MA-82 - Joy and Noise, Disc 5

Here's another collection of songs that inspire me to laugh, pray, and be thankful.  Many from the 1990s, a few from earlier.  You'd be happier if you looked up the performers and invested in more of their work!

01. Here We Go - Grits (3:20)

02. You're Not Alone - Marie Miller (3:21)

03. Press On - Building 429 (2:49)

04. Endure - Plumb (3:50)

05. No Restricted Signs (Up in Heaven) - Golden Gate Quartet (2:59)

06. Solid Rock - Daniel's Window (3:38)

07. Good Morning - Mandisa (featuring TobyMac) (3:25)

08. You Carry Me - Moriah Peters (3:03)

09. 12 Round Knockout - KJ-52 (3:58)

10. The Kirby Man - Layton Howerton (4:22)

11. Because You Loved Me - Say-So (5:06)

12. Alive - P O D (3:24)

13. Beautiful Day - Jamie Grace (3:12)

14. Keep on Rhymin' - Emcee One (3:50)

15. Princes and Frogs (Underdog Mix) - Superchick (3:05)

16. Unveiled Faces - Sarah Masen (4:19)

17. Speak to the Hand - Lakita (3:48)

18. What If I Stumble? - dc Talk (5:05)

19. The Way That You Are - Miranda (4:03)

20. Here Comes the Sun - Mayfair Laundry (2:48)

21. Skip to the End - Mukala (3:44)

https://www.filefactory.com/file/5ae7d6ne1702/MA-82.rar

 

See you Monday for a new page-by-page through a wonderful DC title from the 1960s.

 

We're the Texas Playgirls

Another thrift store cassette, this one is pretty fun.  The liner notes (included in the file) explain that these are new recordings of TP standards, by some of the gals who sang with the Playboys way back when.

01 - We’re the Texas Playgirls

02 - I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart

03 - There’s a Silver Moon on the Golden Gate

04 - In My Adobe Hacienda

05 - Yearning

06 - We’re Playing On

07 - Lining of Blue

08 - Boneapart’s Retreat

09 - Out on the Texas Plains

10 - Won’t You Ride in My Little Red Wagon

 Swing with the Playgirls!

MA-50 - 45s & Favorites, Disc 7 -- More Pop Music Miscellany

More proof in the wonderful cornucopia that USE TO BE pop music, before rhythms replaced melody and thought, not focus groups, produced lyrics.

Not that dreck wasn't marketed in the days of AM radio -- Sturgeon's Law is a reality of the universe -- but "way back then," even dreck was conceived and produced through a system that allowed more human fingers on every step of the process.  The human touch sometimes ennobles the basest products of work-for-hire:  Sistine Chapel, anyone?

1 -       Birthday      The Beatles / Beatles Remixers Group   (4:17)

2 -      A Song for You      Leon Russell   (4:04)

3 -      Mother Freedom      Bread   (2:33)

4 -      Wake Up Sunshine     Chicago       (2:34)

5 -      Up on Cripple Creek (live)     The Band   (4:39)

6 -       Superstar    Bette Midler (5:09)

7 - Goodbye to Love Carpenters (3:50)

8 - Smoke on the Water    Deep Purple (3:44)

9 - Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters   Elton John (4:57)

10 - How Do You Do Mouth & MacNeal (3:12)

11 - Deteriorata National Lampoon (4:25)

12 - I Love Every Little Thing About You Stevie Wonder (3:53)

13 - The Circle Game (live) Joni Mitchell (6:24)

14 - Pinball Wizard Elton John (5:12)

15 - Dog & Butterfly Heart (5:05)

16 - We Belong Together Rickie Lee Jones    (4:58)

17 - A Life of Illusion   Joe Walsh (3:28)

18 - Come Together The Beatles / Beatles Remixers Group (4:02)

The first and last tracks are wonderful alternate mashup/rearrangements of Beatles standards, making them (in the words of Dickens) "Recalled to Life."

Track 11 was conceived by the National Lampoon guys in response to the cheesy success of "The Desiderata" as a an example of the shallow public seeking non-condemnatory "deep thoughts."  Lyrics to both are given here.

You are a fluke of the universe.

See you Monday, fellow fluke!

Re-Post: Song of the Second Moon / Electronic Music

An ethernetic friend sent this comment last week:

Hello
Just found your site - very interesting.
Now for an ask - could you please re-up this album. It was cited by David Bowie as one of his favourites of all time and I can't find it anywhere else :-) 

Another cover for the same album is:

The tracks are:

1)  Song of the Second Moon
2)  Moon Maid
3)  The Ray Makers
4)  The Visitor from Inner Space
5)  Sonik Re-Entry
6)  Orbit Aurora
7)  Twilight Ozone
8)  Pianoforte

My comments from the original post:

This is another secret pleasure from childhood ... Track 5, "Sonik Re-Entry," was grilled into my brain from early on.  KVOO, Channel 2 in Tulsa, used it as the title music for Fantastic Theatre, a late-Saturday-night monsters-and-SF-movie showcase.

Once a year or so, Fantastic Theatre would show King Dinosaur, a cheesy 1955 movie that I yearned for because it had DINOSAURS!  So, even though I was eight or so years old, Mom and Dad would allow me to stay up late to watch it.

This started me on a lifetime of bad habits, which culminated with Mazeppa Pompazoidi, Second City TV, and MadTV.

Whenever I hear "Sonik Re-Entry," I'm transported back in time to that mental or emotional age when life is an adventure and any good thing is possible!

Space Out!