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.

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Feeling Lower Than a Cold Duck's Instep (I'm Not Hitting the Bottle Anymore)

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First up, I definitely want to share this. Two posts ago, I shared two insane songs  about dancing and Cupid. And I pointed out that the son...
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Friday, October 31, 2025

A Devilish Walk and Standing with Jesus

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As I have written about, ad nauseum, the earliest records on the Cinema label mostly feature a single solo male singing, accompanied by one ...
Friday, October 24, 2025

Two Insane Dance-Related Song-Poems from the Pen of John Lester

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  Okay, I must admit that when I first saw the title of this Barbara Foster (aka Bobbi Blake) 45, "Germination", I sort of assumed...
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Sunday, October 12, 2025

Square Dancing With the Navajos

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Hoo-boy do I have a backlog of comments and such to get to.  Someone named Shane commented - while offering up some very nice words about my...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Bad Reputations

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The Arco label seems to have primarily been yet another one of the fairly tiny labels that housed the productions of the Globe song-poem fac...
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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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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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