I had a blast yesterday. I was fortunate to do some crate digging in the inventory of a record store that closed in 2008. I found several boxes of gospel 45's and I bought every Peacock 45 I saw...all in beautiful shape which is something with Peacock 45s you never find. This was one of my finds. I even had time to re-record most of the stuff I messed up last week
I was preparing an entry this morning and realized I screwed up last week. I apparently did not pay attention to the settings on the roxio program..instead of input it recorded as microphone...uggggghhhhh...I am goin to have to trash those sounds and re-record this weekend...Needless to say that lead me to scramble to see what else I had on the computer that fits for my typical Saturday theme...popsike, pysch, garage, bubblegum....bubblegum it is
I remembrer picking up a copy of Tommy Tutone's 1st LP at a Goodwill right after it was released in 1980...matter of fact a promo copy of their 45 Cheap Date was also there and I picked it up also (should be featured here someday). I had heard their song Angel Say No on the radio so it was a good buy. I still have the LP and the 45. The video for this song was shown alot but it did not have the impact as their 867-5309 song. This made the "bubbling under" billboard charts and barely missed the top 100- I always thought this should have been a hit
Wednesday Album Deep Cut. I recorded a bunch of album cuts a few weeks back and I almost went quirky this morning...off the ball stuff. I decided to not go down that path....YET...maybe next week. Stick traditional I told myself...well traditional Indie in today's case. Yo La Tengo is a national treasure and they keep plugging away. I will admit I am not as enamoured with the stuff they have been putting out lately and always head back to older stuff. This song was on a Coyote Records compilation that I have had for the past 30+ years. I last saw them in concert in Durham right before the VID and they had Dave Schramm touring with them as an extra guitarist. Dave was an original member before he ventured on his own ....hmm...maybe some Schramms are in our future.
The B side is as killer as the A side...just like some of those 60's 45s. This may be a modern classic. I know those old school Garage and Soul folks out there will not get it but that's alright.. The Pixies were amazing in their heyday..I remember hearing Doolittle and was just blown away. When Kim Deal formed the Breeders I was happily surprised. Being of the MTV 120 minutes generation...I loved the videos for these songs. Check them out on youtube.
I could hear April March sing this in a Quenton Tarantino movie
