The Beaker Hour with Big Mo Playlist:
If 6 was 9-Jimi Hendrix
You Keep Me Hanging On-Vanilla Fudge
House at Pooneil Corners-Jefferson Airplane
Black Cat-Gentle Giant
Om-The Moody Blues
Groovin Is Easy-The Electric Flag
Lick My Decals Off Baby-Captain Beefheart
The Immigrants-National Lampoon
Roller Derby Queen-Leon Russell
His Holy Mortal Majesty-Mike Bloomfield
The Reason-Thunderclap Newman
The Iowa City Bargain Hunt:
Another pointless bargain hunt that was an exercise in cussing out Red Lights and every stupid fuck in a car tailgating. I do apologize to the folks at Record Collector for not waiting, (they had a max of five people in the store, whereas I put a half hour in the parking meter and was going to be pressed for time. However, the revenge factor was waiting 20 minutes to get into Housewerks, just to pick up the Billie Holiday album with Strange Fruit as one of the songs. I donated about 8 CDs to Goodwill and picked up Omar And The Howlers Big Delta on CD and Maggie Bell's Suicide Sal on LP. It took me about 20 minutes, half of that waiting for the GD lights at Coral Ridge Mall to change. The reward for my plight was grabbing 24 45's from the 50s and 60s. Most of it were Don Gibson songs and most in good shape. Perhaps I should have picked up that 45 record holder at Housewerks for 10 dollars?
Still, the big pain in the ass was hitting every red light on the way home. I did stopped in to see Julie and Dave play at Checkers' and hanged with Jeffrey Brown, Freddy Jones and Virginia Harlow. The things we do for love but Julie is worth it since she has to put up with my record buying habits. Lucky her ;)
KCCK's Beaker Hour steals Lick My Decals Off Baby from last week's R Smith's show and some real deep cuts from Gentle Giant and Moody Blues. John Helm knows his music. We await the Clyde Clifford Version later on.
I'm not going go full details on the singles found today and probably won't count this as SGS since I don't have much to say. Vinyl Emporium is supposed to have a bunch of them put out later in the month. Maybe then I'll cue one up.
Sea Of Heartbreak-Don Gibson (RCA 47-7890) #21 1961
Far Far Away-Don Gibson (RCA 47-7762) #73 1960
Just One Time-Don Gibson (RCA 74-7630) #29 1960
Sweet Dreams-Don Gibson (RCA 74-7805) #93 1960
What Would You Do-Jim Reeves (RCA 47-7905) #73 1961
He'll Have To Go-Jim Reeves (RCA 47-7643) #2 1960
Who Cares-Don Gibson (RCA 47-7437) #43 1959
Apache-Sonny James (RCA 47-7858) #87 1961
Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On (Hank Locklin RCA 47-7127) #77 1958
Four Walls-Jim Reeves (RCA 47-6874) #11 1957
Slinky-Chet Atkins (RCA 47-7747) 1960
Classroom Rock-The Twins Jim and John (RCA 47-7382) 1958
The Night After Christmas-Homer And Jethro (RCA 47-5903) 1954
Return Of The Teenage Queen-Tommy Tucker (RCA 47-7838) 1961
And The Heavens Cried-Ronnie Savoy (MGM K-12950) #84 1961
Mack The Knife-Charlie Palmiera (United Artists UA 299) 1961
Alice Blue Gown-Leroy Holmes (MGM K-12833) 1959
Cross Over-Jimmy Bowen (Roulette R-4023) 1957
Because You're Young-Jimmie Rodgers (Roulette R-4129) #62 1959
B side I'm Never Gonna Tell #36
Stood Up-RickyNelson (Imperial X-5483) #2 1957
Just A Little Too Much-Ricky Nelson (Imperial X-5595) #9 1959
Mona Lisa-Carl Mann (Phillips Int. 3539) #25 1959
Teen Beat-Sandy Nelson (Original Sound OR-5) #4 1959
My Sin-Alan Roberts (Warner F 5067) 1959
(original WB sleeve and record courtesy of Rod's Record Emporium)
45 Cat does not have this single listed but they are free to use this scanned photo from my collection.
We won't get credit for this, just keeping alive one obscure single nobody would give a shit about.
As usual, these collection of 45s, taken very good care by their owner varies from the silly tango of Mack The Knife (cha cha cha) to the odd collection of guitar and strings on Alice Blue Gown, as it seems that Leroy Holmes was trying to bridge to rock and pop together. Tommy Tucker's Return of The Teenage Queen is the followup to Johnny Cash's Ballad Of A Teenage Queen which probably did better on the country charts, b side Since You Are Gone is more teen idol balladry disguised as country. One of the rare RCA sides not produced by Chet Atkins, The Twins Classroom Rock didn't chart but b Side the Al Alberts written Gee Whiz owes more to the Everly Brothers, this was their second and final RCA single.
The Alan Roberts Warner single is a mystery. 45 Cat has nothing on this song but Roberts sounds like Pat Boone or Dean Martin. Ronnie Savoy's And The Heaven's Cry has a harmonica that goes wah wah wah, which is silly to hear, As she took her love away from me he hee hee has to be heard to be believed. Credit Cliff Parman for his unique arrangement. B side The Big Chain trades Cliff for Stan Applebaum but Savoy adds a bit of paranoia to the song. This is the fun of finding odd forgotten 45s. You never know what you will hear from the one hit wonders of the past. Jimmy Bowen's Cross Over didn't chart but it has that teen bopper sound that could have been a hit single and probably was in the local radio markets. B side It's Shameful sounds too much like Charlie Grace's Butterfly. Bowen has done better songs. For teen idol madness, two more Ricky Nelson 45s find their way to the collection, the classic Stood Up and The double hit sides of Just A Little Too Much and Sweeter Than You, to which this 45 was part of my Mom's classic record box that got me hooked on music. The rest of the rock and roll sides, Carl Mann's Mona Lisa and Sandy Nelson's Teen Beat are not hard to find, but finding a clean copy is a rare occasion. Note: the great Ritchie Polodor produced and played guitar on Teen Beat (Barney Kessel had a overdubbed guitar part and the bass player Guybo Smith, bass was tuned to Sandy's drums. Piano was provided by Bruce Johnston and while it should have been noted that Polodor and Johnston and Smith should have gotten credit, Art Lebow got co writing credit with Sandy. Sandy felt bad to the point that future Imperial recordings he made sure that Polodor got co writing credit. Despite it all Laboe made off quite handsomely with the royalties, that he reissued many Greatest Hits of the 60s via Original Sound. To which Teen Beat got added a couple times on various comps. On Slinky, Chet Atkins discovers the tremolo. While it's been said that Jim Reeves excelled at ballads, he was quite good on the uptempo songs like You Know Like I Know b side the classic Four Walls. And Stand At Your Window (sounds like The Browns helping out on backing vocals) b side to What Would You Do. But he'll forever be remembered for the number 2 pop standard He'll Have To Go tho In A Mansion Stands My Love (written by Johnny Russell who wrote Red Necks White Sox and Blue Ribbon Beer) has been revised later on after Jim's passing. And is one of Reeves's better rocking songs. But it's also nice to get Hank Locklin's Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On as well. B side the Wayne Ramey penned Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me, a decent hillbilly country rock number. Sadly, Sony Music continues to belittle the value of Reeves n Locklin. Especially Reeves, who deserves a decent 2 CD Essential album.
For the most part the Don Gibson singles are the highlight since Gibson has been my fave RCA. recording artist. While Legend In My Time was the country hit, Far Far Away placed higher on the pop charts. It's been reported that Chet Atkins had the most fun trading guitar licks with Don. The five singles came from the 1960-1961 era, probably the highlight of Don's musical career, certainly on the pop charts. Just One Time is a replacement copy for the scratched up one that I had. Sweet Dreams is better associated with Patsy Cline but you can begin to hear the polished Nashville sound that belittled Chet Atkins but I enjoy this sound more. It's much more fuller sounding. Still Patsy Cline owns Sweet Dreams but she knew where to get the great songs. B side The Same Street is what Gibson excels at best, sad heartbreak songs of lost love. I find odd that Who Cares charted as high as it did on the pop chart at number 43 and you don't hear it on any oldies or country channels. Of course that Chet Atkins doing his guitar runs throughout the song. A Stranger To Me, classic Gibson heartbreak song. Which leaves us with his number 21 Sea Of Heartbreak in 1961, which is classic Anita Kerr background singers tho I actually liked the Curb remake heard in Heartbreak Ridge, the 1986 Clint Eastwood movie.
Given the age of these 60 year old recordings, the owner did a fine job of keeping them in decent shape with the original record sleeve despite being a part of Goodwill and the pickers that tend to trash such things. There were other decent singles from the likes of Jimmy Dean, Ray Price, Leroy Van Dyke and others but I didn't think they were cost effective. All are worth the 88 cent price tag anyway, but I passed on Cowboy Boots from Dave Dudley, the record did look more rough than usual, likewise Mule Skinner Blues by the Fendermen. While the trip to Iowa City was a pain the ass, the findings from Coralville made it worthwhile.
Tyler Vincent compiled the Beaker Street/Clyde Clifford Version from last night. Here tis.
9 p.m. to 10 p.m.
1. Bela Fleck And The Flecktones “The Sinister Minister” (Live)
2. Sonia Dada “Lay My Body Down
3. Chris Rea “You Must Be Evil”
4. The Alan Parsons Project “A Dream Within A Dream/ The Raven”
5. Neil Young “Like A Hurricane”
6. Horslips “Dusk> Sword of Light> Dark”
7. Santana “Guajira”
8. Hawkwind “Spiral Galaxy 28948”
9. Nitzinger “Boogie Queen”
10 p.m. to 11 p.m.
1. Jefferson Airplane “Volunteers” (Live)
2. Deep Purple “April”
3. Kansas “Throwing Mountains”
4. Grateful Dead “Franklin’s Tower” (Live)
5. Bob Dylan “Gotta Serve Somebody”
6. Leon Russell “Magic Mirror”
7. It’s a Beautiful Day “Hot Summer Day”
8. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble “Superstition” (Live-Live Alive)
9. Blue Oyster Cult “Harvest Moon”
11 p.m. to Midnight
1. Dr. John “Twilight Zone”
2. James Gang “Ashes The Rain And I”
3. B.B. King And Eric Clapton “Key To The Highway”
4. Steppenwolf “Don’t Step On The Grass, Sam”
5. Local Hero (Music by Mark Knopfler) “The Way It Always Starts”
6. Fleetwood Mac “Black Magic Woman” (Live At The Boston Tea Party Vol. 1)
7. Starcastle “Lady Of The Lake”
8. Alan Parsons “Blown By The Wind”
The New And Improved R. Smith Show 11/8/2020 Rod's 45's Party
Running Scared-The Fools
Wind-Slim Whitman
This Flight Tonight-Nazareth
Walk On Water-Neil Diamond
Mother Freedom-Bread
Cubano Chant-El Chicano
Thank God And Greyhound-Roy Clark
Devil Woman-Cliff Richard
Without You-The Doobie Brothers
Return Of The Teenage Queen-Tommy Tucker
In A Mansion Stands My Love-Jim Reeves
I'm Movin' On-Don Gibson
Hour 2
Jole Blon-Gary US Bonds
Easy To Slip-Little Feat
I Got To Get Myself A Woman-The Drifters
Don't Monkey With Another Monkey's Monkey-Johnny Paycheck
Piano Nellie-Bobby Brant
Pledge Of Love-Mitchell Torok
Lonely Women Make Good Lovers-Bob Luman
Jesus Was A Cross Maker-Judee Sill
Tear It Up-Johnny Burnette and the rock and roll trio
Juliana-Five Men Electrical Band
The Lone Twister-The Lone Twister
A Little Bit Of Soul-The Music Explosion
Names, Tags, Numbers and Labels-Albert Hammond
I'm Into Something Good-Earl Jean
Sun Arise-Rolf Harris
Goodbye Cruel World-James Darren
Wrap Your Troubles In Drums (Drum Trouble) -George Shearing Quintet
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