Be sure to listen to some of the sound clips. Mae West singing Twist and Shout is not to be believed. And then of course, there’s William Shatner’s Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds…
There are at least three more volumes of this stuff!
I like Tom Jones. There, I said it. When he had a weekly variety show on US television, around 1969ish, I never missed it. I even went to one of his concerts once. The fact that the tickets were free has nothing to do with it. What a smoking band he had with him!
My “Bobs” faves: -Drive-by Love (Full Time Four-Wheel Love)
-Sign My Snarling Doggie
-I won a Herb Alpert 45 rpm record for marksmanship at the Detroit Auto Show at Cobo Hall in the late '60s -by shooting a ping-pong ball weapon at a target. The shine wore off quick when the “prize” turned out to be Herb singing “White Christmas” and something else forgettable on the B side. Herb’s rendition was mounted quickly as a target itself on our basement BB gun range and decimated with great glee. His trumpet music was perky, but his excellence didn’t extend to voice music.
-Heard a radio interview a few years back with the woman whom posed for his “Whipped Cream..and Other Delights”
album cover clad ostensibly in nothing but the white stuff. She seemed only vaguely aware of the adolescent dreams she’d inspired! (Well.. her and Diana Rigg in her black leather catsuit in the “Avengers”)
There’s nothing I feel guilty about listening to (but then I don’t listen to Bobby Sherman). I own “A tramp shining” by Richard Harris, featuring everybody’s favorite MacArthur Park. As well as most of Blondie’s albums. Even a few Enya albums. I love early Carly Simon, in fact I think she had as good a run of four or five albums as anyone.
Although most of my music falls into this realm, (everything from Kreator to Tom Leaher) Unfortunately most of the groups I listen to are so obscure that most titles would not be recognized here. I think that my movie sound tracks are the crowning achievement of low brow taste.
(The original) Willie Wanka and the chocolate factory (umpa lumpa)
The wizard of Oz. (Until I found that “If I only had a brain” predated the movie)
Connan the Barbarian
I feel guilty about playing Willie Wanka when I am trying to get certain songs stuck into peoples heads.
I’ve burned several eclectic cds to please myself.
This is the lineup on the latest:
(guilty? not really, but it’s a little weird)
Under Pressure–David Bowie & Freddy Mercury
Harlem Nocturne–Stan Kenton
Kiss From a Rose–Seal
I Ran–A Flock of Seagulls
La Vie en Rose–Madeleine Peyroux
Save a Horse(Ride a Cowboy)–Big and Rich
Lady–Styx
Sixteen Tons–Tennessee Ernie Ford
The Entertainer–Scott Joplin
Seasons of Love–Cast of Rent
Play Me–Neil Diamond
Freebird–Lynyrd Skynyrd
Bewitched Bothered & Bewildered–Sarah Vaughn
100 Years–Five for Fighting
Sweet Baby James by James Taylor and…confessional sigh… Operator by Jim Croce. Oh, and I’d Really Love to See You Tonight. (Hmm…I guess I like the “phone song” genre.)