These Boots Are Made for Walkin

 Crispin Glover

These Boots Are Made for Walkin

 

Best remembered as George McFly for his role in Back To The Future, Crispin Hellion Glover is a little less remembered for his The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution, The Solution Equals Let It Be album released in 1989.

 

According to The Crispin Glover Handbook :

 In 1989, during a hiatus from films, Glover released an album called The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution, The Solution Equals Let It Be through Restless Records, produced by Barnes & Barnes (of "Fish Heads" fame). The album features original songs like "Clowny Clown Clown", odd versions of Lee Hazlewood's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin" and Charles Manson's "I'll Never Say Never to Always" (sung in falsetto), and readings from his art books Rat Catching and Oak Mot (see Books section below). Sample pages from these books are featured in the album's liner notes. The back cover of the album is a collage of figures relating to each track on the album, with an inscription: "All words and lyrics point to THE BIG PROBLEM. The solution lay within the title; LET IT BE. Crispin Hellion Glover wants to know what you think these nine things all have in common." He included a telephone number on the back of the Crispin Glover in September 2008. album, encouraging listeners to phone when they had figured out the element that all pieces had in common. He has said the telephone number was a pre-internet way of letting people know about the books. As for the "Nine things in common" Glover has said "It is really just the theme of the album." Glover later commented that he was surprised how many people realized what it was. He recorded a version of the Michael Jackson song "Ben" to coincide with the release of the 2003 film Willard; the song had been written for the sequel to the original 1971 version of this film. In the music video for the song, he sings to a rat named Ben. A number of songs using Glover's name as the title have been recorded by various artists, including shoegaze/gothic rock band Scarling., Chicago outsider musician Wesley Willis and a New Jersey-based band called Children In Adult Jails. In the early 2000s, a Kansas City band named itself Onward Crispin Glover.

Full album available HERE

Well, Come On

 
Well, Come On

Steve Kingsmill & The Stereos

This record doesn't appear in any of Steve King's discographies. Yet, it was his first 45 before Steve Kingmsill shortened his name.

Further records were issued on Cha Cha, Mercury, Limelight & Sonovox between 1962 and 1966, before switching to a broadcast career.

Page Music (the distributor= and C. U. B. R. (the publisher?) are obscure as the Chicago Alvin label which had only 3 releases in 1961. 

Steve King page at Wikipedia

Ella Mae Morse

Ella Mae Morse (1924-1999)

 

Some Like It Fat

 

 Gras-Double Productions
Presents

Some Like It Fat

 

Part 1

Ann Jones : Big Fat Gal Like Me - Artie Malvin : Short  Fat  Fanny - Barbara Lee Mac : Big Fat Mama - Barrence Whitfield & The Savages : Big Fat Mama - Barry Winston : Short Fat Fanny - Beulah Bryant And Her Thin Men : Fat Mama Blues - Big Dee Irwin : Happy Being Fat - Bill Darnel & The Smith Brothers : Too Fat To Be Santa Claus - Bill Mack  : Fat  Woman - Bobby Freeman : Big Fat Woman - Buddy Sharpe & The Shakers : Fat Mama - Canned Heat : Big Fat - Carl & Michigan : Gal You Fat  - Carl Boling & His Four Aces : Big Fat Gal Of Mine - Charlie Kellogg : Big Fat Stella  - Chubby Newsome : Little Fat Woman With The Coconut Head - Chuck Higgins : Big Fat Mama

Part 2

Chuck Lovett : Short Fat Fannie - Dana Gillepsie  : Big Fat Mamas Are Back In Style Again - Dana Gillepsie : Fat Sam From Birmingham - Dave Gardner : Fat Charlie - Dennis Walks : Short  Fat  Fanny - Dick Stratton : Fat Gal Boogie - Dinah Washington : Fat Daddy - Donnie And The Outcasts : Big Fat Alaskan - Dorothy Freyberger : Big Fat Gal - Eugene : Hubert The Fat Elf - F. Lee Hayslip : Short Fat Fanny - Four Vagabonds : Big Fat Mama - Frankie Avalon : Short  Fat  Fanny - Frankie Lymon : Short  Fat  Fanny - Freddie Caddell : Gotta Big Fat Mama - Gay Crosse & His Good Humor Six : Fat Sam From Birmingham - Gene Phillips & His Rhythm Aces : Big Fat Mama

Part 3

Glenn Barber : Fat Albert - Hal Howard And The Pearl River Boys : Fat Gals Skinny Gals - Harold Burrage : You Eat Too Much - Hasil Adkins : Big Fat Mama - Herbert Woolfolk & The Rocketts : Big Fat Mama - James Crawford  : Fat Eddie - Jeff Brooks  : Fat Louie - Jim Wilson : Big Fat Mama - Johnny Bond And His Red River Valley Boys : Fat  Gal  - June Dyer : Short Fat Fanny - King Perry : Big Fat Mama - Kuumba : I'm Fat That's That - Larry Williams : Short Fat Fannie - Lee Pickett  : Fatty Patty_ - Lester 'Pete' Bivins : Big Fat Gal - Little Gulliver   Short Fat Fanny - Little Richard : Short Fat Fanny

Part 4

Lucky Millinder Orch. (Vcl Trevor Bacon) : Big Fat Mama - Mats Ödman : Short Fat Fanny - Merle Travis : Fat Gal - Mickey Murray : Fat Gal  - Myron Lee  And The Caddies : Fat Man - Otis Redding : Fat Gal - Paul (Georgia Boy) Kimble : That Big Fat Mama - Peppermint Harris : Fat Girl Boogie - Pinetop Perkins : Big Fat Mama - Ray Gerdsen & ·the Yellow Jackets  : Fattie Hattie - Ricky Coyne : Short  Fat  Fanny - Ronnie & Roy : Big Fat Sally - Ronnie Molleen : Fat Mama - Ronnie Self : Short Fat Fanny - Roy Young : Big Fat Mama - Sonny Hall : Big Fat Baby  - Stomp Gordon : Fat Mama Blues

Part 5

Sunshine Ruby : Too Fat For The Chimney - The Beatles : Short Fat Fanny - The Chieftones : Big Fat Woman - The Dovells : Short Fat Fanny - The Embermen : Fat Girl - The Flashers : Big Fat Mama - The Ladmo Trio : Obese Man - The Lincolnaires :  Short Fat Fanny - The Neons : Fat Girls - The Ox Tones : Fatty Patty - The Rock-A-Bouts : She's A Fat Girl - The Royal Dukes : Fat Man Twist  - The Sevilles : Fat Sally - The Spades : Fattie Patty - The Spidels : Fat Lady  - Tommy Boyer With Carl & Bill : Big Fat Papa - Wolfman Jack & The Wolfpack : Short Fat Fanny
 

The Nashville Rage

 

 Allene Yokum


The Nashville Rage
1969

Iris Allene Yokum, 75, of Orange, Texas, passed away on Thursday, February 24, 2011 at Harbor Hospice in Beaumont, Texas.

She was a native of Stuttgart, Arkansas; born on December 16, 1932 to parents Ted and Sadie Craig. She had lived in Orange since 1954. She retired from Little Cypress-Mauriceville I.S.D. after 18 years employment in the transportation department. She was member of Colony Baptist Church and she was very active in the Lioness Club producing country music concert, playing her guitar and helping raise money for handicapped children. She enjoyed going fishing and she was a great seamstress. Iris loved and adored her grandchildren and spending as much time with them as possible.

Kay-Bar Dane
KBD-017 My World Is Alright Again / Oh Yes I Walked – 6-

Orange
No. 111 A Job At Joe's / Down On The Corner - 68
No. 112 The Lovingest Girl / I'm Not Coming Home - 68
No. 113 The Nashville Rage / Fire Department - 69
No. 114 My Love Song / The Kind That Gets The Ring - 70
No. 115(1) Soul Sister / Beer Drinkin' Daddy – 74
No. 115(2) A Little Bit Better / Beer Drinkin' Daddy – 74

Kilroy Was Here

 

Kilroy Is Here

Five tracks from 1946-1947

Kilroy Was Here - Tin Ear Tanner [Cliffie Stone]And His Back Room Boys (Bel-Tone) 1946
Kilroy Was Here - Ted Fio Rito And His Orchestra (4 Star) 1946
                              Vocal by Adriana (Snow White) Caselotti and Pinto Colvig                
Kilroy Was Here - Sammy Madden And His Orchestra (Stars Presents)  1946       
Kilroy Was Here - Paul Page With The Masqueraders (Enterprise) 1946           
Kilroy Was Here - King Perry & His Orchestra (Excelsior) 1947     

 

        

The most famous and ubiquitous of the graffiti was Kilroy. His leering eyes, big paper clip of a nose, and impish boast KILLROY WAS HERE materialized during World War II and he lived on for many years.

It has been conjectured that Kilroy was really a sore-footed infantry sergeant who got tired of hearing the Air Force brag of its prowess with the impossible.  He was especially p.o.'d about the Air Transport Command. When the A.T.C. hastened to some farflung, hazardous part of the globe to set up a new base, they found the bold announcement that Kilroy had got there first.

That hypothesis, found in Graffiti, a book by Robert Reisner, and reproduced above is one of the most attractive to me and probably close to reality, in the spirit at least. 

For further reading, Wikipedia has a good article on the subject. And there is a website entirely dedicated to Kilroy here. 

Bikini With No Top On The Top

 

 Mamie Van Doren and June Wilkinson
with Billy Strange and the Senators

Bikini With No Top On The Top

So What Else Is New?

1964

Mamie was joined on this record by June "The Bosom" Wilkinson and a third, uncredited glamour girl [Rachel Romen?] from Mamie and June's then-current potboiler, The Candidate.. Mamie claims the producer talked them info doffing their bullet bras and recording topless, which explains why the band sounds so sloppy and distracted.

Guitarist Billy Strange led the session, using Hal Blaine on drums, Steve Kreisman (Douglas) on sax, Ray Pohlman on bass, Al DeLory on organ, guitarists Bill Pitman and Al Casey, and Leon Russell as pianist.  

Celluloid Void

 

Fake bands and fake singers from movies, cartoon and TV series.  Includes Marty McFly backed by Marvin Berry and The Starlighters, Casssandra Wong and Crucial Taunt, Ferris Bueller, Cherry Bomb feat. Beverly Switzler (actually Lorraine Baines McFly, Marty's mother) and more.

Celluloid Void

Choo Choo Train

 

Choo Choo Train

The Heart Beats

All girl combo from Lubbock, Texas.  For info see The Heart Beats: an Extremely Unofficial Fan Page

All their recordings (including three unissued) are available HERE

 

Little Bones

 

What I Say

Ya Ya

Produced by Ike and Tina Turner, this is Little Bones, who is, as you have already guessed,  Ike Turner himself in disguise on his own Prann label in 1963. Little Bones also released the last 45 on Prann as Little Bones (The World's Greatest Singing Cricket) : I Know/Goin' To The River, Prann 5006).

 

An early pioneer of 1950s rock and roll, Ike Turner is best known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s with his wife Tina Turner as the leader of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue.

Izear Luster "Ike" Turner Jr. (1931-2007) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, record producer, and talent scout [Wikipedia] And also, if I may add, a philosopher.

Ike has summarized his view on the world in his book Taking Back My Name :

Everything is based on a hole. You got a hole in the head of your penis, where you pee from. The penis and the vagina, another hole, get together and out comes the baby.

The baby comes out of a hole into a whole - the whole world. You see out of a hole, hear out of a hole, smell out of hole, breathe out of a hole, eat out of a hole, pee out of a hole, shit out of a hole.

 If you get too much money, you gonna be in a hole - because you can't go nowhere. If you don't get enough money, you definitely going to be in a hole. And when you die, where you going? Right back in a hole.

So the best thing to do is to stop trying to stay out of the hole. Get in the hole and find out what's happening with the hole and then you know how to handle the hole.