"SLIM" FROM TIMES -
(Candlelite Mini-LP #435) - 1974
This out-of-print 23-minute mini-LP (10-inch diameter), was produced by Wayne Stierle as a tribute to Irving "Slim" Rose, the original proprietor of New York City's fabled Times Square Record Shop.
Contemporary advertising indicates that it was pressed on red plastic. But my copy is on "gold" (yellow) plastic.
Its concept is interesting - Wayne finds an old radio, and tries to get it to work, while simultaneously making a call to Times Square Records. While twisting the dial, we hear snippets of several famed Disc Jockeys (including Hound Dog, Jocko, Alan Freed, and Jack Lacey), a bit of a ball game, an Italian language station, etc. Finally he tunes in to Slim's radio show, for the greater part of the record. There's not much music here, but lots of Slim's nasal "Noo Yawk" accent.
At one point Slim states that Steeplechase in Coney Island is closing down. This enables us to pinpoint the "Slim" portion as being from 1964, when the famed amusement park turned the lights off for the last time.
A trip down memory lane for those of us who lived the "Times" experience.
No track listing here, it's just a trip back in the TIMES machine.
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