Paul Mills: Speak Well

 

Now let's practice our "S", "Z", and "SH" sounds. Repeat after me: "Zena said to Sasha that she was going to slice the tape with a razor, to make the exercise announcers say stupid shit."

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Paul Lavalle: Music for Twirling

 

Continuous marching band music for your teenager circa 1965 to twirl to in competition.

The Fairest of the Fair
The Hippodrome
The National Emblem
Under the Double Eagle
Semper Fidelis
The Liberty Bell
The King Cotton
The Band of America
Invercargill
Washington Post
Hands Across the Sea
The High School Cadets
The Second Connecticut Regiment March
The Stars and Stripes

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Various Artists: Dance, Be Happy!

 

Really, nobody needs this. Colorful cover though.

Percy Faith What Is This Thing Called Love?"
Boyd Raeburn "Sweet Sue—Just You"
Xavier Cugat "Mambo No. 5"
Les Elgart "Ain’t She Sweet"
Sammy Kaye "Harbor Lights"
Claude Thornhill "Under the Willow Tree"
Benny Goodman "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me"
Paul Weston "My Silent Love"
Art Van Damme "I Married an Angel"
Duke Ellington "Suburban Beauty"
Belmonte "Cha-Cha Lament"
Les Brown "A Fine Romance"

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Various Artists: Voices of Lynchburg

 

In 1907 Jack Daniel, founder and owner of the distillery bearing his name, was childless and in failing health. He gave the distillery to two of his nephews, one of which, Lem Motlow, bought out his partner and ran the company for 40 years. They survived the Temperance movement, state prohibition, nationwide prohibition, and a complete production shutdown from 1942 to 1946 when the war precipitated a corn shortage. When Lem died in 1947, ownership of the company went to his children Robert, Reagor, Dan, Conner, and Mary. The Brown-Forman Corporation bought Jack Daniel's in 1956, and the same year they created the Tennessee Squire Association, an invitation-only club whose members would be sent periodic J.D. souvenirs in the mail—a deed to a one-square-foot plot of land on distillery property, a twist of tobacco, rubbing stones, leather luggage tags, sassafras root, black-eyed peas, etc.

Over decades they produced several private-press records for their members, including three albums of folk songs sung by Winifred Smith, two albums by the "Jack Daniel's Original Silver Cornet Band", a single by Louis Lunley, and this spoken word album featuring recordings of residents of Lynchburg, Tennessee, where the distillery is headquartered. The interviewees are a small clique of relatives and friends, including three Motlow family members, and it would be hard to get the classification "documentary" to stick here (their chat about bootlegging, fishing, and whittling puts it firmly in the category of "guys sitting around bullshitting"); but Tom Motlow, 91-year-old former president of the local bank, tells a charming oral history.

The date of the record is uncertain, but it was released after the death of Tom Motlow in March 1969.

Around the Square
Moonshine—and Other Natural Phenomena...
Goin' Fishing
Whittlin'
A Country Banker

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Arthur "Red" Motley: Nothing Happens Until Somebody Sells Something

 

Arthur "Red" Motley was President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and publisher of "Parade" magazine, and he was a screamer. This deeply unpleasant (and sadly highly accurate) speech released on LP in 1960 is all about what it takes to sell shit to people.

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Johan Dalgas Frisch: Symphony of the Birds

 

MGM Records hit the craptacular event horizon in 1968 with this album of field recordings of birdcalls combined with slushy instrumental underscores. This is true perfection, from the slogan on the front "Sounds great in stereo" (it's mono) to the very name of the author of the liner notes on the back ("Faith Crumpacker"). My first thought was "Oh wow, this poor ornithologist—he risked life and limb in the jungles of Brazil to record these rare, exotic birdsongs, and THIS is what some record producer did with them?! He must have run in the opposite direction from the entire music business, screaming and flailing his arms!" Then I checked Discogs. (With my ongoing thanks to Brian Belovarac, who's provided so many of the records I've been unable to stop restoring and posting on my blog this month!)

Emperor Waltz
Sukiyaki
Medley: Branca / Morrer... Semter Amado
Santa Lucia
Medley: Blue Danube / Tales Of The Vienna Woods / Waves Of The Danube
Tico Tico
Waves Of The Danube
The Song From "Moulin Rouge" (Where Is Your Heart)
Luar Do Sertao
Loch Lomond
Vira Do Minho

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Jack Paar: Paar for Tonight

 

Brief promotional record sent to NBC-TV network affiliates in 1957 to promote the upcoming premiere of the new iteration of the "Tonight" show hosted by Jack Paar, "Paar for Tonight".

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Enrico Caruso: Clairol Presents Enrico Caruso

 

"I know I can always smooth out too much curl, but I can't pull body out of the air when I'm trying to comb."

Introduction
Preliminary Steps
The Haircut
The Roller Pattern
The Combout
The Variations
The Conclusion

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Andy Parks: Sex, School...And Like Other Pressures

 

Comedy album from 1967 about the generation gap, by Bud Freeman (later a writer for Love, American Style, Room 222, Hawaii Five-O and Lou Grant).

Don't Ruin Your Life
Makin' Out
Mainline
Pillhead
Long As You're Neat
Hair to the Hips

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James Ramsey & Lowell Lacey: Sounds of the Schober Electronic Organ

 

Organ demonstration record for four models from the Schober Organ Corporation, New York City.

The Schober Theatre Organ
The Schober Spinet Organ
The Schober Recital Organ
The Schober Consolette II Organ

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Gary Brown: Gary Brown Calls the Advanced List

 

Gary Brown is a square dance caller from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, active from 1972 through at least 2011. He made one known followup album, "Gary Brown Calls the Advanced List Again!!"

Hash / Brandy
Movin' On
Hash / Sluicegate
Luchenbach, Texas
Hash / Yellow Creek
Some Broken Hearts Never Mend
Hash / Ranch House Ramble
Rocky Top
Hash / Rhythm Special
My Way

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Carol & Henry Schaafsma: Spoken Story Series Vol. 1

 

Husband-and-wife team from the Midwest read Japanese folk stories on this 1963 record designed to teach English to Japanese learners.

Urashimataro
Momotaro
Shitakirisuzume
Hanasakajiji
Issun-Boshi
Kaguyahime

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