Tuesday, June 30, 2015

VARIOUS ARTISTS - LATIN DANCE PARTY


Nice Latin album, no mention who the artists are, and a very funny record label, Strand Records:

Strand was a New York label that started as a full-priced label distributed by Decca, but soon began specializing in budget issues. They were originally located, in 1959, at 680 Fifth Avenue in New York, but by 1960 had moved to 157 West 57th Street, New York. The vinyl tended toward thick and cheap, with many imperfections. Much of the label's output -- but not all -- was "bargain bin filler." As with many of the other budget labels, the philosophy seemed to be "anything to sell records," and if that meant misleading the buying public, so be it. If that also meant using the tried-and-true industry practice of not paying artists - - or not even telling them their record had been released, then that worked, too. There are plenty of examples below, including putting out a Virtues album titled Guitar Boogie Shuffle, the name of their hit, when the song was not even on the album!

There were a couple of other notable albums, particularly the albums by Larry Hall and a couple of Chris Columbo albums with the minor hit "Summertime," but most of the output was typical bargain-bin dross. They did issue albums with some "name" artists like Bobby Rydell, Brook Benton, Ray Charles, Ivory Joe Hunter, Memphis Slim, and others, but these were typically tracks recorded early in the artists' career, not examples of their current work. Artists like Don Cherry, Texas Jim Robertson, Joe Zawinul, and Karen Chandler had some hits during their careers, but the Strand albums were not those hits. Journeymen like Billy Mure and Specs Powell added name recognition.

Eventually, the label moved to 905 N. Broad Street in Philadelphia, near their demise around 1965.

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Saturday, June 27, 2015

EUIS KOMARIAH & BAND BHAKTI SILIWANGI - NGANTOS WALERAN


Great pop Sunda cassette from the great Euis Komariah with Band Bhakti Siliwangi, unfortunately the sound is often not that great, hopefully I'll find a better copy one of these days, but a great cassette nonetheless....

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Friday, June 19, 2015

MAURICE PATTON & THE MELODIANS - A GO GO AND OFF BEAT CHA CHA



I finally got my hands on this one today, still not a perfect copy, there's some skips here and there and I will keep looking and looking for a better copy. Verym very rare and absolutely fantastic instrumental album and if I'm not mistaken this came out in 1966....

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A GO GO DANCING MUSIC



Nice album, I've got no idea who this is, can't find any information about this but I do know that Four Seas Records was from Taiwan. Chinese traditional music brought to you in an A Go Go way....


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