Friday, March 29, 2024

Halmark: The Label Christian Song-Poets Prefer 10-1

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This week, Christians are celebrating Holy Week, and so I thought what better time to feature a religion dominated record from that most rel...
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Saturday, March 23, 2024

Forlorn Norm

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  It's been eight months since I featured Norm Burns, and that's just too long. Here we have a pair of songs which are both about lo...
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Monday, March 11, 2024

A March Treat - a Full Star-Crest Album - And it ROCKS! (Well, Once)

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 I have a treat for you today! It's a full song-poem album. And it's on the mustiest of fusty old early 1960's labels, Star-Cres...
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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Minimalist Lyrics, With Frank Perry

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Okay, a few things before we get to today's feature.  First, I heard from a correspondent named Jay, who has found the most phenomenal p...
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Saturday, February 24, 2024

Gary Roberts: Bluesman Extraordinaire!

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  Those of you unfamiliar with Gary Roberts would do yourselves a favor and peruse this set of posts (which will start with this very post,...
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Monday, February 12, 2024

Another Piece of the Norris Puzzle

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To start today's post, let me just reiterate that, any time I come to own a previously unknown / unshared record linked to the fabulous ...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Now THAT'S What I Call Lyrics!

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Every now and then I hear a new-to-me song-poem record that has that something extra that just completely captures me. One of the relatively...
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Born Loser

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Looks like it's been just over six months since I featured Gene Marshall, and I must rectify that!    I think maybe I've just been a...
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Sunday, January 14, 2024

Patty Payne's Pain

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HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!! Let's celebrate with two weepers from the waning days of Film City! This record's label number os 4120, j...
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Friday, December 29, 2023

She Wants Him Back. He's Just Passing Through

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 Greetings!  I hope everyone is having a lovely holiday season, whatever it is you celebrate or don't celebrate. Here's hoping for a...
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Monday, December 18, 2023

Is It Too Late? It's NEVER Too Late

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  The larger song-poem factories must have turned out dozens of records a year. MSR, Film City and Globe, for example, may have released hun...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

A Really Interesting Globe Acetate

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Greetings! I am doing a LOT of rearranging the various types of recorded material I have in my basement - shelving things differently, putti...
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