We're taking a month to pray for cooler weather.  Spock and I will return with some spooky stuff in October!

This was released in 1972.  I always wondered if the deliberately unflattering photo was chosen as a sign of humility. There are some ...

This is a fine collection of Big-Band -type stuff, culled from a two-cassette package that was released maybe in the 1980s.  Maybe not al...

Joyce and first encountered the fun music of Fats Waller in the early 1980s in a TV broadcast of Ain't Misbehavin' .  Who can re...

You see, it's not a copyrighted STAR TREK  image if tf you have those engine nacelles sticking straight out to the side instead of u...

The cover of this selection of space/flying saucer music features an interpretation of Betty Hill's star map.  Ever since, under hypno...

The Galactic Force Band was a name to be reckoned with in the shady world of cover bands in the 1970s.  While I still contend that DI...

That's the name of this 1973 album by a group called Children of the Day. A year or two after that, Joyce or I bought the cassett...

Here is some old-fashioned show-biz-type music. Here are the liner notes from the back of the LP: Like no business I know . . . Th...

This is just some great music.  Domenico Scarlatti wrote great, melodic, inventive stuff.  Jazz musician Bob James even came out with a s...

More Disco Wackiness! I was never a good dancer because I was too self-conscious.  I always admire those who can cut loose without worry...

Another concatenation of two Environments LPs from the 1970s.  I don't know the sources for the voices or the bells.  The "Int...

Here's another treasure from the early 1960s (I would guess). This album is plenty of fun.  I wish the songs had been performed mor...

Gene Page covers Star Trek, Close Encounters, and some originals. Here are the tracks: 01 - Close Encounters Of The Third Kind 02 - ...

John Morris wrote amazing soundtracks for several of Mel Brook's classic films.  This one contains much serious-sounding music that fits...

This 1965 album is another compilation of covers themes.  If you're familiar with Teddy Randazzo's Girl from U.N.C.L.E . music...

... at least for six minutes or so. Actually, the whole album is kind of cute. Here are the tracks: 1 Superman 5:32 2 Etagui 5:13 ...

I found this jewel -- where else -- but in a thrift store over the weekend.  Cheesy but fun. It's a 10" EP.  If you do a searc...

Another collection of atomic and/or nuclear-themed songs. Here are the songs: 1 - Hydrogen Bomb Al Rex 1959 2 - The H-Bomb's Thu...

Originally, the way I understand it, Georges Delerue was hired to compose the soundtrack to the Disney adaptation of Ray Bradbury's ultr...

...and that's my love for Western Swing. You can see one of these Texas Playboys record covers up there at the top of the page, behind...

This is a fun and great arrangement of the Rimsky-Korsakov classic.  Although the cover calls it "a symphony in jazz by the VIDEO A...

...as performed by the Odyssey Orchestra, that is. Here are the out-of-this-world tracks: 01 - The Empire Strikes Back (Main Theme) ...

For the Bicentennial Celebration of the Fourth of July, 1976, Joyce and I went with my big brother to visit my sister Sue and her husband in...

This album is copyrighted 1982 by RCA.  It contains music from horror/SF films. It's interesting in that I really don;t know why the...

Can you count the "do-do-do-doots"?  I think not. This cover image reminds me of Eddie Money's video for "I Think I'...

Howdy and happy Fourth of July! The Now Sound Orchestra first came to my attention when at Skaggs Albertsons I came across, in their bin o...

After a long search, I was thrilled to find a full soundtrack for the wonderfully creepy Salem's Lot 1979 miniseries. The only downsi...

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While the movie 1941 is mostly considered to be a huge disaster in most ways -- story, waste of good actors on cheese, etc, I like the John ...

Why these dances are called "Pleghmish Dances," I don't know. Nobody SOUNDS sick. These are the pieces to the Festival...