You Honk, I'll Tonk

This 1955 LP has some very competent playing, but it's a bit TOO tongue-in-cheek for me, what with the sound effects you can notice here and there.

01. Tavern in the Town / Pony Boy / Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-yay (2:27)

02. Honeysuckle Rose (2:01)

03. Bill Bailey (2:13)

04. Mother Pin a Rose on Me (2:22)

05. How You Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (1:52)

06. Kitten on the Keys (2:13)

07. My Wild Irish Rose / Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1:48)

08. After the Ball Is Over / Take Me Out to the Ball Game / The Man on the Flying Trapeze (2:37)

09. Bicycle Built for Two / In the Good Old Summertime / The Band Played On (2:50)

10. Sidewalks of New York / The Bowery (1:58)

11. Girl of My Dreams (3:16)

Joe "Fingers" O'Shay - Honky Tonk Piano

See you on Thursday, OK?  OK!
 

Visit My New Blog to Learn About the Race to the Moon!

Yep, this is a proffering of all the hundreds of newspaper and magazine clippings I collected in the late 1960s.

Read all about it in the first post.

And there'll be new posts of a different contemporaneous news item (sometimes many pages at once) over MOON-DAY (get it)?

See you over there every Monday, at Mark's Moon Memories !

See you here (and there!) on Monday, campers!

  

Zambian Acapella

It's a 1993 CD which you may find charming.  For me it was a one-time listen.

01. Ine Ndiri Paulendo (I'm on My Way) (3:21)
02. I Stand Amazed (1:57)
03. Swing Down Sweet Chariot (2:35)
04. How Great Thou Art (2:34)
05. I Shiwi Yaishile (The Word Came) (3:34)
06. Balesa (Lord God) (3:44)
07. Medley (Jesus Carries Alone, Harmony, Nobody Knows, I Want to Go to Heaven) (6:57)
08. When This Passing World Is Done (1:57)
09. Hallelujah Chorus (3:23)

Acapella Away!

See you on Monday.

Too Slanted for Me

These are probably considered "art songs."  They're not necessarily accessible or melodic.  Even dear Emily's words can't save some of them.

01. Cary John Franklin - Musicians wrestle everywhere (3:25)

02. Robert Greenlee - This is my letter to the world (3:55)
03. William Roy - This Little Rose (1:54)
04. Robert Baksa - Two butterflies (3:10)
05. Robert Baksa - I'm nobody (1:03)
06. Aaron Copland - Going to Heaven! (3:29)
07. William Goldberg - I Shall Keep Singing (3:10)
08. Richard Pearson Thomas - Wild Nights – Wild Nights! (1:29)
09. Brian Banks - A Night (3:31)
10. Earl George - The heart asks a pleasure first ... (1:36)
11. Ethan Haimo - I Died for Beauty (3:06)
12. Donald Betts - Much Madness is divinest Sense (2:25)
13. Donald Betts - My Life Closed Twice before its Close (3:35)
14. Robert Baksa - There's a certain slant of light (4:13)
15. Ken Langer - I heard a fly (2:31)
16. Beth Wiemann - A Soul Selects (2:59)
17. Duke Aperans - Wild nights – wild nights (2:02)
18. John Duke - Have you got a brook in your little heart? (2:38)
19. John Duke - I taste a liquor never brewed (2:14)

new link 5-13-2022

A Different Slant of Light
new link 5-13-2022
To me, this album is depressing because the singer's voice has wild vibrato.  She can't stay on pitch.

See you on Thursday.

New Favorites for You!

Take a visit to our 50th state!

01. Moonlight and Shadows (2:18)

02. Bali Hai (2:26)
03. The Moon of Manakoora (2:55)
04. Jim, Johnny and Jonas (2:33)
05. Ho'Oheno Ke'ia No Beaute (1:40)
06. I Wish They Didn't Mean Goodbye (3:19)
07. Waipi'o (2:26)
08. South Sea Island Magic (2:23)
09. A Sleepy Lagoon (3:02)
10. Waikapu (2:45)
11. Tower of Love (3:06)
12. Vana Vana (1:59)

Alfred Apaka's Favorites

See you on Monday!

Sleazy, Meet Cheesy!

This is a 1982 release which is competently performed but distressingly cheesy.

01. Chariots of Fire (3:23)

02. Endless Love (3:53)
03. Baby James (2:18)
04. Fame (3:10)
05. Sunshine Love (3:56)
06. Cavatina (Deer Hunter Theme) (3:32)
07. The Homecoming (2:34)
08. On Golden Pond (3:10)
09. Music Box Dancer (3:21)
10. Can You  Read My Mind (Superman) (3:24)
11. 9 to 5 (4:04)
12. "Spooked" on Classics (2:42)
13. Arthur's Theme (3:53)
14. Seduction (American Gigolo) (3:21)
15. Across the Sea (3:14)
16. The Rose (3:18)

Track 12, "Spooked on Classics," is really disappointing, with lame "scary" laughs.  If you cringe, then we share mutual discomfort levels.

Piano Hits

See you on Thursday!

MA-156 - Seventies Strut

Yes, this cover design is an intentional deceit.  Because these boffo tracks are not the kind of song you'd hear on Top-40 radio in the Seventies.  They're better!

Even if a little odd.

01 - Do the Boob - The Real Kids - 1977  (2:17)
02 - Don't Talk to Me - The Eyes - 1978  (1:31)
03 - Popgun - Mary Monday and the Bitches - 1977  (1:20)
04 - Empty - SST - 1978  (2:00)
05 - Death to Disco - Notsensibles - 1979  (3:16)
06 - (I Wanna) Burnout - The Korps - 1978  (2:09)
07 - Amateur Surgeon - The Vores - 1978  (2:19)
08 - Money Talks - Penetration - 1978  (1:41)
09 - Nobody Knows - Destroy All Monsters - 1979  (3:25)
10 - IRT - Snatch - 1977  (2:05)
11 - You're So Strange - The Zippers - 1977  (2:46)
12 - Aerosol Burns - Essential Logic - 1978  (1:59)
13 - Ambivalence and Spark Plugs - Immune Systems - 1979  (2:54)
14 - Stimulation - Penetrators - 1979  (2:35)
15 - Eddie and Sheena - Electric Chairs - 1978  (4:26)
16 - Action Time Vision - Alternative TV - 1978  (2:31)
17 - I Wanna Play with Guns - Needles and Pins - 1977  (3:00)
18 - All Queued Up - Deaf School - 1978  (3:02)
19 - Counting (demo) - The Motels - 1978  (4:41)
20 - I Can't Do Anything - X-Ray Spex - 1978  (2:56)
21 - Disco's Dead - The Bags - 1979  (2:12)
22 - Happy Song (live) - The Eyes - 1978  (2:37)
23 - Exhibition - Pneumania - 1979  (2:53)
24 - I'm Talking to You - The Maps - 1979  (3:02)
25 - I Woke Up Dreaming - Teenage Jesus & the Jerks - 1978  (3:05)
26 - CN Tower - The Poles - 1977  (2:52)
27 - I'm Alive - 999 - 1977  (2:28)
28 - Don't Misbehave in the New Age - Animals and Men - 1979  (2:04)
29 - Animal Instincts (live) - Model Citizens - 1979  (2:22)
30 - Strange Boy - Blitz - 1978  (3:02)

MA-156 - Seventies Strut -- 2022 CORRECTED LINK

So, DL a little Seventies weirdness and give it a listen.  You'll thank me for it!

See you back here on Monday, campers!
 

Symphonies of the Planets

Yup, this is a album of filtered white noise from space.  All gussied up with a spiffy cover.  It's one track, about a half-hour long.

Symphonies of the Planets

Now you too can space out!

See you on Thursday.
 

Eduard Klassen - Folk Harp Melodies

You may like this or be repulsed.  It all depends on your appreciation for "wall-of-sound" synth.  In my opinion, the synth makes the acceptable harp music unbearable.

01. Be Still and Know (3:39)
02. God Is So Good (1:30)
03. God Is Love (1:38)
04. Emmanuel (2:29)
05. Praise to the Lord (1:58)
06. Morning Has Broken (2:26)
07. When I Survey (2:43)
08. Children of the Heavenly Father (2:10)
09. Church in the Wildwood (2:16)
10. Jesus Loves Me (3:11)
11. He Counted the Stars (2:15)
12. When Peace Like a River (2:39)
13. This Is the Day (2:33)
14. Oh, How I Love Jesus (2:30)
15. Day by Day (2:51)
16. Holy, Holy, Holy (3:20)

17. Rock of Ages (2:23)

Can you take it?

See you Monday.

  

A Great Movie

This rerecording of the Victor Young score may bring some fun memories back to you.  The film is one of the all-time greats!

01. Main Title & Castletown Opening (2:03)
02. This Way / Journey to Innisfree & Humble Cottage (2:28)
03. Sean Sees Mary Kate for the First Time (Sheep Grazing) / Arrival in Innisfree (2:37)
04. The Wild Colonial Boy / River Cottage (2:24)
05. The Race (3:14)
06. The Courting / Bicycle Made for Two (Village Street) (3:46)
07. Love Scene (The Stream / The Graveyard) (4:24)
08. Trooper Thorn (The Fight Bell) (1:25)
09. The Isle of Innisfree (3:25)
10. I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen (3:48)
11. Cottage Fireside (Forlorn) (2:43)
12. Galway Bay (2:28)
13. Prelude to the Big Fight (2:53)
14. The Fight (2:29)
15. Finale and End Title (2:10)
16. The Isle of Innisfree (Reprise) (4:10)

Quiet

 

See you on Thursday!