Horrible 70s album titles like I've Got My Own Album To Do

Not to pat myself on the back but I kind of want to just retire from the thread after "Making A Name For Myself." I really don't think I can top that one. Nonetheless, a few of today's finds coming up...

That does seem to be the clear winner, way ahead of the back.

This genre just keeps on giving, like film noir or something, pretty much every newly rediscovered example has something to offer.

http://www.collectorsfrenzy.com/gallery/290609747935.jpg

Uncle Jim's Music - There's A Song In This (1972)

http://cdn.discogs.com/BoWHAuu8fkUSSoKoWVkS-hoIl_o=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-5205842-1409353510-1496.jpeg.jpg

Bureman & O'Rourke - Somebody Give Me A Smile (1976)

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/v/valdy-familygathering.jpg

Valdy - Family Gathering (1974) (get it??? cause he's alone!!!)

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/lyricwiki/images/7/7b/Valdy_-_Valdy_and_The_Hometown_Band.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120921181515

This is, in fact, a self-titled album - but I would like special dispensation, based on the cover design, to enter it as Valdy and the Hometown Band - Folksinger Deluxe With Side of Fries (1976)

https://plan59.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/records-4-049.jpg

^ Spotted this one in the wild today

hahaha

That Family one made me think, "I bet he drowned his whole family in that lake."

Family Gathering, sorry.

following on the brit-folk tip here is one that seems to fit

https://mainlynorfolk.info/john.kirkpatrick/images/largerec/goingspare_frr030.jpg

have we had this? Hello - Keeps Us Off The Streets

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/866/MI0001866413.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

and the follow up, Hello - Again

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/761/MI0000761029.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

(Naturally)

Elton's guitarist had his own album to do...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CyvveY_A3yU/TMPXIOI2sMI/AAAAAAAABiA/xFlJ3DveT1M/s1600/Davey+Johnstone+Smiling+Face.jpg

Talking of faces, Mick's wee brother claims "You Know the Name But Not the Face"

http://www.specialistrecords.com/image/cache/data/J/jagger_chris_youknowthenamebutnottheface-800x800.jpg

http://s5.postimage.org/rbc0laso7/gas_mask_first.jpg

gas mask their first album

xposts: john kirkpatrick also responsible for the rather verbose among the many attractions at the show will be a really high class band

http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/364x/040ec09b1e35df139433887a97daa66f/i/m/image_11191.jpg

Poor Valdy :(

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Christopher Milk ‎– Some People Will Drink Anything!

http://cdn.discogs.com/YvJOnj32OQbnfOxh4eCjmDV_F7U=/fit-in/493x490/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-5594822-1411125771-8907.jpeg.jpg

The Swinging Blue Jeans ‎– Brand New And Faded

Christopher Milk ‎– Some People Will Drink Anything!

i am hoping against hope that this is not supposed to be a gag about his name being "milk"

ugh

Christopher Milk wasn't a person--it was LA Glam band led by Rock Critic John Mendelsohn (whom you might remember his liner notes to Kinks albums and/or his vicious pans of early Led Zeppelin albums in Rolling Stone), his hyping of which diminished much of his journalistic cred rather quickly.

Wow, that got to this one a few years before Cheap Trick did...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVrmxYTVJ5w

Swarbrick's Lift the Lid... is especially classic bcs he's not even looking at the camera. What must the rejected shots have been like?

interesting blog post on Christopher Milk, had no idea he was also a musician

http://blackhairedboy.blogspot.com/2011/02/christopher-milk.html

Vin Garbutt, folk singer-songwriter from Middlesbrough

http://cdn.discogs.com/yyHYi3rLP_ER_cKFlR185muGwSU=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-2206130-1411078130-5360.jpeg.jpg

Tossin' a Wobbler

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The Young Tin Whistle Pest

also released an album called 'The Valley of Tees'

tossin' a wobbler sounds dirty

http://eil.com/images/main/John-Kirkpatrick--Sue-Ha-Jump-At-The-Sun-483591.jpg
http://folkmonster.co.uk/albums/john_kirkpatrick/three_in_a_row_front.jpg

which makes three park benches featuring on john kirkpatrick covers!

Stampeders, "Ballsy"

http://image2.archambault.ca/1/1/8/B/ACH001149770.1386796341.580x580.jpg

Stevie Wright, "Black Eyed Bruiser"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hddLTkUVdoI/TM-9b0CfyII/AAAAAAAABl8/_F6Sgj3usg4/s1600/Black+Eyed+Bruiser+-+Cover.jpg

The Rolling "Top of the Pops" BBC4 Revival thread prompted me to do a wiki on B.A. Robertson, where I found out about his debut album, credited to Brian Alexander Robertson, "Wringing Applause":

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2701/4123428172_162db0324b.jpg

Bizarrely this was released on Ardent Records, and seems to have been at least partly recorded at Ardent Studios, hence the involvement of Terry Manning... yet it was produced by Georg Kajanus, later frontman of Sailor! I want to hear it now!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PyFJ2b7mcHk/VXaD1kfSsYI/AAAAAAAACgw/r4IzowUjLS0/s1600/1.jpg

Albert Mangelsdorff ‎– A Jazz Tune I Hope

Elvin Jones/Eddie Gomez: A Paycheck I Hope

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/a/albert_mangelsdorff-tromboneliness.jpg

Albert Mangelsdorff ‎– Tromboneliness.

Speaking of Eddie Gomez. . .
http://i.imgur.com/MSXNSza.png?1

Album's really good, but that cover, boy.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KISkxy8rL._SX355_.jpg

Bette Midler-Thighs and Whispers

Thread has generally been great lately but "Tromboneliness" is one for the ages. I can only imagine it's a whole album of sad-trombone.

I have an Amy Schumer-esque "I can't decide if she's hot" internal dialogue going every time I see old pics of Bette Midler

If hot means that guy from Twisted Sister, then yes.

yeah let's turn this into a 'hpt or not' thread

was going to mention that the cover of 'Wringing Applause' = the only picture of B.A. Robertson I've ever seen where he looks sort of hot

omg @ Tromboneliness thread winnah DrC otm

Georgie Fame, "All Me Own Work"

http://www.netvinyls.com/images/large/ROK2000/ROK0001670_LRG.jpg

Bizarrely this was released on Ardent Records, and seems to have been at least partly recorded at Ardent Studios, hence the involvement of Terry Manning... yet it was produced by Georg Kajanus, later frontman of Sailor! I want to hear it now!

BA Robertson's career always seems little incomprehensible but imo it's just that he was a good networker. He seemed to be able to surround himself with super-session men - Herbie Flowers, Davy Graham, the guys from AWB, Billy Livsey, Steve Harley's band and so on. The connection with George Kajanus is that he and Robertson shared the same music publisher, Steve Morris Music. Seems like there is a lot of cross-pollination between a pretty lacklustre roster of artists - Robertson, Kajanus, Stephen Bishop, Yvonne Elliman (who also recorded at Ardent). They recorded each others songs, did a duet or two etc. eg. Robertson did a heinous vocal cover of ABBA's Arrival with Frida on the same album that Stephen Morris wrote a song or two.

It's a little embarrassing that I know even vague details of all this btw.

'Bang Bang' was great.

Important BA Robertson moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDK1dMNAJno

Aye, gerritupye Brian, cheeky article.

"Tromboneliness" is one for the ages. I can only imagine it's a whole album of sad-trombone.

it's actually quite good... if you like solo trombone improv! think mangelsdorff has a few titles that wouldn't be out of place here.

http://ring.cdandlp.com/longplay/photo_grande/114750371.jpg

tequila mockingbird by ramsey lewis

To continue with the jazz for a minute

http://www.soulbrother.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/new-29009.jpg

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Weight - One Man's Queen Is Another Man's Sweat Hog

alternate horrible title for the French release - 'The Night The Pig Got Loose'

http://cdn.discogs.com/n6XtB4sCOC1LNPLQTUxhmOUSEqA=/fit-in/400x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-4132511-1356373566-4865.jpeg.jpg

I dig the ones with gatefold based gags, for example

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/You_Broke_My_Heart_So_I_Busted_Your_Jaw_cover.jpg

http://shop.totallyvinyl.com/img/uploads/images/Spooky%20Tooth/SPOOKY_TOOTH_YOU_BROKE_MY_HEART_LP_IN_Copy.jpg

Spooky Tooth ‎– You Broke My Heart So...I Busted Your Jaw

'one of the few bands who can create heavy rock and roll with subtlety and soul' according to the sleevenotes