Monday, November 2, 2026

FIRE TOWN - In The Heart Of Heart Country CD 86 w The Good Life CD 89 w bonus


 Another Madison, WI Butch Vig early band like Spooner below--before Garbage got huge--though they were more AOR rock but in a busy market at the time where they got buried in the competition.  This is a very old request and I do apologize but of course they could have just gone to youtube and got them like I did last week.  Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/en/Ubv3UJQIojN0Tj9/file

SPOONER - Cruel School EP 79 w 7 80 w Every Corner Dance LP 82 w Sacred Ground CD 85 w 7 86 w The Fugitive Dance CD 90

REPOST And ADD ON:  Adding the Fugitive Dance per comments but I just saw today I included it twice so must have done that long ago?  Anyways the Halloween gremlins are picking at my brain still.  See the above post for Butch Vig's other early band Fire Town (more on the AOR tip).  From Madison, WI a town we used to go to massive Halloween parties in college just like Boulder, CO used to have that we went to back then.

https://bestfile.io/en/v1cIs3Zh0HhzpIA/file


CARRIE LUCAS In Danceland LP 79


 Another fine selection for our Lady Flash series and quite interesting relations per Discogs:  Profile:  American disco singer and songwriter, born November 5, 1948 in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey Peninsula, California. In 1976 she was signed to Soul Train. Lucas made six albums over seven years at Soul Train, Solar and Constellation. Second wife of Dick Griffey and mother of Carolyn Griffey of Shalamar.

TRINI LOPEZ - Trini Lopez At PJ's LP 63 w On The Move LP 64 w Greatest Hits LP 66


 I had posted a rip of the Greatest hits before but I replaced it with better vinyl (also from Goodwill) as the other two were great shape as well.   What I wrote before:  Frank Sinatra gave him a start in '63 when he started REPRISE records and recorded Trini.  He does a cool version of 'La Bamba' and his A-ME-RI-CA song is so familiar it was even sung by Chavo Pederast for Black Flag during the Decline of Western Civilization movie.  Per Discogs:  Real Name:

Trinidad Lopez, III

Profile:  American singer, guitarist and actor.

Initially receiving very little success, Lopez landed a steady engagement at the nightclub PJ's.

He was heard there by Frank Sinatra, who had started his own label, Reprise Records, and who subsequently signed Lopez.

His debut live album, Trini Lopez At PJ's, was released in 1963, & his career took off from that point.

Born: May 15, 1937 (Dallas, TX, USA)

Died: August 11, 2020 (Palm Springs, CA, USA)

https://bestfile.io/ZadfQLWmIg2n59R/file


THE VICTORS QUARTET - I'll Have A New Song - 10th Anniversary Album LP 77


 A strong showing on this unopened platter for the weekly Jesus Music post.  Not much on Discogs and certainly not this vinyl which is quite good IMO:    1960s-1970s religious group from Lebanon, Ohio.

Members include: Keith Champan, Ronnie Parks, Roy Parks, Bill Jordan, and Howard Sears

https://bestfile.io/CILJfcU2EV01mov/file

VA - A BUSHEL OF FIVE STRING BANJOS LP


 Some of that good old hillbilly music my dad used to listen to as I was growing up and what'd ya know, it includes one of his favorites Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs along with Carl Story, The Stanley Brothers, and Denver Duke with Jeffrey Null.  Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/en/bAwRzyOpUvK70hf/file

JERRY JEFF WALKER - ¡Viva Terlingua! LP 73 w Jerry Jeff tape 78


 This post for the cassette rip of the week so I added also the vinyl I had found at Goodwill.  This post needs more as he has many others in the country rock category.  Real name is Ronald Clyde Crosby and he is from New York and Austin where he passed on in 2020.

https://bestfile.io/Hm8nt504tJHC6Pd/file

HOLLYWOOD BOWL SYMP. ORCH. CARMEN DRAGON COND - CHOPIN For A Summer Night LP 57


 Per Discogs: Real Name:  Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin

Profile:  Born: 1 March 1810 (Duchy of Warsaw) at present Żelazowa Wola, Poland.

Died: 17 October 1849 (Paris, France).

Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation."

Chopin was born in the Duchy of Warsaw in a small town called Żelazowa Wola (eng. Steel Will), within months of his birth the Chopin family moved to Warsaw the capital of the Duchy, where Fryderyk grew up and learned to play; in 1815 the Duchy became the Kingdom of Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising. At the age of 21, he settled in Paris. Thereafter—in the last 18 years of his life—he gave only 30 public performances, preferring the more intimate atmosphere of the salon. He supported himself by selling his compositions and by giving piano lessons, for which he was in high demand. Chopin formed a friendship with Franz Liszt and was admired by many of his other musical contemporaries (including Robert Schumann). In 1835, when Chopin obtained French citizenship he became . After a failed engagement to Maria Wodzińska from 1836 to 1837, he maintained an often troubled relationship with the French writer Amantine Dupin (known by her pen name, George Sand). A brief and unhappy visit to Majorca with Sand in 1838–39 would prove one of his most productive periods of composition. In his final years, he was supported financially by his admirer Jane Stirling, who also arranged for him to visit Scotland in 1848. For most of his life, Chopin was in poor health. He died in Paris in 1849 at the age of 39, probably of pericarditis aggravated by tuberculosis.

All of Chopin's compositions include the piano. Most are for solo piano, though he also wrote two piano concertos, a few chamber pieces, and some 19 songs set to Polish lyrics. His piano writing was technically demanding and expanded the limits of the instrument: his own performances were noted for their nuance and sensitivity. Chopin invented the concept of the instrumental ballade. His major piano works also include mazurkas, waltzes, nocturnes, polonaises, études, impromptus, scherzos, preludes and sonatas, some published only posthumously. Among the influences on his style of composition were Polish folk music, the classical tradition of J.S. Bach, Mozart, and Schubert, and the atmosphere of the Paris salons of which he was a frequent guest. His innovations in style, harmony, and musical form, and his association of music with nationalism, were influential throughout and after the late Romantic period.

Chopin's music, his status as one of music's earliest superstars, his (indirect) association with political insurrection, his high-profile love-life, and his early death have made him a leading symbol of the Romantic era. His works remain popular, and he has been the subject of numerous films and biographies of varying historical fidelity.

https://bestfile.io/4P8IU4plObWkD3f/file

Jan Dukes de Grey - Mice And Rats In The Loft LP 71 w Sorcerers CD 70 w Strange Terrain CD 10


COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  I put the 1971 album first as that was the one the collector had posted long ago in my meta group.  Per Wiki: Jan Dukes de Grey was a short-lived English folk band that was primarily active in the early 1970s. Despite a relatively limited output and a lukewarm contemporary reception in terms of sales, the band has attracted a cult following and has seen a moderate revival of interest following the 2010 release of their previously completed but unpublished 1977 album, Strange Terrain. Jan Dukes de Grey are considered to have been among the least conventional musicians associated with the progressive folk scene and in particular their 1971 album, Mice And Rats In The Loft, has come to be viewed as a seminal British acid folk album and as one of the wildest relics of the florid post-hippie era. 

https://bestfile.io/en/u3Cp16jWeFZMsUJ/file

Jan Leef - We Will Survive CD 72 -cc


 COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs: Very little documentation exists on Jan Leef´s life and career. “Jan Leef” is probably a stage name he used when he privately released his one and only LP “We Will Survive” in 1972 on Gypsy Sound, a label established to the occasion. Very few copies were released (estimated to 200, “Rare Danish Records 1958 - 1977 - Inspiration and Priceguide” by Jan Rørbæk) and they never came out in regular record stores. Most of the copies were probably given away to friends and family members. His music is described as downer loner folk-psychedelica and some even compares Jan Leef with contempoary Nick Drake. No records are available on the web about any live events where Leef has performed his songs from 1972. “We Will Survive” has never been repressed although Jan Leef has been approached recently by interested people. According to rumors “Jan Leef” is still an active composer, but details are blurred and unconfirmed leaving the same mysterious aura around this unique artist who, maybe accidentally, made a little rough diamond unknovn to even hard core folk connoisseurs.

Recent sale of his record came as high as to 800€, which is remarkably given the fact that Jan Leef is still unknown to the vast mayority of the folk community as no copies of his LP are available.

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

Terry Frank - Loaded To FIre LP 81


 First of three great country rock posts from Josef (Austria) suggestions and Terry is from the band Black Cat Bone {not the movie about R.L. Burnside).  Great style and songs!

https://bestfile.io/en/qg3xNIVGcPByu4Q/file

Lou Ford - Sad, But Familiar CD 98


 Another very cool country rock suggestion from Josef (Austria).  Per Discogs:  Lou Ford, a band based in Charlotte, NC, named itself after a character from a Jim Thompson novel. The fictional Lou Ford was someone comprised of various layers, where what you saw on the surface wasn't really the whole story. The musical Lou Ford likes to describe itself the same way. At first glance, audiences and critics dubbed them country. Underneath, bandmembers say, they really are is more pop-oriented. The only things remotely country about the group, according to guitarist and vocalist Alan Edwards, are the bandmembers' soft Southern drawls. Before forming Lou Ford in Charlotte with his brother Chad Edwards, Alan Edwards was a member of Chocolate U.S.A. in New York, along with Julian Koster. Alan Edwards was a veteran traveler who spent time in several states, including Virginia, Georgia, and New York. On his travels through North Carolina, he became acquainted with bass player Mark Lynch while both were attending a Backsliders show. Seeing the makings of a band in his growing friendship with Lynch, he invited his brother to relocate from Georgia to North Carolina. Eventually they added Darrell Ussery on drums and John Morris on organ. Morris formerly was a member of Come on Thunderchild. The band's current lineup consists of Alan Edwards and Chad Edwards, both of whom sing and play guitar; Ussery on drums; Jason Atkins on organ and piano; and Jeffrey Larish on bass. At one time, the band also included Shawn Lynch, who was not related to Mark Lynch.  Artist Biography by Linda Seida.

https://bestfile.io/en/cxmXjnh0pMo1a3k/file

RILEY - Grandma's Roadhouse CD 71 10


 Another fine country rock selection by Josef (Austria).  Real name is Riley Watkins and this is all I could find about it but will say, sounds like a great place to hang out and play music!

https://bestfile.io/en/xICce7G3T0GB2yw/file

CLOVER - st CD 70 w Fourty Niner CD 71 w Unavailable CD 77 w Love On The Wire LP 77


REPOST Request:  Well, last post I had missed the first album and a later 7 from 1976 so more complete now.  American band which had a two part career, the first in the late 1960's and early 1970's in the USA and the second in the later 1970's in the UK. The group is most well known outside the US for their version of Route '66 in the Levis Jeans commercial.

The group was formed in San Francisco in 1967 when Johnny Ciambotti joined up with John McFee, Alex Call and Mitch Howie who were members of a group called the Tiny Hearing Aid Company. Clover's first gig was July 4 1967. They performed around the Bay Area over the next two years eventually signing with Fantasy in 1969. They recorded 2 albums and 14 single for Fantasy in the early 1970's.

Eventually an expanded line-up of the group moved to the UK in 1975 or early 1976. There they released 2 further albums, and (uncredited) backed Elvis Costello on his debut album My Aim Is True (1977). The group broke up in 1978 after returning to the US. Around 1976, Huey Lewis had joined this band (credited as Huey Louis) and appeared on the two final Clover albums released 1977.

THE BELLAMY BROTHERS - Featuring Let Your Love Flow LP 76 w Plain & Fancy CD 77 w Beautiful Friends CD 78 w The Two And Only LP 78 79 w When We Were Boys LP 82 w Wheels 7 85 w Greatest Hits tape 85 w The Best of the Best CD 92

REPOST and ADD ON:  Adding the top two releases from other blogs.  Per Discogs:  The Bellamy Brothers are an American pop and country music duo consisting of brothers David Milton Bellamy (born September 16, 1950) and Homer Howard Bellamy (born February 2, 1946), from Darby, Florida. Both graduated from University of Florida; Howard with a degree in veterinary medicine and David with a degree in psychology. David was a member of the Accidents in 1967. Both were members of Jericho from 1968-71. Moved to Los Angeles in 1975. Started own Bellamy Brothers label in 1992.

The duo had considerable musical success in the 1970's and 1980's, starting with the release of their crossover hit "Let Your Love Flow" in 1976, a Number One single on the Billboard Hot 100.

https://bestfile.io/en/SrKXpM07L9XSvim/file

FYI:  Gordon Lightfoot post re-upped last week:  https://bestfile.io/en/Ka8dm8Zns4iNzie/file


Monday, October 26, 2026

VA - RONCO FUNNY BONE FAVORITES LP 78


 Just going to list the artists and say HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!   To get 5 incredible compilations for HALLOWEEN 2026 you MUST CLICK THIS LINK and go to JONKY Blogspot to get them here:  https://jonderblog.blogspot.com/search?q=halloween+2026  This post here at DU includes:  C. Carpenter & Debbie Reynolds, Hollywood Argyles, Coasters, Cadets, Phil Harris, Reunion, Ray Stevens, Larry Verne, Rick Dees, John Zachdill (John Zacherle see extra post below), Shirley Ellis, Buzz Clifford, Clovers, The Olympics, Little Jimmy Dickens and Coasters.  Enjoy! (was in mint condition from Goodwill!!!)

https://bestfile.io/en/lhAOekhQUyP80M0/file

AVAILABLE SPACE Featuring CHERIE CAMP - st LP 81 w CHERIE CAMP - st LP 83


 A real nice couple of vinyl releases I hadn't heard before with great 80's tracks sent in my Gabe (thanks my friend...I have updated the side bar text to include all my great lists from DU blog followers!  Very grateful to you all!!  She was also an actress but no further info on discogs or wiki.  This post is for the till-year end theme I am doing called Lady Flash!

https://bestfile.io/en/5c25X8sISCgPWZT/file

VA - ALL STAR SPECTACULAR LP 59


 Looked Halloweenish to me with the cover having all those faces!  Features:  Tony Martin With Henri Rene AHO, Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians, Eddie Fisher With Hugo Winterhalter OAC, Count Basie AHO, Artie Shaw AHO, Perez Prado AHO, The Three Suns (first listen to them for me and I have a good half foot stack by this band so stay tuned!), Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York Boston Pops, Mario Lanza, Jeanette MacDonald with RCA Victor Orchestra and Ezio Pinza With Symphonic Orchestra.  Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/mcjjKcD0GTEIXoi/file

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