A Mini Ish for the Strut
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Just figred out how to record onto this old laptop and thought I'd post something, would of done more but I'm already late to where I needs to be, maybe I'll post more later.
Hermanos Romero ??? 15 Exitos (Oasis)
Years ago I got stuck with jury duty in the city of El Monte. After spending about 4 hours sitting a room doing nothing they excused us for lunch and I went to the outdoor mall across the street from the courthouse. There was some norteno music blaring out of a store with a sign that said ???Musica??? so I went in and asked in my broken Spanish ???esta discos???? Guy behind the counter told me the stopped selling records years ago so I walked towards the door, just as I stepped outside he said ???now we just keep them all in the back???. Thus begun a three-day adventure in which I went through the dead stock of a store for the first time. One of the oddest finds was this Hermanos Romero LP, it looks to be a greatest hits but I???ve never found any info about any albums from them outside of this. The album has your standard norteno/ tejano type vibe but is broken up with instrumental covers of songs like K-Jee and ???Smoke on the Water???. Theres something kind of amazing anout a funky, cheesy horn laden Deep Purple cover.
Listen: DivShare File - Smoke on the Aqua.mp3
Mike Burke ??? Bathing in the Raw (Pajulqr)
Remember when record stores had dollar bins littered with odd-looking records? There was this store in Pasadena that would just throw anything into their bin and I was lucky enough to work across the street. I'd stop in multiple times a week and leave just a few dollars poorer but my crates were always full of new strange private presses. This record is one of those LPs, some weird white boy with a blonde seventies pornstache sitting in a bucket of water with a bunch of keystone cops standing around? Looks questionable, but what makes it go from just being some strange looking boner album to worthwhile is the track ???Don???t Worry??? with its haunting organ and piano melody and his off-key yet charming slow jam vocals.
Listen: DivShare File - Mike Burke.mp3
Saint Tropez ??? Hot n??? Nasty (Destiny)
The third release from Saint Tropez, a group made up of three ladies that look like the bridge between Studio 54 regulars and Robert Palmers ???Addicted to Love??? video chicks. I picked this up based on the strength of it being on the Destiny label; a smaller Los Angeles company that???s rarely led me astray. This album didn't disappoint with a great version of Leon Haywood???s ???I Want to Do Something Freaky To You??? complete with the extended intro that sounds completely different from Leon's but equally as good. The album was produced by the modern soul/ disco duo of Rinder & Lewis and another fun element is the back cover which has an editors note pointing out something about a murder, interpol and gaining clues by buying their other two albums.
Listen:
Like People ??? ???Sound of Young Los Angeles (SOYLA)
This album is a compilation of local LA groups that were all part of an organization S.O.Y.L.A. In doing an Internet search I found that the group is still up and running in Inglewood. This album was recorded in the early-to-mid-seventies and features artists doing tracks that range from funk to folk. Personal favorites include the two funk tracks ???Cold Duck??? by the group of the same name and ???Ram Shack Pt. 1 & 2??? by the group Invaders Underground. On the sweet soul tip there???s the mellow ???Fantasy of Love??? by The Profits that would fit in perfectly on any of the East Side Story comps.
Listen:
Hermanos Romero ??? 15 Exitos (Oasis)
Years ago I got stuck with jury duty in the city of El Monte. After spending about 4 hours sitting a room doing nothing they excused us for lunch and I went to the outdoor mall across the street from the courthouse. There was some norteno music blaring out of a store with a sign that said ???Musica??? so I went in and asked in my broken Spanish ???esta discos???? Guy behind the counter told me the stopped selling records years ago so I walked towards the door, just as I stepped outside he said ???now we just keep them all in the back???. Thus begun a three-day adventure in which I went through the dead stock of a store for the first time. One of the oddest finds was this Hermanos Romero LP, it looks to be a greatest hits but I???ve never found any info about any albums from them outside of this. The album has your standard norteno/ tejano type vibe but is broken up with instrumental covers of songs like K-Jee and ???Smoke on the Water???. Theres something kind of amazing anout a funky, cheesy horn laden Deep Purple cover.
Listen: DivShare File - Smoke on the Aqua.mp3
Mike Burke ??? Bathing in the Raw (Pajulqr)
Remember when record stores had dollar bins littered with odd-looking records? There was this store in Pasadena that would just throw anything into their bin and I was lucky enough to work across the street. I'd stop in multiple times a week and leave just a few dollars poorer but my crates were always full of new strange private presses. This record is one of those LPs, some weird white boy with a blonde seventies pornstache sitting in a bucket of water with a bunch of keystone cops standing around? Looks questionable, but what makes it go from just being some strange looking boner album to worthwhile is the track ???Don???t Worry??? with its haunting organ and piano melody and his off-key yet charming slow jam vocals.
Listen: DivShare File - Mike Burke.mp3
Saint Tropez ??? Hot n??? Nasty (Destiny)
The third release from Saint Tropez, a group made up of three ladies that look like the bridge between Studio 54 regulars and Robert Palmers ???Addicted to Love??? video chicks. I picked this up based on the strength of it being on the Destiny label; a smaller Los Angeles company that???s rarely led me astray. This album didn't disappoint with a great version of Leon Haywood???s ???I Want to Do Something Freaky To You??? complete with the extended intro that sounds completely different from Leon's but equally as good. The album was produced by the modern soul/ disco duo of Rinder & Lewis and another fun element is the back cover which has an editors note pointing out something about a murder, interpol and gaining clues by buying their other two albums.
Listen:
Like People ??? ???Sound of Young Los Angeles (SOYLA)
This album is a compilation of local LA groups that were all part of an organization S.O.Y.L.A. In doing an Internet search I found that the group is still up and running in Inglewood. This album was recorded in the early-to-mid-seventies and features artists doing tracks that range from funk to folk. Personal favorites include the two funk tracks ???Cold Duck??? by the group of the same name and ???Ram Shack Pt. 1 & 2??? by the group Invaders Underground. On the sweet soul tip there???s the mellow ???Fantasy of Love??? by The Profits that would fit in perfectly on any of the East Side Story comps.
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I usually don't have time in the week to do much digging. And there's very few spots in my general area. There's a thrift store around that usually has a couple of crates of records. The area is so unhitted, though, that I can go through a crate in two months. Example: i go through a newly arrived crate that has four interesting records. I pick up two, so my next visit isn't worthless. Next time, if there's nothing new, I pick up the next one. I picked this record there, in a crate i had gone over twice already. Good decision. Eighty+ dudes singing about Jesus and shit in spanish, with nice folksy and and slightly psych moments. Surprisingly, it 's from '83. Sounds like it was recorded a decade earlier. I'm trying to get people to like this, because I do and I don't want to feel like I have bad taste. Enjoy.
http://www.mediafire.com/?tgfp294x2wozuew
I remember visiting you when you worked at the video store in pasadena. But I don't remember why.
Good times.
Glen Powell did a stint in the Gospel Keynotes before teaming up with Karl Chustz to record this loner gospel LP in Louisiana that grows on you like moss on a stump.
Basically unknown LP from Kansas that I liked enough to find the band and let them know....here is one members response.... What a surprise! Yes, I was a member of Celebration. Your email really touched me. Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the music. Where on earth did you find the album? I only have one copy myself. However, I touched in with our drummer, who told me he has some additional copies. I'm going to the induction ceremony for the Kansas Music Hall of Fame in Lawrence, Ks in early March and will see Mike then. My late brother Jim is being inducted as a member of a band called the Tempests, another band from Hays in the 60s and 70s. I'll keep you posted if any copies are available. Thanks again!
Reuben At Foxy's is a strange LP from Jost Van Dykes.....mostly Calypso crap with the word pussy in way too many song titles...and this strange Stevie Wonder mind-fuck.
Some of you may be familiar with the Justen O'Brien & Jake LP...a couple of years later, before fading away into the ozone, Justen produced and played on this North Dakota oddity.