Copacabana
The Fall Guys
5
(1979)
Lounge act The Fall Guys. They would form in the 60s and open for acts like Sammy Davis Jr, Roy Orbison and Marie Osmond to name a few, or comedic acts like Phyllis Diller or Rich Little.
All their albums come out of Pennsylvania, so I assume that's where they were from.
Here they do their best on this Barry Manilow classic. Cheese and sleaze galore!
That's The Fellow I Want To Get
Ed Morton
Columbia 956
(1911)
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In this comic song, we have a kid who catches his mom kissing the ice man, when they see him, they scold him, thus causing the child to retaliate. It reminds me quite a bit of Tom Lehrer's I got it from Agnes.
A fun comic song by variety performer Eddie Morton. He was an officer for the Philadelphia Police Department until 1905 when his singing career began to take off, he was originally billed as "the Singing Cop."
Billy Murray also has a version of this, but I think I enjoy the Morton version a tad bit more.
Get Your Life Together
Rose Morse
Walking In A New World
(1999)
"Private jazz-folk-funk from Arizona. Somewhat amateur at times, but very solid and entertaining. I could definitely imagine this in a Paul Hillery comp!" -submitted by Diego A.
Negocio Horror
Los Meesfits
Satanic Hispanics
(2014)
Los Meesfits out of Athens, GA recorded this cassette of Misfits covers in Spanish in a Cumbia style. How I wish they released a follow up, but glad I still have this tape a decade later. You can still find the album as a digital download on their bandcamp.
Love, Rock Love/Feelings of Love
Palmer Rockey
Rockey's Style
(1980)
"(A) notorious D.I.Y. example is Dallas's own Palmer Rockey: Rockey's Style. Musically, some of his album resembles the stripped-down eerie folk-style of Nicodemus. But mostly he's the disco lounge lizard from hell. He looks "straight," particularly in the glamour portrait on the back, where he resembles a TV detective-star of the late 70s. But that weirded-out grin on the front cover is closer to the Palmer Rockey of legend. His main claim to fame is a film which he spent ten years making; you can see a dog enter the room as a puppy and in the next cut the dog is ancient, about to keel over - it took him THAT long to finish the film. Allegedly, the movie was shown once - then it vanished after Palmer Rockey skipped town. All the rich Dallas widows he'd hit up, claiming he was a "movie producer" as he drove around in a Cadillac wearing polyester suits, all began talking to each other and realized he'd bilked them all for more than a million bucks!" - Jello Biafra, ReSearch Incredibly Strange Music Volume II
Black Speck (original unedited version)
O. B. McClinton
Mercury 73817
(1976)
O. B. McClinton grew up on a farm near Memphis owned by his Reverend father. Growing up, he became a big fan of Hank Williams around age 10. His first attempt at music was all R&B but he couldn't break through, so he returned to country.
"Black Speck," in its censored version, would just dip below the top 100 on the jukebox charts, and nothing more... this uncensored version... is certainly NSFW.😅
A wild song poking fun at the racism and bigotry of Country music, making the protagonist a hero that harkens back to other characters of African American mythos.
It also pays nod to several Charley Pride hits....
The Rose
Old Adobe District-Wide Chorus
Old Adobe Union School District
(1981)
Old Adobe Union School District is a cluster of Elementary Charter schools around Petaluma, CA.
This record is filled with wonderful off key instrumentals and sincere heartfelt choruses... my favorite being this Bette Middler cover of Amanda McBroom's "The Rose"
