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"cucurucucu paloma is one of the sadest songs in our latin language,i have been asked to try and translate the mening to the inglish language ,it is not easy,but i think i have come close,it is a hard song for me to sing ,but i did the best that i can,i hope some boby likes it.marin"

My intuition is that is the same Marin Gonzalez who is the writer of the Sterling A-side.

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Information, picture and comments are from "The Wonderful and the Obscure" blog.
See "The Soulful Norm Burns" (and hear both sides).

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This was found at the Wonderful and the Obscure blog.

Bob Purse, purveyor worldwide of good bad records :

Compared with many of the other song-poem stalwarts, [Gary Roberts] didn't make all that many records. (…) On the other hand, the percentage of his records that score high on the weirdness scale is remarkable.

Here's a good one that might just make your mouth drop open. How could it not be special with a title like "Lonesome Al Down on the Farm".

Hear both sides HERE

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Sounds like a song-poem record and it is certainly. Arranger and producer's names are a strong indication that this otherwise unknown Gino label is related to the Halmark/Hallmark label, out of Massachusetts.

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According to the American Song-Poem Music Archives, this record was also issued on Sterling, although the credits are slightly different.

Jerry Dixon was certaily unable to put the label on the map, but Cape Records prexy certainly put a map on the label (Cape Cod), one idea he shared with other labels.

Here is some examples :

A side -30761-

Music & Narration by Roger Powell (Music pieces by Dave Fredricks and Harry Coon)
(Also includes a bit of The Who "Teenage Wasteland")
Intro 1 :04

B side: -30762 -

1. Stinger - Dave Fredericks courtesy of Ad Rhythm Records
2. Queene Enfineska - Roger Powell from Atlantic Album Cosmic Furnace
3. Hermetic Enigma - Roger Powell from Atlantic Album Cosmic Furnace
4. Mockingbird Hill - Dave Fredricks

Alan Pearlman was an engineering student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts in 1948 when he foresaw the coming age of electronic music and synthesizers. He wrote:

"The electronic instrument's value is chiefly as a novelty. With greater attention on the part of the engineer to the needs of the musician, the day may not be too remote when the electronic instrument may take its place ... as a versatile, powerful, and expressive instrument."

Following 21 years of experience in electronic engineering and entrepreneurship, Pearlman founded ARP Instruments in 1969 with US$100,000 of personal funds and a matching amount from investors.

Throughout the 1970s, ARP was the main competitor to Moog Music in the field of musically useful synthesizers. There were two main camps — the Minimoog players and the ARP Odyssey/ARP 2600 players — with most proponents dedicated to their choice, although some players chose to pick and chose between the two for specific effect, as well as many who dabbled with products produced by other manufacturers. The ARP 2500 was featured in the famous movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The ARP technician sent to install the unit, Phil Dodds, was cast as the musician who plays the alien tones on the synthesizer.

The demise of ARP Instruments, Inc. was brought about by the ill-fated decision to invest a significant amount of money in the development of ARP Avatar, a synthesizer module closely resembling ARP Odyssey, but equipped with a guitar pickup and a pitch-to-voltage converter. Although an excellent instrument by all accounts, the Avatar failed to sell well. ARP Instruments was never able to recoup the research and development costs and ended in bankruptcy.

From Wikipedia article

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In the [1972] general election, the McGovern/Shriver ticket suffered a 61%-37% defeat to Nixon– at the time, the second biggest landslide in American history, with Electoral College totals of 520 to 17. McGovern's two electoral vote victories came in Massachusetts [ed.: home of Sterling Records] and Washington, D.C..

Lew Tobin's Orchestra & Chorus
Vocal: Norm Burns - Heaven's Isle 101
13851 ~ I'd Like To See Old Ireland
13852 ~ Cape Cod Polka
Cape Cod, MA - Rite Acct. # 111

This song-poem 45 was previously documented on the ASPMA website without any Rite pressing information. With the 45 in-hand we now have the matrix and account numbers showing it to be from 1965 and related to the Sterling label of Boston, MA.

Both songs were written by Shirley Nickerson and I'm sure she was pleased by Lew Tobin and Norm Burn's efforts. The term song-poem refers to the industry of setting poems or lyrics to music for a fee and pressing a limited number of 45's for the writer. They preyed on people's desire to be famous and rich and as long payment was received in full in advance created some of the worst music ever recorded. Many are now sought after because they are famously bad.

Photos courtesy of Leonard Yates.

Side 1: -30633-

Schizoid
Sour Cream
Pharoah's Thing

Side 2: -30634-

Cleanin Up
Sunflower
Waltz For Barbara
Blues For Vito

Personel:

Rick Lawn (Tenor Sax, Soprano Sax, Bass Clarinet, Misc. Percussion),
Joel Chase (Electric Piano),
Tom Ives (Electric Bass, Flugelhorn),
Al Calone (Drums),
Smelly (conga drums)

Recorded November 17, 18 & 19, 1972 in Marblehead, Mass.

It's some 40 years ago, now, that "Compass" was born in Oneonta, New York. There were 3 young jazzers just starting to play together in area clubs back then: Joel Chace [piano] from Walton, Tom Ives [bass] from Schenevus, and Al Colone [drums] from Oneonta. They'd perform as the Joel Chace Trio, the Tom Ives Trio, or the Al Colone Trio, depending on who booked the gig. Then in 1971 Rick Lawn, a young saxophonist, a Philadelphia native, and a recent grad of Rochester, New York's Eastman School of Music, came to town to become an instrumental music teacher with the Oneonta Public School System. Lawn, a practicing and active jazz musician, was looking to continue playing jazz in his new hometown, and, through his research, easily discovered the trio of Chace, Ives, and Colone. The group got together and began to rehearse, quickly finding out there was a connection, a common interest in performing, and that they could produce a unique and creative blend of jazz. That may have been what ultimately led to the naming of the quartet, "Compass"; the group played jazz in every direction.

"Compass" began to test its newfound style and energy by booking performances on college campuses, mostly colleges and universities based in New York State. The band self-produced a demo-album entitled "Compass Rises" in 1972, which featured original compositions written and arranged by Lawn and Ives. "Compass" was one of five groups on a promotional program that opened the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in 1972.

For more info & biographies of band members : click here.

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Be happy, Mary. it's done. Your wish come true.




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From Worcester, Massachusetts. "It Reminds Me", written by Denis Casaubon, is garage. "Dreamin'" is a Santo and Johnny-esque twangy instrumental a la "Sleepwalk" written by B. Bembenek.

Featured on this jazz LP are: KID SHEIK AND HIS CREOLE JAZZ BAND Featuring Capt. John Handy from New Orleans; BARRY MARTYN'S NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BAND from London; and TURK MURPHY'S 'FRISCO BAND from San Francisco.

All tracks were recorded live in Worcester and West Boylston, Massachusetts between March and May of 1968. Copious liner notes from Don Kane on the back cover give detailed accounts of all the tracks and all the players on here, as well as a good deal of history about New England jazz (both jazz bands and jazz venues) going back to the 1920's.

The Kid Sheik with Capt. John Handy tracks were recorded at the Wachusett Country Club, West Boylston, Massachusetts, March 15, 1968, and also feature Chester Zardis, Sammy Penn, Bill Sinclair, Dick Cook and Dave Duquette.

SIDE ONE: (23249)

KID SHEIK AND HIS CREOLE JAZZ BAND Featuring Capt. John Handy
Blue Berry Hill
Just A Little While To Stay Here
Girl Of My Dreams


SIDE TWO: (23250)

BARRY MARTYN'S NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BAND
Tin Roof Blues
Red Man Blues
Bourbon Street Parade
TURK MURPHY'S 'FRISCO BAND
Aunt Hagar's Blues
Chimes Blues


Auctioned at: ebay
End price: USD 115
End date: 2008-09-18
Number of bids: 17

Source : popsike.com

Beep Beep and The Road Runners

Formed in Worcester, an industrial metropolis and college town in Massachusets, in 1962. They set out as an instrumental surfin’ quintet doing covers of The Ventures and other surfing hits.

By 1963 they had adapted to the British invasion by adding vocals [Tim Ralston was the lead singer] and by the time of their first 45 on the Vincent label they were a popular local attraction. « True Love Knows » was a typical teen beat effort and the flip, « Shifting Gears « a pounding surf-instrumental.

In 1966 they hired an organ player and became a seven-piece recording their second 45 for the Springfield, Ma. Audio Dynamics label, which was in an Animals soulish vein. There was also a third 45, which which I don’t have details of, in 1969 and it wasn’t until 1973, after 11 years together that they finally downed their instruments.

[From Vernon Joynson : Fuzz Acid And Flowers Revisited, book]

A discography of the label can be found HERE.

WPEP, AM radio broadcast station was located in Taunton, Ma. from 1949 to 1970. This record is probably from the area, as the following little piece of information found here regarding Dottie Ducharme, the vocalist, tend to confirm (that's I like to think anyway) :

DOTTIE DUCHARME of Turners Falls is very proud of her daughter, Krystal, 17, who has been letting her hair grow for the past three years for a worthy cause. Krystal went to Hair by Phase One and had 19 inches of her hair cut off to donate to Locks of Love, which makes hair pieces for cancer patients.

''I want her to know how much I love her. It took a lot of courage to have her hair cut off,'' wrote her mother. ''Everyone likes to hear when someone does something good.''



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Sterling 602

30467 - You Will Reap What You Sow
[dead wax info : 111 30467 PMB Sterling S-602 11-30-72]

30468 - Little Black Shoes
[dead wax info : 111 30468 PMB Sterling S-602 11-30-72]

Weird teen tragedy song "You Will Reap..." about taking too many pills and jumping off a high building - The flip side is Little Black Shoes which has the feel of an old country ballad - not exactly but the general feel.

Ack. : Bruce Smith/Cassidy Collectibles