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365 Days #287 - Don Moreland (mp3s)

Today's post is sort of a follow-up to the Merigail Moreland page I posted a few weeks ago. Heard on a few of the tracks for that day was Merigail's father, Mr. Donovan Moreland. Today I've provided several tracks featuring Don Moreland, either alone or as part of a group, as well as a few other tracks heard on the same tapes as these tracks, recordings I believe that Mr. Moreland was likely involved in as well.

MP3:
01. Don Moreland - Why (3:04)
02. Don Moreland - Pennies From Heaven (Joke Version) (Live) (1:55)
03. Don Moreland - Why (Live) (2:15)
04. Don Moreland - September Song (Live) (2:59)
05. Don Moreland and Herb - Songs of Tomorrow, Part One (5:05)
06. Don Moreland and Herb - Songs of Tomorrow, Part Two (3:43)
07. Don Moreland and Herb - Songs of Tomorrow, Part Three (5:53)
08. Rose Ramirez - Come Back (2:15)
09. Unknown Vocal Group - Backfire (Version One) (2:17)
10. Unknown Vocal Group - Backfire (Version Two) (2:19)
11. The Notables - The Notables (8:51)
Image: Acetate

For the background on how I came across these tapes, please see the previous post on Merigail Moreland. Incidentally, in my own blog, I have posted several other Merigail Moreland tracks, including tracks I left out of the 365 days posting, and several songs she recorded around 1980, recordings which I received in the mail the same week that Merigail's post appeared in this blog.

Don Moreland's recording have relatively little in common with his daughter's recordings, but their is a fairly wide variety here, from standard pre-rock-era pop music to an almost song-poem like segment, to parodies of singing commercials, meant to sell the talents of the singers.

I have learned from his family that Don Moreland worked in the last days of Vaudeville, and played guitar and sang in a group, The Three Oxford Boys, after being in the Navy, and that this group appears in the film "DuBarry Was a Lady" (1943). Around that same time, Don and his wife had a daughter, and eventually moved to southern Wisconsin. This was followed by a move to Rolling Meadows, IL, where he became involved in Chicago area radio, nightclubs and advertising. Everything heard here was recorded during the 1950's, after Don's career in Chicago began."

365 Days #286 - Terri "Cup Cake" O'Mason - Stag Party Special #4 (mp3s)

MP3:
Side One:
01. Introduction/Des Moines (4:35)
02. Limericks 1 (0:26)
03. Mother (1:38)
04. Limericks 2 (0:26)
05. Men, One to A Hundred (2:09)
06. Limericks 3 (0:27)
07. Love Is A Wonderful Thing (2:33)
08. Limericks 4 (0:25)
09. Vitamins (3:01)
Side Two:
10. Introduction/Relax (4:12)
11. Limericks 5 (0:23)
12. The Love Affair (1:39)
13. Limericks 6 (0:25)
14. Have A Good Time (3:09)
15. Limericks 7 (0:24)
16. Triangle (1:31)
17. Limericks 8 (0:21)
18. Mademoiselle (5:15)

Fans of the 2003 365 Days Project may remember a charming song called "Cupcakes" sung by Miss Terri "Cup Cake" O'Mason. Miss O'Mason was a burlesque performer who signed a contract in 1960 with Fax Records to record for their "Stag Party Special" series of LPs. And where "Cupcakes" (from Stag Party Special Number 2) is a mere taste of her unique talents, here's a full on dessert; "Stag Party Special Number 4; 'Back for Seconds' ". The back cover proclaims, "She's back again, brighter, better, more daringly naughty than before." And from the sound of it, drunker as well.

This is an audio experience soaked in gin and smelling of smoke and Old Spice. Terri sings bawdy songs, recites bawdy limericks and tosses off bawdy words like "made", "piece", "tail" and "fairy". Plus she mentions The Russians and The Kinsey Report, so you know it's timely.

A shower may not actually wash away the sticky feeling one has after listening to this entire LP, but it helps.

365 Days #285 - Peter Haas and "Bugs" Bower / The Cricketones Chorus & Orchestra - The Jungle Book Adventures of Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli (mp3s)

MP3:
Running Free (Mowgli's Theme) (1:56)
For a Friend (3:15)

"Running Free" is a theme for Mowgli from an original kiddie-record adaptation of Kipling's Jungle Book. The lyrics, by Peter Haas, are okay if a bit uninspired, but the music by "Bugs" Bower works a treat; it's unexpectedly lovely and haunting. The B-side, "For a Friend," is more what you might expect from this sort of thing, but it's fun; I particularly enjoyed the occasional interjections of "dope-dee-doh!" (So I'm simple sometimes. So sue me.)

The credits for this are a bit convoluted. The single is on the Cricket label (an imprint of Pickwick), and credits "The Cricketones Chorus & Orchestra" as the performers. Like Peter Pan's "Caroleers," however, this seems to be an in-house name subject to change per marketing whims. These songs were originally released as part of a full LP on the Happy Time Records label (another imprint of Pickwick), which credits the performers as "The Ron Marshall Voices" on the label and as "The Happy Time Chorus and Orchestra" on the cover, and credits Haas and Bower, who apparently collaborated on a lot of these adaptations for Happy Time sometime in the 1960s.

If anybody's interested, somebody's selling a copy of the LP on ebay right now for $12.99 (which is the only reason I know the LP exists).

- Contributed by: Corey K.

Images: Label (front), Label (back), LP Cover, LP Label, LP Back

Media: 45rpm 7" Single
Album: The Jungle Book Adventures of Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli
Label: Cricket
Catalog: C-172A & C-172B
Credits: The Cricketones Chorus & Orchestra; Story & Lyrics by Peter Haas; Music by "Bugs" Bower

365 Days #284 - Chet Bolins - All American Masher (mp3s)

MP3:
01 All American Masher (3:12)
02 Boom Boom (2:53)
03 Rock n Roll on the Radio (3:30)
04 Avenue of Love (3:11)
05 Without Love (3:51)
06 Love Mugger (3:14)
07 Animal for Your Love (4:31)
08 Willie the Snake (3:29)
09 Superman Love (2:40)
10 Dance the Night Away (2:51)

Of all the weird viny records I have owned, it's the Chet Bolins album "All American Masher" that has received the most enthusiasm by people with some knowledge of the Chet Bolin Band. From the time I purchased it in 1984 to two decades later, I didn't know much about it either, but the enthusiasm got me to look into it.

Bolins is the song de plume of Chris Darway, who fashioned a weird sort of new wave lounge act persona with his wife. They apparently became somewhat legendary in the Philadephia area and a little more of the story is told here.

As for me, I picked it up sealed for 88 cents at Sounds Records on St. Mark's Place in 1984. I was there with a girl I had fallen madly for and wouldn't have even bought the record if she hadn't urged me to. She was on her way to live in England and I was pretty sure I wouldn't see her again. She had a good sense of humor and great taste in music, I trusted her instinct and picked it up.

Two days later and I had that album (red vinyl!) to show for the day and the girl was gone. A few songs are great fun, a few aren't easy to get through, but the title track is one of my favorites ever, an obscurity that deserves more recognition in this world.

I have kept the album all these years and cherished it, a nice reminder of that day with that special girl. As luck would have it, though, the girl eventually popped up in my life again, we ended up getting married and having kids together. I'm not quite sure she's as fond of Chet as I am, but I'm sure she understands the soft spot I have for him.

- Contributed by: John Mitchell

Image: Cover

365 Days #283 - Unknown Band (mp3s)

There was a store in Bristol, Tenn. that closed down a couple of years ago. It was primarily a book store, but it also sold such things as old records, old stereos. and reel-to-reel tapes. The material here comes from a couple of those reels that I bought.

I don't know the name of this group, and there's no listing of songs - I have to go by what's being played and sung in order to tell you what the songs are. Yes, folks - We're going into "Dante's Cover-Version Inferno" again.

This rock band is apparently from the NE Tenn./SW Va. area, and these reels seem to have been recorded in the late-60's.

The 1st reel consists of instrumentals recorded directly to tape. The 2nd reel is filled with songs not only played, but sung by the group. The songs on the 2nd reel were dubbed onto the tape - and not very well. I had to do some filtering-and-maximizing to get these close to listenable.

Whoever these guys are, and whatever they're doing nowadays - Here's to ya!

MP3:
Reel 1
Walk - Don't Run (2:02)
A Taste of Honey (2:13)
Wipeout (4:34)
Comin' Home (1:10)

Reel 2
Good Thing (2:04)
Happy Together (1:54)
Steppin' Stone (2:34)
Red Rubber Ball (4:04)
  (Unlike The Cyrkle, These guys throw in an instrumental break!)
Louise (2:24)
Blistered (3:45)
Color My World (3:40)
Kicks (4:20)
"Time ... to turn the tape ... overrr." (:07)
  (Proof that the musical material is a bad dub.
  This guy records directly onto the tape to make this announcement.)
Wipeout (3:46)
Walk - Don't Run (1:50)
Comin' Home (3:44)
  (These guys really get jammin', then the song gets rudely cut off.)

Various
Cherish (3:40)
Love Me Not Tomorrow (2:51)
The Shadow Of Your Smile (3:47)
Poor Side of Town (4:14)
Softly As I Leave You (4:11)
  (The rest of the songs have varying cases of "bass overbleed".
  I tried to cut the volume in these spots on the sound files.)

Images: Jack Fives, Shamrock

- Contributed by: Sammy Reed

365 Days #282 - Road To Revolution... Where The Reds Play The Blues... (mp3s)

The first entry here is a 10 inch I found at a garage sale. It caught my eye right away, the fellow on the cover gave me a feeling like he was really determined to walk down that road of revolution, but if he could, he would walk right over and kick my ass. So i bought it, the RED DETACHMENT OF WOMEN a ballet performed by the Peking Opera Troupe recorded by the China record company, 1972...now chinese opera is very strange to western ears, but quite enjoyable.

1 Red Detachment of Women - Side One (16:40)
  Prologue: Escape from Tigers Maw
  Scene One: Chang-Ching points out the road to revolution
2 Red Detachment of Women - Side Two (16:10)
  Scene One: Road to Revolution
  Scene Two: Ching-Hua tells of her grievances and joins the red army
Image: Cover

Next I have Toronto new wave artist BB GABOR, he passed away some time ago, but left us with some great cold war music. Recorded in 1979, on the defunked canadian label Anthem records. If you are ever in Toronto you can find his album in the 99 cent bins. Soviet jewellery was actually a top 10 hit in Toronto, a nice cold war propaganda new wave song! the b-side is my favorite.. MOSCOW DRUG CLUB, a "traditional russian sounding song" with cold war "comical" lyrics.

3 BB Gabor - Soviet Jewellery (2:38)
4 BB Gabor - Moscow Drug Club (4:26)
Image: Cover

Then we have PEE-WEE KING, a western swing 78 on RCA, "THE RED DECK OF CARDS", pure cold war propaganda music, it is a take on DECK OF CARDS, which was a country hit at the time, enjoy!

5 Pee-Wee King - Red Deck of Cards (2:59)

- Contributed by: Evil Pain Clown

365 Days #281 - The Singing Farmer (mp3s)

MP3:
1 Everywhere I Go (3:07)
2 God Bless The Hills (1:51)
3 Thank You (1:59)
4 Such Lovely Things (3:08)

Back in the 'sixties it seemed that almost anyone could become a pop star and the charts were often filled with singing nuns, singing postmen and even singing animals. But one contender who has been left out of the history books is religious vocalist Michael Sedgwick, known to many (well to his family at least) as The Singing Farmer.

The sleeve text reveals that Michael was actually a classically trained singer. He was once a member of the popular George Mitchell Singers, but had to give it all up to help run the family farm. Later he relaunched himself in a local operatic society, which eventually led to appearences on a religous radio show, BBC Radio 2's 'Five To Ten' show (no I haven't heard of it either). His arranger was well-known organist George Blackmore and they present songs from the show on this EP, sung in the style of a wandering minstrel.

The songs are a little twee but they have a certain something which I can't quite put into words. Amazingly Thank You is penned by Roy Budd collaborator Jack Fishman but it's a long way from the funky songs on the Get Carter soundtrack. Here, against a happy-go-lucky harpshicord backing, Michael praises the good Lord for all manner of "lovely" things from the hills and the sky, to "every note of music". Judging by the way he's gazing at the little lamb on the sleeve this creature is another such "lovely thing", especially served with vegetables and mint sauce. Yummy.

I can find no further info about The Singing Farmer but the sleeve notes reveal that Michael's regular accompanist was keyboard player Ron Tandy. He passed away in 2000 and the Oxford University Library Newsletter carried the following obituary:

"Ron Tandy
We announce with great regret the death on Friday 9 June at the age of eighty-seven, of Ron Tandy, known to generations of readers and Bodleian friends as a stalwart member of the staff of the Map Room. He joined the Library as a Bodley Boy in 1928 at the age of fifteen, and apart from war service in the RAF, remained on the staff until his retirement in 1978. Retirement, however, was hardly the word, since for about ten years after this he continued to be an arts presenter for BBC Radio Oxford in the programmes Cabbages & Kings, and Tandy on Sunday. He was himself much involved in the local arts scene. Already in the RAF he had formed a comedy act with Ted Cordeaux, later the Law Librarian, and in later years performed in cabaret with Michael Sedgwick 'The Singing Farmer'. In addition he played a lively part in the social life of the Library, in the Drama Group and the staff parties. He was perhaps best known as Musical Director, for over twenty-five years, of the Abingdon Operatic Society, which he did much to establish as one of the major local societies. On his retirement from the directorship he was elected Life President in recognition of his services, and took a keen interest in its activities until quite recently."

- Contributed by: David Noades

Images: Front Cover

Media: EP
Label: Pilgrim
Year: 1969
Catalogue: EP XPR3063
Credits: Musical arrangements by George Blackmore

365 Days #280 - Tony Randall - Vo Vo De Oh Doe (mp3s)

MP3:
01 Byrd (1:41)
02 Cecilia (2:31)
03 Stumbling (1:44)
04 Lucky Lindy (2:04)
05 Winchester Cathedral (2:23)
06 Boo Hoo (2:49)
07 Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore (2:53)
08 You're Gonna Lose Your Gal (2:15)
09 Wilkomen (2:10)
10 Doo Wacka Doo (2:06)

Tony Randall's "Vo Vo De Oh Doe" album has it all over "The Odd Couple Sings" in several ways. For one, he doesn't have to contend with Jack Klugman's rusty pipes. For another, he doesn't have to play the role of Felix Unger in his delivery.

That doesn't make it normal, however. Randall doesn't exactly play it straight with a lot of these "olde tyme" numbers - and there is a weird psychedelic component to the production.

- Contributed by: John Mitchell

Image: Cover

365 Days #279 - The Credibility Gap - Something for Mary (mp3s)

MP3:
The Credibility Gap - Something for Mary [Wha Happen, Girl? / Freedom Is a Four-Letter Word / Good Mornin', Joseph / Intermezzo / Outermezzo: Wise Up, People / Nazareth Nocturne] (4:37)

The Credibility Gap were the unsung heroes among 70s comedy troupes. Starting as a group of newsmen doing humorous commentary for the Los Angeles AM rock radio station KRLA in the late 1960s, as the more news-oriented members departed they were replaced by comedians. By 1971 the classic lineup of Richard Beebe, David L. Lander, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer had coalesced. Between broadcasts that year they recorded the album "Woodschtick and More" for Capitol Records. Drawing on the coincidence of Woodstock's having taken place in the Catskills, the album reimagines the rock festival as a Borsch Belt tummlers' convention. It was all a little too "inside" showbiz for the folks at 'Rolling Stone' whose negative review served as the album's kiss of death. Though the album is admittedly somewhat uneven, it includes some very funny bits.

The Gap's days at Capitol were numbered, but they had already attracted the attention of an A&R man at Warner Bros. He included a Grammy Awards parody the Gap had done for their radio show on a flexi disc included in the Warner Bros. house organ, 'Circular,' along with an admonition for readers to buy the 'Woodschtick' album.

The Gap returned the favor in 1973 when they recorded today's featured MP3. Said Harry Shearer in the liner notes of the 1979 reissue of their only Warner Bros. album, 'A Great Gift Idea':

"They had hired us to do an odd little recording for one of their conventions. The idea was, they were going to release four new albums and the fifth was going to be a ringer, and this was to be excerpts from it. So we wrote a take-off on rock operas, 'Something for Mary.' It dealt with the birth of Jesus from the point of view of Joseph, the odd man out. We recorded it in an hour. It was a joke."

And a funny joke it was. McKean sings the lead role in a gruff, David Clayton-St. Hubbins voice, and musical quotes abound—from "Sleigh Ride" to "Go to the Mirror Boy" to "Let It Be" to the Three Stooges.

365 Days #278 - Dora Hall - These Boots Are Made For Walking/Day Dream (mp3s)

MP3:
These Boots Are Made For Walking (2:38)
Day Dream (2:39)

Ladies and Gentlemen, more from the inimitable Dora Hall!

I don't dig on the hate for Dora promulgated in some parts. She's not great, but she's no Mrs. Miller, either. And I've got a lot of love for these particular recordings, as these are the versions of these songs I listened to when I was growing up - I found the 45 at my grandmother's place, in a stack of 45s that once belonged by my mother and uncle's childhood and teenaged selves.

- Contributed by: Corey K.

Images: Label (front), Label (back)

Media: 45rpm 7" Single
Label: Reinbeau Records
Catalog: 835P-5812 DJ T5KM-5812 & T5KM-5813
Credits: Dora Hall

365 Days #277 - Marcy Tigner - Trombone (mp3s)

MP3:
01 My Jesus, I Love Thee (2:55)
02 Close To Thee (2:36)
03 Jesus Is All The World To Me (3:08)
04 Saviour, Thy Dying Love (3:02)
05 Abide With Me (2:33)
06 No Longer Lonely (2:32)
07 All That Thrills My Soul (2:17)
08 Oh, How I Love Jesus (1:27)
09 Harbored In Jesus (2:56)
10 We Shall See His Lovely Face (2:46)
11 Near To The Heart of God (2:21)
12 Day By Day (2:37)

Pre-dating Little Marcy, here is Marcy Tigner's wonderful and beautiful Trombone album.

- Contributed by: Otis Fodder

Images: Front, Back, Label A, Label B

Media: LP
Album: Trombone
Label: Christian Faith Recordings
Catalog: 351
Credits: Verlye Brilhart, Harp / Roberta Nowlin, Violin / Lorin Whitney, Pipe Organ

365 Days #276 - Not The Beatles - Not Live at 688 (mp3s)

MP3:
1. Not the Beatles (0:48)
2. Captain Kangaroo (0:37)
3. Starsky and Hutch (0:33)
4. Whole Lotta Love (1:15)
5. The Tonight Show (0:47)
6. Meatwagon (1:08)
7. Lucius on My Mind (Part 1) (1:05)
8. Lucius on My Mind (Part 2) (2:14)

From May 1980 through November 1986 the 688 Club, located at 688 Spring Street (just a few blocks away from the Fox Theatre and the world famous Varsity hot dog stand), was THE place to see punk and new wave acts in Atlanta. I saw some great shows there, but this was not one of them. This low-bias Realistic brand cassette, given to me by a friend many years ago, is a recording of a bedroom punk band giving a performance at a 688 Club of the mind, distinguished from its real life counterpart by a lax booking policy and a mostly absent audience.

Not the Beatles perform a mercifully brief set (eight songs in just over eight minutes) featuring songs about familiar pop culture referents such as kiddie show host Captain Kangaroo, 70s TV dicks Starsky and Hutch, and 'Tonight Show' star Johnny Carson. The six originals appear to be improvised; at least they don't seem to have been worked out beforehand. The instrumentation consists of an electric guitar played inexpertly with a glass or metal slide and a percussion instrument that sounds like a piece of cardboard being hit with a blunt object. Downtime between songs features the hum of a cheap amplifier and the sound of a restless audience ("Go back to Alabama!" says one unwitting witness to Underground Rock History), quite possibly portrayed by the band members themselves.

It is in the hysterical gabble of the vocals that Not the Beatles achieves a catharsis of sorts. After yowling away at breakneck pace about TV stars and meat delivery vehicles for five minutes, they settle into a relaxed Southern Rock groove for the epic "Lucius on My Mind." Who Lucius is, and why he is on the collective mind of the Unfab Two or Three will never be known. But after hearing these fine young men drawl the title phrase for a minute, then again for two more minutes, it's barely possible that Lucius will be on your mind too.

- Contributed by: Chris Wood (Deceased)

Images: Not The Beatles, 688 Club

Media: Cassette Recording
Date: 1981

365 Days #275 - Jerry Colonna - Music? For Screaming!!! (mp3s)

MP3:
1 Your My Everything (2:32)
2 Down By The Old Mill Stream (2:56)
3 On The Road To Mandalay (2:24)
4 Ja Daa (2:27)
5 Can't You Here Me Calling Caroline (2:11)
6 It Might As Well Be Spring (2:09)
7 Sweet Adeline (2:03)
8 Hey, Barmaid!! (2:20)

THE MASTER OF BURLESQUE. Thats right kiddies! No, he didnt take his clothes off and do a fan dance, he sings, or screams... in key.. a very loud booming baritone. Hey bar maid is a lot like Gloria Wood's, "Hey Bellboy" except for the "chipmunk" style of scat (a few years before david seville).

- Contributed by: Evil Pain Clown

Image: Cover

Label: Decca
Catalog: 5540 1954
Credits: Paul Sells Orchestra. Also released as a EP 45 ed-685

365 Days #274 - Harold Flake - The Snowmobile Driver Tells His Story in Song (mp3s)

MP3:
1 The Snowmoile Driver Tells His Story In Song (4:43)
2 Tour Of The Athabasca Glaciar (6:49)

Here's another unusual souvenir record, this time from the Athabasca Glacier on the Columbia Icefield in the Canadian Rockies. How it found its way to cloudy England is anyone's guess. It was made in the early 1970s and features gleeful snowmobile driver Harold Flake. He not only drove the snowmobiles that took tourists around the glacier but he also wrote and performs the theme song, narrates the b-side and even appears to have drawn the illustration on the bag.

The song sees him as a glacial cowboy doing a Rawhide-style country anthem about his job as a snowmobile driver. 'I am the driver of a snowmobile, I am hellion behind the wheel'. He just stops short of calling out 'yee-hah' but he's almost there. Not sure if I'd want o be in a snowmobile with him at the wheel though.

But the flipside is even better. Witness Harold's breathless audio tour of the glacier over a superb backing including some Moogy Beatles covers and a lovely Frank Zappa-esque, sax-driven instrumental. These clips of music were presumably used without permission. Can anyone identify any of them?

- Contributed by: David Noades

Image: Record

Media: Single
Catalogue: T-57204
Year: 1970s

365 Days #273 - For Mature Adults Only (mp3s)

Album liner notes:

Incredible! Impossible! In! Those were a few of the reactions of people when they heard about a show with teenagers entitled FOR MATURE ADULTS ONLY! You can thank a teenager for that title! Who ever heard of trying to bridge a generation gap by letting the teenager have his own say about life and faith and love? Who ever heard of a professor of theology loving teenager poetry and reading it in public? Who ever heard of a coffee house on stage? All of these improbable situations were part of the experiment in youth communication entitled FOR MATURE ADULTS ONLY. We wanted the teenager to be heard. So we collected poems, cries, prayers and words of teenagers across the country. We met kids like Debbie, Mike, Jan and their friends. Then we let them be heard and felt in the show. The show was first presented in the auditorium of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis in March of 1968. The response was so dramatic that the International Walther League invited the cast to appear at it's Convention in August, 1968. Mosann Enterprises then offered to record and promote major portions of the show for the benefit of youth groups across the country.

MP3:
01 The Martin Luther High School Chorus and Norman Habel - For Mature Adults Only (2:09)
02 Norman Habel - Juan (1:23)
03 Don Hunter - Listen (Juan's Song) (2:33)
04 Norman Habel - Tim (1:22)
05 Robert Edwin - Black Shadows (Tim's Song) (2:23)
06 Norman Habel - Michelle (2:15)
07 Corky Hale - Tomorrow Calls (Michelle's Song) (2:53)
08 Norman Habel - Mike (1:31)
09 Robert Edwin - Christ Is Changing Everything (2:36)
10 Norman Habel - Jan (1:03)
11 Corky Hale - One Little Piece Of Mystery (3:03)
12 Norman Habel - Willie (2:02)
13 Don Hunter - Adam Was A Man (2:34)
14 Norman Habel - Debbie's Song (2:46)

I parted with this record a number of years ago but was able to find an image online of the front cover. I also remember seeing another version of the cover being adorned with photos of the performers and brief text years ago but never picked that one up.  On the 2003 run of 365 Days the title track (#1) and Michelle (#7) were featured.

- Contributed by: Otis Fodder

Image: Front Cover

Media: LP
Album: For Mature Adults Only
Label: Fortress
Catalog: 768
Date: 1968
Credits: Dr. Norman Habel, Narrator
The Martin Luther High School Choir (Long Island)
Richard Koehneke, Piano
Joe Newman, Trumpet
Chuck Raney, Guitar
Eric Gale, Bass
David Dahline, Drums
Larry Mohr, Saxophone
Corky Hale, Harpist (on Michelle)

365 Days #272 - Fantastic Family Fitness Fun, Session 1 (mp3s)

MP3:
01 Jean Nidetch - We're Gonna Make It with Weight Watchers! (1:04)
02 Mary Lou Retton - Intro (0:48)
03 Carol Hensel - Whip It (3:22)
04 Joanie Greggains - She Blinded Me With Science (5:06)
05 Dr. Charles A. Bucher - Slimnastics (1:24)
06 Bonnie Purden - The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (1:49)
07 Alan De Mause - Standing Slow Stretches (4:45)
08 Jacki Sorensen - Sweet Caroline (3:04)
09 Linda Fratianne - Another One Bites The Dust (3:24)
10 Joanie Greggains - Stayin' Alive (3:21)
11 Six Second Pulse Count (0:15)
12 Dr. Charles A. Bucher - Slimnastics (0:50)
13 Jacki Sorensen - Sing (2:57)
14 Nancy Kabriel - Stretch and Glow (2:58)
15 Gloria Roeder - Limbering Up Exercises (3:26)
16 Jon Devlin - Rhymical Jogging (1:38)
17 Cathy Colligan - Sing, Sing, Sing (2:49)
18 Debbie Reynolds - Abdomens and Buttocks (5:25)
19 Joanie Greggains - America Sings (4:11)
20 Marcy Muir - Copacabana (4:00)
21 Mary Lou Retton - It's Your Move (2:59)
22 Linda Fratianne - Pac-Man Fever (3:37)
23 Gymnastikmit Brigitte - Wake Up In The Morning (4:35)
24 Stu Apaker - Jumps From Two Feet (0:42)
25 Jon Devlin - Isolations (2:23)
26 Miss Piggy - Stereau Warmup (2:05)
27 Gymnastikmit Brigitte - Caracas (4:43)
28 Dr. Charles A. Bucher - Slimnastics (1:53)

Don't stop there now. You've got the spirit! Download more workout favorites from WFMU:  Pierre Raymonde's Erotic Aerobics, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Body Workout, Cathi Stout's Hips and Abdomen, Master Gunnery Sergeant Bill Dower's Armed Forces Workout, Robert Preston's Chicken Fat, Lynn Roberts' Chicken Fat, Leslie Harris and The House Of Fire's Jogging For Jesus, Bonnie Prudden's Leg Exercises, and Ern Westmore's Facial Exercises! Now stop and take a rest! You deserve it! I'll be back before the end of the year with another volume of workout favorites!

- Contributed by: Dr. Polly Phittness

Image: Cover

365 Days #271 - The Postelfonia's BmG 223 - Eerste Bestelling (First Delivery) (mp3s)

These are female employees of the former Dutch national post and telephone company PTT, singing foreign tophits on side A and Dutch traditionals on side B. I transferred the A-side for you, as they are the most peculiar, at least in my opinion. According to the sleeve notes they were known from television performances at the Protestant Christian Broadcasting Society, NCRV. Perhaps that explains why this was released by BmG records, a label only known by religious recordings: BmG = Band met God = Bond (or link) with God.

Furthermore it says that they also sang a lot at "relaxation and party evenings". By looking at both the titles and at the dresses we can pinpoint the period in which this was released quite adequately.

MP3:
1 Selectie Mary Poppins (3:06)
2 Congratulations (2:23)
3 Let The Sunshine In (2:11)
4 Hava Naguila (2:26)
5 Puppet On A String (2:27)
6 As Tears Go By (2:48)
7 A World Of Our Own (2:06)
8 There's A Kind Of Hush (2:12)
9 Casatchok (3:09)

Sometimes small parts of lyrics are in Dutch. Casatchok is completely in Dutch. The song is about a Wolga boatsman falling in love....

- Contributed by: Jan Turkenburg

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365 Days #270 - I ain't got nobody... much (mp3s)

MP3:
1 Little Wonder Records - I Ain't Got Nobody Much (1:32)
2 Little Wonder Records - Hot Hands (1:37)
3 Little Wonder Records - Jane (1:41)
4 Little Wonder Records - Just As We Do (1:25)
5 Little Wonder Records - When Your Down In Louisville (1:37)
6 Ozzie Williams - Subway In Toronto (2:35)
7 Ozzie Williams - Sunday In Toronto (2:35)

Some nice historical recordings here, with lots and lots of surface noise.. LITTLE WONDER RECORDS.. 5 of them! "I Ain't Got Nobody Much" is my favorite for a couple of reasons, it is a time tested good tune, and i noticed that they dropped the word "much" from later releases, in the title and song. This very well could be the first recording of this tune, since the records are entering their 99th year (give or take).

Also i have Ozzie Williams on the London label singing 2 ditties about my hometown of Toronto (early 50's) and amusing if anything... but they say "Toronto" like 50 times in each song!!! Enjoy.

- Contributed by: Evil Pain Clown

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365 Days #269 - A bit of Turkish Pop, Eurovision style (mp3s)

MP3:
1 Gökben - Şiribim Şiribom (1:56)
2 Gökben - Ve Bir Gün Sen (3:27)

The music on this 45 is almost as cool/bad as the cover. I dunno if it was Sandy Shaw's "Boom Bang a Bang" (or was that by Lulu... I don't care enough to Google it) that started this lurching, bouncy Oompah beat Europop, but the form certainly has longevity. There are still echoes of it today in half the bloody Eurovision Song Contest entries, especially from the Eastern Mediterranean.

This is a seventies example of the genre, and it pulls out all the stops. Just don't blame me if "Şiribim Şiribom" is stuck in a loop in your cranium for days after you hear this.

- Contributed by: Jon Allen

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365 Days #268 - Outtakes from the 2003 365 Days Project - Part III (mp3s)

In 2003 on the first run of the 365 Days Project there were a lot of contributions that did not make it online.  Now in 2007 we are compiling those tracks into volumes for your download.  Here we go with volume 3 in the ongoing series.