Disco Movie - Patrick Nelson
Push And Shout - Lorenzo Jones
America The Beautiful
Columbine Records
CRH-115
When do rock, blues or disco songs sound unlike rock, blues or disco songs? For the most part, when they are songs found on a song poem album.
Featured Columbine vocalists on this set are Kay Weaver and Ralph Lowe. Apparently Columbine didn't have enough submission to fill out the album so they threw in a few public domain tunes, including America The Beautiful to fill out the sides.
The song poem industry was/is also called "song sharks". It's an old variation on the even older vanity press scam. The most famous example is Ramsey Kearney ( an otherwise random hired singer) and a deliberately bad attempt called "A Blind Man's P****". (I'm on a work computer so must be compliant.)
ReplyDeleteThe most successful song to ever come out of a precursor to songsharking is probably "I'll Never Smile Again", a sappy tune Frank Sinatra made a #1 hit during WWII.
Thanks! Never heard the term "Song Sharks". At least one song made it. LOL!
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