A Thing Called Soul

Isley Bros - Your Old Lady
Pete & Repeat - But Still I Do
Hollywood Playboys - Talk To Audrey
Bobby Moore & The Fourmost - Dance Of The Island
Saucers - Cha Wailey Routa
Oscar Martinez feat. Little Rudy Martinez - La Bamba
Rosco Gordon - Torro
Little Buck - So Fine, So Sweet
Tall Paul - Teen Age Hop
Big Mike - Down In New Orleans
Boogie Jake - Early In The Morning
Joan Shaw - You Drive Me Crazy
Jake Porter - El Toro
Bobby Reno & The Infernos - I've Been Hoo-Dood
Joe Tanner - The Battle
Carla Thomas - That Beat Keeps Disturbing My Sleep
Singers - Just A Little Further
Maria Tynes - Ain't Ready Yet
Showmen - Need Love
Soul Twisters - Swinging (On A Grape Vine)
Bayrons - Wild Turk
Gt's - A Thing Called Soul
Jordan Brothers - Turn On Your Love Light
Sunglows - All Night Worker
Roy Roberts - Got To Have All Your Love
Embers - Embers Theme-Before Six

Tune Tote Vol.2

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Joel Hill - I Thought It Over

The Knockouts - Riot In Room 3C

Bob Arlin - East LA

Kip Tyler - Rumble Rock

Jimmy Van Eaton - Foggy

Chuck Willis - Whatcha Gonna Do

Little Milton - Long Distance Operator

Sammy Johns & The Devils Feat. James Murray - Making Tracks

Donnie Jacobs - If You Want Good Lovin'

Lee Tillman - Have Love

Leon Martin - Ookie Dookie

Little Louie & The Lovers - Nothin' But The Two-Step

Don Hosea - Misery

Barbara Pittman - Handsome Man

The Villagers - Glad You're Back

The Fugitive Six - Betrayed

The Merced Blue Notes - Whole Lotta Nothing

Los Shakers - Break It All

The Royal Jesters - What Love Has Joined Together

Buddy Brennan Quartet - Big River

Smiley's Comeback Party

Mostly early-to-mid sixties popular music today. Starts off upbeat but drifts into blues, slow drags, and novelty. Hope you enjoy...

part one


tommy frontera - be mine
bobby comstock & the counts - you can't judge a book
erma franklin - don't wait
karel duba - drummer's dream
chet orr - be satisfied
jimmy lovemaker - soul
troy dodds - the earthquake
kerry adams - i just found love
little hooks - something money can't buy
harold hopkins - glamour girl
veniece - 18 days
frankie brunson - ward 13
mckinley mitchell - no love
sonny knight - besame mucho
beachniks - like stoned
kaiser foil  - do the switch

part two


? (life LFLP144) - 1.3
sandra sanger & arulan - ?
torquetts - bacardi
john j. moses - night out
bo dud & johnny twist - i am back
johnny jones - strung out
three flames - honolulu rose
malekowa & the tradewinds - kokohi
nick nastos - jazz banana
four finks - wiki wiki woo
whispering pigg - darlene
lamotta brothers & the virgin islanders - voodoo woman
box & bleacher society - movin' with the giants

Disenfranchised Fuzzboxes

part 1


x-treems - facts of life (st. louis, MI)
golliwogs - fight fire (el cerrito, CA)
denims - white ship (1966)
chymes - he's not there anymore (L.A.)
the odyssey - little boy, little girl (L.A.)
marauders - since i met you
kavaliers - congregation for anti-flirts, inc. (texas)
moonrakers - i'm allright (L.A.)
rumblers - leave me alone (L.A.)
sir david & his knights - shotgun (texas)
conrad & thee travelin' lights - a la media noche (texas)
vince maloney sect - no good (australia)
the eggy - you're still mine (england 1969)
liverpool 5 - she (england)
beachniks - last night i cried (iowa 1965)
the specktrum - confetti (rhode island 1967)
the sounds - little joe (texas)
the fugs - couldnt get high (NYC 1965)
memphis goons - get off your ass jon jon
acid - the story of LSD (1971 filmstrip)

part 2


samples & campbell
los yorks - mira tu (peru)
tamrons - wild man (NC)
jim tarbutton & memphis sound - the mysterian
sonny flaherty - hey conductor (ohio)
swingin' apolloes - slow down (louisiana)
blue things - orange rooftop of your mind (kansas)
sidewalk surfers - strawberry tuesday (L.A.)
the fire escape - love special delivery (L.A.)
raik's progress - why did you rob us, tank? (fresno, CA)
sounds of tyme - to understand mankind (NC)
the male - you're playing with fire (alabama)
she - outta reach (sacramento, CA)
flower power - you make me high (louisiana)
savage resurrection - thing in e (SF)
parish hall - my eyes are getting heavy (SF)
thorndike pickledish - san francisco bound

Tails You Lose (Sophisticated Losers 2)

chucho avellanet - prisionero
sonny knight - permanently lonely
tammy mcknight - stop these teardrops
james & bobby purify - i don't want to have to wait
mischief makers - outside looking in
swamp rats - mister sad
julie monday - time is running out for me
the unknown? - you could help me ease the pain
los chijuas - dream slave
carlos guzman - before & after
joe bravo - teardrops from my heart
noe & semitones - oh darling
los diablos - ceniza
roberto carlos - querem acaba
bobby reed - i'll find a way
midniters - giving up on love
outsiders - i can't see you anymore
blue notes - goodbye my lover
dave love - baby hard times
mina - runaway
secos & molhados - minha namorada
wando - amor maior
bourbonese qualk - behind closed doors
henry & the tribe - never
melgar brothers - love is blue
dahle scott - one more for the road

Chunka Bo Bo

who says the oldies market is dead? here we have a typically unwieldy slew of ancient killers all personally exhumed from their original 45 rpms by yours truly, save one. please do crank it.

part one

the busters - bust out
thornton sisters - watch your step
pete & repeat - but still i do
wilbert harrison - don't drop it
barry darvell - geronimo stomp
the del mingos - young queen chunka bo bo
satan & deciples - mummy's curse
james mills - cobra
the dinks - nina kocka nina
the divots - dry cereal
huelyn duvall - three months to kill
rockin' ronald - cuttin' out
classie ballou - crazy mambo
christine kittrel - i ain't nothing but a fool
chuck danzy - git down



part 2

big bob dougherty - squeezer
the butanes - don't forget
hot tamales - hum double bubble
rudy and oscar martinez - la bamba
willie echols - here comes the night
chuck higgins - here i'm is
earl hooker - chicken
king ivory lee - rockin' in the cocanut top
rose johnson with fats gaines - rough house rose
rollee mcgill - rhythm rockin blues
bill taylor & the cyclones - nelda jane
tomko trio - carol
goyo's cats - mezcal
the wildtones - martian band
sony dupan - looney & goon
silky & the shantungs - fink
the zodiacs - another little darlin'

Period Peace

hi. i'll be posting every two weeks, starting last week. this mix we got here is a real mixed bunch but i tried to keep the spirit pretty uniform. electric guitar and organ, seagulls and surf, loner/us versus them mentality. mostly sixties too.

remo biondi- lament for lana
king fleming - stand by pt. 2
charlie ventura - east of suez
sticks evans & afro-americans - africa laments
arabian nights - night in arabia
JP& the turnpikes_ - navajo
ronny underwood - night jet
toni harper - never trust a stranger
caymmi & quarteto em cy - historia de pescadores
cal tjader - curtain call
potters clay - are these your thoughts
charles lloyd - ship excerpt
islanders - king of the surf
monzas - forever walks a drifter
johnny heartsman - lovelorn flame
denny walters - i know i'm losing you
los xochimilcas - mazatlan
los yencas - y la amo
la brigada - nada
gary mcfarout - wine & bread
LA county COPE - sacramento playhouse
charles lamont - before it's over
vietnam war actuality
fawns - wish you were here
chico buarque - ua cheia
carr & kahl - daphne
unknown solo piano (white label 45)
kentfield elementary honor band - its the time of the year
the mustang - acid test

Don't Play With the Devil (The Devil Don't Play With You)

(Eastern Recording Co., 1662 7th. St.) sermon excerpt
Sensational Spiritual Uplifters - Heaven Bound Train
Sister OM Terrell – Lord I Want You To Lead Me On
Shirley Ann Lee – Without God
Kansas City Melodyaires – Softly The Night Is Falling
Willie Mae Williams – Don’t Want To Go There
Crowns - Little Flowers Bloom
James Herndon Singers – One Day
Rev. & Mme. EG Robinson – Stay With Me
Watts Community Choir – Keep On Keeping On
Clarence Triplett & The Voices Of Faith Of Kansas City, MO – We Can Make It
Gospel Sounds - Nowhere To Run
Unknown - I Gotta Keep Movin
Mighty Mellotones & Operation Breadbasket – Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray
Knight Dreamers - No Juegues Con El Diablo
Williams Brothers – Check Yourself
Holy Lights Of Baltimore - You Are My Savior
Teddy Grover & Joy - I Am Determined
The Source Feat. Candi Staton - You Got The Love (House Radio)
(Eastern Recording Co., 1662 7th. St.) Where Could I Go

So one of these doesn’t really belong (can you guess which?), but it's lyric inspired our title, and it's awesome and pretty unknown too. Many of the 45s were purchased recently, other tracks have been long time favorites. All apologies for the condition of the instant-cut disc that opens and closes (go find me a cleaner one, haha). In my eagerness to share new finds, this is more thrown-together than the usual fare, but at least the narrative is a little more clearly stated. As always, hope you enjoy (and please let me know if you do!).

Hostel Takeover

Part One

airedales - drumsville
kishor kumar & asha bhosle - chor
selcuk alagoz - gecti yolun yarisi
tania maria – fio maravilha
eileen – le parfum des bois
growing society - the red fuzz
telstars – hold tight
what for – gonna destroy that boy
roberto carlos - negro gato
seawind – new orleans

Part Two

association - changes
leaves – lemon princess
fedra y maximiliano – ayer de noche
wendy & bonnie - it’s what’s really happening
recurring love habit - faiola brothers
kim sang hee
los juniors de santa tecla – que puedo hacer sin ti
richard shann - wooly buger part 2
sounds of harley – victo blues
stained glass – scene in between
status quo - when my mind is not live
roger miller – shame bird
acoma - my long lost friend
last mile ramblers - future on ice
castells – two lovers