Fantastica #05
Music for a DIY grand piano
 Johan

 
 
  1. Button Down Brass: "Frère Jacques"
    • album "Ha! Ha! Ha!" (Hee-Hee-Hee)
    • LP, Fontana LPS 16255 | +++
  2. Rex Brown Company: "Round up"
    • compilation "Electronic Toys"
    • CD/LP, Q.D.K. Media Indigo 0983, Germany, 1996 | ++++
    • info: Seventies electronic music. From silly to groovy.
  3. Hot Butter: "Tequila"
    • album "Hot Butter"
    • LP, Musicor MS 3254 (st) | +++
  4. The Frivolous Five: "A taste of honey"
    • album "Sour Cream & Other Delights"
    • LP, RCA LPM-3663 | +++++
    • info: Novelty, "atrocious" category out-of-tune covers of pop classics played Tijuana brass style.
  5. Lew Davies and his Orchestra: "April in paris"
    • album "Two Pianos & Twenty Voices"
    • LP, Command RS 33-813 | +++
  6. LEITMOTIV: Stan Freberg: "The Do It Yourself grand piano"
    • album "The Stan Freberg Show #10" (1957)
    • cassette, Radio Yesteryear COM 23, USA, 198? | not rated
  7. Ferrante & Teicher: "Susanna's last stand"
    • album "Hi-Fireworks"
    • LP, Columbia CL 573 mono, 1955 | +++++
    • info: First there was this mono album, later it was re-issued in fake stereo as "Fireworks", with 2 tracks less.
  8. The Creed Taylor Orchestra (music by Kenyon Hopkins): "The chase"
    • album "Shock, Panic and Nightmare!!"
    • CD, Fear (bootleg), USA, 1996 | +++++
    • info: "Shock, Music in Hi-Fi", half of "Panic: Son of Shock", and "Nightmare". Nervous jazz with sound effects. * This track from "Nightmare"
  9. Esquivel, his Piano & Group: "Oye negra"
    • album "Four Corners of the World"
    • CD, RCA Living Stereo 29856 2, Germany, 1995 | +++ Review
    • info: Originally issued in 1958.
  10. Robert C. Pritikin: "Sawthing (Something)"
    • album "There's A Song In My Saw"
    • LP, P&G 108 | +++
  11. The Three Suns: "Danny's inferno"
    • compilation "Cocktail Mix Volume 1: Bachelor's guide to the galaxy"
    • CD, Rhino R2 72155, USA, 1995 | +++++
    • info: my favorite volume of the series
  12. Bobby Christian: "Doll dance"
    • album "Mr. Percussion"
    • LP, Mercury SR-60015 | +++
  13. Koka: "Poor Elise 2"
    • album "Fantasy, Pastiche Sabotage"
    • CD, Koka | +++++
    • info: Sonorisation novelty music.
  14. Sound FX: "Piano chord VII (rhythmic pounding)"
    • album "Living sound effects vol 6"
    • CD, Bainbridge BCD-2006 | ++++
  15. Jack Fascinato: "Spring, sprang, sprung"
    • album "Music from A Surplus Store"
    • CD, Junkyard (bootleg) | ++++
    • info: big band with sound effects, originally released in 1962.
  16. Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant: "Blue bonnet rag"
    • album "Stratosphere Boogie"
    • CD, Razor & Tie RE 2067, USA, 1995 | +++
  17. King Uszniewicz and his Uszniewicztones: "The crusher"
    • album "Teenage Dance Party with"
    • LP, Norton 208, USA, 1989 | ++++ Review
  18. The Red Hot Chili Dogs: "Wild thing"
    • compilation "Barnyard Beat. Livestock rock and jungle jams" (a parody album)
    • CD, Rhino R2 71989, USA, 1995 | +++++
    • info: Animals doing rock classics.
  19. Groupe Folklorique Temaeva: "Mama tu"
    • compilation "Drums of Bora Bora and songs of Tahiti"
    • CD, GNP/Crescendo GNPD 2214, USA, 1993 | +++
    • info: ethnic exotica - an oxymoron?
  20. Country Rockers: "Wipe out"
    • album "Free range chicken"
    • CD, Telstar TR004CD, USA, 1992 | ++++
    • info: novelty R&R
  21. Long Tall Ernie & The Shakers: "Organ lessons from the Phantom of the opera!"
    • album "Meet the monsters"
    • LP, 1979 | not rated
  22. Anton Szandor LaVey: "Strange music"
    • album "Strange Music"
    • 10", Amarillo AM-586, USA, 1994 | ++++
  23. The 52 key Verbeek fairground organ: "And I love her"
    • compilation "The exotic Beatles Part 1"
    • CD, Exotica Pelé 3, distributed by Revolver, UK, 1993 | +++++ Review
    • info: Available directly from Exotica Records, 49 Belvoir Road, London SE22 0QY, UK, for GBP11 inside UK, GBP12 inside Europe, and GBP13 in the rest of the world.
  24. The In Group: "The man with the golden gun"
    • compilation "Shaken Not Stirred"
    • CD, Rykodisc 1443 50337 2, USA, 1996 | +++++
  25. Jimmy Smith: "Walk on the wild side"
    • album "Bashin'" (the unpredictable Jimmy Smith)
    • LP, Verve CLP 1596 | +++++
    • info: Exists on CD, see details in my "eXotica Releases Overview".
  26. Milt Buckner: "The Beast"
    • compilation "Ultra-Lounge Volume 4: Bachelor Pad Royale"
    • CD, Captiol 35177, USA, 1996 | +++++
  27. Jan August: "Cumana"
    • album "Accent!"
    • LP, Mercury MMC 14086, 1961 | +++


 
ratings: +++++outstanding, ++++very good, +++good, ++not bad, +so-so, -yuk