The Twisted Twisters 11 vinyl: Chubby Checker - For Twisters Only LP 60 & Limbo Party LP 62 w Joey Dee & His Starliters - Doin' The Twist @ The Peppermint Lounge LP 61 w King Curtis Combo - Arthur Murray's Music For Dancing The Twist LP 61 w The Bob Scott Six - Music To Use The Trim-Twist By LP w The Candymen - The Twist By The Candymen LLP 62 w The Crystals - Twist Uptown LP 68 w Vol. 3 LP 62-65 w The Raiders - Twistin' The Country Classics LP 62 w VA - Twistin' Time LP 82 w The Twisters - All Night LP 82

REPOST and ADD ON:  Only two new but putting these all together in one post for the first time.  The two new rips are the Twistin' The Country Classics and Joey Dee.  Been a decade or more since I renewed the old Twisters band link which is a very cool album from 1982 when they made them with half a side live for raw energy IMO.  I guess I won't say a bunch more but use what I wrote last time to get the compilation bands which I know have a lot covered with their own albums:  This is the definitive 'Twist' record to have as it came out in the 1980's and is well studied on the best from Chubby Checker, Joey Dee And The Starliters, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, Dee Dee Sharp, Dovella and Bobby Freeman who does the classic 'C'mon And Swim'--such an intuitive song for dance!

https://bestfile.io/en/BC5FGX63UURIrOF/file

Oh yeah brought in more Twisting By the Pool (Dogmatics song should still be up!):

TWISTA (hip hop):  https://bestfile.io/en/zOo04lOL8d3IGxE/file

TWISTED SISTER:  https://bestfile.io/en/xyLPTT8BKRxXuKf/file

OH YEAH!  Some re-up's faw yaw:

BILL NELSON:  https://bestfile.io/en/au4syWMpWPuQ3Ng/file

BE BOP DELUXE:  https://bestfile.io/en/ZghKLkcJnCuRxI7/file

BAJA MARIMBA BAND:  https://bestfile.io/en/LzRI0UmgbXzjsnm/file

Will bring in West Coast Pop as forgot I had much more than just the collector's choice.

JOHNNY HALLYDAY - Rivière... Ouvre Ton Lit LP 69

NOSTALGIC PSYCHEDELIC:  Well, I guess this theme keeps getting bumped as main post but more weeks left in August so I'll roll with it for now.  I don't remember which song was singled out in the youtube top ten reel that I am basing this series on, something like the title plus Oddities word I remember and maybe even novelty like last weeks post.  On that subject, I was listening to the other post last week in this series by Oh You Kids band and finally decided to pull it like building 7 and went all in on the band buying NM media copies of both their albums (not on youtube) for a proper rip over all the crackle.  I bull through these posts every weekend and sometimes keep doing the fast cuts I do because I can--not hearing the overall sound so much but did hear how bad it was on my walk man this past weekend so made the decision.  Anyways, that kind of ragtime really brings me back to the music from our old local pizza parlour Skakeys and Ciceros!  It's in my blood so had to have good copies and should be in time for my birthday this year so giving myself a treat!!!  Here is his quite remarkable Discogs write up and I am only scratching the surface with his releases:  Real Name:  Jean-Philippe Léo Smet

Profile:  French singer, songwriter, performer and actor, born June 15, 1943 in Paris, died December 5, 2017 in Marnes-la-Coquette, Île-de-France.

He was married to the french singer Sylvie Vartan from April 12, 1965 until November 4, 1980.  Father of David Hallyday

As of November 2011, he had sold more than 100 million records, and earned 40 gold records, 22 platinum records, 3 diamond records and 8 Victoires de la Musique (the French equivalent of the Grammy). 28 million spectators have attended his concerts over more than 100 tours in France and Europe. However, like most French singers and musicians, his international career never really took off. Despite some tours abroad in the 1960s and 1970s, and a concert in Las Vegas in 1996, Hallyday is virtually unknown to the public outside the French speaking world.

He recorded some 1000 songs, including a little more than a hundred self-penned titles and around 250 French adaptations of original songs in English. Especially in the beginning of his career, during the early 1960s, Hallyday built his career mostly on French adaptations of songs by his American idols.

https://bestfile.io/en/tsJG4CXKOihekEB/file

JOY SONG - KINGDOM LIVING LP

Hoping I have this one titled correctly for the weekly Jesus Music post as I found it tucked away at Goodwill thrift store missing a cover and could only find a 1983 release on youtube with different people listed through some college.  That's too bad because this is choice stuff, you know the type that would have short sung phases that us church going siblings would relate to at the time and make each other laugh by pouring on the cheesy-ness!  But herein you will find among the finest sounds from vinyl.  Let is know if you find a cover and thanks for reading this far.  Cheers!!!

https://bestfile.io/eifAeIKUfzK5X1i/file

VA - MIAMI CONNECTION OMPST CD 87 w VA - MIAMI SOUND RARE FUNK & SOUL 67-74 CD w VA - MIDWEST FUNK 45's FROM TORNADO ALLEY CD 04 w VA - TEXAS FUNK BLACK GOLD FROM THE LONE STAR STATE CD 05

 Well, going to dedicate this post to a commenter at the Twilight Zone:  Smokey J, as he is taking a road trip this week to Southeastern USA and Florida.  I did a search on Florida in upper left and sent him a bunch of related links last Thursday that were still active links.  In doing this exercise I remembered an old favorite funk compilation right above in yellow CD I used to have but couldn't find it.  I got lucky this weekend checking my old blog downloads folder and found it in the "M' section unzipped...albeit at 192 kb/sec but I'm not gonna lament as it is not complete over at youtube.  So, I also remember two other funk compilations that I had bought right after so found those two and added to this post.  Also, adding a Miami Connection movie soundtrack that was also in the old blog downloads.  Here are the artists:  Dragon Sound (fake band), Lloyd Richards & John McCallum from the MPST.

MIAMI SOUND RARE FUNK:  All The People, Helene Smith, George McCrae, James Knight And The Butlers, Gwen McCrae, Little Beaver, Joey Gilmore, Timmy Thomas, The New Clarence Band, Frank Williams & The Rocketeers and Delia Humphrey.

MIDWEST FUNK:  The Us, Markus Kelly & The Impassions, Harvey & The Phenominals, The New Establishment In Soul, Billy Ball & The Upsetters, The T.M.G.s, Fred Williams & The Jewels Band, Wanda Davis, The Fabulous Originals, Barbara Howard, The Personations & Organization, Chocolate Snow, Henry Peters & The Imperials, People In The News, The Chefs, Messengers Incorporated, Dayton Sidewinders, The Soul Tornadoes, The Wallace Brothers, Earl English & The Apaches, Epitaph, Billy Joe Holloman and Illinois Connection.

TEXAS FUNK:  Latin Breed, Tickled Pink, Sunny & The Sunliners, The Majestics, Little Jr. Jesse & His Teardrops & The Tears, Timothy McNealy, The Brothers Seven, Zapata, The Groove Merchants, Mickey & The Soul Generation, Road Runners, Vern Blair Debate, Soul Ones, Little Jimmy Tyson & The Highway Robbers, Joe Bravo, Booker T. Averheart, James Polk & The Brothers, Bobby & The Premiers, Kashmere Stage Band, Eddie Finley & The Cincinnati Show Band and The Fabulous Mark III

https://bestfile.io/en/eP0QkReSFbRgyvN/file

OURAY - Chrome On The Range LP 78 w Motor Dream LP 81

REPOST and ADD ON:  Josef (Austria) has been steering me around the tricky 'Country Rock' genre and after recently posting this band's 1981 album, let me know their first was something special and it sure is!  The Discogs say this:  Country rock group from the Chicago area. "Too Tall to Boogie" and "100 Years" got a fair amount of airplay on WXRT at the time.  And Josef reminded me the origin of their name:  A cheap discog order adder I took a chance on.  Here is the Discogs:  The Ouray people are historically linked to Chief Ouray (c. 1833–1880), a prominent leader of the Tabeguache (Uncompahgre) band of the Ute Nation. The Ute people are the oldest continuous residents of Colorado, and their heritage is tied to the city and the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in Utah.  Chief Ouray spoke multiple languages and worked to negotiate fairly with the U.S. government and white settlers.  U.S. Recognition: The federal government designated him the "Head Chief of the Utes," though traditional Ute governance relied on independent band leaders.  Chipeta: His wife, Chipeta, was an influential leader and diplomat who also advocated for the welfare of the Ute people. Name Origin: Ouray means "Arrow" in the Ute language. The town of Ouray, Colorado, is named in his honor.

https://bestfile.io/M9LxkpUUx0Zvit4/file

NEAL HELLMAN, JOE WEED - DREAM OF THE MANATEE tape 89

 Cool one for me living on Manatee Ave for cassette rip O' the week.  Discogs only had extra info on Joe Weed per:  American multi-instrumentalist best known as a fiddle and guitar player. Also an engineer and producer. Originally from Dekalb, Illinois, he settled in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, in the late 1970s, where he founded and still runs Highland Studios, Los Gatos, CA

https://bestfile.io/YSJrsDCXUcQzifj/file

Headband - A Song For Tooley CD 73 - cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs:  

Australian progressive rock / blues band formed in Adelaide in 1971 by Hamish Henry and The Grape Organisation Pty Ltd. Relocated to Sydney in 1973. Disbanded 1974.

LINK REPOSTED 8-11-26 (wrong link):  https://bestfile.io/en/FFvxIZPchpSjYZR/file

Hank Crawford - The Soul Clinic LP 61 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs:  Real Name:  Bennie Ross Crawford, Jr.

Profile:  American jazz (rhythm and blues, hard bop, jazz-funk, soul jazz) alto (and other) saxophonist, pianist, arranger, songwriter and vocalist (born 21 December 1934 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, died 29 January 2009 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA).

Hank Crawford was member of Ray Charles's band from 1958-1963. Frequent collaborators in Ray Charles albums were David "Fathead" Newman and Dr. John. He played with Phineas Newborn Jr., Booker Little, George Coleman and others 

https://bestfile.io/en/BsF0h75RzPk8WVL/file

MRS. ELVA MILLER - GREATEST HITS LP 66

Now this singer like below post REALLY does "get jiggy" with her unique vocal stylee!!  Reminds me when my punker friend in junior high would make fun of the Ethel Merman vocal style and we all copied his method for awhile.  Quite enjoyable IMO and here is the not much Discogs info:  

Real Name: Elva Ruby Miller nèe Connes

Profile: American singer.

Born October 5, 1907 in Joplin, Missouri

Died: July 5, 1997 in Vista, California

LINK REPOSTED 8-11-26:  https://bestfile.io/en/BvPPZG6lUqNomp3/file

TIMI YURO - HURT!!!!!!! LP 61

 This was an enjoyable listen and somewhat has similar 'jiggie' vocals like Mrs. Miller above.  Here is the Discogs skinny:   Real Name:  Rosemary Victoria Yuro

Profile:  Rosemary Victoria Yuro (August 4, 1940 Chicago, Illinois – March 30, 2004 Las Vegas, Nevada), professionally known as Timi Yuro, was an American singer and songwriter. Sometimes called "the little girl with the big voice," she is considered to be one of the first blue-eyed soul stylists of the rock era. According to one critic, "her deep, strident, almost masculine voice, staggered delivery and the occasional sob created a compelling musical presence." Yuro possessed a contralto vocal range 

https://bestfile.io/8lg0mtrtGRWJ10R/file

DAVE VALENTIN - LIGHT STRUCK LP 88

 This has some edgier jazz with some songs reminding me of Al Di Meola.  Here is the Discogs:  Real Name: David Peter Valentin

Profile:  Dave Valentin (born April 29, 1952, South Bronx, New York, USA - died March 8, 2017, The Bronx, New York, USA) was an American Latin jazz flautist.

https://bestfile.io/xY5H4ZyzActBEIV/file

Brahms, Wagner - Maureen Forrester, John Newmark – Four Serious Songs / Wesendonck Lieder LP 71

 Another fine choice for the weekly classical music theme.  Going to post what is there at Discogs:  Real Name:  Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester

Profile: Canadian operatic contralto, born July 25, 1930 in Montreal, Quebec and died June 16, 2010 in Toronto, Ontario.

John Newmark:  Pianist born in Bremen, Germany on June 12th. 1912....Migrated to Montreal, Canada ca. 1945,,,,Died in Montreal on Oct. 14th. 1991.

Real Name: Johannes Brahms

Profile: German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period, born May 7, 1833 in Hamburg, Germany, died April 3, 1897 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.

Real Name:  Wilhelm Richard Wagner

Profile: German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor of the romantic period, born in Leipzig, Germany, May 22 1813 - died in Venice, Italy, February 13 1883. He is primarily known for his operas. Father of Siegfried Wagner, grandfather of Wieland Wagner, Friedelind Wagner and Wolfgang Wagner.

https://bestfile.io/en/VsNxm72iF19EZSI/file

JOHNNY NASH - I Can See Clearly Now LP 72 w The Quiet Hour LP 59

REPOST and ADD ON:  The Professor of Rock on youtube reminded me in his 1972 top ten about this song that was so much a part of my youth (in the rainy Midwest USA) almost like it has been running non stop in the back of my head since those school days growing up. Now, I might add briefly, a lot of those issues in the those days (like my Audacity volume levels I mentioned last week...LOL) at least health wise have been solved:  The Root Cause Protocol from Morely Robbins latest book 'Cure Your Fatigue" goes back and sees how we get energy from breathing--stuff buried away--and so with his Magnesium Advocacy Group on meta developed this simple cheap way to balance your minerals (like a tablespoon of bee pollen over your eggs or adrenal coctails to balance your sodium/potassium) and now every three months when I give blood & dump 254 mg of the rust iron (that was packed away in my cells that the RCP protocol pulls out each month due to fertilizer blocking copper in the soil so every one needs this!) I start to feel the pulled iron overload in my liver so I know it is time (best is every three months as only way to dump iron) to give one pint of whole blood and the feeling goes away!  My body is digging it and I can see clearly now!  This electron transport chain, cerruloplasm and Ray Peat's idea of ATP cellular energy units (we need 250 mg carbs per day of pure glucose burning and to keep fat from meals below 30% of calories) influenced my longtime internet free doctor Mercola on his 'Interview the Experts' free emails (you can get at his website mercolamarket.com) to write his "Cellular Energy' book and break down the good fats (Saturated Fat gets burned immediately as energy) and cut down the damaging fats PUFA/MUFA (mono and poly fats with the open bonds that stay 7 years in your body and gums up cellular metabolism) to 5 mg per day which is only possible by my quitting seed oils & most nuts (still take handful of Brazil nuts for Selenium each day).  The Italy study proved that Beef Tallow/Organic Ghee/Coconut oil are high in Saturated fats and only ones to use.  A study in Northern Italy where it is the norm used those three vs. Sicily/Southern Italy that use mainly olive oil high in MUFA fats were taken instead and showed much fatter people than the Northern butter takers.  I also have joined the DMSO revolution!  Hundreds of health uses but I tried it for dental infection by using 2 teaspoons or 3 one inch high dropper loads into peppermint tea in glass is best because they get it from pine trees and it is a super small molecule that will travel thru the body via sauce cup with 2 ounces coconut or carrier oil on skin or in tea swished in teeth then swallowed to help digestion as it straightens out proteins and fixes old areas within but yes must have clean mouth and skin before as it brings stuff though the skin and mouth. It is an alternative to antibiotics which kill yer old gut bacteria and like high PUFA diet allows bad types to take  over the gut.. I am finally getting my short chain butyrate back via Mercola’s gut book another NY Times best seller!  Anyways here is the limited Discogs:  

Real Name:  John Lester Nash, Jr.

Profile: American soul and reggae singer and songwriter, born on August 19, 1940 in Houston, Texas, USA; died October 6, 2020 at his home in Houston, Texas, USA.

Co-owned JAD Records with producer Arthur Jenkins, and businessman Danny Sims.

Married to Margaret Nash

https://bestfile.io/WdrFVPwzPYtV48u/file

NAPOLEAN XIV - They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haaa! CD 66 w For God's Sake, Stop The Feces! tape 23 w The Second Coming CD 96

NOSTALGIC PSYCHEDELIC:  The youtube top 10 reel I saw had something like that title anyways maybe Novelty or Oddities as that is how this band is categorized.  I will feature one band from the list every week in August 2026 and already posted CCS a couple of weeks ago as I announced this theme.  Per Discogs:  Real Name: Jerrold Laurence Samuels

Profile:  US novelty act aka Jerry Samuels (May 3, 1938 - March 10, 2023), an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

https://bestfile.io/jRjzakJbsQAD125/file

THE OH YOU KIDS - WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL LP 63

This song was in the list I am featuring each week of August and since I can't find the reel from youtube I am calling it Nostalgic Psychedelic (thanks Richie Muster for commenting on that) and assuming it was this band who did the cover track though I've packed into it my other two immediate versions I have posted from The New Vaudeville Band and Baja Marimba Band for comparison.  I will admit I found this at Goodwill and the quality is not the best but will do for my original blogging purposes and that is to post vinyl that needs attention and if the listener likes it will buy it & set it aside & keep it out the landfills.  How else are you gonna get a wide variety to sample and lots of my posts didn't used to be on youtube and some never will.  Enjoy!  Oh yeah, this band name totally cracked me up when I saw it because it is what my old Italian grandmother used to say to my 7 siblings:  Oh! You Kids!  Honestly!!  As her expression of amazement at our antics and humor!!  Almost like we always drove her crazy no matter what we did...Ha-Haaa!!!! 

SORRY FOLKS  thrift store vinyl was too beat up so’s I got ‘em new mint & thoroughly Millie nm media as well! Can’t wait for repost maybe in time for my birthday August 17th I dig this!!!! 

VA - BEST OF THE WEST - MGM Soundtracks Presents Great Western Movie Themes CD 98.rar

 Loving this type of Western themes compilation as we have already covered extensively the Spaghetti Western variety in the past.  Here you have the 'Big' soundtracks with these movies:  The Big Country 1958 [Composer Jerome Moross], The Unforgiven 1960 [Composer Dimitri Tiomkin], The Wonderful Country 1959 [Composer Alex North], The Scalphunters 1968 [Composer Elmer Bernstein], The Return Of A Man Called Horse 1976 [Composer Laurence Rosenthal], The Hallelujah Trail 1965 [Composer Elmer Bernstein], Hour Of The Gun 1967 [Composer Jerry Goldsmith], Young Billy Young 1969 [Composer Shelly Manne], Hang 'Em High 1968 [Composer Dominic Frontiere], The Horse Soldiers 1959 [Composter David Buttolph] and Return Of The Magnificent Seven 1966 [Composer Elmer Bernstein].

https://bestfile.io/PiAmDQuipyHRMPW/file

RED RIDER - As Far As Siam LP 81 w Breaking Curfew LP 84 w TOM COCHRANE & RED RIDER - st LP 86

REPOST and ADD ON:  Well this is an ancient DU blog post I did because I was always a big fan of their big hit song "Lunatic Fringe" so I am missing much.  However, unwittingly I pulled out Tom's debut this week not knowing who he was only finding it at Goodwill one day long ago.  And he has a  few albums as well (plus his big hit "Life Is A Highway") as the missing Red Rider to explore so may revisit in the future....for now enjoy!  Per Discogs:  Red Rider was formed in Toronto in 1975 when Peter Boynton (keyboards, synthesizers, vocals), Ken Greer (guitars, keyboards, backing vocals), and Rob Baker (drums) joined up with Arvo Lepp (guitar) and Jon Checkowski (bass) .

Real Name:  Thomas William Cochrane

Profile:  Born in Lynn Lake, Manitoba 1953, Tom Cochrane joined the Canadian rock band Red Rider in 1978, initially as their lead singer and songwriter. Red Rider was known for its blend of rock with thoughtful lyrics, achieving significant success in Canada with hits like "Lunatic Fringe" and "Boy Inside the Man." By 1986, the band was renamed Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, reflecting Cochrane's central role. They released several albums, including some notable hits, but never achieved the same level of success in the United States. The group disbanded in 1990, after which Cochrane embarked on his solo career.

Solo Career Highlights: 1991 - "Life Is a Highway": Cochrane's solo career took off with this international hit from his album "Mad Mad World." This song became his signature tune, earning him widespread recognition beyond Canada and leading to diamond certification for the album in Canada (over a million copies sold).

Awards and Recognitions: Cochrane has won eight Juno Awards, is a member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, and has received honors like the Order of Canada and the Order of Manitoba. He was also inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2009.

Humanitarian Work: Beyond music, Cochrane is known for his significant charitable efforts, including travels to Africa with World Vision, highlighting his commitment to social causes.

Later Years: Cochrane has continued to tour and perform, often with former Red Rider members, maintaining a strong presence in the Canadian music scene. His song "Life Is a Highway" saw a resurgence when covered by Rascal Flatts for the soundtrack of the movie "Cars" in 2006.

https://bestfile.io/wRGODsKSSfm0J0F/file

GURU GURU - UFO CD 70 - cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Last post of the G's for this series with below and a fine steering back into German Krautrock per the Discogs:  German Krautrock band formed in 1968 by former The Irene Schweizer Trio musicians Mani Neumeier (drums) and Uli Trepte (bass) as Guru Guru Groove in Heidelberg.

They started as a political and satirical Rock band and quickly had contacts with other contemporary bands as Amon Düül and Tangerine Dream. After they first only wanted to perform live, they recorded their debut album in 1970. Starting with the follow-up album in 1971, they had a cooperation with producer Conny Plank. In the time after, the line-up changed many times, but the band stayed active until the 2020's

https://bestfile.io/en/WUQuN6SbUqmSf7p/file