VA - DOWN TOWN DISCO VOL. 1 2 3 LPs 79 80 81

 Well I was flabbergasted when I saw this weird bridge between disco and new wave with even rock bands participating in this one mix per album side series I fished out of Europe at a great deal though the second vendor on discogs had volumes 2 & 3 the volume three was just missing a cover so having both saved on shipping.  As I did with a Viacom comp featuring stoner-style-new r&b I left each album side as one mix and also as songs but was tricky using my freeware at work to find the cuts.  Here are the WoW! artists and the first that grabbed my eye/ear was Flash & The Pan! then Roger Daltry, Debbie Jacobs, Olympic Runners, Jim Capaldi, Edwin Starr, Eddie Grant, Isaac Hayes, Roxy Music, Elton John, Nuggets, Michelle Freeman, Yvonne Elliman, Al Hudson, M, Spyro Gyra, Bill Lovelady, Jona Lewie, Giorgio Moroder, Kurtis Blow (I saw him on TV news when breakdancing broke into culture with his first album my older sister had), Shakatak, Barclay James Harvest, Lipps Inc., Rufus & Chaka Khan (see The American Breed post below), James Brown, The Crusaders, The J. Last Band, Jimmy Ruffin, Benny Mardones, Con Funk Shun, Lenny Williams, Gap Band, Black Slate, Yarbrough & Peoples, Steve Cropper, Wilton Felder, Geraldine Hunt, Steely Dan and Jerome.  Crazy!

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

Cherry Vanilla - Bad Girl CD 78 w Venus D'vinyl LP 79 bw Man Parrish - 12 92 w youtube videos and interviews

REPOST Request:  Well, when AJ yelps for something I come running!  Turns out my later rip of the debut album is missing from my files so that tells me I didn't like the rip--either the vinyl was too damaged making my cuts change the song timing or I just forgot to save that week even though I have backup WAV folders and backup separate play-MP3 folders next to the WINRAR files.  BTW I just learned the best range for my Audacity (yes after  a year and a half experimenting--don't worry my 8000 rips on old PC with Hollywood media system on a Gateway have no issues) but sometimes I was hearing groove wear 'sections' that if repeated a lot meant I had my software line in volume too far right.  So now I try to get the analog green moving bar to range from -24 to -12 dB by having the slide lever in range of -30 to -44 dB.  This moves my preamp adjust very little from the middle knob position.  Sometimes though vinyl sound makes me move to when I started range of -20 to -8 dB which is where the Henry Gross rip last week was left at by accident so I will redo those three LP in time.  What I noticed can happen is too far right means louder software volume and though you can adjust the preamp knob as I always do to make the signal just touch the red zone to far can clip the analog wave making the sound crispy digital I guess.  It's really the louder 50's-60's vinyl that get clipped if not careful.  So yeah three volumes the preamp, software and computer speaker volume during play.  I think you will like this weeks offerings with the new settings and let me know like AJ did in the comment if you want a re-rip--at this time my ripped vinyl keepers are all packaged 2-3 records per plastic bag in no particular order in various bins in my apartment so someday I will have to organize alphabetically but not at this time.  Anyways I found great sounding CD rips on youtube and BTW I have been slipping videos into the 'cover' folders as little surprises but now will label that folder as 'cover & video) separate from the songs for convenience.  

Here is the short skinny (see videos and text within) from Discogs: Real Name:  Kathleen Dorritie

Profile:  American singer-songwriter, publicist and actress, born 16 October 1943 in Woodside, Queens, New York, USA.

https://bestfile.io/bwaGlJAKG2oWDH0/file

RAY PETERSON - MISSING YOU (Feat. His Greatest Hits) LP 70

 Well when E.W. suggests a platter--I jump!  And this is no exception to his fine searchable listings as I had just about to post a couple weeks ago and did the compilation with his big hit song 'Corinna, Corinna" which on this album has it backed with [bw] another great song Ya Ya.  Great songs throughout.  Per Discogs:  Real Name:  Ray T. Peterson

Profile: American rock n' roll singer born on April 23, 1935 in Denton, Texas, USA and died on January 25, 2005 in Smyrna, Tennessee, USA

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

Joshua Bell, Academy Of St. Martin-In-The-Fields, Neville Marriner - Bruch Mendelssohn Violin Concertos LP 88

 A fine Goodwill pull for the weekly Classical Music post.  Lots about this on Discogs: Real Name:  Joshua David Bell

Profile:  American violinist, and conductor.

Born December 6, 1967 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

Profile: The Academy of St Martin in the Fields (= ASMF) was founded in 1959 by Sir Neville Marriner and a group of London's leading orchestral players. Originally formed as a small conductorless string group, it spearheaded the 1960’s Baroque revival, and recorded and performed a rapidly expanding range of repertoire.

In 1988, the orchestra dropped the hyphens from its full name: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.

For chorus credits use Chorus Of St Martin In The Fields.

Real Name: Neville Marriner

Profile: British conductor, violinist, and professor (born April 15, 1924, Lincoln, England and died October 2, 2016).

He studied at the Royal College of Music, London and Conservatoire National Supérieur De Musique Et De Danse De Paris. While a student, he joined the London Symphony Orchestra (in 1941). He was briefly a music teacher at Eton College Chapel. In 1948, he became a professor of the Royal College of Music. In 1948 or 1949, he took up the position of second violinist of the Martin String Quartet, continuing to play with the quartet for 13 years. Founder of the Virtuoso String Trio. Marriner joined The Jacobean Ensemble in 1951. He played the violin in two London orchestras: the Philharmonia Orchestra (1952-?), and the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) as principal second violin (1954–69). In 1958, he founded The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields (being its conductor and lead violin in early 1960s, before focusing to conducting), and his partnership with them is the most recorded of any orchestra and conductor. Marriner was the founder and first music director of The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, from 1969 to 1978. From 1979 to 1986, he was music director of the Minnesota Orchestra. He was principal conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1986 to 1989.

Marriner was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1979. He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1985. In the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH). He was appointed an officer of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Father of Andrew Marriner and Susie Marriner Harries, both from his first marriage with cellist, and later antiquarian bookseller, Diana Carbutt. In 1957, he married Elizabeth Sims, later Lady Elizabeth Marriner.

https://bestfile.io/en/l1vJqfRy2BHeeQG/file

VA - Great Gospel Songs 2LP 75

 For the weekly Jesus Music selection we have a top shelf double album featuring many artists DU has posted in the past.  Such as:  The Blue Ridge Quartet, Roy Rogers & Dale Evans, Anita Bryant, The Inspirations, The Florida Boys, Burl Ives, The Ralph Carmichael Orchestra, The Old Fashioned Revival Hour Quartet, The Pat Boone Family, Ken Medema, Mary Jayne, Norma Zimmer & Jim Roberts, J.T. Adams, The Revivaltime Choir, Andrae Crouch, Ray Hildebrand, Willa Dorsey, Dave Boyer, Wayne Newton, The Happy Goodmans, Kurt Kaiser and The Amen Choir.

https://bestfile.io/GgQrr0ZraHnTBkR/file

ROBERT JOHN - If You Don't Want My Love LP 68 w st LP 79 w Back On The Street LP 80

 Well, last week we had "The Big Three" for mellow 70's rock and I mentioned this outlier artist who was also on those K-Tel vinyl compilations with his big hit "Sad Eyes".  I also reposted Gilbert O'Sullivan links since Professor of Rock on our blogroll links said his mellow hit 'Alone Again...Naturally" was number one on his 1972 list which I got a few more artists for coming weeks like Climax.  Per Discogs:  Real Name:  Robert John Pedrick, Jr.

Profile:  Soul singer And Pop singer

Robert John was an American singer-songwriter.

(January 3, 1946 – February 24, 2025)

John – born Robert John Pedrick – had been recording since he was 12 years old, first charting in 1958 (as ‘Bobby Pedrick’), and then continuing to record through the 60s for a variety of labels.

He recorded ‘Raindrops, Love and Sunshine’ in 1970, featuring his powerful (nearly ear-shattering) falsetto, and an arrangement that owes a huge debt to the previous year’s mega-hit ‘More Today Than Yesterday’ by the Spiral Starecase.

John went on to have a number of hits in the 70s and 80s, including the aforementioned ‘Sad Eyes’ (#1 1979) and even and putting that falsetto to use again in 1983 with a remake of The Newbeats ‘Bread and Butter’ (#68 1983), which came out on Motown

https://bestfile.io/G7YVay76WwcwbcU/file

GREGG SUTTON - Soft As A Sidewalk LP 79 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  This a very cool album that I may want to purchase someday.  Per Discogs:  Real Name:  Gregg William Sutton

Profile: American rock bassist and singer/songwriter.

Died on October 22, 2023, at the age of 74

SONG LIST:

Damaged Goods

Desperately

Out On The Fringe

Hope Street

Danger Zone

Roll The Dice Again

Kidstuff

Boulevard

Rose

https://bestfile.io/en/154lFNjziBEjAQx/file

Grupa 220 - Naši Dani CD 68 w Slike CD 75 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  I was buzzin' around on my bike with this album starting and the Slike album really does stand out for this series as quite good.  Per Discogs:  Grupa 220 (Group 220) were a Croatian rock band formed in 1966, in Zagreb, Croatia. with members of bands "Ehosi" and "Jutarnje Zvijezde" (Morning Stars). They had their first gig in October of the same year. In December they recorded their first song "Osmijeh" which became a big hit right away. Very soon they became one of the most popular bands in former Yugoslavia. Long hair and "flower power" clothes attracted a lot of young people.

In 1967 and 1968 Drago Mlinarec (vocal and guitar) composed music for two films "Protest" and "Three Hours of Love". They take part in "Zagreb 68" and "Split 68" festivals, and also the first "Pop festival" in Zagreb. Group 220 released the first rock long play record in ex-Yugoslavia "Naši dani". They played as support band on the concerts of The Hollies, The Tremeloes, Marmelade, Status Quo and Mungo Jerry when they were touring ex Yugoslavia in 1968. 1971 Drago Mlinarec left the band and went solo. Grupa 220 continues to exist and record without him until 1975 when they split up.

Members were:

Drago Mlinarec - harmonica, guitar, vocals (1966-1971)

Vojko Sabolović - guitar, vocals (1966-1969)

Vojislav Mišo Tatalović - bass (1966-1971)

Ranko Balen - drums (1966-1970)

Branimir Živković - organ, flute (1968-1969, 1971)

Davor Štern - organ (ex Zlatni Akordi) (1969-1970)

Zoran Antoljak - guitar, vocals (1970)

Darko Šonc - guitar (1970-1971)

Hrvoje Marjanović - keyboards, vocals (1970-1971)

Rade Begović - drums (1970-1971)

Duško Žutić - piano, rhythm guitar (1971)

Nenad Zubak - bass (from 1971)

Ivan Piko Stančić - drums (from 1971)

Husein Hasanefendić Hus - guitar, vocals (from 1971)

Branko Vukmanović - vocal (1972)

Jurica Pađen - guitar, vocals (from 1974)

Aki Rahimovski - vocals (1975)

https://bestfile.io/en/DbWeoQguJm1BYDZ/file

SANDY POSEY - Born A Woman LP 66 w st LP 67 w Looking At You LP 68 w The Best Of Sandy Posey LP 68

REPOST:  I saw this classic post next to the Sandy Nelson I added to below and thought it was high time she had a repost!  Per Discogs:  Real Name:  Sandra Lou Posey Robinson

Profile:  American singer, born June 18, 1944 in Jasper, Alabama - died July 20, 2024. Stylistically, she drew comparisons to Skeeter Davis and Brenda Lee, integrating pop with country (and some gospel). Posey also sang with Bobby Goldsboro, Tommy Roe, and Joe Tex, and she sang back-up on Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman." Posey's million-selling signature hit from 1966, "Born a Woman," was covered by Nick Lowe in 1977

https://bestfile.io/en/UhxJ5f4QBGha2yZ/file

 

VA - SET IT OFF MPST tape 96

 This casssette O' the week that I found at Goodwill follows the fine tradition as Judgement Night and The Corruptor that I have posted but with more mellower stuff.  Some big names:  Queen Latifah, Gladis Knight & Chaka Khan (see Rufus pre-band below The American Breed), En Vogue, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Busta Rhymes, Blulight, Simple Red, Goodie Mob feat. Cool Breeze & Backbone, Billy Lawrence & MC Lyte, Ray J, Seal, Da 5-Footaz and X-Man Feat. H Squad w special appearance by Chocolate.  Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/FPskn6p5wDFaU64/file

THE AMERICAN BREED - st LP 67 w Pumpkin, Powder, Scarlet & Green LP 68 w Bend Me, Shape Me LP 68

REPOST and ADD ON:  Adding the all-time classic debut with their self titled platter which did need some pop's cut out but has great psychedelic mainstays like "Step Out Of Your Mind" or "Lipstick Traces" perhaps influencing that Greil Marcus rock 'n roll book.  Here is the discog skinny:  American rock and soul group, that was formed in 1962 and disbanded in 1970, later evolving into Rufus.  The group was formed in Cicero, Illinois as Gary & The Knight Lites. Their greatest success was the single, "Bend Me, Shape Me", which reached number five on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1968.

https://bestfile.io/X9CtwPk3JPypDni/file

SANDY NELSON - Plays Teen Beat LP 60 w Live! In Las Vegas LP 64 w Teen Beat '65 LP 65 w Drums & More Drums LP 68 w Soul Drums LP 68

REPOST and ADD ON:  Alright you Agent Orange heads like me, here's a band that might have influenced them with a big drum beat!  The last two songs on the album:  The Jerk & Beat From Another World really launch this punk outfit into the stratosphere!!!!  Real Name:  Sander Lloyd Nelson

Profile:  Drummer and session musician, born 1 December 1938, Santa Monica, California, USA - died 14 February 2022.  One of the best-known rock drummers of the early 1960s, had several solo instrumental Top 40 hits and released over 30 albums. He was a session drummer on many other well-known hits.

https://bestfile.io/lchUoTZbQvzFBft/file

STILLWATER - I Reserve The Right! LP 76 w st LP 77

REPOST:  Josef (Austria) mentioned this classic Southern Rock band so I checked the links and it needed a longtime re-up so am posting now.  What I said before:  A Southern U.S.A. band who made it big on the touring circuits in the 70's and had their own killer voicebox song (Frampton wasn't the only one!) called "Mindbender" and it rules!  Also someone in comments mentioned how much they like 'Kalifornia Kool'.  If I still have these buried away, I may redo the rip in the future

Josef (Austria)'s comment:  STILLWATER - SAME US 1977

They were hailed as the great hope of Southern Rock with their debut album. However, during their first tour of the USA the truck containing their entire arsenal of instruments was stolen from their hotel in Chicago. A second album was released a year later, but the label had lost interest in Southern Rock, especially in Stillwater- you can forget about that album.

https://bestfile.io/qU424aUWit6P8tJ/file

VA - Harley Davidson And The Marlboro Man 91 tape w Harley Davidson Road Songs CD

REPOST Request [91 tape]:  Thought I would bring in both but already had links posted separately so going to leave it that way.  Here are past write ups:  The first band is (not the 70's band I have posted but) COPPERHEAD with such a great seven minute song with yell-type vocals like the first DANZIG st LP.  Also a later Frampton band with Steve Marriott (singer/guitar/songwriter from Small Faces dude behind most of their timeless classics like Lazy Sunday Afternoon, Itchycoo Park, Tin Soldier, All Or Nothing, etc. you see he went on to form Humble Pie smith Peter)) and final tune by Vanessa Williams and I love everything she does for many years.  Here are the bands:  Copperhead, Frampton/Marriott, Roadhouse, Shooting Gallery featuring Andy McCoy, L.A. Guns, The Screaming Jets, The Kentucky Headhunters, Waylon Jennings, Blackeyed Susan and Vanessa Williams.

This is someone's homemade compilation I found at Good Will but looks like some pretty cool bands,

91 tape rip:   https://bestfile.io/en/9D7tFglWuUMzefR/file

Goodwill CD [unlabeled bands]:  https://bestfile.io/en/fAsPT1gegLjq2iw/file

VA - 5 Classic Rhino Records Compilations: VA - LA In LP 79 w VA - Rhino Royale LP 78 w The Rhino Bro's Present The World's Worst Records! LP 83 w VA - Rock N' Roll High School Movie Tunes CD 00 w VA - Legends Of Guitar - Guitar Player Magazine CD

REPOST and ADD ON:  Well the FGW request for another Rhino compilation that I posted a few weeks ago (Saturday Night Pogo) and Hawksmort mentioning a Homestead comp I hadn't heard over at Jon-Ky blogspot the week before that got me to finally see the LA IN comp that I had never seen posted on blogs back in the old days so had to get that and while doing so, saw the excellent 'everything goes' type of Mad Magazine compilation called 'Rhino Royale' so those are the two new offerings this week.  

LA IN:  The Kats, Oingo Boingo, Charm School, Rubber City Rebels, Low Numbers, Denny Ward, The Twisters (still tearing up L.A. today!), Surf Punks, Ravers, Droogs, Spock, The Furys and Weasels.

ROYALE:  Ruben Guevara, Gefilte Joe & The Fish, Rockin' Richie Ray, Fred Blassie, Richie Balance (Looks like the TZ blog with all these Richies!), Temple City Kazoo Orchestra, Wild Man Fischer, Little Stevie Weingold, Credibility Gap and The Winos!

R'N R High Movie Tunes:  Rock 'n' Roll High School (Ramones), Road Trip (Twisted Sister), Weird Science (Oingo Boingo), The Wedding Singer (A Flock Of Seagulls), Some Kind Of Wonderful (Lick The Tins), Pretty In Pink (OMD), Sixteen Candles (Thompson Twins), The Breakfast Club (Simple Minds), Footloose (Deniece Williams), The Sure Thing (The Cars), Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (O-Feel), Blackboard Jungle (Bill Haley), Valley Girl (Modern English) and Dazed and Confused (Alice Cooper).

LEGENDS GUITAR:  Elmore James and his Broom Dusters, T-Bone Walker and his Band, Freddy King, Tal Farrow, Wes,Buddy and Monk Montgomery, Larry Coryell with John McLaughlin, Merle Travis, Doc Watson, Link Wray and his Ray Men, Chuck Berry,  The Crickets, Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps with Cliff Gallup, The Shadows with Hank B. Marvin, The Yardbirds with Eric Clapton, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Carl Perkins and Love Sculpture with Dave Edmunds. 

WORST:  The Novas - The Crusher , Edith Massey, Jimmy Cross, Heathen Dan, The Temple City Kazoo Orchestra, Gloria Balsam, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, the Seven Stooges, Barnes, Barnes, Ogden Edsl, the Turtles, Johnny Meeskite, the Breakers, Wild Man Fischer.

ENJOY!

https://bestfile.io/en/BDS08UbABWKWktI/file

DAN HILL - st LP 75 w Hold On LP 76 w Longer Fuse LP 77 w Frozen In The Night LP 78 w If Dreams Had Wings LP 80 w Partial Surrender LP 81

REPOST and ADD ON:  Added the one right above with the classic 'The Nice Price" sticker that I got this year from Goodwill.  This begins a three part series with the two below this post as:  The Big Three Mellow Rock as title.  Actually I was one record short or I would have included Robert John with his 'Sad Eyes' hit that goes right along with some of these on my old K-Tel compilations having 'Shannon' from Henry Gross and On and On by Stephen Bishop below that post.  Stuff in between Dan Fogelberg's all-time classic "Longer" and Doobie Brothers with Michael McDonald singing 'What A Fool Believes" seems to cover the theme.  I will post the three Robert John records next week.

Per Discogs:  Real Name: Daniel Grafton Hill IV

Profile:  Daniel Grafton "Dan" Hill IV (born June 3, 1954 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter

https://bestfile.io/en/zFgXhGe4O5IKWzc/file

HENRY GROSS - st LP 72 w st LP 73 w Plug Me Into Something LP 75 w Release LP 76 w Show Me To The Stage LP 77

REPOST and ADD ON:  Adding the his first three albums which are pretty cool.  Calling this theme:  The Big Three Mellow Rock.  What I wrote before with the Discogs info tacked on the end:  Finally found this one--the original appearance of the 'Shannon' tune (Angstytimelord let me know it is a song about his dog..LOL) from all those K-Tel comp.'s over the years.  Real Name: Henry Mark GrossProfile: American singer / songwriter, born April 1, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

https://bestfile.io/en/CwIhyM453KJNmsQ/file

STEPHEN BISHOP - Careless LP 76 On And On 7 77 w Bish LP 78 w Red Cab To Manhattan LP 80 w Sleeping With Girls CD 85 w Bowling In Paris CD 89 w Blue Guitars CD 94 w Yardwork CD 02 w Be Here Then CD 14 w Blueprint CD 16 w We'll Talk About It Later In The Car CD 19 w THIMK CD 25 w Merry Bishmas CD 02 w Short Sleeves (Demo Album side 1) CD 78 w Live CD 14

REPOST Request and ADD ON:  The first listed pictures were from before so I added a shit ton of the rest of his stuff now that he is retired [not all album pictures shown] per what is listed on the title.  Turned out the second side of the demo album were not Stephen but Alan O'Day which is not included.

Calling this short series:  The Big Three For Mellow Rock which includes the other two artists above.

https://bestfile.io/en/Cvq2qhx6o8gUWXZ/file