4 Seasons- Where Are My Dreams

One of the last if not the last 4 Seasons Philips 45's. By this time they barely dented the charts and this one did not hit Billboard. A fine one from 1970

Cat Stevens - If You Want To Be Me, Be Me

I think I wrote about going to a Thanksgiving day annual Flea Market. Somebody had listed they would be bringing thousands of albums they apparently bought in a storage unit buy. This was probably 8 or 9 years ago. I had to drive an hour to this town and it was still dark out when I got there and I was not the first to be digging in these records. They were amazing. I ended up with about 140 lp's for a buck a piece and dumba$$ me did not bring more $...we are talking REM, Replacements, Joy Division, Zappa, Velvet Underground ..you get the picture. This weird bootleg was in the buy. You can tell by the sound that this song was recorded off the Harold & Maude movie as I believe this was never made commercially available until the 1980's. Probably one of Cat's most beloved 45's they missed an opportunity for chart action at the time. Also, this bootleg has it titled different than the If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out

Girl Trouble - Primeval

Sub Pop Tuesday. I love that grungy lofi sound. This LP was oop when I found a sealed copy in a Boulder Colorado record store on the hill that was going out of business back in the early 90's before I moved to North Carolina. It was 1/2 priced- I also found Mark Lanegans debut on red vinyl the same day..that was a score day. I later picked up the yellow vinyl reissue, the test pressing and of course the 3 song promo cassette. 

Pondirosas - Everybody's Surfin

What a soggy morning. Tons of rain yesterday and some last night so no walk for super Cooper. Surf was all the rage in the 60's...even in Pittsburgh PA apparently

Victory Chorale Ensemble - Let It Be

 I love my Sunday mornings. It's a time for peaceful thought. Too much junk cluttering up our existence these days, and so I use music to help ground me. How wonderful that a gospel group took the fantastic Beatles song and put soulful power behind it. I know this song has been recorded a zillion times but I wonder if Sir Paul ever heard this version

The Beat Box Boys /Ian Darby - Einstein/Break City

I am deviating from my typical garage psych Saturday posts to wish a happy belated Birthday to Albert Einstein- born April 14, 1879. I was going to post this one yesterday and had it all planned but I have been so busy I completely forgot about it. I found this in one of my boxes from the big April 2022 buy. This is not something I normally would gravitate to but it has grown on me

Smokey 007 with the Exciters - I Don't Want To Cry / Beg Me

A little Friday Soul obscurity for you. I always pick up odd ball looking 45s just in case. Sometimes you just get that feeling when you look at it. Sometimes it pays off!

Side note: none of the links are working to the hosting service although I can play them on that service. I will monitor but make a comment if it still is not working by the end of the day