Move This Thing

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Tune Tote Vol.2

Tune Tote Vol.2 by Vg- on Mixcloud

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

Futuristic Crazeology

Jazz And Hot Dance Novelties 1927-1942. Racy themes, outstanding arrangements, some salon, some comedy, a couple of Cliffs, a couple of Elsies. Real class, all the way.

Jack Buchanan - Everything Stops For Tea (Brunswick 02125 1935?-1936)
Barnabas Von Geczy - Puszta (Electrola EG 3458 c.1935)
Chick Bullock & Albert Taylor Orchestra - Carolina (14763-1 Banner 32970 Feb. 2, 1934)
Curtis Mosby & Dixieland Blue-Blowers - In My Dreams (144763-3 Columbia 1191-D Oct. 14, 1927)
Carroll Dickerson & Savoyageurs - Symphonic Touches (400992-B Odeon 193329 (Arg.) July 5, 1928)
Mills Blue Rhythm Band - Futuristic Jungleism (10628-2 Banner 32240 May 12, 1931)
Frankie Half-Pint Jaxon & His Hot Shots - Fifteen Cents (C-607-1 Vocalion 2603 July 29, 1933)
Siegfried Arno With Marek Weber - Wenn Die Elisabeth So Schone Beine Hat (Electrola EG 1937 June 6, 1930)
Elsie & Doris Waters - Coronation Girls (Columbia FB 1169 (Eng.) 1935)
Elsie Carlisle with Ambrose Orchestra - Pul-Leeze Mr. Hemingway (Ob3494-2 Regal-Zonophone MR769 1933)
Monette Moore And Her Swing Shop Boys - Two Old Maids In A Folding Bed (Decca 7161 Feb. 19, 1936)
Katia Morlands con Emil Hot 5 - Loco Por El Hot (Cr3024-2 Regal(E) C8528 c.1936)
Blanche Calloway - Line-A-Jive (Vocalion 3113 Nov. 6, 1935)
Dick Robertson & Ed Lloyd Orchestra - Look What I've Got (13253-1 Banner 32750 April 15, 1933)
Quinteto Saratoga - Parece Mentira (Cr3007-2 Regal (E) C8517 1935-36)
Cliff Bruner - Corrine Corrina (Decca 5350 Feb. 5, 1937)
Cliff Edwards - I'm A Bear (private recording, Oct 25, 1933)
Greta Keller - I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (Brunswick A81859 Sept. 27, 1938)
Orchestre Lanigiro - Drummer Boy (Cz1168 Columbia (Ch) Zz1073 1942)
Original St. Louis Crackerjacks - Lonesome Moments (Decca 7265 Oct. 16, 1936)
Bud Freeman - Craze-O-Logy (W402151-C OKeh 41168 Dec. 3, 1928)
Memphis Jazzers (Cliff Jackson & His Crazy Cats) - The Terror (Grey Gull 1879 Feb. 27, 1930)
Cab Calloway Cotton Club 1931 (exc.)

An Island of Sanity (Tiki Party Vol.1)

spike jones
johnny richards - ochun
king fleming - stand by pt. 2
byron lee (probably?) - dragon's paradise
eddie gomez - cuban mist
mariano merceron - noche en el congo
richard lemos - quiet village
george cates - chant of the jungle
malekowa & the tradewinds - kokohi
the kingpins - ungaua pt. 1
diabolito - the jungle
los zombies de antonio escobar - la pajarera
edmund de luca & trans world symphony orchestra - the trek
dominic frontiere - house of pleasure
hilo hawaiians - akaka falls
luke leilani - swinging palm trees
nick venet - talking surf
billy mure - in a persian market
remo biondi - lament for lana
donald & the delighters - elephant walk
johnny lytle - village caller
eddie greenberg - tu boca
johnny recardo - felitah
lincoln chase - deep in the jungle pt. 2
earle hagen - new interns watusi
sticks evans & the afro-americans - africa laments
kwan-dito's - kwan-dito's theme
arabian nights - night in arabia
kenny kotwitz quartet - adelita

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

She's Too Way Out

nolan strong & the diablos - my heart will always belong to you
richard berry - good love
doctor feelgood & the interns - mister moonlight
the mascots - lonely rain
the four deuces - WPLJ
georgie young - the sneak
junior wells - stomach ache
june gardner - hammerhead
the nite owls - hip monkey
bowlegs - one more time part 2
JC davis - the splib part 1
the starlets - money hungry
the hollywood jills - he makes me mad
gloria garcia - no puedes extranar
albert collins - whatcha say
JD edwards - hobo
ersel hickey - goin' down that road
rockin r's - crazy baby
move up to chrysler

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

Since I Been Gone

Mostly your relatively ancient American folkstyles mish-mashed together here (in honor of our nation's birthday), but framed by some Euro-type things, and of course North Carolina artists are foregrounded heavily as always. To begin with, lawyer and folkie Bascom Lamar Lunsford delivers a lusty and forceful "Hesitation Blues" in Asheville, N.C. for Robert Winslow Gordon on behalf of the feds in 1925. Then do enjoy the fidelity on Rudy Cipolla & David Grisman's "Chinese Carousel" because it's about the only semi-contemporary recording here. Those men did have a way with their mandolins. I bet it wouldn't be too hard to find a cleaner copy of the 78 of D. Halkias' "Minore Tou Halkia", but the story behind my finding this reissue is somewhat unusual: One Saturday a few years ago, I was negotiating the bike rack at a used book sale in Fort Mason, and an old man with a long beard and a sailor's cap was next to me strapping an album of old rembetikas onto the back of his bike, to give to his Armenian wife, apparently. I had totally forgotten about the LP section at the store, and sure enough he left a few volumes in the series behind for me.
Next up, ethnomusicologist Laura Boulton records Yaqui Indians performing "Matachines" for an Easter ceremony in Tlaxcala, Mexico, sometime around 1940, the George Ku Trio offer the tender plaint "Kuu Lei" from 1932, and the Highway QC’s sing "How I Love Jesus" from a rather rough-sounding promo Vee Jay 45 I recently picked up in Washington, DC. Channeling the profane once more, Calvin Johnson thunders through a truly rocking "Unsatisfied Mind" (with drum thwack at its most cardboard boxy) and Eddie Taylor boasts "I’m Gonna Love You," also recording for Vee Jay. A different genre, but you might hear the same lightly swinging rhythm tipping in with Norvin Kelly's Hank-styled "You Can’t Make Me Live With The Blues." I'm pretty sure Carl Belew had a hit on "24 Hour Night" but boy it sure is a dark and sorrowful tune. That's nothing though, compared to Dave Van Ronk's "Hang Me." A dying soldier's tragic fuck-you wrapped up in a petty dream of betterness. Worthy aside: Van Ronk threw rocks at cops at Stonewall. Jimmie's cousin Ernest Rodgers got to make a few sides for Victor in the 20's ; the well-known "Willie The Chimney Sweeper" belongs to the whole Minnie the Moocher/Jerry the Junker body of lurid drug songs and also evokes a whole lot of Barbary Coast hoodoo as well. I'm sure you all know Michael Hurley, who continues to record and tour today. "Lilly Pads" is a just a great old album track, and pretty catchy too.
The Blue Sky Boys, aka Bill & Earl Bolick out of Hickory, N.C., were recruited for an Illinois festival reunion in 1964 by none other than Archie Green (RIP), and "Midnight On The Stormy Deep" is but one of their many old hits rekindled that night. And now a couple of hillbilly tunes struck deep with the spirit: Fred Starr & His Mountain Boys's "Shout & Shine" is from a surprisingly stirring budget label LP, and this version of "There Ain’t No Grave" (a song I've never heard a bad version of) is off a 1961 single by Detroit-area duo by the name of Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis, both of whom had long careers prior to this. Play-party time again, and the mighty Algia Mae Hinton bangs out an "Old Time Buck Dance," mad breaks and all. Next is a record by the Internes. I'm pretty sure they're the Four Internes of Durham, N.C., whose career supposedly began while working as orderlies at Duke Hospital and recorded for King/Federal in the early 50's. "When You Pray" is an uptempo harmony fingersnapper from 1958. No surprises from Brownie McGhee's  "My Fault" ; his honest and unassuming manner make the song, and it's really in that Tampa Red/Melrose family vein of solid pop blues.
Les Waldroop's "Watergate Bug" is an obscure record even for him, and what a tangled, weird anachronism it is too. Collecting North Carolina records is even more fun when artists actually name-check places; that's only part of what makes Jack Grant 's "Raleigh Train" such a hoot, but it's a big part. Besides, train songs rule. Now to throw you off the scent, this isn't the Carolinian guitarist Arthur Smith, but the fiddling Arthur Smith Trio of an earlier era; their breakneck "I’m Bound To Ride" of 1935 was later covered by the Stanley Brothers. Not much info on this here National Geographic Music Of The Ozarks record, but I'll be darned if this "Guitar Medley" ain't the jam. Harmonica Frank Floyd presents the familiar "Married Man" descriptive novelty in fine form (I'd buy a bottle or two). As you can hear, he hadn't really mellowed out too much by the 70's.
Sandy & Jeanie Darlington's "When I Die" is simple revival purity, somewhat blemished by the following blue record: pretty sure that Pratt & George Blues Part 2 is from an instantaneous recording from the 1930's or possibly 40's, at any rate early for this kind of aimless funk. Stirring up the kettle a little bit, Radley Gourzong's take on one of the most ur-fiddle tunes ever, "Devil’s Dream," is a field recording from the Caymans, and is from the great compilation Under the Coconut Tree on Original Music. And now we hear some fine Hungarian orchestrated soul from Asszony Lesz A Lanybol with "Levelem, Levelem" and then, also from Hungary, one of Bela Bartok's legendary cylinder recordings. This is of two girls, Battovsky and Zichla, performing "Megjott A Level Fekete Pecsettel," and it is from around 1910.

Funhouse Atlantic City

A white label pressed 10" disc that came from the late father of a friend of mine. He would play this record for the rides in a carnival fun house, I would guess in the 1950's and 60's. Anyway, please accept today's offering as somewhat of a placeholder until i can get another mix together. Mind the gap!

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'