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.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Sammy's Cowboy Boots

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Time is tight this week, so I don't have a lot to add to today's Sammy Marshall feature, aside from to point out two things. First...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

A Halmark Special

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This Sunday, CBS Presents the first edition of "The Halmark Hal of Fam" for 1976: Richard Widmark starring in "Love Is An ...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

She's the Wife

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Here's one which is a favorite of my long-time friend Stu , one which I just obtained my own copy of, this week. It's a Rodd Keith...
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Seaman Blues

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I've rarely featured one singer or label twice within a month, but when I heard this song for the first time last week, I knew it had ...
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The Filmy Tones of Film-Tone

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Before I share this week's EP, I wanted to make sure that anyone reading this blog knows that I posted an entire song-poem album to the ...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

The Soulful Norm Burns

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This week's posting is quite late, due to a brief vacation and some computer problems. I'll get back on schedule with another post...
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Monday, July 12, 2010

In Loving Tribute

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The song-poem format seems just about perfectly designed for the tribute song, particularly the bad tribute song. And indeed, there are co...
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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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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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