A nice Gospel reissue on the Oldies label. Interesting the Oldies label reissued this but a wonderful choice - A very Sam Cooke vibe going on here
The new record stand arrived yesterday and I spent hours putting most of it together. Just need to finish putting the doors on. It wasn't really what I wanted but my wife liked it better than the minimalist stand I wanted. It will hold a bunch of lp's as well so I will decide which ones to bring down (that I know my wife will enjoy)
Here is another recent find. I am going to Lowes this morning for some baseboard trim and then maybe hit the record store. Need to be home before Noon to watch the final Colorado game of the year
Here is another one I had to re-record. I will be happy to get my turntable setup back to where it was (hopefully).
Happy Thanksgiving. I am thankful that our home projects (for this year anyway) are complete. The company doing the last project finished around 11pm last night. I plan on taking it easy today and will of course record some music. The turkey was brined and is ready to go into the oven around 11am or so, stuffing is done but needs to be cooked and my wife made a pumpkin bread pudding. A wonderful feast for two!
I ordered a stereo stand for the living room and another receiver so next week a turntable will grace the living room for the 1st time in 25 years. I am already thinking of the lp's to bring down that I know my wife will play. Probably will pick up a TV this week during Black Friday sales to put on the wall as my wife bought 2 couches. It appears we may actually use our living room for what it is intended!
Today I offer a John Lennon promo...you don't see Apple promos that much and I happen to have 2 copies of this one...go figure.
I first heard the A side of this 45 not from the Clovers but from the Steve Miller Band off their The Joker LP (it was a minor hit). Much later I learned it was a cover version and was happy to find a copy in this killer Atlantic old time sleeve. I felt this was appropriate for today as I get to write checks for the 2 big projects we just had finished. Floors look great and I started putting the living room back together yesterday.
Also, noticed it cuts out in the 2nd song for about 5 seconds. I need to get some Turntable furnature for the living room then I am going back to my old set up and putting the Turntable I picked up this summer downstairs in the living room. Hopefully that will fix my recording issues
Our new flooring was installed yesterday in the living room, hallway, den and kitchen. Now time to put the house back together so I can find the roaster for the turkey as it was up in the back bedroom.
I picked this up a few months ago but recording did not turn out so I re-recorded yesterday. Doubt this sleeve went with this 45 but it still looks cool in it.
I wasn't prepared for today as I did not record yesterday like I wanted, so I had to record this after my church programs. Have a steady plan to get some 45s recorded today
This is an exciting post for me. I grew up near Pueblo Colorado where the Trolls were from. When I was in high school I found a badly warped/heat damaged copy of their 45 at a Goodwill. Fast forward to my adult years and I ended up selling it (and quite a few others) due to some health issues my wife had. A few years later I scored a copy of the Picture Sleeve really cheap. Last year I was in contact with someone in Colorado who claimed they had quite a few copies of the 45 but refused to sell me a copy. Not sure why you would want to hoard copies of a 45 but whatever. So recently, there was a mail order auction by Barry Wickham and I managed to win his auction. It only took me 20+ years to match it up with the 45 and I am happy the sleeve has it's mate.
I am still having some problems with recording 45s. Sometimes they record just fine...other times they start out not clear, and then I am finding sometimes it fades out in the middle. I have to listen to each aftewards to make sure. I didn't do that with this one and it starts out a little rough.
My front door lately has been an assembly line of record packages. I'm like pavlov's dog when the postal truck drives up...lol
I heard the B side of this on the Underground Garage one Saturday and it was put on my want list. Then I managed to score an inexpensive copy via auction so it was a recent mailorder arrival. A side is killer too but love that B side. Dave Edmunds sings on the A side and Nick Lowe produced this 45- of course she was married briefly to Nick.
I am looking forward to Thanksgiving and having a few days off. I have never tried brining a turkey but plan to this year. My wife's stuffing is the bomb so that will be the highlight.
I managed to score a copy of Kennys LP years ago when I won the big LP lot I have written about. This was the highlight track for me and I finally picked up this 45 a few weeks ago. It wasn't until last year that I realized Kenny was in Jay and The Americans.
Teddy was known more as writer and producer than a performer. He wrote tons of classics but as a performer he barely dented the top 100 a few times. This nice rocker did not hit the charts
I'm wiped out still from Friday night. Another house project should be completed by Wednesday this week and the last one for awhile is scheduled for next week and should be completed before Thanksgiving. Then I can put the house back in order. Nice instrumentals for today but I will admit I recorded them backwards. Soul Grapes should have been first...but I am too lazy to re-record them.
I'm dragging today...won't go into particulars but I did not get to bed until 3:30a and then was up at 7:15a...going to make for a rough day
I thought I had other garage types recorded but maybe its the lack of sleep brain fog. But I had this one I had recorded last year but had not gotten around to.
