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18/06/2024

What's Everyone Doing
This Summer?
Got Any Activities Planned? Road Trips?
Where Are You Going?

Did you know if it wasn't for the clothesline, we may not have had Multi Track recording..? Yes, one day Les Paul was si...
16/06/2024

Did you know if it wasn't for the clothesline, we may not have had Multi Track recording..?

Yes, one day Les Paul was sitting on the patio, watching his wife, Mary Ford, hanging wash on the clothesline. One "row" after another.

Les, of course, having an analytical mind, saw something different. Besides being a musician, he was also an inventor. Les invented the electric guitar for example.

Les looked at the rows (layers) of clothes hanging on the clothesline and applied that principle to the open reel tape recorder, and thus gave us Multi Track recording.

15/06/2024

How's Everyone Doing Today?
It's A Beautiful Day .. But HOT!
I Wish Everyone
A Wonderful Day

15/06/2024

Would be nice if when I get back home, I've been gone for a few days, I'd have Internet service.

I'm on the road right now, and found this yesterday. It's a Country song, but one I'd heard when I was a kid. Only 45 I'...
14/06/2024

I'm on the road right now, and found this yesterday. It's a Country song, but one I'd heard when I was a kid. Only 45 I've ever seen of it. It's dirty and grimey right now, but will be a nice addition to my collection when I get it home, cleaned, and re-sleeved. I had grown up listening to old Rock & Roll, but also Country.

Part 19, new acquisitions. Some of these I don't yet have in the original factory sleeves. Each record is cleaned, place...
11/06/2024

Part 19, new acquisitions. Some of these I don't yet have in the original factory sleeves. Each record is cleaned, placed into a fresh new generic white sleeve, the original factory sleeves placed in front it, then both are slipped into an acid-free outer sleeve.

Some of these are duplicates. There are many more, but after listening to them, I've decided they're really not worth posting or airing. 😎

09/06/2024

On my recent road trip, I did manage to find an obscure 45 I'd been looking for, but I can't show it yet because it sounds identical to another group. Great for a contest.

Arthur Brown has been hacked. Beware of fakes. Look for the blue check mark for the real.
09/06/2024

Arthur Brown has been hacked. Beware of fakes. Look for the blue check mark for the real.

Please report the hack if you receive a friend request from the hoaxer pretending to be me !
Shut this down
I will not send friend requests and the only page used by me is this official one with the blue tick ( this one)
Please report this other one 💥🤠….

I doubt this is actually worth anything .. but it doesn't have to be. In the early 1970's, I was young and digging throu...
09/06/2024

I doubt this is actually worth anything .. but it doesn't have to be. In the early 1970's, I was young and digging through some used 45's for sale.

I found this one. It was possibly the first time I'd heard this song (original is Ruby and the Romantics) and I loved it. Don't know whatever happened to it, but here's another.

I don't know if this is the correct time period sleeve, but there's the story on it. I enjoy the original.. but this one will always be special to me.

As you know, I'd taken a road trip recently. These are some 45's I'd purchased on that trip. Jerry Richards likely beat ...
08/06/2024

As you know, I'd taken a road trip recently. These are some 45's I'd purchased on that trip. Jerry Richards likely beat me to all the better stuff lol.

06/06/2024

I'm currently in Mountain View Arkansas. Anyone from here? Any cheap vinyl here?

03/06/2024

I've just heard a preview of The Beach Boys new song, "Here She Comes". Only heard a few seconds of the instrumental into, but I like what I heard

More photos from my neighborhood
28/05/2024

More photos from my neighborhood

A handful of photos of my neighborhood after the tornado. 1:20am. The beginning of a very long couple of days. We still ...
28/05/2024

A handful of photos of my neighborhood after the tornado. 1:20am. The beginning of a very long couple of days. We still have no power.

26/05/2024

I just got home from surveying the damage from the tornados. My neighborhood looks like a war zone. Entire town out of power ..beep and Creep traffic. Tornado right over my house.

Apparently it had gone right over me. My back yard is destroyed
26/05/2024

Apparently it had gone right over me. My back yard is destroyed

26/05/2024

Marking Myself Safe From The Tornadoes. At Least THREE In My County Alone (So Far)

Part 18, new acquisitions. Some of these I don't yet have in the original factory sleeves. Each record is cleaned, place...
25/05/2024

Part 18, new acquisitions. Some of these I don't yet have in the original factory sleeves. Each record is cleaned, placed into a fresh new generic white sleeve, the original factory sleeves placed in front it, then both are slipped into an acid-free outer sleeve.😎

😢If this goes through, it will be an extremely sad state of affairs.
25/05/2024

😢If this goes through, it will be an extremely sad state of affairs.

Presley's granddaughter, Danielle Riley Keough, has called the documents 'fraudulent.'

Picked up a nice live album of Lloyd Price yesterday.
24/05/2024

Picked up a nice live album of Lloyd Price yesterday.

24/05/2024
24/05/2024

Folks, I want to say something here. Now, you know I have nothing against the Black people. If I did wouldn't be playing and promoting their music.

However, I had watched a video recently of a Black man who came to America from the UK. He said his "mission" was to interview the leader of the Ku Klux Klan. He didn't know his name.

He would refer to him as, "the mystery man" or the "man of mystery". I'm sorry, but THIS Black man .. was a fool. He was stupid. "The mystery man", as most of us know, is Thomas Robb.

In the video, this man drove into the Klan compound, and walked right up to Mr. Robb's house. Mr. Rob then drove up, got out and, walking past the man said, "you need to leave".

The man had already been making "noise" around town that he was looking for the compound. He was in Walmart inquiring about the compound .. and was escorted out of the store by security.

The man told Mr. Robb he was from the BBC to do an interview. And of course, he was not, but he was from the UK. In the interview, Mr. Robb was cordial and honest.

"Cordial" considering he is the "National Director of the Ku Klux Klan", and was speaking with a Black man. The man had deceived Mr. Robb into making shout out's to various individuals back in the UK.

The names, however, were derogatory words and phrases designed to make Mr. Robb look foolish. He didn't learn this until the interview was finish, and the man had revealed his intent.

Mr. Robb told him to get into his car and leave. The man was stupid, foolish and disrespectful. This is the type of person who make other Black people look bad.

He probably thinks he was cool in what he did.. I found it appalling. I don't support the Klan in any way.. but from what I saw in the man's own video, Mr. Robb was stern .. but cordial.

During the interview, he said, "I'll be your friend, but I won't invite you to a BBQ". As you know, I also work in television. I'd like to get a camera crew together, and interview Mr. Robb.

We hear this, we hear that .. this is all second, third or forth hand information. I know the Klan has a very violent history. However, I'd like to get the facts straight from Thomas Robb.

The "Grand Wizard". The "National Director". I want to know specifically what the Klan believes .. and why. As for this Black man .. his INTENT was to make a mockery of Mr. Robb and the KKK.😎

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Yesterday there was an article written in the Presley Dispatch, about Rockabilly Hall of Famer, Sleepy LaBeef. I, under ...
23/05/2024

Yesterday there was an article written in the Presley Dispatch, about Rockabilly Hall of Famer, Sleepy LaBeef. I, under my personal name, had added the following:

"Here's something else you may find interesting about Sleepy, Presley Dispatch... Sleepy was a friend of mine. We'd talk about music and different things.. one time he told me about Carl Perkins.

"Blue Suede Shoes" was Carl's song. However, after the release of that song, Carl was hospitalized from a serious car accident. During this absence, Elvis Presley, my cousin incidentally, had recorded his own version of "Blue Suede Shoes".

It became a bigger hit than Carl's version. Some time later, Carl was performing at a concert .. someone shouted out, "sing Elvis' 'Blue Suede Shoes'!" Sleepy told me Carl had never gotten over that.

I have an Oldies radio show, and I wanted to interview Sleepy and his son, Robert Spencer .. unfortunately he had passed away before that interview could be arranged.

Sleepy had an intimate relationship with a lady years ago while he was on the road. His son, Robert, was the result of that relationship, only Sleepy didn't know until many years later.

This story, incidentally, was told to me by Robert. Robert and his mother had gotten caught up in the Jim Jones religious cult in Jonestown, Guyana, South America.

One day Sleepy's son and the son of cult leader, Jim Jones, had gone off into the woods/jungle to play. When they had returned .. the mass su***de had taken place .. including the death of Robert's mother.

I'm writing this from memory. I have it all written down somewhere... As I said, this was told to me some years ago by his son, Robert .. just a few months before Sleepy's death.😎"

(Photo courtesy of the Presley Dispatch)

Who remembers Karen Valentine? I think the first time I saw her was on a episode of Love American Style. I also remember...
22/05/2024

Who remembers Karen Valentine? I think the first time I saw her was on a episode of Love American Style. I also remember watching Room 222 because of her.😎

Regardless of how much you love your record collection, when you croak, your kids will certainly have a yard sale of ALL...
22/05/2024

Regardless of how much you love your record collection, when you croak, your kids will certainly have a yard sale of ALL of your prized possessions. Worse yet, they might just dump them at The Salvation Army or Goodwill....sigh!

More from the bedroom.
20/05/2024

More from the bedroom.

20/05/2024

Man, I SERIOUSLY need a bigger house! As you know, I also collect 45 sleeves. I was going through some 45 cases just now, and found one full of 45 sleeves.

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Found these in the bedroom this morning. Records all over the place lol. Some of these have NOT yet been cleaned.
20/05/2024

Found these in the bedroom this morning. Records all over the place lol. Some of these have NOT yet been cleaned.

20/05/2024

Facebook is giving me notification of a PM, but I can't find it for the life of me. Most of the time when people respond to my posts or send me a PM .. Facebook will NOT EVEN NOTIFY ME! Last year I found a PM someone had sent me .. Facebook sent me a notification .. TWO YEARS AFTER THE PERSON SENT IT! 😡

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John Lennon, "Walls & Bridges" LP, 1974😎

Sammy Davis Jr., 1972. When I was a teenager, I'd connect a 1/8"male plug into the radio earphone jack, and the other end into my tape recorder input and record songs off the radio.😎

I wanted to share this with you. Bob Denver, Dawn Wells, and Russell Johnson from Gilligan's Island on Late Night with Tom Snyder. I used to watch both shows. I grew up watching Gilligan's Island .. it was a favorite. 😎

I found an old demo and made this video of it. Generally Facebook with either mute or delete any music I try to post on the grounds of "copyright violation", let's see if they do it with this one. If they do, there will be no audio (music). 😎

Anyone here familiar with the PIRATE RADIO SHIP Radio Nordsee International..? In the UK in the late 60's and early 70's, there were many "Pirate Radio Ships" that would broadcast Rock & Roll music, as the BBC had a monopoly pretty much and would not play Rock & Roll music. Pirate radio ships had to broadcast from international waters, which meant four miles off the coast. The is an instrumental from Les Reed, "Man Of Action". It was used as the theme music for Radio Nordsee International, broadcasting from the ship, Mebo II. This is the MAY DAY CALL when they were FIRE BOMBED by the competing pirate ship, Radio Veronica, May 15, 1971. Two days later police arrested Norbert Jurgens, General Manager of Radio Veronica in connection with the attack. The crew of RNI were forced to abandon ship. The arrest had surprised and shocked Holland, because for more than 10 years, Radio Veronica had cultivated an ultra-respectable business image and, although its broadcasting vessel remained outside territorial waters, the station was generally regarded as being almost part of the Dutch media establishment. I would have included the entire song, but I'll be lucky if I can get by with the thirty seconds behind RNI's may day. Facistbook and YouBoob have both blocked and muted my videos in the past. I DO OWN the 45 in the video. In fact, this is my copy. LEGAL - FAIR USE NOTICE: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “FAIR USE” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. FAIR USE is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. 😎

Wolfman Jack in San Diego, interviewed by Bob Mills, 1973. "The Midnight Special" and "American Graffiti".

This is a personal favorite of mine. I'm also a fan of Be-Bop and Jazz. This was used as a filler piece during drive-in theatre Intermissions. Taken from 35mm film, restored. 😎

This is a film clip once used in theatre intermission reels. Here we have a teacher telling us how "healthful, tasty and nutritious" the ice cream is, how "crisp and healthful" the popcorn is, and the dunce telling us that "vitamins keep the bubbles busy" in the soda. Teacher says, "Good the lesson is learned". "Treat yourself to some nutrition"..? I realize these were for fun, but wow, the message! I have several rolls of these in 35mm film. There was once a defunct drive-in theatre in my area, and one time my brother and I went inside to explore. In the middle of the projection room floor, was a pile of dirt that had been swept up. And in that pile of dirt, I saw these rolls of film. A wooden box mounted to the wall.. there was more. All the equipment had been removed long ago, and there was absolutely nothing of value remaining. They had quite obviously considered these trash, and so I had brought them home with me. I still have them to this day. My family used to go there when my brother and I were kids.. so these are the very films we had watched in my childhood. 😎 (EDIT: After loading the video to Facebook, I see they've placed a black border on it. They seem to do that on every photo and video I post. I DON'T like it.) But, that's Facebook...

I wish department stores still looked like this for Christmas... Used to, Christmas, even on the secular side, was Christmassy. It was such a special time. Today, everything has become so politically correct, that people seem to have lost interest in Christmas or even forgotten the very meaning of Christmas. Our streets aren't even decorated like they used to be. I remember stores downtown had Christmas music playing like, Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters singing about streets "dressed in holiday style..", Gene Autry singing "Here's Comes Santa Claus"... There would be silver tinsel across the streets with large multi-colored lights embeded.. large red and white bells, large candy canes.. a blanket of now.. and of course, Jolly saint Nick himself. Nativity scenes of Baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph.. which is what Christmas is really all about... I wonder how many people even know about Jesus, Mary and Joseph? I wonder how many people today even know about Jesus? Or even care? When I was growing up, and probably you as well, the entire Christmas season was very special.

Who says animals have no feelings? I've had some great pets through the years. Turn up your volume a bit. 😎 (Death of The Lion King)

Sure can be frustrating when the other person is "Playing Hard To Get"... I thought you'd find this entertaining. 😎

I thought you'd get a kick out of this.

Sitting around tonight, not much else to do.. so I put this together. 😎

Hardee's Commercial with Wolfman Jack, 1981

Who of you remember watch The Dating Game on TV back in the 60's? Here's the theme song.. performed with a Rock & Roll flavor. One of my favorites.

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