365 Days #331 - 45 Detritus (mp3s)

Some detritus found among 45s left over mostly from college radio in the 70s:

Dingetje - Ik Ga Weg Leen (3:00)

Rob de Nijs - Bier is Bitter (3:36)

Humpback Whale - Also Sprach Zarathustra [kazoo] (1:05)

Before mashups really got rolling, here was a doozy from some tunes typically much older than the genre:
Knack and Beatles - My Sharona/Love Me Do (2:33)

An unusual pair of songs for a medley:
New Christy Minstrels - Hey Jude - Atlantis (3:30)

When novelty songs about hippies were funny:
Rocki Lane and the Gross Group - Happy Hairy Hippy Harry Claus (2:31)

A bouncy lighthearted number about terrorism:
Village Sound - Hey Jack (Don't Hijack My Plane) (2:39)

To finish, some lovely Finnish covers:
Virve "Vicky" Rosti - I Will Survive (3:43)
Pentti Oskari Kankaan and Seinahullua Veljesta - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy (4:16)

- Contributed by: Kevin Killion

Comments

[Mr Fab]

Any info on My Sharona/Love Me Do - Was this commercially released? How'd they make it in those pre-AcidPro days? Must have been a tape-splicing nightmare.

[Ivy]

Does anyone have more information about "Hey Jack, Don't hijack my plane?" Great song. It brought back memories of living in Miami in the 70s, and reading frequent reports of hijackings at Miami International Airport. It's got a touch of Mad magazine about it too: I can see it in an article of love songs based on news events.

[Roel]

The song, 'Ik ga weg, Leen', is actually a parody on the song 'Cokane in my Brain' by Dillinger from 1977.