can we give some love to the ladies of the 60's/70's that aren't receiving any hipster kisses?

i mean jeez just cuz they were on normal labels and can be found in any dollar bin doesn't mean they don't deserve a shout-out.

let's hear about some dollar bin faves here. C/D/S/D!

Never heard of any of them.

it's never too late...

"hipster kisses"? sometimes I wonder about you, dude.

Does Kathi McDonald's "Insane Asylum" album count? Cause I love that one.

sometimes i wonder about me too...

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"Does Kathi McDonald's "Insane Asylum" album count?"

everything counts. let me know about common easily found records that i can get for cheap that i might have passed up that are great. there are only thousands of them.

for instance:

now playing: bonnie koloc - hold on to me (nice record! on ovation. 1972. if i had a quad system i would be able to play it in quad, but i don't. still sounds nice.)

thunder 'n lightenen/i tell u it's frightenen/and yr in control

well it's not "i am woman/here me roar" but chi coltranee's hit ws pretty enjoyable on radio. how's the LP?

Does Rita Coolidge get hipster kisses? She deserves many. She's def. a dollar bin staple, though i'm having trouble finding those Kristofferson/Coolidge albums ...

her first record with thunder & lightning on it is really good. VERY melodramatic. which could be translated as "cheesy" to some people, but i like Chi's sense of high drama in everything she sang. plus, i just really dig her voice.

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No, Rita Coolidge doesn't get hipster kisses! she deserves them just for her fashion sense.

http://www.geocities.jp/hideki_wtnb/rita3rd.jpg

i need more rita in my life.

and maria muldaur too

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGPORTRAITS/music/portrait200/drp000/p030/p03089n40g0.jpg

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/09/ciu/9a/c0/e34c83d28fa03a39aab24110.L.jpg

Was turned on to this by Waxidermy website, but anyhow, Carol Kleyn is pretty great.

http://waxidermy.com/images/kleyn.jpg

Also, Bobby Brown (the other one, not the New Edition guy) gave her a harp!

geoff & maria records would probably be hipper than maria solo. i LOVE pottery pie:

http://www.richardandmimi.com/potterypie.jpg

Maria Muldaur seems to turn up Zelig-like in all variety of music biographies, but all I know is Midnight at the Oasis.

this young lady really had it going on circa 1973

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/RSPOD/RS170.jpg

am i gonna be able to find that carol kleyn record at my local record store for cheap? something tells me no. looks cool though.

forget about my hipster comments. just looking for overlooked/underrated/right-there-in-front-of-me-the-whole-time-and-i-never-knew-how-cool-it-was kinda stuff.

for INSTANCE: right now I'm listening to Cris Williamson's debut on Ampex and it's lovely!

was she singing about being gay then? (later on Olivia)

Catherine Howe
Her first record (in a Beautiful Place) gets rated, but the second one, Harry (1975?), is cool too...

Also Rosalie Sorrells (though by no means winsome a la Muldaur and Coolidge, and probably wouldn't want your Hipster Kisses)

Doesn't quite fit the dollar bin fodder criteria (i.e. I've never actually seen a copy) but I'm still dying to hear this:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/445896.jpg

Any mp3s floating around?

That's Kay Huntington: What's Happening to Our World? for googlers.

am i gonna be able to find that carol kleyn record at my local record store for cheap? something tells me no. looks cool though.

Yeah, I'm guessing that it was pressed too limitedly to be easily found at a thrift store, or in some hallelujah cheapie vinyl bins...but everytime the song I downloaded of hers comes up on m'iTunes, I'm like "wow, what's this, again? This is pretty great!"

Does Essra Mohawk get hipster kisses? I kinda dig her.

Check out The Time Has Come by Anne Briggs (name checked by Destroyer but don't hold that against her!)

"Also Rosalie Sorrells (though by no means winsome a la Muldaur and Coolidge, and probably wouldn't want your Hipster Kisses)"

i've made my case:

Why Isn't Rosalie Sorrels Hip With Hepcats??? She's Great!

how about some love for the ladies of 2007 who largely missed out compared to amy lily nash? last year was great for tracey thorn, roisin murphy, kathy diamond, feist, siobhan donaghy and prolly some others i forgot.

Gale Garnett should get kisster hisses. Seconds on Catherine Howe.

That's Kay Huntington: What's Happening to Our World? for googlers

I found a copy of this for a buck--easily one of the most disturbing album covers (and bizarre records) of all time.

Kipster hisses.

On the subject of Rita C. - aparently her sister, Priscilla, made a great record called Gypsy Queen on Sussex; anyone heard it? She was married to Booker T. and they made a record together which is better than OK, but not mindblowing....

they made, like, 3 records together. i have two of them. i love their version of maggie's farm.

Does Buffy St Marie count? That song "Codeine" is so heavy.

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my bad - the one I have is a double S/T; must dig it out

"Does Buffy St Marie count? That song "Codeine" is so heavy."

well, buffy did make one hipster fave record (Illuminations), but she put out a ton of great stuff in the 60's and early 70's that hardly anyone listens to. if you buy vinyl pick up a cheap copy of the vanguard twofer best of for a lot of her best music. i love her records.

listening now to Dory Previn's Mythical Kings and Iguanas record and I can't believe I passed up her records for so many years. Saw them all the time in thrift stores. i love this kinda stuff. has dory been featured in mojo yet?

Rita Coolidge and Maria Muldaur really rub me the wrong way, as does Jennifer Warnes. They all sounds so hopelessly bored with everything I've ever heard them sing; I just don't get it. Instead I'll recommend Karla Bonoff and Joan Armatrading.

you gonna start bashing yvonne elliman next? go ahead, i dare you!

i can get behind karla and joan. definitely.

major dud, just in case anyone was curious:

http://www.fmgvinyl.com/images/gold/lotti2.gif

so dudly, i actually own this album and still haven't listened to it:

http://www.fmgvinyl.com/images/gold/lotti1.gif

though it couldn't be worse. and who knows maybe i'll end up liking it.

mark needs this one:

http://www.fmgvinyl.com/images/gold/lesb.gif

That's Kay Huntington: What's Happening to Our World? for googlers

I found a copy of this for a buck--easily one of the most disturbing album covers (and bizarre records) of all time.

Okay you've given me hope, edd. I'll start hunting for it this week.

this thread is now number one in a google search for kay huntington. just so you know.

xgau review:

KAY HUNTINGTON: What’s Happening To Our World? (United Artists) This is either a hilarious takeoff on sensitive circa-1964 folk music or (more likely, unbelievable as it seems) one of the most atrocious records ever made. Perfectly awful, right down to the cover art and liner notes. Listen to "Right to Poverty." E MINUS/A PLUS [Later: E]

buy it now for 7 bucks!

http://cgi.ebay.com/KAY-HUNTINGTON-WHATS-HAPPENING-TO-OUR-WORLD-LP-dj_W0QQitemZ4809737217QQcmdZViewItem

(plus P&H)

I've never seen another copy of that awful Huntington record--which I regaled my "hipster" friends with recently, we all needed a drink after that experience. I also made them listen to Carly Simon's Hotcakes just 'cause I think she looked kinda cute pregnant. But the Huntington record is competently done, is the frightening thing about it.

Muldaur I like in small doses, Rita Coolidge was a striking woman but her music I never much liked. I'm sure Karen Dalton has gotten enough kipster -on-toast to disqualify her.

this album is actually kinda good - in parts - if you like italian protest folk:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/800905.jpg

http://www.wirz.de/music/langhorn/grafik/avatar4.jpg

This is a kick-ass mix of earthy folk-blues from the Lyman Family featuring Lisa Kindred. She sounds tough as nails. This record has gone up in price. Plus, its cult backstory gives it some hipster points. But you can still find it in dollar bins every now and then.

Joy of Cooking!

THESE LESBIANS SLAY
STEEL GUITAR BREAKS FOR DAYS

http://www.guitaristka.ru/zapad/deadly_nightshade/dead_lp1.jpg

Rita Coolidge and Maria Muldaur really rub me the wrong way, as does Jennifer Warnes. They all sounds so hopelessly bored with everything I've ever heard them sing; I just don't get it.

That's crazy talk! Admittedly, I don't know anything of Muldaur's catalog other than "Midnight at the Oasis", but that is a great song! She sounds like she wants to slip Rudi Valentino's camel a quaalude and get down to snorting lines and being mischeivous with the sheik.

I like Rita's version of "your love is lifting me higher" even better than the original.

this thread is now number one in a google search for kay huntington. just so you know.

Great! This could double as the de facto Kay Huntington thread.

buy it now for 7 bucks!

(Pouts) But I want it for a dollar like edd got it for.

Edd, tell us more about your Kay Huntington experiences. Why is the record so weird/frightening/drink needable?

i used to have that deadly nightshade album. i never played it. i want that lyman family thing. that gets major hipster points though. i'll find one here eventually. they had a cult house on the island. you can still find lyman cult TAPES on the island occasionally.

anyway, this thread inspired me to start yet another thread!

This Is The Thread Where I Tell The World How Much I Love *Karen Alexander* And Her Album *Voyager*.

Susan Pillsbury

There was a mini- rediscovery on Vinyl Vulture (now VG+) last year of her S/T and only album from '73
Great songs, and with Jay Berliner and Richard Davis - pretty much the Astral Weeks Band in fact

.i want that lyman family thing. that gets major hipster points though. i'll find one here eventually. they had a cult house on the island. you can still find lyman cult TAPES on the island occasionally.

Yes! That whole phenomenon is sorely neglected.

The lyman family thing is weird. You'd think it would've received more hipster props that it has. Jim Kweskin's America LP is a trippy ride.

Geoff and Maria Muldaur had strong ties to Lyman, although both bolted after it got too weird.

Paul Williams (the critic, not the muppet) as well!

There was a great article/history on mel lyman/jim kweskin in a recent issue of Ugly Things. VERY informative.

That article is really good. This i a HUGE resourse for all things Lyman. You can even download the original Rolling Stone feature.

Yeh, that website bloo my mind when I first happened upon it.

wow, yeah, great page. i have that kay boyle novel. never knew that was mel-induced.

Erma Franklin, Aretha's sister, deserves some love. She might have cut the definitive version of (Take A Little) Piece of My Heart.

Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmr3Br8B_PM

i've got 2 Bonnie Koloc albums. i'm actually gonna start my dj set at dan selzer's club w/one of her songs. it was featured in Andy Votel's first Folk is Not a Four Letter word, so yes, definitely some hipster love there.

what about Melanie? pretty popular, but also along these lines.

this style of music is easily my wife's least favorite style of music i can play around the house.

Jessi Colter, Waylon Jennings's wife, has at least one song i LOVE ("New wine")

is it just me, or does that Midnight Special DVD set look kinda cool? Keep your eye out for photo.

'm actually gonna start my dj set at dan selzer's club w/one of her songs
When is this happening?

Libby Titus was married to Levon Helm at one point, wasn't she, and now is married to somebody else...Becker or Fagen maybe? Daughter helps Levon out with his "Rambles" I think.

Essra Mohawk briefly discussed here: Schoolhouse Rock C/D?

Maria Muldaur seems to turn up Zelig-like in all variety of music biographies, but all I know is Midnight at the Oasis.

-- dell
True dat. To my knowledge, she turns up in White Bicycles: Making Music In The 60s, Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina & Richard Farina, Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story and Standing in the Shadows of Motown: The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson. I wouldn't be surprised if she is mentioned in the recent Moondog book and Doo-dah! Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture as well.

Maybe I should have used some semicolons in there.

But what about that other MM Mistress of Midnight, Melissa Manchester?

Serge Gainsbourg could have written another song, "Initials M.M."

Essra Mohawk briefly discussed here: Schoolhouse Rock C/D?

-- James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:30 AM

um and yeah here -

Essra Mohawk: "Primordial Man" - worth spending £21.99 on or not?

also -

Maria Muldaur - Classic or Dud?

i tried to start a revival! but it was a no-go

I can't say I am a big Bonnie Koloc fan, despite the fact that I AM a dutiful listener to The Midnight Special, every Saturday night. Well, I can't honestly say that I listen to the full three hours ... Rich can get pret-ty corny, so I usually have to disengage and pop on a Free album at some point. but the man has definitely turned me on to some nice folk stuffs

hows about ronee blakley? i like rita coolidge. any chance of an olivia newton john (pre-grease) hipster revival? if so i'm onboard.

"any chance of an olivia newton john (pre-grease) hipster revival?"

i tried this a while back. people weren't ready. but i'll definitely bring it up at my next hipster union local meeting. it would have to go to a vote.

Some make-or-break early ONJ:

"Banks of the Ohio"
"The River's Too Wide"
"Something Better to Do"
"Slow Down Jackson"
"Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying"
"Just a Lot of Folk (The Marshmallow Song)"
"I'll Bet You a Kangaroo"
"Making a Good Thing Better"

Plus a box set-full of covers/desecrations of rockist faves.

And one Grease-era track, the exquisite, vacuous, devastating "Please Don't Keep Me Waiting" which kicked off the Totally Hot album and was featured mantra-like in the film(s) The Beaver Trilogy (you can see Crispin Glover sing it here). (Sean Penn got a shot at it too in one version.)
But the film(s) cut out the dénouement where she goes all Yoko. Check it out here.

i have a great euro best-of cd and it can't be beat as far as track-listing goes. i love it. and the sound is stellar. one of my favorite Cds that i own. and i love her covers!

i always see 70s bonnie raitt records in the dollar bins, but i never buy them ... are there any worth getting? they seem to have some primo session dudes playing on them.
as for muldaur, she's also a presence in the scorsese dylan doc from a few years back -- some great footage of her (probably as a teenager) singin' the blooze.

Gale Garnett seconded!

Have you guys seen that black-and-white Youtube Gale Garnett video with Glen Campbell and Leon Russell, I think? I'm assuming it's from Shindig.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0yE9tjQMdM&feature=related

Someone who made the albums that Janis Joplin didn't live long enough to make:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51084T7YG5L._SS500_.jpg

Ruby BABY!

http://www.geocities.com/themods1966/rubystarr.jpg

"i always see 70s bonnie raitt records in the dollar bins, but i never buy them ... are there any worth getting?"

no offense to bonnie, she seems like a great gal, but her records bore the hell out of me. my dad is a big rory block fan. maybe try her stuff instead. or on the jazz tip, try some emily remler. (not that bonnie is known as some sort of guitar virtuoso. just throwing names out there. i'd rather listen to 70's era ellen McIlwaine records too.)

i have that maggie bell record. that's a good one!

i think i gave my dad all my latter-day tracy nelson records. i still have a couple mother earth records though.

i like gale garnett a ton. i like the early folk/pop stuff as much as her later more 60's/rock-oriented records. she has a bunch of records that i still need to get.

I have a Scopitone of Garnett doing "Small Potatoes." Didn't know she was so earthbound earlier on.

best gale garnett video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZL4_DahI3A

I'll disagree with Scott here and recommend Bonnie Raitt and Give It Up. Also, Scott, there was a Dory Previn feature in last month's Uncut.

There was also a brief interview w/Dory in a recent Mojo (the one w/Radiohead on the cover)

dorymania in full effect!

I have a couple of really very good Anne Murray LPs. I'm fairly sure she doesn't get hipster love, and it may be that she gets no love at all.

If I love the first Roches LP, will I love the other Roches LPs?

Joan Armatrading getting any love? she's up there with Bonnie in my book.
i believe if you like the Roches debut you ought to at least love A Dove, which i own and like lots

the first, like, three roches albums are great.

me and john d and some others were giving joan some love not that long ago. she had so many great songs. and she's way unhip! "show some emotion" alone, man. what a great song.

i dig anne murray. but then i'm pretty goth.

and when i say the first 3 roches albums i'm including *seductive reasoning* which was just maggie and terre as a duo.

actually, come to think of it, that would be four great albums. *seductive reasoning*, *roches*, *nurds*, and *keep on doing*.

even the later albums had some choice songs though. "face down at folk city", "big nuthin", etc.

Genya Ravan
Valerie Carter
Rachel Sweet

http://www.kandimart.co.uk/images/P8090010.JPG

such a great record:

http://www.genyaravan.com/meanit.jpg

true dat:

and before I forget,

Maxine Nightingale
Nicolette Larson

i have the first linda hargrove album *music is your mistress* but i never cared for it much. maybe i didn't give it enough of a chance. i'll play it again.

anybody familiar with the late 1960's Berkeley group Joy of Cooking that was led by two women, Toni Brown and Terry Garthwaite? their debut still holds up for me. Great tunes, and they rock but in a sort of relaxing way on account of piano being the lead instrument

linda found god by the way:

http://lindahargrove.com/images/A%20NewSongHargrove.jpg

I mentioned Joy of Cooking upthread......
Castles is a great record

toni brown still makes jam band records. as befits the former editor and publisher of relix magazine. i am not a huge joy of cooking fan, but they definitely had their moments.

http://cdbaby.name/t/o/tonibrown3.jpg

xpost to outdoor miner obv.

also.....any Helen Reddy records worth the dollar/euro?

oops, missed that post, sorry....nice work sonof. and thanks scott, i had no idea

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416NP93HBQL._AA240_.jpg

I dig most of Tracy Nelson's early LPs, but I REALLY dig this one, which is more country than blues.

best gale garnett video

That clip is nutso even by Scopitone standards. I can't believe I've never seen it before. And check out the crotch on Lucy Fur.

Not sure if this fits the thread but my fave Scopitone starlet is Joi Lansing.

"Web of Love"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eGnjuCwoW4

"The Silencer"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLZ4wdncE84

Sally Eaton, I give you hipster kisses.
"Once Before You Go" is such a jam.
http://www.popsike.com/pix/20070510/170110864316.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ker24VSMImo (pre 60s i'm sure, but cool video nonetheless.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-C7jZfAQ34 (such a vocal range... dig on the peruvian scenesters)

forgot about someone both scott and i like. penny nichols. "penny's arcade". one song is a serious folk funk number and another is way tripped out and psychedelic.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000I8OMVM.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V40660590_.jpg

and bonnie dobson has some serious funk. although she's being courted by andy votel

http://www.cherryred.co.uk/revola/sleeves/crrev179.jpg http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/2039/goodmorningraincdvg1.jpg

I like the traditional Bonnie Dobson LPs but haven't heard the funky ones. Are they hard to find?

i paid like $20-25 for the one on the right at soundlibrary ny. some other guy at the store was buying the one on the left and was upset i had the one i had.

How about Kathy Dalton (no relation to Karen, as far as I know). She had one LP on Zappa's Discreet label that was re-released a year later with a track change. Little Feat backed her up, with Van Dyke Parks and Carl Wilson guesting. They used to play the song "Cannibal Forest" on my local FM station when I was in high school, and despite not hearing it for over 30 years I can still recall the tune.

Anyone familiar with her, and is the rest of the LP as good as CF?

that was easy http://illfolks.blogspot.com/2007/11/kathy-dalton-brenda-patterson-1974.html

Thanks jaxon, I googled but didn't find that. Now I don't have to pay $25 for the LP on ebay.

i picked up a 7" a while back by Heaven & Earth. this is the A side. spaced out femme folk. the B side is a funky number that was on the first Folk is not a Four Letter Word
http://www.robotsinheat.com/trax/VoiceInTheWind.mp3

think another track from the LP Refuge was on the Bearded Ladies comp. i'd love to hear the LP, but it's kinda hard to google for.

here's the cover. good looking girls

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3821/r5923751135872947td0.jpg

what about Mary McCaslin's Way Out West? Saw an LP copy recently for $5...?

Love that McCaslin record. But tell more about Kay Huntington!!!

I will, I promise, later tonight. this is one of my favorite threads of all time. I will also talk about this Kathy Smith reissue I got.

I finally broke down and bought Kay Huntington: What's Happening To Our World? for two bucks (Edd beat me) from a site that had it available for years. And, um, like wow, man! This album has bent my mind back and forth between pleasure/revulsion, joke?/serious?, masterpiece/worst record of all-time, A+/E-, etc. The Mr and I have laughed out loud many, many times (although I think I'm past the "this has GOT to be a joke" stage). First side's got the howlers many of which are packed into the first (and title) song. "Why is there so much SUFfering" a child (presumably) asks daddy and mommy, the SUF signifying a pleading octave leap. Also check out the doomy guitar fill once Little Kay learns that men use guns to kill one another. She pulls weeds and raises corn in "The Right to Poverty" and fires off this couplet in "Git To Git To Heaven": "So go right ahead and blow the whole world up/We'll just git to git to heaven right away."

But the second side's merely bad (although I haven't listened to it as closely). And she's certainly easier to take than Joanna Newsom which means the psych-folk set will probably find her too modest. Nevertheless, if you like your critical faculties all discombobulated, get thee to Ebay now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOCdGK1oWoM

Sylvie <3 <3 <3

I saw a quad copy of that Heaven & Earth lp in a shop recently for 60 bux.

In other news, I found a copy of what I guess is the self-titled debut of "The Joy" (aka what Toni Brown & Terry Grathwaite did after The Joy of Cooking broke up) for a buck and a half. I haven't listened to it yet. It came out on Fantasy. Elvin Bishop & Taj Mahal guest.

what about Mary McCaslin's Way Out West? Saw an LP copy recently for $5...?

Just picked up a record she did with Jim RInger called the Briar and the Rose from '78 - fine stuff

"Bramble" even

robertchristgau.com has some pretty reliable stuff about several artists on this thread, like Joy Of Cooking/The Joy/solo Garthwaite/Brown ( I did think Garthwaite could get a little cloying with the Billie Holiday tendencies, but she had her own context, esp. on the first solo album, where it really worked on the reggae version of "You Send Me, reggae "Slender Thread" etc) Bonnie Raitt's Give It Up is still one of my faves from the 70s, and finally got re-mastered, ditto Takin' My Time, which is almost as good. Give It Up was the perfect balance of youthful mood swings, and New Orleans convergences of genres and subgenres and OMG both albums even showed me that Jackson Browne did write some good songs after all (his voice gets boring pretty quickly). Maria Muldaur's early stuff like "Chevrolet" still sounds tight in context of Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band feauting Maria Muldaur's Acoustic Swing & Jug (Vanguard), and the oh-so-flirty-Gertieness of that collection's "Richland Woman" seen and raised by her much later Richland Woman Blues, songs of Memphis & MS blues, earthy & suave & poignant. Heart Of Mine: The Love Songs of Bob Dylan has a few too many "normal" songs, some of Capn D.'s "Don't be like that in Divorce Court baby" moves, but done well and she resurects "Golden Loom" and "Wedding Song" (gotta find that old tape where Marianne Faithful does "Visions Of Johanna"--hey where is the love for Marianne on this thread?) McCaslin/McKee/Cyndi Boste/I'm Not Sally discussed in "Alias In Wonderland"--still no doubt on Voice archive,probably/ possibly still at this address
http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0129,tracker_writer.inc/24,323,.html

And if that doesn't work it's at http://MyVil.blogspot.com
Use Control + F on "Alias" in Dec. 2005 archive and you got it.

Also: Kath Bloom is new to me, but she started recording in the 70s with Loren MazzaCane Connors, and check the link to older and new tracks on her MySpace page here--this new PTW-posted title track is not her best performance, the other one described is more typical, but it's all well worth checking out:
http://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=1668

The Kath Bloom/Loren Connors 1981-1984 CD that I have is a-fucking-mazing. Dunno anything else she has done, but that one thing is an absolute treasure of simple cracked and beautiful otherness.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AkaB3rwDthc&feature=related

This Sally Oldfield song might be worth a shot, starts off all floaty and drifting, then they break out the bongos for about a minute before it goes all full-on soft-rock at about 4:15 for the next five. Straddles the awesome/awful fence pretty nicely. Her 80s stuff is kind of bananas too.

Nicolette Larson, for Lotta Love alone. That voice!

So I've listened to Libby Titus and I fail to hear any connection with Devendra or the psych-folk movement. Should I be looking for a particular song?

Ah, yes! have to draw attention to Ellen Mcilwaine, raw acoustic guitar, very potent vocals and exquisite afro beats.

Take a listen for yourself:

http://www.divshare.com/download/4361685-55c

Lily & Maria's s/t had the folkie-princessy over-enunciation at times, and though I sympathize with their feeling like album was out of their control, when they complain in(Sunbeam label) re-issue's liner notes that the arranger got so 60s-adventurous, I can only wish it were so--but "Melt Me" is a prowly sleepless shuffle like good 70s Patti Smith, several years early, and "Subway Thoughts" and some others work too. More consistent is Michelle's Saturn Rings, re-issued on Fallout (not to be confused with Radioactive; the former seems to be legit. Michele (sic) O'Malley was an accomplished L.A. session singer, also with The Ballroom and several of Curt Boettcher's projects, and he's on here with Lowell George, Elliott Ingber from Fraternity Of Man and early Mothers, Gordon Alexander of the Association, etc. Kinda lush Nyro-ish overall, with "Song To A Magic Frog"("Will you ever learn?") cryptic "Know Yourself," falling off Laurel Canyon ("Spinning Spinning Spinning") outta season sidetrips ("Lament Of The Astro Cowboy"),but hey it's just L.A. in the moonlight, so they can cope. Her only solo album,but did she record with the Ballroom? Anybody know whatever happended to her?

I will, I promise, later tonight. this is one of my favorite threads of all time. I will also talk about this Kathy Smith reissue I got.

― whisperineddhurt

not sure if this is about kathy smith "some songs i've saved" reissue on fallout, but if it is can i just that this is one of the most AMAZING hippie soul records i've heard in a long time?!?

Yeah, that's the same Kathy Smith record. Some Songs I've Saved. "End of World" is amazing esp. since that's the actual title.

Caroline Peyton recently performed songs from Mock Up and Intuition in Nashville, on a bill with Eef Barzelay of Clem Snide. She was in great voice. Ron Wynn wrote a good piece about Peyton in Nashville City Paper.

really, i'm not a scold or an old lady, but please don't buy stuff on fallout. they are the worst of the worst.

posted bonnie koloc and Ellen McIlwaine songs to my site recently

http://www.robotsinheat.com/trax/DontLeaveMe.mp3
http://www.robotsinheat.com/trax/Pinebo.mp3

How about Engelbert Humperdinck, Des O'Connor, The Bachelors, Ken Dodd or Mike Sarne? Not ladies, I know, but surely not a lot of hipster kisses anyway. Not that they'd deserved any though...

does fallout not pay artists or something, scott?

because i've been buying fallout stuff like crazy.

i like this thread

fallout/radioactive has had multiple artists beg and plead for them to stop selling their work illegally and they refuse to do so. what makes them more pernicious than "fans" who make 300 to 500 copies of a needledrop boot is that fallout has MASSIVE distribution around the world. they are a business. and everything they put out is put out without that artist's or artist's estate's knowledge. this has really done damage to some people who have gotten late recognition for their work and who want to put it out themselves and see some money from original albums that made none. (see: george brigman and a ton of others.) often, people will take the time to put out really nice authorized copies only to find that fallout has saturated the market only months before. they are shitheads. i'd rather that people just rip something from a blog for free than support these people.

^agreed

also the quality of their boots is usually not too crash hot

hmmm that is a bummer to hear, i really enjoy their releases :-(

everything they put out is put out without that artist's or artist's estate's knowledge

I'm not going to defend Fallout--they do substandard work generally and so forth--but when I was writing liners for the Asterisk reissues of the Caroline Peyton records (Fallout had already reissued Intuition in 2007, with only minimal liners, no extras and pretty lousy sound; Asterisk got the master tapes for their reissues), Peyton told me that she did indeed know about the Fallout edition, and met with them in London. They did pay her, not a lot. So she at least knew what was going on; but, unlike many of the people Fallout has revived, she has been a pro musician her whole life, had a career after her hippie days. But yeah, the Fallout Intuition is substandard, no doubt about it.

most of the fallout releases i've heard sound better than the radioactive releases, for what it's worth.

i think the same dude (plummer) is also running phoenix records, who are basically reissuing the "highlights" of the radioactive back catalog (first one i noticed was henske/yester) in little faux-LP sleeves.

Phoenix has issued a few expensive boot-looking things, like the first Silver Apples (first one that comes to mind, though there are a few others IIRC.. Flower Travelin' Band...)

on LPs that is. I dunno about CDs, but a while back I saw Newbury Comics in RI had a load of Radioactive CDs for under $10.

Lovers of this thread would love this blog:

http://femalevocals.blogspot.com/

!!! awesome link!

pretty sure my grandma owned the same afghan featured on the cover of the geoff and maria - pottery pie lp

"On the subject of Rita C. - aparently her sister, Priscilla, made a great record called Gypsy Queen on Sussex; anyone heard it?"

LOVING this recently. so great.

also digging the Lily & Maria album that don mentions up above.

and lots of other stuff! i'll post more faves later today. been hearing some great near-forgotten records.

Lovers of this thread would love this list.

http://www.mb.ccnw.ne.jp/swamp/female_list.htm

Unfortunately all the backup info is in Japanese. He's got an even more extensive list of 70s hippie dudes:

http://www.mb.ccnw.ne.jp/swamp/70th_list.htm

such a huge fan of gayle mccormick's work with smith and was excited recently to get three of her 70's solo albums but none of them do it for me. (reading latest ugly things some rocker who knew her says that she wanted to go in a more kick-ass rocking direction, but labels didn't want her too. which is sad. i can imagine that she had a great mama lion/ck strong album in her.)

been listening to a ton of jackie deshannon records from the 60's/70's and loving most of them. when is she gonna get her hipster reappraisal? her records - even the 60's ones - sell for peanuts.

also digging the dozen sammi smith records i ended up with. um, on the country tip.

and sandy posey! i need more sandy posey in my life. though morrissey is probably a fan.

i bow down before ruth copeland's self portrait this week. i haven't heard anything so beautiful in ages. but hepcats know about her. her two invictus records being basically parliament + groovy female vocalist. and her version - she wrote it - of the silent boatman just friggin' kills me so hard. i want to marry it.

"Copeland, Ruth, age one day..." CUE TRUMPETS!

AHHHHHHHHHHHH! i love it so much. just kills me dead.

hey, i like bonnie koloc!

that's a good thing! that's what this thread is all about.

i came within a few minor scuffs of buying a ruth copeland album off the wall in ian's shop sunday.

i think we have two copies of that kickin' around; next time yer in & i'm there i'm happy to give ya a discount!

btw sang freud, e-mail me so i have yer email info. Chapman's on for the 14th at thes tore--5:30.

whoa! i'll be there with bells on. and a baseball cap.

before i forget, you know what are pretty good? the two early 70's Gloria Loring albums on Evolution Records that I have. total hippie stoner folk pop. waaaaaay mellow. *sing a song for the mountain* and *...and now we come to distances*. buy them now cheap before espers namedrops them. some of the more rousing orchestral numbers/covers are a little dudly, but half of each album is mellow goodness. you can never have enough trippy covers of "dolphins" if you ask me.

jackie deshannon records from the 60's/70's and loving most of them. when is she gonna get her hipster reappraisal?

i've been trying to spread the news but i'm not hip. i think her poppy, raspy voice doesn't do it for the kids into more folkie stylings

i love the phrase "hipster kisses"

i love hipster kisses irl

cmere

love this album so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JJIpWNEtwk&feature=related

love this album too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiZxJ93QJ9s&feature=related

listened to some late-seventies libby titus album today. lotsa stars. carly simon, paul simon, members of the band, eric kaz, james taylor. it was alright when it wasn't too horn-y

this album is my jam::
http://place1.dyndns.org/music/files/images/detailed/1532788.jpg

wow never seen this before! crazy, man!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv5Qf-B9kVo&feature=related

barbara is majik.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E8HqSqGcns

i love hipster kisses irl

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cmere

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*smack*

dig that barbara keith tune scott

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmD2tAEmgyg

i mentioned dobson upthread. here are 3 amazing songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErOoUgGysLw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcaM-x1U6nA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk8DdihnlNs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AonhE1U-EL0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnQj-6FtpPg

blushing

"dig that barbara keith tune scott"

i've gotten to know barbara and her husband a little bit. they are awesome. they come in my store. and they have a seriously rocking power trio with their son. their band is big in texas for some reason! they go and do little tours down there. i love her album on reprise. and i have always been fond of her first band Kangaroo. they made one album in 1968. i still need a copy of that first solo album though. her husband tells great stories. he grew up with and was good friends with terry melcher. so, that was exciting to me, because i'm such a big terry fan. he used to party in that ill-fated house of terry's. and hang with dennis wilson, etc. he wrote for t.v. munsters episodes! but they both got their fill of the t.v. and record business and moved east long ago. everyone covered barbara's songs in the 70's. even streisand on stoney end ("free the people").

Just to say I love this thread....

More ladies in '11 please

milton, thank you so much for that emmanuelle parrenin. loving it, although i didn't hear any ladies singing.

just picked up a copy of Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes "Le Rat Débile Et L'homme Des Champs". so great. thought of you

she's playing hurdy gurdy on that track. whole album is a creeper, it starts off completely folky and then side 2 kicks off with that proto-techno track and then veers off into total cosmic music

side 1's more like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joinYXvpLAQ

this ended up being more of a Veronique Chalot thread but she belongs on this thread too: Emanuelle Parrenin 'Maison Rose' 1977

<3 Ribeiro. that's one's the one with 'Un Regard Clair (Obscur)'.

this is for milton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KppaDz6oAYE&feature=related

Soviet videos really turn me on.

somewhat in the Parrenin/Chalot vein is the Kristen Noguès' 1976 album Marc'h Gouez. it's French Celtic harp music, but it isn't grand and progressive like Alan Stivell or medieval traditionalist like Chalot or trippy like Parrenin in her weirder moments. Parrenin's 'Plume Blanche, Plume Noire' is a good point of comparison for Noguès' rural-sounding, entrancingly repetitive folk that has just the right amount of understatedly odd touches in the arrangements to keep it from being merely pretty (not that "merely pretty" is always a bad thing). dig the abrasive electric keyboard bit that seems to interrupt the singer in mid-verse in the last 30 seconds of the first clip and the electronic whine bubbling under the surface of an otherwise tranquil harp solo in the last 30 seconds of the second clip (actually the very end of the album).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzSAXvsG1J4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzZllwxnFms

I'm really liking the first Bonnie Dobson clip that jaxon posted upthread. somehow I had her pegged as a straight, old school folkie like Pete Seeger (I love Seeger, don't get me wrong) but she was a very formidable pop singer evidently.

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u20/sonofstan/september%2026th%20finds/IMG_3743-1.jpg

Fantastic record by Rosemarie Taylor, an American woman living in Ireland in the '70s. So obscure, I can't find a pic, so you have to do with my crappy photo, never mind a youtube.

Has Susan Pillsbury been mentioned here yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f88zkduPGhQ

really digging the first two Jennifer Warnes albums on Parrot when she was simply "Jennifer". mix of originals and covers and the production on them is awesome. both produced by Marty Cooper. just tons of cool little touches. atmosphere. double-tracked vocals. and her voice is likewise really cool on them.

http://cdn1.iofferphoto.com/img/item/148/798/027/ZkRG.jpg

http://991.com/newGallery/Jennifer-Warnes-I-Can-Remember-Ev-488458.jpg

I believe I have four Dana Gillespie songs on my hard drive (including an excellent cover of "Pay You Back with Interest"), and three from Twiggy. I was especially surprised by how great Twiggy could be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUvVRea2wvY

found this jani hall by accident looking for annette peacock and it's just ridiculously beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Q5oMj1wlc

I've been listening to these ladies
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/3186/voyagerfront.jpg
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/2672/marielittle11uf0.jpg
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/1623/cdone.jpg

All very folky and lovely, except Karen Alexander which has been a wtf record for me. Seriously who is she? I saw that she has another record, but the net gives little info on her.

Scott Seward seemingly knows more about Karen Alexander than anyone else in the world, including Karen Alexander herself.

at any rate, this thread of his convinced me a while back that Voyager is a remarkable album. I still haven't heard a note of her music though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GfpFV6snfc

she is the aunt of dumb Alaskan singer-songwriter Jewel!

No Way!!!!

biographical info on her is scarce, but I found this on a Jewel mailing list, ha:

Mossy Davidson (birth name Mairiis Kilcher) is Jewel's aunt -
one of her dad's sisters. "Northwind Calling" was a double album she
released back in 1977 and was an early musical influence on Jewel.
Jewel also lived with Mossy for awhile (in Homer, AK) which is when she
got into caring for horses. Vinyl copies of this album are extremely
rare as it was only released regionally. However, in 1997, I digitally
remastered the original recordings. Shortly afterwards, Mossy
rereleased it as a single CD that contained all the material on both
albums, as well as a booklet featuring many vintage Kilcher family
photos. The CD, like the original album, was issued under her
pre-married name, Mossy Kilcher. The CD used to be available from the
jeweljk.com store, but they sold out on them years ago. It's original
Alaskan folk music, so it won't be everyone's cup of tea, but like
everyone in that family, Mossy has a compelling voice and the album has
a lot of charm. The CD also sounds considerably better than the vinyl.
I'm not knowledgable about current availabilty, but a web search might
turn up info on that. A search through this list's archives, circa
late 1997/early 1998 will probably bring up additional info from around
the time of the CD release.

there's an interview with her here and some more info here, including the interesting detail that Jewel covered one of Mossy's songs on her latest album.

the Northwind Calling album is really spare, lonesome, backwoods, husky-voiced folk singer-songwriter stuff, kinda like if Kate Wolf moved to the Alaska wilderness and recorded herself in her living room with a reel-to-reel.

(Northwind Calling being Mossy Davidson's double album from 1977)

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6471/067cq.jpg
Elpida's self titled album from 73 is my recent favorite.

jansch cover, but man is this record lovely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfmmWWOJMIY

Decided to promote the singer I asked about above. Finally listened to the whole album, the rest I don't like as much, but this cut really has stood the test of time. Thanks again jaxon for the link. (I even made/posted the video myself.)

Kthy Dalton - "Cannibal Forest"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_t2oYeBKBw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su4ftWUMvzQ&feature=related
here's one I found on youtube of Elpida

That Kathy Dalton song is funky! I really love it.

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/2229/33010.jpg

1978 self-titled album (confusingly referred to as either La sirène or Loguivy de la mer) by the one-time Gérard Manset collaborator Anne Vanderlove. it doesn't really sound the way the cover looks (darkwave?) but delivers plenty of haunting moments of reverb-heavy Breton/Celtic/American folk, with the occasional touch of Moog.

in lieu of a youtube clip, here's a download of her version of the Child Ballad "The Great Silkie".

wow. that cover is straight out of gaimans sandman comics.

alarming lack of Akiko Yano in this thread !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Zu4krWnBM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOSM711elho&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVwIWjEw1GQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks2dH-jNIpI&feature=related

Speaking of Japanese ladies: Morita Doji.

Shusha (Guppy)

http://www.iranian.com/Music/Shusha/Images/photo.jpg

Picked this up today, nicely orchestrated straightforward folk-pop -anything I can find on youtube is from her Iranian *folkloric* records.

Anyone here heard any of her (many) other records?

I'll throw in a word for Barbara Mason. Here's one from the '60s (love the string arrangement on this, especially on the bridge)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z36Qy0gHnMQ

...and one from the '70s, in which she berates her guy for using her for what the title suggests:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3lbA_by02M

BTW the aforementioned Bonnie Dobson gets plenty of hipster kisses, if only for writing the oft-covered "Morning Dew". (Yes, she wrote it, despite what Tim Rose would like to think. It's on her 1962 debut album IIRC).

Listening to Bonnie Koloc right now! I pulled this LP out of my grandpa's collection and expected it to sound like Melanie, based on the cover pic and that he had a couple of Melanie records. It's much better than that.

And one more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHlzcF9YkQA

Krysia from her S/T and only album from 1974. Features Mattacks/ Pegg/ Donahue and sound palette wise isn't to far from Sandy Denny/ R&L Thompson records of the same era. Lovely voice and some fine songs, though, typically, the only youtube i can find is of the only cover.

Judy Roderick - Woman Blue (killer trad folk/blues album)

what about Hedy West? she recorded eight albums between 1963 and 1976, specializing in old-timey ballads and labor songs, but she's mostly remembered for writing the folk standard "500 Miles". vocally she reminds me a bit of Rosalie Sorrels, but her style is much more traditional, tending toward solo banjo field recordings à la Roscoe Holcomb. her father was poet and labor organizer Don West, and she occasionally set his poems to music. she spent a lot of time in England (playing with guys like Martin Carthy and Danny Thompson & recording a few albums on Topic Records) and Germany (her last album, the brilliantly-titled Whores, Hell, and Biscuits, was one of Bear Family's first releases) but moved back to the US and had mostly retired from performing by 1980.

this is as powerful a performance as any:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isjcgluPyJQ

Wolfgang's Vault is streaming three live sets of hers from 1967. most of her original records are pretty hard to come by, although Fellside Records released a compilation of her three Topic LPs just last month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj5JCGbq3Wk

total hipster bait, but can some ilx record collector please buy this Caroline Wolf album for $500 so I can hear it all the way through?

Maria Barton - "Rainful Days"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0qIbRgdhoo

solo acoustic loner folk — also hipster bait, I guess. it's weird that this was recorded in 1980 by some Christian singer (this album is secular, though) and not in 1970 by some California folkie. it would have fit right in on Numero's Ladies from the Canyon comp.

this Tia Blake album has been getting some attention, and it just got reissued this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfTwrtjILeo

Is Marlena Shaw hipster loved? Just had a track by her come on my walkman on the bus home and I love her voice.
Bought a Chess 2cd of her stuff after finding out it was her that did the vocal version of Wade In the Water that used to get played at mod clubs in my mid teens in the early 80s. Had wanted to get that track ever since and there are several other near divine tracks on the set. yum.

Jill Cislaghi ~Friend of Mine~ LP RARE OOP private press Massachusetts loner acid rural femme psych folk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0pk0zv23lM

can someone please buy this for me?

been digging kate wolf lately. she needs more love.

what's the best album of hers to start with?

Saw Nanci Griffith in Oslo this tuesday, and she talked at lenght about Kate Wolf before doing her wonderful version of "Across the Great Divide". I knew the song, but had barerly heard about Kate Wolf. Please speak of her.

This seems to be the best thread for Rita Coolidge until/unless she gets her own. That being the case, hope she has a good pre-nup.

learn how to pretend

kate's voice can give me the shivers sometimes. i don't know what is out there on disc. probably lots of stuff. i just see her albums every once in a while and i play them. the two album retrospective is really good. gold in california, i think it's called. her voice is such a strong thing. a pure kind of instrument. she looks so normal and she was normal and i wonder if that's why more people - younger people - don't know her? she looks like she could have been my pottery teacher down at the craft center in the 70's. her songs could be REALLY great. like, anyone on earth could do them forever. country people, folk people, all kinds of people. and those people do cover them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsXGzblg7Ws

anyway, gold in california is a good place to start. some of her strongest songs.

safe at anchor is a really good album. she'll do those songs where its just her at the piano that just kill me in a sandy denny way.

i bought a kate wolf lp on a whim a couple years back, her debut lp. it's autographed! only later did i find out she died in the mid '80s. but she's fantastic. was. and is.

Thanks, Scott! Will look into her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQOsaAbRclI&feature=youtu.be

HELP ME FIND THE SINGER!!! Sometime in 1967, during my first year at UCSC, a young woman came hitchiking through UCSC in Santa Cruz California. She stayed in our dorm for one night and played her guitar, sang and laughed and then left. I never knew her name. I heard her singing, grabbed my Sony model 350 Recorder and two cheap dynamic microphines and stood above her while she played and sang. My hands got a little tired after 25 minutes or so. The edits are just me turning the machine to pause mechanically. Occasionally people come in to the dorm room in the middle of the recording. I have had to reduce the bit rate to fit this to the time alloted by Youtube, but that will be remedied.Also, I have equalized just a litte because the mics had very bad high ends due to their mediocre design. For now, it is a stolen moment in time from an anonymous and very talented guitar player and singer. Recorded on the top floor of Parrington House. BEST LISTENED TO WITH HEADPHONES!!

You know, Caroline was in a Broadway musical with Bonnie Koloc. So I was able to call Bonnie on the phone last year, which was very cool. I found all but one of Koloc's old LPs here--the only one I don't have is her first Epic LP. Her second Epic, produced by Joel Dorn, is perhaps her most produced effort. I guess it's her last one on Ovation that was the one cut in Nashville w/ Bergen White and a bunch of people like that. Has "Roll Me on the Water," which Jody Miller (more of a Nashville-crossover-pop-country singer) cut. you guys may be interested to know that Caroline Peyton has recorded a brand-new record--her first real solo record ever, with Mark Nevers in Nashville, with William Tyler on guitar. She's mastering it soon, it's finished, and it's not much like her old '70s stuff, but real good.

the other artist on this thread I've been kind of obsessed with lately is Dory Previn. I now have all of her records from 1970 thru the end of the decade, and found her Carnegie Hall twofer recently for 99 cents. I enjoy her but recognize just how fucked-up her music and lyrics really are--way too wordy, but it's kind of charming actually. I suppose a woman whose most well-known song (outside of "Come Saturday Morning") is "Yadda Yadda La Scala," about how people just keep talking, would have to be quite possibly the most prolix singer-songwriter of all time. Which is charming, but so far I've run off several friends trying to play her shit for them.

Really very interested to hear Caroline's new recordings, Edd. Any idea when they'll be out and about?

Wilma Burgess is criminally underrated! as a young undiscovered Nashville singer, she waited patiently for Patsy Cline to doe, whereupon she bought Patsy's house and car and bunch of other personal effects, and Owen Bradley (Patsy's producer) promoted her as the new Patsy Cline for a few years until her career fizzled out. she later opened Nashville's first lesbian bar. she was the first singer to record 'Misty Blue', and her version is my favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ-qBfdyxYM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbxnLX9zRl0

*waited patiently for Patsy Cline to die

I'm constantly surprised that pre-'At Seventeen' Janis Ian never seems to get any love. Her first few albums as a teen prodigy are amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYLU6JIqWtg

yeah, there's some great stuff on Janis's Verve Years compilation, although Shadow Morton wasn't the most sympathetic producer. she wasn't really a pop singer at that phase of her career, so those string sections and brass bands and organs sound like desperate attempts to commercialize her slightly old-fashioned coffeehouse folk sensibilities. the success of 'Society's Child' was largely a burden for her artistically, as she hints at in this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF8HQgoEq7A

Between the Lines is more consistent than any of her first few albums, although its tastefulness makes it less immediate/hard-hitting than her early material. I don't know if she ever came out with a song as boldly over-the-top as 'New Christ Cardiac Hero' once she went the adult contemporary route.

Baby Washington

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/455/19971539455_e5fbb1c291_z.jpg
This is a nice record I've been playing a lot.

my new favorite Wilma Burgess song. it's so lush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOO2JdWJQcM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlXNBw6nzqs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jfSFMOLUAA

lora Schultz 2 months ago

Wilma was THE best voice in Nashville,also my dearest friend, I spent many weekends in Patsy's house while she lived there, Wilma always said Patsy's spirit was there, and nearly all her furniture was left there by Charlie right down to her car and credit cards. Wilma wanted to give me her car, but I let my husband talk me out of it. Wilma worked many of my husband's shows he promoted , and her mom was a regular visitor in our home , staying for several months, which we enjoyed. They both are missed.
Widow of Ken Allen

her records are almost impossible to sell. so good pick for this thead!

Will have to check more Wilma, among others here. Thread revival also reminds me that I always meant to post about the Women Blue comp, which incl. tracks by several artists already mentioned, like Michele, whose Saturns Rings I described upthread in '08 (without ever getting to the eventual paranoid starflowerchild vibe, quite: Laurel Canyon in Manson times). A few of them are relatively well-known, at least to folkies: Sorrels, Koloc, McCaslin---but most not, although almost all of 'em were still on YouTube and/or Spotify the last tyme I checked (not recently).
And as the following review points out, this is a bit more varied in arrangements etc. than Ladies From The Canyon---a few audio samples here too:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/women-blue-16-lost-us-femvox-classics-mw0000825913

huh never heard of Wilma - nice stuff

did she record those tracks before or after she married fred flinstone?

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/meet_wilma_burgess_country_musics_first_openly_lesbian_singer

https://www.discogs.com/Rachel-Faro-Refugees/release/5569643

^impressive credit list on this one! the whole album is on youtube (can't find it anywhere else) and it's pretty good, like Carole King meets Court and Spark-era Joni. I love the organ and treated keyboard on 'Time Passes Slowly':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZmAd-vU7qA

i think i underrated the 2nd Risa Potters record. it's really quite lovely. now debating whether i need to buy a cheap copy of her first album from 1970 online or just wait to happen upon one someday in an out of way place on the side of the road far from where i dwell.

Just listened to that anonymous "help me find the singer" youtube upthread; that's kinda fascinating!

Over on Rolling Reissues, I posted info about and comments on the forthcoming (first legit, remastered from actual masters) reissue of Judy Henske & Jerry Yester's Farewell Aldebaran. Gotta find her pre- and non-Jerry albums, also the one they did as co-leaders of Rosebud.

Pre- and *post-Jerry albums, that is, if she did any.

Rosebud is not great. High Flying Bird is her best solo album. Though "Wade In The Water" on her 1963 self-titled Elektra album is one of her knockouts and her epic "Betty and Dupree" on her 1966 Reprise album is, uh, epic. and the funny stories she tells on stage are funny on those albums. I always felt like her 1965 album on Mercury was a little flat. But it's worth hearing.

Everything except for Farewell Aldebaran sells for peanuts now so you could probably buy everything except that for about 40 bucks total.

(there are two later dawn of the 21st century albums that nobody listens to because they are later dawn of the 21st century albums.)

the dave guard & the whiskeyhill singers album on capitol that judy was on is fun too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UHw0fbZHPE

i think Fanny actually do get some love. if not from hipsters. Birtha need more love. they rocked so hard.

And thanx for the Judy et al tips too---reminded me that one of Richie Unterberger's books incl. pre-Modern Folk Quartet Cyrus Faryar's account of feeling like he and other musos were little peasants in the valley, caught between the warring gods, Guard and Henske. But that maybe just an exaggerated memory of what Cyrus says here, in Unterberger's (still lively!) liner notes for the Whiskeyhill reissue (his site also has his appealing notes for MFQ reissues, or at least one of 'em):
http://www.richieunterberger.com/guard.html

Probably some good lesser known stuff in here
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/milk-of-the-tree-an-anthology/

good stuff on there. i gotta play that susan pillsbury album again soon. so great.

did i mention risa potters on here? those two albums are really nice. was listening to the second one the other day.

So I keep getting YouTube recommendations for a Japanese singer-songwriter I'd never heard of called Hako Yamasaki, and it turns out she's great! Strangely enough she turns up on the recs list of a couple of other people I know, plus many more according to the comments sections. Seems to be some strange algorithmic spasm that's shoved her up to the front of the queue. Most of the English-language info to be gleaned about her is buried in said comments sections too, although there is a Japanese-language Wikipedia page.

Anyway, she's released about 30 albums, most of them sounding of their time - but since the mid-70s was the best time for this kinda thing those records are the winners, the odd enka vocal inflection notwithstanding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5xYdkMiV6Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w71N7MX9HcQ

Wow---intriguing, thanks! Reminds me a little of Murakami's Kafka On The Shore, which is also the title of an out-of-nowhere 60s hit by a young Japanese female singer-songwriter: one and she's done, vanishes, a lost legend. Good lyrics too, but unfortunately it's mostly nit about her, except as a magnet for this sometimes tedious teenboy horndog, the main character.
Um, anyway, the aforementioned s/t one-and done Rosebud album got legit reissued and expanded, like the aforementionedFarewell Aldebaran, which I found uneven enough that I haven't gotten around to checking Rosebud yet, though with Henske & Yester it can't sound too bad; anyway here's the press sheet I pasted onto Rolling Reissues:

ROSEBUD
ROSEBUD
FILE UNDER: R/ROCK
CD: DIGIPAK
SRLP: 16.98 / BOX LOT: 30
5% DISCOUNT THROUGH 6/23/2017
AVAILABLE JUNE 16, 2017
WWW.OMNIVORERECORDINGS.COM
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/OMNIVORERECORDINGS
WWW.TWITTER.COM/OMNIVORERECORDS
KEY SELLING POINTS
• Remastered and expanded reissue of the
1971 classic.
• Contains 10 bonus tracks—7 previously
unissued .
• Packaging contains rare ephemera and
new interviews with band members Judy
Henske, Jerry Yester, and Craig Doerge.
The iconic 1971 release – expanded with 10 bonus tracks!
When Judy Henske and Jerry Yester’s (now revered) Farewell Aldebaran sadly disappeared into legend,
they decided to take a different approach for their next release—becoming a “band.” Adding songwriter
and multi-instrumentalist Craig Doerge (pronounced “Durgee”) and John Seiter (known for his work
with Spanky & Our Gang and The Turtles), Rosebud was born. After recording was done and the album
“fi nished”—the band added Bassist David Vaught. Additional songs were laid down, and others re-
moved in lieu of the new material. Finally, in 1971—Rosebud the album appeared.
In his liner notes, Barry Alfonso (acclaimed author and songwriter) says “French choral numbers, gospel
rockers, nostalgic ballads, angelic lullabies—it sounds like the contents of a greatest hits collection.
In fact, the above tracks are all found on the sole album by Rosebud, an L.A.-based quintet that barely
lasted a year.”
Rosebud, is indeed, all of that and much more. While inching Henske & Yester closer to the main-
stream, Rosebud is just as daring as Aldebaran, as its songs have the same studio sophistication,
hook-laden material, and wit.
To make this reissue even more special, 10 bonus tracks have been added, 7 of which are previously
unissued. The packaging contains photos and ephemera, tracing the changing history in the making
of the album, as well as new interviews with Henske, Yester and Doerge in Alfonso’s essay. Produced
for release by Grammy ® -winning Producer Cheryl Pawelski, and new mastering and restoration by
Michael Graves (who also has won a few Grammys ® himself), Rosebud is ready to take the uninitiated
on a journey, and adds nearly another album’s worth of rare singles and unheard tracks for those who
loved the original.
Named after the sled in Orson Welles’ iconic Citizen Kane, Rosebud is a secret no more.
JERRY YESTER, JUDY HENSKE, CRAIG DOERGE, JOHN SEITER
ORIGINAL ALBUM
Panama
Le Soleil
Reno
Western Wisconsin
Lorelei
Salvation
Lullabye II
(Summer Carol)
The Yum Yum Man
Roll Home Cheyenne
Flying To Morning
BONUS TRACKS
Lazy
Reno (MONO SINGLE VERSION)
Mercury Of Fools *
Hey Old Friend (JUDY VOCAL) *
Le Soleil (DEMO) *
What’s The Matter
With Sam *
Easy On Me, Easy *
Father Of Souls
Mercury Of Fools (DEMO) *
Hey Old Friend
(JERRY VOCAL) (DEMO) *
* PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED
Rosebud
KEY SELLING POINTS
The iconic 1971 release – expanded with 10 bonus tracks!
Photo: Henry Diltz

And this first volume of Light In The Attic's projected Japanese reissue series has some thread-relevance, audio samples, info here (the non-ltd. ed 2-LP will be back in stock later this month, they've also got CD, but not digital) https://lightintheattic.net/releases/3178-even-a-tree-can-shed-tears-japanese-folk-rock-1969-1973

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9BpZGRIl5s

Hey I have an early 70s California singer songwriter query.theres a really good early 70s album by a woman,who I think maybe had drug problems and died young, plus was kinda obscure. Definite hipster kisses in the 00s and on tho. Multitracked vocals,a song called "x rain" where x is the name of a small town in CA or the PNW. Any ideas? 😔

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb59WCJTs_Q

?

Yeeeeees

A million thank yous

I've def conflated someone else's bio with Linda's, glad shes still around

me too and yr v welcome

Faun Fables vibes there

Think the bio you've conflated with Linda's is Judee Sill. They were both kind of rediscovered in the early 00s

Oh yeah,that's definitely it

Also: Kath Bloom is new to me, but she started recording in the 70s with Loren MazzaCane Connors, and check the link to older and new tracks on her MySpace page here--this new PTW-posted title track is not her best performance, the other one described is more typical, but it's all well worth checking out:
http://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=1668

― dow, Friday, 4 July 2008 20:58 (ten years ago) Permalink

The Kath Bloom/Loren Connors 1981-1984 CD that I have is a-fucking-mazing. Dunno anything else she has done, but that one thing is an absolute treasure of simple cracked and beautiful otherness.

― NickB, Friday, 4 July 2008 21:12 (ten years ago) Permalink

Thee Whiney-edited Paper Thin Walls is long gone, but Kath Bloom review-interview (re her return and the CD reissue comps) is archived here:
https://papercomet.blogspot.com/2017/03/maybe-not-earlies-but-might-as-well.html

i listened to lots of linda perhacs and judee sill last weekend

where did you go wendy waldman lovers?

― scott seward, Monday, February 18, 2008 3:51 PM

As you may have seen on the stock up/stock down thread, I was checking all the new classic album compilation releases and Wendy Waldman's first 3 albums were released in a compilation last year. I thought she looked like the type for this thread. Never heard of her before.

I bought the Bridget St John box a while ago but that was from 2015. Surprised she's not mentioned onthread.

I think i need more fanny in my life

https://youtu.be/imZUqkPlUaQ

Excited for this - https://lightintheattic.net/artists/2952-sachiko-kanenobu

Jean Millington, Fanny's bass player needs your help.

https://www.gofundme.com/jean-millington-go

strangely enough, last night at the port washington public library i saw nancy nevins and two other original members of sweetwater, who were the second act to perform at woodstock '69. nancy's solo album definitely belongs on this thread:

https://www.discogs.com/Nancy-Nevins-Nancy-Nevins/release/2126684

the whole evening of discussion & performance should be up on the port washington public library's youtube channel soon if it isn't yet.

Elyse Weinberg - Greasepaint Smile is one of my fav discoveries but I guess she did get hipster kisses?

I think i need more fanny in my life

This podcast about them was pretty interesting

https://www.kcrw.com/music/articles/lost-notes-fanny-the-all-girl-rock-band-david-bowie-loved

As you may have seen on the stock up/stock down thread, I was checking all the new classic album compilation releases and Wendy Waldman's first 3 albums were released in a compilation last year. I thought she looked like the type for this thread. Never heard of her before.

Some good songs on that comp. Checked it out when The Cure started covering "Pirate Ships"

Talk of Kath Bloom and updated link to archived review of her then-new '08 alb upthread a little ways, and here come a couple more Chapter Music reissues of her work a Loren Connors (EP tracks now added)---streams, pix, details here:
https://mailchi.mp/73f3e03f5d89/smcqueen2-2808941?e=32e64a6326

What the hell, that press release may go away

KATH BLOOM & LOREN CONNORS ULTRA RARE SAND IN MY SHOE
& MOONLIGHT ALBUMS FINALLY TO BE RE-ISSUED BY CHAPTER MUSIC
OUT OCTOBER 4TH, 2019

https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a088e1e7fb68010cf6ad8ff4a/_compresseds/197dfa45-9150-4f07-afab-d1f60ef5a847.jp

https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a088e1e7fb68010cf6ad8ff4a/_compresseds/8cac3f67-e9be-4b92-9454-ae0b9b853bf5.jpg

The extraordinary creative partnership of New Haven, CT duo Kath Bloom and Loren Connors has haunted psych-folk fans since the early 80s. Kath taught herself guitar during shifts as a janitor at a New Haven cemetery, while Loren’s free-form idiosyncratic style had been developing since the late 60s. Between 1981 and 1984, the duo recorded two live and four studio albums, mostly self-released in tiny quantities.

Early on, their music mixed folk and blues traditionals with a handful of Kath’s vulnerable, moving originals. By the later albums the songs were all Kath’s - her fragile voice and subdued finger-picking set against Loren’s abstract but always supportive playing. Together the duo created a sound almost impossibly emotional and haunting.

Kath & Loren’s first two albums in 1981-82 were live recordings, released via Loren’s Daggett Records label. Next came 1982’s Sing The Children Over on Massachusetts label Ambiguous Records. Then Sand In My Shoe emerged in 1983 as the first release on Loren’s new St. Joan label, in an edition of 200-300 copies with handmade sleeves.

Restless Faithful Desperate and Moonlight followed in 1983-84, before the prodigious duo parted ways. Moonlight was released in an edition of 200-300 copies. As her creativity accelerated, Kath’s songs became looser and more intuitive, but Moonlight contains an early version of one of Kath’s most beloved songs, "Come Here". Loren’s longterm collaborator Robert Crotty contributes electric guitar to a couple of tracks.

By 1984, Kath was married with a young son, and Connors was entering a new relationship, so the duo found themselves drifting apart. Kath did not release anything again until a 1993 solo cassette Love Explosion, but then developed a devoted cult following through the pivotal use of a new recording of "Come Here" in Richard Linklater’s 1995 film Before Sunrise.

Kath has since released three solo albums on Chapter Music (Finally in 2005, Terror in 2008 and Pass Through Here in 2015), as well as the Bloom tribute album Loving Takes This Course, featuring covers by the likes of Bill Callahan, Mark Kozelek, Devendra Banhart, Josephine Foster and many more.

Loren also retreated from music for a period until re-emerging in the late 1980s. He is now recognised as a pioneering guitar explorer, and has worked with the likes of Thurston Moore, Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke and many more.

After reissuing four of Kath & Loren’s landmark albums on CD in the late 2000s, Chapter has now embarked on the first ever vinyl reissues for these remarkable records. Another 1984 album Restless Faithful Desperate was reissued in 2018, while 1983’s Sand In My Shoe & 1984's Moonlight will be released on October 4, 2019.

Sand In My Shoe includes five digital-only bonus tracks, from 1982 live EP Pushin’ Up Daisies, as well as comprehensive digital liner notes.
Moonlight includes five digital-only bonus tracks of rare 1984 live recordings, as well as comprehensive digital liner notes.

Listen: Kath Bloom & Loren Connors - 'I'm As Good As I Want To Be'
https://youtu.be/Tr5wEY-zsZM

Listen: Kath Bloom & Loren Connors - 'Come Here'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1WVBPTke6w&feature=youtu.be

Well crap--prob some more of their music (& pix) posted somewhere. So do try the press release link.

On first spin of the Bridget St John debut album I was afraid it was going to be boring (having got the box set) but it's very good. "Broken Faith" is a stunner.

Bridget St John is fabulous. Ask Me No Questions and Songs for the Gentle Man are both A+.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLQSsn2TYBs

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1658258050_16.jpg

In 1967, the folk-pop group The Association had a massive hit with a song called “Windy” penned by an unknown young woman named Ruthann Friedman. Two years later, she released her own album Constant Companion on Warner/Reprise Records that sounded nothing like “Windy” – it had more in common with her labelmate Joni Mitchell or cult-hero Linda Perhacs. Decades later, Ruthann would be declared an “astral folk goddess” and championed by the likes of Devendra Banhart.

Around that time, reissue producer Pat Thomas compiled a collection of previously unreleased demos, home recordings, and lost songs circa 1965-1971 from Ruthann's personal archive including the original version of "Windy."

Titled Hurried Life, Ruthann recently declared, “That’s the one that I really like - that was the first time going back into the archives to find songs that might be reissued. I think those were representative of me.”
credits
released September 3, 2021
Stream, order LP (or digital) here:
https://tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/album/hurried-life-lost-recordings-1965-1971

Very much a rediscovered obscurity, rather than unfashionable $1 bin mainstay, but I think this thread needs mention of Kathy Heideman and her 1976 LP Move With Love, which is available these days on Spotify et al (might want to skip the song Daddy-Do, though).

https://i.imgur.com/PfEHHy6.jpg

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0573/1650/7846/products/cathowe_400x.jpg?v=1634057682

Is this good??

from Numero:
CATHERINE HOWE - WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PLACE (50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)
This recorded autobiography of Catherine Howe, age 20, briefly appeared in 1971. Too young for memoirs, most artists have barely established any sort of musical competence by the age of legal adulthood, let alone compositions matching the maturity and complexity of Howe’s. What A Beautiful Place, however, is a prodigious effort wrought from the melancholy ruminations of post-adolescence. The album’s twelve songs unfold like a classic bildungsroman, beginning in the smoke-stained industrial county of Yorkshire, transformed by the electrified creative landscape of mid-century London, and retiring to the warm pastoral bliss of the county of Dorset on England’s southern coast. Produced by noted jazz pianist Bobby Scott, the LP—oft-mistaken for a concept album—was available for only a month in the summer of 1971, disappearing after Reflection Records’ shuttering in 1971.
More details, backstory etc.
https://numerogroup.com/products/catherine-howe-a-place-of-beauty?mc_cid=50a30a300a&mc_eid=348950ba0d

Karen Dalton's In My Own Time (50th Anniversary Edition)is out now, remastered with bonus tracks--- all streaming here, with the KD backstory and overview: https://karendalton.bandcamp.com/album/in-my-own-time-50th-anniversary-edition

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3292896630_10.jpg

Speak of thee devil:

https://thevinylfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/karen-dalton.jpg

Karen Dalton’s live recordings released for the first time

A new collection of American folk singer and guitarist Karen Dalton’s archival live performances — called Shuckin’ Sugar — is being released via Delmore Recording Society, this April on Record Store Day 2022.

The 12-track album features a collection of her previously unreleased live performances with her then-husband and guitarist Richard Tucker, as well as her solo compositions.

Shuckin’ Sugar was recorded between 1963 to 1964.

The album is accompanied by archival photos, newspaper clippings, artwork by Dalton, and an essay by journalist and author Kris Needs.

Shuckin’ Sugar follows the 50th anniversary reissue of her In My Own Time album, in March.

Head here for more info in advance of Shuckin’ Sugar’s 23rd April release; check out the artwork and tracklist below.

https://thevinylfactory.com/news/karen-dalton-live-recordings-vinyl-release/

https://thevinylfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/dalton.jpeg

Linda Hoover. Very belated release mentioned on the Steely Dan thread but worth logging here:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jul/07/linda-hoover-on-her-great-lost-lp-with-steely-dan-i-mean-to-shine

Great to know, thanks! Omnivore is a good label for that, maybe the best.

Not thee kind of thing we usually consider on here, but a friend recently sent me a link to The Poppy Family feat. Susan Jacks---yep, "Which Way You Goin', Billy?": "Ode To Billy Joe" it def. ain't, but her sound got me curious.
She (b. Susan Pesklevits) was a late-teen regular on a Canadian music show, where she met Terry Jacks, whom she later married, and they formed The Poppy Family, then started their own solo careers, his kicking off with "Goodbye Pa-pa it's hard to die," aaaghh, "Seasons in the Sun." They broke up, she continued solo in Canada mainly, died a few months ago--fervent following, tons of stuff on YouTube!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=susan+jacks+poppy+family+playlist

I remain not crazy about some of the material, but really nice voice x vibe, sunlight-shadow

You didn’t notice recent revive over here ?

poppy family - s/d - what should i get?

This Kicks Hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7JgOY1ff5A

I put one of my favorite Rosalie Sorrels songs on youtube recently!

Karen Brooks may have hipster kisses (I'm not sure)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iia6BX6bVXQ

@karenbrooks1292
1 month ago (edited)
I was able to get the studio to transfer the original tapes and am re-releasing this as a vinyl record with a "B" side of unreleased material. I'm hoping to get it finished in the next couple months-- life has been confusing and got in the way for a while. I appreciate the patience of those who have asked me for a copy.

Rita revival when? dig the vibes here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv9sjvEZSxI

would die for her Boz Scaggs cover

i like rita a lot. i like her sister too. her sister made three(?) albums with Booker T. in the 70s but i like this one best. after she was married to Booker T. she was murdered in a murder/suicide by her 2nd husband.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFL15KatmGA

there is a nice long "hummingbird" on that album. i love that song.

the reissues of Gypsy Queen have been Japan-only naturally thus hard to find. though the album on vinyl isn't hard to find.

Not yet mentioned here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQz4SsPiDis

Too obv?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbQeGh6AU1o

that's a nice one. although, it should be mentioned, her second album is supreme hipster bait.

x-post

and then!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33U8Ca3ktK0

i love linda lewis. some would say she's the poor man's minnie riperton but i wouldn't say that!

nancy priddy definitely gets the kisses from people she would never kiss. who live in brooklyn.

and why can't THIS hipster ever find a reasonably-priced copy of nancy's album?

I will dare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhBVeR8Rau0

Linda Lewis was also in the poor man's Rotary Connection, Ferris Wheel. i love that stuff. also records nobody cares about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkkFAEja0v4

i have that marsha malamet album but i never play it. i should.

reissued by sunbeam once but still inexplicably a ten dollar and under record that rules really hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2QQw4WuFsU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm5FU0Ac0ZM

just a beautiful album. surprised someone like LITA hasn't done a vinyl reissue.

just leaving this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_xt5a9CwK0

you can always leave that here. #alltime

as far as i know i'm the only person who owns a copy of this record. i contacted the guitar player once and HE didn't have a copy. its a good record. my friend rob from Sunburned Hand of the Man put it on Youtube for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLTZxnA8QY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceu3S1_HW80

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJuj8nFkmTg

i mean krissy probably has a copy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL536kZx-1Q

more rita with paul williams upping the hipster factor maybe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Dsrz2FM08