Wednesday, November 15, 2006

The Raybeats, "It's Only a Movie", reposted per reader request, complete with crummy looking but large scans of the cover art. This is a hard record to find. I had to lean on my brother in Wyoming for about 16 years before he would give up his copy, and I gave it to him in the first place. Here is a good link for Raybeats info.

BTW, the other great lost audio artifact my brother used to have was a cassette recording of Ernie K-Doe doing a radio show from New Orleans. All through the show he's promoting obscure R&B singers on his record label and telling listeners to call in for a free haircut and free breakfast, only it sounds more like "Fwee Bwekwuss". It was a lot like Detroit's Famous Coachman only more flamboyant. Click on the picture for a good Ernie K-Doe obit. If anybody has any audio of Ernie K-Doe radio shows, post them!!

One invaluable thing when you're playing a gig is to have a master of between tune banter. Just little things like "We had a request for this next tune" (usually a lie), or my favorite, "This next tune is based on a true story".

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi - would you mind awfully reuploading the Raybeats record again? Thanks

Sun Jul 27, 12:17:00 PM EDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've still got my LP and have been thrilled to no end to find it digitally! One of the coolest records ever!

Sat Jul 24, 10:19:00 PM EDT  

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