St. Josephs' Maori Girls Choir: Pokarekare

Traditional Maori tunes sung by the girls of the St. Joseph’s Maori Girls College of Hawkes Bay, New Zealand in 1963. In 1996 I did an LP trade on the internet, and along with the album I bought, this album was enclosed in the package as a stiffener. Oddly, when I started listing my albums on the internet for trade several years ago, three people from Oceania requested this on CD.

Pokarekare

Toia Mai Te Waka

Haere Ra E Hine

Nei Ra Ahau

Hoki Hoki

Pehia

Hine E Hine

Pa Mai

Tena Koutou

Ha Haere Mai

Maranga Mai

Po Atarau (Now Is the Hour)

Album audio & art

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Experimental Audio Research: Pocket Symphony

Two ambient tracks by EAR, a side project of Pete Kember of Spacemen 3. This five-inch single came packaged in a CD sleeve, and it remains the smallest record in my collection. Sympathy for the Record Industry pressed it in 1994 prior to the release of EAR’s debut full-length Mesmerised. Digging the cover art, a painting by Anthony Ausgang called “The Pursuit of Happiness”.

Mesmerise Reprise

D.M.T. Symphony (Flashback)

Record audio & artwork

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Eugene Chadbourne: 198666

The very prolific Eugene Chadbourne’s 1986 single for Ralph Records, with five petulant, sarcastic folk ditties with just the right amount of noisy instrumental noodly goodness.

Amerikkka Stands Tall – Libya Version

Jesus Protects Mexico

Devil on the Radio

You Can’t Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd

Skip a Rope

7-inch audio & artwork

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Second City: Comedy from the Second City

The cast of Second City at the time of this live recording in 1961 included Howard Alk, Alan Arkin, Severn Darden, Andrew Duncan, Barbara Harris, Mina Kolb, Paul Sand, and Eugene Troobnick. Don’t miss Alan Arkin delivering a scorching guitar-folk version of William Blake’s “Tiger” that deafened the front row and made the rest of the audience become folk singers.

Emma / Great Books

Cultural F.M.

Business Man: Japanese Competition / Southern Lunch Counter

Caesar’s Wife / No George, Don’t

Man in the Nightclub

LP audio & artwork

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Salloom Sinclair & The Mother Bear

Unbelievably good blues/rock/psych from 1968. Thanks again, Peter Bergman! (I first heard some cuts from this LP on an old Radio Free Oz aircheck.) “Sitting on a Finger” is one of my favorite things ever, and that spoken word intro can be sampled and put in front of ANYTHING and will make it more awesome so form a band and sample it NOW.

Be Born Again

Conversations with Gentility

Steals

Griffin

She Kicked Me Out of the House After This One

Florida Blues

Sitting on a Finger

Marie La Peau

LP audio & artwork

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Kyu Sakamoto: Sukiyaki

The sweetly melancholy opening track, renamed “Sukiyaki” by some American marketing executive (and why not, it’s the perfect name for a song in the sense that it has nothing to do whatsoever with the content of the song, but it’s a word in Japanese, and we know how to say it, so hey, why try harder) is the only Japanese-language single ever to get to top the charts in the U.S. My favorite here, though, is the uncanny side 2 opener “Boku No Hoshi”.

Ue O Mui Te Aruko (I Look Up When I Walk)

Tsun Tsun Bushi (The Tsun Tsun Song)

Hitoribocchi No Futari (The Lonesome Two)

Kyu-Chan Ondo (The Kyu-Chan Folk Song March)

Mo Hitori No Boku (It's Just Not the Real Me)

Good Timing

Boku No Hoshi (My Star)

Kiminanka Kiminanka (I Couldn't Care For You, Not You, Not You!)

Kyu-Chan No Zuntatatta (The Zuntatatta Song)

Hige No Uta (My First Whisker)

Goodbye, Joe

Anoko No Namaewa Nantenkana (I Wonder What Her Name Is)

LP audio & artwork

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