Cantor Raymond Smolover apparently wasn’t an unimportant figure in the Jewish music scene in the states, having produced and written (comic) opera’s and also teaching singing and vocal training techniques to many. Here’s a curious record he did with the youth choir The Nifty Levites for the Bell label, called “Edge of Freedom, a folk/rock [...]

Described somewhere on the internet as “the first gay album,” which is of course nonsense (this was 1973), this is nonetheless a milestone and beat Peter Gruzden’s The Unicorn for the title of first topically gay private press country LP by three years. And when I say it’s gay I mean explictly queer and proud [...]

Hadn’t found a cover quite this good/bad in a while. This dude clearly thought he was THEE MACK!

For some reason somebody thought pressing a childrens album on vinyl in the early 90s would be a good business plan and that this lunatic painter would be just the guy for the job. Features a breath taking cover of the little mermaid rasta crab anthem “under da sea”. I left this record in California. [...]

I bought this album solely to further enhance my own Polish heritage. From what I gather, folks would come from all over the midwestern United States to hear Jack Patton(owiczski)’s folk-polka songs about sausages, boiled potatoes, how many of his cousins it took to screw in a lightbulb, and the zany antics of his promiscuous [...]

Another strange and wonderful Yamaha Electone keyboard record. This is the kind of stuff I live to find. Just peep the completely twisted Doobies cover and you’ll know what I mean. Maybe…

Let’s hope not, cause this album is really horrible.

I’ve never heard this gospel record by our former Attorney General, but I’m pretty sure it stinks.

Pretty bizarre record that I picked up recently on the strength of the cover. I was prepared for the fairly standard folky rock with country overtones that this record mostly is – but, was totally unprepared for the quirky, low-budget funk(?) jam that opens the record. SEE WHAT I MEAN!?!?! File under: HUH…???

Here’s a hideous lo-fi lounge record featuring the usual “sweet caroline” cover tune and a Will Ferrell look alike. Goulet!

While there are plenty of examples of “why on earth wasn’t a record company interested in this?!?!” in the world of private press records, this is not one of them. Alexander “Chief” Longrifle is pretty much a textbook example of an artist who’s music would never have made it into the few homes it did [...]

This cover really gives me the creeps.

I think this guy was Liberace’s boy toy… no, really!