Now it's time to give these weird sounds the credit they deserved.
It's amazing; just LOOK WHAT I HAVE FOUND in thrift stores, second hand markets and sometimes even IN THE TRASH CAN.
Thanks to CD I was able to save these unusual tunes on 45 rpm 7" records. It's obvious that these 45s have been played a lot, so surface noice is almost obligatory. No hi-tek cd quality, but just back to the times where no one had ever heard of digital recording studios.
All the songs on these compilations are from the original 45 rpm records released prior to 1980 when CD took over the world of warm vinyl sounds. I've tried to exclude any song that's been compiled before, but as I don't own each and every compilation album ever made, there might be some songs that you already own on another compilation album. Look, listen and enjoy...
LABEL: In The Trash Can Records
CAT # : GARBAGE22
Subtitle: Hee-Haw - 16 country road singalong songs
Can I turn you on with a rebel yell? A Southern dialect? A banjo and washboard? Or a 16-wheeler maybe? Do you like the good old starvation days of the prohibition? Whatever you like, you may want to sing along with these most unusual American 50s and 60s gems that I haven't seen reissued (at least not for a long time)...
(Rebel 504 from 1968)
With a name like Johnny Rebel and a label called Rebel and even with two rebel flags it's not so difficult to imagine what these lyrics are all about. Johnny released a few 45s on this label in 1967-1968 but the toughest of 'em all is this "Kajun Klu Klux Klan". In those days it wasn't a crime yet to sing about racism and white supremacy.
2. the bearded bandit of cuba - pat & glenda davis
(Patriot 1000)
Another right wing hillbilly song; against communism and against its most hated leader, Fidel Castro, the bearded bandit of Cuba. And what about the label: Patriot. Timothy McVee would have loved this song.
3. tequila float - hargus pig robbins
(Chart CH-5039 from 1970)
I am not sure when this was released. Hargus had some minor country hit singles in the late seventies, but this is earlier though; it must have been 1969 or 1970. It's got nothing to do with Chuck Rio's "Tequila". A strange instrumental
4. starvation days - freddie hart
(Columbia 4-41597 from 1960)
Born in Alabama 1926 Freddie released dozens of 45s and albums, so he knows what he's singing about: he must have been really hungry in those prohibition days of depression. Release year must have been 1960 or 1961. Oh, his real name is Fred Segrest.
5. the banjo - the new christy minstrels
(Columbia 4-42805 from 1963
Named after the Chirsty Minstrels who formed in 1942, but this country folk troupe started in the early 60s and released about a dozen albums up to 1970. In the 70s they released more records on Gregar and Harmony. Famous members included Kenny Rogers, Bary McGuire, Gene Clark,... It's one of the wildest and fastest songs about (and with) a banjo I've ever heard "The very next pay day the banjo is gonna get fixed".
6. rocky top - lynn anderson
(Chart CH-5068 from 1970)
Another great banjo tune by million seller Lynn Anderson who grew up in Sacramento, Ca but was born in North Dakota in 1947. I've never seen this one reappearing on a comp, but I am almost sure it made it to some Nashville sampler. Anyway, it's a great song.
7. honey baby - bobby goldsboro
(Laurie 3148 from 1962)
Haha, fooled ya. Bobby Goldsboro on this volume??? Time to learn something different, although it's still basic rock 'n' roll. "Honey baby" is one of his first releases, from the days that he toured the States with Roy Orbison. In the 70s he had his own TV show. And inbetween he had some very good soul 45s as well. But do enjoy his super "Honey baby" from his early days in Florida and Alabama.
8. chick - lee & paul
(Columbia 4-41337 from 1959)
A super weird recording for their very first 45 on Columbia. From 1959 thee year of novelty songs. You have to hear this to believe! A beatnik song about a little chick on a farm. Lee Pockriss and Paul Vance recorded several 45s up until 1965 for Columbia. Paul had some solo releases on Roulette and Scepter in the early 60s.
9. big wheel cannonball - dick curless
(Capitol PRO-4987 from 1970)
Mine is a promo copy, but originally it was released as Capitol 2780. Again a minor hit in the country charts especially for you truck drivin' cowboys on the highway.
10. six days on the road - dave dudley
(Golden Wing GW3020 from 1963)
And this was a smash hit, so I would be surprised if it hasn't been compiled before, but so far I haven't been able to find one. His best effort that year, though, was an album with Link Wray.
11. skip a rope - henson cargill
(Monument 45-1041 from 1968?)
A mid-tempo finger snappin' country tune by an unknown artist for me. It's definitely a late 60s release.
12. walker's woods - robert mitchum
(Monument 45-1006 from 1967)
The a-side (Little old wine drinker me) was a huge country hit in 1967 for good ol' Robert Mitchum whose best recording will always be "Ballad of Thunder Road". This ain't no ballad, it's an uptempo cool rockin't tune.
13. looking for a handout - johnny rebel
(Rebel 504 from 1968)
The flipside of "Kajun Klu Klux Klan" and less violent but with the same venomous tongue. A week later Martin Luther King was assassinated because he was looking for a handout.
14. uncle boogar and byrdie nelle - rex allen jr
(Plantation PL-77)
Rex Allen Jr (yes, son of his father) had a lot cash box country singles chart entries but never a really big hit. Neither is this song on an unknown label for me. Nobody was able to tell me more about this obscure recording.
15. that's the way it's gonna be - the back porch majority(Epic 5-9879 from 1966)
And here's the second folk rock tune on this volume. Featuring Michael Johnson who had a solo career and also other bands such as Great Plains and Mitchell Trio. I wonder why this song was never a hit in Greenwich Village. It should have been.
16. muleskinner blues - kenny roberts
(Starday 45-947 from 1969?
I have so many great versions of this song, but this certainly is the weirdest of 'em all. A frenzied fast late 60s recording with laughter and strange noises, a wild guitar and one hell of a crazy singer.
