Sunday, September 12, 2021

THEY CALL HIM THE SWINGING APE


If you haunt Boss Radio 66 (formerly Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban), or Kogar's Jungle Juice, you've no doubt run across one of Kogar's mixes. They're always good, no stinkers, and always have a lot bands that you've never heard of. The best way to describe his selections might not ring familiar with some of you who've never haunted thrift stores, swap meets and garage sales for random 45s. If you don't look for records in places like those you're missing out. Granted, with sites like Ebay and Discogs, the golden age of thrifting is gone, there are still some that slip through, particularly the type that go through the Kogar filter. I suspect he buys records like a lot of people with collections of obscure non-hit wonders. Look at the band name, the song name and sorta guess at the year. When at least one or two of those variables rank as favorable, you might have a cheap keeper that you may never see again. In short, with a Kogar mix, he's done the thrift store safari for you.

Kogar's latest mix, Any Way You Wanta Do the Doy, consists of songs that had been posted over the past year. It's got soul shouters, instrumentals and classic B-list frat rock, all sounding like sixties releases, some possibly late fifties. There are a few names you'll recognize (Ike and Tina Turner, Thee Midnighters, Art Neville, etc.) and a lot that you won't.

A note about the downloads: They're at hosted on Mega and despite appearances, you don't have to sign up. You got enough shit on your phone as it is. The first link is to the mix, a zip with 32 separate mp3s. The other is a link to the individual songs as they were originally posted in case you want to cherry pick. I wouldn't. Snag the mix.

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Listen:
Any Way You Wanta Do the Do! - 32 song mix
(via Mega) at Boss Radio 66
Movers and Groovers - Individual posts with single songs from the above mix
at Radio 66

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