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:: The Star Spangled Banner :: :: The Yankee Doodle Boy :: :: America The Beautiful :: :: You're A Grand Old Flag :: :: Conquest of the American Wilderness :: :: The Stars And Stripes Forever :: It just dawned on me that the weird little Christmas album I have that I haven't gotten around to posting is by the very same guy who did this, which I picked for the very same reason --

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:: Creedence Medley :: :: McArthur Park Medley :: Yet another night club act who had no business documenting their musical indiscretions on vinyl, yet here it is: The Chandler Conspiracy. The time: The early 70s. The material: Medleys of current day hits - some with Christian overtones. The look: Sideburns (except for the lovely ladies of course). The sound: Well, you decide. For some

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Entire Album, Zipped (YSI) :: Lying Here Loving You :: :: Goodbye Unspoken :: :: Cross Country Driver :: :: She's My Lady :: :: Sweet Street Lady :: :: Dues :: :: Let My Imagination :: :: Also Ran :: :: Goodlight (Show Me Home) :: :: Picture of Mom And Dad :: Note from Tony: Alec is a good friend of ours who shares a similar interest in weird and wonderful vinyl, and

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:: Bedrock Rap/Meet The Flintstones :: :: Take Me Out To The Ballgame :: We all get bad ideas; terrible concepts, the perfect band name, plays on words that seem remarkably clever upon conception. And most of us later realize that our ideas aren't quite so remarkable, either by the cold hard light of later reflection, or even more quickly by a "who farted?" look from the first person you

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:: 007 Rides Again :: :: Mo Jo :: :: Ripple Blues :: :: Mustang :: :: Dang Thing :: :: Coming On :: :: Unchained Soul :: :: One For The Money :: :: Great Scott :: :: Movin' On. :: A couple of years ago, I posted this article about Jerry Cole in these very pages. The last paragraph went like this: Funny how at the time it was like, "yeah, these old guys are pretty good",

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:: The Andy Griffith Show Theme - The Fishin' Hole :: :: I Spy :: Earle Hagen, who passed away last week at age 88 may not have had the most recognizable name, but his compositions are among the most iconic of the mid to late 20th century. With the advent of television, Hagen's style found a new home when a tune he wrote in the late 30s while doing stints in big bands as a trombonist

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:: A Jolly Theatrical Season :: Robert Morse and Charles Nelson Reilly were creatures of Broadway whose paths crossed during the stage production of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Apparently the two hit it off well enough to want to make this album together, and I was lucky enough to find a copy some 35 years after it first appeared on the shelves. Their enthusiasm for

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:: Classical Gas :: :: Witchita Lineman :: :: I Don't Want To Be With Me :: :: Harper Valley P.T.A. :: :: Little Green Apples :: :: Fire Engine Red :: :: Kansas City :: Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. Fancy threads like Robert Wagner mighta worn when he was courtin' Natalie Wood, and a double necked lavender gee-tar

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:: The Letter People, A-Z :: [note from Tony: When I imported these into iTunes, the artist showed up as simply "People," so adjust your tags accordingly] This record and I go back a ways. No, I wasn't brainwashed by it as a child because by the time this record came out I was busy buying Black Sabbath records. I have been aware of it though for about 15 years now, and the story of how I

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:: Ich Hab' Ehrfurcht Vor Schneeweißen Haaren :: :: La Mamma :: :: Mamatschi :: :: Schwalbenlied :: :: Ja, Ja, Wenn Mutter Lacht... :: :: Weißt Du Muatterl, Was I Träumt Hab'? :: :: Gute Nacht, Mutter :: :: An Die Freude :: :: Wenn Du Noch Eine Mutter Hast :: :: Ave Verum Corpus :: :: Ich Möchte Dir So Gerne Sagen :: :: Ais Die Alte Mutter :: :: Ave Maria :: ::

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:: I've Got You Under My Skin :: :: You Are My Sunshine :: :: Ikaw :: :: A Lot Of Livin' To Do :: :: La Bamba :: :: Drumology :: :: Just One Of Those Things :: :: River :: :: Girl From Ipanema :: :: You Gotta Love Everybody :: :: San Antonio Rose :: Firstly things firstly, that's one awesome cover. If by chance this record was putrid, I knew I had, at the very least,

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:: Galveston :: :: Wichita Lineman :: :: By The Time I Get To Phoenix :: I'm sure you can imagine how excited I was when just after having seen Mike complete an impressive run of nine Wichita Lineman covers, I stumbled across another. OK, it wasn't that exciting, but my eyes did light up a little, and I immediately turned to my friend and stuck it in his face. He's a veteran of record

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:: Chinook :: :: Earth :: :: The Stars :: ‘Tis Spring, ‘tis Spring! Flying bugs have materialized in my living room to announce it. Ants are making their yearly pilgrimage from the dirt outside and through the walls to my kitchen. Pollen floats in the air directly towards my reddened, itchy eyes and my increasingly sneezy, snotty nose. Hooray! Spring is here! Let us celebrate with the

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:: Yellow Submarine :: :: Over, Under, Sideways, Down :: :: Sunshine Superman :: We've covered easy listening heavyweight Enoch Light before, and I am sure we'll cover him again. You remember him, the guy that liked to experiment with stereo separation and record onto 35mm film, with a definite weakness for the Cha Cha and other dances the kids definitely weren't doing. There are

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:: Die! Die! Die! - Blue Skies :: :: High Dependency Unit - Stupormodel :: Die! Die! Die! is a band us here Robots like very much. Personally, I've seen them 5 times in the last 2 years. Not bad for a band from New Zealand who don't tour the States all that often. Fronted by guitarist/vocalist Andrew Wilson, the trio is anchored by bassist Lachlan Anderson and drummer Michael Prain.

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:: Anna :: This has been a very emotional, painful few days for me. You see, the SXSW festival is occurring right now, and I’m not there. Right about now I should be cracking open another Lone Star tall boy, and having my ears bludgeoned by the 20th band of the day after having quaffed down a tasty Buffalo burger at Casino el Camino. How does one cope? Bacon flavored lollipops just

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:: California Suite :: Fuck New York, and New Yorkers. I mean, just listen to this "Eddie" character. Who would you rather associate with? Eddie or Sammy? I'll take Sammy and L.A. any day of the week. We've got cool cats like Sammy, and hot chicks hanging out with Sammy in a compound in the Hollywood Hills smoking some radical sinsemilla. No wait, that was that other Sammy Davis Jr. record,

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:: Half Past A Heartache :: :: It Takes A Lot Out Of Me :: :: If The Devil Wants To Talk :: :: Count Down :: Famous for a song that may have marked the beginning of trucker music, 1952's "Diesel Smoke," Doye O'Dell's name might not sound familiar to you. Even though I'd heard that song before on a few of the trucker comps I've picked up over the years, I don't think I really paid

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:: Night Fever :: :: Shadow Dancing :: :: Stayin' Alive :: There's a heavily sequined horse fitted with an open collared silk blanket and mirrored saddle. It died of a cocaine overdose. This is the dead horse I like to beat here on the Robot; its name is Disco. I am constantly finding further evidence that Disco saturated nearly every fiber of popular culture during the late 70's, even

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:: Song #3 :: :: Song #7 :: :: Song #8 :: :: Song #16 :: :: Song #17 :: :: Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep :: Here’s a few selections off of a recent addition to my slowly expanding sixties Singaporean “Non-Stop Dancing” collection. At least, I think The Saints are from Singapore. They could be Malaysian. It’s hard to tell after some half-hearted Googling of the Internets and the lack

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:: Just A Little Kiss :: :: Caravan :: :: Baker St. Mystery :: :: Bye Bye Blues :: :: Guitar Boogie :: :: Ebb Tide :: :: Carioca :: :: Golden Wild-Flower :: Regardless of whether or not his name rings an, um...bell, you've certainly heard his guitar. Unless you've never listened to popular music, in which case I am now going to have to ask you nicely to leave. This man is such

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:: Georgia On My Mind :: I guess I picked this album up because I liked the cover and because I find it hard to resist the wonderful sound quality of early RCA stereo pressings. I don't have much interest in owning any Eddy Arnold records generally because he's not exactly what you would call edgy. If anything he's the exact opposite of edgy. In my world you gotta have some edges, or you

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:: George Morgan - Wichita Lineman :: :: The Lettermen - Wichita Lineman :: :: Sammy Davis Jr. - Wichita Lineman :: And now the last of my Wichita Lineman posts for a while anyway, until I obtain more of 'em anyway. I did in fact save the best for last. The George Morgan version is nice. George is mainly known for his late 40s hit, "Candy Kisses". By the time he made this album, Sings

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:: Out of Limits :: :: Hyper-Space :: :: Saturn :: It’s reasonable to say that America went surf crazy in the early sixties, and The Marketts (lit. trans. “Sea-ketts”) were a good part of that madness by charting some instrumental surf-pop. The original band was formed by main songwriter and guitarist Mike Gordon in 1960, who took what became their first hit single, “Surfer’s Stomp,”

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:: Wolfwhistles :: Two European lads hook up with a female Japanese singer in one of the world's most famous metropolises. That's the story of Blonde Redhead. It's also the story of Agaskodo Teliverek, if you swap Hungary for Italy and London for New York City. We very rarely put up any new music here on the Robot, but every once in a while I just gotta spread the love. I have been listening

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