A Batch of Mini-Exoti-Tiki
You need to take a long shower after that last post? I don't blame you. So, here's a little freshener, an archive of 7-inch stuff I had laying around. The rips aren't the best, some are stereo, some are mono, but these are not to doggone bad.
In the early 1960s, Goddess knows why, Liberty, London, Decca, Command, and others released a bunch of seven-inch singles, some in stereo, pressed on a variety of material, some at 45 rpm, some at 33 1/3 rpm, some wide groove pitch, some at narrow groove pitch (think RCA Victor 45 rpm EP microgroove-from-hell groove pitch).
What I culled here are the more tiki-esque of the lot, I'll save the Big Band stuff for a later release (maybe after another Wyncote piece of garbage).
Dick Hyman's Trio gives us four cuts:
- Dancing Tambourine
- If I Had You
- Sleep
- We're In The Money
Then there is a Ferrante & Teicher (sorry, no prepared pianos):
- Devotion
- Sands of Time
Followed up with four cuts by Los Amiradores on the Command label:
- Birth of the Blues
- Golden Earrings
- Makin' Whoopee
- My Funny Valentine
Next some Si Zentner:
- Belle of the Ball
- Boogie Woogie Maxixe *
- Lover
- Paradise
- Shadrack *
- The Sweetest Sounds
- Waltz in Jazz Time
- Willow Weep For Me
(the ones with an asterisk are from a mono 45, the rest are from a 6-song 7-inch EP)
And finally for your listening pleasure(??) is a single from Timi Yuro (the one that recorded "Hurt"):
- Are You Sure
- She's Got You
Hope this is a decent enough Alka-Seltzer for the gastric badness of the previous post.... but rest assured, I CAN up the ante for Exoti-crap if need be (evil wide grin)......
Download all seven inches!
posted by The Impaler at 11:07 PM
3 Comments:
Never mind the "crap-on-vynil" referred to in your previous post. Look, it's all a matter of personal taste. If somebody recorded them, then somebody must have liked them.
In my opinion, some of the stuff you posted from the seven-inchers were good, others were drek. No names, no pack drill.
I was very disappointed, however, with the Zentner tracks - not the music, which was great - but the fact that the discs must all have been pressed off-center (a common fault in the old days); and because my ears are highly sensitive to wow I'm not going to keep them. Pity.
11:58 AM
Heh... well, just because things are recorded doesn't mean they're GOOD :) There were a LOT of pieces of poop-on-vinyl recorded in the 50s, if you have ever heard Prof. Peter Schickele's post-PDQ Bach radio program, he featured quite a bit of BAD classical recordings... I think he even did a complete show of things that should have been consigned to the rubbish bin.
A lot of the drek out there showed up on bargain-basement pressings, usually geared for supermarket sales. Some of it is hilariously bad, and some of it is just plain... bad. But, it is in the interest of archiving the bad-ness as well as the good-ness that I offered the challenge. And, I think the Wyncote stuff, personally, shows some of the darker side of the recording industry. And now, especially with the discovery of the same track credited to two different artists (see the entry for 20 july), not only once, but TWICE (as in 2 different cuts from one LP showing up on another LP credited to a different artist). Heck, that kind of strangeness is enough to merit the musicological equivalent of the Spock Eyebrow.
Each to their own, I reckon.
11:29 PM
Dera sir, the link is broken.
Could you please re-upload it?
I'm specifically lookinf for the "Boogie Woogie Maxixe" recording by Si Zentner and his orchestra.
Many thanks
11:41 PM
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