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Dave Allen at Large
Issued in February 1969, The Good Earth is theonly single released by the legendary Irish comedian Dave Allen. If you don’t know whom I’m talking about get Googling now: Allen was easily one of the...
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This Is Elvis
Come on in and meet the elusive Elvis Pummel, the primitive rock ‘n’ roller often referred to as Swedish but seemingly from Dortmund, Germany – a place where genius and madness merge into a subtle...
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Teenage Dream
Teenagers, according to New Scientist magazine, are a uniquely human phenomenon, known to be ‘moody, insecure, argumentative, angst-ridden, impulsive, impressionable, reckless and rebellious.’ Sounds...
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Something Extra
Many - if not all - of this blog's regular followers will already know that we have a reasonably active Facebook page. If you're not already following the World's Worst Records on Facebook you might...
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Now That's Just Sick
Born on August 10, 1922 - exactly 42 years before me, fact fans - Al Alberts was an American singer and television presenter, and a founding member of the vocal group the Four Aces.Born Al Albertini in...
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What The Cluck?
I was directed towards this particular ghastly recording by our old friend The Squire– a man whose taste in music is possibly even more eclectic than my own – so you can blame him for my inflicting My...
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Let's Go Surfin'
There are at least five recorded versions of the classic teen death disc Surfin’ Tragedy– well, I am aware of five and I present all of them to you today. No doubt if there are other recordings of this...
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Sex With Miss X
Not a bad record this week, but a distinctly peculiar one, and one I feel obliged to share with you, Christine backed with S-E-X, issued in 1963 by Ember Records in the UK (the song was also issued in...
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Dead links
Hi everybody: just a quick update.Divshare - the file sharing system I've been using for a number of years - has been down for a few weeks. It's back up now but the majority - if not all - of the older...
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Four More From Grace
Joy of joys! Four more cuts from the hideously inept Grace Pauline Chew for you to marvel over.First up is Musicart 316/317: Don Valino with the Celebrity Singers and the Magictones performing There’s...
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Volume Two
Did I tell you I had a book out? Here's some blurb from the press release.Available from April 1 2015, The World’s Worst Records Volume Two tells the extraordinary but true stories behind some of the...
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Thanks Sweetie
A bit of a mystery for you today, and one I’m hoping you can help me solve. Here, in slightly truncated versions (I snaffled ‘em off of eBay) are both sides of what appears to be the only 45 by one...
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There's No Business
A revisit today with our old friend Jess Conrad – and his friends the Showbiz XI charity football team.The Showbiz XI was set up in 1957 and over the years raised a lot money for good causes, arranging...
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Crazy, Man, Crazy
A real treat for you today: a brace of cuts from one of the most peculiar albums issued in that decade of peculiar albums, the 1960s.Feted by serious collectors of psychedelia and the avant garde,...
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Get Rubbing
Today’s track, the A-side of a 1968 single released by the Birmingham-based band The Exception, is a blot on an otherwise exemplary and, in the history of the British folk-rock scene, important musical...
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If You Go Down To the Woods Today
Today’s brace of badness comes from veteran British rock ‘n’ roller Jackie Lynton – who same of you may know through his association with Status Quo – still rocking and rolling today after more than 55...
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Not Like A Song At All
Although I have been editing this blog for almost eight years now, I think that this maybe the first time I have featured an instrumental as the plug track. Sure I’ve included instrumental B-sides in...
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And Dream Of Sheep
In the second volume of The World’s Worst Records I wrote a chapter on singing animals, mentioning the first of today’s brace of badness. However I’ve only just become aware of the second disc, so here...
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Dream On
Only one track today principally because – on this particular record – the same track appears on both sides. The only difference between the two versions of Like a Dream is that, on the A-side of the...
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Teen Age Sing Along
Issued by Warner Bros in the US in 1960, Crazy, Top 40 & Cool is a precursor – of a kind – to those awful Top of the Popsalbums that filled supermarket shelves in the 60s and 70s here in Britain...
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