Enjoy the Experience: Homemade Records (A coffee table book about private press records!)

Is lounge music interchangeable with "the cabaret circuit" for yr purposes? Read a lot about that in an Eartha Kitt biography and was struck by how this category seems not to have survived, perhaps because it was more about spaces than recordings.

If the cabaret circuit didn't produce any lounge records, I'm sure it was an influence. I'm glad you brought up that book, I've been meaning to read it! So far the main circuits I'm researching are the bands who played at the Poconos, the Fort. Lauderdale scene, cruise ship bands, Atlantic City, South Texas, the Ozarks, the Catskills and Ohio had a thriving bar band/lounge scene. Then there's the long list of one off performers who self financed their record and played at various bars and clubs across the states that have since closed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWk0ENR55qQ

He had something...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5F9uLBVxlA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up3S-DntQRs

I'm turning this thread into my favorite vanity/private press songs.

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URbE_6GALWU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igFIKGCSV6I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br4IYIGGR0Q

Twin Peaks Vibes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRc3qr_sl8A

that pete revelle song, wow. that's 1 of the best of these kind of records i've heard i reckon.

Yeah, that "just to say goodbye" is a heartbreaker, and what happened with it doubly so.