He da Man!

The RAGTIME man, that is!

For our last installment of Things I Love, here is some socko, boffo ragtime fun!

01. Rose Leaf Rag (5:36)

02. The Cannon Ball (2:27)

03. Ragtime Nightingale (4:19)

04. Dill Pickles (2:20)

05. The Entertainer (5:08)

06. Hilarity Rag (3:15)

07. Search-Light Rag (4:06)

08. Grace And Beauty (3:32)

09. Grizzly Bear Rag (3:03)

10. Wild Cherries Rag (3:00)

11. American Beauty (4:06)

12. Fig Leaf Rag (5:04)

Cripple Creek, a Ragtime Suite for Piano

13. The Imperial Rag (2:44)

14. The Anchoria Leland (5:31)

15. The Vindicator (2:35)

16. Dr. Jackpot (2:33)

17. Poverty Gulch (3:13)

18. Old Mortality (4:57)

It's a 1986 release.

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See you on Monday, we're gonna spend the month of March harkening back to one o' my ancestral homegrounds.  Can ya guess which one?

  

Spring to the Rite!

After enduring negative Fahrenheits in OKC last week, this week we will have seventies.  If that don't make you think of Springtime, then you're too chill for me!

1. First Part: Adoration Of The Earth: Intro  

2. First Part: Adoration Of The Earth: The Augurs Of Spring/Dances Of The Young Girls  

3. First Part: Adoration Of The Earth: Ritual Of Abduction  

4. First Part: Adoration Of The Earth: Spring Rounds  

5. First Part: Adoration Of The Earth: Ritual Of The River Tribes  

6. First Part: Adoration Of The Earth: Procession Of The Saga  

7. First Part: Adoration Of The Earth: The Sage  

8. First Part: Adoration Of The Earth: Dances Of The Earth  

9. Second Part: The Sacrifice: Intro  

10. Second Part: The Sacrifice: Mystic Circles Of The Young Girls  

11. Second Part: The Sacrifice: Glorification Of The Chosen One  

12. Second Part: The Sacrifice: Evocation Of The Ancestors  

13. Second Part: The Sacrifice: Ritual Actions Of The Ancestors  

14. Second Part: The Sacrifice: Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One)  

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This is a magnificent performance of magnificent music.  You'll love it too!  See you Thursday for the final installment of this year's "Thing I Love" on the Record Round-Up!

Three Exclamation Points !!!

It's a 1966 album of James Bond themes.

01. Goldfinger Theme (2:28)

02. Violence! (3:08)

03. From Russia with Love (3:22)

04. Blues for Dr. No (3:04)

05. Pussy Galore Meets Bond (2:57)

06. James Bond Theme (2:57)

07. "M" Joins the Hunt (4:09)

08. A Gilded Corpse (3:15)

09. Warm and Deadly (3:46)

10. Death of Goldfinger (2:35)

Doubtless the "Zero Zero Seven" moniker is a group of studio performers.

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But you can still have fun!  See you Monday.

  

Twisted -- Just Like We Like It!

From the usual gang of idiots?

01. High School Basketball Game (2:31)

02. Nose Job (2:17)

03. Please, Betty Jane (2:36)

04. Somebody Else's Dandruff (2:38)

05. Blind Date (1:59)

06. Agnes (2:28)

07. Pretzel (2:12)

08. I'll Always Remember Being Young (3:15)

09. Pimples Turned to Dimples (2:08)

10. Serious Teenager in Love (2:10)

11. My Johnny's Hub Cap (2:24)

12. Boys' Bathroom Wall (2:16)

Actually, the performing group is the Dellwoods.

If you've got a single smart-aleck bone in your body, you'll empathize with my love for stuff like this.

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See ya Thursday, Mad Folks!

  

Talk About a Round-Up!

This is an album of such fun!

01. Harry Jackson - Morning Grub Holler (0:18)

02. Harry Jackson - Round-up Cook (0:49)

03. Tex-I-An Boys - Chisholm Trail (3:00)

04. Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston - Whoopie-Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little dog (3:02)

05. Cisco Houston - Little Joe the Wrangler (2:39)

06. Harry Jackson - Little Joe the Wrangler's Sister Nell (3:28)

07. Harry K. McClintock - Utah Carl (1:31)

08. Tex-I-An Boys - Put Your Little Foot (1:26)

09. Peter LaFarge - Trail to Mexico (2:28)

10. Peter Hurd - Las Chapparreras (1:22)

11. Woody Guthrie - Buffalo Skinners (3:15)

12. Ray Reed - Zebra Dun (3:52)

13. Harry Jackson - Some Cowboy Brag Talk (1:35)

14. Roger Welsh - Horse Wrangler (3:08)

15. Harry Jackson - Strawberry Roan (4:55)

16. John A. Lomax - Texian Boys (1:53)

17. Leadbelly - Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Ya (1:33)

18. Woody Guthrie - Jesse James (Leadbelly's version) (3:00)

19. Pete Seeger - Home on the Range (1:52)

20. Rosalie Sorrels - Empty Cot in the Bunkhouse Tonight (2:13)

21. Leadbelly - Springime in the Rockies (3:04)

22. Dave Fredrickson - Lone Star Trail (2:54)

23. Peter LaFarge - Rodeo Hand (1:48)

24. Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston - Philadelphia Lawyer (2:31)

25. Cisco Houston - The Dying Cowboy (3:02)

26. Hermes Nye - The Devil Made Texas (2:08)

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You can have yer "new country," give me these closer-to-real songs any day!

See you on Monday.  Happy Valentine's Day!

  

Classic Thrillers

I was a thrilled kid of 15 or 16 when I watched the TV movies The Night Stalker and its follow-up The Night Strangler.

Part of the fun and thrill was the music of Robert Cobert.  But as you will hear, he wrote other music for eerie things!

01. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Suite (1968) - Robert Cobert (11:40)

02. Dead of Night - A Darkness at Blaseidon Suite (1969) - Robert Cobert (3:00)

03. The Night Stalker Suite (1972) - Robert Cobert (4:00)

04. The Night Strangler Suite (1973) - Robert Cobert (5:33)

05. Dracula Suite (1974) - Robert Cobert (8:10)

06. Trilogy of Terror Suite (1975) - Robert Cobert (6:10)

07. Burnt Offerings Suite (1976) - Robert Cobert (8:40)

08. Dead of Night Suite (1977) - Robert Cobert (13:33)

09. Curse of the Black Widow Suite (1977) - Robert Cobert (7:10)

10. Dark Shadows Suite (1991) - Robert Cobert (8:44)

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Happy hauntings, fellow fearmongers!  Hope you fall in love too!  See you Thursday.

  

Give 'em the Finger!

... Because a deformed ring finger was one of the ways to detect AN INVADER.

This is a bootleg from who knows where.

Disc 1 - 38 Tracks, 40 minutes

Disc 2 - 56 Tracks, 52 minutes

The 1967-68 was instrumental in making a bunch of us Sixties kids distrustful of the Space Brother scenarios promulgated by the likes of George Adamski or Truman Bethurum.  What if the aliens weren't here to help ... they were just HUNGRY!?!?!?

This 2-disc file of Dominic Frontiere's atmospheric music is in one big file.

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See ya Monday!

  

I Love 'em!

... That's how I picked the topics to share in February, the month of love as they say.

A few years ago I went through all available releases of this great score to assemble my own.  None of the commercial releases has "everything," as evidenced by the ten-second segment I pulled from the film, "Superspeed Letter."

DISC ONE:

01. Main Title and Argo City (3:20)

02. Argo City Mall (1:01)

03. The Butterfly (1:41)

04. The Journey Begins (1:17)

05. Arrival on Earth / Flying Ballet (5:42)

06. Chicago Lights / Street Attack (2:28)

07. A New School (2:18)

08. Superspeed Letter (0:10)

09. The Superman Poster (Goldsmith / Williams) (0:56)

10. The Map (1:15)

11.  Ethan Spellbound (2:18)

12. The Monster Tractor (7:39)

13. First Kiss / The Monster Storm (4:35)

14. The Bracelet (2:02)

15. Where Is She? / The Monster Bumper Cars (3:02)

16. The Flying Bumper Car (1:31)

17. Where's Linda? (1:26)

18. Black Magic (4:13)

19. The Phantom Zone (3:47)

20. The Vortex / The End of Zaltar (5:55)

21. Final Showdown and Victory / End Title (short version) (12:12)

DISC TWO:

01. Overture (6:14)

02. Main Title and Argo City (Alternate) (3:16)

03. Flying Ballet (Alternate) (2:18)

04. The Map (Alternate) (1:18)

05. The Monster Bumper Cars (Film Version) (1:47)

06. First Kiss / The Monster Storm (4:40)

07. Final Showdown and Victory / End Title (long version) (Alternate) (13:33)

08. What Is Love? (Howard Jones) (6:35)

09. New Song (Howard Jones) (4:20)

10. Final Showdown and Victory / End Title (long version) (13:44)

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Disc Two PERMANENT LINK.

See you on Thursday!