The Wonderful and the Obscure

A look at some of the more remarkable items found during 40 years of collecting all manner of recordings. For information on saving these files, see the top box on the right.

Monday, September 22, 2025

Piano Bar Sammy and Three Song-Poem Lesser-Lights

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Today, it's another Air EP for y'all, featuring a Sammy Marshall track where he is heard in a setting I do not recall hearing Sammy ...
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Thursday, September 11, 2025

Dahrlin..... Danny Dahrlin!

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Presenting Song-Poem Singer Danny Dahrlin!  It just screams out to me that someone's over-active imagination tried to come up with a per...
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Sunday, August 31, 2025

Sammy Marshall and the Teen Notes on Crescendo Records

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Here is a record that has been sitting on my "consider using these" pile for at least six months, possibly a lot longer. And I...
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Sunday, August 24, 2025

George and Kay! Who Are They?

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Today we visit the land of MSR Records. As long time readers of this site may recall, I'm not much of a fan of this label, or really of ...
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Monday, August 11, 2025

First Person Christianity

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In the notes to the fourth song-poem compilation album, "I'm Just the Other Woman", there was a section in which was pointed o...
Monday, July 28, 2025

A Texas Two-Fer

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Today, we make another visit to the waning days of the great Film City label. This is number 4035 on the label, that label having started at...
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Saturday, July 19, 2025

Hitting On the Nurse

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We're featuring Gene Marshall and his lovely voice today. The song has the promising title "Patient and His Nurse". Perhaps So...
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Saturday, July 12, 2025

His Body Don't Rest Easy

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I prepared this post about five days ago, and then didn't post it. I didn't realize it until this morning. Sheesh.  I had the follow...
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Monday, June 30, 2025

A 1960 Wolf-Tex / Globe EP

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I've only shared two posts this month, but I made both of them EP's, to make up for that low number of posts. Today's offering i...
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Thursday, June 19, 2025

A Quartet of Dreamy Love Songs from Cara Stewart

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Howdy,  It's been nearly three weeks - events at home continue to leave me with little time for fun and games. Hopefully, that will chan...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Linda Dahrling's Greatest Hits

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Right off the bat, let me point y'all to Sammy Reed's page, where he has just posted a fairly ridiculous song-poem album .  And now:...
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Sunday, May 18, 2025

Blazing Hoofs and Impeachment, Too! - Another Ridiculous Record from Gary Roberts

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Hi, everyone,  Well, I said things might slow down here and they sure enough have. I want to explain that an immediate family member has rec...
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Bob Purse
Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States
I'm the father of two amazing young adults, married to the most wonderful woman in the world, and I work in the mental health field. I play several instruments and record my own music. I'm a long time record collector, hoarder of unusual, rare or unique recorded sound, musical, spoken word or other, and am glad to have found this outlet to share some of my favorite parts of it with others.
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