MP3 Truffles: Screaming Yellow Zonkers!

Some good mp3 finds out there this week, but first I have to confess to being utterly captivated by the theme song for Screaming Yellow Zonkers. Here's the truly awesome commercial from 1972 (YouTube or Quicktime), and an mp3 of the song. Found via Phoney Fresh.

7 Black Notes, a great blog for finding  for rare European, horror, and b-movie scores is retiring. So now is your last chance to pop over there and pick up some classic and hard to find rare scores like: Lalo Schifrin's Once A Thief; Les Baxter's Master of the World; the mock-horror classic April Fools Day; Fassbinder's weirdest starring role,  Kamikaze 1989 with music by Tangerine Dream's Edgar Froese; the unreleased Hammer-style score for Vincent Price's Scream and Scream Again;the terrifically cheesy 80s synth of Young Warriors; or one of the all time great soundtrack oddities - the Adam and Eve rock musical, The Apple! Note: these are all via that pesky RapidShare - which is only free for the first download, then makes you wait an hour or so to do anymore. Just do what I do: bookmark the page, then idly check it later on (I do about four downloads a day from them just by popping back). Or try this.

The "last" Lee Hazelwood album has been out in Europe, and finally hits the U.S. this week. He's still milking "Boots", but it's impossible to be hard on the guy - despite his age and ill health he still has it in him to crank out one more. There are some great video clips on his MySpace page, and you can grab a track from the album here. Oh, and here's a nice interview, filled with those usual Hazlewood moments.

In memory of Denny Doherty, here's his 1970s solo album, or for a quick fix here's Got A Feelin' from The Mamas & The Papas debut album. 

How do you like it? More more more MP3 finds after the jump!

• The Morning News' Andrew Womack looks at what many bloggers are considering the most anticipated releases for 2007. But even better than that, he launches a new "best of" series, starting with his choices for The Top 10 Albums of 1978. Wait a minute, should Brian Eno really be on there twice?
  
  
• Tim Fite - free on the internet and STILL supported by a label.
  
  
• Things I don't ever want to hear while exercising:
  
  1. "Pull the small of your back towards the heavens."
  2. "Open and close mouth, chewing in an exaggerated manner."
  3. "Tighten tighten tighten that buttox. In and out, in and out. Push push in in in in good good", especially when panted by Debbie Reynolds.
  4. Humans trying to emulate Dogtalk.


• Hmm. We don't have any good holiday songs for Columbus Day, do we? Well, someone tried. You may wish they hadn't.


• Hard to find early electronica music from late 70s pioneer John Bender.
  
  
• Home of the Groove continues a series of posts about Allen Touissaint with three versions of Blinded by Love. You would expect Etta James and Sam & Dave to crank out some good funk, but the real treat here is the version by Lydia Pense and Cold Blood.
  
  
• It's Tech-Xotica, the new mash-up compilation from RIAA. Let's admit it - being able to share music like this is why the internet was invented.


• "None of its members were musicians (or intended to become one) but they all liked music." Which is just one of the reasons why Columbian band Las Malas Amistades is so darn good. You've heard them here before, and now you can pick up some songs on their website (and even though it hasn't been updated in a while, their blog (en espanol) is rather entertaining as well).
  
  
• Jack McDuff chose a very unfortunate album cover. But the funk is very fortunate indeed.
  
  
• The Liverbirds...Liverpool's all-girl 60s rockers.
  
  
• What is wrong with liking Roland Kaiser? This is the kind of Euro-disco I live for.
  
  
• Country Moog or Nashville Moog? Hmmm, maybe cheesy 70s radio Moog. Heck with it, I'll just stick with the classics - Hot Butter!
  
  
• Tom Dowd meets Herbie Mann - and "the Kenny G of the sixties" is born.


• It's 1969 and that little brat Davey just got back from Disneyland. He just rode a brand new ride called Pirates of the Caribbean.


• There's classic radio shows, and then there's the Joani Loves Chachi radio play by the Quarter to 9 Players. But even that can't top Bill Murray as the Fantastic Four's Johnny Storm.


• It's hard to resist the strange voice of Annisette, singer for Danish Prog-rockers Savage Rose.


• Wait a minute...there is no Kim Fowley Junior. Well, maybe he mated with his glam self.
  
  
• Dusty Springfield sings in German, plus some others do it for her, including WFMU blog favorite Vicky Leandros.

Comments

[Krys O.]

I was addicted to Screaming Yellow Zonkers in my youth even loving the font they used on the cover. Reading the box was almost as fun as eating them. Yum! Psychedelic junk food.

Screaming Yellow Zonkers!

[sly]

I agree about rapidshare sucking . .. I'm not sure why so many people insist on using it when sendspace and megaupload are so much better!

[Brian Turner]

Gosh, "Lee Hazelwood" and "milking" are certainly two phrases I never thought to put together in the same sentence.

[Kevin]

Does that zonkers guy in the picture resemble Peter Parker / Tobey Maguire to anyone else?

[Rev. Marcus Burkhard]

I thought he looked like Tobey Maguire when I first saw it too. Also I think you may have misspelled The Mamas and the Papas as The Mams and the Papas.

[ResidentClinton]

What a difference an "a" makes!

[ResidentClinton]

Oh, and there are a ton of other good soundtrack blogs out there! I just had to mention 7 Black Notes because they won't be up much longer. But future posts will include more.

[Webster Hubble Telescope]

Yes, on the Spidey resemblance. As I recall, every other kid looked like him back them.

[Downloader]

Rapidshare- I just reboot my dsl modem and get a new ip adress. Clear your cache and cookies too. PITA but a lot quicker between downloads than the enforced wait. Haven't tried it for a while but it used to work.

[Krys O.]

I'm surprised that no one mentioned that the guy in the Screaming Yellow Zonkers video looks like a teenage Steve Buscemi.

[Dale Hazelton]

Zonkers...HUGE kernels of popped corn that put Cracker Jack to shame, and that super buttery flavor, chemically-enhanced yelo color, mated with natures greatest seasoning: SUGAR, and tons of it. Cracker Jack definitely lost market share when all the prizes started becoming stupid little 4-page "books". Zonkers were for far-out kids and Cracker Jack hadn't changed since Grampa's day. Engineered foods like Zonkers and Pringles in a can, plus unsafe toys like glass-shrapnel-producing "Klackers" defined childhood.

"Popcorn" is a favorite (I hate to admit it-- so is "Keem-o-sabe" by Electric Indian), I look forward to checking out the whole album.

Lee Hazelwoods "Cowboy in Sweden" should be on everyones must-have list.