That retro lounge sound....

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Bogey, Mar 24, 2013.

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  1. McLover

    McLover Senior Member

    Good news, I finally scored a copy of "Quiet Village" in untrashed condition. Paid $.95 for a mono turquoise label Liberty original. Near mint condition. Sounds superb.
     
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  2. Bogey

    Bogey Spy Vinyl User Thread Starter

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    Yup, this is one genre where you want to be all over the place and find new discoveries each day. Like shooting fish in a barrel....its all good....even the bad stuff.
     
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  3. John B Good

    John B Good Forum Hall Of Fame

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    I've heard of a fretless bass, that looks like a neckless guitar. :)
     
  4. John B Good

    John B Good Forum Hall Of Fame

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    Old Exotica and Incredibly Strange Music is not too common in these parts. (They were much more into fiddle and gospel from what I see). Even the 2 stores that actually carry old vinyl seriously don't have sections for it.

    I did get a couple of Leo Addeo LPs in a junk store. No one hear raves about them, so I guess he was a second stringer, but they are nice listening.
     
  5. Bogey

    Bogey Spy Vinyl User Thread Starter

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    Complete coolness!
     
  6. McLover

    McLover Senior Member

    Indeed. For an album to be so popular and so everywhere, it sure took me quite a few years to find a nice copy.
     
  7. Hamhead

    Hamhead The Bear From Delaware

    That is a smashed Kurt Cobain guitar from the show at Bicentennial Park in Miami.
    You can see the dents across the front where Kris Novaselic smacked it with his bass.
    I bought it off a customer in 1992 who wasn't a Nirvana fan, his brother kept the neck.
    I bought it for $25 for the lefty tremolo and tossed it in the closet.
     
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  8. Bogey

    Bogey Spy Vinyl User Thread Starter

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    One of the best!
     
  9. Bogey

    Bogey Spy Vinyl User Thread Starter

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    And the music continues:
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  10. MickAvory

    MickAvory Forum Resident

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    Love that cover.. Cheesecake at its finest!
     
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  11. Hamhead

    Hamhead The Bear From Delaware

    I have to find that cover, I collect cheesy 50's girlie covers.
    The covers that Mercury used on their in-store promos are over the top,
    borderline cheesecake/gas station calendar cover art.
    Jubilee and Essex had some of the best.

    I found this on our Maryland trip.

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    It's a great cover but the typical Conniff cover, I see that it was changed later to a stereo in a living room.
     
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  12. John Fell

    John Fell Forum Survivor

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    This one is pretty good. Lots of sitar!
     
  13. John Fell

    John Fell Forum Survivor

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    Here's another great one if you like sitar.
     
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    John Fell Forum Survivor

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    Here's another nice one with sitar.
     
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  15. ponkine

    ponkine Senior Member

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    I'm very much into this wonderful album. Despite being from 1996, it has that sound ... :love::agree:

     
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  16. John Fell

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    This is a cool one as well with interesting takes on Jumpin' Jack Flash & Light My Fire.
     
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  17. Hamhead

    Hamhead The Bear From Delaware

    Here's some Mercury cheesecake covers

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  18. HominyRhodes

    HominyRhodes Forum Resident

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    I presume you've seen this great website?
    http://lpcoverlover.com/category/cheesecake/

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  19. EasterEverywhere

    EasterEverywhere Forum Resident

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    I have both of these.They are a lot of fun!
     
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  20. She is anyway

    She is anyway Well-Known Member

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    This is beautiful. Thanks a lot for posting it. At first I wasn't sure, listening to it, whether I'd call it retro lounge (not that it matters that much, as I was definitely enjoying it, no matter what it's called), and then at four and a half minutes in, it really does move into "that sound." :)
     
  21. vanhooserd

    vanhooserd Senior Member

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    Troupe wrote "Route 66", "The Girl Can't Help It" & "Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring". That's him on the right in the photo.
     
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  22. Hamhead

    Hamhead The Bear From Delaware

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    I have, it's not a bad site.
    Who can't forget those local Miami salsa covers with some scary looking overly made up model on the front cover with a pound of Bondo on her face hiding acne scars, and 50 pounds overweight with her gut sucked in, wearing a bikini sitting on a conga drum. Some of those covers are nightmare inducing.

    All of the salsa aficionados I know (including Matt Dillon) all say "the records with the covers that have bikini girls on the front are bad, they put them on the front to sell a lousy record."

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    The Japanese covers on that site are nice.
    I have a nice cache of Japanese Dot LP's from the early 60's, all of them are the typical Dot schlock of the time.
    The interesting one (of all things) is a Billy Vaughn LP with a full nude model on the front laying on the sand,
    the rest have a ample collection of T&A. If (ubber conservative) Randy Wood only knew, heads would roll.

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    This album I've been searching for years to find from the "King Of Zu Zu Zu"

    Some of Fausto Papetti's covers were over the top lurid.
    At Vibrations (in the early 80's) we kept them in the international section so they were somewhat hidden.
    Young kids would find them, giggle loudly and pass them around. Then we would pull the section and hide it, if we put them in with the easy listening, elderly customers would complain so where can we put the section. Then some wild voiced lady called yelling "what kind of porn are you selling in your store, my son is telling me that you're selling records with naked ladies on the covers in the back of the store", so we sent them back. The best FP cover I seen has a nude full-figured woman laying flat on a large round rock with her arms over her head.
    I'll leave the rest to your imagination.
     
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  23. John B Good

    John B Good Forum Hall Of Fame

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    I have never come across any recording of The Girl Can't Help It by Bobby Troupe. I was so keen to hear a non-rock n roll version that I bought a cd of Steve Allen music, because that title was on it. Turned out to be a completely different song, but cool in a sophisticated way anyways.
     
  24. John B Good

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    I think I can safely say, this thread has legs! :)
     
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  25. action pact

    action pact Music Omnivore

    The two RCA "Batman" albums he did are fantastic, touching on everything great that was happening in Hollywood circa 1966 - hip schlock, mod-a-go-go dance music, fuzz punk. They are also demo-quality recordings!

    I love that album for the creepy, slightly 'wrong' vibe that permeates it, as typified by the ghoulish cover illustration. It is easily one of the most unsettling albums of "relaxation" music, LOL. Curiously, the orchestration on that album is reminiscent of the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds," which is not at all creepy or unsettling (although the follow-up project, "Smile" is)!

    Still riffing on a theme, there are elements of exotica/lounge in Brian Wilson's mid '60s work, ie: the instros on "Pet Sounds." I guess it was unavoidable in 1960's Los Angeles.

    That's an interesting collection. I assume that most of it is duped from the excellent masterings that Scamp! released in the '90s, but two of those albums were never officially released on CD as far as I know, so they must be needledrops.

    The original LPs are not that hard to find.
     
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