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The dead wax blog covers the music scene from the 80s. Bob writes about music, artists, and more.
Dead Wax
14h ago
YouTube Favorite Channels - Volume 4 : TheSouthPhilly
address : www.youtube.com/@thesouthphillyrecord4341
"Forgotten records from the Philadelphia area archived from the lifelong and ever-growing collection of South Philly born disc jockey, Jimmy DePre."
Subscribers : 643
Videos : 331
Views : 178 167
Active since : June 2017
Sampler (16 tracks + labels)
Bill Martel - Now Or Never (Impala 1959).mp3
Billy Lane - Space Ship Blues ..read more
Dead Wax
2w ago
Jackson
"Jackson" was first recorded by The Kingston Trio in 1963. Written by Jerry Leiber and Billy Edd Wheeler. Although Jerry Leiber co-wrote this song, his wife Gaby Rogers got the writing credit. For a list of cover versions see Second Hand Songs.
This version is from the album "Sunday Afternoon" by Reid and Bobbi Northrup and the New Arkansas Travelers, issued by Tarot Recordings. Recorded at Vibra-Sound Studio in Schenectady, Upstate New York. Date unknown (circa 1970?)
Joe Sixpack has excellently reviewed that album :
A charmingly rough-edged (yet ambitious) set of regiona ..read more
Dead Wax
2w ago
Bob Dell
ML-23 Stars Come Twisting In (Del Giorno-Levandowski) S212-101
ML-24 little girl (Del Giorno-Levandowski) S212-102
RD Records, 132 Boston St. Syracuse, N. Y.
This is Robert Del Giorno, then DJ on WOLF radio, in Syracuse as Bob Dell. The backing band (uncredited) is Paul [Levansdowki] and the Velvets.
Disc jockeys recordings have, most of the time, this uninhibited and amateurish quality that I like.
132 Boston St. Syracuse, once the home of
Robert Del Girono (and of RD Records ..read more
Dead Wax
3w ago
Gil Trythall & His Nashville Moog
Nashville Moog
Produced by Rick Powell
Athena Records
1970
Harry Gilbert Trythall (1930–2023) was an American composer, electronic music pioneer, keyboardist, pianist of jazz and contemporary classical music, a life long educator, and a multimedia enthusiast. He often collaborated with artists (notably Prof. Don Evans (Vanderbilt-Nashville) to create engrossing public experiences..... [Wikipedia ..read more
Dead Wax
3w ago
Wolfman Jack - Free Shots.mp3
Debbie Sabusawa- Something For Nothing
CAVDA Records 333
Citizens Alliance For VD Awareness
222 West Adams St. - Chicago
CAVDA : organization promoting prevention of sexually transmitted diseases
Arranged and conducted by Charles Colbert
Published by Star Point 7 (BMI)
1975
In those heady days, when the worst sexually transmitted disease you could get was VD (venereal disease), which could be erased with a free shot, The Wolfman actually seems to be encouraging kids to sex it up. There is no mention here of preventive measure ..read more
Dead Wax
1M ago
YouTube Favorite Channels : Volume 3 : Evil Eye 45's
Address : https://www.youtube.com/@EvilEye45s
Active since October 2013
Subscribers : 3,57 K
Videos : 9,255
Views : 2 204 434
This channel features 45rpm recordings of all kinds of music and is intended for music lovers, the goal is not to wow you with with expensive records that only rich folks can afford, It’s to preserve forgotten and neglected music
Sampler (16 tracks) + label shots
Asbury Four - Goodbye World - (Gospel Bop Guitar Break).mp3   ..read more
Dead Wax
1M ago
YouTube Favorites Channels : Volume 2 : ThriftStoreVinyl
Address : https://www.youtube.com/@ThriftStoreVinylActive since January 2016
Subscribers : 6,11 k
Videos : 2,248
Views : 1 694 679
"Unearthing and archiving vinyl diamonds excavated from dusty donation mines."
Sampler (16 tracks)
Chester High Rhythm Rascles - Satisfaction (I Can't Get No) [1960s High School Band].mp3
Jean Richards, Lainie Cook, and Bob Thomas - A Rocket In My Pocket (excerpt) [1960s Chi ..read more
Dead Wax
1M ago
Here is the first volume of a new series intended to introduce you to some of my favorites YouTube channels deserving much more visitors. the first volume is dedicated to the Mark Lee Allen channel :
Active since February 2007
2.842 videos
1.050 suscribers
views : 414.229
main content : classic rockabilly, hillbilly, mostly obscure stuff
address : https://www.youtube.com/@gminusmark
Sampler (12 tracks with label shots)
AUTRY ROWLAND-Forty Plus PLOWBOY IRDA 486-B
BOB EUBANKS with THE NICKO TEENS-Keep It Burnin' GOLIATH 1354
BOBBY GREGORY and his BLUE CATS-Lazy Lizzie GREGORIAN 45 ..read more
Dead Wax
1M ago
Who'll Be The First To The MoonJu-Di-Lin - Ra-Fa
with
The Jimmy Neil Trio
Produced and arranged by Jimmy Neil
Martin MR-102-B
(December 1968)
Written by J. Ra-Fa and J. Neil. The only other record on the label is credited to Jimmy Neil, the singing schoolteacher. Oregon apparently, as Jimmy Neil had two other singles on Lavender Records. No further info. Who was Ju-Di-Lin - Ra-Fa ?
  ..read more
Dead Wax
1M ago
Five Stairsteps & Cubie
New Dance Craze
From 1968. Vocals lead by Cubie, three years old at that time. Quoting his obituary from 2014 found here
:
CUBIE BURKE – youngest member of 60s/70s soul group THE STAIRSTEPS – died on Wednesday 14th May. He was 49 and it’s believed that his death was as a result of a brain injury he’d suffered some years ago.
The Stairsteps (sometimes billed as the 5 Stairsteps and Cubie) were made up of various members of Chicago’s Burke family and music legend has it that Cubie debuted with the band when he was just 16 months old! The St ..read more