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Thirteen Minus Two
Inspired by a recent comment on this here very blog, I have just purchased a copy of the rather splendid Eleven Plus Two by brother and sister act the Twintones. And I’m so glad that I did.Issued by...
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Beyond the Pale
In twelve years, and in over 540 posts (this is, in fact, blog post 543) how on earth (pun intended) have I managed to ignore writing about the Christian Astronauts, otherwise known as the Shoup family...
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Mad Charles
What can I tell you about Mad Charles, the world’s first karate robot, or the man behind it/him, Eugene G. Viscione?In 1975 Eugene Viscione, under the name “UGE” (eUGEne, geddit?) released a single...
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Hallmark Halmark
Just a short blog today, partly because I am away from home currently but also because I wanted to get another couple in before we begin our annual Christmas Cavalcade. But mostly because I am staying...
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Dismal Diana
Today’s terrible tune comes from the pen of one Eric Paul Smith, an architect from Audenshaw, Manchester who woke up one day in 1981 and – inspired by the recent news of their engagement - decided to...
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Christmas Cavalcade 2019 Part One
Every year this gets a little bit harder. Every December since 2009 I’ve tried to bring you a cornucopia of Christmas-themed crapness, in an annual Christmas Cavalcade of terrible records. After a...
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Christmas Cavalcade 2019 Part Two
Happy Friday my friends, and welcome to the second of three Christmas collections for 2019: another four tracks of festive foolishness just for you.First up is a brace of tracks from the brilliant...
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Christmas Cavalcade 2019 Part Three
T’was the night before Christmas… well, the Friday before, anyway. And here, for the final time this year, is another assortment of festive foolishness for you. I’ve raided my own song-poem collection...
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Rodd and Friends
Happy almost New Year, my friends.A couple of tracks from song-poem sensation Rodd Keith for you today, in fact, both sides of a Preview 45 from late 1967, Nobody Knows What Love Will Do (written by...
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone… and as it’s a New Year what better for this week’s blog post than a couple of New Year-themed songs?First up is Mae West and My New Year’s Resolution, from her 1966 album Wild...
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The Sheik of Ab-Cheri
It’s been a while – almost exactly 10 years to be precise – since we last featured Frank Perry on this here blog, so let’s make up for that now with a pip of a song-poem 45 from Sandy Stanton’s Film...
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Hooray for Harry-Wood
It’s a rare event when this blog features a novelty record, but this is such a great one – and the tracks have been going down a storm on The World’s Worst Records Radio Show– that I feel it is more...
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New England's Finest
A recent discovery, and someone I shall be featuring over the coming weeks on the World's Worst Records Radio Show.Currently living in Raleigh, North Carolina, Tom Arico is a New England musician who,...
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A Song-Poem Valentine (or Two)
Happy Saint Valentine’s Day, everyone!A couple of Valentine-themed song-poems for you today: if you’d like to hear more can I suggest you check out this week’s World’sWorst Records Radio Show– a...
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That's Really Super, SuperClaire
Blog readers of a certain age will have memories – fond or otherwise – of It’s ‘Orrible Being In Love (When You’re Eight and a Half), the solitary hit single fromClaire and Friends, issued by BBC...
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No Business
The King Brothers were a British pop vocal trio who achieved the peak of their fame in the early years of British rock ‘n’ roll.Best remembered for recording Six-Five Jive, written specifically for...
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Katinka, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor
The House of Music (or The Music House Volume One as the title appears on the disc’s labels), is one of the oddest things I have purchased recently. Just seven tracks, totalling a tad under 19 minutes,...
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Sing, Anna-Lisa, Sing!
A new discovery, well new to me anyway, the bonkers-as-all-get-up Swedish singer Anna-Lisa Ingemanson.Born in Stockholm in 1909, she released at least two albums, Musik Med Trio and Med Orkester, and a...
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Just Quackers
A recent discovery for me, but apparently somewhat well-known in the North of England at the end of the 70s and into the early 80s is comedy ventriloquist Penny Page and her little multicoloured...
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Boy Blunder
This week I have a disc for you that, I’m sorry to say, I did not know existed until a few days ago. Not, in fact, until regular WWRRS listener Dennis Bookwalter brought it to my attention. And I will...
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