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Random Vinyl 10/5-10/9

Posted at 12:51 PM on October 9, 2009 by Jill Riley
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Monday: Graham Paker and The Rumour, "Squeezing Out Sparks" (1979)
Easily the most successful album from British post-punk artist Graham Parker, this record nonetheless gets far too little recognition today. How good is it? Rolling Stone named it number 335 on their 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. How about that? We played the record's highlight, "Local Girls."

Tuesday: Heart, "Dreamboat Annie" (1976)
This was the debut album by Heart, first released by the Canadian record label, Mushroom Records. "Magic Man" and "Crazy on You" were the biggest hits. We went with "Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child), the shortest version of that song on the record.

Wednesday: Oingo Boingo, "Dead Man's Party" (1985)
This album had the big movie soundtrack hits, "Dead Man's Party" (from Back to School) and "Weird Science." We played one of the singles called "Just Another Day." Danny Elfman has kept himself quite busy in his post-Boingo days scoring movies and writing theme songs.

Thursday: The Beau Brummels, "The Best Of The Beau Brummels 1964-1968" (1987)
This is a Rhino Records compilation of the bands best tunes. The guitar player, Ron Elliott did most of the writing for The Beau Brummels. We chose a song that singer Sal Valentino penned called "Here We Go Again," which was never released on an album before this collection.

Friday: Diana Ross and The Supremes with The Tempatations, "Original Soundtrack to TCB" (1968)
These groups teamed up for a few albums and recorded this NBC TV program together as a Motown Revue band. They performed some showtunes, songs from the Motown catalog and some covers. We played a medley of covers off the album. "A Taste of Honey/Eleanor Rigby/Do You Know the Way to San Jose/Mrs. Robinson/Respect."

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