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Yellow Peril
The Ballad of the Green Berets is one of the most famous pro-Vietnam songs of all time, Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler’s patriotic march was a hit around the world, making Number One on the Billboard...
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From Cyprus With Love
Emin Hassini (or possibly Hussini) was born in Cyprus in 1948. In 1965 he moved to New York as a 17-year-old to join his brother, Anthony Hassini who, in 1968, would become the founding member of the...
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Don't Dilly Dally
Today is one of the darkest says in world politics; it’s also the 50th anniversary of the Beatles recording their masterpiece A Day in the Life– and should the tangerine hate machine push the button, I...
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Brady Brats
Did we ever 'get' the Brady Bunch in Britain? I have vague memories of the spin-off cartoon series, The Brady Kids, airing on a Saturday morning in the mid 70s – but maybe as we already had our own...
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Here Kitty Kitty
Turkish adult film actress Figen Han, born Nevval Karpuz in February 1950, appeared in 73 movies – many of them insane sex comedies - between 1966 and 1983. Known as (literally ‘sex fury’) these films...
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Maturing Disgracefully
Here’s a real oddity, a sex education album with a religious bent, issued in 1968 by Monsann Enterprises of New York.Featuring well-known session musicians including jazz guitarist Eric Gale, bassist...
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Hot Sauce
I feel I have sorely neglected all of you song-poem fans of late, so to make up for that here’s a brace of badness from the 2008 Hilltop Records compilation America. Hilltop is that rarest of song poem...
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Wrestling with the Past
Robert Pawlikowski, better known by his professional name Zoogz Rift, was an American musician, painter and professional wrestler.Born on July 10, 1953, Zoogz issued more than 20 albums, many of them...
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Do You Want to Lick Me?
Paris-based Phil O’Kings, or Phill O’Kings or perhaps even Phil O’Kins (he was credited with a different spelling on each of his 45s) released a handful of Eurodisco singles in France in the mid 80s....
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A Road Trip with the Swinging Strings
A song poem record today, originally posted by our good friend Bob Purse over at the no longer updated WFMU blog. I’m reposting this for a couple of reasons, firstly because you need to get a copy...
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Clothing Optional
Easily one of the most peculiar albums issued is the 1962 release Strip Along With Us – ten tracks recorded by a nightclub quartet of music to take your clothes off to. Well, probably not your clothes,...
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Baby Deranged
Over the last few weeks – between a myriad of other assignments - I’ve been watching the deliciously camp confection that is Feud, the eight-part soap opera by the team behind American Horror Story....
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It's Shaun's Show
Although I have not featured this artist (or this record) on the blog before, this somehow feels familiar… like revisiting old friends.Born on September 27, 1958 in Los Angeles, Shaun Cassidy was still...
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Let's Lock!
It’s not unusual, as Tom Jones sang, for non-English speaking countries to jump aboard the current western pop bandwagon and launch their own indigenous version of the latest craze. Many countries had...
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Anti Maim
This week's blog was inspired by a suggestion from a reader. Thanks! (I think!)Lucille Ball was an American institution: actress, model, television executive and slapstick star without whom - its...
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Elvis Tribute: One of an Ongoing Series
Dissing Elvis tribute discs is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel, but this morning I have a taste for pollocks, and there’s something decidedly fishy about today’s terrible tribute. As we mark the...
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Falsie Advertising
Sit back, relax and enjoy...A real curio for you today - both sides of an advertising flexidisc put out - judging by the Lyntone matrix number - at some point around 1983/4.Promising to titillate its...
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Good evening Mesdames and Messieurs.As I’m sure you are already aware, this weekend sees the final of the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest, the annual celebration of all that is camp, kitsch and ridiculous...
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Dora's World
What a fascinating, if frustratingly difficult to research, character Dora Hall is. The woman released close on 20 albums and over 100 45s in around 15 years (she seems to have been most active between...
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Who Is Tilted Tim?
Who was (or possibly still is) Tilted Tim?Recorded and issued in 1992, Fate Has Made a Mess of My Jeans is the only album thus far from Tilted Tim. Sadly there’s very little I can tell you about Tim,...
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