Here is show 29! Thee last of the monthly shows before the weekly craziness starts on September 7th! Dig it here:
Welcome to Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 18! The last one
was over 10 years ago, believe it or not. What a crazy 10 years it’s been. I
stopped (or took a break) at 17 because of all the bootlegs that began
appearing at that time. I had been approached for at least decade before that
about putting these out and said “NO” emphatically, and so folks started doing
their own (even down to using some of my personal 45 rips, I recently
discovered!). I can’t imagine ANY self-respecting
fan buying these things. But I digress, and won’t waste space talking about
them.
In that time I would pick up a new song here or there, or
identify a song from the Vip Vop tapes (that have ALSO been booted, haha) and
threw them in the “LAIF” folder. Back in
2012 someone sent me a tape with NO track listing called Lux’s Space Discs. Lux
had given this 90 minute tape to the person who eventually sent it to me. The
tape includes all sorts of amazing space related songs from either 45 or
LP’s. A bunch of these songs have
appeared already on other volumes that I was able to find from other reference
points over the years.
This volume is a nice mix (I think) of some of those “space
discs” as well as a BUNCH of songs that I was able to finally identify from the
Vip Vop Tapes. I always used to go by the belief that many of those songs came
from the original 45’s, but in a few cases they came from one of the many LP
compilations that came from Europe in the 70’s and 80’s. If you check out the track listing from American
Rock 'N' Roll Instrumentals Vol 4 you’ll see what I mean, half the songs on
that record are ON the Vip Vop Tapes. I
stumbled upon this accidently and discovered a few of the unnamed VV songs.
The lead off track on this volume is the amazing and
overlooked Enchanted Island that is on the Spark Plugs album (where Chicken was
originally sourced from). The person who did the original Born Bad LP’s had
wanted to include that track back then, as it was the source for……Kizmiaz! Now, some say it was Duane Eddy’s Lost
Island, but listen to the ending of Enchanted Island and hear the “ooh, ooh”
parts and it’s totally from Enchanted Island. That ISN’T to say that The Spark
Plugs (or whoever this band was) didn’t copy it from Eddy’s song originally.
Let’s see, a few other notables. Get Me to the World on Time
was mentioned in the new and amazing Kid Congo book as the inspiration for the
guitar sound on New Kind of Kick. Thanks Kid for an amazing and moving book, as
well for giving us this piece of info about one of my favorite Cramps tunes.
Another big song for me was Discoteque Dance Party by the
Panics. On the Vip Vop Tapes it’s about a two minute song, so I had always
assumed that it was from a 45. For YEARS I searched for a 45 called “Dance
Everybody Dance” or something like that. Turns out the song is by The Panics
and comes from an LP and is part of an almost 5 minute song! The whole song is
included here.
Recently, someone sent me about 90 minutes’ worth of audio
of the time The Cramps appeared on Rodney’s show on KROQ. It’s a great show
from around the time that Psychedelic Jungle came out (Lux hilariously reads
the concert listings and purposely messes up the names or makes snide comments,
much to Rodney’s chagrin), and features a handful of records they brought to
the studio.
Other songs are odds and ends I’ve picked up over the years.
I’m very happy with the way this cover turned out. I had
wanted to use this image for years. It is from the amazing LP by Jimmie Haskell
called COUNT DOWN. The Mad Daddy was a huge fan of this record and used it on
his radio show. So I figured it would work for a cover because of some of the
“space” related songs, and EVERYONE knows what a fan of Lux was of the Mad one. Two Haskell songs appeared on LAIF #12. Adam
Fitch did the design and layout from my idea. Thanks Adam!
That’s it, in the words of Lux; “Hope you enjoy the
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiide!”
Thanks to Bruce Milne, DJ Not Rodney, West Brook, Howie Pyro
(who is the ONLY person I told about Enchanted Island) and anyone else who
helped along the way!
Here is show #28! Technically our 3 year anniversary for
my show on Boss Radio 66! Thanks for all the support and being a bunch of cool
Streaming Mee Mee’s! This show features a Tassel Twirler set by request as well
as a spin through the THREE 45’s on the great FORTUNE label attributed to the
fabulous NITE SOUNDS (Technically 3 different records with the Nite Sounds as
the backing band). You can read all about them in the fabulous KICKS BOOKS
Fortune Records book by Billy Miller and Michael Hurtt (you ALL own that by
now, right? If not GET ON IT. Norton has been running all sorts of sales, now
is the TIME!). Also, a surprise new station ID by one of our national
treasures!
Here is the remaster of Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 10.
This is one of my favorite volumes. At
around this time I had kind of hit the wall when it came to finding songs they
mentioned. I believe this was 2008, as best as I can determine. Around this time
Howie Pyro sent me scans of tapes that Lux had made and that he had gotten
copies of. He had forgotten who had given him the tapes. Howie had laboriously
gone through the tapes and determined what the tracks were. What year that was,
is lost to time, but way before the internet could’ve helped out. I’m sure
there was a lot of trial and error.
Howie had become fascinated with my project and we became friends,
partly, because of it. He was always so excited when a new volume was coming
out, and was always happy to help ID songs, which he did numerous times. Thanks
as always to the King of the Weirdos…
This volume has a good amount of jungle oriented tunes, some
tassel twirlers, rockers and other stuff that influences my show to this day.
This volume’s cover is, again, laid out by Adam Fitch from
my idea. He was able to magically adapt the original lettering from the 45
sleeve of Los MortÃferos EP from Spain. The ONLY way you can get some of these
songs on 45 RPM! Of course, Los MortÃferos, are The Deadly Ones, who released
ONE amazing LP called It’s Monster Surfing Time on Vee Jay Records. Some of
these songs have appeared on other volumes because Lux used some of them on the
Purple Knif Show (on LAIF 5, 9 and 15). Since
those volumes already had covers, I decided to use the image here because of
the Mummy’s Bracelet which appears on this volume, and let’s face it, it’s just
a cool as hell image…
Volume 11 will be next, and THEN (bongo roll!) the newest
volume, number 18 will rear its moss covered skull! Until then enjoy this
remaster of Volume 10.
A nice mix of the usual type Jungle Juice Slop! instrumentals, Group Sounds, Rockabilly, Blues, R and B and songs to make your knuckles drag on the ground....Get it!!!
The Jaguars Roundabout EPIC promo
The Vigilantes Warm Wind HERMI RECORDS
The low-rocks - snooker S.A.K.
The Vigilantes Caterpiller Crawl HERMI RECORDS
Les brown jr. -
drum's safari GNP CRESCENDO
The boys – cobra
#1 RECORDS
The Emcees Hot
Rock CIMARRON
The delcos -
arabia EBONY
The Crenshaws Moonlight in Vermont WARNER BROTHERS
Joe Lyons and the Arrows Shufflin Jive HIT MAKER
The Butanes with Teddy Mcrae and orch. Don't Forget I
Love You ENRICA
The Champions with Sonny Thompson Come On CHART RECORDS
The Eagles Please Please MERCURY
The Bel-Aires Let's Party Awhile FLIP RECORDS
The Dusters Teen Age Jamboree GLORY
The Elites Mama Look at Me CHIEF RECORDS
Mel McGonnigle Rattle Shakin Mama ROCKET RECORDS
Gene Maltais Lovemakin REGAL
Allen Page with The Deltones Dateless Night MOON
Billy Starr Hound Dog IMPERIAL
Junior thompson How Come You Do Me TUNE
Phil Bo Mr Train SOM RECORDS
Pico Pete Chicken Little JET
Big Al Downing Miss Lucy WHITE ROCK
Professor Longhair Look What You're Doin to Me EBB
Big Boy Myles and the Shaw-Wees Hickory Dickory Dock
SPECIALTY
Lois and Louis - pow wow! SPECIALTY
Little Esther Hollerin and Screamin FEDERAL
Felton Jarvis Dimples THUNDER INTERNATIONAL COLUMBIA
MISSISSIPPI
Billy the Kid Emerson Something for Nothing SUN
Harold Burrage I Don't Care Who Knows COBRA
Lillian Offitt My Man Is a Lover CHIEF
JB Lenoire don't touch my HEAD CHECKER
Homesick James Set a Date COLT
Nappy brown - baby cry cry cry baby SAVOY
Little walter - i got to go CHECKER
Stomp Gordon Ride Superman Ride SAVOY
Link Wray Blow Your Mind HEAVY
Travis Wammack Night Train ATLANTIC
The Warlocks I'll go Crazy DECCA
Merced Blue Notes Rufus JR MAMMOTH RECORDS
Mary Sue Gravy GIANT
Ty Terrell The Scratch part 1 LUTE RECORDS
Tony Ray - Bossa Nova Baby IMPERIAL
Here is the remaster of Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 9.
Only two more to go until the volume 18! Not a lot to report with this volume. I
cleaned up the sound and added the killer cover image that I’ve wanted to use
for a long time. The original image is from the amazing record called
PSYCHEDELIC DANCE PARTY by the Vampires Sound Incorporation. Around the time this volume came out The
Cramps were using Sex And Mystic Of M.Sade as their intro music for their live
performances, which you can hear on the first track. The original song is pretty long, so this is
an edit of the music they used as their intro. The song is from the film Tender
Flesh aka Boccato Di Cardinale directed by Jess Franco. Speaking of Franco, I
figured at the time, this would be a good volume to include the song The Lions
and the Cucumber from one of Lux and Ivy’s Favorite films; Vampyros Lesbos. Since then, Lions and the Cucumber has become
really well known because of its inclusion in Tarantino’s film, JACKIE
BROWN. Prior to that it was mostly known
by Franco fans and fans of vampiric psychedelic soundtracks.
I’m forgetting the person that helped me find a nice high
quality scan of the original cover. Please remind me who you are! So I can
thank you properly!
Adam Fitch did the layout and was able to find the font as
well to really round out this volume! Thanks Adam!
