In The Trashcan Records
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"Enter the arena in the center of the temple built for the voodoo god
of the apes and tremble... Tremble and bow before the Lord of the jungle
island. Dance and sing and bring glory to those unfortunate souls who dared
to release these songs on a 45..."
Formerly known as The Jokers! At least two of the Jokers formed this funky combo a few years after their hit "Gauchos". When this was recorded in 1975 already a few sequels of "Planet of the apes" had been made. Any song about apes & monkeys are ok, aren't they? The flipside however is better.
Co-writer is Davy Jones. Which one? Take exotic pounding percussion, Polynesian rhythms and a male choir chanting spells in unknown languages while somebody hollers "voodoo, voodoo, voodoo". This is the 70s. Both parts are about 4 minutes long.
A '61 piano instrumental that needs but a little imagination for you to see the glow worms fly around your loudspeakers.
Like Les Chakachas this band play the chachacha as if they were from South America. No no, they hailed from Belgium and recorded "Abracadabra" around 1960 as a b-side for "Costa Brava", also sung in Spanish.
This sounds like early 70s to me. It's a wild funky instrumental tune perfect for a seedy movie score or a third rate television show. Joao Donato is totally unknown to me. The best song on this 45 however is "The frog" which you can find on volume 34.
This sounds like the dance hall days of the 20s and 30s. Charleston with washboards and old old old gear; even the piano seems to be stolen from an 1850 saloon. Jump and jive and get a life on Coney Island. If Lou Reed could have seen that place in those days... well maybe he did; how old is he?
No chimpansee or gorilla but the orangatang from South East Asia is the subject of this '60 exotic tune by mister Chase. I hope to find more 45s of this singer.
Sun-tanned beach bunnies from Tahiti running half naked around the men banging their drums and singing 4 Tihoti Heva compositions. One other was already put on volume 15.
This 1961 song was recommended to me by Lux and Ivy in their interview for "Re/Search 14", better known as "Incredibly strange music, part 1": one of the best books about music ever!. "Imagination" is a super great doo-wop song in the vein of "Mama-oom-mow-mow", the most insane Rivingtons song. Let's listen to what Poison Ivy has to say: "The Quotations take this Pin Pan Alley standard and do a nonsens version of it. If you listen to this for the lyrics, you're missing the point!"
How do you do the ape walk? I don't know and they don't tell. It's an instrumental just like "The ape planet". These ex-Jokers (also known for their instrumentals) had their own recording studio and then they just vanished.
On volume 13 you already got his "Wail baby wail". This is excellent r&b, mean and nasty and nice to dance to. On this Tommy Louis composition he was accompanied by Marchal & the Versatiles. It was released for the Benelux on Cardinal. Lucky me!
A great rockabilly gem from the late 50s by Iowa rocker Dale Thomas from Forrest City who also released one 45 for Dot (Hello, lonesome) and later in the 60s another three 45s for the Wahoo label. "Let's do the crocodile hop..." and 30 years later you could do the "Alligator stomp". Time has no impact on good taste it seems.
Paul Chaplain will remain the man who taught me "Shortnin' bread", years before I first heard The Readymen's blistering version or the Cramps' great rendition of that traditional. The other side is another story: killer number one "Nicotine" (even more than AIDS). Marvelous piece of late 50s rock 'n' roll, but released in 1960.
A piano leading instrumental tune that is far from his better known country music. It's the b-side of "Tequila float" that's on volume 22.
Don't get fooled: this starts with a very slow piano intro, but then the whole band joins (with a lot of brass & horns) and the completely forgoten singer from Belgium begins to sing about "The last cigarette" about a guy who's about to die. After a last prayer he smokes his very last one in the presence of the preacher. I'm not sure when this was recorded, 1969?
On volume 2 you could already listen to their "It's you". Three Karats are a mystery to me. I can't find any information on these girls. This is super suave sexy soul from the mid-60s and perfect to end this volume. Over to volume 20 "Orgy".
