Well, with the world about to find out if my (nearly) home town of Chicago is going to host an Olympics, I thought I'd offer a record which had its inspiration in the World's Fair, an event Chicago hosted twice in the last 120 years. I know that's a slim connection, but what the heck... Judging from other records released on this vanity label (part of the Globe family of labels), this was probably inspired by the 1964 New York World's Fair, or, as both songs would have it, The "World Fair".
It's standard issue Sammy Marshall, which can be enjoyable in small to moderate doses. The backing here - apparently a pick-up band - is "The Welshmen". Here's one side, "World Fair Sue":
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This is also one of the few song-poem records to be issued with a picture sleeve, which I unfortunately do not own, but there's a copy of it here.
The other side has considerably more energy, and I'm guessing will be the more popular of the two. Here's "World's Fair Wiggle Walk":
3 comments:
THE WELSHMEN??!? HAHAHAHA!!!
"World Fair Wiggle Walk" isn't working.
"World Fair Wiggle Walk" is good! And the bass player isn't blowing the changes! (not so the flip side!) I wonder if Sammy himself was manning the bass while he sang, and that's why there's always so many bum notes. Who knows, we definitely never will. Anyways thanks, you have to go through ALOT of Sammy to get the good nuggets....."Wiggle Walk" is a keeper!
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