Seeing this post from Bob Purse's blog made me post this record I have "in response".
Friday, October 13, 2023
Monday, March 22, 2021
You're lucky today!
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| Low energy is not a phrase you'd use to describe this A-side! This might be meant as just a demo, but it doesn't stop Rodd and company from pulling out all the stops with a crazy over-the-top arrangement that I'm sure would please Burt Bacharach. And dig the drummer! Who is THAT guy, that's what I want to know! Judy Judy Judy Lane is right at Rodd's side, just where we want her. Del Casher (presumably; it sounds like him) on guitar. The engineer also deserves some credit on this, with all the sudden attacks in dynamics, in lesser hands there could have been distortion. A total pro-job; the song-poet Bertha Dwinell certainly got her money's worth on this one! | |
Ah, but after all that excitement, nothing like unwinding with a beautiful b-side, like "This Boy", "Yes It Is", "Deep Feeling" or.....this one, "Sweet Sweet Kisses". Like a cigarette after the sudden orgasm that ends side A, this charming, gentle song features a nice (and catchy) Rodd & Judy chorus. I always put a third harmony part in, whenever this come on, ha! Can't help myself! Again, I think song poet Dorothy Griffin got her money's worth; "Jackie" certainly thought enough of it to write his/her name on the label, lest it got mixed in with someone else's records....not an uncommon problem back in the day!
DOWNLOAD PREVIEW 1022 BY CLICKING HERE
Friday, March 12, 2021
Goo goo gooo.....ga ga gaa.......
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| The flip-side is a sort of sequel - some might say "rip-off"! - of The Browns' "The Old Lamplighter". That said, it has its charms. |
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THIS SINGLE HERE
(see what I mean?)
Thursday, March 4, 2021
You take the pretty one.......
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| Textbook "M.S.R. Madness" |
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| The b-side is sweet and kinda poignant, Debbie Davies sounding less like the blueswoman she'd become, and more like she's ready to go sing with the band on the Poseidon Adventure! Which, in a way, was exactly what she was already doing! Happy she made it out alive. |
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Very early Tin Pan Alley
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| Someone get this to Robbie Robertson....to get to Martin Scorsese! |
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| Always a bonus to have both a celeste AND an organ, especially for this period. |
IF YOU WANT IT, CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD TPA 115/116
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Not that Frank Perry!
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I bought this thinking it was our Frank Perry; turns out it wasn't. But it WAS wacky enough to share with you. I always say there are not enough songs in pig latin!
<-- gina lollobrigida, and debbie reynolds too...)
Here's the b-side.
As you can hear, it may not be song-poem Frank (or even a song-poem at all!), but kinda fits in stylistically with our thing, not unlike Cal Andrews' "O Sing To Me" which circulated among S.P. collectors (and which I believe you can find on Bob's blog). (oh what the hell, here's my copy) Maybe because I bought this single thinking it was Film City Frank, and then ended up digitizing it with a batch of Tin Pan Alley and Globe-affilaited 45s, it's almost been like an "honorary song-poem" for me over the years.
On the other hand, I wouldn't want you to spend your money on a record you THOUGHT was a song-poem and turned out wasn't! So I almost put this in the "Don't Waste Your Money" category, even though I enjoy it as a listening experience (in fact, I probably enjoy it more than most Frank Perry song-poem records!)
A quick search yielded this page about Sure Records, although it does not mention this release.
...so maybe you feel like today's post is a gyp, as fun as the above record is, so here's a song-poem for ya....😉
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