VA - HEATHER AND GLEN - Songs & Melodies Of Highland And Lowland Scotland as Collected from native folksingers and folkmusicians by Alan Lomax, Calum McLean, And Hamish Henderson LP 61

 HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!!!  This is the main post for me holiday (being named Patrick) and first side has many songs my old man used to play for me--his red-haired Patrick--who he pictured out of all 8 of us kids as the one to represent his Scotch-Irish-English side--me.  He told me on his 75th birth day that he only traced our family back to the plantation in Ireland but said the overlords to the plantations were either Scottish or Norwegian (also saying the Vikings stopped their domineering ways when they met the Irish women...ha ha and yes I have 4 sisters!) leaning whichever was convenient.  But the songs within were some he played on his record player that I recognized right away and sit deep in my big Leo heart.  In fact this album helped me understand about bagpipes and how loud they are meant to be!  My love for loud music/sounds maybe for this reason.  I put up the back cover so I can read later what Alan Lomax has said  and will quote about him now:  ALAN LOMAX, one of the greatest folk music collectors and authorities, is the song of John A. Lomax, first of the great American folksong collectors. 

https://bestfile.io/en/gJdRLhVgvelozwQ/file

THE LAST - 7 77 w 7 78 w 12 EP 79 w L.A. Explosion! LP 79 85 w Painting Smiles On A Dead Man LP 83 w Confession LP 88 w Awakening LP 89

REPOST Request and ADD ON:  This is a special repost for Rawkin' Dog over at Bordello Do Rock blogspot on our lower right blogsphere links and two of his excellent rips are added to what I had as he was asking for the Confession album.  We are much alike both of us seemingly kind of winging it with the ripping procedures making up the routines and settings from experimentation and both of us horrified by the compressed garbage from actual CD releases on youtube and in the stores even!!!  He is more studied than I am about history on releases and is kind of a superhero I would say in the way he stays true to the very best releases and lets us know who the idgets are who try to make money on crap release quality.  This band is the early L.A. wave of punk and played with all the best ones I have favored so much here on the DU blog.  You can read elsewhere about them so I will just say that rawkin' dog has my back for me holiday St. Patrick's day because only green one (my criteria this week) is from his blog the Painting release.  Big THANKS RAWKIN' DOG PLEASE DU ENJOY!!!

https://bestfile.io/en/hnikzMZV0HhUv6a/file

VA - THE SWING ERA 1938-1939 (WHERE SWING CAME FROM) 3LP 70

 Got to open the plastic on this one but what you see is a good vendor's perfect size sleeve for boxsets that they sent me with 100 white inner sleeves, however, once I put it on it was too hard to remove so you see the overlay text...oh well, I'm sure Discogs has it.  The real treasure beyond the 3 vinyl is the coffee table hard cover book that came with it.  More or less a continuation of my 'Duke vs. The Count' post that are currently at 5027 and 3749 downloads respectively (kind of feels like I'm Nathan Nothin with his Zoviet France vs. Rapoon March Madness competition he just finished so check it out1).  I say that because the book is like a continuation of Duke's Workshop which was one of the rips.  And all the Big Band stuff I've been flingin' at ya--BTW found a killer new vinyl boxset for Benny Goodman who is featured throughout this top shelf package from Goodwill.  Oh yeah, gotta say this is part two of the decades (30's) post from last week such that next week we can get into the 40's and continue on.  This is for all teachers!  Enjoy and Happy St. Patrick's Day (me namesake day).!!!

https://bestfile.io/en/kuQ3x3wGuf23eGV/file

Eddie Schwartz - All Our Tomorrows CD 09 - cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs:  Real Name:  Edward Sydney Schwartz

Profile:  b. December 22 1949.

Canadian singer and songwriter. He is perhaps best known for penning the Pat Benatar classic "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"!!!!

https://bestfile.io/en/cEhobii5zfDie2z/file.

Eddie Hazel - Game, Dames And Guitar Thangs CD 77 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs:  Real Name: Edward Earl Hazel

Eddie Hazel, b. 10 April 1950 Brooklyn, NY, was one of the original Parliament / Funkadelic members in the beginning of the 70’s. He had been a session player for George Blackwell when he was 17, until he was persuaded to move by George Clinton and Billy Nelson. He’s probably the first lead guitarist to play hard-rock / funk fusion twenty years before Living Colour, Fishbone or the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

His involvement with the George Clinton posse became less preeminent in the 80’s when P.Funk turned more electro-funk oriented and after some drug problems.

Eddie Hazel died on 23 December 1992 at the age of 42.

He has released one solo record for Warner Brothers in 1977 and one posthumous CD was released (as well as unreleased material on several recordings) in 1994

https://bestfile.io/en/8Q5xhcWQggM4EHK/file

Hawaiian Compilations: HARRY KAAPUNI AND HIS ROYAL POLYNESIANS - Aloha Hawaii LP 57 w ED KENNEY - My Hawaii - Sings Hawaii's Greatest Hits LP 59 w LENI OKEHU AND HIS SURFBOARDERS - Hawaiian Holiday LP 59 w LEO ADDEO AHO - Great Standards With A Hawaiian Touch LP 62 w CONNIE FRANCIS - Hawaii Connie LP 68

 Well I was looking at the Aloha Hawaii album along with the rest and since it was so green I thought...Hello! St. Patrick's Day post and I can post the rest when I had that theme since the posts are already expired.  I also had new ones from Martin Denny and Don Ho And The Aliis so I kept those posts in place from before and just added to them to save extra futzing.  So now we have Hawaiian music for St. Patrick's day, Folk for Thanksgiving, 15 Weeks of Kids Music Christmas (one included here as it had a Hawaiian song).  This way all is on this post!  Even a new wave one from long ago called the Hawaiian Pups so please do check out all the links--none have repeat files.  Enjoy!

New Hawaiian Comp.'s per post title:  https://bestfile.io/en/3C30PBI9hk9NNxK/file

Post in Place (new files):

DON HO (w the Aliis great LP added!):  https://bestfile.io/en/RluqmoudrB9p9IT/file

MARTIN DENNY (classic first Forbidden Island added):  https://bestfile.io/en/sucD3NdbykO5Pey/file

Post in Place (same files as before just re-upped links):

WEBLEY EDWARDS w AL KEALOHA PERRY:  https://bestfile.io/en/9PBqNj48t72QKTo/file

VA - THREE OF A KIND (TOP 3 STARS OF HAWAIIAN MUSIC) LP:  https://bestfile.io/en/H1eDHodtUmAEZGF/file

THE SOUTH SEACOMBERS:  https://bestfile.io/en/XWO2SkHtfhGfavO/file

THE OAHU SENDERS:  https://bestfile.io/en/0RaU4QzHr7nNRbb/file

MAHI BEAMER:  https://bestfile.io/en/iC8YEc80eF2MbcU/file

LES PAUL & MARY FORD:  https://bestfile.io/en/IuoWYs2ZpByPoiP/file

JERRY BYRD AHO:  https://bestfile.io/en/I2jzy8Rihpe2HiV/file

HUGO WINTERHALTER AHO:  https://bestfile.io/en/dWVpehY7ccgsYIr/file

HAWAIIAN SLACK KEY GUITAR MASTERS:  https://bestfile.io/en/7cpjxClwVemW57s/file

HAWAIIAN PUPS (new wave):  https://bestfile.io/en/WbAep8Ul3DWAHua/file

ELMER BERNSTEIN - HAWAII OMPS LP 66:  https://bestfile.io/en/eKFembJupa37rgu/file

CANDLE & AGAPE FORCE PREP. SCHOOL (kids music comp):  https://bestfile.io/en/ge9Sn3sFqLhwxNr/file

BILLY MURE AHO/HARRY KAAPUNI:  https://bestfile.io/en/vwA7hg8qlIJ8aWm/file

ALFRED APAKA (combined 2 separate posts):  https://bestfile.io/en/FuwuDYHtIitOfpc/file

ROBERT J. LURTSEMA - VOICES OF THE LOON tape 80

 Short theme this week of three cassette rips in a row starting with this one since my 'new walmart' tape deck lost functionality on the deck I was using to rip and so luckily am using deck #2 or the spare on the other side that I wasn't using.  Need to start ripping my piles from Goodwill before I have a fourth tape deck malfunction so I picked three green ones for the holiday tomorrow.  This is pretty cool and right down my line as it seems the raptors and waterfowl are my best friends along my daily bike rides to work or beach.  Love the American Coot with their orange bills, green feet, head boppin and I know each family as they all have their own ponds.  The green parrot tribes always squalk at me and I used my old world bell for wildlife and ringer for sidewalk folk.  I am on the flyway every day for seabirds, common black hawks, heron and just love the little orchard orioles with spec of yellow.  Being from MN the loons were a treat when going to my yearly Boundary Waters trip with college buddies (then later annual Quetico drive where we found a 100ft. waterfall with a natural jacuzzi on top of it after seeing all the native hieroglyphs along our canoe route from the Canadian border eh!

This guy is a radio broadcaster and narrator, known for his sonorous voice and phrasing stylee.

https://bestfile.io/Qg7SeOQfGO4yCYQ/file

https://bestfile.io/Qg7SeOQfGO4yCYQ/file

ROBERT LAFOND - EXTASIAS tape 91

 Second of three tapes and with some green on it.  Not much about this on Discogs except this: composer, arranger, keyboardist, producer, and engineer and from Canada like 'Connecting Consciousness' meta channel...a good guy, eh!

https://bestfile.io/by1aCllrDgPBCI8/file

JIVE BUNNY AND THE MASTERMIXERS - THE ALBUM tape 89

 Just a smudge of green on this one as part of a three cassette post.  Pretty cool that this is the lighter side of big band stuff I've been posting per Discogs:  Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers were a novelty pop music act from Rotherham, Yorkshire, England. The face of the group was Jive Bunny, a cartoon rabbit who appeared in the videos, and also (as a human being in a costume) did promotional appearances for them.  Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/8rPcTunlIyZtWZx/file

VA - K-TEL THE BEST OF COUNTRY MUSIC VOL. 7 LP 73

 This Country Comp has a lot of green on it for St. Patrick's Day tomorrow.  Artists include:  Susan Raye (check out my Buck Owens repost this week as someone had mentioned they work very well together which I believe as she is first song, "L.A. International Airport"), Roy Clark, LeRoy Van Dyke, Sonny James, Ned Miller, Patsy Cline, Kitty Wells, Donna Fargo, Commander Cody, George Jones, Marvin Rainwater, Hank Williams, Webb Pierce, Johnny Paycheck, Wanda Jackson, Wynn Stewart, Freddie Hart (Will feature him sooner than later), Hank Thompson and LaWanda Lindsey. 

https://bestfile.io/en/MGJs9EIclPxJjQF/file

Bill WIlson - Ever Changing Minstrel CD 73

 A fine suggestion from Josef  (Austria) for this record.  Some good text on this:  Damned if this isn’t the story that rock ’n’ roll dreams are almost made of. In 1973, Wilson, an unknown 26-year-old Indiana native, had a batch of songs he’d written and wanted to record. Being a Dylan fan, he decided to knock on the door of Bob Johnston, producer of several Dylan albums as well as seminal Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash albums, and ask him to make a record. 

Although having no idea who Wilson was, Johnston put common sense aside and asked Wilson to play one of his songs on the spot; that same evening, Bill Wilson was in Ray Stevens Sound Lab Studio in Nashville, and Johnston producing his first album! There with him was a selection of Johnston’s “go to” Nashville session players – Kenny Buttrey (drums), Charlie Daniels and Jerry Reed (guitars), Charlie McCoy (harmonica), Mac Gayden (slide), Pete Drake (pedal steel), singer Cissy Houston, and Bob Wilson on piano. It has the makings of a fairy tale of Disney proportions.

What is beyond argument is that Bill Wilson was an extraordinarily gifted songwriter and recording artist just waiting for the “big break.” Although recorded in Nashville, the 11 songs are more steeped in the influences of Austin’s outlaw country with a faint Southern tinge; there are echoes of Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Mickey Newbury, and even Mike Nesmith’s 1st National Band (check out the exhilarating opener ‘Rainy Day Resolution’). 

As is usual, the lyrics are about the themes that generally run through the genre – heartbreak, social commentary, tales of drifters and lost love (the abject pain in ‘Long Gone Lady’ is palpable). There’s even some country gospel thrown in for good measure, Cissy Houston harmonising gloriously on ‘Following My Lord’ and ‘Father Let Your Light Shine Down’. Gayden’s slide playing is sublime throughout, particularly on ‘Ballad Of Cody’ and ‘Pay Day Give Away’; neither would be out of place on an Allman Brothers album. All that’s needed is the “happily ever after” flashing neon and the fairy tale is complete.

Sadly, that never transpired. Wilson took his album to Columbia where it sank almost without trace; Wilson himself struggled to actually find a copy of his own album. As he somewhat prophetically sings in the title track: “another crazy dream had come undone.” Josh Rosenthal (Tompkins Square founder) stumbled across the album in a vinyl bargain bin at a San Francisco record fair in January and bought it for 25 cents, purely on the strength of the producer’s name. 

When contacted by Rosenthal, Johnston recalled that he never saw or spoke with Wilson again after the recording session, but “the fucker could really write.” Bill Wilson died from a heart attack in 1993, aged 46, having made less than $100 from his record and never seeing its resurrection. Not all fairy tales have happy endings.

by Trevor J. Leeden

https://bestfile.io/en/sX7iAeSNe0ikZxw/file

BURYL RED-RAGAN COURTNEY - CELEBRATE LIFE! 2LP 75

 This is a phenomenal Jesus Music project and here is the Discogs info:  American composer, arranger and music leader at Manhattan Baptist Church in New York, New York and for a number of Christian releases on Word and Broadman Records. He was the founding musical director and conductor for The Centurymen. His production company is BR Productions.

A resident of New York City, Buryl Red was born in Little Rock, Arkansas where he took up piano at the age of three, later playing in his parents’ church. Heavily influenced by the Black Gospel music he was exposed to in his hometown, he began improvising on the hymns he played in church.

A graduate of Baylor University and Yale Graduate Music School, in the early 1960’s he served as the music minister of Manhattan Baptist Church--the first Southern Baptist church in New York City.

A composer, arranger, and hymn writer, Red was the founding musical director and conductor of “The CenturyMen,” a choir composed of Baptist church music directors from around the world. Founded in 1969, the group performed internationally. They were nominated for a Grammy in 2000 for their recording “Beautiful Star—A Celebration of Christmas.”

Red was also the composer of the landmark choral work “Celebrate Life!” which he created with Ragan Courtney and released in 1972. One of the songs from that work, “In Remembrance,” became a standard and was included in the African-American Heritage Hymnal in 2001 and in the Baptist Hymnal in 2008.

In 1974 he released his classic recording and accompanying hymn booklet “The Old Songs,” which brought modern, rhythmic arrangements to 33 favorite church hymns, introducing Baptists and other denominations to the idea of modern worship music which had begun with the Jesus Movement of the 1960’s and ‘70’s.

Equally confident whether on stage at Carnegie Hall or the set of Saturday Night Live, during his career Red produced over 2,500 published compositions and arrangements and more than 4,000 recordings; provided musical supervision, composition and arrangement for several hundred shows, documentaries and musical specials for network and cable T.V., and wrote and edited over 50 musical textbooks. He was also a member of the Church Music Publishers Association.

Ragan Courtney Profile:  Married to Cynthia Clawson.

https://bestfile.io/en/x0vUEEYlU0PppMs/file

MARTIN DENNY - Forbidden Island LP 58 w Quiet Village LP 59 w DU comp tracks

REPOST and ADD ON:  Another green one in the debut album that I am adding to previous classic Quiet Village.  Lots of cool DU compilation tracks added in as well.  Per Discogs:  Born April 10, 1911 in New York, Mr. Denny toured widely with big bands in the 1930's, served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, and in the mid-50's found himself in Hawaii with an engagement at the Hawaiian Village Hotel at Waikiki. His group, a quartet that also featured Arthur Lyman on the vibraphone, played around a pool at the hotel in a natural setting, performing soft arrangements of popular songs with an odd instrument or two from Hawaii or places in Asia and the South Pacific such as conch shells, Indonesian and Burmese gongs, Japanese kotos, boobams and even the local forest animals and so in serendipity blended ingredients of Easy Listening, Jungle Noise, Smooth Jazz, Polynesian "Tiki" instrumentation, that would become Mr. Denny's musical signature sound: Exotica.

Mr. Denny's recording of Les Baxter's "Quiet Village" was released as a single in 1958 and reached the Top 5 of the Billboard pop charts.

His first album, "Exotica," with its image of a sultry model of indeterminate ethnicity peeking through a bamboo screen, stayed at No. 1 for five weeks in 1959.

"Exotica" and successive albums with titles like "Forbidden Island," "Afro-Desia" and "Primitiva" provided the soundtrack to the trend for stylized Polynesiana - tiki cups, Hawaiian shirts and the bikini - in the early cold-war era.

He died on Wednesday March 5 2005, at his home in Hawaii Kai, near Honolulu. He was 93.

1990: Winner of a Nā Hōkū Hanohano Lifetime Achievement Award under the auspices of the Hawaiʻi Academy of Recording Arts.

https://bestfile.io/sucD3NdbykO5Pey/file

MAYNARD FERGUSON M.F. HORN 4 AND 5 - LIVE AT JIMMY'S 2LP 74 w MAYNARD FERGUSON AHO - ECHOES OF AN ERA '61 2LP 72

REPOST and ADD ON:  Following the St. Patrick's Day posts this year of albums with GREEN on them somewhere we have a duesy with his double album here and a nice sleeve of key jazz releases in this Echoes series--some of which I have posted.  Great grooves on the new double!  What I wrote last time:  For Camarillo Brillo whose been mining the good bar band releases here lately.  This is a great double album that ripped to digital pretty good even with scratches and mold on cover.  Per Discogs:  Real Name: Walter Maynard Ferguson

Profile: Canadian jazz trumpeter, and bandleader.

Born: 4 May 1928 in Verdun, Montreal, Canada.

Died: 23 August 2006 in Ventura, California, USA (aged 78).

https://bestfile.io/eXcKMvFaIeg8K37/file

Awarded the Order of Canada in 2005

WISHBONE ASH - st LP 70 w Pilgrimmage LP 71 w Argus LP 72 w Wishbone IV LP 73 w Live Dates 2LP 73 w There's The Rub LP 74 w Locked In LP 76 w New England LP 76 w Front Page News LP 77 w No Smoke Without Fire LP 78 w Just Testing LP 80 w Number The Brave LP 81 w Hot Ash LP 81 w Twin Barrels Burning LP 82 w Nouveau Calls LP 88

REPOST Request:  Almost a decade since I first posted this one so well past due and for our fearless leader Mark Underground (Creator as I call him) as well (he likes to check in on my around the holidays).  Per Discogs:  British rock band, famous for popularising the twin lead guitar.

Formed in Devon in 1969 out of the ashes of the group The Empty Vessels.

Original line-up:

Andy Powell - lead guitar, vocals

Ted Turner - lead guitar, vocals

Martin Turner - bass, vocals

Steve Upton - drums

https://bestfile.io/en/OapbdO3FYCyD5wZ/file

REFUGEE - st LP 74 w BRIAN DAVIDSON'S EVERY WHICH WAY - st LP 70 w JACKSON HEIGHTS - King's Progress CD 70 w Fifth Avenue Bus CD 72 w Ragamuffin Fool CD 72 w Bump 'N' Grind CD 73

Since we are celebrating per last post this week the 20th Anniversary of the Twilight Zone blog this post fell right into place.  Under their daily comments link posting I had found all the Jackson Heights releases then later someone had posted the two vinyl I ripped for this post so was time to kick into gear.  One blog had written from the text file within:  When Keith Emerson disbanded The Nice, Lee Jackson decided to hang up his bass guitar and go back to 'simpler' music. With this in mind he gathered together some musicians he had known for a number of years: Charlie Harcourt, Tommy Sloane and Mario Tapia. The result being the first Jackson Heights album King Progress, on which Jackson sang and played acoustic guitar......A major problem in touring with the album was reproducing the orchestral sound. Jackson approached Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard wizard with a view to him touring with the band. He declined but suggested Jackson might consider forming a band with him. Moraz had the record deal and other finances in place. In view of his own 'money problems' Jackson agreed and with Moraz and ex Nice drummer Brian 'Blinkey' Davison formed Refugee.

by Jim Sutherland

R, BDEWW & JH:  https://bestfile.io/en/3WNgEQL2nBx5d9k/file

Related REPOSTS:

THE NICE:  https://bestfile.io/en/Ilnc3jWPr5pkcPO/file

EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER:  https://bestfile.io/en/lqdb2OwQBtiy3OA/file

KEITH EMERSON- INFERNO:  https://bestfile.io/en/p7hBk0r7WwkSUfN/file

For King Crimson since my recent cassette post wasn't all that great and not sure if vinyl ripped earlier post I did has good link, going to recommend last week's post by Kostas over in Greece at his outstanding blogspot on my lower right links--Thank You Kostas!:

https://urbanaspirines.blogspot.com/2026/03/king-crimson-discography-1969-1974.html