BARBRA STREISAND - People LP 64 w Funny Girl Soundtrack LP 68 w Simply Streisand LP 67 w A Happening In Central Park LP 68 w Hello, Dolly! OMPST LP 69 w Stoney End LP 71 w Live Concert At The Forum LP 72 w Funny Lady OST LP 75 w Streisand Superman LP 77 w Greatest Hits II LP 78 w BARRY GIBB [R.I.P.] - Guilty LP 80 w Yentl OMPST LP 83 w The Broadway Album LP 85 w Memories LP 81 w A Collection Of Greatest Hits...And More tape 89 w Season's Greetings From B.S. & Friends LP 69 w Color Me Barbra CD 66 w The Movie Album CD 03 w Encore - Movie Partners Sing Broadway CD 16 w Back To Brooklyn CD 13 w Higher Ground CD 97 w The Essential Limited Edition 3CD 02 08 w

 After my coworker informed me last Monday of Barry Gibb's death, I decided it was time to harvest all my Goodwill cheapo finds over a couple of decades (going during lunch break at work) of Barbra Streisand's best via the collective source it seems as all are top notch and I remembered that she had done an album with Barry Gibb.  Twas quite a chore but I had help to fill in most of the missing at this blog (which also I missed a couple 2010 listed there, live and a couple more you can get since they didn't zip up but with errors so left out) as link two (https://musicmaniamachine.blogspot.com/2018/11/barbra-streisand-discography.html .  At any rate I sorted all the vinyl and my CD's as well and was really thrilled how it turned out (she sounded like Bjork on one song and some others as other familiar voices) but the core city stuff like Central Park and the early Broadway/Movie stuff goes well together while the CD's I have not heard yet but look to fit perfectly as best stuff.  Also, took the time to repost a few Megapost's of her friends in below short links leaving up the original posts.  Found four more to add to the previous Cat Stevens and the extra Harold & Maude bonus tracks.  Enjoy!

Barbra key vinyl & CD rips from Goodwill:  https://bestfile.io/en/6Y6sCLsHjTHi4bi/file

Barbra bonus from Musicmaniamachine blogspot:  https://bestfile.io/en/ScnGf3hVJuLpqMS/file

Kris Kristofferson:  https://bestfile.io/en/kOd5YhAPqrLAWHh/file

Donna Summer:  https://bestfile.io/en/TTyJPurvFdlQ3o1/file

Neil Diamond:   https://bestfile.io/en/jbCENhT3IDnqD2z/file

Cat Stevens:  https://bestfile.io/en/tr2erOnI5AXf3dD/file

Bee Gees:  https://bestfile.io/en/mhVgHZXOrfOnCHh/file

Fire - The Magic Shoemaker LP 70 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs: Fire was a Hounslow, UK band that recorded between 1967 and 1970. They consisted of Dave Lambert (who later joined Strawbs), Bob Voice and Dick Dufall (also in Paul Brett Sage). Brett himself only joined them as guitar player on their lone studio album, which they also recorded live at a 2007 reunion.

Previously known as Friday's Chyld

https://bestfile.io/en/c80Hp1p4r6jKzdr/file

Fifty Foot Hose - Cauldron - Plus CD 69 96 -cc.

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs:  Psychedelic rock group from San Francisco, formed in 1967, disbanded in 1970 and re-formed in 1995. Combining the sounds of rock with electronic instruments and avant-garde compositional ideas, they are recognized as precursors to bands like Throbbing Gristle.

The original group comprised three core members: founder and bassist Louis "Cork" Marcheschi, guitarist David Blossom, and his wife, vocalist Nancy Blossom, augmented by Kim Kimsey (drums) and Larry Evans (guitar). Marcheschi & Blossom "had been part of the Mills College Tape Music Center and had access to all of the innovations” devised by Donald Buchla, but Marcheschi also built theremins, circuits and audio generators of his own - hence their unique sound.

In 1995, Marcheschi reformed the group for live performances in San Francisco, with a new set of musicians. These performances led to the release of the album Live & Unreleased, which was followed in 1997 by a new studio album, Sing Like Scaffold. On the latter album, Fifty Foot Hose essentially comprised Marcheschi, Walter Funk III, Reid Johnston, Lenny Bove, Elizabeth Perry, and Dean Cook. Funk and Johnston subsequently formed the avant-garde electronic band Kwisp, the first of whose two albums also featured Marcheschi. 

https://bestfile.io/en/c6X9arQ0FKeMhnf/file

NERVOUS EATERS - Loretta 7 76 w Just Head 7 79 w Eaterville CD 73 - 75 w WCOZ Live 78 w Eat This! 02 w Hot Steel And Acid 86 w st LP 80 w Record 10 CD 10

REPOST Request:  Adding the Record 10 for the man upstairs at DU: Luis Miguel Sousa de Jesus.  Per Wiki: The Nervous Eaters, one of Boston's first punk rock / rock and roll bands with Steve Cataldo on vocals and guitar, Robb Skeen on bass, and Jeff Wilkinson on drums. Forming in 1973 they had used the name some years earlier, but had not performed live under it. As the Rhythm Assholes, they had backed local rock legend Willie Alexander on his single "Kerouac" and in concert. After a name change, they made their debut at the hub of the city's alternative music scene, the Rathskeller—known as the Rat—in March 1976. Their first single, "Loretta", appeared later that year on the club's Rat label.

Early on, the band experienced problems holding on to a second guitarist, but Alan Hebditch, a childhood friend of Cataldo's, became a regular fixture in early 1978. Along with the Real Kids and DMZ, they were considered among the scene's "punkier" bands. Centered on Cataldo's "great rock & roll voice" and "jangly guitar", in the description of AllMusic's Joe Viglione, they were the "Rolling Stones of Boston...hard-rocking, riff-blasting, tongue-in-cheek". By 1978, they were one of the most popular acts in the city. Their second Rat single, the punk rock styled, "Just Head", appeared in 1979.

https://bestfile.io/en/bhLDTy6vaWEHJRH/file

THE MONO MEN - Beer Bowlin' Booze Broads 10 EP 95 w 7s 96 split w Girl Trouble

REPOST Request:  Per Discogs:  US American garage punk band, based in Bellingham, Washington, formed 1987.

Their sound contained elements of grunge (distortion-heavy guitars, sneering vocals), but they filtered these through a mimicry of 1960s Washington proto-punk, garage rock bands such as The Sonics.

https://bestfile.io/en/o15tD3AZ1Fjq7yb/file

TREVOR KNIGHT - Sail Away LP 78

 Another from the FUNKMYROCK list I have been working on getting and ripping.  Hasn't really stuck in my brain yet as only one listen to record but it is in the rock/funk/soul category at Discogs which also listed this info:  Australian country music singer and songwriter, winner of two Golden Guitar awards with Smoky Dawson, for "Days Of Old Khancoban" in 1988 and for "High Country" in 1989.

https://bestfile.io/en/HT7K8UFyKJGDP4r/file

BOB THOMPSON His Orchestra & Chorus - Mmm, Nice! LP 60

 Pulled this one after sitting through listening to/ripping the Happiness Is... boxset below after thinking that listening to it all in one session would make the offering seem bland and innocuous--like a lot of old Goodwill vinyl I used to find and throw back in disgust but this one perked me up and gave me the hope that some of these old stalemates in this genre just might somehow become a 'favorite album'!  Well per the Discogs classification 'Space Age Pop' is the shining genre within these classical throw-aways...LOL:  

Real Name:  Robert Lamar Thompson

Profile: US composer, arranger, and orchestra leader from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Best known for his Space Age Pop records of the late 1950s.

Born August 24, 1924 in San Jose, California

Died: May 21, 2013 in Los Angeles, California

https://bestfile.io/en/7Fr7lVb82UQy9a5/file

VA - HAPPINESS IS... Up, Up And Away With The Happy Hits Of Today 9LP 70

 Thought I would put up the back covers for some good reading material.  Another big vinyl boxset this time nine records and all minty from Goodwill for pennies on the dollar.  Artists include:  Perry Botkin Jr. AHO, David Whitaker AHO, Joe Reisman HOAC, Vic Damone, Billy May AHO, Harry James AHO, Ed Ames, Charlie Barnet AHO, Hank Levine HOAC, Bob Crosby AHO, Ken Thorne AHO, Duke Ellington AHO, Frank Comstock AHO, Arthur Greenslade AHO, Jack Jones, Marty Paich AHO, Richard Alden Orchestra, Benny Goodman AHO, Les Brown AHO, Pete King AHO, Bill Walker's Orchestra, Henry Mancini AHO and Norman Percival AHO.

https://bestfile.io/en/amSDHYET3i4mFe8/file

VA - Earth Girls Are Easy LP 89

REPOST Request:  For AJ!  What I wrote last time:  Classic film soundtrack compilation featuring:  The Jesus and Mary Chain, Julie Brown, Stewart Copeland, The B-52's, Jill Jones, The N, Information Society, Hall and Oates, Royalty and Depeche Mode.  Song's you will see nowhere else by these bands!

https://bestfile.io/en/bDCV6w4EVYctjJv/file 

Also going to repost the Flipside comp's link that I just re-upped here so you all will see it (for Jon-Ky bloggers over there who asked):

https://bestfile.io/GeLDPIwtFMAa1wk/file

Also a note that I am compiling a big HOMESTEAD records posts with all the artists but will take a couple weeks so hold on for that!  

EARTHA KITT - THE BEST OF LP 83

 First time posting her at the blog and this is a great album per its name!  Grouping her into the big three with two posts right below.  Per Discogs: Real Name:  Eartha Mae Keith

Profile:  Born: January 17, 1927 in North (near Columbia), South Carolina, USA, died: December 25, 2008 in Weston, Connecticut, USA.

Actress, singer, and cabaret star whose mother was African American and Cherokee, and whose father was a White-American. Very busy throughout the 1950's and 1960's as a performer, Kitt was also active in social and political movements. She was blacklisted by President Johnson causing her to work in Europe and Asia.

https://bestfile.io/en/1I38qWehINmoW6R/file

MIRIAM MAKEBA - The Many Voices Of LP 62 w The Best Of LP 68

REPOST and ADD ON:  Post number two of what I am calling the big three this week (other two right below and above this post).  Adding the fine Best of album on top.  Per Discogs:  Real Name:  Miriam Zenzi Makeba

Profile: Grammy Award-winning South African singer, also known as "Mama Afrika", born March 4th, 1932, in Johannesburg and died November 10th, 2008, in Castel Volturno, Italy. She sang with The Skylarks and The manhattan brothers, before landing a role in the musical King Kong in 1959. She left for London where she met Harry Belafonte, who invited her to America. Makeba is widely regarded as the first lady of South Africa traditional music. At one time married to Hugh Masekela, she became an international superstar in the USA and the UK, before being able to return to South Africa once the political situation had improved.

https://bestfile.io/en/vXuUVPODTaR9mSu/file