As I have mentioned from time to time on the group, I have a record &
CD business here in San Francisco, specializing in shows, vocals,
some soundtracks (the more unusual the better) and offbeat stuff.
Don't have a catalog or website yet--but I put together lists of new
releases/arrivals which I email to everyone on my e-mailing list.
Please feel free to drop a line to be added to that list, and
I'll send you a copy of my latest list of (& all my past lists, too, if you
request it). Highlights of the current monster list include--and I
quote:
April Stevens, TEACH ME TIGER--Classic sultry babe album from 1960 (originals are valued at $100!) on CD, plus nearly 20 additional
tracks with her brother, saxophonist/singer Nino Tempo (they scored a huge hit with Deep Purple in '63). Mostly standards (Do It Again, Tea for
Two, Indian Love Call, Whispering, Begin the Beguine, I Get Ideas, Paradise, Honeysuckle Rose) and a few more, uh, contemporary sounding songs
(All Strung Out, Poison of Your Kiss, Baby Weemus)
Various Artists, MARIJUANA UNKNOWNS, VOL. 1--Dozen ultra-rare marijuana songs of the psychedelic era by forgotten psychedelic
bands; songs incl. Mary Jane is Love, Pot Party & Stoned Is
MANDINGO--Funky '70s blend of blacksploitation music and 60s exotica, played on both primitive and electric instruments by an
uncredited ensemble (or is the artist Mandingo??), with tracks like Jungle Wedding, Moon Goddess, Pagan Ritual, Chant of the Virgins, Black Fire
and Sacrifice.
Various Artists, THRILLER MEMORANDUM--Spy/thriller collection--billed as "24 cracking shots of leather armchair mood swingers
inspired by the world of international espionage"--by obscure sleazy-listening ensembles of the 60s and 70s, incl. Ken Woodman & His Picadilly
Brass, the orchestras of John Shakespeare, Tony Hatch, Mike Hurst & Brian Marshall. Tracks incl. Danger Man, The Party, Kissy Suzuki, Ghost
Squad, The Saint, Mission Impossible, The Silencers
Various, BEAT AT CINECITTA VOL. 2--Follow-up CD to the successful
vol. of Italian soundtrack music.
Andre Popp, DELIRIUM IN HI-FI--You know, a lot of lounge & easy listening recordings of the 50s & 60s promised mayhem and hysteria
in their titles and didn't deliver. THIS ONE DELIVERS! Electronically created and altered instruments & vocals abound in this 1957 release by
French arranger-composer Popp (who later wrote the smash instrumental
Love is Blue). Dutch import.
Raymond Scott's SOOTHING SOUNDS FOR BABY: AN INFANT'S FRIEND IN SOUND, vol. 1-3--Legendary early experimental
recordings by rediscovered mad musical genius Raymond Scott (Mr. Dorothy Collins to you). Despite their title, these recordings, each ostensibly
created for a different stage of infancy (1-6 months, 6-12 months, 12-18 months) are, in reality, an "often skull-splitting...mixture of high frequency
easy listening and sonic space-pop that, when cranked up, would keep not only the baby awake and bawling, but half the neighborhood, too." You go,
mad genius! Dutch import.
SETTING THE SCENE--22 tracks of generic, often funky easy listening music from the KPM Music Library, with titles like Percussion
Highway, Heat Haze, Underlying Expectancy, Afro Metropolis, Safari So Good, etc.
Various artists, CELEBRITIES AT THEIR WORST!--Amaze your friends with the ultimate collection of flubs, outtakes and foul-mouthed
hilarity from the likes of Julie London, Carol Burnett, Zsa Zsa, Elvis, Brando, Liz, Frank, Dean & Sammy, incl. truly horrific tirades by Buddy Rich
& Paul Anka. 2-CD set.
Various/Betty Page, JUNGLE GIRL--Follow-up to the popular DANGER GIRL CD honoring the great Betty Page. 21 original burlesque
tracks in a digipak with 20-pg. color booklet of glamor shots & rare
nudes of Betty.
Criswell, THE LEGENDARY CRISWELL PREDICTS YOUR INCREDIBLE FUTURE--I CANNOT RECOMMEND TOO HIGHLY
this wacky recording by the star of Ed Wood's infamous PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, and early television personality, in which he unctuously
and often ungrammatically spouts off about the future: "I predict the new age of nudity for the human body will be glorified! Body design, self-
painted, will take up most of your spare time! Women will decorate their breasts in startling colors, while men will decorate their genitals! Those who
are politically orinated [sic] will print body slogans on themselves and this will take place [sic] of the present-day bumper stickers! I was not allowed
to say [this] on television, radio, or in my column, as the advertisers would clomp down on me, and clomp VERY heavily." Huh? $14.99. Also avail.:
Original soundtrack, ORGY OF THE DEAD, another insane, inane Ed Wood
vehicle starring--who else?--Criswell, and THE WORST, an original Ed Wood musical (!) by Josh Alan.
Mary Schneider, YODELING THE CLASSICS--I LOVE THIS CD! Billed as "Australia's Queen of Yodeling," Schneider yodels--are you
ready?--the William Tell Overture, Brahms Lullaby, Semper Fidelis & more. (She also sings--in a pleasing, older soprano voice.) For those of you
who don't know me and wonder what my musical tastes are like--what, for example, I might go into a store and buy unheard--THIS IS IT! Speaking
of yodeling, that's exactly what I did with Trude Mally & Luise Wagner, the old (VERY old) German singers who yodel Tyrolean mountain songs.
And I didn't regret it! I highly recommend their 1994 release, DOS
IS MEI HOAMATLE.
LSD: BATTLE FOR THE MIND--This CD combines two naive, paranoid late 60s LPs explaining why LSD is a greater threat to America
than the atomic bomb--Willard Cantellon's LP of the same name, plus W. Cleon Skousen's INSTANT INSANITY DRUGS. Skousen is the author of
such "best sellers" as "The Naked Communist." (Figures.)
Jack Kevorkian (yes, THE Jack Kevorkian)--THE KEVORKIAN SUITE (subtitled A VERY STILL LIFE--get it?) features the good
doctor on flute & organ on this much talked-about 12-track contemporary jazz instrumental CD. Apparently he practices between court appearances
and--what would you call them?--extinguishings? Personally I'd prefer he sang vintage tunes (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You; I'm
Checking Out, Goombye; My Man's Gone Now), but you can't always get what you want. (Is it true his next CD will be acoustic and called
UNPLUGGED?).
Various, A CRAFTY LADIES CHRISTMAS (45 rpm)--7-track EP recorded by the participants in the arts program of the San Francisco
Recreation Center for the Handicapped. Read between THOSE lines.
This is a MUST for collectors of, shall we say, unusualia?
SOUNDS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO ADULT BOOKSTORE--Described as "authentic, totally uncensored field recordings," this
purports to be a narrated tour through Frenchy's Books, New Locker Room Video, Le Salon & other porn palaces. 7" 45 rpm pressed on milky white
vinyl with full-color picture sleeve of the inside of an adult
bookstore.
VINYL ONLY: Dick Schory & the Percussive Art Ensemble, RE-PERCUSSION (Concert Disc label)--Hard to find 50s LP by the guy
behind BANG, BARROOM & HARP. Mint, minor cover wear.
So feel free to drop a line--I'll put you on my list.
Michael Mascioli
All Music Services
530 14th St., suite 9
San Francisco, CA 94103
IMPORTANT NOTE: All Music is primarily a mail order service, not a storefront.
If you are in San Francisco and want to stop by, PLEASE PHONE AHEAD!
Ph: (415) 864-8222
Fax: (415) 864-7222
E-mail: allmusic@wco.com
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> I heard that Creation/Revola are going to reissue the lone early 70s >elpee by Peter Wyngarde, aka smooth-talkin' lounge-lizardin' TV >detective Jason King, which sounds like a must-buy, but has anyone >heard it? Is it any good? Does it score (as I suspect) 11/10 for kitsch >alone?
It scores 11/10 for being totally crap ... and fairly offensive to boot
... there's a track whose contents are supposedly different kinds of
rape for gods sake
one for the toilet roll
friendly
Sem Sinatra
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