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Monday, April 27, 2026

Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods, The Fleetwoods and The Beta Band: Three Generations of Top Teen Bands

Here are first from the 70's three albums and youtube video's: Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods - Special Someone LP 72 w st LP 73 w Farther On LP 76 and I packed it full of videos from youtube and teen magazine articles from ebay sellers. Here's a short video:

The second band is from the 50's/60's is The Fleetwoods - Greatest Hits LP 62 w Before & After LP 64

And finally, from the 90's/00's is The Beta Band! I had an old CDr of the first two EP's and one extra song that I couldn't find the title to so left as 'unknown' if anyone knows please say in the comments. I lump them into teen because they were huge on our RADIO K weekly top 7 and played all the time when their 3 EP's CD came out in 1998 and found a 2025 video so was excited they are still going: Post is following for them: The Beta Band - The Three E.P.'s CD 98 w st CD 99 w Double Album 2CD 99 w Hot Shots II CD 01 w Heroes To Zeros CD 04 w The Best Of CD 05 (13 live tracks 11-29-04) and finally extra youtube songs I found and the mp4 Live KEXP Studio 10-13-25 where they do five songs from early days (230 mb and limit at blogger is 100 mb videos). Their songs have stuck with me all these years so very glad to see them and to see community radio spread in U.K....even have similar location on the dial to our KFAI community radio 90.3.

O.K. and because I forgot the Jesus music post here is that:

THE LUNDSTROMS - TRAVELING WITH LP

Now for the links with some re-up's included:

BO DONALDSON & THE HEYWOODS: https://bestfile.io/en/ETJfS3WBswE0XaD/file

THE FLEETWOODS: https://bestfile.io/en/Pb7gXaQhxrfCuxu/file

THE BETA BAND: https://bestfile.io/en/YJ1NAPVOHuKo9Nn/file

THE LUNDSTROMS: https://bestfile.io/en/nUgfiTQjXwxeRM3/file

Oops forgot one more from Australia The Dingoes - Five Times The Sun LP 77, here is the Discogs: Australian rock band active from 1973 to 1979.

The Dingoes are an Australian country rock band. They were initially active from 1973 to 1979, and reformed in 2009. Initially based in Melbourne, the band relocated to the United States from 1976. The most stable line-up comprised John Bois on bass guitar, John Lee on drums, Broderick Smith on vocals and harmonica, Chris Stockley on guitar, and Kerryn Tolhurst on guitar.

THE DINGOES: https://bestfile.io/en/QBUxxbfbepaxzcf/file

REPOSTS:

AMERICA: https://bestfile.io/en/HibUv7IjEqSZAJS/file

GARY "O": https://bestfile.io/en/JooAWFyTvQfZ6Op/file

Roky Erickson - All That May Do My Rhyme CD 17 (new post): https://bestfile.io/en/Coaaer7TrrNzqPT/file

70's Music Theme--8 compilations: VA - SUPER HITS OF THE 70'S - HAVE A NICE DAY, VOL. 3 tape 90 w VA - SUPER 70'S VOL. 1 tape 93 w VA - Sounds of the 79's- AM Top Twenty tape 93 w VA - Sounds of the 70's - 1977 tape 90 w VA - KTEL Pure Pop 16 Hot Hits From The 70's tape 85 w VA - 70's Rock Vol. 1-3 3CD 97 w VA - 70's Rock Hits 2CD 05

Well we have here a smorgasbord of Goodwill compilations from over the years and some tapes came in the wrong case so I still took pictures for the info. One did not have a cover (the Rolling Stone list 1971-73 and didn't find a cover on Discogs so that is why only 7 pictures with 8 comp's mentioned in title. One of these had great versions of the songs and seemed new to me so I will have to seek out the other volumes and of course the K-tel compilations are always unique versions from the radio versions usually because they recorded compilation tracks live in their own studio for them. Well, I realize I am out of order having just done the 50's decade theme, so I will finish off this decades theme with some stray 60's compilations as last post. Not doing 80's because just too many at this blog already and same for the later decades. Artists include: B.J. Thomas, Miracles, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Mark Lindsay, Melanie, Helen Reddy, Billy Paul, The Stories, George McRae, Paper Lace, Hamilton, Joe Frank &-Reynolds, Redbone, Leo Sayer, Rose Royce, Taste of Honey, Maxine Nightingale, Anita Ward, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Rare Earth, Sweet feat. Brian Connolly, Badfinger, Todd Rundgren feat. Edgar Winter, Starship, Friends of Distinction, Roger Voudouris, Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose, Al Wilson, Grass Roots, Climax, Maria Muldaur, Lobo, B.W. Stevenson, Christie, Edison Lighthouse, Vanity Fare, Edward Bear, White Plains, Gallery, Wadsworth Mansion, Jean Knight, R. Dean Taylor, The Fortunes, Mungo Jerry, Jerry Corbetta formerly of Sugarloaf, The Eagles, Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat, The Allman Brothers Band, Derek & The Dominos, Mott The Hoople, Lou Reed, Rod Stewart, The Who, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Randy Newman, Alan O'Day, Ron Banks formerly of The Dramatics, Brewer & Shipley, Melanie with The Edwin Hawkins Singers, Looking Glass, The Jaggerz, Blues Image, Bobby Sherman, Earth, Wind & Fire, Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Steve Miller, Glen Campbell, The Marshall Tucker Band, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Daryl Hall & John Oates, 10cc, Al Stewart, Peter Frampton, The Bee-Gees, Paul Simon, Blue Swede, Mouth & MacNeal, Sammy Johns, King Harvest, Andy Kim, The Chakachas, New York City, Starbuck, Starland Vocal Band, First Class, Jigsaw, Terry Jacks, Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods, Alive & Kicking, Daniel Boone, David Geddes, Coven, Cymarron, Henry Gross, Climax, Hotlegs, R. Dean Taylor, The Partridge Family, Bobby Bloom, Brian Hyland and Jerry Reed.

https://bestfile.io/en/H1LsyqUadtZHOpG/file

VA - COUNTRY MUSIC CAVALCADE feat. RHINESTONE ROCKABILLY 3LP 80

Here is the last country comp I had slated for this many week theme but I have a couple more that were in the pile of them I snagged from Goodwill one legendary day, that are one artist doing many covers so didn't quite qualify for the theme. Onward after that to general compilation albums: one per week. Artists on this somewhat obscure 1980-3-vinyl- boxset: Troy, Shondell, Jack Scott, Donnie Brooks, Sanford Clark, Buddy Knox, Duane Eddy, Robin Luke, Ray Smith, J. Frank Wilson, Wanda Jackson, Kenny Price, Jimmy Clanton, Patti Page, Henson Cargill, Jeannie Seeley, Lonnie Mack, Kingston Trio, Memphis Blue, Ned Miller, Johnny & The Hurricanes, Wynn Stewart, Jan Howard, Jimmy Gilmer, Dorsey Burnette, Sue Thompson, Gene Simmons, Faron Young and The Harden Trio. Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/7KmQfevsubt8fSa/file

England's Glory - Legendary Lost Album CD 73 94 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE: Per Discogs: A short-lived band but a significant one. They were Peter Perrett's band prior to the formation of The Only Ones. A Dylan obsessive, Perrett had released an acoustic demo in the Spring of 1972. Harry Kakoulli, a talented bass player who later played with Squeeze before recording two albums, completed the line-up together with Jon Newey and David Clarke who'd earlier played in an early seventies acid-rock group, They Bite. This outfit had been a regular attraction at underground clubs and student union gigs during 1970/71 supporting bands like Stone The Crows, T2 and Uriel. Jon Newey, incidentally, went on to work for 'Sounds' and became publisher of Tower Records' 'Top Magazine'.

https://bestfile.io/en/FL1jdgM51LfghXl/file

ENNIO MORRICONE - Het Gebeurde In Het Westen CD 69 88 -cc w The Good, The Bad and The Ugly CD 67 04 w The Thing OMPST CD 82 w - The Mission OMPST CD 86 w White Dog CD 10

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE: The first picture shown and listed in title is for this series and I added my past post for Ennio from before. Here is what I had listed: Per Discogs Ennio Morricone (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne]) was an Italian composer. He was born on 10 November 1928 in Rome, Italy and died on 6 July 2020 in Rome, Italy. A favorite pupil of Goffredo Petrassi, he also deputized secretly for his trumpeter father in a light music orchestra. He thus developed two distinct sides to his musical personality: one of these led him to embrace serialism and the experimental work of the improvisation group Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza; the other gained him a leading role, principally as an arranger, in all types of mass-media popular music, including songs for radio, radio and television plays, and the first successful television variety shows.

After many minor cinematic collaborations, Morricone achieved wider recognition with Sergio Leone's series of four Westerns. There followed important collaborations with directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elio Petri, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Valerio Zurlini, Roland Joffé and Brian De Palma. Despite inevitable self-repetitions over a total of more than 400 film scores, his work provides many examples of a highly original fusion of classical and popular idioms.

Morricone's non-film works form a large and increasingly widely performed part of his output. Many of them use his technique of ‘micro-cells’, a pseudo-serial approach often incorporating modal and tonal allusions, which, with its extreme reduction of compositional materials, has much in common with his film-music techniques.

Among honours, he won the Academy Award in 2016 for his score to Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight and has received five Academy Award nominations between 1979 and 2001, a Grammy and a Leone d'oro, and was awarded the Laurea ad Honorem by the University of Cagliari. Between 1991 and 1996 he taught film music at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena.

https://bestfile.io/en/zmNOFCJqVpaYJh7/file

IRON PROSTATE - Loud, Fast And Aging Rapidly CD 91 w Live CBGB CD 93 w 7 91 w youtube video & songs w bonus VA - The Hollywood Tapes D.U.M.B. Rock CD 91 w vol 5, 9, 10 CD's

REPOST and ADD ON: Brian Seattle (Guy) had posted some of their music and I gathered more from youtube per the disc titles above that have the 7 inches he posted. This was the result of my comment about them to add to the Jon-ky post here: https://jonderblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/take-that-songwriters-taking-swipes-at_15.html so here are Brian Guy's words from his posts also of the comp he posted that I added plus two more from his posts in comments:

Iron Prostate was out of New York City, and was part of the scum rock scene of the late 80's early 90's. Featuring Scott Weiss on vocals and George Tabb on guitar, Charles M. Young on bass and Mike Linn on Guitar. I have to admit I was never a big fan of The Grateful Dead so when I found this back in the 90's it was a lot of fun to dig at my hippy friends with it. I just never got what the big deal was with the Dead. I used to ask the deadheads and all they could say was,"you had to be there." Not exactly the most helpful advice. Anyway a not too bad 45 by Iron Prostate. There maybe more Iron Prostate posted later on we will see. Released in 1991 on Vital Music of New York City Enjoy, Brian Guy

Another Iron Prostate post. This is much better than the 45 from last week. "I am the King," From the Scum Rock post that I did a long time ago is on this album along with "Gilligan," and a cover of "Danny Boy," which, in my opinion is much better than say the Dropkick Murphys doing the same song. The only song on this album I really don't like is "Hellshaft." The song just seems to drone on and on and it just bores the crap out of me. Other than that if you enjoyed the scum rock movement, and I know there are those out there that do from the download numbers, here is another piece of that scene. This was released in 1991 by Skreaming Skull out of Middlesex, NJ Enjoy, Brian Guy

A lovely little comp featuring bands from New York. Iron Prostate (George Tabb on guitar), Functional Idiots, Sea Monkeys, John S. Hall and Jim Fourniadis, Fly Ashtray, Fast Lane, Acidental Potato Chip, Dogbowl, Youth Gone Mad and Rats of Unusual Size are featured in this CD released on Celluloid Records in 1993. All the songs are about the Golden State California. I think this was one of the first CDs I ever bought. Iron Prostate "Nice Tan" , Functional Idiots Fag Metal (an oath to the Hair Metal bands of the 80's and 90's, Dogbowl (Strange song about San Francisco)and Rats of Unusual Size (L.A. Woman) are the standouts, but all of the bands are pretty good. Some are more punk than others. There were a couple of other D.U.M.B. rock releases, I have a few of them, depending on how this goes over I might post them to. Enjoy, Brian Guy

https://bestfile.io/en/04m26hrkNHYmjtd/file

Monday, April 20, 2026

HERITAGE - st LP 78

This week going to feature another from the FUNKMYROCK list. Not much on discogs except they call the album funk rock, soul, pop, world & country...go figure. I guess they start it off with their own version of 'Fly Like An Eagle" and "Vanilla Mountain" is a variety vacation in and of itself! Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/lQsHPwKRjLBtUiM/file

VA - BACK TO THE 50's 4LP 83 w VA - CASEY KASEM PRESENTS 1950's AMERICA'S TOP 10 (I put tape but actually CD) 01 w VA - COLLECTOR'S RECORDS OF THE 50's & 60's Vol. II LP 78 w VA - THE FABULOUS FIFTIES tape 3 88 99 w VA - THE UNFORGETTABLE 50's tape 1 88 w VA - The 50's Rockabilly Fever CD (TZ blog)

Tackling the 50's decade this week but boy oh boy did I get stuff organized to feelin' just fine! That's right bopper, "You know what I like baaaaaby!" which starts the grandest of them all the RCA collector's edition vinyl with four vinyl. The Casey Kasem CD is also a fine one from Goodwill except the last minute folder-add from Twilight Zone blogspot long ago having the Rockabilly. There are actually three cassette compilations and I found at GW one of each all in their own series by the same company but one tape was not functional. But they are fine compilations with exceptional write ups on each song/performer and a quick check this morning on youtube found none to be added so I think in future my buying the missing 2/2/3 tapes is worth it as cassettes can be quite cheap at Discogs. If someone wanted them faster (while they are there) just float my the links and some moneys into my email at this DU site and I will promptly get them and repost as separate. I am more inclined to try to find the other vinyl beyond volume II or that series which has some killer trax! Artist included: Big Bopper, Pat Boone, Georgia Gibbs, Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires, The Champs, Vaughn Monroe WCAO, The Ames Brothers (megapost in the works), Dinah Shore w Henri Rene AHO, Wilbert Harrison, Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres AHO, Paul Anka, Connie Francis, Dave "Baby" Cortez, The Four Preps, Teresa Brewer with Dick Jacobs Orchestra, The Elegants, Johnny Mathis with Ray Conniff, The Diamonds, Lloyd Price, The McGuire Sisters, The Platters, Neil Sedaka, Billy Williams, Harry Belafonte with Tony Scott's OAC, The Impalas, Danny & The Juniors, Everly Brothers, LaVern Baker, Jimmy Dorsey, Eddie Fisher with Hugo Winterhalter AHO, Gale Storm, Lou Monte with Joe Reisman AHO, Art & Doty Todd, The Chordettes, Sonny James, The Fontane Sisters, Andy Williams, Tommy Edwards, Jim Lowe, The Browns feat. Jim Ed Brown, Fats Domino, Jaye P. Morgan, Carl Perkins, Frankie Avalon, Mindy Carson OAC (under Norman Leyden), Bill Haley & The Comets. CASEY KASEM: Bobby Darin, Danny & The Juniors, The Crests, Bobby Day, The Everly Brothers, Bill Haley & His Comets, The Penguins, Buddy Holly & The Crickets, The Diamonds, Fats Domino, Little Richard, The Coasters, Richie Valens, The Champs, Bobby Freeman, The Platters, Carl Perkins, Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Jerry Lee Lewis. COLLECTORS LP: The Five Discs, The Mystics, Carlo, ;The Chiftons, The DeMiles, Vito & The Salutations, The Enchords, Dion, The Passions, Del Satins, The Elegants, The Skyliners, The Bon Aires, The Four Graduates, The Harps and Dion & The Belmonts. FAB TAPES (qty. 2): The Four Aces feat. Al Alberts, Teresa Brewer, Roger Williams, Pat Boone, Debbie Reynolds, Red Foley, The McGuire Sisters, Morris Stoloff conducting Columbia Pictures Orchestra, Leroy Anderson and His "Pops" Concert Orchestra, The Ames Brothers, The Fontane Sisters, Kitty Kallen, Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra & the Weavers, The Crew Cuts, Perry Como, Mitchell Ayres AHO & The Ray Charles Singers, Eddie Fisher, Hugo Winterhalter Orchestra, Doris Day, Don Gibson, The Ames Brothers, Domenico Modugno, Rosemary Clooney, Pee Wee King & His Band, Perez Prado AHO, Elvis Presley, Mario Lanza & RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra & Jeff Alexander Choir, Nat King Cole, Jo Stafford & Paul Weston AHO, Jim Reeves & Patti Page. 50's ROCKABILLY COMP: Pat Cupp, Glen Glenn, Hal Harris, Byron Johnson, Lee Cole & The Echoes, Sonny Hall & the Echoes, Joe Jackson, Les Cole & the Echoes, Don Cole, Jimmy Stewart & the Nighthawks, Charlie Feathers, Johnny Todd, Jimmy & Johnny, Link Davis, Sleepy La Beef, Glen Barber & Ray Scott.

https://bestfile.io/en/KQvVH3tIY2YE8T8/file

CHIP TAYLOR - SEVEN DAYS IN MAY...A LOVE STORY CD 98

This is one I thought was a movie when Josef (Austria) suggested it as he described it aa a "masterpiece" so I posted a few weeks ago Chip's hit song CD that I found but forgot about this one and discovered it was a CD so got on ebay for under $10 to my door. Have heard a song or two while preparing and liked the toned down acoustic style but still need to hear more lyrics. Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/en/7RkzTQaC6g9s7vp/file

VA - ORIGINAL COUNTRY HITS OF THE 50'S 8LP 78

Keeping on with the country comp theme (one more box set of 3 vinyl next week will end the Cavalcade per its title "Country Cavalcade" and per the definition: a formal or ceremonial procession, typically involving people on horseback, in carriages, or in motor vehicles). This one ain't half bad and sure has a lot of vinyl - 8 to be exact featuring: Don Gibson, Red Foley, Hank Williams, Sr., Kitty Wells, Eddy Arnold, Pee Wee King, Webb Pierce, The Everly Brothers, Hank Snow, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elton Britt & Rosalie Allen, Ernest Tubb, Patti Page, The Pinetoppers, The Carlisles, The Davis Sisters, Jim Reeves, Justin Tubb & Goldie Hill, Johnnie & Jack, Stuart Hamblen, Johnny Cash, Jimmie Rodgers, George Jones, Porter Wagnoner, The Browns, Carl Perkins, Hank Locklin, Bobby Helms, Patsy Cline, Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, Skeeter Davis & The Wilburn Brothers, What d'ya know also part of 50's theme this week!

https://bestfile.io/en/8XEnEEr9e3oDg1o/file