Monday, January 13, 2014

The Playboys - Jungle Fever


Here's a classic instrumental from 1959!  I'd heard for years this was a song The Cramps were either into, or adapted in to one of their songs. It's been on a few instrumental compilations and it sounded a bit like The Cramps, but not a hundred percent. I never put it on a Lux and Ivy's Favorites volume because I could never find anywhere they mentioned the song, etc.

So I found the actual 45 in Allentown this past year and snapped it up in a hurry.

Playing it at 33 1/3 it becomes a BIT more apparent that The Cramps used it for a song. Give a listen and see what you think.

As a side note, I've heard a few times that the labels on this particular 45 were somehow reversed and this is actually a song called Shotgun, but I don't see that since the stamp in the dead wax matches the label number of R 572.

Either way, here they both are, one at 45 and the other at 33!

Jungle_Fever at 45

Jungle_Fever at 33

10 comments:

  1. Hey Kogar,
    For some reason these don't seem to be downloading or playing at all. :-(

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    1. hey cool ghoul, the 33 version should play, check again...

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  2. I can get both to play but the 45 RPM version won't download because Mediafire is insisting I can buy the song from Amazon and therefore denying download permission. Anyway, you're right about the 33 RPM version sounding like a Cramps song, but I can't place which one. Guess I should go back and listen to those records some more...

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  3. "I Can't Find My Mind" used this riff...THANKS for posting!!

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  4. ugh, that's annoying. looks like you can download the 33 version since it isn't recognized....

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  5. Just love this 7", my fave instro ever. My copy turns at 8 RMP

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  6. Hey! Thanks for all the good stuff, but what's happened to Vocal Group 45 of the Week! on the other channel? You can't have finished, it's not nearly a CD.
    Ralph

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  7. Allegedly, this is Scott Engel/Walker's teenage surf band. Songwriting credit matches...

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