I The Dentist

 

Brook Arnold - I The Dentist

 
From Columbine Records NST 20 (The Now Sounds Of Today)

 

Ay Ya Ya Ya........

 

Neita And The Drifters

 

Introducing Neita and The Drifters

Joe Sixpack, San Francisco Bay Area DJ, has nicely, as usual,  reviewed this album here :

An archetypal custom-label indie album by an informal country'n'oldies band out of Lawrence, Kansas, featuring a middle-aged gal named Neita Bahnmaier on piano, organ and vocals, along with several local lads, several of whom also sing lead on a track or two: Harvey Boyd on drums, David Cloud (lead guitar), Lynn McKenzie (bass), Leo McMullen (harmonica), Mickey Penny (lead guitar) and Bill Smith (rhythm guitar).

 Born [Neita M. Atchinson] in 1929, Mrs. Bahnmaier and her husband Joe lived on the outskirts of town, in rural Lecompton, although it isn't hard to imagine that the younger bandmembers were in some local rock bands, and possibly were enrolled at Kansas University... (I'm speculating: for the life of me, I couldn't find biographical info about most of these folks, other than Mr. McKenzie, who lived in Oskaloosa and passed away in 2003...) Anyway, this is an amateurish album that's easy to be charmed by, with some easy-to-play oldies such as "All Shook Up," "Johnny B. Goode," "Kansas City" (of course!) and also a decent amount of country stuff, tunes like "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Paper Roses" and "Snow Bird" (with Mrs. Bahnmaier singing lead.) My personal favorite is their unlikely cover of Wilson Pickett's "In The Midnight Hour," which could be dismissed as too whitebread and too rock'n'roll, but which I hear as an unexpectedly groovy, guitar-heavy power-pop confection... And in case anyone's keeping track, they also cover "Proud Mary," in this version, a duet between Neita and picker Mickey Penny. I'm not sure if these folks did much in the way of live public performances -- I did find some show listings a decade later, circa 1986-86 -- but this is a pretty cute little album.

Johnny B. Good

 

Upon The Nipples Of Julia's Breast

 

" Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me"(cover)

Among the 31 short love poems read by Jane Mansfield, I have selected from her album Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me"  (MGM Records, 1964) the one by Robert Herrick : Upon The Nipples Of Julia's Breast


HAVE ye beheld (with much delight)
A red rose peeping through a white ?
Or else a cherry, double grac'd,
Within a lily centre plac'd ?
Or ever mark'd the pretty beam
A strawberry shows half-drown'd in cream ?
Or seen rich rubies blushing through
A pure smooth pearl and orient too ?
So like to this, nay all the rest,
Is each neat niplet of her breast.

Almost forgotten in the 18th century, and in the 19th century alternately applauded for his poetry’s lyricism and condemned for its “obscenities,” Robert Herrick is, in the latter half of the 20th century, finally becoming recognized as one of the most accomplished nondramatic poets of his age.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-herrick

Upon The Nipples Of Julia's Breast

No one really knows for certain what prompted Jayne or MGM Records to make this album in the first place. No one, to this day, knows what to make of it.  She certainly wanted to be taken seriously. But no one did:  how could that have been possible :

The photography on the cover is one of the worst Jayne picture I have ever seen, Earl Wilson, the author of the liner notes contributed juvenile breast jokes, and finally few people admitted to have listened to it.

One of the few reviewers to admit he had lstened to it, Nick Jones of the Indianapolis News, wrote : If the idea is a gag - then P.T. Barnum has a new rival, [...] but if she's taking herself seriously, well, it's downright embarassing.

 

A better cover