks, torture and other nonsense. Bringing together jungle exotica, greasy instrumentals, insane doo-wop, songs sung in gibberish, beatnik bebop jazz and a host of new unadvisable dance crazes. Crazy swinging R&B, soulful strangeness, wacked out country and plenty of reverb on a collection that makes you marvel at who thought this stuff up. Gangsters, crime noir aficionados, novelty 45 kingpins and big band hoofers all included. (Record Runner)

trax:
1. F-Olding Money - Tommy Blake 2. Long Black Stockings - Tony Butala 3. Aw Shucks Go on Twist - Tommy Wills & His Twisting Tomcats 4. Fungus Among Us - Hugh Barrett & The Victors 5. Lost (Cricket in My Ear) - The Webs 6. Mumbles - Jack Ross 7. Rubber Biscuit - The Chips 8. Mope-Itty Moope - The Boss-Tones 9. Okeefenokee - The Holly Twins 10. Kill It - The Antwinettes 11. Watusie Freeze Pt 1 - Big Walter And The Thunderbirds 12. The Pigmy Song (Tikky Tikky Boom Boom) - Chaino 13. Robot Man - Jamie Horton 14. Devils Run - Herb Kliebe With Bailey's Nervous Kats 15. Ooba Gooba - The Charts 16. The Bug - Jerry Dallman & The Knightcaps 17. You Been Torturing Me - The Four Young Men 18. Who Me? - The Jet Streams 19. Dollar Signs - Lanz Miles 20. Pad - Fritz And Jerry 21. Swing Low Sweet Cadillac - Aggie Dukes 22. Cut-a-Loose - Big Jox Orchestra 23. Lullaby of the Doomed - Babs Gonzales 24. Ed's Place - Horace Heller 25. Midnight - Hank Levine And The Blazers 26. Midnight in Montevideo - The Biscaynes with Co-Encidentals
…Thanks to Dick for this CD! served by Gyro1966...

"Guitar Mania" Vol. 2 of 23

Part 2 of a fantastic instrumental guitar / rock 'n roll / pop music album series with all different guitar groups and artists from Europe. Recommended to fans of good instrumental guitar music and 50's 60's rock 'n roll.

trax:
1. Kyoto Doll - The Starlights 2. Hokkaido Skies - The Starlights 3. Flight Of The Bumble Bee - The Starlights 4. Violetta - The Starlights 5. Isle Of Capri - The East & West Rockers 6. April In Paris - The East & West Rockers 7. Guitar Humoresque - The East & West Rockers 8. Begin The Beguine - The East & West Rockers 9. . Little Breeze - The Explosion Rockers 10. The Breeze And I - The Explosion Rockers 11. Because They Are Young - The Explosion Rockers 12. Wonderfull Land - The Explosion Rockers 13. Red River Rock - The Eastern Aces 14. La Golondrina - The Eastern Aces 15. San Antonio Rose - The Eastern Aces 16. Tony's Boogie - The Eastern Aces 17. Winnetou - The Rocking Birds 18. Idylle - The Rocking Birds 19. Evening Of Lonelines - The Rocking Birds 20. Johnny Guitar - The Rocking Birds 21. Catalina - The Krontjong Devils 22. XL-3 - The Krontjong Devils 23. Quasimodo - The Krontjong Devils 24. Fail Safe - The Krontjong Devils 25. Contact - The Krontjong Devils

Quincy Conserve "Tasteful" 1973

 …“We were in a lucky situation [in the late 1960s]. We had a resident dance hall that has long since gone, and we were also the resident band for EMI for their recordings. We used to back everyone up – all the schmaltz singers, Suzanne, Craig Scott. We had the recording down here sewn up. We used to spend all day in the studio and all night at work, 12 to 14 hours a day, every day. There were [import restrictions] on US and UK records and of course Aussie and NZ groups started covering them.”..

...“So from 68 to 74, of my own band I [recorded] five albums and something like 14 to 20 singles, which was an awful lot of material for a band in a country of this size, plus covers and backing for other people.”
Even today, it’s hard to get one’s head around The Quincy Conserve, and its leader. On the one hand, for many years they were the go-to band at residencies in Wellington, and were so good they were employed to back visiting international acts like Millie Small, Clarence “Frogman” Henry and Sonny Til of The Orioles, and the supporting musicians for touring roadshows of pop stars including Allison Durbin and Craig Scott. On the other, they were central in turning Wellington into the core of the NZ recording scene in the early 70s, where various permutations of the group provided the musical backing for dozens of pop records. The group was even, as Hayman explains, the culprits behind those dire sound-alike hit compilation albums that once plagued the bargain bins:
“We used to turn out these Cindy [label] records. They were albums that had covers of everything on the charts in the States and that. They used to give you half a day to do a whole album, and you’d go in with three bands and mix guys up, use the drummer out of one, the brass player out of another. They were cheapie albums, with the top 10 on one side and the top 20 all over them. You just had to do these tunes with whoever you had available. They were pretty rough, you can imagine what they were like. They were the beginning of K-Tel Records. We’d fly people into the city, bung them in the studio, teach them three times through the number, then do it. Three and a half hours to do an album and it was on a 4-track tape recorder, so there’s no overdubbing, nothing. Bang it down, that’s it. Close enough’s good enough.”… to be continued - AUDIOCULTURE

trax:
01. Volcano 02. Move On Up 03. First 04. Keep On Pushing 05. Live Today 06. Keep On Playing That Rock And Roll 07. My Brother Jake 08. Lulu Belle 09. I Saw The Light 10. Lazy Kind Of Day 11. Ain't Seen Nothing Yet 12. Slut
…served by Gaius…

"Itty Bitty Treasure Chest" Vol. 2 (Fortune Records)

 2nd In A 4-Volume Doo-Wop / R&B Series Covering Mainly Fortune / Hi-Q Records Of Detroit.

In the late 1990s, Regency Music released a mini-series of four volumes under the generic heading "Itty Bitty Treasure Chest - Lotsa Musty Dusties" covering primarily the Detroit-based Fortune Records and its Hi-Q subsidiary. Fortune had been launched as an independent way back in 1946 by the husband-and-wife team of Jack and Devora Brown, and up to about 1972 handled all genres, including R&B/Doo-Wop which is mainly the focus of this series, as well as Blues, Soul, Pop, Hillbilly/C&W, Gospel, Polka and R&R in 78- then 45-rpm as well as LP formats.
Nationally-charting singles may have been few and far between, but their releases always did well enough on a local/regional basis to keep them solvent through some 400 singles.
Their first experience with a national hit was the Feb 1957 # 9 R&B Bacon Fat. Initially released as Fortune 831 in 1956 b/w Just Because Of A Kiss billed as Andre Williams with The 5 Dollars, only after being picked up on a lease arrangement by Epic did it rise to that level, and with the billing changed to Andre Williams (Mr. Rhythm) & His New Group. Unfortunately, neither side is included in any of the 4 volumes. What is included, however, is Village Of Love by Nathanial Mayer And The Fabulous Twilights which scored on both the Billboard Pop Hot 100 (# 22) and R&B charts (# 16) in May-June 1962 as Fortune 449 b/w I Want A Woman - not included. In fact, Village Of Love was ranked # 32 in a list of the 100 greatest Detroit songs ever published in 2007 by the Detroit Metro Times, along with 2 other Fortune releases that never made the national charts - The Wind by Nolan Strong & The Diablos (# 11) - Fortune 511 in 1954, and Mind Over Matter (I'm Gonna Make You Mine) by the same artists (# 63) - Fortune 546 in 1962. Again, those two are inexplicably excluded from the 4 volumes.
The other labels represented in the series are: DeLuxe Records, first launched in 1944 by brothers David and Jules Braun in Linden, New Jersey, but purchased owned by King Records founder Syd Nathan and placed in Cincinnati in 1949; Keldon Records, a tiny Ohio-based label that only ever released 3 singles; and George Bennett's equally small Jaguar Records in New York City. (George O’Leary, Goldmine)

trax:
1. Valley Of Tears - The Destinations (Fortune 864 - 1964); 2. Just For Tonight - The Del Rios (acapella - not issued); 3. Tootsie Roll - Joe Weaver (not issued); 4. Oh Joe Joe - The Centurys (acapella - not issued); 5. If I Loved Only You - The Short Stops (not issued); 6. Mother Was Right - The Combinations (acapella - not issued); 7. I'll Always Remember - The Five Jets (not immediately issued - appeared in the mid-1960s in the LP "Treasure Chest Of Musty Dusties - Vol II " - Fortune 8017; 8. Jungle Fever - Nolan Strong & The Diablos (acapella - not issued); 9. Call The Police - The Montclairs (not issued); 10. Street Of Loneliness - The Hi Fidelities (outtake); 11. The Best Things In Life Are Free - The Constellations (not issued); 12. Rita - The Fabulous Four (acapella - not issued); 13. Calypso Beat - Little Eddie & The Don Juans with Charlie Morris And His Orch (Fortune 836 - 1957; 14. I'm Laughing At You - The Gardenias (Hi-Q 5005 - 1957; 15. These Lonely Nights - T he El Capris (Hi-Q 5006 - 1957); 16. I Am In Love - The Five Jets (DeLuxe 6018 - 1953); 17. I Don't Like You That Much - The Royal Jokers (Fortune 840 - 1958); 18. Baby, Don't You Care? - Lee Thomas & The Don Juans (Jaguar 3030 - 1956); 19. Last Night I Cried - Dino Parks & The Hi Fidelities - Fortune 528 - 1957); 20. Looka Here Pretty Baby - Joe Weaver & The Don Juans (Fortune 832 - 1956); 21. I'll Forever Love You - The Swans (Fortune 822 - 1955); 22. Cool As A Cucumber - Chet Oliver (Fortune 829 - 1956); 23. Everybody's Singing The Blues - The 5 Dukes Of Rhythm (Fortune 812 - 1954); 24. My Head Goes Acting Up - The Four Kings (Fortune 811 - 1954); 25. It Won't Be Very Long - The Four Arcs (Boulevard 102 - 1954); 26. Crazy Hop - The Earthquakes (Fortune 538 - 1960); 27. Don Juan - The Montclairs (Hi-Q 5001 - ); 28. Gonna Get Me A Sattelight - Little Ernest Tucker (Fortune 843 - 1958).
…served by Gyro1966...

…and now for something completely different! 1271 - 2021

We have a first entry each day that is a picture or a video, and only in that entry you can place your music links and requests (NO ALBUMS RELEASED IN 2019 AND AFTER, AND A DAILY LIMIT OF 3 ALBUMS)! Please keep your language polite and respectful. All the rest official posts will only allow comments related to the official posts and such. That way it will keep things much more organized and tidy. Enjoy! RYP and Gyro1966

"Guitar Mania" Vol. 1 of 23

Part 1 of a fantastic instrumental guitar / rock 'n roll / pop music album series with all different guitar groups and artists from Europe. Recommended to fans of good instrumental guitar music and 50's 60's rock 'n roll.

trax:
1. Widows Daughters - The Mustangs 2. Horse Ride - The Mustangs 3. What A Splendid Thing - The Mustangs 4. Dark Eyes Beat - The Mustangs 5. Teen Scene - Blue Explosion 6. Black Swan - Blue Explosion 7. Bongo Blues - Blue Explosion 8. Forever In Dreams - Blue Explosion 9. Tropical Rock - The Meadowhawks 10. Classical Surf - The Meadowhawks 11. Marabunta - The Meadowhawks 12. 1000 & 1 Thoughts - The Meadowhawks 13. Deperates Express - The Desperates 14. Little Geisha - The Desperates 15. Moonshot - The Desperates 16. Snoertje Van Bloedrode Kralen - The Desperates 17. Hurricane Rock - The Blue Moon Rockers 18. Loempia - The Blue Moon Rockers 19. Theme From 'Limelight' - The Blue Moon Rockers 20. Running Gypsy - The Blue Moon Rockers 21. Bulldog Mix - Vintage 22. Hills - Vintage 23. Cape Blue - Vintage 24. Sweet Little Margie - Vintage 25. La Comparsa - The Arrows

Quincy Conserve "Epitaph" - Compilation, ed. 1972

Hayman’s pre-Quincy story deserves telling in full another time. What laid the foundations for The Quincy Conserve in 1967 was Hayman’s time in Australia, where he spent 18 months studying at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music. “I worked with horns in Aussie, worked in a couple of clubs that had resident horn sections, big bands, the Channel 9 band I worked in for awhile. Everybody sits there and plays off the dots, and if it doesn’t sound right it doesn’t matter. I got into the arranging of horns, and when I came back from Australia, I had ideas of working with horns in a rock and roll sense."…

…Before returning, though, Hayman spent several years playing the cabaret circuit “through France, England and the New Hebrides.” In his book Stranded In Paradise, New Zealand rock historian John Dix claims that it was a bout of tuberculosis in New Caledonia that led Hayman to return to Wellington, but Hayman told me that he came home because his mother was supposedly on her deathbed. In 1986 Hayman said he regretted having come back to New Zealand: “Probably the worst thing to do. I should have gone and gone. But my mother decided she was going to die and I came back to NZ, but she didn’t die." Hayman's mother was still around in 1986, "doing rather well for a dying lady!” Whatever the truth – perhaps a combination of the two events – Hayman’s return was a stroke of good luck. He brought with him skills that had been lacking in the popular music arena: his years of experience leading bands had turned him into a rigorous professional, and his newfound skills as an arranger made him invaluable both to his own band, and as a hired hand. In a time before organised music education for anything but classical repertoire, Hayman was a one-man school, finding the best players and pushing to get the best out of them. He was also renowned for being a somewhat fractious personality, and would fine his musicians for any misdemeanors. This aspect ensured the Quincy line-up was in constant flux. By 1975 Hayman was the last original member; musicians either left in a huff or, as with Bruno Lawrence, were unceremoniously fired… to be continued - AUDIOCULTURE

trax:
1. Aire Of Good Feeling 2. Peeling Paint 3. My Michellechan 4. That Same Feeling 5. Going Back To The Garden 6. Someone To Find 7. Mystery Lady 8. All Right In The City 9. Here I Am Baby 10. Common Man
…served by Gaius…

"Itty Bitty Treasure Chest" Vol. 1 (Fortune Records)

Hard and heavy 50's R&B stuff from the Detroit-based Fortune label, including cuts by Nathaniel Mayer, Andre Williams, Five Dollars, The Four Kings, and Floyd Smith. 26 tracks in all, including "Golden Angel", "Wear My Ring", "Zoom", "Listen to the Rain", "This is Really Real", and loads more hard to find Detroit dusties. (Dusty Groove)

Fortune Records was an independent record label located in Detroit, Michigan from 1946 to 1995. Original releases tapered off after about 1966 and ceased completely after the early 1980s. Fortune specialized in R&B, blues, soul and doo-wop music, although the label also released pop, big band, hillbilly, gospel, rock 'n' roll, and even polka records. The label owners were Jack and Devora Brown. Fortune released some classic doo-wop tunes by Nolan Strong & The Diablos, such as "The Wind" (Fortune 511, 1954), "The Way You Dog Me Around" (Fortune 518, 1955), and "Mind Over Matter" (Fortune 546, 1962). Other notable artists on Fortune included John Lee Hooker, Andre Williams, and Nathaniel Mayer & The Fabulous Twilights (whose release, "Village of Love," on both Fortune 545 and United Artists 449 in the spring of 1962, was perhaps its most popular release; it reached No. 22 pop and No. 16 R&B on the Billboard chart). "Village of Love" also made the Top Ten in local radio station surveys in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Of course, it was No. 1 in Detroit. Prior to "Village of Love," Fortune's biggest-selling record was likely "Bacon Fat" (Fortune 831 and Epic 9196, late 1956) by Andre Williams and His New Group, which featured Williams' proto-rap over a sleazy, bluesy arrangment. "Bacon Fat" (the name of the song refers to a dance) reached No. 9 R&B on the Billboard chart in early 1957 after it was leased to Columbia's Epic subsidiary for national distribution. Record collectors often find Fortune's numbering system confusing because there were several series issued at once, and also because some particular record numbers were used more than once. Fortune's best-known location was at 3942 Third Avenue in a small concrete block building. Fortune moved there in the fall of 1956 and stayed there until the mid 1990s, when the building was sold and vacated. (The landmark building was demolished late in 2001.) The storefront contained a record shop in the front (the Browns sold their product direct to the public) and the crude 18-by-40 studio in the rear (which originally had a dirt floor). Whereas its far bigger Detroit rival, Motown Records, perfected a highly polished pop sound, releases on Fortune Records were often characterized by raw, unrestrained vocal performances and relatively simple instrumental arrangements, recorded without excessive care for production values. Recording was accomplished via a few microphones to an Ampex one-track tape deck. As a result, the label's records have a distinctively direct sound and often packed considerable emotional power. It is estimated that Fortune Records and its subsidiaries, Hi-Q Records and Strate-8, released approximately 400 45-RPM vinyl records, as well as long-playing albums, during its existence. Read all about Fortune Records at Soulful Detroit.com:
http://soulfuldetroit.com/web13-fortune%20records/fortune%20text/index.html

trax:
1. So Strange - The Five Dollars 2. Golden Angel - The Montclairs 3. Wear My Ring - The Creators 4. September In The Rain - The Royal Jokers 5. Take My Hand - The Centurys 6. Wedding Bells, Oh Wedding Bells - Paul Lewis (The Mighty Swamba) & The Swans 7. My Last Dance With You - Nathaniel Mayer 8. My Tears - Andre Williams & Gino Purifoy (Gino Parks) 9. Darling Be Mine - The Earthquakes 10. (Why Don't You) Love Me - The Delteens 11. This Is A Miracle - Floyd Smith & The Montclairs 12. Rose Of Tangier - The Four Kings 13. Bashful Guy - The Earthquakes 14. Sweet Little Angel - The Royal Jokers 15. Village Of Love - Nathaniel Mayer & The Fabulous Twilights 16. Look What You've Done - The Earthquakes 17. Baby I Love You So - Joe Weaver & The Don Juans 18. I'm Wandering - The Five Jets 19. Zoom - The Starlighters 20. Girl Of Mine - Sam Crumby & The El Capris 21. My Baby-O - The Five Dollars 22. Listen To The Rain - The Delteens 23. Do-Li-Op - The Four Kings 24. Street Of Loneliness - The Hi-Fidelities 25. Oh Joe Joe - The Centurys 26. This Is Really Real - The Earthquakes
…served by Gyro1966...

…and now for something completely different! 1270 - 2021

We have a first entry each day that is a picture or a video, and only in that entry you can place your music links and requests (NO ALBUMS RELEASED IN 2019 AND AFTER, AND A DAILY LIMIT OF 3 ALBUMS)! Please keep your language polite and respectful. All the rest official posts will only allow comments related to the official posts and such. That way it will keep things much more organized and tidy. Enjoy! RYP and Gyro1966

The Eastern Dark "Girls On The Beach (With Cars)" 1990

The Australian Ramones, but with a tragic fate and consequently a short-lived career.

The Eastern Dark are one of the most respected Australian bands of the Eighties. With a mix of Sixties-via-Ramones pop smarts, hard rock crunch and punkish energy, their slim output has produced a world-wide cult awareness. If they’re not quite as well known as other Sydney groups of the period like the Hard-Ons or Beasts Of Bourbon, it’s because a tragic, on-tour road accident claimed the life of singer/songwriter/guitarist James Darroch.
In early 1984 Darroch’s bass playing role with the Celibate Rifles wasn’t working out. It was obvious to all that the time had come for James to lead his own band. Switching from bass to guitar, Darroch enlisted drummer Geoff Milne, who he’d jammed with at a party, and Bill Gibson, best known at the time as sometime MC and backing vocalist for the Lime Spiders. After a couple of rehearsals the three piece was christened The Eastern Dark, after the locale where the baddies come from, in long running comic The Phantom. They started gigging that May.
The group achieved early notoriety for their habit of opening their sets with a Ramones song; in fact playing each Ramones song once only in chronological/album listing order. A growing audience followed them as much for their on stage goofiness and strong harmonies as their no-nonsense rock. By early 85 the group was ready to record a single. Released in July and produced by Rob Younger, “Julie Is A Junkie”/”Johnny And Dee Dee” was hailed as a classic in underground press the world over. An inspired homage to the Ramones, it even got the group some mail from the Ramones themselves.
With Rob Younger again at the helm, the band put to tape the mini-album Long Live The New Flesh, with which their scope was widened without losing any power or immediacy. With a cassette of the freshly mixed record with them, the band routinely set off for the 900km drive to Melbourne for some shows when tragedy struck. The EP was released soon after to a mixture of wonder at its contents and renewed grief for such potential cut short.
After lengthy convalescences, both Geoff Milne and Bill Gibson resumed their performing and recording careers. Milne can be heard on releases by the Plunderers and Red Planet Rocketts, while Gibson recorded for releases by Smelly Tongues, Hellmenn, The New Christs, Hey! Charger and the Lemonheads. In 1990, Gibson also hand-picked the best available performances, from live cassette recordings, of previously unreleased Dark tunes for the Girls On The Beach (With Cars) double album. The forthcoming Half A Cow compilation makes the original single and EP available on cd for the first time while adding all the original tunes and studio outtakes from the Girls On The Beach album.
Where Are All The Single Girls? was  three years in the making (well, make that fourteen for those of us who have been waiting for these songs to appear on cd!) and includes a ‘definitive article’ written by John Encarnacao. - this blurb from 2000

trax:
01 C&W Metal 02 Johnny & Deedee 03 Confrontation Time 04 Sacrifice Of Will 05 Swing 06 The President Is Dead 07 Whore 08 Julie Is A Junkie 09 I Don`t Take L.S.D 10 Stay Sane Somehow 11 Used To Death 12 Superstition 13 Extra 14 Extra

"Old King Gold" 1975 Volume 11

From 1968 to 1971, King was owned by Starday, or more accurately, both Starday and King were owned by Lin Broadcasting of Nashville. In 1971, Lin sold James Brown's contract to Polydor, then sold the labels to Tennessee Recording and Publishing, a company formed by Lieber and Stoller. Although Starday had made minimal changes in the label design, the new company completely redesigned the label to a yellow color with a sitting king on the right side. Surprisingly, King then went semi-comatose on releases, putting out only a few albums in the next four years, before it sold the company to GML, Inc. of Nashville, better known as Gusto. This series used the yellow Starday / King label.

I first saw the ten volumes of this series in bargain bins when I was in college in the late seventies. I didn't yet know about the legendary King Records or how much I loved rhythm and blues of the late forties through the mid-sixties. Once I did, the albums had become sparse. I missed out on the four "Battle of the Blues" records for the same reason. Gusto Records recently issued CD versions of volumes two through ten of the former and volumes one, three, and four of the latter. Like their vinyl predecessors, they're in bargain bins and cost very little.
If the CD version of this LP ever appears, and it's like its sisters, the liner notes will be informative and the sound good, but neither will be excellent. The songs are American music at its most hard rocking and down-and-dirty.
I'm annoyed when people do an Amazon review and give a rating to a book they haven't read or music they haven't heard. My excuse for doing just that is my having heard all but one of this CD's songs and knowing how much I like the other volumes -- well, that and the hope that someone at Gusto reads this and takes the hint. I'll keep an eye open. - By timoton

traxfromwax:
1. Move Me Baby - Jimmy Witherspoon 2. The Big Push - Cal Green 3. It Feels So Good - The Swallows 4. No Regrets - Little Willie John 5. I Know - Lula Reed 6. Rub A Little Boogie - Champion Jack Dupree 7. Let's Rock - Johnny Otis 8. Oh Miss Nellie - The Drivers 9. Nosey Joe - Bull Moose Jackson 10. Don't Leave Me This Way - Billy Ward & The Dominoes 11. Light Up Your Lamp - Willie Mabon 12. Must I Cry Again - Todd Rhodes & Lavern Baker
ripped from vinyl in glorious monoloudarama

Quincy Conserve "Listen to the Band" 1970

Founded in Wellington, New Zealand in 1968 by lead guitarist and vocalist Malcolm Hayman, Quincy Conserve were one of the more popular local bands of their era. Their sound progressed more in the direction of jazz-rock, and they had success with audiences at jazz festivals. They split up in 1976. - discogs

In an international context, The Quincy Conserve was hardly unique, and it doesn’t take a special pair of ears to pick up the similarities with slick, jazz-influenced, horn-led American groups like Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago Transit Authority. Still, The Quincy were no copyists, and while their recorded output necessarily included a bunch of covers, their originals stand up as some of the best work by any New Zealand band of the 1960s or 1970s. On top of that, The Quincy Conserve, in all their different line-ups with Malcolm Hayman the only constant throughout their reign from 1967 to 1975, were tight, musician’s musicians, a description that’s often been used as a backhanded compliment to explain the group’s lack of commercial success.
What I didn’t know back then, in the early 70s, was that Malcolm Hayman had already been an integral figure in New Zealand popular music for more than a decade. In fact, he arrived on the Wellington scene as a gigging musician in the mid-1950s, and it was blues, then the first rock and roll revolution, that turned his ear.
“Blues, because there was no real rock and roll,” said Hayman. “Bill Haley started releasing records about two years after I started playing. Before that, it was general blues stuff like Bill Doggett and Arthur ‘Guitar Boogie’ Smith. Commercial Negro music was the basis of it all, then the English started getting into it in 62, 63 with all their Mersey stuff, which influenced our guitar sound a bit, along with The Shadows, that sort of thing.”… to be continued - AUDIOCULTURE

trax:
01. Introduction - Faith 02. Somebody Stole My Thunder 03. Ride The Rain 04. Sugar Man 05. I Feel Good 06. Frustration 07. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? 08. Everybody Has Their Way 09. Baby, I Couldn't See 10. What Is The World Coming To? 11. Finale (Encouragement)
…served by Gaius…

"Let Me Tell You About The Blues" The Evolution Of West Coast Blues - 2010

The sixth of nine 3 CD Box Sets, released by Fantastic Voyage in the years 2009-2011.
"This is the latest in the series covering regional blues styles. A good allocation of laidback Los Angeles sunshine always seems to be reflected in many West Coast blues recordings from the 50’s". - Record Collector
"This is quite simply a “must have” for all true lovers of the blues". - Real Blues Magazine

After decades of dominance by major labels, California experienced a phenomenal growth in independent recording in the post war years. Millions had flocked there during the war and these people wanted entertainment. So, it all began with 'The GI Singsation', Cecil Gant and his 'I Wonder', a blues ballad that caught the public’s imagination.
Charles Brown, Jimmy Witherspoon and T-Bone Walker set the fashion for cool, laidback blues, while the likes of Gene Phillips, Amos Millburn and Jimmy Liggins added a little heat to the pot. After Big Jay McNeely’s 'The Deacon’s Hop' and Wild Bill Moore’s 'Rock And Roll', honking sax instrumentals became a major sales incentive, and the market was overrun with pianists/singers like Little Willie Littlefield, Ivory Joe Hunter, and a young Ray Charles. With the start of the fifties, R&B took centre stage, preparing the ground for the advent of rock ‘n’ roll. Percy Mayfield remained cool, but newcomers like Lloyd Price, Etta James and Linda Hopkins sang to a stronger beat. However, the blues hadn’t been forgotten because Pee Wee Crayton, Jimmy Wilson and Johnny Fuller still stirred the emotions. But music was changing, so was public taste and within two years the music celebrated here in this cd package was considered to be old-fashioned and was passed by. --Sharon Davis

trax disc 1:
01. T-Bone Walker / Mean Old World 02. Saunders King / SK Blues (Part 1) 03. Cecil Gant / I Wonder 04. The Blues Man (George Vann) / My Baby's Blues 05. Joe Liggins / The Honeydripper (Part 1) 06. Charles Brown / Drifting Blues 07. Johnny Otis Orchestra / Jimmy's Round The Clock Blues 08. Jim Wynn's Bobalibans / Shipyard Woman 09. Johnny Alston Orchestra / Everything Will Be All Right 10. Alton Redd / When The Sun Goes Down 11. Buddy Banks Sextet / Fluffy's Debut 12. Camille Howard with Roy Milton and his Solid Senders / Groovy Blues 13. Roy Milton / RM Blues 14. Big Joe Turner / My Gal's A Jockey 15. Lowell Fulson / Crying Blues 16. Gene Phillips / Stinkin' Drunk 17. Jack McVea's All Stars / Open The Door Richard 18. Helen Humes / Be Ba Ba Le Ba Boogie 19. Joe Lutcher / Rockin' Boogie 20. T-Bone Walker / Call It Stormy Monday 21. Little Willie Jackson / Jackson's Boogie 22. Julia Lee / I Didn't Like It The First Time 23. Jimmy Witherspoon / Ain't Nobody's Business (Part 1) 24. Amos Milburn / Chicken Shack Boogie 25. Crown Prince Waterford / Move Your Hand Baby
trax disc 2:
01. Jimmy Liggins / Cadillac Boogie 02. Edgar Hayes / Fat Meat 'n' Greens 03. King Perry Orchestra / Let 'Em Roll Blues 04. Vivianne Green / Bowlegged Boogie 05. Big Jay McNeely / The Deacon's Hop 06. Wild Bill Moore / Rock And Roll 07. Floyd Dixon / Drafting Blues 08. Little Willie Littlefield / It's Midnight (No Place To Go) 09. Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / Walkin' Blues 10. Ivory Joe Hunter / I Almost Lost My Mind 11. Johnny Otis, Little Esther, The Robins / Double Crossing Blues 12. Roy Hawkins / Why Do Everything Happen To Me 13. Jimmy McCracklin / Beer Drinkin' Woman 14. Calvin Boze and his All-Stars / Safronia B 15. King Perry and his Pied Pipers / Everything's Gonna Be Alright 16. T-Bone Walker / Glamor Girl 17. Ray Charles / Late In The Evening Blues 18. Helen Humes / Million Dollar Secret 19. Percy Mayfield / Please Send Me Someone To Love 20. Charles Brown / Black Night 21. Lowell Fulson / Every Day I Have The Blues 22. Roy Hawkins / The Thrill Is Gone 23. Peppermint Harris / I Got Loaded 24. Jimmy Nelson / 'T-99' Blues 25. Fluffy Hunter / The Walkin' Blues
trax disc 3:
01. Pee Wee Crayton / When It Rains It Pours 02. Pete 'Guitar' Lewis / Louisiana Hop 03. Little Ester / Better Beware 04. Percy Mayfield / The River's Invitation 05. Lloyd Price / Lawdy Miss Clawdy 06. Mabel Scott / Walkin' Daddy 07. Johnn Otis and Mel Walker / Call Operator 210 08. Willie Mae Thornton / Hound Dog 09. Little Willie Littlefield / K.C. Lovin' 10. Amos Milburn / Let Me Go Home Whiskey 11. Jimmy Witherspoon / Jay's Blues (Part 1) 12. Linda Hayes / Yes I Know  13. Young John Watson / Motorhead Baby 14. Jimmy Wilson / Tin Pan Alley 15. Oscar McLollie / The Honey Jump (Part 1) 16. Effie Smith / Cry Baby Cry 17. T-Bone Walker / Strugglin' Blues 18. James Reed / Things Ain't What They Used To Be 19. Jimmy Liggins / I Ain't Drunk 20. Daddy Cleanhead / Something's Goin' On In My Room 21. Johnny Fuller / Roughest Place In Town 22. Etta James / The Wallflower 23. Peppermint Harris / Cadillac Funeral 24. Jimmy Nolen / Strollin' With Nolen 25. Jimmy McCracklin / Savoy's Jump
…served by Gyro1966...

…and now for something completely different! 1269 - 2021

We have a first entry each day that is a picture or a video, and only in that entry you can place your music links and requests (NO ALBUMS RELEASED IN 2019 AND AFTER, AND A DAILY LIMIT OF 3 ALBUMS)! Please keep your language polite and respectful. All the rest official posts will only allow comments related to the official posts and such. That way it will keep things much more organized and tidy. Enjoy! RYP and Gyro1966

De Keefmen "Cryin' At My Door" 2009 - 7"/45rpm + "Me Keefmen, You Jane" (Part One) 2011 - 7"/45rpm + "Me Keefmen, You Jane" (Part Two) 2011 - 7"/45rpm + "Things I Remember" 2012 - 7"/45rpm

The gig-going public of the Netherlands voted their stage show at the VERA venue in Groningen as one of the best of 2009.  As well as being a great live act they are able to back it up with the sheer quality of their songwriting and tight performances in the studio. These are some of the singles that will be propped up in front of your record player for a long time to come as you will be eager to listen to it again and again.

"Cryin' At My Door" 2009 - 7"/45rpm

De Keefmen (The Keefmen) are a sixties-style garage rock trio from the Netherlands. De Keefmen were formed out of the ashes of The Miracle Men, which released a 7” on Kuriosa Records (The Netherlands) and a full-length album on Teen Sound Records (Italy)...

trax:
01 Cryin' At My Door 02 What's Happening!

"Me Keefmen, You Jane" (Part One) 2011 - 7"/45rpm

…After dozens of successful shows in The Netherlands and Germany the band broke up by the end of 2007. In early 2008 they decided to continue again, but this time as a trio, with a new name and a new sound. De Keefmen are inspired by Otis Redding, The Sonics, The Remains and The Byrds, and closer to home, Q’65, The Outsiders and Cuby & The Blizzards…

trax:
01 Be That Guy 02 Jane

"Me Keefmen, You Jane" (Part Two) 2011 - 7"/45rpm

…After some shows in the Netherlands the band entered the studio in 2009 to put out a 10” record on Kuriosa Records and a 7” single on Vinyl Junkie Rekkids from Spain. To celebrate their Spanish release De Keefmen did a small tour in Spain. The band entered the studio for a second time and now Dirty Water Records from London was interested in releasing a full-length album of De Keefmen. In the summer of 2010 their debut album ‘Mirror of Time’ appeared in record stores…

trax:
01 Wrong Kinda Place 02 Don't Ask Me 03 Anything

"Things I Remember" 2012 - 7"/45rpm

...Dirty Water Records also released the first video of the band for the song ‘I Need Help!’ Critics received their record very well, both nationally and internationally. In 2010 De Keefmen went to Spain for a second tour and performed with bands such as The Standells and The Birds. The band has quite a reputation for their short, wild and energetic live shows. - Dirty Water

trax:
01 Things I Remember 02 Got A Million Dollars

"Old King Gold" 1975 Volume 10

From 1968 to 1971, King was owned by Starday, or more accurately, both Starday and King were owned by Lin Broadcasting of Nashville. In 1971, Lin sold James Brown's contract to Polydor, then sold the labels to Tennessee Recording and Publishing, a company formed by Lieber and Stoller. Although Starday had made minimal changes in the label design, the new company completely redesigned the label to a yellow color with a sitting king on the right side. Surprisingly, King then went semi-comatose on releases, putting out only a few albums in the next four years, before it sold the company to GML, Inc. of Nashville, better known as Gusto. This series used the yellow Starday / King label.

I first saw the ten volumes of this series in bargain bins when I was in college in the late seventies. I didn't yet know about the legendary King Records or how much I loved rhythm and blues of the late forties through the mid-sixties. Once I did, the albums had become sparse. I missed out on the four "Battle of the Blues" records for the same reason. Gusto Records recently issued CD versions of volumes two through ten of the former and volumes one, three, and four of the latter. Like their vinyl predecessors, they're in bargain bins and cost very little.
If the CD version of this LP ever appears, and it's like its sisters, the liner notes will be informative and the sound good, but neither will be excellent. The songs are American music at its most hard rocking and down-and-dirty.
I'm annoyed when people do an Amazon review and give a rating to a book they haven't read or music they haven't heard. My excuse for doing just that is my having heard all but one of this CD's songs and knowing how much I like the other volumes -- well, that and the hope that someone at Gusto reads this and takes the hint. I'll keep an eye open. - By timoton

traxfromwax:
1. Smokie - Bill Doggett 2. Have I Sinned - Donnie Elbert 3. Teardrops On Your Letter - Hank Ballard & Midnighters 4. Love Don't Love Nobody - Roy Brown 5. Looking For A Man - Little Esther Phillips 6. Temptation - Earl Bostic 7. The Stumble - Freddy King 8. Walking After Midnight - Otis Williams & Charms 9. I'm Sorry - Kenny Martin 10. We'll Build A Bungalow - Johnny Long 11. Right Around The Corner - 5 Royales 12. Old Time Shuffle - Lloyd Glenn
ripped from vinyl in glorious monoloudarama

Brilleaux "Pictures of the Queen" 2015

Brilleaux is a high-energy, hard driving, British-style rhythm and blues band from New Zealand…

…in the style of bands such as Dr. Feelgood, Wilko Johnson, and Nine Below Zero, and in a similar vein to earlier exponents of the genre such as The Yardbirds, Early Rolling Stones, and Johnny Kid and the Pirates.

trax:
01. Ellas McDaniels 02. Hand Me Downs 03. Strapped For Cash 04. Jack The Lad 05. Pictures Of The Queen 06. Meter Man 07. That's The Way That I Roll 08. Well I Never 09. She's My Girl 10. She's Got The Ump
…served by Big Gray and Gaius…