BRAKES - The Way I See It 7 79 w For Why You Kicka My Donkey? LP 79

 Gots to thank a blog who posted the Spanish 7 inch a few weeks ago that I have followed for a long time (over 15 years!) https://spanishpunkbombs.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-brakes-way-i-see-it-7-1980.html

I liked it so much I had to go all in and get what they had and it is quite good in my eyes as I work with industrial brakes and clutches for a living.  While going the extra mile for the 7 inch, I had to meet the shipping minimum and thus discovered another band during this time in the genre from U.K. also named Tonight as they also had those and so had ripped them for this week but discovered a later CD they did from 2010 so that just shipped today and that would make a megapost complete like this.

https://bestfile.io/zW9ldrDj5eNoh1G/file

VA - THE BEST OF SACRED SONGS 1969 LP

 You either know or you don't know.  Some would pass this Goodwill find by thinking 60's gospel music while other know it is the key starting year for "Jesus Music" and would be overjoyed in it's mint condition like me.  Also a great year in music period!  Features:  Bill Mann, The Reflection, Morning Chapel Hour Trio, Gregg Loren, The Sacred Singers, Beth Farnam, Ralph Carmichael Orchestra (have posted this group before), Ray Hildebrand and Mary Jayne & Polly.

https://bestfile.io/ITnzE8wPRR7Xp0I/file

Rest In Peace Gary Floyd, a meta friend and legend:

Rest In Peace Steve Albini, (my first gig at 7th St. Entry as BIG BLACK with brick of firecrackers Steve lit to really make an impression on me--very sorry to see him go as I watched his career progress)

Rest In Peace Dennis Thompson Legendary Drummer for the MC5 and last remaining member.

GREATER OVERBROOK STRING BAND - GREAT GREAT G.O.S.B LP

 Continuing on with the strings mini-theme that I forgot about last week but anyway love this parade type music that takes me back to my youth of circuses and Minnesota Kicks soccer games in the old Met stadium...stuff like that and Mississippi river songs, etc.

https://bestfile.io/cY1VlricdCriNvW/file

Randy Crawford - Secret Combination LP 81 w bonus trax

 This weekend right during the first song on this Goodwill album, I had to look her up knowing it was the same voice from an old favorite 9 minute track by the Crusaders "Street Life' having one of the best vocal performances in my collection and I was right it was her.  I also learned from my super old Steve Hackett rips that she sings near the end of the 'Hoping Love Will Last' track so I included these songs I already had with a couple more from youtube like "People Alone" from the The Competition OMPS CD 81 and a couple of later hits, "One Day I'll Fly Away" and "You Might Need Somebody"..  Oh yeah I was going to try for her 1995 album from youtube this morning (oops!) where everybody came to help out seeing how she was such a big hit in the U.K.         https://bestfile.io/3k2NFQE7jebVPZv/file

Fred Wesley And The Horny Horns featuring Maceo Parker - A Blow For Me, A Toot For You CD 77

 Went and got this classic James Brown most famous players after learning above that Randy Crawford had sung back up on this one.  My old friend from high school and dorm roommate (then later we bough houses in the same suburb near Uptown, MPLS. named his dog 'Frad Wesley as a matter of fact...ha ha.

https://bestfile.io/Q3uPYEfr0CleVnO/file

ROBERT Q. LEWIS & STAR-TIME KIDS CHORUS + HANK SYLVERN - 60 ALL TIME FAV. LP 62

 This type of kids record is oh so critical to preserving community history as Robert describes it.  Yeah, 60 songs took a while to separate out but certainly well worth the effort as I knew most of these songs from my youth in our busy neighborhood in the suburbs of many kids all playing out and about.   Weird how I didn't hear one song I was expecting, "It's raining it's pouring the old man is snoring he got out of bed and bumped his head then couldn't get up in the morning" probably because it is a negative song that stuck in our heads more so than a song with a message like a lot of these other ones seem to be like one stuck in my head this morning, "A Hunting We Will Go" that is universal and applies to you listeners...LOL

https://bestfile.io/peJP7ygFkWQrEPF/file

THE ONCE UPON A TIME PLAYERS - JACK AND THE BEANSTALK LP

 Slowly been dealing out these cool kid's records I had been saving up from Goodwill as some are pretty beat up but this week--not the case!  I broke out the cool songs interspersed between the dialog segments like the magic harp tune or fee fi fo fum ha ha.  Great cover too makes you think about this early interdimensional story that involves our history already with giant lore.

https://bestfile.io/PZyP2G62FstxefE/file

Spring Fever - Woodstock CD 70 - cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Well this and below rounds out my recent 'Woodstock' mini-theme that I had goin' and this is a choice one having their own versions of the classic tunes.  Per Discogs:  Obscure power trio from Canada playing Blues, Rock and a few Funky Hammond Gems. Has covers like David Crosby's A Long Time Coming, Taj Mahal's She Caught My Katie, Morganfield's I Just Want To Make Love To You and She Moves Me, a great Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter, J.B. Lenoir's Mama What About Your Daughter, Buddy Guy's Watch Yourself and Bennett's Oh Baby Hold Me. What makes this impressive is the great musicianship and simple and clear production. Issued on same label as Reign Ghost and Christmas, and super rare too. One of the toughest Paragon LP's to track down... Hans Pokora has it listed in his Record Collector Dreams series of books with a 3 Star Rarity Rating! Even with its inclusion in the Pokora books it's still relatively unknown. A limited German CD reissue surfaced some years back and it has never been reissued on vinyl. This album is mainly comprised of great covers done in a very raw garage charged blues rock fashion with slight psychedelic touches... but the real standout on this album, for me personally, is the original instrumental "Spring Fever", an incredibly tight jam action with a Slide Wah Wah Guitar combined with a heavy bottom end and hard drums.

https://bestfile.io/sIABiLeuNBf6h91/file

Jeremy Storch - From A Naked Window CD 70 w 40 Miles Past Woodstock LP 71

 Keeping with the recent Woodstock mini-theme here lately and with above post adding to it, I'm cleaned out on it now..  I've had this vinyl for a while now and interesting to compare this 'folkie' from a more aggressive band that I've posted in the past--New York's Vagrants--versus below more a folkie from the stoner front to compare and contrast the differences.  I went and got his first and only other from youtube yesterday so haven't heard it yet but I REALLY dug his 40 miles vinyl.

https://bestfile.io/Awujcd4elRXBCeZ/file

Bob Frank - st LP 72 w Broke Again LP 24

 A big thanks to E.W. for clueing me into this recent Record Store Day release (good idea to wait a bit since the Discog's copies were all being price competitive so I got a deal!) for Bob.  Per Discogs:  Real Name: Robert Landis Frank

Profile: Bob Frank (born February 26, 1944, Memphis, Tennessee, USA - died July 18, 2019) was an American musician, singer/songwriter and composer. He was managed and produced by Cletus Haegert, who helped Bob land a record deal in 1972 on Vanguard.

https://bestfile.io/iz3Bf13mVdmI0Ca/file

JOHN WILLIAMS - THE RIVER (OSR) LP 84

 A pretty cool cover that I will miss seeing on one of the to be ripped piles.  Per Discogs:  Real Name: John Towner Williams

Profile: American film composer, conductor, and pianist, born February 8, 1932, Floral Park, Long Island, NY, USA.  

In a career spanning six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures. Williams (often credited as "Johnny Williams") also composed the theme music for various TV programs in the 1960s. Williams was known as "Little Johnny Love" Williams during the early 1960s, and he served as music arranger and bandleader for a series of popular music albums with the singer Frankie Laine. His most typical style may be considered Neo-romanticism, with a notorious use of leitmotifs and orchestral grandeur (most iconically in the Star Wars saga), but he has made also incursions in Impressionist, Expressionist or Experimental music, and also in progressive Jazz (his father was a jazz drummer and he began his career as a jazz pianist, often working with Henry Mancini).

Williams has won five Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, and 21 Grammy Awards. As of 2023, he has received 53 Academy Award nominations, an accomplishment surpassed only by Walt Disney (59). His longtime collaboration with producers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas has been very fruitful and contributed to the growing popularity of score music. John Williams was honored with the prestigious Richard Kirk award at the 1999 BMI Film and TV Awards.

Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame in 2000, and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004.

https://bestfile.io/YbEpOlod2jIgCE9/file

JUDGE - NY crew 7 w Demos & Live 88-90CD w Chung King Can Suck It CD 89 - cc

TOP 100 RARE LIST:  Another one from this series that I had already mostly the bottom photo is from the old Blogged and Quartered blog that totally had all the Eastern USA hardcore in spades with each post they put up everything it really was quite an impressive blog back in the day.  Got the other's elsewhere in the old blogsphere.          https://bestfile.io/IbjcjylZPZkCCky/file
 

THE RAYBEATS - Roping Wild Bears EP 81 w Guitar Beat LP 81 w It's Only A Movie LP 83 w DANNY AMIS - Whiplash! EP 82 w The Overtones - Red Checker Wagon 7 80 w LOS STRAITJACKETS - SING ALONG WITH CD 01

REPOST Request:  What I wrote last time:  I am combining all these old posts as one although forget I had the James White and the Blacks too.  I moved some of my comments from the old posts to the comments and here is from very first post of my Raybeats rip off a cassette I had in high school:  Instrumental band that had Danny Amis from the Overtones before he got kicked out to more success in Los Straitjackets.  And what a great tune about one of the lakes in the Twin Cities chain of lakes...Surfing Lake Calhoun which was ludicris at the time but now is filled with Wind 'Surfers'.

Danny Amis - Whiplash! EP 82:  https://bestfile.io/PT448uUI8jXhplw/file

The Overtones - Red Checker Wagon 7 80:  https://bestfile.io/n6z6QNQRzFv7mwd/file

Los Straightjackets - Sing Along With Cd 01:  https://bestfile.io/QNlR2aUh5sJLHZ8/file

The Raybeats:  https://bestfile.io/v0nM8R673dFrAHz/file

LESLEY GORE - Girl Talk 2LP (Girl Talkl LP 64 + Sings All About Love LP 65 w The Golden Hits Of Lesley Gore LP 65

REPOST and ADD ON:  Found another of her albums missing a cover from Goodwill but in great condition to add to the earlier-posted double album that really rocks!  That song 'You Don't Own Me' that starts out side 2 seems really familiar like from some noire David Lynch movie or something.  Anyways here is what Discogs says:  Real Name: Lesley Sue Goldstein

Profile: Lesley Gore (born May 2, 1946, New York City, New York, USA – died February 16, 2015, New York City, New York, USA) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. At the age of 16 (in 1963) she recorded the pop hit "It's My Party", and followed it up with other hits including "Judy's Turn to Cry", "You Don't Own Me", and "California Nights". Sister of Michael Gore with whom she composed songs. Cousin of Alan Dean Foster.

https://bestfile.io/BgBoxzpqNxHhgNm/file

MAYNARD FERGUSON M.F. HORN 4 AND 5 - LIVE AT JIMMY'S 2LP 74

REPOST Request:  For Camarillo Brillo whose been mining the good bar band releases here lately.  This is a great double album that ripped to digital pretty good even with scratches and mold on cover.  Per Discogs:  Real Name: Walter Maynard Ferguson

Profile: Canadian jazz trumpeter, and bandleader.

Born: 4 May 1928 in Verdun, Montreal, Canada.

Died: 23 August 2006 in Ventura, California, USA (aged 78).

Awarded the Order of Canada in 2005

https://bestfile.io/2zbhDmu3mWPIoUY/file

Marianne Faithfull - on Long Playing Vinyl LP w st CD 65 w Greatest Hits LP 69 w Broken English LP 78

REPOST Request:  For Kostzilla and I added 20 songs from 1965 self-titled or maybe has the other album from that year another blog had thrown together long ago but I had never posted somehow.  The rest are nice vinyl rips which really is the best way to hear music.  I tried for more from youtube yesterday but was shutdown somehow at three mp3 sites trying for 'baby blue' oh well it's there.

https://bestfile.io/sDJK4yhD1IWlbWB/file
 

PHIL MANZANERA - Diamond Head LP 75 w Primitive Guitars LP 82

 REPOST Request:  Brian Eno produced his first album.  Per Discogs:  Born 31st January 1951, London. Guitarist and producer, having shot to prominence in the early '70's as the lead guitarist with the seminal band, Roxy Music. He is in much demand both as a performer and record producer and owner of Gallery Studios.                               https://bestfile.io/snKDnNqCfRJN6LI/file

Philip Rambow - Shooting Gallery LP 79 w Jungle Law LP 81

 REPOST Request:  Remember Ellen Foley of Clash fame covered his 'Night Out' endearing classic for the title track of her second album back when she was in the TV show 'Night Court'.  Per Discogs:  Philip Rambow (born Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. Most recognised for his working with the likes of Brian Eno. He took the name of Philip Rambow, adapting and respelling of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud's surname.

LINK REPOSTED 5-10-2024:  https://bestfile.io/twL5NDntUiMQUgd/file