Promenade, Top Tunes, Hit Parader, Song Hits, Columbia Record Club, Audition, Variety, Crown, and Waldorf are the budget labels we'll hear from today. My favorite of the bunch? The Hit Parader version of Surfin' Bird, which doesn't disgrace the original (by the Trashmen). Of course, "original" has to be taken in context, since the tune was a plagiarism of The Rivington's Papa Oom Mow Mow and The Bird's the Word.
The three Columbia Record Club tracks are pretty good, too. All told, these are some of the more successful no-budget covers in my collection. And on a single zip file for your downloading convenience. And in alphabetical order by title. What I won't do for my readers.
By the way, I didn't put an early fade-out on A Well Respected Man--that's how it shows up on the disc. And the title shows up last on the list, of course, because I alphabetized it as Well Respected Man, A. Correct way to it, the.
Click here to download these choice cheap covers: ZIP FILE NO LONGER AVAILABLE
PLAYLIST
ALL OVER NOW--(20 Top Pop Song Hits!; Columbia Record Club)
BLOWIN' IN THE WIND--(Song Hits 42)
BLUE SUEDE SHOES--(Variety EPV-1812)
BREATHLESS--Billie Case (Promenade 27)
COME GO WITH ME--The Promineers (Promenade 12)
DO WAH DIDDY DIDDY--Bobby Cash (Top Pop Song Hits, Vol. 2)
DON'T--Jimmy Aires (Promenade 27)
GEE--The Four Jacks (Top Tunes 1075), 1954.
GET OFF OF MY CLOUD--(Song Hits 38)
GOOD VIBRATIONS--(Hit Parader 43)
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE--Billie Case (Promenade 27)
HARD-HEADED WOMAN (Audition 59500)
HEARTBREAK HOTEL--The Cadets (Crown)
JOHNNY B. GOODE--Sugar Beat (Promenade 41)
OH HAPPY DAY--Dolph Dixon (Waldorf Record Corp. A-114)
SOUNDS OF SILENCE--(Hit Parader 39)
SURFIN' BIRD--(Hit Parader 27)
A WELL RESPECTED MAN--(Hit Parader 39)
Lee
5 comments:
I just finished listening to these (sorry I'm a little late posting a comment...). There are some pretty strong tracks here, and, considering some of these records were probably a mess, your "de-noising" skills appear to be in top form. (One request: could I have an "Audition" label scan next time you include a track on Audition?) Thanks.
I just took shots of the Audition label and logo from an album of Leroy Anderson tunes. Link: http://mypwhaetext.blogspot.com/2009/07/audition-label.html
I no longer have the Audition LP that yielded the "Hard Headed Woman" cover--I've only recently taken to saving my fake-hits LP finds. Fake-hit 45s and 78s, I've always kept, but not the LPs. I can never guess what I'm going to wish I had saved.
Got it! Thanks!
Some of these are pretty good...I think Heartbreak Hotel's my favorite of this bunch.
Also, in regards to Sounds of Silence..."silence might not cast a glow"?
Should be "Silence like a cancer grows." Maybe they flubbed the lyrics?
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