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....-->

You take the pretty one.......

Textbook "M.S.R. Madness"

 

 

LYRIC HERE

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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.  

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"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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(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!😉)

"there's no more blues, I'm as happy as a king........"

Let's celebrate.

On the other hand, there is a bit of this kind of sentiment as well: "I Don't Know Where To Go From Here....."

 

 

Film City 2112-A (LISTEN/DOWNLOAD)

Film City 2112-B (LISTEN/DOWNLOAD)

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(and to quote a non-song poem: ".....i get on my knees and pray we don't get fooled again!")

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!

 
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DAY AFTER TOMORROW (LISTEN/DOWNLOAD)

Two Xmas bummers....and the Song Poem Christmas Yule Log

 

I know I just posted some Christmas stuff the other day......but for THIS year,  these two records are perhaps even more apropos:  Rodd's haunting "Put A Little Love" which you may remember from ASPMA, and "Sweet Edna" which is the flip side of Norm's "Twinkle Toes" (see previous blogpost).  "Poor Edna" would be more like it!

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But if you REALLY want to get into the Christmas spirit....I present to you the Song Poem Yule Log!  I used only the most seasonal-sounding records and I think they really marry to the visuals perfectly!

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Here are the songs that are used for the yule log:

jingle mint twist-santa claus goes modern (2nd version)-my christmas dream (halmark)-let's share a prayer-put a little love-i liked the old year-christmas treat, peppermint-how do they spend xmas in heaven-the peppermint stick man - ole year christmas - let us be gay- christmastime philosphy-the santa claus polka-santa is a superman (gus colleti)-blinky, the blue nosed snowdeer (betty bond)-maury the xmas mouse-lullaby (jo ann auborn) - o stately pine (2nd version) - christmas in ireland (lynne richards)-rocking disco santa claus-i'm gonna run away with santa claus-santa fix my toys for xmas-jolly jolly santa claus - thinking about christmas (noval) - smile it's christmas-the new year song-season's greetings

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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