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Tune Totes and PlayTapes

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While rummaging around some back-up discs I came across the Tune Tote movie I made a couple of years ago. The audio comes from a show that [wikipop]Frank Zappa[/wikipop] did with Les Carter on [wikipop search=”KPPC (defunct)”]KPPC Radio[/wikipop] in 1968:

A longer audio extract from the show reveals Zappa’s part time job at [wikipop]Wallichs Music City[/wikipop] (around 1965) and his thoughts on the [wikipop]PlayTape[/wikipop] audio cartridge players:

Looks sound

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While looking at the pictures of Sasaki Makoto…

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…the first question that comes to mind is…

What would that sound like?

Like this…

and this…

R is for Retribution

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Lately we are not allowed to eat or sleep until we have satisfied Martine’s word lust so I give her an R and get to try out a new Spotify plug-in too.

There are a few [wikipop search=”Andy Clark (musician)”]Clark Hutchinson[/wikipop] reissues/compilations around but, alas, no sign of the magnificence that was Retribution.

And so this will suffice for now (the rest of the compilation is worth a listen too)….

 

Doggone!

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The OED’s Word of The Day turned up the Americanism Doggone (possibly an euphemism for God damn it)

 

which reminded me of the excellent [wikipop]Donna Hightower[/wikipop] backed by [wikipop search=”The_Cadets_(doo_wop)”]The Jacks[/wikipop] (or The Cadets when they recorded for [wikipop]Modern Records[/wikipop]) record Doggone It (1955 [wikipop search=”RPM_Records_(USA)”]RPM[/wikipop] 423). And so here it is again…

http://youtu.be/GXLLWkUJVlw

while I was searching the hard disc archives for the above I turned up the [wikipop]Eddie Floyd[/wikipop] minor (as in not really troubling the charts) 1967 song Love is a Doggone Good Thing.

The Donna Hightower Wikipedia article could do with some work so that is this evening taken care of…