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Another Trip to Venus
A short post today, but an interesting one (I hope).Last April I wrote about a disc I was desperate to source, a little thing called Venus, Land of Love, composed by Lawrence Milton Boren and recorded...
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It's Time For Eddy
Back in 2015, I posted on this here very blog about a disc I was desperate to track down, something I had heard short clips from on eBay but had missed out to another buyer when bidding. Now, after...
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Why So Glum, Lum?
Here’s an little record that is so obscure that there’s absolutely nothing written about it, or its creator, anywhere on the net. I can find nothing about him in the back issues of either Cash Box or...
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It Makes Me Want To Holler
Here’s a fun little album I’ve not featured before. A virtual window into a time gone by, Hollerin’ was issued by roots and rock ‘n’ roll specialists Rounder Records in 1976, but the competition that...
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Football Fiasco
Note: I've just realised that I wrote about this album six years ago, but as the links on that post (which were for different songs) are now dead, and some of the information was incorrect, you may as...
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Wham Zam, Thank You Man
In the last post, I mentioned Harold Spiro, a songwriter whose career I have touched upon occasionally on the blog, but without going into too much detail. Let me correct that now. Harold Jacob Spiro...
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Who Do You Think You Are Kidding?
Everyone knows Arthur Lowe, be it for the bumbling, bumptious bank manager George Mainwaring, captain of the Home Guard in the classic sitcom Dad’s Army, for being the original narrator of the BBC’s...
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I Hate That Duck
I have featured Orville, the not-so-little green duck sidekick of the late ventriloquist Keith Harris, on the blog before, but only in passing on a 2017 Christmas Cavalcade post. Today I shall go into...
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Easter Theatre
Described in the Tampa Bay Times as a ‘recording artist, country music showman, flea market huckster, roller-rink operator and newspaper publisher’, today’s post seems timely, both because of the...
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Mon Petit Isabelle
A short post today, which seems apt given the physical stature of the singer involved, although that is primarily because there is absolutely zero information about her out there on the old...
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The Singing Inventor
The disc I’m sharing with you today is a recent purchase (in fact, it only arrived at WWR Towers yesterday) but one I have been aware of for a while, and one I have played on the World’s Worst Records...
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Beware, the Kirchner Boys
Advertised as ‘the biggest little band in the land, with a sound three times their size’, the Bantams were three pre-teens from Venice, California who, in 1966, achieved a modicum of fame locally and...
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Two More from Lillay Deay
I thought today we would drop in on our old friend Lillay Daniels, aka Lila F. Daniels, aka Lillay Deay, singer, songwriter and owner of the wonderful Timely record label. Although I have written about...
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The True Story of the Brothers Butch
Two years ago, for Pride Month, I introduced you to the Brothers Butch (or the Butch Brothers, at the time no one knew for sure which version of the name to use), and speculated about who exactly was...
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Mr B. A. Tweten Sings
Mr. Bat Sings is one of those odd albums that regularly features on those ‘worst album art’ lists but – I would assume – few people have actually listened to. With the scary clown on the cover, why...
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Oh Brother!
The cuts I’m featuring today were recently gifted to me by Mr Fab, who until 2018 edited the mighty Music For Maniacs blog before establishing Sheena’s Jungle Room, the internet-based radio station...
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Whatever Happened to Simon?
Born in Manchester on 28 July 1935, Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd, known professionally as Simon Dee, was a British disc jockey and television personality, most famous for his twice-weekly BBC TV chat...
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Introducing Mandy
Mandy Rice-Davies, (born Marilyn Davies, 21 October 1944) is undoubtedly best known for her role in the 1963 Profumo scandal, the sex and spy shenanigans that rocked British society in the early 19860s...
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The Ballad of Red River Dave
Born in San Antonio, Texas, Red River on 15 December 1914, Dave McEnery (born David Largus McEnery) was an American artist, musician, and writer of topical songs who specialised in the darker side of...
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Ou Est Maddy Genets?
For today’s posting, I bring you one of those records that is a staple of those endless ‘worst album covers of all time’ lists but which has, until relatively recently, proved nigh on impossible to...
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