Obscure records you own

[Colin Ex]

Guess what I scored a copy of last night?

The guitarist of Built to Spill used to have a band called Treepeople. I am now the proud owner of their record.

Now, crush my pride by sharing your obscure stuff.

-C

[CO Liberal]

1. "I Sold My Heart To The Junkman"

Patti Labelle & The Blue Belles, circa 1963.

[Laughing Mirror]

44. I have that one too

But I think I read in Patti Labelle's auto-biography that that wasn't really her and the BlueBells on that record. But it does sound like her.

[Laughing Mirror]

46. Patsy Cline Just a Closer Walk With Me

about six and a half minutes long, split on sides A & B, recorded live at Ryman Auditorium, a Kapp records 45.

[CO Liberal]

47. Yes, It Does Sound Like Her

And I'm pretty sure Patti still keeps a few copies of that 45 in her hair.

:-)

[Insider]

2. ryuichi sakamoto - neo geo

[NashVegas]

5. I'll See Your Ryuichi and Raise You

Stomu Yamash'ta - Go

[DoYouEverWonder]

78. With Steve Winwood

there's some really good music on that one.

[REP]

11. I Have That

That's obscure? I never know.

[Loonman]

3. The Polecats

[NashVegas]

6. Make a Circuit w/Me!

I loved that tune.

[randr]

4. Two I just found after looking for years

Pearls Before Swine--both
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake--Small Faces

[XNASA]

7. "The Spirit Cage" - Martin Newell

--"If you need some insightful lyrical wisdom, look no further, as Britain’s most published poet returns with his first newly recorded album for many a year. Martin Newell is one of a unique, very rare breed of really gifted English songwriters in the mould of Ray Davies and Nick Drake."--

[Bertha Venation]

8. I mis-read your title.

I was going to post "most tropical fish killed by stupidity."

[BurtWorm]

26. That crept up on me slowly

but it got me! :D

PS: Poor wittew fishies!

[Bertha Venation]

40. hehee... gotcha

poor fisses. :cry:

[kaitykaity]

9. Not obscure necessarily but lovely and odd.

War of the Worlds, musical version, narrated by
Richard Burton, lead guitar Jeff Lynne (Moody Blues).

[Champion Jack]

10. Not really an obscure band...

But, I have a New York Dolls Boot LP, signed by the whole band

[Loonman]

12. This one too, Jason & the Scorchers, on vinyl

[mac56]

85. I have the EP on cassette.

Great stuff.

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. The Search

Dougie MacLean.

[CO Liberal]

14. I Have a Ritchie Valens Album

Recorded live at a high school in Los Angeles.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. I used to have

the original Japanese cast recording of Hair--and I bought it in Ithaca, New York.

[vi5]

16. Hmmm....I've actually never heard BTS but own 2 Treepeople records..

True story.

[CO Liberal]

17. "Shaving Cream" By Benny Bell

"I have a sad story to tell you.
It may hurt your feelings a bit.
Last night as I walked into the bathroom,
I stepped in a big pile of -
SHAVING CREAM, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look keen."

:-)

[Loonman]

18. Alphaville - The Jet Set 12"

[CanuckAmok]

68. Oooh, we should talk...my copy is autographed ;)

I'm a die-hard New Waver. Still have all the 12" singles I bought in the eighties.

Check my show out: (see sig)

19. what's shakin'

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002HB6/qid=1074179912/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-2270919-1464740?v=glance&s=music

This is not the original cover. The original cover has a picture of the Lovin Spoonful on it. My parents bought this for me in 1966 because I was really into the Lovin' Spoonful. I listened to it for years without realizing who the other folk on it WERE. When I realized I was blown away!

Check out the artists


1. Good Time Music - The Lovin' Spoonful
2. Almost Grown - The Lovin' Spoonful
3. Spoonful - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
4. Off the Wall - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
5. Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
6. I Want to Know - Eric Clapton & the Powerhouse
7. Crossroads - Eric Clapton & the Powerhouse
8. Lovin' Cup - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
9. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
10. Stepping Out - Eric Clapton & the Powerhouse
11. I'm in Love Again - Tom Rush
12. Don't Bank on It Baby - The Lovin' Spoonful
13. Searchin' - The Lovin' Spoonful
14. One More Mile - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

the Clapton/Powerhouse band is Clapton with Winwood on vocals, Ginger Baker on drums (I'm not sure who is on bass, in a band that existed briefly between Clapton's leaving the Bluesbreakers and the formation of Cream.

[REP]

20. If "Obscure" Means "Crap No One Else Has Heard Of"

I'd say 90% of my music.

Some examples:
Terry Allen - Juarez and Lubbock (on Everything)
Dandy Warhols - everything including Black and Tales From Slabtown
Voices from the Center of Asia (field recordings of Tuvan music)
All Throwing Muses up to University, including one signed by the "Green" era lineup
Buck Naked and The Bare Bottom Boys - posthumous CD and EP signed by Buck (Phil Bury)
Cramps - everything including very rare bootleg, plus a tamborine used in a show
etc

[Lindsay]

21. "Human Fly"

by the Horseflies.

And the entire solo catalog of the late Gene Clark, vocalist from the early Byrds.

[Maeve]

22. Soundtrack to the musical "Baker Street"

A Sherlock Holmes that sings and dances.

[arwalden]

23. "Telephone Man" -- Meri Wilson (45 RPM)

One of those "novelty songs" from 1978.

[Susang]

51. I had that 45!!!

That song would stick in your head like super-glue. I used to drive my poor mother insane with it. Whenever I was pissed off at her (I was 13 in 1978, so that was most of the time) I would play that song and Disco Duck at full volume on my little portable phonograph. Ah memories......

[TheMightyFavog]

53. Wait a minute...

Isn't forcing someone to listen to Disco Duck considered a crime against humanity by the UN?

[Susang]

59. Hey, I was thirteen

And she was my mother. Girls at thirteen do horrible things to their mothers. Disco Duck at high volume is on the mild side of the fence.

[arwalden]

72. Portable Phonograph? Was That A "Close-N-Play"??

I went to my apartment on a Monday at one
A-singin' do lolly, lolly shicky bum, shicky bum
Started movin' in it on a Tuesday at two
A-singin' do lolly, lolly shicky do, shicky do
Wednesday at three I called the phone company, singin':
"Hey baby, put a phone in for me"
Thursday at four he came a-knockin' at my door, singin':

"Hey, baby, I'm your telephone man
You just show me where you want it and I'll put it where I can
I can put it in the bedroom, I can put it in the hall
I can put it in the bathroom, I can hang it on the wall
You can have it with a buzz, you can have it with a ring
And if you really want it you can have a ding-a-ling
Because-a hey baby, I'm your telephone man"

Can you believe that? And then he says:

"Now when other fellas call ya tell 'em how it all began"

Well...can you imagine?

My heart began a-thumpin' and my mind began to fly
And I knew I wasn't dealin' with no ordinary guy
So while he was a-talking I was thinkin' up my plan
Then my fingers did the walkin' on the telephone man

Singin' hey lolly, lolly
Hey lolly, lolly
Hey lolly, lolly
Get it any way you can
Right? Ha ha ha, so...

I got it in the bedroom, and I got it in the hall
And I got it in the bathroom, and he hung it on the wall
I got it with a buzz, and I got it with a ring
And when he told me what my number was I got a ding-a-ling

A-singin' hey lolly, lolly
Hey lolly, lolly
Hey lolly, lolly
Just-a doin' my thing

Ha, ha...I've never done anything like this before!

[arwalden]

89. Sadly, MERI WILSON passed away December 28, 2002

I found the following two articles about Meri Wilson.
-- Allen
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http://www.hrtimeout.com/rednews/2003/04/04/build/Tim_Cain_Column/cain.php

NOVELTY SINGER DEATH: At a time when about a quarter of the albums listed in Billboard's Top 40 have parental advisory stickers plastered on them, it's interesting to note that a little more than 25 years ago, one of the big gest radio controversies focused on a song whose most suggestive lyric was "Hey, la-lee, la-lee."

Meri Wilson, who died in December at age 53 of injuries suffered in a car accident, independently released the novelty song "Telephone Man" in 1977. Its vaguely suggestive lyrics irritated many and thrilled many of us with a sophomoric sense of humor.

And it's not that offensive. As one friend pointed out, "It's just dumb."

A jazz singer and jingle singer, Wilson became a classic one-hit wonder with the song, which went gold despite peaking at No. 18 on Billboard's singles chart. She continued to release songs (including a rewrite of "Telephone Man" called "Internet Man"), and released an album last year.

<SNIP>


===================================================================

http://www.legendrecords.com/mw2.html

Back in 1977, singer/songwriter Meri Wilson made her initial mark in the music industry with her debut gold record, ‘Telephone Man'. In 2002, Meri was still making hit records. Meri Wilson, the youngest daughter of a US Air Force officer, was born in Japan. Her childhood was spent in the States traveling from city to city with her family wherever her father was stationed.

Meri's initial interest in music stemmed from her family's talent and interest in music. Her dad played trumpet, her mom taught piano, and her siblings could all sing and play an instrument. Meri was a child prodigy. At the age of two she began singing, learned piano, cello, and eventually the guitar and flute.

<SNIP>

After completing graduate school, Meri become a choral director and throughout the decade, focused her attention on academia. However, Meri continued to write music and sing, and act in regional theater. In 1995, she quit her teaching job and concentrated her efforts once again on songwriting. Meri wanted to record another album. In 1999, she went to Nashville, met with Boomer, and she wrote several additional novelty tunes, ‘The Spelling Song', ‘The 900 Song', ‘The Phone Book', and ‘Lonely Parts'. She also "updated" the lyrics to ‘Telephone Man' and it became "The Internet Man (who ever knew that computer components could have provocative names?).

The single, ‘Internet Man', was serviced to morning drive radio where it attracted the attention of Giant Records out of Nashville. Giant signed Meri to a "two-side" deal, but when parent company Time Warner consolidated their imprints, Giant became a casualty and Meri became a free woman. She then released her album with Nashville's Legend Records. This album, which contains ten novelty tunes, was released as "Meri Wilson: The World's Funniest Telephone Man's Lady" on cassette and CD. For the past two plus decades Meri Wilson has entertained millions of people worldwide with her music with her introspective tunes as well as with her novelty tunes. Good times... fun times... seriousness... laughter... that's what listeners derive from Meri's music.

[CO Liberal]

24. "What's Wrong With This Picture?" - Andrew Gold

It's an album that leads off with his 1974 hit, "Lonely Boy".

[CO Liberal]

25. "Loving You Has Made Me Bananas" by Guy Marx

"Your red scarf matches your eyes,
You close your cover before striking,
Father has the shipfitter blues,
Loving you has made me bananas.

Oh, your red scarf matches your eyes,
You close your cover before striking,
Father has the shipfitter blues,
Loving you has made me bananas.

Oh, you burned your finger that evening
While my back was turned.
I asked the waiter for iodine -
But I dines all alone...."

[Maeve]

41. Now I'm going to have that blasted thing stuck in my head all day!

Used to be such a Dementite...still have some tapes around from the '80's of Dr Demento's show (it's on at 8 am Sundays and I don't DO early mornings on the weekend!)

[bif]

27. I own all the Gong LPs

Including several imports. A

[Intelsucks]

28. The Deadly Snakes. Super "low-fi" sounding... A good punk record.

n/t

[Intelsucks]

37. I think it's called "Love Undone"

n/t

[Red State Rebel]

29. Too Fat Polka on 78

The lyrics actually include:

I don't want her, you can have her, she's to fat for me...

[bif]

30. Was that by the Imperials?

Or something like that? My mom used to own that one and would torture us with it when we were kids. 

[Red State Rebel]

31. Not sure, I'll have to look at it...n/t

[CO Liberal]

32. It Was Done By a Lot of Different Artists

It's a polka standard.

[BiggJawn]

58. I have that! Arthur Godfrey...

"..She's too fat, much too fat, she's too fat for me..."

And didn't the next chorus go "You can't have her, 'cuz I want her, she's just right for me..."

Used to be my theme song...

[Drifter]

33. I have a recording of a ...

practice session where Keith Richards (Rolling Stones) sings and plays (piano) "Somewhere over the Rainbow". This is frightening.

It is a cassette tape, and I have no idea if it is still viable.

Cheers
Drifter

[BarbaRosa]

34. Jelly - A True Story

A record I picked up from the dollar table.

Jelly, a trio from the late '70s, with Amy Madigan as lead singer. Yup the actress.

Hey you wanted obscure, you didn't say good or not. I've got a lot of obscure records, I did most of my record shopping in the dollar bin, looking at the back for musicians I was familiar with, or going totally pot luck.

Sharks - Jab It In Your Eye
Horslips - The Man Who Built America
Jack Green - Humanesque
Underground Sunshine - Let There Be Light
Stoney and Meatloaf - Stoney and Meatloaf ..yup Meatloaf
Mark-Almond - To The Heart ..plus several more
Ambrosia - Road Island
Dust - Hard Attack

to name a few... B-)

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

35. Used to own Slade's "Play It Loud"

Cotillion label, c. 1969-1970. Their skinhead phase, before they became teenybop idols.

The value..the value...Dang...

[HuckleB]

36. The long-jump record for my junior high.

It closed down the year after I graduated, so it will always stand.

Oh, you mean recorded music? Hmm. I think I've listed my entire collection on DU by now. So I'll let some others have some fun.

[cosmicdot]

38. if not restricted to 'music only', Nov. 4, 1960 JFK campaign rally

... speeches by dignitaries, including a stirring stump-rally speech given by Senator John F. Kennedy ... on the road to the White House ...

[silverlib]

39. A very old Captain Kangaroo album (n/t)

[Beetwasher]

42. Sid Barret's "Vegetable Man"

I also have a copy of a very rare version of Roger Waters "Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking." The reason it's rare is because there is a pic of a naked woman on the front that was only available for a few days before they recalled the album and released it w/ black bar over her ass. It's also autographed by RW himself!

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

43. Mine

I have a recording of Robert Speaight reciting Oliver Goldsmith's "The Deserted Villege."

No kidding.

It rocks.

[no name no slogan]

45. Dude I remember Treepeople!

haven't heard that name in YEARS!

[Lindsay]

48. I remembered another one...

"Backsliders' Tractor Pull" by Rev. Billy C. Wirtz.

Yuck to "The Too Fat Polka." My father used to sing that at me, since I was a fat little kid. (And I was too well trained to mention that he, too, was overweight.)

[bobthedrummer]

49. Flash and The Pan, Planet P Project, Otis Taylor Band

Savoy Brown.

[Susang]

50. Ever heard of Let's Active?

How 'bout Lene Lovitch, Prefab Sprout, Virginia Astley (kudos to anyone who knows who she is), or Mary's Danish?

Whoops, I forgot Syd Straw! Bad Susang, bad, bad!!!

[Norbert]

81. I have a Let's Active Album on vinyl

Wasn't a bad album either. Mitch Easter (I think that was his name in Let's Active) produced Don Dixon's EEE CD. I guess that makes two obscure ones I have.

[gold_bug]

52. Septic Death

The first record. I saw it selling for $100 at a record store in Seattle, so I guess it's pretty rare.

[TheMightyFavog]

54. Not an LP

Pat Boone, In a Metal Mood

In my defense, I was a big Dr. Demento fanboy at the time.

[Kat45]

62. Oh, yeah. I have his metal CD too.

I think it's his version of "Crazy Train" that they use as the theme song on "The Osbournes."

[curse10]

55. Tim Curry

both albums, on vinyl.

[mac56]

88. I have the "Best Of" on cassette.

"I Do The Rock.....myself."

[TrogL]

56. Aircraft carrier sound effects recorded on the U. S. S. Enterprise.

I have no idea.

[CanuckAmok]

70. Set phasers on "coincidence"

I have that one, too!

Man, DU is an esoterica clearinghouse!

[mitchum]

57. pink banana "Velvet Underground and Nico"

Patti Smith "Hey Joe/Piss Factory" mer 45
acetate of "Cocksucker Blues"
lots more, but these are the only ones I could trade for a car

[BiggJawn]

60. "The Marconi-Victor course in Radio-Telegraphy"...1916.

set of 10 78's.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

61. Jack Palance sings

every bit as funny as you might expect

[BlackVelvetElvis]

63. Godz 2

on CD no less.

[Faygo Kid]

64. "Have A Marijuana" - David Peel and the Lower East Side

Wasn't obscure in my day (late '60s), but probably unknown today. Includes the classics: Happy Mother's Day, Up Against the Wall, Mother******. How did a generation that produced that AND Zap Comix come up with a George W. Bush?

65. Also the classic " the pope smokes dope"

the pope smokes dope produced by John Lennon and Yoko Ono

http://gemm.com/gemm_http/mall/peel/peelhome.html

[DoYouEverWonder]

79. I went to a couple of David Peel's

Dope In's in Central Park. I even went out on a date with him once. They've probably got a pic of me with him in my FBI file.

[MadHound]

66. A couple of mine

In the humor bin, A Childs' Garden of Grass, great stoner humor
From the punk bin, Nina Hagen EP cover of White Punks on Dope, really cool, an operatic trained singer doing punk in German.

[qwertyMike]

67. Beatles single recorded in GERMAN

A side: "Komm Gib mir deine Hand" - I wanna hold yer hand
B side: "Sie Liebt Dich" - She Loves You

[qwertyMike]

69. And a Scott Joplin single

Recorded from a Piano Roll (piano punch card) he did before he died.
So it's note perfect.

[CanuckAmok]

71. A hand-screened copy of a 12" single by "Zovietfrance"

...printed on a burlap sack.

I have lots of odd-ball stuff. I had a job in an import record store when I was in high-school. lots of late seventies and early eighties punk, new wave, new romantic and experimental stuff...

[hunter]

73. Original Stories for Children inspired by Star Trek!

Peter Pan Records. None of the original actors, of course...

(Bad imitation of a cat meow...)

Captain Kirk snaps, "Bones! Can't you keep that thing Quiet!"

I can't say that this will crush your pride. Maybe you should pity me instead, because I actually burned it to a CD.

[delete_bush]

74. posted by mistake

[delete_bush]

75. A record on hypnotism

by a Dr. Dean (not Howard)

I'm afraid to play it!

[greendog]

76. I let go of all my vinyl last year....

...but I had a few that were pretty obscure.

Leonard Cohen's first live album: "Live Songs"

Chris Youlden's solo albums: "Nowhere Road" and "Citychild"

All of Nico's albums on vinyl.

Both of Eclectricity's albums ('80's folk band from Bloomington, IN) If you like folk and haven't heard this stuff I feel sorry for you.

All three of Robin Williamson's albums (from the "Incredible String Band")

[BiggJawn]

77. All Right, here's the Power Play...Top THIS...

A three-record set titled "6 Songs for Democracy" or "Discos de las Brigadas Internacionales"
Released by "The Music Room", NYC in July 1940...

Autographed by Paul Robeson.

[beawr]

80. Sex for Teens and Sex for Adults, Hot Cars of the Winternationals

Records by a California sex therapist, circa 1974. Nothing particularly filthy, just bery proto new-age sex talk. The records are in the form of therapy sessions (sex for Adults) and a family talk with Dad (sex for Teens):

Stanley Z. Daniels, M.D.: Sex for Teens--Where it's at; Event/Carapan EV-5693; 1969 (Tumbleweed/Carapan CPN-2; 1972)

Stanley Z. Daniels, M.D.: Sex for Adults--Sex is fun, particularly when you're in love; Event/Carapan EV-5692 (Tumbleweed/Carapan CPN-3; 1972)


Hot cars of the Winternationals is about 45 minutes of dragsters revving their engines and racing.

[VelmaD]

82. Pac Man Fever

Not just a single on 45. The whole LP. With such classic hits as "Do the Donkey Kong", "I think I'm going Berzerk", and "I'm the Defender" in addition to the aforementioned title track.

What do I win? :-)

[Norbert]

83. Leader of the Laundromat by the Detergents

This was a spoof of the Shangra-Las "Leader of the Pack"

"My friends were always putting her down,
They said their clothes all came back brown."

This was as funny as the song got.

Some others I have:

Uh! Oh! by the Nutty Squirrels (A knock off of the Chipmonks)
I Call Your Name by the Brothers & the Sisters (not the Mommas & Pappas)
That's My Pa by Sheb Wooley (A purple People Eater follow-up)
Ne Ne Na Na Na Nu Nu by Dickie Do and the Don'ts
Chick-a-Boom by Daddy Dew Drop
Gimme Dat Ding by the Pimpkins
I Want My Baby Back by Jimmy Cross (Strange, very strange)

All Out by Grin (Nils Lofgren's pre E-Street band band.

[fishnfla]

84. APHS JV 800 meters

I own it

[mac56]

86. "I Love Rock & Roll" by Joe Piscopo.

Sinatra parody. Still very funny, though Joe isn't anymore.

[no name no slogan]

87. "De doo doo doo..." single by the Police, In Spanish & Japanese

It was an import-only single (well, duh) that I picked up at a small record store in the early 80s. It was a 45 with a picture sleve. It's still around in my attic somewhere.

Now, if I only spoke Japanese, I could tell what the hell Sting was singing about...

[dolgoruky]

90. When Sex Raises it's Ugly Head

by Peter Wyngarde

[CO Liberal]

91. "Howdy Doody's Christmas Party"

It's an old color-coded 45. (Back in the '50s, RCA issued children's records on yellow vinyl, classical on red, jazz on blue, etc). It includes Howdy, Buffalo Bob, Princess summerfall Winterspring, Mr. Fluster, and a special appearance by Santa Claus.