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Christmas at Easter

Happy Easter my friends! Something a little peculiar today, but something that seems perfectly suited to these peculiarly topsy-turvy times we’re living through currently… a Christmas record about the...

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What a Blast!

Usha Uthup is my new jam, as the kids might say.Indian singer and actress Usha - or Didi as she is known to her fans - was born in 1947 to a policeman father and a well-red mother and was raised in...

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Kay L. Gale: Composer-Singer

When I began writing this I couldn’t tell you a lot about Kay L. Gale, the woman behind today’s bagful of badness. However, by happy coincidence, someone else decided to blog about Kay at exactly the...

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Not So Much A Dream As A Nightmare

Today’s disc comes to you courtesy of my good friend, fellow Sheena’s Jungle Room DJ and oddball music enthusiast Rich Lindsay, host of the excellent Cratedigger’s Lung. I knew nothing of its existence...

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Sing It Again, Jim!

Avuncular, cardigan-wearing tenor Jim Noste would no doubt have loved to have been the Val Doonican of New Jersey, if only he knew who that was.Born in Newark, after serving his country in World War...

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Surprise!

A couple of tracks today from the gloriously off-key Edna Mae Henning, pianist, empress of Henning Surprise Records and songwriter of the most authentic country-western songs you’re ever likely to...

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Erica Sang

 The name Alice Armand may not mean much to you, but if you’re a fan of 1930s cinema the chances are you’ve seen her face.Born on 15 December 1890, as Erica Herrmann, and known to her family as...

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Camp Records

Happy Pride month everybody! To celebrate I thought I would relate the story of one of the oddest – and queerest - record companies of all time, Camp Records. If you have read the World's Worst Records...

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Tinkle Tinkle Dash Dash Dash

queermusicheritage.comOne of my all-time favourite records is the fey, fun Let’s All Be Fairies, issued in early 1933 by Durium records and recorded by the little-known Durium Dance Band. the song was...

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Why, Kay?

As it’s still officially Pride month (not that any of us are able to go out and celebrate in any real sense of the word) I thought it would be the ideal time to discuss one of the more obscure – and...

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Neither of Them Are Just Soldiers

 A real oddity for you today, a rare cover of an obscure Little Richard track, but one that has been taken to another level altogether.The anti-war polemic He’s Not Just a Soldier was originally...

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What's It All About, Johnny?

 A couple of song-poems for you today which I hope that most of you will not have heard before. They come from  my collection and I have not ripped them nor blogged about them before, so the chances...

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The Incomparable Mrs Miller

Mrs. Miller has featured a few times on this blog, but it's been eight years since I wrote about here in any detail, and seven since she appeared in my first book, the World's Worst Records Volume One....

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Piss Drinkers and Hell Raisers

Born on 31 December 1941, Sarah Miles is a British actress, best known for films including The Servant (1963), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), Blowup (1966), Ryan's Daughter...

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Father? Oh Brother!

When I was a wee lad, Patrick Cargill was ubiquitous. From playing a psychopathic Number Two in the classic Prisoner episode Hammer Into Anvil, to appearing in both Help! and the Magic Christian......

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Raving

Just a quick post today… I’ve been a bit distracted working on the new book and have not had a lot of time to search out new material to share with you, so today I’m delving into my song-poem archive...

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Jet Lady

Angela Masson is a true Renaissance woman: an artist, inventor, a decorated pilot, television host and – naturally – musician whose life we can but marvel at.Born in California, Angela began flying...

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(Just Like The) Son of Sam

If you’re a fan of Sam Sacks’ Sing It Again, Sam then Sam Chalpin’s My Father, the Pop Singer is the album for you: 10 songs mangled in the best Sam Sacks fashion, only with an au courant pop beat....

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Sonny, Buddy, Elmer and Dick

 If you were listening to the World’s Worst Records Radio Show this week, (and if you haven’t, you can do so now by clicking HERE) you would have heard me play a couple of tracks from one of my latest...

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The Eyes of Suzy Moppet

 It’s been more than seven years since I last wrote about the career of the late Tammy Faye Bakker (born Tamara Faye LaValley in 1942), and when I did I concentrated on her career as a solo singer. But...

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