long gone daddy

went record shopping yesterday, and picked-up two class albums from the record-exchange.
the first one is an ace records comp. from about 1987, and one of their regular great albums of original 50's material.

SIDE A
1. Pat Cupp - I Guess It's Meant That Way
2. Glen Glenn - Everybody's Movin'
3. Hal Harris _ I Don't Know When
4. Byron Johnson - True Affection
5. Les Cole & The Echoes - Be Boppin' Daddy
6. Sonny Hall - My Big Fat Baby
7. Joe Jackson - Rock My Warriors Rock
8. Les Cole & the Echoes - Rock Little Baby
9. Don Cole - Snake Eyed Mama
10. Jimmy Stewart & His Nighthawks - Nothin' But a Nuthin'
11. Charlie Feathers - Wild Wild Party
SIDE B
12. Johnny Todd - Pink Cadillac
13. Jimmy & Johnny - I Can't Find the Doorknob
14. Link Davis - Slipping and Sliding
15. Pat Cupp - Long Gone Daddy
16. Sleepy LaBeef - All the Time
17. Glenn Barber - Go Home Letter
18. Mac Curtis, Jim Shell - If I Had Me a Woman
19. Ray Scott - Boppin' Wig Wam Willie
20. Pat Cupp - Do Me No Wrong
21. Hal Harris - Jitterbop Baby
22. Sleepy LaBeef - Little Bit More





twenty great rockabilly hits of the 50's on cascade 1983
more great songs on here(a little bit of doubling up, but i don't mind), this album coming from 1981, on cascade records.
SIDE A
1 Johnny Todd-Pink Cadillac
2 Rock Rodgers-My Baby Left
3 Glen Glenn-Everybody's Movin'
4 Hershel Almond-Let's Get It On
5 Jesse James-Red Hot Rockin' Blues
6 Jimmie Dale-Baby Doll
7 Don Cole-Snake Eyed Mama
8 Chester Mcintyre-I'm Gonna Rock With My Baby Tonight
9 Poorboys-Move, Baby, Move
10 Al Urban-Lookin' For Money
SIDE B
11 Gene Wyatt-Prettiest Girl At The Dance
12 Sleepy La Beef-All The Time
13 Benny Joy-Spin The Bottle
14 Hal Harris-Jitterbop Baby
15 Les Cole-Be Boppin' Daddy
16 Sonny Fisher-Rockin' Daddy
17 George Jones-Rock It
18 Matchbox-Circle Rock
19 Glen Glenn-Blue Jeans
20 Benny Barnes-I Walk The Line

this track appears on both album, and is a killer rockabilly track:

that video features artwork from an earlier ace records compilation rockabilly party, which i also own... and is also a great album, worth digging the crates for.

while we're on the subject, this weekend i read the goon - which is set in the 40's, and owes a lot to film noire, jack kirby, sin city and of course will eisner.
very rockabilly it is too...
so a recommended read.

that would make an excellent avatar/profile picture...

jump cat jump

saturday 18th april, was record store day.
oddly enough, it was also the day i was able to get myself down to a record-shop(one that sells vinyl), to do some much needed trading.
i have this jabula album that i am keen to sell on... it has some very good music on, like acid-jazz/afro-jazz hugh masakela... quite uplifting, but i acquired it in a collection as a job lot, and plan to sell it as it is worth about £80... which is way too much for me to hold onto.
so, off to the local exchange shop, where they were playing some dodgy prog-nonsense, and sticking price tags onto easy listening albums(mostly junk, i know this genre... there is a lot of muzak...)... and as they hadn't heard of it, or could find a good enough reference in their little book of albums, they "had to pass".
no worries, now i just have the added hassle of trying to sell it on e-bay.
but i did have a quick look at the singles rack, and found some gems in there: two singles by the blue cats on charly records - even just seeing the label brought back memories of the late 70's/early 80's when i would have been buying a lot of the re-issued blues records on charly, a norwegian fanclub ep(with a killer version of big green car on it by johnny carroll!), and of course, jungle rock with a french picture sleeve.

to be honest, i miss that feeling of going into a record shop... there was something about it, that is lost nowadays, you got to check-out what other people were buying, and hear tracks you wouldn't normally hear... over the years, the local record shops became a meeting point for all the various cultures in my barren hometown, where we'd see people who drank in different pubs, or hung out with other crowds... plus the thrill of scanning the racks, and finding lost gems(like i did), or even rubbing shoulders with other genres...
this was also the weekend that we had the icelandic ash all over the skies, funnily
enough it was a clear sky today, and everybody pulled out the summer wardrobe, but there was a slight haze in the sky(and the whiff of eggs!) as well as dust all over parked cars...

this didn't stop me from breaking out my dickies workshorts, that i'd been planning to wear all winter, even though i managed to cheekily acquire some second-hand cinch-back 501s on the way home...
last night was good, plotting an overnight trip to a random-ish photo-location, in the next coule of weeks... meanwhile, i still have to PP the art-deco shots i took a fortnight ago(which were put to one side, following more pressing matters!).

hip hug her

classy little northern soul single i picked-up today(digging the crates) - one that i've heard maybe a million times and never get tired off.
One day we shall return
To this place upon the meadow.
We'll walk out in the rain,
See the birds above singing once again


from elsewhere on the interweb:
Embellished with a piano "thunderstorm" intro that neatly prefigured the "rain" in the opening lyrics, "A Lover's Concerto" updated Johann Sebastian Bach's "Notebook For Anna Magdalena Bach, Minuet In G," a five finger piano exercise. One also hears echoes of the Supremes' "Back In My Arms Again."
just a nice little soul record, that makes the sun shine again...

today was notable for being the day that i first got round to trying sailor jerry rum... which was damn fine, really smooth(you can taste the added flavour of lime and vanilla - made to jerry's specifications), with a little kick at the end.
as they have sold about 10 million bottles of this stuff, you could say i've got some catching-up to do... this is strong stuff though, so i may reserve it for special occasions, like when i don't have to get up the next day(which i usually do, even at weekends...).
the combination of northern soul and jamaican rum however, is just too fine...
the day had started well with the big paws accepting my record request, to hear a lady gaga cd being snapped in half...
we'd seen here on a tv chatshow the night before, and as i suspected she didn't mention music once in her interview...