tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22404618897485259092024-03-05T07:49:25.326-08:00DIGGIN' IT!!!Sounds from the shelves at Rancho WestexWESTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06053780688030818857noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240461889748525909.post-83201528976348289832013-08-23T05:05:00.001-07:002013-08-23T05:05:36.520-07:00It's A Cry'n Shame...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Looks aside, this Dallas record is pretty much the creme de la fuzz creme of 60s punk. And unlike alot of 60s records that get labeled punk this one IS punk.</div>
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In a quick trip down to central Texas last week I wheeled past the La Familia museum off I-35 in Temple while on the hunt for records. Though I found no Little Joe or Familia records on that trip, I did find this early 70s single back in the spring. Sweet, chicano soul. Love, love, love "This Time".</div>
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I grabbed this record on a hunch at a local library sale a few weeks back for 30 cents and can't stop listening. It's a huge wall of sound through and through... layers of pop and voices and instruments and happiness and sunshine. Though the album is billed as "with Tony Scotti", the star is undoubtedly vocalist Joan Medora.<br />
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Next time you and your pals are running through a field of daisies make sure "On the Way Home" is playing somewhere in the background. All will be good...WESTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06053780688030818857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240461889748525909.post-40015533309654348802013-03-09T06:15:00.001-08:002013-03-09T06:15:22.847-08:00All the Gal's Really Love Him<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Neat northeastern record with a country boy backed by the former Comets.WESTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06053780688030818857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240461889748525909.post-19448881691528583372013-02-18T07:42:00.002-08:002013-03-03T15:06:38.327-08:00STONED... Favorite Finds of 2012<i>Okay. 2 months late, but here's a "finds" round-up for the 2012 hunting season. Good year, good finds, and good sounds. Dig It!!!</i><br />
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I start off each year thinking that surely ''records are drying up". I mean this is 2013. And the records I'm most interested in were first purchased at least 40 years ago. Right? So how can I continue to find these things with any regularity at this point? And yet little by little over the course of the year I do find them. A record here. A couple o' more there. By the time December rolls in I realize I've come into some decent sounds. Especially considering how much time and effort and money I actually put into hunting down records. <br />
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So 2012. It started off good on day one when a neighborhood dealer man left a huge box of cast off 45s on my front porch. I filled a 1/4 of a dumpster with what I didn't want and never wanted to see again locally. Most of the bunch was country records that were actually a part of a huge radio collection that was sold in the area 15 years back, a portion of which makes up the bulk of a wall in the record room here at el rancho. Among the 1000s I records I sorted on New Years was Dave Dudley's awesome "Mad". A more than decent way to start the year I'd say. Especially when you're starting with free records.<br />
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78s - of the decent variety - have been getting a bit tougher to find as of late, but I did manage a few good ones this year including great box of hillbilly and R&B 78s right around Thanksgiving. Jackie Brenton's "Juiced" was in that box and is just good ol' raucous rock n' roll. The Jackie B record, produced by a Mr. Sam Phillips, was just a record or two away from another Sun related 78- the incredible "Someday You Will Pay" by the fabulous Miller Sisters with a certain kinda Charlie Feathers riding along on spoons. "Someday You Will Pay" is a record I go way back with having first heard it on a Rhino Sun country that I found in a cutout bin in Abilene back in the mid-90s. "Ain't a Bump in the Road" by the great Roy Hogsed was in the same box of 78s as were records by Gene Tabor, the Tunesmiths, Marvin Phillips and his Men from Mars, Johnny Hicks, Bobby Lord, and my first ever Aristocrat 78 which wound up being polka. But I spent $25 on 25 records and every other one was a winner. Them's good odds.<br />
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The spot where this opening handful of 78s was found was easily my favorite spot of the year with some great records being brought in. After roughly 7 or 8 years of shopping there and only occasionally finding a decent record all of sudden neato records started popping up every other month or two.<br />
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On a summer jaunt to the spot I came in as just as a another new collection was being sorted. If you find Jan Moore's thumping "Play It Cool" in your first couple of handfuls of records chances are you'll find another good record or two. The Four Sounds on Ran-Dee and Danny Penny's moody "Stop Calling Me Baby" were there in a collection that had been brought in by an older gentlemen. Everything was sleeved and rarely if ever played.<br />
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In the past estate sales have been a good source of records, but I've been easing up them. I usually can't make 'em the first days they open and by Saturday they are completely blown out as a result of this town's present economy. Earl Cosby's "Ooh Honey Baby" was an estate sale grab back in the spring and well worth the 50 cent price- an incredible 'choon' some might say. Love to hear them vibes in a soul song. Warren Miller's tongue twisting jiver and Chuck Berry's "Joe Joe Gunn" came out of an estate on a blazing hot July morning. "Joe Joe Gunn" is easily my favorite Berry number. The only other record here to have come from an estate sale was "When" by Attila. This fuzzy teen blueser was an oddball in a sale otherwise FULL (like 1000s) of fake white jazzfunk lps on Columbia and Arista from the 70s/80s and a $100,000 sound system. Luckily a local dealer who had been through the collection twice completely ignored it. I wound up trading it off to Sweden in exchange for a copy of MopTopMike's <i>TeenBearMayhem</i>.<br />
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One of my favorite labels is the famed Starday diskery outta Southeast Texas and I get a thrill every time I spy that yellow label with the black script. There's a good chance it'll be Arlie Duff. Or mayhaps a Freddie Franks 78 out thisa way. My only two Stardays I found this year were 78s by Leon Payne and Gene Tabor and both were in that mighty nice box of 78s I mentioned back at the start. Lou Walker's "Rock and Roll" might not be much too look at but I jumped at it on eBay figgerin' $30 wasn't too horrible a price too pay. Lou was an Amarillo boy, so not only was I adding a great Starday rockabilly record but I was also adding something to my West Texas shelf. Another West Texas Starday disc I added this year came to me in a trade, "I'll Still Be Here Tomorrow" by Bill Mack. Folks adore Bill as a swingin' and stompin' rockabilly, but I can't get enough of Bill as the heartbreaker as heard here. He sounds like an empty, dust blown small town West Texas street caught up in a setting sun. Listen to that steel. And that fiddle. And Bill's voice...<br />
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I had to trade pretty deep to get my hands on the Chevelle V's Askel waxing of their Jimmy Reed-cop "Come Back Bird", one of may favorite additions of the year. Neato record from a combo that had their area wrapped up in the mid- to late- 60s. My goal for 2013 is to add the UMI release as I love the V's invasion-cop "I'm Sorry Girl". <br />
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And speaking of Abilene - home stomping grounds for the Chevelle V- I grabbed a long time want out of a record shop there back in December... "Walk With a Winner" by Gene McDaniels. Tough song that I don't grow tired of.<br />
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One last mention... I found a few Baby Washington 45s this year but her "That's How Heartaches Are Made", along Ray Johnson's "Blue Congo", was grabbed this fall outta a huge junk shop I first raided a few years back and it was easily one of my my most played records of the year. Not rare or scarce but just damned good. Like seriously damned good. Go get the $6 copy on eBay. Then put it on at 11:30 at night. Turn on a single small light. Lay on the couch. And get lost in the sound.<br />
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Probably not...WESTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06053780688030818857noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240461889748525909.post-62401169467117706342013-02-13T16:08:00.000-08:002013-02-13T16:08:26.100-08:00Be Right There...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A bit late, but I'm putting the finish touches on a 2012 "finds" post. Good year for vinyl...WESTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06053780688030818857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240461889748525909.post-17121955784789770642012-11-19T19:20:00.002-08:002012-11-19T19:20:28.753-08:00Let's All Get Loose<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">JACKIE BRENSTON AND HIS DELTA CATS</span></i></b></div>
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I was recently running through a small box of nice hillbilly 78s when this here hot platter jumped out at me... wow, just wow! Just a HOT recording and everything right about wild 50s rock n' roll right at it started to happen.<br />
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"Juiced" was sitting pretty close to<b> <a href="http://westex-countrywestern.blogspot.com/2012/11/someday-you-will-pay.html" target="_blank">THIS</a> </b>Memphis hillbillrecord and <a href="http://lonestarstomp.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-pickin-and-singin.html" target="_blank"><b>THIS</b></a> decent uptown western swingster outta Hel Paso.WESTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06053780688030818857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240461889748525909.post-90479931242210719532012-11-11T06:07:00.003-08:002012-11-11T06:07:56.429-08:00Oh Baby!Here's another from the ancient scrolls of <i>Diggin' It!!!</i>.
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Wild pounder from one of the wildest ever! Esquerita's tales are easy enough to google up... and some of 'ems probably true! But what a debut!<br />
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Nailed this copy in a trade with local ne'er do well a few years back. A whole bunch of records changed hands and more than a few of the records were of a rhythm and blues nature and carried the inking of a 'Bobo.' Whoever the feller was he was in the habit of labeling records as "that n****r music". Somehow, some way Esquerita made it past Bobo's racist scribblings, but I gotta wonder what he woulda thunk of Esquerita had he actually seen him? WESTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06053780688030818857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240461889748525909.post-37921023576845672582012-10-27T19:53:00.000-07:002012-10-27T19:53:46.548-07:00Stop Calling Me Baby<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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WESTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06053780688030818857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240461889748525909.post-40908103655315577022012-10-21T08:22:00.002-07:002012-10-21T08:22:32.306-07:00Someone's Gonna Cry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's a little "popcorn" piece that's been sitting in the new box for a few months... okey dokey little record.WESTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06053780688030818857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240461889748525909.post-52065958232199809692012-09-26T10:23:00.000-07:002012-09-26T10:23:00.597-07:00Blues, Fuzz. Attila.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">(Attila 003)</span></i></b></div>
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You find a record by a group named Attila. It's an RCA Custom from 1968. You would expect this to be a damned heavy record. It is... that first 20 seconds is a dirge feast of fuzz. A minute later the burned out break hits and for thirty seconds you wonder if the guitarist is even gonna make it. Musta been some tuff sons of guns in that Attila band.</div>
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Or maybe not. Attila isn't a band, but a clean-cut teenager with the last name Galamb from North Hollywood, California. And he was a multi-instrumental wunderkind best known for his abilities on piano and saxophone. But for whatever reason in the late 60s he released a few singles on his own label with a rock sound. All are scarce, though this is likely the best. And heaviest. Heavy duty fuzz with a big blues vibe on the Art Laboe penned "When". The flip "Come Out" is an Attila original with a psych flair and a bit of a Doors feel.</div>
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WESTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06053780688030818857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240461889748525909.post-1465761571607979302012-09-15T05:55:00.000-07:002012-09-15T05:56:25.215-07:00Go Facets, Go<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330099;"><b><i>Another old post (November of 2009 originally)... this one brought back because I recently bought a </i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330099;"><b><i>(lackluster)</i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330099;"><b><i>pale ale outta Hood River.</i></b></span><br />
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Hard to get around Chuck Berry. The man was a master of short n' sweet ditties that told little stories and were full of sharp riffs and now classic solos. "Johnny B. Goode" is the classic of 'em all, though I feel a bit 'whatever' about the song at this point. While the Facets of the Northwest Coast do little new with the tune it's an okie dokie little version. Early 60s?WESTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06053780688030818857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240461889748525909.post-83416177906810545382012-09-08T06:31:00.003-07:002012-09-08T06:31:49.684-07:00They Wanna Fight<i>Another post from a few years back...</i><br />
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In the mid-90s I was in college in Abilene, Texas and just starting to immerse myself in the rockabilly sound. It's sometimes a blur as to when and where I actually heard stuff. I was trading tapes with people and on trips to Austin I was buying cd comps at Waterloo Records and picking up used vinyl issues of Desperate Rock n' Roll at Antones. I'd guess I first heard the catchy little stroller "They Wanna Fight" on a mixtape back in the mid-90s (Josh from NYC on the old Rockabilly Mailing List?). Catchy song that is a favorite from that period of time.<br />
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Chuck Harrod and his combo were based outta Louisville, Kentucky and laid out what has to be one of the more knuckle-headed tunes of the time. Surprising. With the sax and gritty sound they sound kinda New Yawk-ish, a place one might have expected to see roving bands of leather-clad, engineer boot'd, greasy headed teens swinging chains and flick knives. Yeah... that's some 'romanticized' <i>Wild Ones</i>/<i>Rebel Without A Cause </i>sorta backwards look at the 50s. <br />
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Within my collection there is a collection of recordings dedicated to that fightin' little man from Alabam, George Wallace. I don't actively seek them out, but when found I do pick 'em up. I don't concur with Wallace's beliefs, but topical records on George are just one of those weird back corners of country music. Little did I know that George's son was a musician. Littler did I know that he cut some okay downer garage in the 60s. I did know that George, despite politics, knew what American kids wanted to hear. I even gave mention to it on my regional blawg LoneStarStomp when writing up Monahans teen Dan Dunagan. (Stomped <a href="http://lonestarstomp.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-sound-of-monahans-texas-update.html" style="color: #003333; font-weight: bold;">HERE</a>)<br />
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It wasn't until a year or so after the Dunagan post that I added this particular George Wallace III recording to my collection after it came to me from ebay, buried in a seller's odd assortment of non-categorized 60s 45s. I had figured on a country 45 when bidding, but was quite surprised with the sound. George was down, depressed and lonely. Being son of the governor of Alabama didn't seem to be gettin' him any pull with the chickadees. Though not here, it is flipped with an okay instro, the title of which might be part of George's problem.<br />
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There would be other records including one more on B-Bob and a later attempt at country music. Like the Young Americans in the Dan Dunagan post above, George and his band would be used on the Presidential campaign trail of '68. George would eventually go into politics himself, even running unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor of Alabama in 2006.<br />
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When I originally started LoneStarStomp as a finds blog some 6 years ago one of my very first posts was "Joe Joe Gun", an amazing riff and reverb party. Why this isn't a bigger fave among folks I do not know... just so good. I was recently able to upgrade my old copy from a teen gal's platter pak and figured why not give Joe Joe one more go 'around.WESTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06053780688030818857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240461889748525909.post-70880490441733081552012-08-13T13:55:00.000-07:002012-08-13T13:55:06.466-07:00Mr. Lucky and the Gamblers Told You Once Before<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">MR. LUCKY AND THE GAMBLERS - Take a Look At Me b/w I Told You Once Before (Dot 16930)</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">THE DE-FENDERS - selections from Drag Beat (Del-Fi DFLP-1242)</span></i></b><br />
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About a month back I took my money my in-laws gave me for Father's Day and headed up to the flea market. I was surprised to see that <b><a href="http://lonestarstomp.blogspot.com/2012/08/clifton-mercer-1937-2012-odessa.html" target="_blank">Al</a> </b>had gotten in a few boxes of new records including a small collection of hot rod and surf lps... Jan & Dean, the Beach Boys, the Ventures, the Challengers, the Pyramids, the Surfaris, Lloyd Thaxton, Bo Diddley...<br />
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My favorite spin of the bunch as likely been Drag Beat by the De-Fenders. Good fun stuff, especially the drum riot of the side two opener "Drag Beat".WESTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06053780688030818857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240461889748525909.post-64050964327127530112012-08-02T09:46:00.002-07:002012-08-02T10:00:03.474-07:00R.I.P. Al<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I started <i>Diggin' It!!!</i>, and even <i>LoneStarStomp</i> in its original form, I had Al up at the VFW flea market in mind. Just about every record hound in the country has an "Al". For 15 years I've been visiting Al... since right after moving to Odessa... and digging through his records. I've found some great stuff there over the years.</div>
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On July 21, 2012 Clifton "Al" Mercer passed away. And with him goes a huge part of the Odessa life that I've come to know. I've been expecting it for some time as Al didn't take just real good care of himself, but to pull up this past weekend and see his door closed broke my heart. That door was ALWAYS open on the weekends. </div>
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I've written a bit more over at <i><b><a href="http://lonestarstomp.blogspot.com/2012/08/clifton-mercer-1937-2012-odessa.html" target="_blank">LoneStarStomp</a> </b></i>and included a 'mix' of 35 records that came from Al's over the past 15 years. </div>
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Swift piano rocker... this came from an estate sale, but its likely part of the original source of records I've been pulling out of the "Cave" here lately.WESTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06053780688030818857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240461889748525909.post-50456512434358951532012-07-27T10:45:00.001-07:002012-07-28T17:38:32.500-07:00Cha Cha Cha con Hilda Jimenez<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Oddball, fun record outta central Texas that I grabbed outta the racks at the great We Buy Music in Albuquerque last week.<br />
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<i>Make sure and dig back through the past few weeks worth of </i>Diggin' It!!!<i> posts... I've been a bit active over the course of my summer vacation.</i>WESTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06053780688030818857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240461889748525909.post-25428561163759203272012-07-19T12:52:00.000-07:002012-07-27T05:36:36.742-07:00Virtually A Soul Jukebox - Do What You Gotta DoI like soul. <br />
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I love soul. <br />
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But soul has never been a priority.<br />
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Unless it's something from my kneck of the mesquite I don't search for it on ebay. Nor do I look for it on set sales. But it does tend to pop up while I'm diggin' around. But even then I'm often buying to flip or trade rather than to actually collect. So what little soul manages to find its way onto the shelves at rancho Westex does so totally by chance. It is an lp I've run across in a thrift while traveling. Or it's a 45 that was part of an estate. Maybe it's from Al at the flea market or it came from the Cave.<br />
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ANYhow... here's a year and a half's worth of soul and funk finds stretching back to New Years eve 2010.<br />
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This set kicks in with the hard driven' instro funk of "The Rabbit Got the Gun" by <b>the Dapps</b> on King. Powerful stuff. And the oldest find in this set, going all the way back to New Years eve of 2010. Truth be told this is no actually not a "find" as I acquired it in a round of trading with our piano tuner. Now that I think about it there is one other record here that was not a wild find... <b>Billy Dee</b> was a local guy that got his start as a kiddie hillbilly recording for Fabor in the 50s, fronted local combo the Debonaires in the 60s (no relation to the Soul Click label Debonaires heard here), and eventually recorded a handful of sides for his own T.C.B. label in the 70s and 80s. The best of the TCB bunch is this collaboration with Sugarbear called "Everybody Says". Good side with an early example of rap. Hope to eventually have a full accounting of Billy Dee's career at my regional blog <a href="http://lonestarstomp.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">LoneStarStomp</a>. The flip is a worthy song as well.<br />
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Speaking of Texas records... there's a handful here to hear. I was first hipped to the Texas panhandle label Galactic by Chronis over at the Texcentric <a href="http://ontheroadsouth.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">On the Road South</a> blog. He had found a copy of the Tiger Men's "I'm A Tiger" 45 somewhere on the Texas frontier and eventually got info that the short-lived label had been home to a couple of other singles including "Baby You Got It" by <b>the Motifs</b>. The record could be heard via a couple of podcast sorta things on the internets and I was certainly interested. I also noted the fact that the market price for a copy of Galactic 1003 was set somewhere near the stratosphere. I kinda figured I would never touch a copy. Then a few months back I was scoring some nice 45s on the California hillbilly label Pep at one of my favorite local spots and did a last second dig through box of new 45 arrivals. Mostly 70s and 80s stuff on big labels. And then there in the last handful-- the friggin' Motifs. Oh hell yes. Galactic product was pressed up on the most horrendous styrene available, so despite the bits of crackle I'm thrilled that it does not contain groove burn. "Baby You Got It" has a serious James Brown sorta groove to it. The flip is a nice chicano soul slowie. A 2 sider if you will. Quite possibly my find of the year.<br />
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<b>The Debonairs</b> on Soul Click is raggedy little record. Not much is known of the group other than the fact that they were from the Dallas, Texas area. It came from the same spot as the Motifs. I also picked up Whispers by <b>Jackie Wilson </b>on that trip if I recall correctly. I love Jackie and this is one of my favorite cuts by him. Can't believe I didn't already have this one... Damn Jackie was good... "In my lonely, lonely room... there's nothing left but the past." I'd guess that the Debonairs might have sold one copy of "Please Come Back Baby" for every 50,000 copies "Whispers" that Brunswick shipped.<br />
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On New Years day of this year I came home to find a HUGE box of 45s on my porch that a neighbor had been through. He pulled most of the good and obvious stuff, but I still managed to find a few more records before chunking the remainder in the dumpster. <b>Garnet Mimms</b> is a bit scruffy and fuzzy, but his records just don't turn up often out this way. Most of the records in the box were remnants of a country station library that was auctioned off 13 years back, so most of the records were country. But besides the Garnet Mimms there were a few other R&B records like <b>Bill Cosby's</b> fun "Funky North Philly"- I never knew Bill had done anything like this- and <b>Nina Simone's </b>incredible "Do What You Gotta Do". Her voice seems a tad bit tired in spots and I could do without the forced vibrato, but that chorus is devastating. <b>Fran Natarinks</b> is another record from the box... way more of a fun uptempo record than a straight soul record, but what the heck. "Reach Out" is also a pretty poor stab at a cover up on my part... can you guess who it really is?<br />
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A local library has a book sale annex that's only open two mornings a week, making it a bit of a hassle as it's a bit of a drive. So I only manage to hit it two or three times a year and there's usually at least a decent album or two in the shopping car.... errrr... new arrival section. I grabbed <b>Ketty Lester's</b> <i>When a Man Loves A Woman </i>on Tower in the winter of 2011 hoping for a nice folk and soul crossover sound. I didn't get that, but it's certainly a pleasant album to spin on a crisp, sunny Saturday afternoon. Aside from the stomping "Love Me" there's not much else that really stands out, though. But at 50 cents I was gambling all that much. That half buck was better spent more recently when a copy of <b>the Spellbinder's</b> <i>Magic of the Spellbinders</i> showed up at the library annex. I was not at all familiar with the Spellbinders before this lp and I was pleasantly surprised. It's a fun LP with lots of cuts in the same vein as "Baby I Miss You." It plays almost like some sorta weird blueprint for "Northern Soul". <br />
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Just a few minutes after grabbing the Spellbinders another shop down the road produced a collection of big label records I wasn't familiar with that all turned out to largely be foreign produced horn rock influenced by the like of Blood, Sweat & Tears. NOT my bag. Scattered amongst the releases by Lake, If, Lighthouse, Gong, and Sons of Champlin were a bunch of jazz records that looked like they might stretch off into the funk a bit. I grabbed a few and the best was an lp by <b>Bobby Hutcherson</b> on Up Front. The lp compiles bits and pieces from Hutcherson's career, but I've enjoyed the track "Ummh" just a bit and figured it would be a nice way to close this set out.</div>
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I've never had superb luck in grabbing records from thrift shops, but it seems the local thrift shops are even putting fewer and fewer records out, making the appearance of new stock, much less interesting records, a rare thing.</div>
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A few months back I was walking into a local church thrift lamenting the utter lack of decent records that ever make it on to the shelves. I left 20 minutes later with a small stack of 45s that included the <b>Brethren</b> on Teen Town and <b>James Bryant</b> on Renee. Bryant's "Hey There You Girl" is probably the earliest track I've included here. Fun tune with some bleetin' horns. I was surprised by the Brethren, originally expecting to hear something with some muscular bass and phased out guitars. Instead... it's a great two sider bridging the sweet soul of the late 60s with the funk of the early 70s. The vocals even foreshadow the coming disco sound, a bit. A truly enjoyable record. Though Teen Town seems a bit goofy of a label name for the 1970s. It's perfect for the 50s and early 60s. By '67 it would have been a bit passé. Seems a little out of touch for 1970something, though.<br />
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<b>Soul Liberation</b> is another of the Texas records heard here. It came from a CenTex Goodwill last Christmas. Odd christian boogie soul thing. They've got an album worth a bit o' $$$. And in the same town I pulled the Soul Liberation single I more recently found this <b>Neal Sharpe</b> record in a U-Haul / Texiana souvenir shop (that hadn't received a new shipment of souvenirs since at least 1983) this past June. Interesting record that I almost left behind thinking it was 80s country. On a second take I noticed the backing by the Groove Masters and took a 25 cent stab at what wound up being a fine remake of a Hall & Oates tune. And I loves me some Hall & Oates... like seriously. "M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E" is my jam. AND my jelly.<br />
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The only other thrift record here is the <b>Tortilla Factory</b> which was pulled from a huge stack of lps. "Cookin'" is an INCREDIBLE chicano funk tune. The remainder of the album is packed with well played tejano songs with a jazz feel. <br />
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I'd guess that about wraps it up... I don't necessarily dig every song here. Some are just showy things... brags, if you will. And some I really, really do dig. Enjoy.<br />
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Cool instro on Liberty that references a few other instrumental hits and standards. Assume this to have been a studio group of some sort? <br />
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Managed to scan the wrong side of the record... "Mindreader" had a bit of juke burn and wasn't worth recording.WESTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06053780688030818857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240461889748525909.post-82685194343422779102012-07-13T20:16:00.000-07:002012-08-14T08:58:27.738-07:00Mama Ubangi Bangi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another pull from last week's trip to "the Cave". Outstanding and trashy early 60s rocker from a Midwest combo... I've also added the flip which doesn't seem to be around, but is a nice group slowie.WESTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06053780688030818857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240461889748525909.post-9809829495003092752012-07-12T09:38:00.004-07:002012-07-12T09:38:48.407-07:00The Ambassadors Wonder Why...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsGm6e8Pk8H8yCTt-N1nMEuPeMqHS_B-km15Z-AcK8W9Yo0nNbD2TcOQ_cmoSuSrfmhtc6AtGQU_e6HjtSoyaL_e6pRfH47CJ5LPAkJ7sp2h77dR4TzHl7vu9btvMtlZilFb4ILvti61lo/s1600/The+Ambassadors.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsGm6e8Pk8H8yCTt-N1nMEuPeMqHS_B-km15Z-AcK8W9Yo0nNbD2TcOQ_cmoSuSrfmhtc6AtGQU_e6HjtSoyaL_e6pRfH47CJ5LPAkJ7sp2h77dR4TzHl7vu9btvMtlZilFb4ILvti61lo/s400/The+Ambassadors.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">THE AMBASSADORS- I Wonder Why (Reel 117)</span></i></b><br />
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Here's another 45 from last week's jukebox haul at "the Cave". I had never seen this one before and though I was hoping for a garage record I got a totally ragged girl group... so nice.WESTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06053780688030818857noreply@blogger.com0