luns, 28 de outubro de 2013

THE CALIFORNIA POPPY PICKERS - ¡Guateque! (Yupi, 1969)


Unha selección persoal das miñas favoritas dos catro discos editados polos California Poppy Pickers no ano 1969. Evidententemente case tódolos temas son puro expolio de éxitos do momento pero os poucos orixinais, case sempre asinados por Gary Paxton, non están nada mal.
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The California Poppy Pickers were one of several relatively anonymous studio projects assembled by Alshire label head Al Sherman to record budget-priced copycat LPs of '60's pop hits. Virtually all of the groups in question -- Fats and the Chessmen, Los Norte Americanos, and the Bakersfield Five, among them -- were helmed by producer and songwriter Gary Paxton, best-known for composing the novelty smash "The Monster Mash." In 1965, Paxton founded his own Hollywood recording studio, assembling a session crew that variously included guitarist Clarence White, bassist Jerry Scheff, and guitarist/fiddler Gib Guilbeau -- he also discovered brothers Rex and Vern Gosdin, releasing their country hit "Hangin' On" on his Bakersfield International label. By the late 1960s, Paxton was regularly licensing material to Alshire, and at Sherman's request, he put together The California Poppy Pickers to capitalize on the growing country-rock trend. Comprised of singers/multi-instrumentalists Ken Johnson and Dennis Payne, along with pedal steel guitarist Leo LeBlanc, the group released three 1969 LPs -- Sounds of '69, Hair/Aquarius, and Today's Chart Busters -- comprised primarily of covers and thinly-veiled rewrites. For reasons unknown, the fourth and final California Poppy Pickers album, Honky Tonk Women, was recorded without Paxton's involvement, and featured an entirely different lineup -- singer/guitarist Mike Messer, singer/bassist Don Larson, guitarist Randy Wilcox, and drummer Tom Slipp were, in reality, a Christian rock band called the Wilson McKinley, and they used the proceeds from their lone Alshire date to fund a self-released 1970 date titled Jesus People's Army: On Stage. Jason Ankeny


martes, 22 de outubro de 2013

K. PYTHACUNTHAPUSERECTUS - Voodoo Ju Ju Obsession (Barclay, 1969)


K. Pythacunthapuserectus foron un proxecto de estudo feito desde Francia por Davy Jones & Janko Nilovic. A folla de promo que acompañaba ó disco non ten desperdicio.




martes, 8 de outubro de 2013

THE STUDIO GROUP - Los Éxitos Del Espacio (Nevada, 1978)


Xa estou de volta e o disco escollido é este subproduto de 66 céntimos cunha bonita portada e un contido moito mellor do agardado. As tres versións de Bowie están ben, a de Deodato mola e a de Klaatu sorprende. Hai incluso un par de temas que non están nada mal asinados polos enigmáticos North e Dailly, probablemente membros do grupo de sesioneiros encargados de dar forma a este tipo de expolios baratos dos éxitos do momento. Este mesmo disco apareceu publicado en Italia con bonita portada tamén como "Space Concept" por The Atoms e en Francia  como "Spatial Disco 2005" por 2005 Stars Group.