computer down...

My computer that I used to scan images for this blog is broke so there probably won't be any (or at least as many) posts for a few days. It is supposed to be a 'network printer/scanner' but the scanner only seems to work when it is hooked up via USB connection.

Grady Martin and the Slew Foot Five - Happy Birthday/The Anniversary Song

If you manage to make it through the first bit of the happy birthday song it's actually a pretty good country rock band playing the music (and I normally hate country). If nothing else it would be something cool to bring out for that next Birthday bash that you are throwing!

Link (256 kbps CBR MP3 - from a vinyl 45 RPM)

Hollywood Class Reunion

Remember the celebrity voice impersonator craze of the late 70's/early 80's? In my young mind Rich Little was king!

Well, let's just count this one as a really poor man's Rich Little! From a Dove Books on Tape release.

Link (256 kbps CBR MP3)

The Frank Clarke Kids - Trinidad's Steelband Prodigies

This one was made by a bunch of kids ranging in age from 7-16. It's basically your typical steel drum music so you will either like it or you won't.

Link (256 kbps CBR MP3)

Victor Lundberg - An Open Letter To My Teenage Son/My Buddy Carl (45)

"Your mother will love you no matter what you do... because she is a woman!"

Just one delicious quote from this horrible pro-American propaganda piece! This is mainly a pro-Vietnam single penned by Victor Lundberg, an American radio personality from Grand Rapids, Michigan. This is the complete 45, with all of it's scratchy goodness.

From wikipedia:

Lundberg was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was a newscaster at Grand Rapids radio station WMAX when he released "An Open Letter" in September 1967. The record, written by Lundberg and produced by Jack Tracy, imagines Lundberg talking to his teenage son -- in real life, Lundberg apparently had at least one male teenager in his household at the time. Lundberg touches on hippies, the Vietnam War, and patriotism. The voice-over, spoken over "Battle Hymn of the Republic", memorably ends with Lundberg telling his son that, if the teen burns his draft card, then he should "burn (his) birth certificate at the same time. From that moment on, I have no son."

Link (240 kbps CBR MP3)

Steuben's Alpine Orchestra - Switzerland

I picked this one up at a local thrift store for forty cents but it was barely worth that! According to the cover it was recorded live but all that meant was that they dubbed some long applause routines at the end of the tracks along with some ridiculous crowd chatter. I was hoping that it would be more Swiss and less American but alas that was not to be.

Link (240kbps CBR MP3)

Various - The Best of Comedy

This one was probably a promotional cassette but it's a nice little collection of funny bits from Bill Cosby, Rodney Dangerfield, Buddy Hackett and more. It's not very long but it's still funny. Includes two Fat Albert bits from Bill Cosby.

Link (256 kbps CBR MP3)