TIME BANDITS - st CD 82 w 7s w Tracks LP 83 w Fiction LP 85 86 w Greatest Hits CD 14 w As Life CD 03 w Out Of The Blue CD 12

Well the Y-nonomous request just needed the 'Tracks" album so I went fetch for the others to add to my initial two vinyl rips for this Dutch band who have really become popular it seems and for good reason.  Here is a blurb from Wiki:  Time Bandits was formed in 1981 by Alides Hidding, who wrote most of the songs and sang lead vocals. Other band members were Marco Ligtenberg (keyboards), Guus Strijbosch (bass) and Dave van den Dries (drums). Time Bandits had hits on the American dance charts (Dance Club Songs) with the number 6 dance hit "Live It Up" in 1982 and "I'm Only Shooting Love", which peaked at number 2 in 1985.

By the mid-1980s, Time Bandits had also achieved success in Australia, where "I'm Only Shooting Love" and "Endless Road" (where its music video was filmed) were both top 10 hits. These singles and other hits such as "Listen to the Man with the Golden Voice", "Dancing on a String" and "I'm Specialized in You" were also successful in the Netherlands, Germany, France and New Zealand (where "I'm Only Shooting Love" hit number one in June 1984).

After moving from Europe to Los Angeles in 1989, Hidding has had his songs recorded by such artists as Jennifer Rush, The Nylons, and various European performers. He has established song-writing collaborations with such writers as Charlie Midnight (producer of Hidding's last album Can't Wait for Another World together with Dan Hartman), Jackie DeShannon, Pamela Phillips Oland, Dwayne Hitchings, Donny Markowitz and Todd Smallwood.

https://bestfile.io/en/bE9JZowscgWfSIh/file

BARRINGTON LEVY - Too Experienced (The Best Of) CD 98 w Bounty Hunter LP 79 25 w Poorman Style CD 83

I got the record store release in the middle idea from Mark Trehus who posted about it.  I added the greatest hits which is how I learned his music long ago.  Also, since our friend Nathan Nothin' has started his legendary "Dubtember" daily dub posts and started it with King Tubby mentioning this artist per:  https://nathannothinsez.blogspot.com/2026/09/dubtember-1-scientist-source.html

https://bestfile.io/en/JtzV6AzWEpDjykF/file

MIKE ROBBINS - A LONG TIME COMIN' LP 77

 Well kind of sad but this is the last in the list from FUNKMYROCK, so I am adding an extra link for the only one he sent in the files below this link in this post.  I thoroughly enjoyed this country rock release!

Mike Robiins:  https://bestfile.io/e27LhaPxK3JvsuR/file

BONUS:  Vince Hill - Midnight Blue 1976:  https://bestfile.io/en/iz24o0EM6cJEFqP/file

THE POZO-SECO SINGERS - I CAN MAKE IT WITH YOU LP 67

 Oops forgot the dash, oh well this is a do-it-yourself blog so you could add it.  I liked this release FYI.  Per Discogs:  The Pozo-Seco Singers were a breakthrough folk trio, whose 1966 hit "Time" became an anthem for the growing folk music scene in America and abroad. The group's members, all from Corpus Christi, Texas, included Lofton Kline, Susan Taylor (later known as Taylor Pie), Russell Thornberry, Eben Wood and - one of Country music's biggest names - Don Williams. After the departure of Lofton Kline, the group became a duo and changed their name to Pozo Seco.

https://bestfile.io/sqWlsnG0dUiZM4w/file

ROY HAMILTON - You'll Never Walk Alone LP 55 w With All My Love LP 58 w Greatest Hits LP 62

Well, we had some love for the Chubby Checker post last week so thought I would pull up Roy who sounds a bit like Chubby's vocals and on the first album covers a lot of songs that Righteous Brothers made famous so this post will also serve as a transition to get me to rip the seven vinyl I found at Goodwill store last trip.  Per Discogs:   Real Name: Rodothas Hamilton

Profile: American singer who achieved major success in the R&B and pop charts in the 1950s. B. April 16, 1929, Leesburg, Georgia – d.July 20, 1969, New Rochelle, New York.

https://bestfile.io/1WXisJzxlNHSyXS/file

GIOVANNI - QUIETUDE-Mountain Breeze tape 94

 This cassette of the week doing the double duty of being the classical music release of the week as well. Here is the Discogs:  Giovanni Marradi (born Italy, 1952) is a pianist, composer and arranger.

He is the son of the famed Italian trumpeter and conductor Alfredo Marradi.

His great-grandfather, also named Giovanni Marradi, was a legendary poet and composer as well.

Giovanni Marradi, international composer and arranger born of Italian heritage of famed European trumpeter and conductor Alfredo Marradi. Giovanni began his musical carreer (sic) at the age of five, when his father instilled in him the idea and values regarding musical excellence and closely monitored Giovanni's development. At the age of eight, Giovanni began to study technique and composition at the world renown Russian Conservatory under the tutelage of the famous pianist Michael Cheskinoff. There the seeds of his genial talents began to blossom. The unexpected death of Giovanni's father marked the turning point of his musical career. Giovanni had lost his father, mentor and friend. Seeking consolation and an avenue for his grief, Giovanni turned to his usic. It was then that he crossed the line transpiring from performer to acutely sensitive composer. Giovanni's television show entitled Giovanni's World of Music and Giovanni Marradi have been nominated and received several awards by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, The Telly awards, EMA, The New York Festival and many others. Giovanni is currently pursuing his career (sic) in film, television, live concerts, and most importantly composing new music.

https://bestfile.io/nmaSOzsIHMgV7D2/file

Horse - st CD 70 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  How'z 'bouta some good old hard rock from this London band?  I say YES!

https://bestfile.io/en/XVMsbcTagpZ5dbr/file

Honey Ltd. - st CD 68 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Was rockin' to these gals over the weekend with a pretty cool album per Discogs:  Girl group out of Detroit that was a proteges of Lee Hazlewood. They released only one album in 1968. The band came together in Detroit in the mid-60s when friends Laura Polkinghorne and Marsha Jo Temmer met sisters Alex and Joan Sliwin at Wayne State University. The four started singing together – mainly covers of the Motown hits being churned out of their hometown – and by 1967 had formed a group that producer Punch Andrews named the Mama Cats. That summer, as riots were sweeping the States, they spent two weeks in LA and loved it so much that in January of 1968, they pooled resources and moved there to try their luck as a band. They slept on Temmer's grandmother's floor and hitchhiked, stoned, to their audition with Hazlewood at 9,000 Sunset Blvd.

https://bestfile.io/en/CpSSZ8EzR8mE3AK/file

Sego Brothers & Naomi - st LP w The Sego Quartet LP 75 w Gospel Concert Special LP 65

REPOST and ADD ON:  Still not showing that top photo album on Discogs so not sure of the date but adding the bottom photo packed with 24 songs that may or may not get lost to history.  Per Discogs:  American southern gospel group formed in Macon, Georgia, USA, by The Sego Brothers who had been singing together since the 1940s. They were joined by James' wife Naomi when one of the brothers was ill and she was asked to fill in. She became a permanent member around 1958-1959. The group appeared on WMAZ-TV (Macon) and became locally popular. They later gained national recognition with their song, Satisfied With Me. They are believed to be the first southern gospel group to sell over a million records with their hit Sorry, I Never Knew You, which debuted on the Billboard Country Singles chart on February 1, 1964. Following this success they appeared on the nationally best known and longest running television program, Gospel Singing Jubilee. They later were invited and performed at The Grand Ole Opry. In 1967 Lamar Sego left the band to start The Sego Family.

https://bestfile.io/en/KAuwKeS2KNxevIx/file

Life [Sweden] - st CD 70

A fine suggestion from Josef (Austria) for this band called Life.
 

https://bestfile.io/en/bx9rhBfqD5KmwOA/file

HUDSON FORD - Nickelodeon LP 73 w Free Spirit LP 74 w Worlds Collide LP 75 w Daylight LP 77

REPOST and ADD ON:  Just added the very cool album from 1975, World's Collide.  Per Discogs:  Hudson-Ford were a UK rock band-style duo, formed when John Ford and Richard Hudson left Strawbs in 1973. The original lineup featured Hudson (now playing guitar instead of drums) and Ford along with Chris Parren on keyboards, Mickey Keen on guitars, and Gerry Conway on drums. Conway left in May 1974 prior to the recording of "Free Spirit" and was replaced by Ken Laws. Mickey Keen left the band in December 1974 and was replaced briefly by Mick Clarke, formerly of The Roy Young Band. Mick Clarke moved to the United States in 1975 and was not replaced. The lineup remained stable from that point until the group dissolved in late 1977.

https://bestfile.io/yOo3FtroCRa6nqM/file

HUDSON BROTHERS - st CD 71 w Hollywood Situation CD 74 w Totally Out Of Control LP 74 w Ba-Fa LP 75 w TV's Hudson Brothers LP 78 w Live At The Chateau FR [Ltd. Ed.] LP 78 w The Truth About Us CD 78 w Damn Those Kids LP 80 w So You Are A Star (Best Of) CD 95

REPOST and ADD ON:  I retracted my old HS vinyl rip what with most of these gotten from a youtuber U.K. driver who takes a trip with his car through the farmland for each vinyl album (some not shown on Discogs like the Live at the Chateau) so's we get a full presentation of a huge unknown top teen band in line with the not too recent Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods post from this here blog!  Not much more about them except from Portland, OR and disbanded in 1981.   Some great stuff here so have at it!

https://bestfile.io/en/wk7q170lwfu4pd5/file