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Unlike Eddie
Forgive the length of this entry, but there’s very little information about our subject out there – and quite a bit of what is available in print or on the internet is wrong – so I felt the need to try...
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Man, Do I Like Friday
Search the Internet for as long as you like, but you’ll discover that very little – make that absolutely nothing – about Roy Esser, the ‘unusual’ vocalist on these two tracks. Issued as a 7” on J-Rad...
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Fly Like an Eagle
I’m not, by any stretch of the imagination, a sports fan. However even the most curmudgeonly among us would have to acknowledge the truly remarkable achievement of Team GB at the recent Olympics. Their...
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Death and Disaster, Tommy Dee Style
A couple of weeks ago I introduced you to the delights of Tommy Dee, the stentorial DJ who cut more than a dozen ridiculous records for various labels during his career, several of which dealt with the...
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Help, Man!
On September 28 this blog will celebrate its ninth anniversary: yes, I’ve been writing about bad music for that long. To celebrate, I asked readers (via our Facebook page) to nominate a favourite bad...
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More sides from Mrs Slydes
Most of you will already be acquainted with Leona Anderson: I’ve written about her a couple of times before but it’s always nice to revisit old friends, especially if you have something new to...
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What the Eff?
Happy Saturday, my friends!My recent shout-out for recordings that I have not previously written about turned up this little nugget. Fellow Blogger Bob at Dead Waxbrought this to my attention;...
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Lovely Sausages
Happy anniversary everybody! Yes, I started this very blog nine years ago this week, and to celebrate this auspicious occasion we have another disc that was suggested by a long-time WWR...
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Sing An Alexander Silver Song
A quick one today (no, I’m not having a go at the Who), but a goodie no less and a timely follow up to last week’s post I Want a Lovely, Lovely Sausage and Come to Robertson’s by Silver’s People.Today...
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Bel Canto Banshee
As you’ll all be very aware, for the last couple of years my life has been pretty much taken over by Florence Foster Jenkins, feted by many (including me) for the horrible quality of her singing.But...
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Keep It Under Cover
As mad as it may seem, in 1966 a man wearing a ski mask appeared on The Merv Griffin Show (a syndicated talk show started in 1965) on American TV singing a terrible song called The Covered Man. No, it...
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Groovin' With God
One of the oddest albums you’re likely to hear contains the psychedelic sermons of Pastor John V. Rydgren.Born February 14, 1932 Rydgren – also known as Brother John - was the head of the TV, Radio and...
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Arcesi's Baby
Born John Anthony Arcesi (pronounced 'RCC') in Sayre, Pennsylvania in February 1917 of Italian immigrant parents, John Arcesi turned professional after winning a talent contest organised by Blackstone...
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The Testament According to Albert DeSalvo
As Mick Jagger once asked: ‘Have you heard about the Boston Strangler?’Between 1962 and 1964 the city of Boston was terrorised by an ultra-violent serial killer, originally dubbed The Mad Strangler,...
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Bob's Your Uncle
Bob Monkhouse: does he need an introduction? Game show host, presenter, comedian, comedy scriptwriter and advertising spectre (he appeared, posthumously, in an award-winning ad campaign for Prostate...
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Christmas Cavalcade 2017 (Part One)
Hello folks! Yes, it’s that time of the year again – with just 23 days left until Christmas the next few WWR posts will concentrate on obscure, bizarre and just plain awful festive-themed discs, a...
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Christmas Cavalcade 2016 (Part Two)
Welcome to Part Two of this year’s Christmas Cavalcade. Three more awful festive-themed tracks for you to suffer along to.First up is a recording I was blissfully unaware of until yesterday, when The...
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Christmas Cavalcade 2016 (Part 3)
The first track from this week’s collection of festive futility is definitely rated NSFW – you have been warned.We’re kicking off (thanks to a timely reminder from my good friend the Squire) with the...
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Christmas Cavalcade 2016 (Part Four)
Here we go: the final instalment for this year.Today’s Christmassy selection kicks off with British Comedian Ken Goodwin, star of 70s TV who, some of you may recall, scored a hit in 1972 with the...
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It's Carnivale Time!
Happy almost New Year everybody! I have three tracks for you today from New Jersey’s Damian and the Criterions.Damian is Damian Vecchioli, and he and his ‘band’ the Criterions released at least three...
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