Dick Schory’s New Percussion Ensemble to Bob Dylan’s Christmas Album (SMLP #15: Special Long Post Title Edition)
Sunday, December 27th, 2009 Posted in Saturday Morning Listening Party, Your Discography Help Requested | No Comments »It's Christmas time and that can only mean one thing here at Music Routes HQ: Lots of cat-sitting for friends who are out of town! One of those friends, the Flannestads, left us a Christmas gift of booze and two LPs. ...
Chet Baker to The Clancy Brothers (SMLP #14: Special All-Anu Edition)
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 Posted in Saturday Morning Listening Party | No Comments »I skipped the Saturday Morning Listening Party this last weekend. Things got busy. I may skip it again this weekend. So, here's a midweek SMLP post. I was over at Anu's last week and he asked me what ...
Louis Prima & Keely Smith to Uriah Heep (SMLP #13: Special Uriah Heep Edition)
Saturday, November 28th, 2009 Posted in Saturday Morning Listening Party | No Comments »Today's LPs for the Saturday Morning Listening Party were selected from the nearby second-hand store by my sister Margo who is visiting from Pennsylvania. Album #1: Louis Prima & Keely Smith, Together. Margo especially liked "Mashuga". Her husband always ...
Carole King to Big Audio Dynamite (SMLP #12: Special Flea-less Edition)
Saturday, November 21st, 2009 Posted in Saturday Morning Listening Party, Your Discography Help Requested | No Comments »I was excited to do a little Internet research to find out what the role of Flea was on the Big Audio Dynamite record No. 10, Upping St. Alas, it turns out that the Flea involved in the B.A.D. record ...
Herb Alpert to Gary Numan (SMLP #11)
Saturday, November 14th, 2009 Posted in Saturday Morning Listening Party, Your Discography Help Requested | No Comments »This week's listen from the $1 bin in the second-hand store: S.R.O. by Herb Alpert. The album helpfully ha a personnel list at the end of the liner notes on the back. (Are they still "liner notes" if they appear ...
Art Garfunkel to Judas Priest (SMLP #10 Special Soft Rock To Metal Edition)
Saturday, November 7th, 2009 Posted in Saturday Morning Listening Party | 1 Comment »This week, we listened to the 1975 Art Garfunkel solo record Breakaway and the 1979 live Judas Priest platter Unleashed In The East. Garfunkel's record contains a cover of "Disney Girls", a great song originally recorded by the Beach Boys during ...
Alvin and the Chipmunks to Brother Jack McDuff (SMLP #9: Special Halloween Edition)
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 Posted in Saturday Morning Listening Party | No Comments »Last week, I mentioned that I made the rookie error of not checking that a record isn't hopelessly warped before buying it. For this week's listening party, I would like to mention an even more fundamental error. I failed to ...
Wings to Rain Tree Crow (SMLP #8: Hopelessly Warped Edition)
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 Posted in Saturday Morning Listening Party, Your Discography Help Requested | 1 Comment »Today's $1 purchase from the nearby second-hand store is Venus And Mars by Wings. Sadly, I didn't get to listen to this on the turntable. I made a rookie error. I purchased a hopelessly warped LP. There is ...
Styx To Flaming Lips (SMLP #7: Vaguely Pirate Edition)
Saturday, October 17th, 2009 Posted in Saturday Morning Listening Party | No Comments »Today's $1 purchase from the second-hand shop and the start of this week's route: Styx, Pieces Of Eight. Mostly, I bought it because there are moai on the cover and a song entitled "Aku-Aku", thematically connecting it to Martin Denny and ...
David Sylvian to Arthur Lyman (SMLP #6: Swine Flu Edition)
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 Posted in Saturday Morning Listening Party, Your Discography Help Requested | 2 Comments »Humuhumu is sick, so we stayed in this Saturday morning. (She doesn't have swine flu—the title is just a joke that is probably unfunny, in poor taste, and something that I will regret before I even finish this parenthetical comment.) ...