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  1. 19-03-2006, 11:59 PM #1
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    Recently I've observed that I'm mad for anomalous records. The sore thumb, the skeleton in the closet, the unknown lark, in an artist's career. Some examples:

    Frank Sinatra- Watertown -- concept record written by Jake Holmes.
    Del Shannon-The Further Adventures of Charles Westover --psych effort
    Tommy Roe -It's Now Winter's Day --his psych effort

    and so on. Frankie Valli's Chameleon, Four Seasons' Imitation Life Gazette and, for my money, all Tommy James's early seventies lps, fall into this category. Heck, maybe even Scott Walker's Tilt does -but that's more a culmination than an exception, isn't it?

    I'd love to know more.
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    That Del Shannon is great. Has a sense of desperation and melancholy that makes it unique. The mix on my copy is really compressed and muddy, are they all like that?

    I have a Zager and Evans LP (self-titled, with a white cover) that is great and not dissimilar from some of the records mentioned above. It's funky, a bit psych and otherwise enjoyable.
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    What's the Sinatra record like beddoes? I've heard it described as psychy in some quarters. Is this stretching it?

    I agree that the Del Shannon record is a cracker. Best track for me is 'I Think I Love You.'
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    Nah, the Sinatra's not psych at all, just not really like anything else --so, strange at least!

    Another record I put in the anomalous category is the Beach Boys' Love You.

    Aw hell --I'll just say it. Neil Young's TRANS. I love it...
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    Artists I suspect have anomalous records:

    Everly Brothers
    Jan & Dean
    Brian Hyland
    Roy Orbison
    Bobby Darin

    In Orbison's case, it has to be a single or the flip to a single, somewhere.
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    AHA! In Kicks #6- (Norton has come in handy twice today!) Billy Miller talks about Roy "The Big O" Orbison' s 1969 MGM single "Southbound Jericho Parkway" which he claims is a rock opera and the whole 7 minute song is on one side of the single.
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    Okay, I'm off! Orbison, I knew it...
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    So, does it make sense to include Robin Gibbs' "Robin's Reign" in this category?
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    David Allan Coe's REQUIEM FOR A HARLEQUIN.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bazooka joe
    AHA! In Kicks #6- (Norton has come in handy twice today!) Billy Miller talks about Roy "The Big O" Orbison' s 1969 MGM single "Southbound Jericho Parkway" which he claims is a rock opera and the whole 7 minute song is on one side of the single.
    I can only sing the praises of this one to the rafters!
    Sublime lounge psych pop of the highest order.
    And yes, it does tell a tale of woe in popera-esque stylee!!!!!!
    Has even got a sprinkling of sitars.
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    A few more mentioned here...
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    What about the rumoured psych-record Joe Pesci's supposed to have made? If it exists it would count as an anomaly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brainbomb
    What about the rumoured psych-record Joe Pesci's supposed to have made? If it exists it would count as an anomaly.
    I know he was in Joey Dee & The starliters, was it them that did the tune?
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    Quote Originally Posted by ladyboygrimsby
    I know he was in Joey Dee & The starliters, was it them that did the tune?

    No idea - just heard a rumour somewhere, and would like to know more. Tried googling the net a year or two ago, but couldn't find any info about his musical career at all. Maybe I should try again now that the net has grown a bit?
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    Quote Originally Posted by jakartajive
    I can only sing the praises of this one to the rafters!
    Sublime lounge psych pop of the highest order.
    And yes, it does tell a tale of woe in popera-esque stylee!!!!!!
    Has even got a sprinkling of sitars.
    Sort me out with a burn of this, H?

    Or does anybody have a spare? I gots tradeses...
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    Quote Originally Posted by beddoes
    So, does it make sense to include Robin Gibbs' "Robin's Reign" in this category?
    I wouldn't, personally - it's very much in the vein of Robin's stuff on the early Bee Gees LPs, which can basically be summed up as 'Everyone's having a really nice time except me'.

    'Robin's Reign' is a great LP, actually - much like the early Bee Gees records.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Thames
    I wouldn't, personally - it's very much in the vein of Robin's stuff on the early Bee Gees LPs, which can basically be summed up as 'Everyone's having a really nice time except me'.

    'Robin's Reign' is a great LP, actually - much like the early Bee Gees records.
    Hmm. "Farmer Ferdinand Hudson"?

    But yeah, it is like other early Bee Gees stuff, mostly. Still, it seems... crazier... I mean clinically..
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    Sinatra's 'Watertown' is a great LP - I believe the song cycle was written by the man behind the Valli/Four seasons 'Genuine Imitation Life' LP.

    For more anomalous Sinatra, check out 'Trilogy: Past, Present & Future', a triple from 1980. On 'Past' he runs through some old standards; on 'Present' he does some (out of date) contemporary tracks like 'MacArthur Park', 'Song Sung Blue' and 'Love Me Tender'; on 'Future' he goes crazy - this sounds like Sinatra with Axelrod in the producers chair (it's actually Gordon Jenkins).

    Sinatra really pushes the envelope here - the opening track is 11 minutes long. Strange stuff, definitely worth a punt, if only for 'What Time Does The Next Miracle Leave?', a bizarre ramble about interplanetary travel, with Sinatra calling out the stops en route, including, yes, 'Next stop, Uranus!'. You couldn't make it up.
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    And for yet more anomalous Sinatra --the disco 12" I found yesterday!

    I too like parts of the Future segment on Trilogy. Amazing how critically drubbed that whole project was -not that it isn't pretty darn awful, but it seems like critics were only too happy to maul the man.
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    Yet another to add to the list:

    Porter Wagoner -What Ain't To Be, Just Might Happen (RCA 1972)

    There's more to this record than just the awesome "Rubber Room"...
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    Quote Originally Posted by beddoes
    Yet another to add to the list:

    Porter Wagoner -What Ain't To Be, Just Might Happen (RCA 1972)

    There's more to this record than just the awesome "Rubber Room"...
    Is there another Porter Wagoner LP to look out for? For some reason I'm under the impression that there's more than one LP of interest but I neglected to note down what.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rich Hero
    Is there another Porter Wagoner LP to look out for? For some reason I'm under the impression that there's more than one LP of interest but I neglected to note down what.
    There are excellent tracks on all Wagoner's solo lps up to What Ain't to Be. The best full album, I think, is SKIDROW JOE, from 69 or 70. Chilling spoken word bits and several astonishingly grim songs. Wagoner was a weird 'un, no doubt.

    And speaking of grim --I'd like to nominate Johnny Paycheck's "I've Got Someone to Kill" off THE LOVIN' MACHINE (I have a spare of this moderately hard-to-find and excellent record, by the way).
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    Quote Originally Posted by ladyboygrimsby
    I know he was in Joey Dee & The starliters, was it them that did the tune?
    I've heard one of Joe Pesci's solo efforts. This was more of a Jay and the Americans type thing than psych, but I suppose its possible he dabbled.
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    how about 'yummy yummy yummy' by Julie London...haven't heard all of this, but she covers Margo Guryans 'sunday morning' and it's ace.
    "Not only that but the WHOLE COVER is UNCREASED with only 2 or 3 TINY creaselines near the opening edge about half way down!!!! In the same place (about half way down the opening edge), there is an absolutely TINY and PERFECTLY repaired split" (xxxrecords)
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    Quote Originally Posted by bazooka joe
    AHA! In Kicks #6- (Norton has come in handy twice today!) Billy Miller talks about Roy "The Big O" Orbison' s 1969 MGM single "Southbound Jericho Parkway" which he claims is a rock opera and the whole 7 minute song is on one side of the single.
    an epic track which even had roy singing the word ' psychedelic ' - who would have thought it !
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    robin's reign is cool too-maudlin spooked psyched with drum machines...del shannon-top stuff-tommy roe-it's now winter's day-up there with the millenium stuff as far as i am concerned..

    rush goalie-pm me if you want a copy of watertown-i'll sort you-it's not that great in my opinion but it's as good as the blue eyed one got !

    anyone want southbound jericho parkway posting up to listen to?
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    Yo flytipper --yes, please post up the Orbison!!! Just posted a want for it...

    And... Sinatra was great. Gotta say it. IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS OF THE MORNING is one of my fave lps. Respect.
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    joe pesci-i have him doing ' got to get you into my life ' somewhere !

    he was called little joe or something and he never even swears once on the record !
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    Quote Originally Posted by beddoes
    Yo flytipper --yes, please post up the Orbison!!! Just posted a want for it...
    will attempt to haul it out today beddoes...the a-side is called my friend on london records from 1969..

    http://www.musicstack.com/item/14050...fsz_southbound

    here's one for sale mate..
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    Quote Originally Posted by flytipper
    will attempt to haul it out today beddoes...the a-side is called my friend on london records from 1969..

    http://www.musicstack.com/item/14050...fsz_southbound

    here's one for sale mate..
    Thanks, saw that -but it's coming from Croatia, Yugoslavian pressing, throw in shipping, I dunno..
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    I suppose Sonny's Inner Views could fit in this catagory.
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