VA - Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture "Groove" - A Wishful Mix CD 00 w MP4

 Really loved this movie when it came out during the Millenium transition and was getting into weekly drug-free raves at a big coffee shop on East Lake Street MN with my 'little sister' Raven who I had met at a show one day and she got me a driver job for the goth band 'Vampyre' in the same neighborhood.  I remember thee big New Year's Eve party off Loring Park that we all spent together at the start of 2000 to get it on right!  In the thick of the rave wave I remember a guy from Dallas who moved to our Uptown area telling me about rave's in TX out in the middle of nowhere with thousands of people and the complete futility of the police efforts to control the situation which continued well into the night.  No way they could haul away that many rebels!  Love that kind of stuff.  Hoping my new PC I get this week will work to get me back on track for rips in time for Mardi Gras.  Found the CD at Goodwill but had stream captured the DVD long ago both of which I don't need my PC for but since I use my laptop on safe mode as that too is seeing the years catching up eventually.

https://bestfile.io/en/ubkuladXoFsOTCG/file

Other reposts I had time for this week (post-in-place locations):

The Celibate Rifles Megapost:  https://bestfile.io/en/ruFQ8WLaxjFucih/file

New York Dolls:  https://bestfile.io/en/fn7Ob7k6bgZpsrP/file

Also my fave bunch of music fans over at Jokonky blogspot who give some of my random (seemingly rare) posts a more thorough analysis and compilation perspective did one this week on the NY Dolls, Simon & Garfunkel & Die Kreuzen which all makes total sense to me with these innovators and trendsetters here:  https://jonderblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-new-york-dolls-simon-garfunkel-and.html

TITO RODRIGUEZ - Latin Fiesta LP

REPOST Request:  Going to use this repost for the weekly dance music theme due to lacking a PC at the moment (see below).  I remember I really dug this one from the cha cha & mambo man!  Enjoy (again)!!

https://bestfile.io/en/PBQoSCqG1NAbuJt/file

SCAT MAN CROTHERS - Rock And Roll With Scat Man LP 37 w Joe Williams - st LP

IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL: If anyone noticed I forgot to post for this category last week mainly because I had one of his albums labelled goofily and couldn't find it.  I was also going to post it this week with another Joe Williams project under another artist and had it all recorded for set 1 of 2 of my standard 3-4 hour sessions I do each week which is usually around 15 slabs of vinyl converted but finally my computer took a dump on me! (after 9000 rips--going to keep for museum exhibit someday maybe)  Luckily I had just taken off my 25 Gb mp3-rips back up folder I keep from the PC desktop--leaving only one week of rips that I will have to extract from WINRAR files to get back to normal.  My knee jerk reaction was to pick up my little Gateway PC, look for the model number, search for it on Ebay (since PC's in store nowadays don't seem to have soundcards anymore and are just boxes with like 8 USB ports on the front and that is all).  At any rate, the new $100 PC shipped Monday so may be up and running for Mardi Gras posts next week.   Let's hope so.  Oh, yeah the Scat Man did voiceover on my fave Saturday morning cartoon classic, "Hong Kong Fui"  and was on other cartoon shows so he raised me right and hey we even share a little bit of the 'shine' per his role in 'The Shining" by Stephen King.   Oh yeah the last album shone had identical tracks to the first and the first "rock 'n' roll" has the best sound hands down so only two albums posted.

https://bestfile.io/en/7qom77w4PMSixaH/file

Bakery - Momento CD 71 w Rock Mass For Love CD 71 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs:  Progressive hard rock band founded 1970 by New Zealanders Hank Davis (drums) and Eddie McDonald (bass). They had previously been together in Avengers. Keyboardist Mal Logan (ex-Rebels, New Zealand), guitarist Peter Walker (ex-Jelly Roll Bakers) and flautist John Worrall completed the original lineup. Logan left by October of that year with the Bitter Lemons' Rex Bullen taking over. Vocalist Tom Donaldson also joined around that time as Worrall had exited for Ssarb.

Their debut was recorded live at a mass at St. George's Cathedral and not really representative of their Black Sabbath/Deep Purple/Led Zeppelin influences. Their single "No Dying in the Dark" cracked the top ten in the local Perth market. Not long after that success, vocalist Davidson left with former Barrelhouse (2) member Mark Veschuer slotting in. Kiwi Barry Leef became frontman in February 1973 not longer after the band's appearance at the Sunbury Pop Festival (documented on Various - The Great Australian Rock Festival, Sunbury 1973). Phil Lawson was the group's bassist for that fest replacing departed Steve Hogg. Lawson himself was replaced in August 1973 by ex-Syrius member Jackie Orszaczky (Syrius).     In February 1975, Bakery split up.

https://bestfile.io/en/MI1PkPsgPVWcVHZ/file

Barbara Keith - st CD 73 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Well, always looking for extra versions of "All Along The Watchtower" as that was my favorite song back in grade school.  Had trouble finding her first album or anything more to add to this 1973 album so feel free to post links in the comments.  Per Discogs:  Barbara Allen Keith (born 1946) is an American folk-rock singer-songwriter who recorded two solo albums in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She re-emerged in the 1990s with her family band, The Stone Coyotes, who have released 12 albums and continue to perform.                           Early life and career

Born in Deerfield, Massachusetts,she performed at the Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village before making her first recordings in 1968 as a singer with the band Kangaroo. The other band members were multi-instrumentalist John Hall, guitarist Teddy Speleos, and drummer/vocalist N. D. Smart (previously of the Remains). They released a self-titled album on MGM Records, on which Keith wrote two songs, "Daydream Stallion" and "The Only Thing I Had". The band split up in early 1969. Hall moved on to form the band Orleans before becoming a politician; Smart later formed Mountain with Leslie West; and Speleos formed the band Holy Moses with singer-songwriter Billy Batson.

https://bestfile.io/en/tJg4CiJhCqRfgSN/file

SEDUCE - Too Much, Ain't Enough LP 88

REPOST Request:  Well, had no idea they were in that movie per Discogs:  American Heavy Metal band from Detroit, Michigan. Seduce was born in 1980 when Andrews and Black, initially playing in a band called Sparks, met Burns through mutual friends. All were 19 years old. They broke up around 1991, before the release of their third album. Seduce appeared in the documentary "The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years", being interviewed and also performing the song "Crash Landing."

Line-up:

Guitar - David Black

Drums - Chuck Burns

Vocals, Bass - Mark Andrews

https://bestfile.io/en/hHrGydQZTqAVH82/file

BIRTHA - Free Spirit - st LP 72 w Can't Stop The Madness LP 73

REPOST Request:  Per Discogs:  Birtha was one of the leading female rock bands, formed in Los Angeles, California, USA, performing during the early 1970s.

The band consisted of four women: Shele Pinizzotto (guitar), Rosemary Butler (bass), Sherry Hagler (keyboards) and Liver Favela (drums). All four members of the group performed lead vocals and harmonies.

Liver was the last member to join Birtha in 1968. The group immediately started playing the club circuit and toured from California to Alaska. From 1968 to 1971 Birtha worked to tighten and refine their rock sound and in 1971 they started writing their own material, most by themselves, occasionally in partnership with other parties, including Mark Wickman and Gabriel Mekler.

Birtha signed a record contract with Dunhill Records in 1972 and recorded their first album "Birtha" with record producer Gabriel Mekler and engineers Dave Hassinger and Val Garay. After the release of their first album, Birtha began playing rock concerts and clubs throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. While taking breaks in their home town, Los Angeles, they would often play The Whiskey and The Troubadour and frequently played a club in Glendale, CA called The Sopwith Camel.

In 1973 Birtha recorded their second album, "Can't Stop The Madness" with producer and engineer Christopher Huston. The band was on the road for more than 250 days a year and played with groups like, Fleetwood Mac, Alice Cooper, Poco, Black Oak Arkansas, Cheech and Chong, The Kinks, B.B. King, Three Dog Night, James Gang and many more.

The band broke up in 1975 and all the members went their separate ways, with Rosemary Butler gaining much fame with a respectful reputation as a successful backup singer for tons of artists.

https://bestfile.io/en/Bb6SzKlHO6mZULz/file

FANNY - st CD 70 w Charity Ball LP 71 w Fanny Hill CD 72 w Mother's Pride CD 73 w Rock And Roll Survivors CD 74 w Live At The Beat Club CD 71

REPOST Request:  As you can see by the complete ridiculously "CD" labeled albums back when that didn't exist, I went to youtube to get these plus one old blog for Fanny Hill to fill in around my original album post.  What I wrote before:  What a legend this band is and we are finally getting a film about them that I will purchase per this link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zspd9hFRtkw

https://bestfile.io/en/OcO8B3cy6xNuLQw/file

TOM BRESH - Homemade Love LP 76 w Kicked Back LP 77 w Portrait LP 77 78 w youtube 7's & Live w The Hank Penny Show LP

Thanks to the requestor (show yourself in the comments please) for this key musician from the past.  The Hank Penny show is a fantastic cowboy variety show where he first appeared in a big way on vinyl.  His solo stuff beginning with the D.B Cooper (precedes this old hot topic on Coast To Coast AM radio) on a 1971 first single is still after the Hank Penny show album though not dated on Discogs.was mostly available on youtube as well as plenty of later clips when he spelled his name as Thom Bresh and even one I included of Cannonball Rag that he recorded with his father, Merle Travis.  These are some great songs to hear on vinyl and you will be pleased!

Tom Bresh:   https://bestfile.io/LPfdCg9O8p0bLaX/file

Hoping for atonement for my error last week on the Wild Cherry post as I thought I had redone the 'Livin' & Lovin' track as on the first rips I put on my "millenial must be perfect sound hat" hat and started chopping the pops down one by one into my myopic mess of a stitched together song.  I had went back as I mentioned on the post and did a straight record with no cuts and pop reduction function maxed out and it worked!  I also had two Discogs sellers send the wrong 'Show Me Your Badge" with the same song on each side as a promo release so last night I chose on the four sides that I had not ripped before with the solo pop cut out to make perfect.  Again, my deepest apologies and here are the tracks also a original post with complete file also including these new rips now.

Wild Cherry Livin' & Lovin':  https://bestfile.io/en/SndziJE7SSmXd91/file

Wild Cherry Show Me Your Badge:  https://bestfile.io/en/ffBi6E9lNpPgk36/file

GERALDO AHO - DANCE, DANCE, DANCE LP 58

 Lucked out on this Goodwill find for the short weekly dance theme as it sounds fantastic!  Also, turns out one of the remaining vinyl boxsets fits nicely into this theme so I may be able to stretch it out to 6 weeks total.  Enjoy!                          https://bestfile.io/kdbwnGnQhq1Qcwx/file

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ANIMAL SOUNDS LP

 This weeks kids music post is pretty generic with no band names listed but some great old tunes like usual (albeit no one comments or wants to admit they listen to kids music...LOL) and last week in particular.  Have fun!                   https://bestfile.io/oyWbocCSSflIGfA/file

VA - MAGICAL WORLD OF MELODY 10LP 63

 Continuing on with the weekly vinyl boxset series we have yet another TEN record box which ties the record for most vinyl I know about in a box set.  However, I've been biting off a bit more than I can chew lately with little room for error but got a bit over my head on this one.  You see while labeling the songs yesterday on the work computer which just got new RAM added but still every time I highlight the song title and try to start to type it reverts back to all highlighted and erases the title I typed unless I zero it out and try to select the text again--eventually works--but had a stray instrumental track last night when I go home to convert the WAV to MP3 and only had a letter for the title so threw off the whole mess.  Also, my ripping computer which I keep offline and is way past it's prime but stores don't seem to sell PC's with sound cards anymore has developed a couple of 2 minute pauses when I use the media player but keeps it's place so far for ripping but can't really check each song while playing on the vinyl to figure it out as I look at groove spacing I guess some kind of chip stutter anyways made it hard to do the usual sorting out and so left as is.  Starting with the 'gay' french music by Offenbach, on record 10 then Chopin/Grieg/Strauss until Leroy Anderson when I can backtrack from a vocalist at some point I left with basic titles and no song titles.  It was all recorded in order so won't be hard for you(it's a do-it-yourself blog I've said many times in the past) except for that stray monkey wrench song 98=1 that I labeled and threw in randomly.  Will be glad to finish these Goodwill boxset finds with the rest being much smaller and easier.  I labelled 70% of it and will play in order except for track 98=1.

https://bestfile.io/en/1rgFbMIPYLMd6LX/file

Lake - st LP 77 w Lake II LP 78 w Paradise Island LP 79 w Ouch! LP 80 81

REPOST Request:  From Wiki:  Lake, or commonly referred to as The Lake in some countries, is a German-British rock music group that formed in 1973 in Hamburg, Germany. In 1975, they were joined by lead singer James Hopkins-Harrison, who gave them their signature sound for the remainder of their recording career.

Lake toured the US in the late 1970s as the opening act for various headline acts, including Lynyrd Skynyrd (all members passed on per recent news), Black Oak Arkansas, and Neil Young.

https://bestfile.io/en/eHc7dgPHSDMjgmL/file

OFF BROADWAY - ON LP 79 w Quick Turns LP 80 w Bad Indication boot/ demo's CD

REPOST Request:  Takes me back to fourth grade rollerskating rink days with bands like the Hawks, PEZBAND, the Kind, the Sweet or the Rollers, etc. but I got recommended this band by a collector at our local show who said their song, "Full Moon Turn My Head Around" is the perfect song in every way and indeed we have a few versions here to choose from.  AKA the Thumbs.

Per Discogs:  Off Broadway is an American rock band founded by Paul Darrow, Cliff Johnson, Paul McDermott, John Pazdan and Dan Santercola in 1977 in Oak Park, Illinois. After several line-up changes including the addition of songwriter/guitarist John Ivan and Robert Harding, the band's debut album ON was released by Atlantic Records in 1979. The album reached No. 101 on the Billboard 200 and spawned the single "Stay in Time", which reached No. 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 record charts. Off Broadway released a follow-up album, QUICK TURNS, on Atlantic Records in 1980 and continued touring for three years before breaking up in 1983. Along the way, they became colleagues with Cheap Trick.

The band is currently composed of original album performers John Ivan, Cliff Johnson, John Pazdan, Ken Harck, and Rob Harding. They are currently performing around Chicago in preparation of celebrating the 40th anniversary of their debut "ON".

https://bestfile.io/en/QFVuBM1CTJxsAKU/file

Johnny Guitar Watson - Ain't That A Bitch LP 76 w A Real Mother For Ya LP 77 w Funk Beyond The Call Of Duty LP 77 w Master Funk Watsonian Institute LP 78 w Love Jones LP 80 w That's What Time It Is LP 81 w Double CD

REPOST Request:  Of all the songs that Chilly Charles played on the KMOJ (Prince's intern station) regular "Back In The Days Of Soul" playlist on Sunday nights in college (for me), 'A Real Mother For Ya' in my estimate, was thee song that was played the most...hands down.  One of those songs that soothes the soul, talks the talk and hits the sore spots.  Per Discogs:  Real Name:  John Jacob Watson

Profile:Born: 3rd February 1935, Houston, Texas, USA.  Died: 17th May 1996, Yokohama, Japan.

Seminal electric blues & rhythm & blues guitarist of the mid-1950s, with hits like "Gangster Of Love". Performed with artists such as Little Richard and worked in synthesizer productions in the 1960s.

In later years his work was a source for sampling by artists such as Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg. He also worked on a number of recordings and projects with Frank Zappa, who cites Watson: "Watson's 1956 song, 'Three Hours Past Midnight' inspired me to become a guitarist."

Watson learned the rudiments of music on the piano as a child. He took up the guitar on the agreement with his preacher grandfather that he would not use it to 'play the blues'. His family moved to Los Angeles in the '50s and, as a teenager, he cut his teeth playing guitar, piano and singing in local LA 'jump bands'. Watson collapsed and died onstage of cardiac infarction whilst performing in Japan.

https://bestfile.io/en/FT4hN0maEDejRXD/file

BLODWYN PIG - Ahead Rings Out LP 69 w Getting To This LP 70 w Basement Tapes 1969-74 CD 00 w Live Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA 8-3-70 CD

REPOST Request:  Added the last two shown from other blogs.  Per Discogs: British blues–rock band founded in 1968 by Mick Abrahams after he left Jethro Tull. Influences are primarily jazz and blues. 

https://bestfile.io/en/yvhp4rrt4xwXWch/file

WILLIE DIXON - MOJO Workin' CD 98 w The Chess Box CD 88 w I Am The Blues CD 70

REPOST and ADD ON:  This famous blues man was to be my blues tape of the week feature this week but the tape was a little warpy so I got the tracks to the 1970 great album from youtube.  Per Discogs:  Real Name:  William James Dixon 

Profile:  American blues bassist, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer, born 1 July 1915 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, died 29 January 1992 in Burbank, California, USA.  Inducted into The Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1980.  Inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 (Early Influence).  Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015.

Often miscredited for writing "Big Boss Man" instead of Luther Dixon because he played bass on the Jimmy Reed's recording.  Married to Marie Booker / Marie Dixon

https://bestfile.io/en/EAt65yrwGelzWYF/file

The Kings - Are Here LP 80 w Amazon Beach EP 81 w R.S.V.P. 12 EP 82 w And Here And More CD 05

REPOST Request:  Well added the bonus tracks from the CD that some other blog had posted long ago finally as this is a very old post.  Per Discogs:  Get yer rocks off to this old Canada band by 'Switchin' To Glide' per the hit.  Per Discogs:  Canadian 'one-hit wonder' band that gained national attention with their very first single, 'This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide'.

Originally known as WhistleKing in the 1970's,The Kings were formed in Vancouver, British Columbia and Oakville, Ontario, Canada.  Their first two albums were produced by Bob Ezrin on Elektra records before moving over to Capitol (Canada).  While they did see some minor chart action on later releases, it was nothing compared to their initial releases popularity.

Founding members:

David Diamond; lead vocals, bass Sonny Keyes; Keyboards, Vocals Max Styles; Drums

Mister Zero; guitar Peter Nunn; keyboards

https://bestfile.io/en/48mkEHnmamn958u/file