Archive for June 2006

Mid-60s Mania Volume 14

25 June 2006

Yep, here’s another one, and there’s at least one more in the can, assuming I can even find the can these days. The bisected young lady was hawking Fama garments in Italy some time around 1963.

Cover art, Wendex 111122-2Track listing for 111122-2:

  1. The Rolling Stones: Mother’s Little Helper
  2. Stevie Wonder: For Once in My Life
  3. The Lovin’ Spoonful: Daydream
  4. Brenda Lee: Is It True
  5. Frank Sinatra: That’s Life
  6. Jan and Dean: New Girl in School
  7. Diana Ross and the Supremes: Reflections
  8. The Yardbirds: Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
  9. The Impressions: You Must Believe Me
  10. The Grass Roots: Let’s Live for Today
  11. Simon and Garfunkel: Scarborough Fair/Canticle
  12. Marvin Gaye: I Heard It Through the Grapevine
  13. Hugh Masekela: Grazing in the Grass
  14. The 4 Seasons: Let’s Hang On!
  15. The Beatles: Please Please Me
  16. The Trashmen: Surfin’ Bird
  17. The Amboy Dukes: Journey to the Center of the Mind
  18. Petula Clark: Downtown
  19. Brenton Wood: The Oogum Boogum Song
  20. Jon and Robin: Do It Again (A Little Bit Slower)
  21. The Dave Clark Five: Over and Over
  22. Aretha Franklin: I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
  23. Bee Gees: I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You
  24. The Beau Brummels: Just a Little
  25. The Bobby Fuller Four: I Fought the Law
  26. Bobby Vee: Come Back When You Grow Up
  27. Sandy Posey: I Take It Back
  28. The Rascals: A Ray of Hope
  29. Glen Campbell: Wichita Lineman

Hey, You Can’t Play That!

4 June 2006

Well, you can, but if you’re the machine that programs most commercial radio stations today — and if you are, how are you reading this? — you’ve probably already been told not to, because there are people out there who will complain given the slightest provocation, and some of these are pretty darn slight. In an effort to convey this sort of discomfort, I swiped a cigarette ad (DuMaurier, if you care) and painted the actual cancer stick out of the scene.

Cover art, Wendex 111121-2Track listing for 111121-2:

  1. ZZ Top: Tush
  2. The Contours: First I Look at the Purse
  3. Randy Newman: Short People
  4. Tammy Wynette: Stand By Your Man
  5. Ray Stevens: Ahab the Arab
  6. Rex Allen, Jr.: Don’t Go Near the Indians
  7. April Wine: If You See Kay
  8. Ginny Arnell: Dumb Head
  9. Joe Tex: Ain’t Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)
  10. Arthur Godfrey: Slap ‘er Down Again, Paw
  11. Ian Thomas: Painted Ladies
  12. Lesley Gore: That’s the Way Boys Are
  13. Brute Force: King of Fuh
  14. Bobby Goldsboro: Me Japanese Boy I Love You
  15. Joanie Sommers: Johnny Get Angry
  16. The Rolling Stones: Brown Sugar
  17. 1910 Fruitgum Company: Indian Giver
  18. Jerry Reed: Another Puff
  19. The Crystals: He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)
  20. The Dominoes: Sixty-Minute Man
  21. Alan O’Day: Skinny Girls
  22. The O’Kaysions: Girl Watcher
  23. Ray Charles: Let’s Go Get Stoned
  24. Sandy Posey: Born a Woman
  25. Jimmy Soul: If You Wanna Be Happy
  26. Randy Newman: Rednecks
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