Solace - In The Flesh

Solace - In The Flesh

Garland Jeffreys - Wild In The Streets

For many many years i thought the Circle Jerks wrote this song....

Garland Jeffreys - Wild In The Streets

49th Blue Streak - Fire / Foxy Lady

2 wild Hendrix cover songs. As blown out, fuzzed out and as wasted as you can get.... Sounds like a really wasted Blue Cheer.

49th Blue Streak - Fire

49th Blue Streak - Foxy Lady

The Tiffany System - Let's Get Together / Wayward One

Couple of pop/psych Byrds sound a likes from the Tiffany System from 1967 on the Minaret label. A side is a cover of the Chet Powers (aka Dino Valenti) penned song. It was covered by many people through the years. The flip is a very Byrds sounding pop psych tune. Pretty good stuff.

This Jacksonville, FL-based mid-'60s folk-rock trio was notable twice over, both for their actual sound, which was popular enough to earn them a more than decent living with local performances, and for the presence in their original lineup of future Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks, as well as future Santana bassist David Brown, and future Cowboy guitarist Scott Boyer. The band actually started out as "The Bitter End" circa 1966 at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Boyer, Brown, and Trucks had put the trio together with the intent of applying electric instruments to Dylan songs, à la the Byrds, and they became so successful just doing local and regional gigs that Boyer ended up dropping out of college. According to Boyer in an interview with Michael Buffalo Smith on the Swampland website, they crossed paths with lots of other local talent that showed promise, including an early lineup of Lynyrd Skynyrd (then still known as "The One Percent") and the Second Coming, whose members included Berry Oakley and Dickey Betts. The Tiffany System cut a single of "Let's Get Together" b/w "Wayward One" in 1968 for the local Minaret label, the B-side of which was impressive enough to end up as the opening track on Psychic Circle's The Electric Coffee House compilation, 40 years later.
After a move to Miami and some discussion, the group was re-named the 31st of February and signed to Vanguard Records, for which they released one self-titled album under that name in 1969, recorded at Bradley's Barn. Ironically, even as that album was making its way to stores -- and near total critical and commercial neglect, its Baroque pop sound being a little behind the times by then -- the group had evolved beyond a three-piece with the addition of a pair of brothers, Duane Allman and his brother Gregg. But that configuration, though they did play a lot around Miami, never got to make their planned second record for Vanguard, and went their separate ways. The Allmans went on to immortality, with Trucks as part of the band, whilst Boyer became part of Cowboy, alongside ex-We the People guitarist Tommy Talton et. al, and David Brown became a member of Santana in 1969, as well as working with Papa John Creach, Boz Scaggs, and others.

The Tiffanny System - Lets Get Together

The Tiffany System - Wayward One

Roy Buchanan - Down By The River

Nothing rare but a great cover by one of my favorite guitarists doing a song by one of my favoriye artists. cool vs. cool.

Roy Buchanan - Down By The River

Kingston Karachi ‎- In The Summertime

Today is my wife's birthday. And in completely unrelated news, here is strange cover of Mungo Jerry's In The Summertime. Here is to warmer days ahead and to when you could have a hit song about drinking and driving.

Have a drink, have a drive, go out and see what you can find.

Kingston Karachi - In The Summer Time

Gloria Walker - Them Changes

The great classic "Them Changes" penned by Mr. Buddy Miles and recorded with Jimi Hendrix and The Band of Gypsies, later to be recorded by Mr. Miles for his own album.

This is a great soulful slightly funky version done by Miss Gloria Walker from 1972 of the Federal label.

Gloria Walker - Them Changes

Cher - Masters Of War

Great cover of the Dylan classic. Pre-plastic surgery Cher was one of my 1st pre-pubescent crushes when i used to watch the Sonny & Cher show as a little tyke....

Cher - Masters Of War

Little Roger & the Goosebumps - Gilligan's Island (Stairway) - The Wet Look

Supposedly Robert Plant's favorite version of Stairway To Heaven and done with Gilligan Island Lyrics.....

Heh...

Little Roger and the Goosebumps is a pop/rock band from San Francisco active during the 1970s and early 1980s and resurrected in 2006. It has been led throughout its history by Roger Clark and Dick Bright, with various sidemen.
The band is best known for its single "Gilligan's Island (Stairway)", a song combining the lyrics to the theme song of the television show Gilligan's Island with the music of "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin. The band wrote the song in 1977 as "material to pad the last set of the grueling 5 nights a week/4 sets a night routine," recorded it in March 1978, and released it as a single in May 1978 on their own Splash Records label. Within five weeks, Led Zeppelin's lawyers threatened to sue them and demanded that any remaining copies of the recording be destroyed.[citation needed] The song was reissued in 2000 on the CD Laguna Tunes with the song title renamed "Stairway to Gilligan's Island."

During a 2005 interview on National Public Radio, Robert Plant referred to the tune as his favorite cover of "Stairway to Heaven."

And not because you asked but beacuse i felt the need i give you the B side "The Wet Look" @ both 45 and 33RPM....

Little Roger & the Goosebumps - Gilligan's Island (Stairway)

Little Roger & the Goosebumps - The Wet Look - 45 RPM

Little Roger & the Goosebumps - The Wet Look - 33 RPM

Eddie Platt - Tequila - Popcorn

This shit is kind of hokey but it has a certain charm. A wacky cover of the Champs Tequilla and a goofy high energy Popcorn with a nice little guitar break.

Eddie Platt (b. Eddie Platakis, Dec. 8, 1921, Cleveland, Ohio; d. Oct. 3, 2010, Akron, Ohio) was an American saxophonist.
Platakis was raised in Rossford, Ohio. He began playing in a band there at age 16 and used the stage name Platt starting in high school (including at his graduation). He played gigs in Rossford and Cleveland until World War II, when he served in the Army and Air Force. After the war he played in strip clubs with the Johnny Pecon Band.
In 1957, he began playing the Hotel Manger in Cleveland, a gig he would keep until 1967. While there, he recorded his first single for Epic Records, "Rock 'Em" b/w "Chinese Lullaby". His next single was a cover of The Champs' song "Tequila", which climbed to #20 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1958. He also covered The Pets' hit "Chua-Hua-Hua", which in the 1990s was featured on the soundtrack to The Iron Giant.
Following the success of "Tequila", Platt appeared on Perry Como and Dick Clark's television shows, performing live where most acts lip synched. He remained in Cleveland to play shows but backed national acts when they toured there, including Pat Boone, Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin, The Everly Brothers, and The Brothers Four. He self-released a vinyl LP, Dance One, selling about 3,500 copies. The tune "Festival" from the album is the theme song of the Ohio All Nations Festival.
Platt died in Akron, Ohio, on October 3, 2010.

Eddie Platt - Tequila

Eddie Platt - Popcorn

Magic Christians - Come And Get It - Nats

So is this really Bad Finger under the Magic Christians moniker? Or The Magic Christains cashing in on the film? Come And Get It written by Paul McCartney and originally done by Bad Finger so I'm not sure what is going on here as this sounds pretty close to the original, either way the B-Side is the tits. It's not hard to do, but i'm confused....

Magic Christians - Come And Get It

Magic Christians - Nats

The Space Negros - Go to Russia...

This is a weird one... Starting with the name and ending with the music.... I mean "Space Negros"...? and the music sounds like twisted TV theme show music from a bad dream or nightmare. Even their take on the Beatles is a little unsettling. ART rock, or no wave, or post punk or whatever it is you wanna call just call it odd. Someone called it an exploration of exotic music and rock. I guess that works too...

All i could come up with in my 2 second search of the webs is that Erik Lindgren seems to be the main cat in this odd mess and he runs the label this was put out on, Arf! Arf! records.

Erik Lindgren (15 December 1954) is an American composer and keyboards player. He runs Arf! Arf! Records, and has led (or been a member of) several ensembles such as The Moving Parts, The Space Negros, The Rising Storm, and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic.

Lindgren was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in December 1954.[1] He attended Northfield Mount Hermon School from 1969–1972, and received his BA in Music from Tufts University in 1976 where he worked with T. J. Anderson. In 1974–75 he spent his junior year abroad in London studying composition at the Guildhall School of Music with Alfred Nieman and piano with Birgette Wild. Lindgren received an MA in music composition and piano performance from the University of Iowa in 1977 where he studied with Donald Jenni, Richard Hervig and Peter Lewis.

As a contemporary classical composer, Lindgren has a catalog of over five dozen works, ranging from solo piano pieces to chamber music to orchestral works. He also owns Foot Foot Music BMI which publishes all of his original compositions. In 1978, Lindgren established Sounds Interesting Productions, a commercial recording studio and music production company based in Cambridge, MA.[1] In 1998, he relocated his facility to Middleborough, MA. National and regional credits include original scores for ABC, NBC CBS and PBS, Eastpak, Boston Globe, Basketball Hall Of Fame, Jordan Marsh, Polaroid, Prentice Hall and the Christmas Tree Shops. Lindgren also markets The Well-Tempered Music Library that consists of seven CDs of stock commercial music that he composed and produced.
Lindgren was a founding member of the new music ensemble Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic that Billboard Magazine described as “a mesmerizing venture into the space age jungle.” The quartet has toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada and held residencies at Dartmouth College, Emory University, Duke, UNCA and the Massachusetts College of Art. Birdsongs’ has recorded for the Rykodisc, Cuneiform and Ace of Hearts labels and released an album in 2005. Recently the group collaborated with Duplex Planet editor/National Public Radio correspondent David Greenberger on 1001 Real Apes.
The composer celebrated his 50th Birthday performing live, original works, at The Longy School of Music, Pickman Hall, Cambridge, MA (June 4, 2005).

For over twenty years, Lindgren has run the Arf! Arf! record label which has released five-dozen archival CDs documenting ’60s Garage/Psychedelic Rock and “Incredibly Strange Music.” Arf! Arf! issued four CD retrospectives by his ’80s experimental studio group The Space Negros. Lindgren has also produced over one hundred records for such diverse artists as Willie Loco Alexander, the Rising Storm, The Turbines, The Cynics, Magic Mose & his Royal Rockers, featuring 'Blind Sam,' Ed “Moose” Savage And His Litany Of Complaints, and harmonica virtuoso Richard Hunter.

The Space Negros - Back In The USSR
The Space Negros - Go To Hell

Aretha Franklin - Eleanor Rigby

Does anything really need to be said about the combination of the the queen of soul & the beatles? naw... This is just something i picked up recently and great funky soul version. dig it.

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Aretha Franklin - Eleanor Rigby

The Creatures - Wild Thing

Another great cover of Chip Taylor and the Troggs classic Wild Thing, done in a very haunting sparse way with killer tribal drums and a few new words by the beautiful Siouxsie Sioux and husband Budgie.

Shhhhh.... i bought this for the lady for X-Mas....

The Creatures - Wild Thing

Teddy And Darrel - Wild Thing

Tongue firmly planted in cheek Teddy and Darrel simultaneously take the piss out of Wild Thing AND create a masterpiece while doing so!

FUZZZzzzzZZZZzzzzzY


Teddy And Darrel - Wild Thing

Lectric Woods - Time Of The Season

Strange & obscure instrumental cover of this well known Zombies tune on APT from 1969. Anyone who follows this blog will know i really dig odd cover songs. Apt Records was an ABC-Paramount subsidiary label launched in 1958. In the first 8 years of their 12 year run, they released nearly 100 singles. After a 3 year hiatus, the label was revived by (the newly named) ABC Records, who used the imprint to release 14 singles and one known LP before closing the label 1970. AS FOR LECTRIC WOODS....??? YOUR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS MINE....???

Lectric Woods - Time Of The Season

The Gentrys - Cinnamon Girl

Another cool cover tune here @ the devil's music w/ The Gentrys doing some Neil Young.... The Gentrys were an American band of the 1960s and early 1970s best known for their 1965 hit "Keep on Dancing" (in 1971 also a #9 hit for the Bay City Rollers). Follow-up singles charted outside of the top 40: "Every Day I Have To Cry" (1966), "Spread It On Thick" (1966), "Cinnamon Girl" (1970), "Why Should I Cry" (1970), "Wild World" (1971), and a 'Bubbling Under' Billboard chart entry "Brown Paper Sack" (#101, 1966).

here is the The Gentrys Wiki if you so desire.....

Kind of an odd choice of a cover since it is right around the time the original came out and it does not veer of the beaten patch, but an oddity on the Sun label you don't see too often.


The Gentrys - Cinnamon Girl

Eyes Of Blue - Yesterday

Today we get a cool and crazy jazzy progy take on the Beatles Yesterday by Eyes of Blue. Here is the straight dope...

The Eyes Of Blue evolved during the mid-sixties from covers and R&B band The Mustangs, based in Neath. The early line-up consisted of Wyndham Rees (Vocals), Ray Williams (Guitar), Ritchie Francis (Bass), Melvyn Davies (Guitar) and David Thomas (Drums). Thomas had replaced Byron Phillips in October 1964 a month before the change of name, and before too long Melvyn Davies also decided to leave, reducing the Eyes to a four-piece. Starting out as a soul-based R&B band the Eyes quickly established a strong reputation in the South Wales music scene. They played the same circuit as many other familar groups, The Bystanders, The Jets, and took in gigs in Llanelli, Swansea, Skewen, Cardiff and Neath, winning a few local talent competitions on the way. Early in 1966 drummer Thomas was off and away, and John Weathers was drafted in as a temporary replacement. From another Neath based band - the Smokestacks - came keyboard player Phil Ryan, and vocalist Gary Pickford-Hopkins.

By May that year the band were ready to turn professional. During the late spring and summer of '66 Eyes Of Blue entered and won the national Melody Maker 'Beat Contest', which offered the chance of a one year Decca recording contract. This turned out to be something of a poisoned chalice as none of the tracks recorded for Decca were representative.

Once the Decca contract had expired the band signed with the Mercury label, and during March to July 1968 recorded their first album across a number of sessions in Chappell Studios, London. Later that year the Eyes backed american singer-songwriter Buzzy Linhart on his album 'Buzzy' released on the Phillips label. When some critics suggested that this could be a more productive route an angry Ritchie Francis responded; "We will not be called a backing group for anyone"

The Eyes debut album 'Crossroads Of Time' was eventually released early in 1969. It included two Graham Bond R&B songs (Bond also wrote the sleevenotes) 'Love Is The Law' and 'Crossroads Of Time' which was especially written for the band. It also included an interesting version of Love's '7 + 7 Is' while The Beatles' 'Yesterday' is given a treatment suggesting something of a jazz hymn.
http://www.manband-archive.com/evolution/history-roots-eyes-of-blue.php

Eyes Of Blue - Yesterday

The Myrol Brothers - If I Fell

Happy April fools day peoples, not sure if this record came out on April 1st but the jokes on you with this one... But maybe somebody will have some use for it....? It is after all a Beatles cover.... Beatles fans how do you feel about this? What do expect from brothers from Canada....??? I'm not sure what to make of it...

The Myrol Brothers - If I Fell

Fats Domino - Lady Madonna

OK, nothing really needs to said about Mr. Domino here. And this cover isn't even that off the mark from the original but hey, this is Fats Domino! a god damned legend doing a song by other legends.... this is from 1968 and most definitely worth a listen even if this record has seen better days... but hey, a few clicks and pops never hurt anyone right?

Paul McCartney reportedly wrote the Beatles song "Lady Madonna" in an emulation of Domino's style, combining it with a nod to Humphrey Lyttelton's 1956 hit "Bad Penny Blues", a record which Joe Meek had engineered. Domino did manage to return to the "Hot 100" charts one final time in 1968—with his own recording of "Lady Madonna". That recording, as well as covers of two other Beatles songs, appeared on this Reprise LP Fats Is Back, produced by Richard Perry and recorded by a band which included New Orleans piano player James Booker. Mr. Booker playing keys on this track. Domino played piano only on one track, "I'm Ready".


Fats Domino - Lady Madonna