Re-Lee: Lee Hazlewood revisited

One of my first posts was Lee Hazlewood's
98% AMERICAN MOM & APPLE PIE 1929 CRASH BAND.
I asked for other Hazlewood albums that are unavailable and was kindly sent several gems that I had never heard. The original links to those records have expired so I am re-posting them for your edification:

N.S.V.I.P.s (NOT SO VERY IMPORTANT PERSONS)
Reprise RS-6133 1964 [128kps]
tracklist:
01 First Street Blues
02 I Had a Friend
03 I'm Gonna Fly
04 Go Die Big City
05 I Ain't Gonna Be
06 Have You Made Any Bombs Today?
07 Everybody Calls Me Something
08 Save Your Vote for Clarence Mudd
09 I Might Just Break Even
10 Just Bluesin'


FRIDAY'S CHILD
Reprise RS-6163 1965 [192kps]
tracklist:
01 Friday's child
02 Hutchinson Jail
03 By The Way (I Still Love You)
04 Four Kinds Of Lonely
05 Houston
06 Sally Was A Good Old Girl
07 Since You're Gone
08 A Real Live Fool
09 I'm Blue
10 The Fool
11 That Old Freight Train
12 Me And Charlie


LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES
Reprise RS-6297 1968 [192kps]
tracklist:
01 Love And Other Crimes
02 Morning Dew
03 She Comes Running
04 Rosacoke Street
05 She's Funny That Way
06 The House Song
07 Wait And See
08 Forget Marie
09 Pour' man
10 Love and other crimes (reprise)


Rare 45rpm Extras
1 Ode to Billy Joe
2 Charlie Bill Nelson
3 Rainbow Woman
4 I Am, You Are
5 Trouble Promo
- Autobiography narated in the style of the introductions on Trouble and N.S.V.I.P.s

Other deleted Lee Hazlewood albums I would love to hear:
DID YOU EVER w. Nancy Sinatra RCA Victor LSP-4645 1972
I'LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT Viking VIF-5004 1973
A HOUSE SAFE FOR TIGERS CBS 80383 1975
20TH CENTURY LEE RCA YSPL-575 1976
MOVIN' ON Polydor 2379147 1977

If you're lookin' for it, you can find Trouble here

pyrotechnical potentiality

Here it is:
This is what your relationship has been waiting for!



A definitive collection – sixteen versions of the Doors classic Light My Fire...
I hope there is something in here to entertain and en-light-en every single one of you!
Who knows, maybe someone might even leave some feedback...?
Of course if anyone has what they feel is a superior version please don't hesitate to let me know or even upload it for the greater good.
The Tracklist includes the titles of the albums that I took these versions from, not necessarily the original records they were released on.
A big thanks to all the big boys of blog for making most of these records available to me.
Its all your fault, you know...
tracklist
01 Woody Herman – Unknown Album
02 Koichi Oki – Yamaha Superstar!
03 Julie London – Yummy, Yummy, Yummy
04 Edmundo Ros – In FLiGHT Entertainment
05 Astrud Gilberto – Sounds From The Verve Hi-Fi
06 Shirley Bassey – The Later Lounge
07 Ted Heath & his Music – The World of Phase 4 Stereo Vol.2
08 The Mike Flowers Pops – A Groovy Place
09 Zacharias – Ultra-Lounge: On the Rocks, Part 1
10 Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity – Streetnoise
11 The Burbank Philharmonic – First Album (Maybe The Last)
12 The Enoch Light Singers – Whoever You Are, I Love You
13 Mae West – Unknown Album
14 Hbp Mix – Mood Mosaic 8 [Funky In A Minor Mode]
15 Nancy Holloway – Hello Dolly
16 John Andrews Tartaglia – The Sound Gallery Volume Two

light wick & stand clear

Turn me on Bacharach

Switched-On Bacharach - Christopher Scott
Well, you've probably heard Switched On Bach,
now it's time to give Bacharach the treatment...



The title says it all really, and the switch is connected to an electric chair, in which Mr. Bacharach is slumped, heavily sedated...
The cover image is a high point of this unforgiving recording, but even that looks like a fire hazard. The back cover text of my copy has been damaged and is mostly illegible, but the surviving last paragraph is worth retyping:

"Burt Bacharach is going to enjoy hearing this album because, like his songs, it is done with taste and artistry and real feeling.
And, electronic or no, switched-on or turned-down, you just don't hardly get that kind of musical integrity anymore these days.
This is a today album that will be around tomorrow and quite a few days after".

Well there's no information on whether Burt ever did enjoy hearing it but my gut feeling is NOT!
After spending the time and effort preparing this recording for posting I should add something positive at this point: It is a prime example of how the synthesizer can be deployed: taking beautiful and sensitive music and transforming it into relentlessly unemotional muzak for robots (and they will surely enjoy it -provided they have a warped sense of humour- especially track 10). As such it should be in every self-respecting music lover's time capsule, if only to ensure that it will indeed "be around tomorrow and quite a few days after".
As they say, you just don't hardly get that kind of musical integrity anymore these days...

tracklist:
01 The Look Of Love
02 Alfie
03 Walk On By
04 This Guy's In Love With You
05 Wives And Lovers
06 Do You Know The Way To San Jose?
07 What The World Needs Now Is Love
08 I Say A Little Prayer
09 The April Fools
10 What's New Pussycat?

flick that switch now!