Greetings, audio sports fans! Today we have a stellar matchup between two heavyweights of the arts. WFMU Erzatz Sports is proud to present: the challenger, Sebastian Cabot, weighing in at...well...nobody exactly knows. His acting skills will be pitted against the feather-light, but jam-packed-with-talent Mr. Bob Dylan, who will defend his title as master poet and songwriter against this man-mountain of ham and cheese - Mr. Cabot, known to his rivals as "Killer Cabot", or just "The Grease Monkey".
Today we will hear match (side) one of this famous bout, in six rounds. With album production credits as follows: arranger, Irving Spice; director, Lou Stallman; conceived by, Stan Catron; and director of engineering, Val Valentin. Fans of William Shatner's The Transformed Man will be better prepared to endure the carnage which ensues in this fight. We'll be back in two weeks to broacast the resulting final six rounds of this classic mis-match (on Saturday, October 15th, at six pm EST). The full album cover art front and back is found here - and a special bonus Fight Poster can be found here. Everyone will want a program for this historic battle!
Here goes the first flurry of blows: 01 Who Killed Davey Moore? 02 It Ain't Me, Babe 03 Boots of Spanish Leather 04 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 05 Tomorrow's a Long Time 06 Blowin' in the Wind
Stunning. Or something. The Davey Moore is actually pretty fun listening, but the rest of it gets a bit tedious... Anyway, crazy find! I7d expect no less from WFMU.
Posted by: Samm Bennett | October 03, 2011 at 08:02 AM
This lp is pretty well-known, actually. I just felt like hearing the whole blamed thing and passing it down in better quality than is probably available at the other places where it is downloadable. Back when I used to collect a lot of 'celebrity' records it was never that near the top of my want list, but going through it all again to transfer it I did like it better than I'd remembered. Hang on for side two - it has its moments!
Posted by: Mindwrecker | October 03, 2011 at 10:03 AM
I know some of these from Rhino's "Golden Throats" comps.
You'll later be posting the "Like a Rolling Stone", I hope?
Posted by: Andy Lester | October 03, 2011 at 11:51 AM
Why would WRCR let that LP go?
Posted by: Listener Ralphine | October 03, 2011 at 04:16 PM
Ha, I just pulled this LP out last week while setting stuff aside for a tentative yard sale (if you are in Jamaica Plain, MA. this coming saturday you may be able to score this LP.) I agree that it's funny for a song or two and then quickly gets tedious, but then lots of novelty records are like that.
Posted by: illlich | October 04, 2011 at 03:51 PM