The Rolling Stones - The Lantern

Here is a creepy little Stones song. B Side to a Bill Wyman solo 45. Cool sleeve also

Lee Bowman and the Arrows - Graveyard

Rockabilly Halloween 45 find from the Florence Flea Market last summer

Coven - White Witch of Rose Hall

Here's a heavy Halloween treat

Buck Owens - Monster's Holiday

I remember this song from when I was a young pup. This is a very hard to find Picture Sleeve which I was lucky to score this last year.A bnce promo copy and I found a stock copy of the 45 in all those promo radio station 45s but, I don't know where I put it.

Johnny Fuller - Haunted House

The original version. This was supposed to be last night's post but I forgot

The Contrails - Mummy Walk

Instrumental Monday [when not surf Monday or car Monday] is a little Halloween inspired ditty

Jive Five - People From Another World

Halloween week. Not a holiday that I celebrate other than in music. I have a nice selection for this week and all of these were picked up over the past year. Why not start the ween week with a song about Aliens. This was the b side to a minor hit for the Jive Five.

The Sandals - Theme From Endless Summer

So I've had a busy week. I left midweek last week for another quick trip to Florida. I managed to hit a few places on the way down and on the way back and it was pathetic pickings. I'm finding that people believe all records are worth a fortune by the prices I saw. $10 for beat up Patti Page 45's was normal. But I guess I did not need any more records anyway.

JR. Walker & The All Stars - Do You See My Love

I seem to have uploaded a bit more doo wop songs lately but not tonight. How about some nice soul music on cool promo red vinyl. Love that signature Saxophone sound

Billy & The Essentials - Babalu's Wedding Day

I am so glad the weekend is looming....this has been a busy week at work.. Another Radio Station pick up

Swinging Blue Jeans - Now The Summer's Gone

A Radio Station find and a fitting song for what the weather is like here

the Shirelles - I Met Him On A Sunday

Radio station find. Two different copies with different labels and release numbers

Don & The Goodtimes - I Hate To Hate You

A punkier poppy side of Don &The Goodtimes...much better than the Epic 45's. This has a west coast sunshine sound to me

Major Lance - Monkey Time

The Monkey is about to get on Noah's ARK here in Eastern North Carolina. I hope it does not rain for 40 days and 40 nights.

Johnny Cash Loading Coal

There is just not enough time. I have had plans to play with this blog but too many things in the fire. For instance, I went to the Yo La Tengo concert in Durham last night which of course is a drive so I was unable to upload anything.. I had a good time but I wish they would have played a little longer. There were some songs I wanted them to play. I was glad Dave Schramm was with them and he is such an amazing guitar player. If you have never heard his band The Schramms you must buy buy buy tehm all...can probably pick them up cheap as nobody ever bought them- well I did but poor ole Dave didn't make any money off me. Here is a 45 found in the radio station find- can't believe this is my first Johnny Cash upload

Johnny Zamot - Johnny's Boogaloo

I had a pretty darn good calm non stressful day at work. On the way home I bounced around and listened to a little bit of everything. On one of the stations they were playing "Superstar" from the Carpenters. I forgot what a good song that was [check out Sonic Youth's version]. It brought back a good memory that I had not thought of in years. I was in elementary school [4th grade] and our school had a P.A. system and they would choose two kids to play music over the P.A. I remember how damn excited I was to be chosen once. So the day I was to play music I was paired up with a girl who was a year older..cute little thing with freckles that I was smitten with. So we had a stack of albums and the only one I remember was "The Singles" and I remember it because of the brown cover and the song "Superstar". I remember looking at her and thinking of the words "Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby. You Said You'd be coming back this way oh baby. baby baby baby baby oh baby, I love you, I really do". Ah, young love

Sam & Dave - Soul Sister, Brown Sugar

Time to mix it up a bit and get funky. And yes, this is from the Radio Station find.
To all new to my blog or to the long time followers, Let me know if there are any old posts you want to have re-posted due to the Divishare issue.

Jan Berry - Tinsel Town

A Jan Berry post accident solo 45 from 1974. It was destined to go nowhere but it shows he still had that Jan & Dean magic in him.  Look at the unique "artist" title of 1 Jan 1. I picked this up from Matt in Maryland...thanks Matt!

Buck Owens - Down On The Corner Of Love

I burned up the highway with a quick road trip to Florida this week to deal with family - left Wednesday and returned Friday. I still managed to make a few pit stops for a brief "stretch the legs look for records" but it was pathetic pickings. But I really don't need anything else right now considering I am still going through the boxes of 45's I bought. Tonight's offering is another from the Radio Station find. There are more country 45's in the bunch than I would like but this IS one that I like. Early Buck [1956] but this is a reissue from 1960 I believe

Soul Stirrers - Until Jesus Calls Me Home

What a busy day. Diggin through the radio station find today and found a few cool 45's like tonight's post. Sam Cooke had the perfect voice for spiritual songs. Look, another "B" side

The Seeds - Try To Understand

B side gem..turn those A sides over

Dee Dee Warwick - Yours Until Tomorrow

Friday night soul. I have so much cool 45's I have picked up the last few months but have had limited chance to scan and record them. That is not a bad thing as I have plenty of stuff scanned and recorded and I will get to the new stuff. This is one of those 45's I picked up earlier in the year. A killer Goffen and King song, I have always loved any version of this song. I have a version by Baby Ray that kills...I can't believe I have not uploaded that on...hmmm, another on the list of things to do. So it seems Open Drive has made some changes and I can't make an audio player. So I played around with watching a youtube video on embedding an audio player. Seems to work just fine.

Chuck Berry - Come On

My favorite Chuck Berry song. I have looked for this for quite a while and found it in Maryland thanks to my new record collector friend. I love it when that elusive item comes your way..

Dixie Humming Birds - I'll Keep On Living After I Die

Yes, I have been off the blog for a bit. But I have had a busy few weeks. First, I went at the start of the month to see my friend in Maryland for a few days. Had a great time and in the process made a new record collector friend. I managed to score some nice 45's from him, of which tonight's post is one of them [although the 45 is somewhat rough condition]. I have some fantastic Peacock 45's but had never seen any on red vinyl and I picked up 2. Perfect gospel.

As I was driving home from Maryland I was thinking how I have way too many records and need to start selling them to free up space but then what do I do, I go and buy  about 12,000 45s earlier this week. I won't go into the whole story here but I they were from an unpicked find- yes unpicked. There are bit more Country 45's than I would have liked [probably at least half of the find] but the rest were 60's [with some 70's] rock and soul and most are promos. Found some items I have looked for awhile for, although I have not had the opportunity to go through all the boxes and boxes and boxes. I figure to set up a website at some point to start trying to sell stuff I don't want. Stay tuned.

Youngbloods - Tears Are Falling

This was my favorite song from the Youngbloods

Bill Haley And His Comets - Skinny Minnie

She's not Skinny, She's Tall...that's all.... classic

Happy Mountain Boys - Blueridge Break Down

A little homegrown North Carolina Blue Grass

Psychic Motion - Big Teaser

I spent the day bopping around on the eternal record hunt. Bought about 1000 45's today cheap, pulled out about 100 I wanted and gave the rest to a friend, then dropped off a huge pile of 78's to another friend who collects those. I found some cool stuff today like an Eddie Cochran promo Liberty 45, the Who's My Generation LP, a Chuck Berry promo Chess 45, a promo Roy Orbison Crying EP with a picture sleeve, and a bunch of cheap cd's like a double of Smokey Robinson/Miracles, Stax box set, Chuck Berry, John Coltrane box set, a couple Sonny Rollins cd's and Small faces double cd. I'm sitting here grooving to Jorma Kaukonen's 1st solo lp which did not take me too long to find in the multitude of LP boxes I have.

North Carolina group on a promo 45

Dyke And The Blazers - Shotgun Slim

I watched Transference last night and at the start of the movie a song was played on a turntable and I really like it. I looked it up to see what it was and from what LP and damn if I think I don't have that LP as it looked familiar. I think it was given to me a few months ago but I have no idea which box upstairs its in. I guess I have a Saturday project after all

Del Capris - Hey Little Girl

So I will be the first to admit that I am not the healthiest eater and I am fairly picky. I bought my wife a nutrabullet for Christmas and she uses it faithfully. She has tried to get me interested in it but I'm not interested in chopped up greens. Deciding I need to start eating better, I started making fruit smoothies and have been having them for breakfast this week. I have become a convert. Nothing but fresh bananas, peaches, strawberries, blueberries, cherries, a little bit of spinach and some ice. Pulvarize them together and poor the delicious drink

Jan Berry - I Can't Wait To Love You

Here is a hard to find Jan Berry solo 45. Ths is the B side...never cared for the A side...I would guess the Wrecking Crew are on this.

The Boyz - Come With Me

Found a few goodies at an estate sale today including a red vinyl Bob Dylan promo 45. Here is a recent find

Paul Kelly - Nine out of Ten Times

Sat at home today and was lazy lazy lazy. Dog is at my feet letting me know it is dinner time. Here is another one of those cheap Philips sleeves

Bobby Hebb - Love Love Love

My plan was to have a picture sleeve week last week but I had to suddenly pack the dog up and motor to Florida. The dog is not much of a traveler but he was overall fantastic for the 700+ miles we had to go. To make a long story short, I had to help my wife down there with her mother. I will say it is extremely depressing sorting out and discarding things that were accumulated over a life time. I did get a chance to hit a few flea markets and found some stuff but no fantastic finds.  I was sure glad to get home yesterday. This was the next item I was going to post so here goes.