45's and 7's

Those little records.

  • Jerry Rooth - But You'll Try...Again b/w But You Loved Me Anyway Jerry Rooth – But You’ll Try…Again b/w But You Loved Me Anyway

    Jerry Rooth’s Higney-produced single is further evidence that Higney’s sonic philosophy was no accident. All the classic shimmers present are: muted drums, rough, desperate vocals, and the wonderfully inexplicable audio-temporal mixing that made Attic Demonstration such a classic. “But You’ll Try…Again” strays from Higney’s downer-rock and dives into a strange brew of hard-rock, power-pop, [...]

  • Victorie Scott: Hey Mamma/Brille, Comme Ellebrille Victorie Scott: Hey Mamma/Brille, Comme Ellebrille

    One of the benefits of accumulating records is finding a great record in one’s own collection without having any idea how it got there. This is an example. I have had this record for at least 15 years and never got around to listening to it until this week. I will buy any record from [...]

  • Kebab - We Live in a System Kebab – We Live in a System

    Kebab existed within a weird junction between Europe’s waning post-punk explosion and the new wave of electronic synthesia. With a vocal sound obviously close to The Slits, the Belgian quartet remain more youthful, subtle, and haematic, fusing drum-machine maximalia with actue guitar riffery to create their strange sinusoidal centre. Remarkably, they listed Crass as [...]

  • Judy and The P.T.S. - Blue / You Need Love Judy and The P.T.S. – Blue / You Need Love

    The Huntington Beach, California-based Outstanding Records label may be better known to Waxidermists for releasing the “It’s Broken” LP by Bob Chance, but they’ve been responsible for numerous other interesting releases since 1968, including this little gem of a single.  Both sides feature a keyboard-dominated soft folk pop sound, with a bit of a jazzy [...]

  • The Spies: My Radio/Bad Girl The Spies: My Radio/Bad Girl

    I really like this single and a lot of the usual punk discography type sites don’t speak too highly of it. In the Henry Weld discography of Texas punk, the reviewers wrote a sort of one thumb up one thumb down: “Mystery record, quite good.[DR]” Another source says “mediocre would be the kindest description”. No [...]

  • Fris Sranang - Gie Mie, Mie Lobie/Sabana Fris Sranang – Gie Mie, Mie Lobie/Sabana

    Here’s one of my all time favorite 45’s from my collection, and probably the only cracked record I keep in the collection. It’s a Surinam single, pressed in Holland in 1978. The band name Fri Sranang is a combination of the Surinam creole language Sranang Tongo and Fri, which, I’m guessing, must mean free. Fri [...]

  • Denise and the Jaguars - Accompagnandotti/Gone Denise and the Jaguars – Accompagnandotti/Gone

    I just thought this is a charming 45 and as of yet it doesn’t yield results on the Google. Pressed in italy and arranged by one Gioriano Baldassari.  It appears to be an Italian backing group with an English singer. Probably some lounge act, as this private record is signed by the whole bunch. Gone [...]

  • Spray Pals - Project A Spray Pals – Project A

    While I have no idea WHAT a Spray Pal is supposed to be, thanks to the liner notes on this single we at least know WHO they are (or were, as it were).  Kristin Gushurst on keyboards and Susanne Lewis on guitar & vocals were Spray Pals, and this single hailed from Denver, Colorado circa [...]

  • One of You One of You

    One of You is my friend’s mom. She left Czechoslovakia during the crackdown in 1968. Everyone in Prague was always talking about how great and amazing the rest of the world was and how the communists were lying when they said the West was bad. When she came to Toronto she remembers being “crushed, totally [...]

  • David Crawford: Cement City David Crawford: Cement City

    Waxidermy likes to rock, there’s no denying it. Aerosmith, AC/DC, maybe even a little Queen – it’s still Rock ‘N’ Roll to them! So let’s keep on rockin’ in the US of A! From the Frisco Bay to Nags Head, VA, all the way down to Lake Charles, LA with David Crawford & Phase II!!
    Times [...]

  • Dan Satch: Woman Pin Down Dan Satch: Woman Pin Down

    Dan Satch has quite the mysterious background, not much is known about this particular gentleman or his band. Originally from Nigeria and presumably from Aba, according to the back cover of Ikoro’s 70’s Special, “Dan Satch Joseph was a seasoned trumpeter and arranger. He started playing the trumpet in 1959 and was the trumpeter leader [...]

  • The Skoings - Doctors Wives / Do The Orbit The Skoings – Doctors Wives / Do The Orbit

    Sole release from this L.A.-based band circa 1977.  I’m guessing UCLA students from the contact address on the back cover, and sounding a bit like a crunchier Devo, without the synths.  Not quite punk rock, though I first remember seeing the sleeve pictured in a 1978 L.A. Times article about local punk singles.  Doctors Wives [...]

  • The Douglas Brothers - 2002 R.F.D. The Douglas Brothers – 2002 R.F.D.

    R.F.D. (Rural Free Delivery) was developed in the 1890s so rural dwellers wouldn’t need to trek to the nearest post office to pick up their mail.
    “2002 R.F.D.” is naturally a rural rendition of the ever-reliable “Theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey,” aka “Also Sprach Zarathustra” by Richard Strauss.  A disappointing recording of this tune is [...]

  • Soonkay Lisa: What I Want Out of Life / Give Me All Your Love Soonkay Lisa: What I Want Out of Life / Give Me All Your Love

    This perky little 7″ was one of my choice finds from a guy selling records out of his garage in Cottonwood, Arizona last year.  Interesting artist name, pink Hawaiian label, great titles — sounds promising, put it in the pile, it’s worth a try.  Didn’t take long after setting the needle down to realize that [...]

  • Long John Silver Orchestra: Snow Mist Long John Silver Orchestra: Snow Mist

    This hypnotic instrumental is hidden on the b-side of a children’s Christmas novelty, “Harvey The Hippo,” released in 1959.  I wonder if there are any other recordings of this song. “Snow Mist” was written by George David Weiss, who wrote a number of standards, i.e. “What A Wonderful World.”
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  • Vikki Styles - Tears Won't Stop Falling Vikki Styles – Tears Won’t Stop Falling

    Here’s a cool 45 that is a product of the headache inducing labyrinth of entangled record labels out of Greenville Mississippi in the mid-late 1960s. The fact that this is such a direct bite of Darrell Banks’ massive “Open The Door To Your Heart” seems audacious & probably is. Vikki Styles released [...]

  • Stepping Tones - I Want To Dance Like Michael Jackson Stepping Tones – I Want To Dance Like Michael Jackson

    If I was more organized, I would’ve had this up months ago, you know, when he died. I can only hope it breathes new life into Michael’s storied legacy which doesn’t seem to be losing much relevance thanks to an uninterrupted media blitz. I do find it interesting that, had I posted this back [...]

  • Johnny Devlin - Nervous Wreck Johnny Devlin – Nervous Wreck

    Sometimes it seems a bit easy to overlook just how much of a nuclear blast upon music worldwide old Elvis Presley really was. What with so many images of overweight Vegas Elvis floating around it’s pretty easy to forget that young budding singers everywhere wanted to be just like him. Now by everywhere, [...]

  • Wally James - Guitar Fraction Wally James – Guitar Fraction

    Today Wally James Cosgren is a singing evangelist in Florida with his own ministry. But this 45 obviously harks bark to an earlier time, possibly the early 1970s? Two original songs appear on this 45, “Lonely Guitar” is a ballad & “Guitar Fraction” is more of a uptempo offering. Both feature [...]

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