BILL DOGGETT AND HIS COMBO - FINGERTIPS LP 63

 Well with all the mad hoopla and high downloads over the recent "Rockin' Instrumentals" and also over at Jokonky blogspot a month ago or whenever it was, I had to pull out a rare and killer instrumental obscuro group that sound oh so sweet on vinyl amid the few pops I had to truncate out but not so's you'd notice.  There are a handful of great instrumental tunes like 'The Worm", "Monkey" or 'Fingertips" that open it up as well as the token 'Memphis' cover that always rocks out.  ENJOY!

https://bestfile.io/TjYDR9zQoBFs8Rb/file

D.B. COOPER - Every Man A King EP 80 w Buy American LP 80 w Dangerous Curves LP 81 w bonus other bands Vance Or Towers - st CD 75

REPOST and ADD ON:  Yes!  Found out more about these bands per Jon's comments and D.B. Cooper is really Michael Towers who starred with Glen Vance on other release on bottom.  I had mentioned D.B. Cooper had a generic Elvis Costello sound but adding the last 1981 album that Jon remembered he does branch out a bit into a cool sound.  Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/B5bO4FkwjDkmIf9/file

VA - THE TOP POPS IN STEREO LP 59

 Love these obscuro compilations that were big way back when.  Includes:  Earl Grant, The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Starring Warren Covington, The Four Aces, Jack Pleis AHO, Red Foley, Carmen Cavallaro, The Kalin Twins, Sonny Burke AHO and Malcolm Dodds.

https://bestfile.io/ZVYGddZpcW48qD3/file

VA - THE GREAT BAND ERA [1936-1945] 10LP 64

 Well here is the big band boxset I said would end the series but it led to more boxsets somehow!  You see, it had an extra vinyl stashed inside which is typical at Goodwill for another boxset that is on the way!  Also that got me to do an inventory on boxsets and I found another for the category of Guy Lombardo who has been all over the last few posts in the category.  This is great music that actually made it into our neighborhood kids folk songs we would sing and hear about so very special to me.  Going to try to list all the artists for look up on the blog, first just the bands:  Tommy Dorsey AHO, Duke Ellington AHO, Tony Pastor AHO, Glenn Miller AHO, Alvino Rey AHO, Artie Shaw AHO, Charlie Spivak AHO, Swing And Sway With Sammy Kaye, Benny Goodman AHO, Charlie Barnet And His Glen Island Orch, Lionel Hampton AHO, Claude Thornhill AHO, Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians, "Fats" Waller And His Rhythm, Eddy Duchin AHO, Vaughn Monroe AHO, Freddy Martin AHO, Hal McIntyre AHO, Shep Fields And His Rippling Rhythm Orch, Earl Hines AHO, David Rose AHO, Hal Kemp AHO, Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees, Sammy Kaye AHO, Larry Clinton AHO, Abe Lyman And His Californians, Enric Madriguera AHO, Jan Savitt And His Top Hatters, Ozzie Nelson AHO, Teddy Powell AHO, Les Brown AHO, Skinnay Ennis AHO, Ziggy Elman AHO, Bunny Berigan AHO, Bob Chesler AHO, Gray Gordon And His Tic-Toc Rhythm and Xavier Cugat.  Now the vocalists they worked with:  Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra (also with the Pied Pipers), Allan DeWitt, Bonnie Lake, Dolores O'Neill, Ray Eberle, Dorothy Claire and the Modernaires, Marion Hutton, Helen Southern, Bob Allen, Eddie Stone, Tex Beneke and the Four Modernaires, Kaye Choir, Bob Carroll, Vaughn Monroe, Meredith Blake and Chorus, Larry Taylor, Billy Eckstine, Bill Schallen and Skeets Herfurt, Paula Kelly,  The Three Barons and Chorus, Jack Leonard, Kathleen Lane, Helen Forrest, Jo Stafford, Clyde Rogers and Stuart Wade, Skinnay Ennis, Glen Hughes, Miriam Shaw, Jack Fina (piano), Skip Nelson and the Modernaires, Peggy Mann, Edythe Wright, Bea Wain, Bill Sherman, Judy Starr, The Four King Sisters, Norton Sisters and Rosemary Calvin, Freddie Stewart, Tony Pastor, Nancy Norman, Carmen Lombardo, Betty Van, Billy Williams, Ruth Gaylor, Madeline Green and the Three Varieties, Lew Sherwood, Irene Daye, Imogene Lynn, The Sentimentalists, Helen Ward, 'Fats' Waller, Barnet Modernaire and Yvonne King.

https://bestfile.io/en/z18BCSvG9qhu7EJ/file

MOTHER GOOSE ORCHESTRA & PLAYERS - ALICE IN WONDERLAND 2LP

 Pretty rare double album for the weekly kids music post and pretty cool at that.  At first I was like whoa, the cover says "over 70 minutes of playing time" for just Alice in Wonderland??  That must be a total head trip for those kids!  But yeah, it's their whole fairy tale collection including:  Hansel & Gretel, Peter Pan, Peter Rabbit, Story of Peter (hey! what up with all the Peter's?), Rapunzel (we finally get a nice English version as opposed to the German version last week in singles), Henny Penny, Paul Bunyon The Tallest Man, Wild Bill Hickok (he rep's all the West in stories per last one I posted in kids music), Lullaby Song, ABC Song, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (had no idea is same rhythm as ABC song!), Alphabet Story And Song, Story of Icabod, Aladdin And The Magic Lamp and an old favorite of mine since I got on vinyl for Christmas long ago, Rumplestiltskin!  Enjoy with those kiddos!

https://bestfile.io/en/ntLlR8dluzQAfQ2/file

HEARTSFIELD - st LP 73 w The Wonder Of It All LP 74 w Foolish Pleasures LP 75 w COLLECTORS ITEM LP 77

REPOST Request:  Thanks to Jon for requesting this repost (at first) since it really is some great music and I needed to fix the 'Gypsy Rider" damage at the start of the song so I took out the first minute and fused the rest of the nice vinyl song with a youtube starting part.  Another Southern-Fried rock band with a real energized sound is what I said before.

https://bestfile.io/en/nHWapfauj0p050r/file

VA - Rock 'n Roll Vol II LP 82 K-Tel

IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL:  Well that big band boxset this week really sapped up most of this week's rips so I dug into a dozen or so that I have posted in the past to repost to fit into this weekly theme.  What I wrote before:  A rare comp. I swiped out the $1 bin the other day, includes:  Jay and the Americans, Turtles, Sue Thompson, Bobby Vee, Frank Wilson, Paul Evans, Billy Joe Royal, The O'Kaysions, Regents, The Surfaris, Bobby Rydell, Jan and Dean, Wanda Jackson, The Fendermen, Frankie Ford, Drifters, Chantays and The Trashmen.  Surf oriented.

https://bestfile.io/en/FJ80kRrRFr0O7Oc/file

Asterix - st CD 70 -cc w later band Lucifer's Friend - st LP 73 w I'm Just A Rock 'N' Roll Singer LP 74 w ...Where The Groupies Killed The Blues LP 72 w Banquet CD 74 w 7's 70 w The German Bonds w Hell Preachers Inc.

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Going to lump in my past rips of Lucifer's Friend which per the comment includes:  "the original vinyl on Billingsgate/Passport (all other versions - and I mean every single reissue for the past 40+ years - is an edited copy). The only bonafide version is the old vinyl!".  Per Discogs:  Rock group based in Germany. Asterix's first lead singer was George Mavros, who would be replaced by John Lawton and Toni Cavanaugh for the album recordings. That line-up, without Cavanaugh, started Lucifer's Friend, who were a ProgRock band, formed 1970 in Hamburg, Germany, fronted by British vocalist John Lawton (of Uriah Heep).

Evolved from Asterix and comprised of 3/4 of The German Bonds, the group officially disbanded in 1982. They briefly reunited (1993-1997) as Lucifer's Friend II, releasing one album before disbanding once again. In 2015 they have reformed again.

LINK REPOSTED 1-14-2025 (added early 7's & more early bands sent in today):  https://bestfile.io/Fu8nQHBQGuqVU1C/file

SUBTLE HINTS - st LP 84

REPOST Request:  They formed in Edmonton, Alberta Canada in 1983 and have cool synth keyboard effects with Duran Duran type vocals but in cooler new wave obscurity.  This was a request.

S.H. link:  https://bestfile.io/en/yysuI7BQZCVoirx/file

Other stuff I left in original post location for reposts this week to save time:

FOGHAT:  https://bestfile.io/en/c6ZUJF8ygys5uIz/file

GRAHAM NASH (I mentioned I had posted before last week so more to add):  https://bestfile.io/en/aTjzolRAKYphQeu/file

KITARO:  https://bestfile.io/en/ot6crkD1lJGUC2U/file

GRAHAM PARKER (added Live Sparks thanks to Jon!):  https://bestfile.io/en/KhdlXetfhgpXXKu/file

NAZZ:  https://bestfile.io/en/wxk0uS4Fv0LJ2aC/file

TODD RUNDREN:  https://bestfile.io/en/1idJlKFJhQ7ZVB5/file

SAVOY BROWN (added for album from youtube):  https://bestfile.io/en/POMy7MFj0Drze9w/file

Action - st CD 72 97 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs:  One of many obscure German rock bands from the 1970's not documented at the time. Action came from the town of Zweibrücken and existed for at least a couple of years. Their LP recorded for Kerston Records in 1972 remained unreleased until 1997.

https://bestfile.io/en/kYzG12NV5aRBpB9/file

Dan Fogelberg - Home Free CD 72 w Souvenirs LP 74 w Captured Angel LP 75 w Nether Lands LP 77 w Twin Sons Of Different Mothers LP 78 w The Innocent Age 2LP 80 81 w Phoenix LP 79 w Windows And Walls LP 84 w High Country Snows LP 85 w Exiles LP 87 w Greatest Hits LP 82 w The Very Best Of CD 01 w The Collection CD 01

 Well it's harvest time once again after many years of finding these vinyl/CD at Goodwill.  The only album I kept was the Phoenix album since the only songs I knew from him were on it:  Longer and Face The Fire which is odd because they played both songs quite a bit but the later never made it to any greatest or best hits compilations also included.  Looking at the lyrics to that song now finally--I think I can guess why:                  

I hear the thunder

Three miles away

The island's leaking

Into the bay

The poison is spreading

The demon is free

And people are running from

What they can't even see

Face the fire

You can't turn away

The risk grows greater

With each passing day

The waiting's over

The moment has come

To kill the fire

And turn to the sun

They'll take your money

And then take your health

To line their pockets with

Unequaled wealth

These men are under

The power of gold

We won't be safe until we

Shut them down cold

Face the fire

You can't turn away

The risk grows greater

With each passing day

The waiting's over

The moment has come

To kill the fire

And turn to the sun

The people came to the capitol town

One hundred thousand of them

Laid their hearts down

They screamed in anger

And broadcast their fears

Just to have them

Fall on deaf ears

I am kind of regretting giving all those vinyl back now as some of the songs are really sticking!

https://bestfile.io/en/AQtR5wtIfxXFPUM/file

MICHAEL BREWER - BEAUTY LIES LP 83

 This is a special request for ClassicMusic20 for Michael's recent passing.  He had mentioned a good rip was not available and this debut solo album was produced by Dan Fogelberg.  Hearing that got me to finally bring to harvest all my Goodwill albums by him as main post this week.

https://bestfile.io/7fCfe3B3DrpveOJ/file

VA - IT'S A RESTLESS NATION CD 93

Got this for Slim's recent departure on a knee-jerk-quick-buy off Discogs (BTW anyone GOT Slim's 'Thank You Fans!' last CD to share?).  Includes:  The Buck Pets, Zuzu's Petals, The Hang Ups, Sister Psychic, Giant Sand, BWF, Mind Over Four, Uncle Sam, Dumpster Juice, Pigpen, Band Of Susans, Dashboard Saviors, Bob 'Slim' Dunlap and Bloodstar.  

https://bestfile.io/LXy8KRlcnwiJiQk/file        

VA - LET YOURSELF GO! LP 67

 Here's another one from my buy up in MN/WI area recently, includes:  Tony Bennett, The New Christy Minstrels, Jerry Vale, Bobby Hackett, Steve Lawrence, Barbara Streisand, Robert Goulet, Julie Andrews, Ray Conniff, Eydie Gorme, Johnny Mathis and The Brothers Four.

https://bestfile.io/mNBELSuEQ9NCcqK/file

VA - Honky Tonk Heroes - The Music That Inspired Gram Parsons CD w Bonus The Neon Bread Tape - Studio Rehearsals NY 60's 2CD

 I added this to meet a minimum for a Discogs seller and then added the old rehearsal tape CD's from Butterboy blog.  I think I may have ripped some GP but didn't check.  Includes:  Buck Owens & His Buckaroos, George Jones, Porter Wagoner, The Louvin Brothers, Faron Young, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Ray Price, The Everly Brothers, Hank Williams, Hank Thompson, Hank Snow, Hank Locklin, Ernest Tubb, Carl & Pearl Butler and Flatt & Scruggs.

https://bestfile.io/GoEzFrDxebMK5z3/file

VA - SOLID GOLD ROCK 'N ROLL VOL. 2 LP 72

IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL:  Another fine vinyl assortment of tunes for this series.  Includes:  The Crew Cuts, The Diamonds, Jay & The Techniques, Paul & Paula, Phil Phillips, Joe Dowell, The Mindbenders, The Platters, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Del-Vikings, Bruce Channel, Dickey Lee, Lesley Gore & Ray Stevens.

https://bestfile.io/W2UUAavD76brcfd/file

The Original Dorsey Brothers Band - Spotlight On LP 62 w Tommy Dorsey & Frank Sinatra - Stardust tape 40 41 42 92 w Freddy Sateriale AHO - Tribute To Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey LP w Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell with Jimmy Dorsey AHO - Remember Jimmy LP 62

 For this week's big band selection we have the Dorsey brothers.  Per Discogs:  

Real Name:  Thomas Francis Dorsey, Jr.

Profile:

Tommy Dorsey (born November 19, 1905, Mahanoy Plane, Pennsylvania, USA - died November 26, 1956, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA) was an American trombonist, trumpeter, composer, conductor and bandleader of the Big Band era. He often worked with his brother Jimmy Dorsey in New York and helped the Swing Era grow in the US, he was an important bandleader during that time.

Real Name:  James Dorsey

Profile:

Saxophonist, clarinetist and trumpet player, (born February 29, 1904, Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, USA – died June 12, 1957, New York City, New York, USA), he often played with his brother Tommy Dorsey and helped the Swing Jazz Era grow in New York. He died just months after his brother, both during their sleep.

Next week will end this big band mini-series with a record for me of TEN vinyl boxset of big band!

https://bestfile.io/KJPeVJTiEt8Heen/file.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - GREAT MEN OF MUSIC 4LP 75 w ERIKA KOETH, MOZART, RICHARD STRAUSS - SINGS THE ARIAS OF LP 58 w comp. LP 78

 I usually let these classical boxsets stay in the Goodwill bins since they usually sound better on remastered CD and no need to preserve them but being half Italian and having an obscure movie about him that I like--not Amadeus 1984) I grabbed this and found other vinyl similar to add to this post.

https://bestfile.io/vDVSC9LKoddVwbD/file