RATTY ASS DENIM ROCK

Man, last night was a cornucopia of diversions. It started out with a tip from the Mystery Suggester to check Shindig! magazine's The Hot 100- The Soundtrack of Our Evolution a playlist at YouTube featuring "deep, deep cuts" all released on 45s and featured at one point or another in the first 100 issues of the magazine. Now, I've never bought the magazine as I am a tightwad, and as a British mag it's pricey here in the states. I have, however, leafed through several at length at the newsstand and it seems like a good mag. Good enough to produce a thoroughly listenable playlist of stuff I've never heard before. Good enough for me.

I left a comment for the Mystery Suggester and she responded that she had detoured the list and was now on a "Budgie rampage". What a great way to say that you're binging on a particular band. I realized that I'd somehow never posted any Budgie. The MS probably did not know that, but she probably did know that I'd take the bait. (When the first three songs a rather slipshod search turned up were titled "Guts", "Homicidal Suicidal" and "Hammer and Tongs", it's hard not to.) And another reason I love the Mystery Suggester: She gets it. Name a genre and she's got a favorite, or several. It had me longing for the days when she lived in my apartment complex and we could hang out all the time.

One thing we'd do was drink and watch Rock 'n' Roll Jeopardy. If you've never heard of that game show, it aired in the U.S. from 1998 to 2001 and was a rock 'n' roll trivia version of Jeopardy. It was great fun, particularly when they'd have some unlikely famous musician as a contestant who made mincemeat out of his/her unlikely famous musician opponents (i.e. Mark McGrath made mincemeat out of Graham Nash and Joe Walsh, both of whom knew little beyond their 1970's hayday). Most of the time is was non-celebrities that seemed to carry themselves like they thought they'd slay their opponents, One thing I remember fondly about those nights was coming up with imagined background info on the contestants based on their look, their swagger and, in some cases, the look that you get when you're clearly out of your league. There's a few episodes on YouTube so go grab a friend and a twelver and live it up.

So, from Shindig's list to Budgie to Rock 'n' Roll Jeopardy. That's why I ditched yesterday. Still working on all three, so mañana.

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Listen:
The Hot 100 - The Soundtrack Of Our Evolution at YouTube 100 song playlist by Shindig!
Budgie - Guts mp3 at Jalene 40 (?)
Budgie - Homicidal Suicidal mp3 at Tumblr
Budgie - Hammer and Tongs mp3 at Tumblr
Visit:
Rock 'n' Roll Jeopardy episodes at YouTube

DEDICATED TO THE ONE I SHOVE

These go out to the Mystery Suggester, a friend that has on more than one occasion steered me towards some good shit. She's done that a lot. She knows my taste better than just about anyone. Someday I will marry her. It won't happen anytime soon, but there's a beat down wooden porch in some shitty ol' backwoods town somewhere with two beat down rocking chairs on it, with two beat down rockers sitting in them, twenty years or more in the future. Eh, maybe. Regardless, she is a sweetheart. I remember her once lamenting that it was somehow considered forward or inappropriate when an old codger puts his hand on your forearm to emphasize whatever he's talking about, whether it's baseball or airplanes. A lot of people would recognize that aged-out gesture and also be sad that that age is past. But the Mystery Suggester verbalized it, put it in a conversation. And that's just one thing. She's said so many things, done so many things, and listened to so many things that have stuck in my head. She's special that way. Kind of like a brother. Which is a shame, because she's really hot.

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Listen:
Nathaniel Mayer - Work It Out mp3 at Box.net (?)
Nathaniel Mayer - Village of Love mp3 at K103
Video:
Nathaniel Mayer - I Found Out at YouTube Last performance in 2008, covering John Lennon's "I Found Out".
John Lennon - I Found Out (streaming) at YouTube

THANKS MYSTERY SUGGESTER!

The Mystery Suggester just hepped me to this one yesterday and, as always, she was right. This smokes. After a short piano intro, the first thing you notice is the guitar tone. The clickety clack sort of chicken pickin', kind of Bakersfield if you know what I mean. Then those drums come in, something about the sound on them. Turn it up. It's as if you're in the room with the drummer, but he's way over there, banging the shit out of them. When the piano returns and is playing off the drums, forget it, this sucker takes off.  After another verse, a guitar solo, more banging, more pounding, then the fade out. I could certainly listen to this all day. Alas, apparently Roy Jones was a one and done guy because I can't find any reference beyond a single 45. But a mighty slab it is.

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Listen:
Roy Jones - Your Pilot Light Went Out mp3 at Rocky 52

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

SSSSSS!!!

The Mystery Suggester posted this on Facebook about a week ago, and I've listened to it about eighty times since. And it'll probably be another eighty listens before anything close to a normal attention span returns. I keep going back to it. Listen to it. If the intro doesn't grab your you know what, if the horns don't do it, or the "sssss" enunciation, or the building of the song in its entirety; if none of that moves you, just go on and git. Get on out of here. At least for the next eighty spins or so.

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Listen:
Al Wilson - The Snake mp3 at Margauxville
Al Wilson - Show and Tell mp3 at Margauxville For Lady Spinsta

BANDS UGLY THINGS TAUGHT US

Q65's cover of Lee Dorsey's "Get Out of My Life" is..., fuck, I don't know what it is. Something like the Yardbirds produced by Allen Toussaint, with Lara Logic playing sax. There might be a handful of you that know what I'm trying to get at, but I know who will, the Mystery Suggester. And that's who I thought of when I listened to it.

In the studio, 1967

Q65 had different lineups, and their music varied in style depending on the era, but there's always something in the mix that's a just little bit out there. There is an undercurrent of wildness, even in their more restrained stuff. Blah, blah, blah. In short, they're Dutch freaks. You dig that sort of stuff, right?

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Listen: 
Q65 - Get Out My Life mp3 at Stop Smiling 1966
Q65 - Cry In the Night mp3 at Tumblr (?) 1966 (Someone's been listening to "Fortune Teller")
Q65 - I Despise You (streaming) at YouTube 1966
Q65 - Injection/Love Is Such a Good Thing mp3 at Tumblr (?) 1971
Visit:
Q65 at Wikipedia
Ugly Things
Q65 - The book at Ugly Things

MEMPHIS WINS AGAIN

The Mystery Suggester done sent me on another wild goose chase. Knowing my affinity for some things Link Wray, she informed me that he had a brother that also did music. He was a guitarist in his brother's band and put out a country rock LP, Wasted, in '72, years after he played rhythm rumble. There were only 400 copies originally pressed, which may be why most people didn't know it existed. It's been reissued, and if you go for the seventies country rock stuff, or are some sort of Wray completist, you can pick up a couple tunes from Aquarium Drunkard (they disable direct linking, so yeah, you'll have to go there to get it).

I'm not all that into country rock, so my hunt for Wray mp3s was admittedly half-assed. I got sidetracked, because one of the blogs I'd landed on had some stuff that screamed detour. It was two complete LPs by '68 Comeback, the band led by Monsieur Jefferey Evans, a Memphis fixture of the garage variety whose raunchy unpretentious rock 'n' roll is something like what Pussy Galore would have sounded like if they were from the South and being cool was not part of the equation. In other words, not perfect, just sloppy and original, even when they do covers, which is often. They interpret American roots (like Creedence or the early Stones), as if locked in a garage, not concerned in the least with finding the key.

That led to digging around for mp3s of '68 Comeback's stuff, which I've looked for before. As per usual, I wasn't able to find any single songs, but the video above will give you a rough idea (really though, it doesn't do them justice). I did, however, run into mp3s of Jack Oblivian's, another fixture of the Memphis scene, who was once a '68 Comebacker (as was half of Memphis at one time or another). His stuff is equally dyn-o-mite, so that will be what the immediate gratification party will be served tonight.

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Listen:

Jack Oblivian - Rat City mp3 at Big Legal Mess Records Slow download but worth it.
Jack Oblivian - Mad Lover Pt II mp3 at Big Legal Mess Records ditto
Jack Oblivian - 'Til the Money Runs Out mp3 at Big Legal Mess Records with the Tennessee Tearjerkers
Jack Oblivian - Make It Hard mp3 at Big Legal Mess Records with the Tearjerkers
Vernon Wray - Tailpipe, and Facing All the Same Tomorrows mp3s at Aquarium Drunkard Direct linkingdisabled, go there to get them.
LPs:
'68 Comeback - Love Always Wins LP (via MediaFire) at Audio Detox
'68 Comeback - Mr. Downchild LP (via MediaFire) at Audio Detox

NEVERMIND THE PUN FREE POST TITLE

The Mystery Suggester sent one my way today and it was received with mixed thoughts, one of which was "where the fuck did the time go?" It was a video by Hollie Cook, the daughter of former Sex Pistol Paul Cook and former Belle Star Jennie Matthias. Okay, I knew she was in the last incarnation of the Slits, but had no idea she'd done solo stuff. (Before you start spouting off about me being out of the loop, it should be obvious if you poke around this dump that I've no clue where the loop is.) There were thoughts of "she's easy on the eyes, so she must suck," but she's got that association with the Pistols, the Belle Stars and the Slits, so there's something of a pedigree going on. (Belle Stars, there's another band that seemed okay when they came out,...) And she's also in the Rotten Hill Gang, who ain't so bad. So, anyway, her solo stuff is of the somewhat tame, reggae-lite variety, which in and of itself isn't a bad thing. In fact, her music reminds me of Special AKA more than anyone else. Really, "Body Beat" sounds like an outtake from the Special AKA In the Studio LP. You know what? I've spent way too much time lately over thinking things. What the fuck, just toss it on the "keep an eye on them" stack and be done with it.

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Listen:
Hollie Cook (featuring Horseman) - Body Beat mp3 at Mixtape Riot
Hollie Cook - Shadow Kissing mp3 at Sound Bites
Hollie Cook - Milk and Honey at Mixtape Riot
Hollie Cook (featuring Horseman) - Cry mp3 at Rollo & Grady
The Shoes (featuring Hollie Cook) - Baby mp3 at Mixtape Riot
Rotten Hill Gang - BBQ (streaming) at Mojophenia
Video:
Hollie Cook - Body Beat (live) at YouTube
Hollie Cook - Walking In the Sand at YouTube
Rotten Hill Gang - BBQ at YouTube
Semi related:
Other reggae related posts

WHO THE HELL WERE THEY?

Here we go. I've been poking around smelly bins of music minutiae for years, and I still run into stuff I can't find anything about. In this case, a band called the Parkays. First off, it may be just a small coincidence that the first time I ever heard of the Parkays is when the Mystery Suggester hipped me to their groovy "Last Date" a while back. Soon afterward, she pointed me towards the Martinis "Hung Over."

Exhibit A: The Martinis featured one Packy Axton, a sax player who was in the Mar-Keys, and partied his way out of a steady gig at Stax (owned by his mother and uncle). He went on to form a series of combos, among them bands called the Packers and the Pac-keys. Exhibit B: You will note that similarities between the Mar-Keys' "Last Night" and the Parkays' "Green Monkeys." Exhibit C; The similarities in band names, the Mar-Keys, the Parkays, and the Pac-Keys. Exhibit D (the only sketchy one): All references to the Parkays point to the ABC-Paramount label, who, though based in New York, "licensed finished masters from independent producers and purchased regionally-released records for national distribution" (according to the Wikipedia entry for the label).

This is where I get off. I may continue the poking around later, and I may not. Who knows? I might get a wild hair and become the unofficial biographer of the Parkays, seeing as how there doesn't seem to be anybody else stepping forward. Maybe I'll just start a Parkays Locator Club. Wanna join?

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Listen:
The Parkays - Green Monkeys mp3 at Diddy Wah
Visit Diddy Wah for another Parkays cut
The Mar-Keys - Last Night mp3 at Rock 'n; Soul Ichiban
The Pac-Keys - Dig In mp3 at Office Naps
The Packers - Hole In the Wall mp3 at The Hound Blog

DAVIE ALLAN HAS A POSSE

I've got no idea where the Mystery Suggester comes up with these things, but I dutifully follow all leads coming from her quadrant. As I've said before, our tastes are remarkably similar, so these things usually pay off. In addition to knowing a shitload about just about every type of American music, she's on the International Fuzz Patrol. Today she pointed me towards a song out of 1970's Nigeria, "Amebo," by the Lijadu Sisters, which does indeed have some dyn-o-mite fuzz (not to mention some baddass organ). Yeah, Nigerian fuzz. That works around here.

The Lijadu Sisters were twins, and cousins of Fela Kuti. They were a big deal in Nigeria, for a number of reasons, not the least of which was that they were female, and they called their own shots. While it couldn't have possible hurt being the cousins of Fela, or being tight with Ginger Baker (who lurked around Lagos quite a bit in the early 70's), a big part of their sound came from one Biddy Wright, the son of one of their mother's friends. He played almost all of the instruments (with the exception of percussion) and co-arranged all four of their albums, released from '76 and 79. And he loved his fuzz.

Not a peep has been heard from the Lijadu Sisters for years, until Knitting Factory Records (who just reissued their first LP, Danger), tracked them down. As it turns out, their exit from the music business was due to one of them being seriously injured in a fall, in the Brooklyn apartment they shared. Now good to go, and with renewed interest in their music, they're ready to start performing again. Unfortunately, Biddy the Nigerian fuzz king is no longer with us.

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Listen:
Lijadu Sisters - Danger mp3 (via Soundcloud) at Soulphonic Sound (click on the small arrow above the streaming gizmo)
Lijadu Sisters - Amebo (streaming) at YouTube
Full LP:
Lijadu Sisters - Danger at With Comb and Razor
Video:
Lijadu Sisters with Ginger Baker at YouTube (short clip)
Visit:
Lijadu Sisters - Bio at Knitting Factory Records

NICE TIPS

The Mystery Suggester is at it again, this time suggesting a guy who's been on the "dig into at some point" list for a while. It's this crazed Swiss guy, Reverend Beat Man. The song she suggested "Come Back Lord," was my introduction to him (whenever it was that I initially ran into him), one that I hadn't happened to share with anybody. The fact that the Mystery Suggester mentioned him, and that particular song, just goes to show why I trust her tips. She knows what I like, with amazing accuracy.

Reverend Beat Man is a piece of work. He lost his voice doing a lot of screaming and yelling in his "wrestling rock n' roll act," Lightening Beat Man. He had to stop wrestling due to the voice thing and an injured back. After having a hallucination in which Robert Johnson and Screamin' Jay Hawkins appeared, telling him to go preach, he began to do just that. In his own inimitable style. It's not pretty. But he doesn't seem to be here to be pretty. He's testifying. His lyrics are a bit over the top. Either he's nuts, or he's just trying to be outrageous. One song, "Jesus Christ Twist," suggests a new dance, wherein you nail your partner to a cross and dance around them, before shooting yourself. Sounds like a swingin' time. Regardless, there's no denying the quality of the music, I mean, shredded vocals and distorto-blues guitar? What's not to like? Like Howlin' Wolf, deprived of water for a few weeks, turned up to 11.

He also DJs, and he has a record label, Voodoo Rhythm, with some like minded nuts in his stable. All are, what he describes as, trash blues. They range from stuff that could be Mudhoney (the Monsters' "Go Away Fuck Yourself"), to good ol' fashioned garage (the Guilty Hearts). Let me tell you, there's a lot of irreverent beating going on over there.

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Listen:
Reverend Beat Man - Come Back Lord mp3 at Go Retro
Reverend Beat Man - I Don't Care mp3 at Shut Up and Listen
Reverend Beat Man - Get On Your Knees mp3 at Voodoo Rhythm
From the Voodoo Rhythm roster:
The Monsters -The Love I Never Had mp3 at Voodoo Rhythm
The Monsters - I'm a Record Junkie mp3 at Voodoo Rhythm
The Monsters - Go Away Fuck Yourself mp3 at Voodoo Rhythm
The Guilty Hearts - Turn It Off mp3 at Voodoo Rhythm
King Automatic - The Model mp3 at Voodoo Rhythm
Thee Butchers Orchestra - Don't Ask Me Why mp3 at Voodoo Rhythm
Hipbone Slim & the Knee Tremblers - What Do You Look Like mp3 at Voodoo Rhythm
More music at Voodoo Rhythm (don't be discouraged by the dead links, there's plenty of live ones)
Video:
Reverend Beat Man - Jesus Christ Twist at YouTube
Reverend Beat Man - I See the Light at YouTube
Reverend Beat Man - Short profile from a German (?) TV show at YouTube
Reverend Beat Man - More videos at YouTube
Visit:
Reverend Beat Man profile and interview at No Depression
Reverend Beat Man interview at Blues In London
Letter to Beat Man from Hasil Adkins
Voodoo Rhythm Records

PACKY SAYS "HI"

Roughly a week ago, the Mystery Suggester recommended the song "Hung Over" by the Martinis. Like a lot of songs that happen to hit the spot, it opened up a rabbit hole. That would be the Packy Axton hole. Axton was in the Martinis, and as it turns out, a compilation was recently released with a bunch of various projects that he was involved in. (The Mystery Suggester had sent me a YouTube audio clip, so I'm thinking it was a coincidence.)

As I sauntered down the Axton rabbit hole, it became apparent that his contribution to the Memphis R&B sound was pretty significant. He started out with high school buddies Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn (who you had better know), in a band called the Royal Spades. His mom, Estelle Axton, and uncle, Jim Stewart were just starting a record label, Satellite Records, which would become Stax. The band recorded "Last Night," credited to the Mar-Keys when released, right as the label was getting off the ground, and it became a hit. While his mom, uncle, Cropper and Dunn later benefited mightily from the Stax hit parade that would follow, Axton pretty much sabotaged his opportunity. As his drinking and partying becgan to escalate, he fell out of grace with Stewart and Cropper, and by 1965 he was persona non grata at Stax. He continued to record with several instrumental combos, the Pac-Keys, the Packers, and the Martinis, among others. His drinking finally did him in, and in 1974, while living back at his mom's, he died. He was 32.

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Listen:
The Mar-Keys - Last Night mp3 at Rocky-52.net
The Pac-Keys - Dig In mp3 at Office Naps
The Packers - Hole In the Wall mp3 at The Hound Blog
The Martinis - Hung Over mp3 at Rare Funk On 45
The Pac-Keys - Stone Fox mp3 (via divShare) at Burn Wood Tonight (At DivShare, click on green "Download" button)
Two more Packy Axton cuts at Soul Sides (One from the Pac-Keys and one from the Martinis.)
Other non-Packy Axton unrelated, yet also swinging instrumentals:
The Del-Rays - Night Prowl mp3 at Office Naps
Lorenzo the Hat & the Mad Hatters - Fun-Key mp3 at Office Naps
Visit:
Packy Axton - Profile at The Hound Blog
Packy Axton - Profile at Go Memphis
Packy Axton - Late Late Party compilation at Light In the Attic
Booker T. and Beyond at Office Naps

LET ME HEAR YOU WHIP IT!

This one goes out to the Mystery Suggester, to whom I owe many debts, boss music notwithstanding. The latest thing I owe her for is for helping bury Die Antwoord in the Boss Ten, that little gadget on the top left of this page. It's automatically generated, so you can imagine my dismay at the presence of one random hip hoppish band that I wrote about months ago overstaying their welcome. The Mystery Suggester's two post suggestions, even with scant background info, managed to climb the chart, and as of this writing are at #1 and #3. Before I go any further, I should point out that, as there are no ads on this blog, I'm not all that concerned with hits. That is, unless it can bury said post for good, and give a tenth band, more representative of this whole shebang, a crack. I've been tempted to delete that post, just because it bugs me so much, but that would set a precedent, and pretty soon I'd be deleting posts all over the place. One more thing to add about the Boss 10. Have I told you visitors lately how proud I am of you, and the fact that you all seem to have well varied tastes? It makes me feel about as warm and fuzzy as I can handle, when I see reggae, rockabilly, punk rock, soul, surf, oddballs and what not, all mixed together like some sort of salad bowl of salaciousness. You guys rule. Every time I see a fat ass surge in hits from some tiny country, I just imagine someone running into this blog and devouring a bunch of the older posts. It makes me feel like this is all worthwhile. And Denmark, you especially rule (yes, I noticed). I've been meaning to dedicate a post to you, but I've got no idea where to find hot shit Danish sounds. I need a Danish Mystery Suggester.

Update 9/2/11 : Fuggit. Moved the Die Antwoord post to draft status. I'm sick of seeing them every time I go to the home page.

About the song below: it's another humdinger that has half the internet baffled. But it's my kinda stuff, and if I know the Mystery Suggester, she may well dig it too.

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Listen:
Pancho Villa and the Bandits - Ain't That Bad mp3 at Hell's Belles

PRESSING HER LUCK

The Mystery Suggester is at it again. Apparently either the dancing in fuzzy slippers or the martini(s) got to her, because she managed to find another solid swinger that was impossible to ignore. This one is "Hung Over" by the Martinis, yet another band that I've never heard of. I did manage to find a blurb where someone way more fiendish than I tries to piece together the background info, but, like a lot of other oddball songs, context can kill. At 1:55, it's a short song, so depending on your state, you may want to play it a few times in a row to get the required effect. Of note, you'll be lulled into a mellow vibe until, at :42 into it, you'll hear all the vocals a song called "Hung Over" needs. It's either an agonizing grunt, or someone calling O'Rourke. Either way, it adds that certain thing that makes it a certain right-click.

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Listen:
The Martinis - Hung Over mp3 at Rare Funk On 45
The Martinis - Hung Over (audio only) at YouTube In case you want a taste before you click.

MYSTERY SUGGESTER'S CHOICE

I'm not usually too keen on suggestions for post topics, because, quite frankly, most people who make suggestions want me to plug their band, or one of their friend's bands. In any case, the suggestions usually come without any regard to the music I like, despite the fact that I like a lot of different types of music. Today there was an exception. Not only is this Mystery Suggester one of the few people whose taste is nearly identical to mine, where our tastes do differ, gaps in our respective musical knowledge and collections are filled. So, her suggestion is not one taken lightly.

The song is the Parkay's "Last Date," and as I've been unable to find anything in the way of back story or even a photo of the Parkays, I'll leave it to the Mystery Suggester's enticing teaser, "This shit makes me want to do the Twist in fuzzy slippers with a martini in my hand."
Ooh la la!

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Listen:
The Parkays - Last Date mp3 (via DivShare) at The Devil's Music
The Parkays - Last Date (audio only) at YouTube In case you want to hear it prior to downloading.