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Puppets for Praise
I'm off on a well-deserved and much-needed holiday from today, but before I go here's a real treat for you, the whole of one of the more obscure Little Marcy albums, The Jesus Story. The information...
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Two More From Edna Mae
It was only a few months ago, May to be precise, that I first featured the deliriously wonderful Edna Mae Henning on this here blog. I would not normally revisit an artist so soon after first...
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Dreck of Cards
We’re going way back for today’s blog post, back to the 1940s, just a couple of years after the War had ended and almost a full decade before rock ‘n’ roll had infected the world’s youth. Deck of Cards...
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Tone Deaf, Treacle
Peter Dean, an actor best known here in Britain for playing Pete Beale in the long-running BBC soap opera EastEnders once recorded a single… and it’s every bit as horrible as you would hope! Can't Get...
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Sing It Again, Vince!
This fabulous little find comes courtesy of regular blog (and radio show) follower/contributor Stephen ‘Beany’ Green, who discovered this, on cassette, on one of his regular charity shop forays and was...
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Christmas Cavalcade 2020, Part One
Ho Ho Ho my friends! Yes, it’s that time of year again, and as we wind our way towards Christmas Day what better to keep you warm these cold winter nights than this year’s Christmas Cavalcade? Now, I...
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Christmas Cavalcade 2020, Part Two
It’s another Friday in December, and time for another couple of Christmas-themed oddities. And, to follow last week’s brace of Beatle novelties, here are two more for you to endure. First up is...
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Christmas Cavalcade 2020, Part Three
With just one week to go, it’s time for another couple of festive-themed tracks for you, all part of this year’s Christmas Cavalcade. First up is a find from our old friend Stephen ‘Beany’ Green, who...
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Democracy Inaction
Welcome, fellow mad music enthusiasts, to the first WWR blog post of 2021. You would think, after blogging about bad music for 14 years now, that I would have run out of terrible records to bring you,...
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The Legend of Jan Terri
I have featured Chicago-based singer and songwriter Jan Terri on the blog before, briefly mentioning the outsider music legend in the 2018 Christmas cavalcade, but its high time she had a dedicated...
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It's a Hit, By Cracky!
Here’s a fun little disc, not in any way ‘the worst’ of anything, but a real oddity that you might not have the opportunity to hear otherwise. Produced in 1967, the By Cracky Beat and flip side...
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New Town Animals
A fun little oddity for you today, in the shape of a one-sided flexidisc issued in 1979 by the marketing agency charged with trying to attract shoppers to Central Milton Keynes, and specifically to...
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Beatle Babies
As I’m sure you all know, as well as writing this blog and the occasional book, I also host a weekly show, The World’s Worst Records RadioShow, on Sheena’s Jungle Room, one of the online stations...
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Joe Tossini - Lady of Mine
A favourite of mine for several years now, Lady of Mineis the self-funded, independently-released 1989 debut LP by self-taught Italian-American musician Joe Tossini. After only owning a poor-quality...
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Gob On You
I am, once again, indebted to my good friend The Squire, for notifying me of this particular horror. Issued in 1981 by children’s educational recording specialist the Kid’s Stuff Company, Pink Panther...
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Exotic Adrian, The Not-so-Sweet Transvestite
Adrian Street (born 5 December 1940) is a retired Welsh professional wrestler, known for his flamboyant, androgynous wrestling persona, Exotic Adrian Street. He’s also the man behind a bunch of rather...
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Venus Calling
Once again, your help is required. Back in 2019 fellow obscure music blogger Bob, of Dead Waxand That’s All Rite Mama, sent me audio clips from both sides of a 45 that had been sold back in 2017 via a...
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Great Scott!
A pair of tracks today from an album I would desperately love to own a copy of. If anyone out there has access to the full album – or indeed owns a physical copy they would be willing to part with, do...
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A Sound Reputation
I’ve finally begun the arduous task of digitising my entire song-poem collection. It’s a job that will take months – I have hundreds of song-poem 45s and dozens of albums – but I reckon it will be...
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So Long, Frank Lyle Buck
A little follow-up to last week’s post. Last week I wrote a little about Globe, the Nashville-based studio that pumped out hundreds of song-poems and vanity projects by singers including Sonny Marshall...
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