ASS DEEP IN TWANG

Okay, so there's this thing going around social media that friends are posting, encouraging people to post music rather then self absorbed ramblings, complaining, pictures of meals, cat stuff, i.e. the usual drivel. It's one of those things, "like this post and I'll give you a letter, then post a song by an artist with that initial". Innocent enough, right? Well, soul sister Lady Spinsta was dealt "E". and surprised the hell out of me by posting Duane Eddy's "Rebel Rouser". 

Duane Eddy was, and is, the poster boy of twang. I would imagine most of you know that. He made a career out of twang, with hits spanning four decades. Because I don't really know who visits here, in case you don't know him I'll lay this on you: Eddy was respected enough that when he resurfaced in the eighties, John Fogerty, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ry Cooder, James Burton, David Lindley, and Steve Cropper, all lined up to play on an album. All because of twang. Go figure.

About the songs: there's just a few below, but a link to about sixty or seventy at Internet Archive. (Once there, scroll down. There's two columns of mp3s, with the left column the better quality.) But before you split, you should really check a couple below. "Stalkin'", because it's about as baddass as Duane Eddy ever got, and "Your Baby's Gone Surfin'" because, despite having the oft present cheesy bacgkround vocals, Darlene Love was one of the vocalists and she really goes off at 1:53. "Twistin' Off a Cliff" is down there because it's a perennial party favorite.

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Listen:
Duane Eddy - Stalkin' mp3 at So Many Records, So Little Time
Duane Eddy - Your Baby's Gone Surfin' mp3 at So Many Records, So Little Time with Darlene Love
Duane Eddy - Twistin' Off A Cliff (streaming) at YouTube
Duane Eddy - Rebel Rouser mp3 at So Many Records, So Little Time written by Lee Hazelwood
Duane Eddy - Movin' n' Groovin' mp3 at Internet Archive
Duane Eddy - Detour mp3 at Internet Archive
All you can eat:
Duane Eddy - Dozens more mp3s at Internet Archive Streaming as well.

DEL-FI ROCKERS

A few days ago I posted some Del-Fi Records non-hits. Good as they were, I figured we ought to give label owner Bob Keane his due, so here's a few Del-Fi all-timers, a couple each from Chan Romero and Richie Valens. As familiar as they may be, you can't deny their top-shelf worthiness.

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Listen:

Chan Romero - Hippy Hippy Shake mp3 at Mp3 Rockabilly

Chan Romero - My Little Ruby mp3 at Rocky 52
Ritchie Valens - La Bamba mp3 at Fresno.k12.ca.us
Ritchie Valens - Come On, Let's Go mp3 at Schristy

KILLER READ ALERT

Remember my friend Ray, aka "The Guy Who Always Finds Cool Shit On YouTube"? He just hepped me to what is probably the best thing I've ever read about Eddie Cochran, written by a friend of his. It's on Huffington Post of all places and well worth the read. If you need tunes to go along with it, there's a link below to a post from a few months ago.

It's All Eddie Cochran's Fault! - by Binky Phillips at Huffington Post
The Natural - Old post here, with a handful of songs

IT'S WOMACK NIGHT OVER HERE

Bobby Womack died yesterday. That's a bummer. It's gonna be one of those nights, totally sidetracked. I'll just leave these here. You should know at least a handful of his songs.  These are the first few I ran into. Considering they represent almost four decades, there's a hell of a lot of dots to connect. You know how to do that, right?

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Listen:
The Valentinos - It's All Over Now mp3 at Probe Is Turning-On the People Session 228 1964
Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street mp3 at Ernest 75 (?) 1973
Bobby Womack - California Dreaming mp3 at Dealer of People's Emotions 1969
Bobby Womack - Please Forgive My Heart mp3 at Drank Sinatra 2012
Bobby Womack - Stupid mp3 at Friday Mix Tape 2012

GET THOSE KIDS OUTTA HERE

Diddy Wah just posted the first 45 by Junior Kimbrough, credited as Junior Kimbell, from 1967. After hearing that, I started browsing and landed on the video below. All hell broke loose. The evening is shot. Check it out. You know what comes to mind? A phrase from the liner notes on an early Johnny Winter LP: "hypnotic blues bag". That's what Junior Kimbrough is. He's a hypnotic blues bag. What he's got is what others wish they had, some kind of intangible numbing air. What the Stones couldn't summon on Exile on Main St., or the Black Keys on The Big Come Up. Don't even think about bringing up the Jon Spencer thing, or, for crying out loud, the edit by Daft Punk (for a fashion show of all things). Watch the video, rather listen to it. That's not something you can bottle.

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Listen:

Junior Kimbell - Tram(?) mp3 at DiddyWah Plus the flip. Go there to get them.

Junior Kimbrough and the Soul Blues Boys - Stay All Night mp3 at Unfogged (?)
Junior Kimbrough - Sad Days, Lonely Nights mp3 at DK Presents (?)

Junior Kimbrough - I Feel Alright mp3 at Patch n Dent

Junior Kimbrough - Done Got Old mp3 at ATumblr (?)

Junior Kimbrough and Charlie Feathers - I Feel Good Again mp3 at Internet Archive

HEY, OVER THERE!

This is going to be a quick one. I had a zillion things to do tonight. Really, more like four. But that's about three more than I'd care to have. Here's the post at Probe Is Turning-On the People that included the Bedwells' "Karate", that was posted yesterday. There's sixteen karate themed songs (if you include the Hai Karate commercial), with a high keeper ratio. Some really good ones. One more click.

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Listen:
Chop Chop - 16 Karate oddballs at Probe Is Turning-On the People

KEANE DON'T CARE

Man, you gotta love Del-Fi Records. They were one of those West Coast independent labels that just threw everything at the wall. They didn't have a real signature sound, like Stax, Sun, Motown, et al. Owner Bob Keane gave everything a shot. There were some hits and as was the case with independent labels, many, many misses. Here's a grab bag of some oddballs misses. Too many hits kind of creeps me out anyways..

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Listen:
Bruce Johnston - Moon Shot mp3 at The Ray Carr Show (?)
Wayne Hollers - Dancing In the Sand mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Dave Myers and the Surftones - Aquavelva mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Earl Davis - Walk With Me mp3 at Sir Shamblings
Bob Keene Orchestra - La Bamba mp3 at The Ray Carr Show (?)
The Bedwells - Karate mp3 at Probe Is Turning-On the People This one is gold
Visit:
Del-Fi Records 45 discography at Global Dog Productions
Del-Fi Records at Wikipedia
Bob Keane interview at Cosmic Debris

PRIMORDIAL CHILL

When it comes to restrained coolness, it really doesn't get any cooler than Santo and Johnny's "Sleepwalk". It's a multi-purpose instrumental, good for barbeques, post-beach chilling, and, as my high school friend Randy would say "a slow dance with a foxy chick" (a comment that was met with guffaws by all present because this guy never came close to slow dancing with a cardboard stand-up, let alone a foxy chick). It's been posted here before, but I just ran across an extended version, long enough to give even imaginary player Randy a run for his money. It sounds like it was recorded at a different session than the original, but retains the innate goosebump inducing vibe, four and a half minutes of it. [Note: The long version was mislabeled at Plain or Pan. It's actually the Ventures.]

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Listen:

The Ventures - Sleepwalk (long version) mp3 at Plain or Pan

Santo and Johnny - Sleepwalk (original) mp3 at Basement Rug

Santo and Johnny - All Night Diner mp3 at Basement Rug

Santo and Johnny - Caravan mp3 at Basement Rug

Santo and Johnny - Instanbul mp3 at Basement Rug With Hugo Montenegro

Covers:

Jeff Beck - Sleepwalk mp3 at Plain or Pan

Brian Setzer - Sleepwalk mp3 at Plain or Pan

Their first LP:

Santo and Johnny - Santo and Johnny at Basement Rug In a zip. (Click on "This self-titled 1959 LP")

Visit:

Santo and Johnny at Wikipedia 

Santo and Johnny at Basement Rug Excellent bio and all the goods

EL PARCHE

Seriously. Just take a look at that publicity photo. It's Esteban Jordan, a San Antonio musician. Obviously an accordion player. With a look like that, the guy could sing disco songs about dog shit and I'd still eat it up.  But he didn't. What he did do was stretch the boundaries of Tex-Mex, using effects (fuzz, echo, phase shifters), and elements of soul, jazz, funk, and rock 'n' roll to suit his fancy, unknowingly creating what sounds like Tex-Mex psych dub. So, he liked to fuck with things. Cool. But you know what I really like about him? The guy played thirty five different instruments, and chose the accordion. Lest you think he was just some freak that was disregarded by peers, he recorded with Flaco Jimenez, and that's just about all the squeeze box cred that's needed. 

If you think I was kidding about the Tex-Mex psych dub thing, check the video below. As cool looking as it is, let it rip, without watching the screen. I gotta find this record. Maaaan. And take a listen to "Squeeze Box Man", Really. It's funky as all get out.There's also a video of him doing "Summertime" below, as in Gershwin's (posted Ricky Nelson's version of the same song a couple days ago). While I'm not keen on the more contemporary jazz feel, and the scat thing he throws in there, I gotta stand back and marvel at the weirdness of it.

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Listen:
Esteban Jordan - Las Coronelas mp3 at Let's Polka
Esteban Jordan - Squeeze Box Man mp3 at Super Sonido
Esteban Jordan - El Cascabel (streaming) at La Planga
Esteban Jordan - You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling mp3 at To the Sublime
Video:
Esteban Jordan - Summertime at YouTube
Tito Lavaria with Esteban Jordan - Radio Head at YouTube From the film True Stories 

BELYING LOOKS DEPT.

If you need a reminder of how much good punk rock slipped through the cracks back in the late seventies, just go dig through Killed By Death. Every once in a while I'll just poke around through their old posts, and I almost always stumble across a song that ranks right up there with all of the early punk stuff that you and I have heard a thousand times before, you know, the classics. The Cigarettes' "They're Back Again, Here They Come" is one of those. It sounds like a cross between Spiral Scratch era Buzzcocks and ATV. Don't let the intro fool you, after about thirty seconds it kicks in, and it's one of those low budget smash and grab catchy as hell specials. The lyrics ain't half bad either, anti-neo-Nazi stuff. It's posted with two other songs that aren't quite as good, but what the hell, I'm not looking for a greatest hits package.

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Listen:
The Cigarettes - They're Back Again, Here They Come mp3 at Killed By Death Direct linking is disabled. Go there to get it. Two other songs too.

I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT CATFISH

Ohh yeeah. Summer starts tomorrow. Warm days, warm water, bonfires, weenie roasts; what's not to like?  I can't be objective, I live in Southern California, I live for this shit. But rather than start this three month party off with surf instrumentals, surf themed vocal garbage, or anything else too beach oriented, I had to go looking for this sucker, Ricky Nelson doing "Summertime", written for the musical Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. Yeah, that's right, I'm a cultured sonofabitch. Nelson packs some punch into this one. It sounds considerably later than 1962, the year that it was recorded. Almost sounds like he's backed by the Yardbirds. James Burton on guitar, yesssir. Even though being in Southern California, I can't really relate to the lyrics, I've got three months to bore the hell out of you with all the cliché shit. So take your damn shoes off already. You can do that anywhere.

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Listen:
Ricky Nelson - Summertime mp3 at Internet Archive
Ricky Nelson - Lonesome Town mp3 at The Audio Muffin
Ricky Nelson - Hello May Lou mp3 at Internet Archive

GOODBYE HIT MACHINE

Gerry Goffin died today. He was a brilliant songwriter, and that's not just some casual use of the word. He partnered with Carole King and together they were a hit machine. The two wrote fifty Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1968. Their first collaborative hit, "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow", was recorded by the Shirelles in 1960, and it's my favorite, hands down. It's about as close to perfect as you can get, Nothing is absolutely perfect, Nothing. This is close.

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Listen:
The Shirelles - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow mp3 at PTHS67 (some class reunion site)
Five more Goffin-King penned classics at Boogaloo Time
Visit:
Gerry Goffin biography at Songwriters Hall of Fame
Gerry Goffin song listing at Songwriters Hall of Fame

GUITAR JACKOFFERY

Back when I was in my teens, I use to eat rock guitar records for breakfast. Shit yeah, Ten Years After was in there. Them and a hundred other bands. At this point in my life, I can't bothered, but back then, the term guitar hero meant something. It sold records, it packed smoke filled arenas, it sold magazines, and it actually got teenage boys to pick up a damn broom.

I don't think I've heard this earlier version of "I'm Going Home", the guitar jackoff anthem of Woodstock. If I have, it's been a long while. (Off topic, but I must interject here, because I just thought about it. No matter how well intended, a peace sign sticker has no business being on an ES335. It's just wrong.) I don't mean that Alvin Lee himself is a jackoff. Every guitarist was a show off back then. More power to 'em, That's not the reason I'm posting this. I'm posting it because it sounds more pared down, a little raw compared to the Woodstock version. And I think my brother will dig it. Though, for the life of me, I don't know if I find it comical or not. I don't care. I'm a wild man.

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Listen:
Ten Years After - I'm Goin' Home mp3 at Song of the Day

STILL THEY COME

A few years back there was all of this talk about a soul revival going on, or starting, or some other tangent. Amy Winehouse, Sharon Jones, Daptone Records, Eli Paperboy Reed, Ryan Shaw, and so on; all that shit going on around the same time. Plus a bunch of good specialty labels reissuing obscure old stuff. Everything was going along just fine. Then the nitpicking: who came first, who's the most authentic, who was the guiding light. Roughly a decade later, it doesn't matter much at all. The massive success of Amy Whitehouse was sadly short lived and there was no apparent successor, at least in terms of widespread popularity. So it's still in these little pockets.

Either I've had my head in the sand, or I just stumbled onto a pocket heretofore unknown to me. The Foxionaires, with Brandy Butler. Their particular pocket, Biel, Switzerland, population 50,000. (How about a Hee Haw salute?). This is some good stuff, from just a few years back. The last activity I ran into was a live date from late 2013. I also put another track down there, as a sort of vintage soul control group. You know, just go compare. Get out of my hair.

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Listen:
The Foxionaires with Brandy Butler - Drive Me mp3 at Soul Garage

The Foxionaires with Brandy Butler - Till You Love Me mp3 at Soul Garage

Irma and the Fascinators - Lost Love mp3 at Soul Garage

GET OUT OF MY HEAD

As you might know, the Equals recorded the original version of "Police On My Back", covered by the Clash on their 1979 double LP, London Calling. What you may not know is that they were one of Britain's few multi-racial bands from the mid-sixties, with two British members, two Jamaican, and one from Guyana, the latter being Eddy "Electric Avenue" Grant. And that's about it. There's nothing much all that remarkable about their sound, nothing extreme or crazy, and by all matters of reason I shouldn't even be attracted to their music. But, there's this thing, their songs have a tendency to get stuck in your head. "Baby Come Back", their first and only big hit, is a good example. I hadn't listened to it in years. Heard it today, and it was "Aw shit, I'll be hearing that jostle around in my head for hours". So, what the hell, let's exorcise this shit.

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Listen:
The Equals - Police On My Back mp3 at Mr. Suave (?)
The Equals - Baby Come Back mp3 at David Fullmer (?)
The Equals - Michael and the Slipper Tree mp3 at Brobots
Covers:
The Clash - Police On My Back mp3 at Snuhthing Anything
Pato Baton - Baby Come Back mp3 at Cool Sound
Video:

The Equals - Police On My Back (Beat Club) at YouTube Hey! Check this video. It's that fräulein from the Beat Club! She introduced the Monks on another episode of the same show. (I wonder...) American television was never this cool.

The Equals - Baby Come Back at YouTube

PORT OF CALL: SOME WEIRD PLACE

This is just a heads up. I'm too preoccupied right now to really stop in the middle of a post I'm digging over at Office Naps,  Non-cheesy jazz exotica, sans bird calls. If you like that sort of stuff, there's some great text and ten songs. And Art Blakey!

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Listen:
Lotus Land: The curious legacy of jazz exotica at Office Naps Ten songs and good reading

THE LIST GETS LONGER

Man, oh man, I swear, sometimes if you so much as blink you could end up never knowing about a singer that might be right up your alley. If it wasn't for On The Flip-Side, I may have walked around the rest of my life not knowing who Margie Hendrix was. And even after having been turned onto her music (thank you very much Morgan), and going digging for more background info, I was once again reminded how much unheard music and how many untold stories there are. When Sir Shambling mentions that there's little info out there about Hendrix, you pretty much have to cut your losses. I mean, the guy's research is always exhaustive, so I'm going to take him at his word.

Hendrix was a Raelette, singing backing vocals behind Ray Charles, with whom she also had a relationship. After bearing Charles's child, the two split up, and she was let go as a Raelette. She continued to record as a solo artist, but, whether it was the plethora of great female R & B singers around at the time, a lack of promotion, or something else, Hendrix never really broke. After listening to her music, it seems pretty unbelievable. Holy hell, does it ever.

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Listen:
Margie Hendrix - Tell The Truth mp3 at Sir Shambling's Deep Soul Heaven
Margie Hendrix - Jim Dandy mp3 at Gazfunk
Margie Hendrix - Six more songs at Sir Shambling's Deep Soul Heaven (Click on blue song titles)
Margie Hendrix - Two songs at On The Flip-Side
Visit:
Margie Hendrix - Bio and solo discography at Sir Shambling's Deep Soul Heaven

TUBBY? NEVER HEARD OF HIM.

I'm not into Outkast enough to know much of what they sounded like in the early years, but if their 1998 cut "Spottieottiedopaliscious" is any indication, I've got some more digging to do, It's a seven minute groove that sounds something like a cross between King Tubby and the Budos Band. Really, from the "Hey Ya" guys. Go figure.

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Listen:
Outkast - Spottieottiedopaliscious mp3 at Mixtape Riot Go there to get it (Right click the song title.)
King Tubby & Soul Syndicate - King Tubby's Key mp3 at Clumsy & Shy
The Budos Band - Budos Rising mp3 at Ear It Now
Visit:
Budos Band - Past posts
King Tubby - Past posts

SHAKE IT OFF

Alright already, back in business. (In case you're wondering, the culprit was a fried motherboard in the juice box.) After a few unplanned days away from here, I figured it'd be a good idea to dance with the one that brought me, in other words, rock 'n' roll. Straight up, no mop tops, hippies, spikey hair or phony hyphenated offshoots. No extended solos, bell bottoms, gongs, wah-wahs, or any other extraneous bullshit. A return to the womb, so to speak. So here you go, a mix of what should be considered essentials. If you dig any particular artist, check the index to the right. There's probably more of each floating around here.

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Listen:
Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps - Cat Man mp3 at LYWL
Chuck Berry - It's My Own Business mp3 at the Rising Storm
The Rockin' R's - Crazy Baby mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Billy Lee Riley - Flying Saucers Rock n' Roll mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Hank Mizell - Jungle Rock mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Johnny Carroll - Crazy, Crazy Lovin' mp3 at Rocky-52.net
Warren Smith - Ubangi Stomp mp3 at DavidFulmer.com
Bo Diddley - Mona mp3 at Mark Allen Interested Person
Eddie Cochran - Nervous Breakdown mp3 at Uusikaupunki.fi
Roy Orbison - Go! Go! Go! mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Little Richard - Keep A Knockin' mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire mp3 at Bousculade
Don & Dewey - Justine mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Johnny Burnette & the Rock n' Roll Trio - Honey Hush mp3 at RocknDog.com

AW CRAP!

Experiencing some problems with the computer, and it might be another day. In the meantime, check out some of the older posts. Or just gaze at the Duchess. See you soon.

COP TO IT

I was just goofing around over at Boogaloo Time, and I ran into Tom Jones's "Chills and Fever". That was gonna be it. But then I listened to "She's A Lady" again. Holy fuck, that's one reason I don't mind being my age. I got to hear "She's A Lady" coming out of a tinny speaker on an AM radio. Compare that to...oh fuck, nevermind.

Check this video of him with Janis Joplin. It smokes. There's some sort of weird show biz mutual respect chemistry thing going on there. I really, really dig it when they're dancing together during the sax solo. But the whole thing, beginning to end, is just plain awesome. Even the fully freaking dancing extras are a gas.

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Listen:
Tom Jones - Chills and Fever mp3 at Boogaloo Time
Tom Jones - She's A Lady mp3 at LZ Center Jimmy Page on guitar.
Tom Jones - Thunderball mp3 at Bond Movies
Tom Jones with the Pretenders - Lust For Life mp3 at Cover Me
Video:
Tom Jones with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Long Time at YouTube 1969
Tom Jones - Treat Her Right at YouTube At 1:17, severe case of ants in pants.
Visit:
Tom Jones before The Voice - an ex bandmate reveals tales of tunes, girls and Krayshe at The Mirror UK Tom Jones's early years hi-jinx

TWO SIDED OBSCURO #37

If you dig the Northwest sounds of the Sonics, the Wailers and all of their contemporaries, you need to hear these. They're by the Jolly Green Giants, a band from Spokane Washington, who put out exactly one single, and it's a two sided whopper. I would love to provide you with some sort of story, but there ain't much out there. When Garage Hangover and On the Flip-Side are close to stumped, you know it's gonna be tough going.

Note: They're hosted on Soundcloud. The "download" link is the small button, next to the "share" button, under the comment thing. If you go to the post to hear them, the download link is the small downward pointing arrow on the streaming bar.

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Listen:
The Jolly Green Giants - Caught You Redhanded mp3 (via SoundCloud) at On the Flip-Side 1967
The Jolly Green Giants - Busy Body mp3 (via SoundCloud) at On the Flip-Side 1967
Roy Lee Johnson - Busy Body (streaming) at YouTube 1962 original of song above

BBQ MUSIC. COMMENCE WEEKEND.

This is a weird one. Good, but a little overcooked. It's a DJ created mix, with an excellent song selection. The selector, one Tek A Dee, is an overactive sonofabitch. Maybe that's how it's done, but sheesh. I can see just playing partial songs, after all, there are 48 songs packed into one hour, something's got to give. But man, this one goes sound bite crazy, heavy on JB screams, and Austin Powers. What the hell is that? It can be annoying, particularly if you're a purist. But I've got to hand it to him, it is an excellent song selection. I'm not going to cut and paste the song list, check it out here. If you don't have much reggae, this is a perfect way to introduce yourself to a lot of stuff in just an hour. The sound bites seem to lessen as you get further into it. Maybe I'm being too harsh. I'm starting to like the mood this mix is getting me into. I'm lightening up. That's probably the desired effect. Tricked again.

Note: It's hosted on Soundcloud. The "download" link is the small button, next to the "share" button, under the comment thing. If you go to the post to hear it, the download link is the small downward pointing arrow on the streaming bar. And, again, the song list is here.

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Listen:
Dancing Mood Mix by Tek A Dee (via Soundcloud) at Extra Classic
Dancing Mood song list

BAND

Look it up. Band: The Ventures. Reliable. Clean. Well done, technically unrivaled, never hippies. Prolific, almost always taken for granted. How could something not weird be so entirely listenable? You ask too many questions.

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Listen:
The Ventures - Out of Limits mp3 at JBHS1967 (class reunion site)
The Ventures - Hawaii Five O mp3 at LZ Center
The Ventures - Endless Summer Theme mp3 at Us Hawaiians

DELICIA DE LA SCAVENGER

Oh yeaaah, the internet boneyard. I dig it. Maybe because dormant blogs with good music and links that still function give me the thrill of digging through tossed out records without getting my hands dirty. Come to think of it, that's part of what I like about digging through tossed out records. Getting dirty. You feel like you're on some sort of recon mission. Whatever. I ran into these gems five years ago, and was surprised that the links still function. One of these sites has been dormant for a year, the other for five years. Check both. There's a lot of top shelf stuff, most of which you may never run across again.

These particular songs are by Latin bands that sound like they listened to more than a little soul music. It's funky soul, and there's some Stax like stuff going on. Ersatz Stax was plentiful back then. Oh god, there's a genre name waiting to happen, Stax Mex. Let the eyerolling begin.

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Listen:
Tony Hernandez and the Latin Liners - Jo Tex mp3 at Musica del Alma
Big Man and the Night People - Night Creeper mp3 at Excavation
The Blue Nights - No No mp3 at Excavation
The Rondels - Love Bones mp3 at Excavation
Sherman Evans with Cruz Ortiz and the Flames – The Craze mp3 at Excavation

THAT GUY

He played on the Flamin' Groovies' "Teenage Head", and the Rolling Stones "Wild Horses". In the same year. He played on Aretha Franklin recordings, and some from Rocket From The Crypt. Ditto Ry Cooder, Mudhoney, Big Star, the Replacements, Sam and Dave, Toots and the Maytals, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Bob Dylan, Petula Clark, and.Tav Falco. He's recorded his own records, both music and spoken word. He has been backed by the Cramps. He's Jim Dickinson. Musician, producer, songwriter, and apparent replicant.

Adios Lounge just posted a thing with Dickinson talking about his work with the Stones. That prompted you know what. Rabbit hole, here we come. So, here's just a handful to get you started. Hit the links below for more of his music and that of bands he's worked with. Definitely check his discography. Jim Dickinson is one of those guys that you might skim past on liner notes, and a good reason why you shouldn't.

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Listen:
Flash & the Memphis Casuals - Uptight Tonight mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu 1966

The Jesters with Jim Dickinson - Cadillac Man mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu 1966

Jim Dickinson w/the Cramps - Red Headed Woman mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu 1984

Jim Dickinson, Ry Cooder and David Lindley - Dark Was the Night mp3 at Xitek(?) 1985

Jim Dickinson - O How She Danced mp3 at Unnecessary Umlaut 2006 Spoken word

Jim Dickinson - Six songs he played on at Beware of the Blog

Visit:

Jim Dickinson at Boogie Woogie Flu Bio and a lot of music. Highly recommended

Jim Dickinson at The Hound Blog Excellent Bio

Jim Dickinson Discography at Wang Dang Dula Skull protection recommended

What Do You Think About the Piano at Adios Lounge Jim Dickenson on working with the Stones
Jim Dickinson's Favorite Records at Birdman

NICE WINGTIPS

If you lived in San Diego before it got spiffed up downtown, and spent any time in the vicinity of the Greyhound station and the Funland arcade, you no doubt walked past a seedy looking time machine of a strip bar, the name of which escapes me. Strip bar, because it had strippers, and it had alcohol, but there's no way it qualified as a strip club. I'll give you an idea what it was like. In the display window, where a glamor photo of an entertainer may once have been, there was a faded black and white poster of Raquel Welch, from One Million Years B.C. It was in that window for years, decades after the film had come and gone. I must have walked past it 46 times.

After seeing the poster slowly deteriorate for years, I decided to see if Raquel Welch was inside. She was not. But I passed through some sort of portal. It was very dark, the room smelled, sweat, booze, cigarettes. I was with my friend Kevin. We had decided that that, if we were curious enough to look inside, it would be the right thing to do, to sit down and take it in with a beer. But in a single moment, our voyeuristic anthropological study got turned on its face. There were about a dozen or so patrons in the bar, most were just kind of glancing at the stripper. No real gaping. The dancer finished her set, and then, from the stage, she said "I'm off work. Does anybody want to take me home with them?" Dead silence. The scene had such a sad, pathetic vibe that my buddy and I just looked at each other and simultaneously nodded towards the door. As we were walking out, "...And thaaat was..."

I honestly don't remember what music was playing in that place, but I'd like to imagine that at one time, in its heyday, they were spinning stuff like the songs below, all from the Las Vegas Grind series of compilations. Thanks to the Mystery Suggester, I now know that the Gee Cees' "Buzzsaw Twist" is an early Glen Campbell cut (1961). Hence this whole diversion.

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Listen:
The Jaguars - Drive-In mp3 at Plastik Props
The Frantics - The Whip mp3 at Unnecessary Umlaut
Barbara and the Boys - Hooty Sapperticker mp3 at Internet Archive
The Hollywood Persuaders - Drums A Go Go mp3 at X818
The Gee Cees - Buzzsaw Twist mp3 at Rocky 52