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Vinyl Confidential, 3.1 â“ The Odd Order of Oblong Boxes
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any art work from the ol’ 45 room, AKA Vinyl Shangri-La. So this month I’ll be spotlighting some of our finer art brut escapades, high jinks, larks, monkeyshines,...
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Another Vinyl Confidential, 3.2 â“ The Odd Order of Oblong Boxes
“Cipher encoding/decoding, this is diddly squat, goose eggs, nothingness, zip, zilch -- kick it in the teeth, silence has passed on into legend for chrissakes, long may it live. Silence is as dead as a...
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Happy Birthday Gábor Szabó!!
According to legend -- and we always print the myth around here -- while growing up in Budapest, the Hungarian born jazz legend Gabor Szabo was inspired to pick up the guitar after seeing a Roy...
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Remembering Tammi Terrell, Who Died 40 Years Ago Today
40 years ago today, Thomasina Winifred Montgomery, better known as Tammi Terrell, died of a brain tumor just a month short of her 25th birthday. She was one of that incredible crop of 1960’s soul...
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The Vinyl Confidential, 3.3 â“ The Odd Order of Oblong Boxes
“It was one of those evenings when the sky came down for its close-up, gray and dingy, wrapping itself around every megasized Hollywood billboard. The fog blanketed the windows of Amoeba like a broke...
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Alex Chilton Dead at 59
Alex Chilton (December 28, 1950 - March 17, 2010). Legendary music icon known for his work in the 1960’s with the chart topping Box Tops and his ground breaking band Big Star is dead from an apparent...
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Digging through the Record Stacks 3 -- O'Hegarty, âBody in the Bagâ
O'Hegarty – “Body in the Bag” / “What a Mouth” (Verve-Folkways 1966) Every record geek’s collection benefits from owning a few sides of twisted little English ditties, if only to help explain our...
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The Vinyl Confidential, 3.4 â“ The Odd Order of Oblong Boxes
"All I saw was the seven inch record lying there on the floor under the vibrating glare of the florescent lights, split in half like a fortune cookie, except this platter’s fortune would read doom and...
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Happy 90th birthday Ken Nordine!!
You may not know it, but you do know Ken Nordine, and you know him well. His deep resonant, baritone voice, gritty in a perfect kind of way, has sliced through television and radio ads for decades...
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Happy Birthday Virgina O'Brien
So here is my annual tribute to one of my all time favorite comedic actresses and peculiar lady of song, Virginia O’Brien. Today is her birthday, though she passed away back in 2001. She was also a...
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eGuiders.com Live -- Great Records, Real Good Whiskey, Even Jambalaya ...
Not to sound like a complete SoCal elitist snob, but I do most of my writing down by the pool, lounging about – in the shade, of course -- often sipping some kind of beverage, sometimes a cappuccino,...
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Lena Horne 1917 - 2010
Lena Horne, the legendary jazz singer, icon of American popular music and award winning actress -- and as far as I’m concerned, one of the most captivating women ever to walk this planet -- died...
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The B Side Live Waves Bye Bye
Ok, so Alyssa Milano wasn’t tweeting back and our resident rock-star-who-we-can’t-name was too busy doing rock star things elsewhere to be in attendance, but there was a tall, thin gentleman looking a...
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Vinyl Confidential, 4.1 â“ The Odd Order of Oblong Boxes Returns
“Because, you know how it is, in this business you can't sleep for trying to imagine all the great records you’re missing out on out there somewhere at a yard sale or a thrift store or at the other end...
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Howlinâ Wolfâs 100th birthday
He was named after Chester A. Arthur, the 21st President of the United States, and as a kid Chester Arthur Burnett was nicknamed Big Foot Chester or Bull Cow as he grew to stand 6 feet, 6 inches tall...
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Remembering Hazel Scott on her 90th birthday
This past week would have been Hazel Scott’s 90th birthday. She’s probably not as well known today as she was in her lifetime, which is a shame, because Hazel Scott was not only a brilliant and...
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Crispian St. Peters 1939 - 2010
I’ve always had a soft spot for Crispian St. Peters, the 1960’s English pop star with a lilting, lyrical, tenor voice who passed away last week at the age of 71. Born Robin Peter Smith in Swanley,...
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Vinyl Confidential, 4.2 â“ The Damned Odd Order of Oblong Boxes
“When I got home I mixed a tall stiff one and stood on my balcony, leaned heavy against the railing, looking over and down five stories. Standing, sipping, I listened to the groundswell of cars and...
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The B Side Live -- Sock It To Me!
True blue idiocy! What else would you expect to find online these days? This could be a post modern sock-hop for the 21st century except it’s highly unlikely anything from this century will find the...
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