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Iron Leg Radio Show #108

Posted by funky16corners on April 6, 2020
Posted in: 45s, Au Go Go, Beatles-esque Sounds, Bubblegum, Buffalo Springfield, Country Rock, cover versions, Culture, Easy Listening, folk rock, Free Design, garage punk, Iron Leg, Iron Leg Radio Show, Kitsch, Laurel Canyon, Music, Now Sound, pop, psychedelia, Rock, Soft Pop, Sunset Strip, Sunshine Pop. Tagged: , , , , . Leave a comment

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Les Reed Orchestra with the Eddie Lester Singers – Something In the Air (London)
Don Sebesky – Dance the Night Away (Verve)
Billy Vaughn – Time of the Season (Dot)
Bud Shank – Blue Jay Way (World Pacific)
Alan Lorber Orchestra – Within You Without You (Verve)
Paul Horn Quintet – Eight Miles High (RCA)
Ronnie Aldrich and His Two Pianos – Ride My Seesaw (London)

Al Hirt – Theme From the Monkees (RCA)
Sir Raleigh and the Coupons – Tomorrow’s Gonna Be Another Day (Jerden)
Classics IV – Daydream Believer (Liberty)
Palace Guard – Saturday’s Child (Parkway)
Peddlers – Last Train To Clarksville (Philips)
Harry Nilsson – Cuddly Toy (Demo)
Rising Sons – Take a Giant Step (Columbia)

Carole King – Pleasant Valley Sunday (Demo)
Ray Martin and His Orchestra – Pleasant Valley Sunday (Camden)
Bobby Vee – The Girl I Left Behind Me (Liberty)
Boyce and Hart – Teardrop City (A&M)
Sandy Posey – Shades of Grey (MGM)
Ventures – A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You (Liberty)
Paul Butterfield Blues Band – Mary Mary (Elektra)
Diane Hildebrand – Early Morning Blues and Greens (Elektra)
Del Shannon – She (Liberty)

Michael Murphey – What Am I Doin’ Hangin’ Round (A&M)
Keith Allison – I’m a Believer (Columbia)
Nat Stuckey – Listen To the Band (RCA)
Bucky Wilkin – I Wanna Be Free (RCA)
Enoch Light Singers – Valleri (Project 3)
Golden Gate Strings – (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone (Epic)
Nilsson – Daddy’s Song (RCA)
Wichita Train Whistle – Tapioca Tundra (Dot)
Ray Martin and His Orchestra – Words (Camden)

Sounds of Our Times – Come To the Sunshine (Capitol)
Santo and Johnny – It’s Wonderful (Imperial)
Bill Page Orchestra – We Ain’t Got Nothin’ Yet (Tower)
Folkswingers feat Harihar Rao – Grim Reaper of Love (World Pacific)
Tony Mottola – Going Out Of My Head (Project 3)

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #108 – 180MB/256kbps

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This month’s Iron Leg Radio Show, episode #108 is a treat for Monkees fans!

Sandwiched in between a couple of sets of groovy Now Sound covers of 60s pop, rock and psych, is a big helping of covers of tune from the Monkees catalog from all over the musical spectrum.

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So dig it, and I’ll see you all next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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Last Train To Squaresville Vol 1

Posted by funky16corners on March 18, 2020
Posted in: 45s, Beatles-esque Sounds, Bubblegum, cover versions, Culture, Easy Listening, folk rock, Iron Leg, Kitsch, Music, Now Sound, pop, Rock, Sunshine Pop, Testify!. Tagged: , , , , . 1 Comment

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Last Train To Squaresville Vol1

Nat Stuckey – In the Year 2525 (RCA)
Mel Torme – Secret Agent Man (Columbia)
Peggy Lee – Reason to Believe (Capitol)
Clara Ward – Help (Verve)
Dora Hall – I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Cozy)
Jackie and Roy – The Word (Capitol)
Julie Budd – People Are Strange (MGM)
Roslyn Kind – Shape of Things To Come (RCA)
Four Freshmen – Everyday People (Liberty)
Sarah Vaughn – 1-2-3 (Mercury)
Anita Kerr Singers – The Beat Goes On (WB)
Della Reese – Solitary Woman (ABC)
Dinah Shore – Undun (Stanyan)
The Lennon Sisters – Green Tambourine (Mercury)
Ella Fitzgerald – Savoy Truffle (Reprise)
Four King Cousins – Good Day Sunshine (Capitol)
Gloria Loring – Darkness Darkness (Evolution)
Morgana King – Tomorrow Never Knows (Verve)
Noel Harrison – Strawberry Fields Forever (Reprise)
Shirley Bassey – Light My Fire (UA)
Louis Armstrong – Everybody’s Talkin’ (Flying Dutchman)

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Greetings all!

When this whole crazy lockdown/quarantine shindig rolled down the pike, I promised that I was going to work on some new mixes/radio shows, to keep myself busy and to give you all something to pass the time.

What you see before you is the first of two Iron Leg/Testify mixes that roll on the same thing, that being folks from the non-hip side of things trying to roll  the rocks, pop and get psychedelic (in their own way).

Some of it is kitschy, all of it is kicky, so dig in and I’ll be back next week with volume 2!

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So dig it, make sure to tune in, and I’ll see you all next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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Iron Leg Radio Show #106

Posted by funky16corners on February 3, 2020
Posted in: 45s, acoustic, Beach Boys, Beatles-esque Sounds, Brian Wilson, British Beat, Buffalo Springfield, cover versions, Culture, Easy Listening, folk rock, freakbeat, garage punk, Hammond Organ, Instrumental, Iron Leg, Iron Leg Radio Show, Kitsch, Mod, Mod Revival, Music, pop, psychedelia, Rock, Soft Pop, Sunset Strip, Sunshine Pop, Swinging London. Tagged: , , , . 4 Comments

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The Seeds – Pushin’ Too Hard (GNP/Crescendo)
The Seeds – Mr Farmer (GNP/Crescendo)
Buffalo Springfield – Everybody’s Wrong (Atco)
Buffalo Springfield – Flying On the Ground Is Wrong (Atco)
The Turtles – Sound Asleep (White Whale)
The Turtles – Buzz Saw (White Whale)
The Beach Boys – Wild Honey (Capitol)
Miracle Workers – I’ll Walk Away (Voxx)
Miracle Workers – One Step Closer To You (Voxx)

Billy Nicholls – Daytime Girl (Immediate)
Billy Nicholls – London Social Degree (Immediate)
The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset (Reprise)
The Kinks – End of the Season (Reprise)
Chad and Jeremy – Sunstroke (Columbia)
Chad and Jeremy – The Ark (Columbia)
Marty Wilde – Abergavenny (Philips)
Marty Wilde – Ice In the Sun (Philips)

Wendy and Bonnie – The Paisley Window Pane (Skye)
Phil Woods – Got a Feelin’ (Impulse)
Herbie Mann – Miss Free Spirit (Embryo)
Herbie Mann – In Tangier/Paradise Beach (Embryo)
Wendy and Bonnie – You Keep Hanging Up On My Mind (Skye)

Alan Hawkshaw – Dave Allen At Large (RPM)
Mohawks – Beat Me Til I’m Blue (RPM)
Mel Torme – My Little Red Book (Columbia)
Mel Torme – Secret Agent Man (Columbia)
Cass Elliott – Say Hello (RCA)
New Hope – Rain (Jamie)
PP Arnold – (If You Think You’re) Groovy (Immediate)
PP Arnold – Though It Hurts Me Badly (Immediate)

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #106 – 180MB/256kbps

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This month’s Iron Leg Radio Show, episode #106 is another windfall of new and recent arrivals, with some very groovy UK popsike, far-out jazz, Now Sound (Hawkshaw!) and pop.

There are two full hours to pour over your brains.

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So dig it, and I’ll see you all next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #98

Posted by funky16corners on May 26, 2019
Posted in: 45s, Atomic Guitar Destruction, Au Go Go, Beatles-esque Sounds, Brill Building, Canadian Music, Country Rock, cover versions, Culture, Easy, folk rock, garage punk, Instrumental, Iron Leg, Iron Leg Radio Show, Laurel Canyon, Leon Russell, Music, pop, psychedelia, Rock, Testify!. Tagged: , , , , , , . Leave a comment

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Guitar Keith Allison – Who Do You Love (Amy)
Guitar Keith Allison – Don’t Want Nobody But You (Amy)
Grady and Brady – Just a Lot of Talk (Planetary)
Grady and Brady – Love or Money (Planetary)

Gary Sanders – Ain’t No Beatle (WB)
Gary Sanders – Ain’t I Good To You (WB)
JJ Cale – It’s a Go Go Place (Liberty)
Spotlights – Batman and Robin (Smash)
Astronauts – Main Street (RCA)
Bobby Whitlock – Raspberry Rug (HIP)
Asylum Choir – Theives In the Choir (Smash)

Rascals – You Better Run (Atlantic)
Rascals – Find Somebody (Atlantic)
Rascals – It’s Love (Atlantic)
Genya Ravan – Flying (Columbia)

Dion – Purple Haze (Laurie) 1968
Dion – Sun Fun Song (Laurie)
Gary Burton – I Want You (RCA) 1966
Gary Burton – Just Like a Woman (RCA)

Al Serafini His Electronic Sax and Orchestra – Sir Albert (Audio Fidelity)
Charlie Byrd – Julia (Columbia)
Charlie Byrd – While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Columbia)
Neil Young – If I Could Have Her Tonight (Reprise)
Bettye Lavette – Heart of Gold (Atco)

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #98 – 180MB/256kbps

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It’s Iron Leg Radio time again!

We have a cool one for you this month, with  a set of early Leon Russell things as producer, arranger, composer and performer, some garage, country rock, now sound and mellow psych.

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So dig it, and I’ll see you all next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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Enoch Light and the Light Brigade – The Jerk

Posted by funky16corners on May 5, 2019
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Greetings all.

The track I bring you today is from the files of easy but not quite cheesy takes on the discotheque-au-go-go sound of the mid 1960s.

Enoch Light is a big fave of mine as artist, producer and label honcho.

Through the 50s, 60s and 70s he and a battalion of NY-based studio cats laid down some of the coolest ‘adult’ sounds (in the age bracket sense) of the day.

Most of what he did was aimed at your parents and the hi-fi nut down the street (with the marked exception Free Design, which was aimed at hipsters 30 years in the future), but along the way he managed to lay it all out with a sense of professionalism, imagination, adventure and even a touch of the far out.

Though the album that yielded today’s selection doesn’t sport any info about personnel, Light often used guys like keyboardist Dick Hyman (who did some very forward thinking moog experimentation under Light’s aegis) and drummer Bobby Rosengarden (the leader of the band on Dick Cavett’s show) who were sliding into middle age yet hip and lively enough not to sound like it.

This cover of Don Julian and the Larks ‘The Jerk’ appeared on the 1965 LP ‘Discotheque Vol 2’, which like the previous volume in the series is an approximation of the ‘teen’ sound filtered through a slightly hip society dance band.

This is a perfect representation of the kind of now sound-ery that you’d find in a discotheque scene in a TV show or movie of the period, in which (as is laid out here at length) the older set is working on sounding like the younger set, failing, yet creating something groovy all the same.

There are a number of similarly cool cuts on this record (the first volume is recommended as well). When I play this I get nostalgic for a long-departed local record joint, run by a truly weird guy, that used to harbor a huge stash of Command/Project 3 stock, of which I was the premier plunderer of for a few years.

That said, those days are gone, but many of those records remain in my crates.

I hope you dig the cut, and I’ll see you all next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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