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 05, 2010

Celebrating America Through Song-Poems

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Today, a day late, I'm offering up two Red-White-and-Blue tunes for America's birthday. And for those of you who enjoy car-crash l...
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Monday, June 28, 2010

The Arco Label

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Until recently, I had only ever heard one record from the ARCO song-poem label , but it was such a winner, that I made Arco one of the lab...
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Monday, June 21, 2010

That's Very Brosh of You

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The Brosh label is a mystery to me. There are only a handful of known releases, almost all of them bearing label numbers ending in "...
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Sunday, June 20, 2010

50 Years On

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My goal for this site has always been to share some of the recordings I love and find fascinating with whoever might share some of my taste....
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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Bananas I Have Known

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I have a whole pile of singles ready to digitize sitting here, generally stacked in the order in which I plan to share them in this venue....
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Monday, June 07, 2010

JFK, The Fitness President

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Today's offering appears to have been inspired both by John F. Kennedy's promotion of Physical Fitness, and by his tragic death. S...
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Friday, June 04, 2010

The Fable Label

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A quick link which might be of interest to song-poem fans of a certain stripe. My most recent post to WFMU features 12 songs (6 45's) fr...
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Monday, May 31, 2010

Away From the Crowd

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Time has been short this holiday weekend just ending, so I haven't had a lot of time to compose much for this week's tracks. Suffi...
Monday, May 24, 2010

One of a Kind?

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Today, something very special, a song-poem acetate demonstration disk. I picked up a handful of these recently, most of them featuring Car...
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Monday, May 17, 2010

Lonesome Al

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Way back in 2001, when the release of the various song-poem CD's had still be fairly recent, songs were being posted to the ASPMA webs...
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Sunday, May 09, 2010

HALMARK: Sound of Excellence

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I thought we were overdue for a little Halmark label music. Here's a typically stultifying track, with lyrics by the wonderfully named...
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Monday, May 03, 2010

He's Insulted

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This is the first time I've featured the "Ronnie" label, and the reason for its absence until now is that the records releas...
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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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