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Azathoth's Abode on the Plateau of Leng

Horror Stuff, Mindless Raving, Rare/OOP Recordings Dug Up From The Vinyl Grave, and Anything Sufficiently Weird

Posts tagged with "4th of July"

Additional post for the 4th

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Well I meant to post this the other day but it took forever to locate it and then the old crash-happy 'puter was giving me no end of trouble when I was trying to clean the audio up a bit. Anyway, I have this old 2 record set from 1978 I believe, called Goofy Gold. Its one of those great records full of goofy novelty songs. I'd post a pic of the cover but I was unable to locate one via web searches and I can't make one myself because we don't seem to have the record sleeve anymore - which is why I had trouble finding the records. After hours of looking everywhere it wasn't, I discovered someone had both records jammed in with the Funnybone record.

Amongst all the usual tracks you tend to find on such compilations, it has a track with Johnny Horton's 1959 recording of Arkansas history teacher Jimmy Driftwood's 'Battle of New Orleans.' Which of course seems like a great idea for the 4th of July, right? I hope everyone who survived the fire hazards and explosions and didn't blow their hand off holding a M-80 will still be in the mood for this 2 days later.


[The Battle of New Orleans]


Interestingly, this song - which went to number one in the US on both the pop and country charts - actually reached number 16 on the British charts despite the BBC banning the song. (Because of the lyrics 'the bloody British.')

Vincent Price Fright Pack V - American Poetry

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I'm still debating if I should shelve the blog or not but the 4th of July post over at the Wonderful Wonderblog reminded me I had some Vincent Price stuff that would be appropriate for those of you looking for stuff to celebrate the holiday with so I made a quick VP pack #5 with two of Price's albums in it; America The Beautiful - The Heart of America in Poetry and Great American Poetry. Tracks like Paul Revere, Star-Spangled Banner, America the Beautiful, and America for Me seem particularly relevant to the holiday at hand.

We'll consider this a test of whether or not anyone can be bothered to post a comment while you are grabbing this.


americabeautifulVincent Price Fright Pack V - American Poetry




You can also find the previous four VP fright packs I posted here:

Vincent Price Fright Pack I, Vincent Price Fright Pack II, Vincent Price Fright Pack III, Vincent Price Fright Pack IV
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