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, 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...
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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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Rocket To the Moon

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As I alluded to in my last post, I have precious little time right now, so I will not have much to say. I do want to share a vintage song-po...
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Sunday, April 20, 2025

An Easter Egg For You - A Rare Rodd Keith Album from Australia - COMPLETE!

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First, let me just say that there are some things going on in my personal life which may - or may not - impact just how much time I have to ...
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Friday, April 11, 2025

Gene's Talkin' Jesus

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  With the Christian Holy Week approaching quickly (and this is one of those years when the Western Churches and the Orthodox Church observe...
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Monday, March 31, 2025

A Great Day... Just Before... A Not So Great Day

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Right off the bat, I want to correct an oversight, something I meant to link to two months ago. Sammy Reed has posted several songs from the...
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Sunday, March 23, 2025

Letter From the Great Beyond!

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It's maudlin hour here at song-poem central. Today we have Norm Burns, singing a first-person narrated letter from Billy in heaven to th...
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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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