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Blue Öyster Cult:

Eric Bloom, Donald Roeser, Allen Lanier, 

Joe Bouchard, Albert Bouchard

Hello, I Must Be Going. I Cannot Stay, I Came to Say I Must Be Going. I'm Glad I Came But Just the Same I Must Be Going...

It's at-thay ime-tay of-way ear-yay, olks-fay. ime-Tay or-fay e-thay Annual-way eptember-Say abbatical-Say! ere-Whay I-way ake-tay a-way ole-whay onth-may off-way om-fray e-thay orld-way ide-way eird-way of-way eb-way! *eyegitty**eyegitty**eyegitty*

Uh, sorry about that. Been dreaming in Pig Latin lately. Anyhoo ... Fear not, as always, I shall return in October, typing knuckles scabbed over, brain recharged, and loins-girded only to jump back into the fray, big time, as I once more will take part in Hubrisween, meaning 26 spooky film reviews in 26 days. See ya then, Boils and Ghouls. And until then, stay cool! Now play us out, Buck!

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YouTube Finds :: Detonating a Nostalgia Bomb! All the Twisted, Mixed Up Hits of HRB's Goofy Gold (1978)

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I remember being mesmerized by this promo when it broke in 1978 on the old family Zenith, which soon led me and my mother (being led by me) to the Gibsons, where yours truly, plopped down $9.98 of my own money and purchased my very first album, Goofy Gold, an 8-track, and I wore that thing out. Wore. It. Out.

Complete track listing:

Monster Mash – Bobby Pickett
Purple People Eater – Sheb Wooley
Wooly Bully – Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs
Running Bear – Johnny Preston
Beep Beep – The Playmates

Battle of New Orleans – Johnny Horton
Charlie Brown – The Coasters
Pepino the Italian Mouse – Lou Monte
Big Bad John – Jimmy Dean
Yakety Yak – The Coasters

Alley Oop – Hollywood Argyles
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor – Lonnie Donegan
Transfusion – Nervous Norvus
Mr. Custer – Larry Verne
Western Movies – The Olympics

Chantilly Lace – The Big Bopper
King Kong (Your Song) – Pickett and Ferrara
Hello Muddah! Hello Fadduh! – Allan Sherman
Ahab, The Arab – Ray Stevens
Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport – Rolf Harris

Goofy? You bet. But bad? Oh, HELL no. A novelty record put out by HRB Music, I hadn't thought about the album in years, which is sad, because it was kinda the soundtrack of my childhood for a spell -- and King Kong Your Song was my anthem. (I wish I had purchased the double album because the odds of its survival would have been more viable.) But after stumbling upon this vid in a YouTube hole, a nostalgia bomb detonated inside my brain and I've been feverishly trying to put it all back together ever since. And I'm happy to report that I did remember all the words to Lonnie Donegan'd ditty on bubblegum and bedposts, "My red corpuscles are in mass confusion" could quite possibly be the greatest song lyrics of ever, and I finally, FINALLY, deciphered the refrain from Western Movies, Wham! Bam! Shoot 'em up, Pow! Huzzah!

Vintage Tuneage :: A Boy, A Girl, and a Shark :: Johnny Cymbal's The Water Was Red (1961)

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Johnny Cymbal

Vintage Tuneage :: The Fine Art of Monster Ballads :: Roky Erickson & the Aliens' Creature With the Atom Brain.

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Roky Erickson.

YouTube Finds :: Gettin' Funky with the Fearsome Foursome on Shindig! (1965)

Though they were technically the third incarnation of the dreaded Fearsome Foursome to dominate the Sunday gridirons, the Los Angeles edition (1963-1967) is probably the most notorious -- and I mean that in a good way, both on and off the field. Don't believe me, well, check out their appearance on Shindig: 

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That is so awesome I can't even even ... Olsen and Greer went on to quite the career in Hollywood, even Jones showed up in a couple of films, including (quite inexplicably) Charles B. Pierce's The Norseman. But it's their brief musical career that I find most fascinating. The group released one single through Capitol Records, but that's not Greer in the photo. (I believe that's Charlie Cowan.) 

It was released in 1965, so Greer was still with the team, but I have no idea if Greer provided the vocals for this, though everyone on the web seems to think so. I've spun it a few times on YouTube and it sounds like him, but that photo's a definite puzzler so I can't say for sure that it definitely is him. If anyone does know, please sound off. Thanks!

The Fearsome Foursome (L to R):

Merlin Olsen, Deacon Jones, Lamar Lundy, Rosey Greer

Vintage Tuneage :: Prowling Around with Bro Smith and the Big Guy!

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The 1970's saw a rash of DJ-fueled novelty songs, and while everyone else remembers the Disco Duck, I was always more fond of this one, mostly because it gave five year old me a bad case of the drizzles, courtesy of this guy:

Alan Smith.

a/k/a Bro Smith, a/k/a Brother Love,
a/k/a Brother Lee Love

Vintage Tuneage :: Proto-Mash-Ups :: Dickie Goodman's Mr. JAWS.

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