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Random Vinyl: Week of 5/26-5/29

Posted at 11:04 AM on May 29, 2009 by Steve Seel

Every weekday at 6:30 a.m., Jill and I sift through our vinyl collections and play a randomly chosen track. Here's this week's installment (we were off on Monday, for Memorial Day).

Tuesday: Merle Haggard, "The Best of Merle Haggard"
An early greatest hits collection that came out before he'd recorded some of his bigger later tunes, but still a fun record. We played "The Bottle Let Me Down."

Wednesday: Sonny & Cher, "Look At Us"
Sonny & Cher dropped the "Caesar and Cleo" act and scored their first hit song with "I Got You Babe" on the 1965 release "Look At Us". They cover a few tunes on this record as well, including the Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry penned tune, "Then He Kissed Me". It just so happens that Sonny used to work for Phil Spector as a promotions guy and gofer. Where else would you have heard Sonny & Cher's version of "Then He Kissed Me" on the radio? Complete with surface noise... that's what Random Vinyl is all about.

Thursday: Iron Butterfly, "In A Gadda Da Vida"
We could've played the very well-known title track for 17 minutes, but opted to choose something from side A. "Most Anything You Want" (with a whole lotta scratches, pops and cracks) is more music so psychadelic, it birthed heavy metal.

Friday: Pete Townshend, "Empty Glass"
An amazing solo record from the point where Pete seems to have stopped giving his good stuff to The Who and instead saving it just for himself. "Rough Boys" is a masterpiece, and an aging rocker's response to punk rock - Pete dedicated the tune in part to The Sex Pistols.

(note: due to technical circumstances too boring to go into, the audio stream above is missing the Pete Townshend tune; check back with us here on the blog on Monday and we should have this fixed).

The really boring audio issue has been fixed, and the Pete Townshend song is now there.

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