Thu 15 Dec 2016
Music I’m Listening To: JULIE DRISCOLL, BRIAN AUGER & THE TRINITY “Season of the Witch.”
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Released on LP in 1967:
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Wed 14 Dec 2016
Music I’m Listening To: ROBIN LANE & THE CHARTBUSTERS “When Things Go Wrong.”
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“When Things Go Wrong” appeared on the first of three albums this group released for Warner Brothers in the early 1980s. It was their best known hit.
Tue 13 Dec 2016
Music I’m Listening To: LIGHTHOUSE “Places on Faces Four Blue Carpet Traces.”
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From this 13-piece Canadian jazz-rock fusion band’s second album, Suite Feeling, released in 1969. The higher the volume, the better it sounds:
Mon 12 Dec 2016
Music I’m Listening To: KAREN LAWRENCE & THE PINZ “Rebel.”
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From this New Wave singer-songwriter’s LP Girl’s Night Out (RCA, 1981). Since 1993 she has been the lead singer for the group Blue by Nature.
Tue 29 Nov 2016
Music I’m Listening To: SMITH “Baby It’s You.”
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Gayle McCormick was the lead singer for the blues rock group Smith, which was formed in Los Angeles in 1969. They had two semi-successful albums before breaking up and Gayle McCormick became a solo performer. “Baby It’s You,” written by Burt Bacharach, sold over a million copies for them:
Mon 28 Nov 2016
Music I’m Listening To: MARJORIE McCOY “I’d Rather Go Blind.”
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Marjorie McCoy recorded two LP’s in the early 1970s and a handful of singles. This is one of the latter:
Thu 24 Nov 2016
Music I’m Listening To: BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE “House of the Rising Sun.”
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Wed 23 Nov 2016
Music I’m Listening To: PIG IRON “I Put a Spell on You.”
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Music by a short-lived group from the New York City area in the brassy Blood Sweat & Tears jazz-rock vein. Their self-titled first album from 1970 was also their last. Crank up the volume on this one.
Sun 20 Nov 2016
Music I’m Listening To: THELONIUS MONK QUARTET – Monk’s Dream [Complete Album]
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Monk’s first album for Columbia, 1963. Personnel: Thelonious Monk – piano, Charlie Rouse – tenor sax, John Ore – bass, Frankie Dunlop – drums.
Sat 19 Nov 2016
Music I’m Listening To: MARIE QUEENIE LYONS – Soul Fever [Complete Album].
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Marie Queenie Lyons released one excellent LP in 1970 then seemingly disappeared without a trace. Recently re-released on CD, now also very pricey, Soul Fever is considered “one of the rarest and most prized Southern soul albums” ever.