365 Days #249 - A Collection of 5 MSR 45's (mp3s)

Recently, I began checking E-Bay and GEMM for MSR 45's with Bobbi Blake, the Grand Lady of song-poems, in hopes of getting some material in my own record collection as interesting as the songs I heard online such as "I Got a Record" or "Husband, Lover, Friend". Here are the MSR 45's I've gotten so far. There are 2 other singers in these records. 3 of the songs have fellow MSR legend Dick Kent.

- Contributed by: Sammy Reed

MP3:

MSR record no. 767
Dick Kent - She Does Things to Me (2:15)
Bobbi Blake - When Love is Gone (2:15)

Record no. 2216 (The distorted sound was recorded in the 45)
Dick Kent - I Love You Dearly (2:17)
Bobbi Blake - When the Tweeties Twitter in the Treetops (2:42)

Record no. 2443 (An all-gospel, all-Bobbi record)
Bobbi Blake - Joy in the Air (2:35)
Bobbi Blake - You Got to Be Born Again (2:24)

Record no. 2662, 1978
Dick Kent - A Christmas Rose (3:41) (Yet another one of those improbable "story-songs". Song-poems over 3 and a half minutes long are rare!)
Bobbi Blake - A Song of Love (2:04)

Record no. 3026, 1982
Bobbi Blake - My Dear One (2:24)
Bill Joy - Time for Love (2:34)

Images: 70's MSR 45 Label, 80's MSR 45 Label

Media: 45rpm 7" singles
Label: MSR
Credits: "She Does Things to Me" written by LaVerne D. Streeter; "When Love is Gone", Hope Barela; "I Love You Dearly", Pearl Kline Schulz; "When the Tweeties Twitter in the Treetops", Nancy Norton; "Joy in the Air", Anna Moore; "You Got to Be Born Again", Don R. Moore; "A Christmas Rose", Dollie A. Walta & Judy J. Walta; "A Song of Love", Estelle Schultz; "My Dear One", Joey Shaltry; "Time for Love", Thomas H. Mills
Date: Dates of first 3 unknown

Comments

[Holland Oats]

first comes the rain,
followed by the sun,
then comes the night,
when the day is done

[howard]

I have bobbi vlake merry Christmas and Chritmas 45rpm on MSR.
Looking to sell. Any interest/
Howard
212-579-0689 (m-f 9am to 12noon and 1pm to 3pm)

[Sammy Reed]

As the man who made this submission to the project, I hope I can mention this and not be considered "spam" - too much, anyway.

I am planning on bringing back my online show, "Music from the World of the Strange and the Bizarre". Last year, I discontinued the show because I decided I would "grow up", and I got rid of other things too - which turned out to be a more immature decision than things would've been if I just left things alone.

I sold all the 45's in my collection, although I still had a couple of 45's I bought at a flea market that I didn't do anything with. I sold a sizeable chunk of my albums. But looking through my albums now, I found I still have a lot of them. I still have a lot of "soundalike" albums, and quite a few kiddie albums (not the "Star Trek" stories, though). I still have the "Cross and the Switchblade" soundtrack album, and others that I played songs from on the show. I also still have a great deal of my production library albums.

I'm building up another 45 collection, and I'm getting some more albums - including (here's a sneak peek) the Nashville Country Singers gospel album (Yes, the "thunderbolts of long duration" group did a gospel album). I've got a few Bobbi Blake 45's, and for the first time, a couple of Norm Burns 45's!

This time, I hope to do more digging into my collection instead of playing the same 10-or-so songs over again, as I wound up doing after awhile on the first show.

I plan on bringing it back on June 29th. Go to sammyreed.com/strange for any other details that may crop up.

Until then, "Go out & make it a great life!"