Various Artists: Battle of the Garages, Vol. 4: Tomorrow the World!

 

As the title promises, lots of great garage-eriffic trash here. Songs with just two chords when one was too many! (Be aware that unfortunately this record either was not Q.C.-ed during mastering or it was intentionally put in the race with a broken leg, because the side 1 master tape got crunched on many tracks, which suffer intermittent dropouts.)

The Cannibals "Good Times"
The Otherside "Haunted House"
Les Thugs "Femme Fatale"
The Surfadelics "Bad Little Girl"
The Klepstones "She'll Always Be Mine"
Sex Museum "Drugged Personality"
The Legendary Golden Vampires "Strychnine"
Bad Karma Beckons "Listen"
The Last Drive "Every Night"
Sick Rose "I Want Love"
Los Negativos "Viaje Al Norte"
Green Telescope "Thinkin' About Today"
The Birdmen of Alkatraz "April Dancer"
Les Coronados "Free Again"
Les Flamingos "Let It Shine"

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Ben Vandermeide: Learn Self-Hypnosis

 

Benjamin Vander Meide (1933-2007) was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. He came to the United States and settled in Utah, where he began performing a hypnotist act onstage in 1969. This LP probably dates from before 1973, as there is another version of the LP dating from that year with an alternate cover, the art for which was clearly cribbed from this one.

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Anne Sylvestre: Fabulettes

 

A really sweet album of kids' songs by French singer-songwriter Anne Sylvestre, with some glorious album art that I've carefully restored. Technically this album is still available for purchase, for instance from App Ull Myu Sick (and honestly this vinyl was a bit crunchy, so audio taken from the master tape is obviously preferred); but none of the streaming sites give a shit about artwork, and wow, this art is pretty great. So if you like the album, feel free to buy it from some mainstream source. (You'll be sending at least $0.03 per purchase to Anne's estate!!!)

Douze Petits Cochons
Mon Vélo Est Blanc
Bal Des Champignons
Le Petit Maçon
Oiseaux
Une Dame De Dijon
Je Pense A Noël
Sureau Sureau
J'Ai Une Maison Pleine De Fenêtres
Chat C'est Toi L'Chat
Si Le Renard Tousse
C'Est Un Veau
Dans Ma Fusée
La Chanson De L'Ortie
Flocon Papillon

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Leon Berry: Giant Wurlitzer Pipe Organ Vol. 4

 

Volume 4 (of at least 6).

Wedding of the Painted Doll
Somebody Loves You
No Se Porque Te Quiera
Strolling in the Park
They Didn't Believe Me
Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland
Cocktails for Two
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
The Harvest Moon
Blue Room
Cielito Lindo
You Belong to My Heart

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Angelina: Confidential

 

From Bruce Bastin's book The Melody Man: Joe Davis and the New York Music Scene, 1916-1978:

On August 29 Davis recorded a dozen titles, including older risqué titles like "Electrician Blues" and "Shake Your Can," by New York City-based Joyce Heath, at Mastertone's studios on 8th Avenue with pianist Al Williams. Davis JD 112 Confidential was released as by Angelina, immediately before an album by Dardanelle Hadley. Confusingly, singer Inez "Lady" Washington, from 138th Street, New York, New York, signed with Davis that month and was credited with being the artist on this album; perhaps she is also Joyce Heath!

Vice Versa
It's Gonna Be a Long Hard Winter
I'm a Virgin, But I'm On the Verge
Electrician Blues
Working Girl
You've Got To Use Some Science
All the Girls Like Big Dick
Shake Your Can
Chiropractor Blues
Sell Your Proposition While It's Hot
What a Man!
He Forgot His Rubbers

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Doug Moody: Y

 

Documentary record built from actuality recordings related to the RFK assassination in 1968 and the subsequent trial of Sirhan Sirhan. 

The record is not dated, but in an interview with ZigZag in July 1969, Frank Zappa said: "A guy named Doug Moody put the album together and offered it to us and we packaged it and put it out."

Hat tip to Rich Lindsay for the loan of the LP!

Campaign Speech
Actual Assassination
Interviews Immediately After Shooting
Campaign Speech
Witnesses Recreate the Scene
Campaign Speech
Arrest and Investigation
Campaign Speech
Campaign Speech
Evidence
Campaign Speech
Security
Campaign Speech
Conspiracy
Campaign Speech
Sirhan
Campaign Speech
Trial
Eulogy for R.F.K.

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Jim Copp & Ed Brown: Gumdrop Follies

 

I grabbed this out of a children's records bin because I'm a sucker for absurdly generous production values (this record expands into a double-hinged gatefold which, when unfolded, forms a little stage, and it includes four card stock sheets full of characters for you to cut out and parade on that stage!). Plus I saw the track titles ("The Hen with a Low I.Q.") and thought: This could be wacky as hell. I was a bit disappointed, really—I guess I was expecting something more subversive. But I could be wrong; this entire album of children's songs could be a giant prank on the under-five set and their parents. The must-listen track here is "Mr. Hippity's Pull Toy", in which an elderly person (obviously suffering dementia) is dragging a pull toy through the streets of New York City when a vagrant child says the pull toy is going to die unless it's fed something called "junket" (!), and the dementia-addled senior wanders the streets asking advice from store owners, people in a church, and finally someone in line at the train station, before the person in line at the train station advises that the pensioner should come with her out to the country where the pull toy will be fine and everything will be all right. (I think all this may have been one of the discarded plot lines of "Naked Lunch".) You make the call!

Curtain Up!
The Hen with the Low I.Q.
The Carpenter and the Duck
The Duck, the Tiger, the Shrimp and the Owl
Mr. and Mrs. Destitute
The Man in the Union Suit
Mr. Hippity's Pull Toy
The Frogman
Miss Mole at the Organ
The Picnic
Can't Dance!

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