The Story Of Dracula

The Story Of Dracula
Kid Stuff Records KS118
By The Kid Stuff Repertory Company
1978

Horrible album cover art and the worst Dracula impersonation ever.

The Indian Marimba

The Indian Marimba
The Musical Heritage Society MHS 3238
1975

From the back cover: The musical research necessary for the production of this recording was undertaken by Hector Miranda who directs the Los Calchakis Ensemble.

Silver Apples Of The Moon

Silver Apples Of The Moon
For Electronic Music Synthesizer
By Morton Subotnick
Nonesuch H-71174
1967

This set has that great and mysterious Forbidden Planet soundtrack flavor to it. Apparently, Subotnick broke with the trend of the day and took the art form from abstract into pattern and rhythm.

Cool stuff.

Margaret Plays The Musical Saw

Green Leaves Of Summer

Margaret Plays The Musical Saw
Audiocraft Recording Co. Cincinnati, OH

Today's offering is a great local private press recording. Minty fresh vinyl and autographed!

The Musical Saw is the next best thing to the Theremin when it comes to "strange" music instruments. And it may be that Musical Saw recordings are rather more rare than Theremin.

There is a lot of information on the back cover. But one paragraph stands out. Margaret carries her saw in a gun case, which causes problems with security when she boards a plane for Burbank, California, to visit her daughter. Sometimes she must demonstrate that it really is a musical instrument.

That's why you do not see many traveling Saw players these days. They would all be pegged for terrorists, knocked to the ground and stripped search everywhere they went.

LIMBO! - The Caribbeanas

Santa Manite

LIMBO!
The Caribbeanas
Diplomat 2277
1962

Limbo Like Me
Arima Tonight
Gounod's Waltz
Gaza
Melodious Overtones
Santa Manite
Melody De Amour
Whirling 'Round
Claire Is Where
The Heat

The Goldman Band

The Goldman Band

The Goldman Band
Marching On!
Vocalion VL 73838 (enhanced or stereo)

Manhattan Beach March

Bluejackets On Parade

2nd Regiment Connecticut National Guard March

The Gold Bug March

Bugles And Drums

His Honor

The Billboard March

Wisconsin

The Goldman Band

Indian March

Ping Pong Percussion - Lerner & Loewe

I Talk To The Trees

Ping Pong Percussion
Lerner & Loewe

By The Famous Stradivari Strings

Cover designed by Harry and Marion Zelenko, Inc.
Spinorama Records S-33

Pointless "ping-pong" effects tacked on to "Stradivari Strings" tracks.

They Call The Wind Maria

Thank Heaven For Little Girls

I Could Have Danced All Night

I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face

Waltz At Maxim's

I Talk To The Trees

Wouldn't It Be Lovely

On The Street Where You Live

Gigi

The Night They Invented Champagne

To The Tables Down At Mory's

To The Tables Down At Mory's
Songs for getting together, beer drinking and raising hell!!!
Lee Gotch's Ivy Barflies
Somerset SF-7600

I have another great cover to post today. I'm not kidding. I did not make this up. Yes, these gentlemen are drinking beer, raising hell and singing Row, Row, Row Your Boat.

Raising Hell? This music is so white bread it's almost barbershop quartet.

Gene Tracy Truckstop 11

Gene Tracy
Cleans Up His Act
Truckstop 11
Koala Record Company 1980
KOA 14878

Interesting cheesecake cover for this reissue of Tracy material which was released the year after he died at the age of 52.

Love this cover. The model is curiously "old" and I don't have any idea why Koala went with this image over any other cheesecake image as there is no connection between the cover and the material. The album contains some adult references, some off-color and politically incorrect jokes, but no bad language what-so-ever.  It is not "XXX" by any means.

So it interesting to note the disclaimer on the back cover: The illustrations are a commercial concept for this album. Therefore we are unable to say that the illustrations represent a completely accurate presentation of the recording artist as he has or does now appear.

Jesse Crawford At The Organ

Villa

Jesse Crawford At The Organ

Crown Records
CST 486

Don't be fooled by the hip 60s chick who graces the cover of this Crown release… Featured on this set is the completely non-hip organ music produced by Jesse Crawford who was a well known silent movie and gramophone recording artist who passed away several years before this LP was released.

Tales From The Vienna Woods

Gypsy Love Song

Merry Widow Waltz

Villa

A Wandering Minstrel

Buttercup

To A Wild Rose

Blue Danube

Emperor's Waltz

Artist's Life

Voices Of Spring

Treasure Waltz

Swingin' Sounds For Secret Agents

Swingin' Sounds For Secret Agents
Columbia Special Products
CSM 444

Here is a rare collection that was released by Columbia as a "Limited Edition – Not Available In Record Stores" I'm do not know how the album was distributed