You're lucky today!

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!

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pssst.....i told you you're lucky today....-->

"I just found out....you're not my type!"

The most brutal litany of relationship grievances heard in a song-poem since "You Insulted Me"!

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lyrics here

(wasn't that cathartic?!!!)

Of the many poignant song-poems about missing deceased loved ones, this may be the only one written from the perspective of an airplane pilot.

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lyrics here

 

 (eskelin does a nice job on these two as well...or should I say as usual!😉)

Palm Beach is not the same - Mr. Trump, you're to blame!

 

Having a bit of deja-vu, song-poem style!

 

I was just about to upload this (yet again) apropos track, sung by Bobbi Boyle (under the name Barbara Foster), lyrics by Myron Ace,  but then thought to see if it was already on YouTube. Was shocked to find that not only was Myron's song-poem made into a nifty video, but that the song has "made it" into the mainstream!  Look!

https://www.rollcall.com/2014/08/07/roll-call-after-dark-tunes-of-the-week-san-clementes-not-the-same-by-barbara-foster-video/

In the song-poem universe, I call that a hit!  Congratulations, Myron, where ever you may be! 

JUDY LAYNE - PEACE/DAY AFTER TOMORROW (PREVIEW 1104)

 

🎶🎵 Get ready to be kissed.....my dear...🎶🎵  Oh sorry, I was just singing to myself.....hey.....happy new year!   Wishing you "peace" the "day after tomorrow" with Preview 1104....probably the only date I can think of on which to break this record out!  If you need a preview of this Preview: "Peace" is a solemn affair that seems to fit this moment in time.  The flip side, "Day After Tomorrow" finds Judy Layne channeling someone like Inez Foxx or Shirley Owens on a song that is certainly no worse than scores of b-sides of the period. (That's not necessarily an endorsement!) The song-poem nature of the session is revealed mid-way through the track when the bass starts fumbling with the changes....the kind of bass playing you'd usually expect to hear on a Globe record instead of a Preview! Anyways, nothing life changing....just a little bon-bon for ya..  Happy New Year.....although I think "Good Luck" is more like it!  GOOD LUCK this year!

 
PEACE (LISTEN/DOWNLOAD)

DAY AFTER TOMORROW (LISTEN/DOWNLOAD)

A Christmas Dream for a 2020 quarantine!

 

Capping off this awful year, here are a few holiday-themed song-poems to get you through the season.  I'm sure everyone already has "Let's Share A Prayer"; but now we need it more than ever, hence its inclusion!  Enjoy, be safe, and remember: Don't be a walking wacky song-poem.....wear the f***ing mask!

Happy Holidays..........and the tracklist is.....

 

My Christmas Dream (Halmark)
Let Us Be Gay (Bobbi Boyle with the MSR Singers)
I'm Gonna Run Away With Santa Claus (Bobbi Blake)
Santa Claus Sweetheart (Dick Kent)
Twinkle Toes (Norm Burns)
Lullaby (Jo Ann Auborn)
O Stately Pine (The Lancelots)
Let's Share A Prayer (Rod Rogers)
Golden Moments (The Raindrops)

 (the labels and matrix numbers/album titles are embedded in the Comments section of each mp3)

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