SOLID GOLD - st LP 74

 Called a 1970's U.S. Pop Lounge Group per Discogs which I have never heard that classification before.  This was an anonymous request but I liked the opener and 7 inch song "My Share Of The Sidewalk" as I was just thinking about that on my pedal into work where construction folks marked a spot by putting a huge piece of wood covering the whole sidewalk!    Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/cE9wBAPnroBs634/file

THE GALILEANS - CHANGES LP 77

 Didn't find a peep about this great Jesus music band that could have just as easily been the main post this week.  Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/jZCffT4qCT5N2py/file

Elliott Murphy - Just A Story From America LP 77 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs: Real Name: Elliott James Murphy, Jr.

Profile: American singer-songwriter, novelist, producer and journalist born March 16, 1949 in Rockville Centre, New York.

https://bestfile.io/en/Sk11T7P8YTvW31O/file 

Elliott Randall - Randall's Island CD 70 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Well not much to say about him on Discogs but this is a killer album so I will just list what they have there:  Real Name: Elliott Randall

Profile: Guitar player.

Sites: elliott-randall.com , Facebook , Bandcamp , X , YouTube , LinkedIn 

In Groups: Elliott Randall's New York Band, Randall's Island, Sha Na Na, The Climax, The Electro-Harmonix Work Band, The Tingling Mother's Circus, Elliot Randall & The Deadmen

https://bestfile.io/en/W1APrDlRTgSZZGt/file

VA - COUNTRY GOLD 28 HITS! 2LP 67

 I'm not wanting this country comp. theme to end and a few more weeks to go!  This once again has some very good 'keeper' songs that I'm sure you've never heard before.  Artists include:  David Houston, Tammy Wynette, Jimmy Dean, Johnny Horton, George Morgan, Roy Drusky, Jim & Jesse, Claude King, "Little' Jimmy Dickens, Ray Price, Norma Jean, The Statler Brothers, Bobby Lord, Freddie Hart, Marty Robbins, Carl Smith, Johnny Cash, Flatt & Scruggs, The Hardin Trio, Johnny Bond, Charlie Walker, Lefty Frizzell, Stonewall Jackson, Marion Worth, The Jordanaires, Carl Perkins, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Billy Walker.

https://bestfile.io/PR8iTDAWcO00zoH/file

NICANOR ZABALETA - BAROQUE HARP MUSIC tape 83

 For the weekly cassette rip we have some fine-sounding harp baroque music from Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philip Emanuel Bach, Giovanni Battista Viotti, Johann Baptist Krumpholtz and George Frideric Handel.  Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/f53HaWxLBiziRpA/file

LISZT bw BRAHMS - ANTAL DORATI w LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

 Slipping back into some weekly classic music and this has some fine Hungarian dances, etc.  Per Discogs:  Real Name: Antal Doráti

Profile: Hungarian-born American conductor and composer, born 9 April 1906 in Budapest, Hungary, died 13 November 1988 in Gerzensee, Switzerland.

Knight Commander (KBE) - Order of the British Empire.

Chief Conductor of Stockholms Konsertförenings Orkester from 1966 to 1974..

https://bestfile.io/UnmVuz2Wpax1AQP/file

DELLA REESE (with KIRK STUART TRIO) - A Date With Della Reese At Mr. Kelly's In Chicago LP 58 w (arranged & conducted by NEAL HEFTY) - st LP 60 w (arranged & conducted by SID FELLER) - Della On Strings Of Blue LP 67

Just a small portion I have found at Goodwill so will look for more.  Per Discogs:  Real Name: Delloreese Patricia Early

Profile: Nightclub, jazz, gospel and pop singer, film and television actress, one-time talk-show hostess and ordained minister, whose career had spanned six decades.

Briefly married to Mercer Ellington in 1961.

Born: July 06, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Died: November 19, 2017 in Encino, California, USA

https://bestfile.io/0Q4donOqYD7FOfF/file

DOC SEVERINSEN - Fever! LP 66 w Sixteen Great Performances LP 71 w Henry Mancini - Brass On Ivory LP 72 w The Best Of 2LP 82

REPOST and ADD ON:  Well found some more Doc!  Per Discogs:  Real Name:  Carl Hilding Severinsen

Profile:  Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen (born July 7, 1927 in Arlington, Oregon, USA) is an American pop and jazz trumpeter.

In 1949, Severinsen landed a job as a studio musician for NBC, where he accompanied Steve Allen, Eddie Fisher, Dinah Shore, and Kate Smith. The leader of The Tonight Show Band, Skitch Henderson, asked him to be first-chair trumpeter in 1962, and five years later Severinsen was leading the band. Under Severinsen's direction, The Tonight Show Band became a well-known big band in America. Severinsen became one of the most popular bandleaders, appearing almost every night on television. He led the band during commercials and while guests were introduced.

During the early 1960s, Severinsen began recording big band albums, then moved toward instrumental pop music by the end of the decade. In the 1970s he recorded jazz funk, then disco, finding hits with "Night Journey" and "I Wanna Be With You". He released an album with the jazz fusion group Xebron in 1985. During the next year, he recorded The Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen which won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance. After Carson retired in 1992, he toured with some of the band's members, including Conte Candoli, Snooky Young, Bill Perkins, Ernie Watts, Ross Tompkins, and Ed Shaughnessy.

https://bestfile.io/PmHVbm8CkfC2lB1/file

The NOMADS - Nighttime 7 82 w Where The Wolfbane Blooms EP 83 w Outburst LP 84 w w Split EP w FIXED UP 85 w She Pays The Rent EP 85 w Hardware LP 87 w 16 Forever EP 87 w 7's 89 w Showdown! 1981-93 2CD

REPOST and ADD ON:  Big thanks to Kostas at Urban Aspirines (where you can get the FLAC) for posting the double CD I could draw upon for this post.  I put my two favorite albums that I played over and over again in high school into college of Outburst and Hardware but used better CD versions since my very old rip sounded too low.  I have to side with Nathan Nothin' from Nothin' Says Somethin' blogspot as he is a big proponent to keep the album songs in order as it is a full experience.  As I did this for my old albums and listened it came back to me and I knew exactly which song fit in after hearing one.  I stopped at the 1989 album that I hadn't heard and maybe for a later post as I really dug the 'new' songs I heard on the double CD and they even end it with a cover of Motorhead!  I had hinted on my previous V TOP V neo paisley bands that they should be included but I needed to organize the files.

Oh yeah here's a video included in the download as well as full show from youtube!  Had never seen them play before:

https://bestfile.io/en/dk2AatOolvGHgUH/file

The James Gang - Yer' Album LP 69 & Reissue LP 79 w James Gang Rides Again LP 70 w Live In Concert LP 71 w Thirds LP 71 w Straight Shooter LP 72 w Passin' Thru LP 72 w James Gang Bang LP 73 w Miami LP 74 w Newborn LP 75 w JOE WALSH - Barnstorm LP 72 w The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get LP 73 w So What LP 74 w You Can't Argue With A Sick Mind LLP 76 w But Seriously, Folks LP 78 w There Goes The Neighborhood LP 81 w You Bought It--You Name It LP 83

 REPOST Request:  Well, since I so effortlessly hoisted up the five megaposts below might as well hoist up the biggest post I've ever done for MIKE at Twilight Zone.  What I wrote before:  Amazing how I got all of these starting with 'The Smoker you get' for a quarter from Cheapo records that I lent my little bass-playing brother who then got the 'Rides Again' album and then without looking really just grabbing from bins from record shows/stores/sales along the way not knowing what I had already and all being in such great condition!  So now it's HARVEST TIME for this Cleveland legend who wrote the all-time best AOR hit with the most play that I grew up on and really dug, "Life's Been Good" and all the rest of the hits that formed our thinking patterns.  Joe Walsh is a big HAM radio buff that I have heard on radio before.  Part of the Zachariah post above also.  Enjoy!

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

THE CHAMELEONS [U.K.] - John Peel Sessions CD 90 w In Shreds 7 82 w Nostalgia 12 EP 82 w As High As You Can Go 12 EP 83 w Script Of The Bridge LP 83 w Live in Camden Palace LP 84 w What Does Anything Mean LP 85 w Strange Times LP 86 w Tony Fletcher Walked On Water...La La La 12 EP 90

REPOST Request:  V TOP V 'feel good' post punk type stuff all requested at one time.  Per Discogs:  Post Punk band formed in 1981 in Middleton, 6 miles north of Manchester. Mark Burgess had been in The Clichés, while Reg Smithies & Dave Fielding were in Years (3). Dave was in a school band called Sen. The three started without a drummer and got the attention of the legendary Radio 1 DJ John Peel. After the recruitment of drummer John Lever of The Politicians (6), their first single "In Shreds" on CBS, made number 42 on John Peel's Festive Fifty in 1982. They originally signed with CBS, but they disagreed with how they should sound. CBS dropped them after the one single, despite encouraging sales. They soon signed with Statik. However, Statik was distributed by Virgin, so they couldn't qualify for the independent charts and were thus overlooked by the music press.

The debut album, "Script of the Bridge", was recorded in Rochdale during a six-week period. The band was really pissed when they found out about the reduced version which was released by MCA in the US. They then became unhappy with Statik and tried to get away from them, but were bound by contractual obligations. After their second album, "What Does Anything Mean? Basically", they signed with Geffen. While signed to Geffen, the band released what was to be their last album together for fifteen years, "Strange Times" as the band literally fell apart, acrimoniously, with grief after the 1987 sudden death of band manager Tony Fletcher.

The year 2000 saw an end to the 'hostilities' and a reforming of the group; and a new 'unplugged' album entitled 'Strip' and other live releases followed.

John Lever passed away in 2017 and Dave left the band afterwards leaving Mark and Reg as the only two original members. The Chameleons continue to perform as of 2024.

https://bestfile.io/en/rqtOft14vFiGe22/file