In The Trashcan Records
GARBAGE34
"Another
volume overpacked with fearful euro-beat songs and an occasional US band all
mixed with lesser known soul suckers. If you can survive these night
creatures, you probably won't need a heart transplantation..."
The three versions I have of “Night owl” are all excellents soul tunes, but Howard Tate’s 1968 recording has got that special touch. And the arrangements are special as well. Don’t forget he worked together with the fantastic Bill Doggett.
One of the best fast boogaloo tunes ever and completely unknown. Nevertheless it was released on a major label. I wonder if he’s the same guy as Richard Popcorn Wylie who also showed up in Popcorn & Mohawks. Deejays: this is party music! I’m sure King Khan has heard this song years ago and then started his own band.
This is pure soul indeed! A super discotheque dancefloor filling instrumental tune on a Belgian label.
Another funky instrumental flick from the gutter. If this song wasn’t already used for an early 70s police movie soundtrack, the movie should have been made especially for this song. Yeah, I know, the sleeve is awful, but the sound is super!
The year of psychedelia 1967 also reached the black community of soul amateurs, including this band called Chylds with their second and last 45 for Warner Bros. Their first 45 “Hay girl” was released on Giant, but was reissued on Warner Bros, also in 1967.
Maybe the best non-hit by The Troggs who were helped on this recording by a mysterious young seductress inviting us to touch her “touche-moi, tu dois me toucher, embrasse-moi… baise-moi” and so on. This is certainly the sexiest song The Troggs ever made. From 1970.
Get ready, work on the swing, we’re goin’ to a happening; that’s what Tommy Neal is singing, simple but effective as everywhere I pass this song nobody can resist the call of the dancefloor... From 1968.
The b–side of their first 45 from 1964 and so far I haven’t found it on a compilation. Ultra fast & furious pre-Medway punk beat. No wonder that Billy Childish tried to reproduce this wildness, first as the Pop Rivets, The Milkshakes and then as Thee Mighty Caesars. But as Thee Headcoats he invited Downliners Sect’s Don Craine to record an album as Thee Headcoats Sect. I am a Sect maniac!
A very bizarre version by this girl called Misty. The original version is super and most people know also the Tom Jones cover version; wait until you hear this one: it’ll fry your brains! It sounds like early 70s.
A thunderous bass rumbles throughout the fuzz guitar licks while a staccato piano is resisting but losing the fight against the guitar and bass. “That’s nice”, the a-side, already appeared on at least one compilation. This is 1969.
With the help of James Brown himself. No, this is not the Aretha Franklin hit; it's from 1967.
The gimmick of the Slavian atmosphere works perfectly as I could witness while I was playing this song on Mod festivals. Even the stiffest statue had his arms crossed and was trying to a Russian dancer.
Fine '71 fat funk from one of the best labels from the early 70s, well if you’re a lover of black music. No vocals here; it’s perfect the way it is.
East-LA here we come! One of the best bands from LA in 1966 with this boogaloo mayhem. If I’m right, this was their first or second 45 by Frankie “Cannibal” Garcia who had a minor hit with their rendition of “Land of 1000 dances”. The Cannibal rules!!!!
Another fabulous funky platter. Howard’s sexy voice and cool looks (just look at the sleeve) weren’t good enough though as he never had a real hit record. He released lots of 45s on labels such as Verve, Utopia, Epic, Atlantic and Turntable, but this is the only one I know on the Jad label, which still is unknown to me.
A very rare Belgian release with a picture sleeve. A true mod classic which may have been reissued before on a compilation, but I’ve never heard of such a comp. It’s a song about the first heart transplantation by Doctor Barnard in 1968. After a short break the song continues and it ends with the announcement that the patient of the second heart transplantation also died in 1969. Released in 1970.
