Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #25! Two Year Anniversary!

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Playlist

Opener – Mansfield/Hawkshaw – Action Scene (KPM)
Thee Midniters – Love Special Delivery (Whittier)
Harvey Mandel – Wade In the Water Pts 1&2 (Philips)
The Equals – Police On My Back (RCA)
Chad Mitchell – For What It’s Worth (Amy/Dunwich)
Everything Is Everything – Ooh Baby (Vanguard Apostolic)
Sons Of Champlin – Fat City (Verve/Trident)
Sons of Champlin Radio Spot

Cowsills – River Blue (MGM)
Cowsills- How Can I Make You See (MGM)
Cowsills – the Fun Song (MGM)
Cowsills – On My Side (London)
Cowsills – Once There Was a Time (London)
Cowsills – If You Can’t Have It Knock it (London)
Cowsills – Mystery Of Life (London)

Bill Cowsill – When Everybody’s Here (MGM)
Bill Cowsill – Take The Gun (MGM)
Bill Cowsill – Nobody (MGM)
Bill Cowsill – 2 x 2 (MGM)
Bodine – Short Time Woman / Oakland (MGM)
Bodine –Statues of Clay (MGM)
Bodine – Disaster (MGM)
Lightmyth – Across the Universe (RCA)

Paul and Barry Ryan – I Can’t Make Your Way (Decca)
Paul and Barry Ryan- Pay You Back With Interest (Decca)
Billy J Kramer – His Love Was Just a Lie (Columbia)
Rainy Day Friends – Away To Some Other World (World Pacific)
Rainy Day Friends – Don’t You Feel Rained On (World Pacific)
Wool – The Boy With the Green Eyes (ABC)
Lloyd Green – Steel Blue (Chart)
Stone Poneys Pepsi Commercial

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode 25 – 190MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

Welcome to this month’s episode of the Iron Leg Radio Show.

As hard as this is to believe, this – the 25th edition of the ILRS – marks the two-year anniversary of the show!

It was back in May of 2011 that I decided to create an Iron Leg-gy alternative to the Funky16Corners Radio Show (albeit on a monthly, not weekly basis) in which I could bring you all manner of pop, sunshine, garage, freakbeat, psych and whatever else sounds groovy.

This time out you get some cool new arrivals, a long, second installment of my exploration of the Cowsills and a couple of old favorites.

As always, I hope you dig it. If you do, there are 24 more episodes in the archive to stuff into your ears.

See you next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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Iron Leg: 2012 The Year In Vintage Pop

Why, yes dear! I’d love some fuzz!

Playlist

Woolies – Who Do You Love (Dunhill)
Beauregard and the Tuffs – Ramblin’ Rose (Decca)
Brenda Lee – Is It True (Decca)
Evie Sands – I Can’t Let Go (BlueCat)
The Knack – Time Waits For No One (Capitol)
Monkees – Star Collector (Colgems)
Nat Stuckey – Listen To the Band (RCA)
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart – Smilin’ (Aquarian)
Royal Guardsmen – Leaving Me (Laurie)
WC Fields Memorial Electric String Band – Hippy Elevator Operator (HBR)
Morning Glories – Love-In (WB)
Liberace – Suite Judy Blue Eyes (WB)
Mike Stoller and the Stoller System – Silver Sea Horse (Amy)
Nobody’s Children – I Can’t Let Go (Bullet)
Kitchen Cinq – Codine (LHI)
Spotlights – Batman and Robin (Smash)
Wayne Logiudice – Come On (Let’s Get Some Action On) (Philips)
What-Knots – I Ain’t Dead Yet (Dial)
Bougalieu – Let’s Do Wrong (Roulette)
Connie Francis – Fallin’ (MGM)
The Gosdin Brothers – The Sounds of Goodbye (Bakersfield Intl)

Listen/Download -Iron Leg 2012: The Year In Vintage Pop – 99MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

What you see before you is the annual gathering of the ‘Best of’ Iron Leg for the year 2012.

Every year about this time I go back and comb the year’s posts looking for what I consider to be the finest tracks.

As the track listing above indicates, this has been an exceptional year, both for my record collection and for your MP3 delivery/storage device.

There are hot garage punk tracks, psychedelia, power pop, sunshine pop and all kinds of other goodies for you to soak yourselves in as the new year approaches.

As always, I hope you dig it, and that you join me in 2013 for more of the same.

Until then, stay cool, and I’ll see you when I see you.

Peace

Larry

 

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Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #20

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Playlist

Opener – Action Scene – Hawkshaw/Mansfield (KPM)
Spirit – I Got a Line On You (Ode)
Spirit – Taurus (Ode)
Spirit – Girl In Your Eye (Ode)
Spirit- Straight Arrow (Ode)
Spirit – Topanga Windows (Ode)
44th St Portable Flower Factory – Let’s Get Together (Scholastic)
44th St Portable Flower Factory – The Letter (Scholastic)
Esko Affair – Morning Dull Fire (Mercury)
Roy Buchanan – Down By the River (Atlantic)
Spirit – Clear LP Promo

Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich – Shame (Fontana)
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich- You Make It Move (Fontana)
Bang Girl Group Revue – Drink In Hand (Psychedelphonic)
Bang Girl Group Revue – Love’s Gone Bad (Psychedelphonic)
Dino Desi and Billy – I’m a Fool (Reprise)
The Finnz – East Side Story (Finnz)
Heather Black – Bill The Black Militant (Double Bayou)
Kitchen Cinq – Determination (LHI)
Terry Knight and the Pack – Got Love (Lucky Eleven)
Gary Lewis and the Playboys – Heart Full of Soul (Liberty)
Gary Lewis and the Playboys – The Flake (Kelloggs Corn Flakes Ad)

The Critters – Mr Dieingly Sad (Kapp)
East Coast Left – My Child (Kapp)
Epic Splendor – It Could Be Wonderful (Hot Biscuit)
Giant Crab – Help Yourself (Uni)
Giant Crab – It’s Getting Harder (Uni)
Hourglass – Power Of Love (Liberty)
Music Machine – Some Other Drum (Original Sound)
Tom Northcott – Blackberry Way (Uni)
Peter Fonda – November Nights (Chisa)
The 10:15 – Joe’s Acclamation ()
Semicolons? – Beachcomber (Cameo/Parkway)
Poco – Hurry Up (Epic)
The Rockets – Hole In My Pocket (White Whale)
Neil Young – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere LP Promo

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode 20 – 184MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

I hope all is well in your part of the world.

It’s time once again for the Iron Leg Radio Show, episode 20!

This time around we start the show with a tribute to the late, great Ed Cassidy of Spirit, move on into some top shelf freakbeat and garage and finish up with a solid set of pop.

I hope you dig it all, and that you come back next week for the annual Year In Vintage Pop mix.

Until then…

Peace

Larry

 

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Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #19

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Playlist

Intro/Action Scene – Hawkshaw/Mansfield (KPM)
Byrds – Bad Night at the Whiskey (Columbia)
Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll – Save Me (Polydor)
Captain Beefheart – Who Do You Think You’re Fooling (A&M)
Chris Farlowe – Out of Time (Immediate)
Chris Farlowe – Baby Make It Soon (Immediate)
The Coopers – Didn’t I (White Whale)
The Hassles – You Got Me Hummin’ (UA)
Standells – Why Did You Hurt Me (Tower)
The Yardbirds – No Excess Baggage (Epic)
Yardbirds – Great Shakes Commercial

Hardy Boys – Here Come the Hardys (RCA/Dunwich)
Tradewinds – Mind Excursion (Kama Sutra)
Small Circle of Friends – Kind of Wasted Without You (A&M)
Pleasure Faire – Morning Glory Days (UNI)
Puppet – Best Friend (Date)
James Griffin – Miracle Worker (Viva)
Fun and Games – Don’t Worry Baby (White Whale)
Free Design – Bubbles (Project 3)
Brian Hyland – The Joker Went Wild (Philips)
Grin – White Lies (Spindizzy)
Blades of Grass – I Love You Alice B Toklas (Jubilee)
I Love You Alice B Toklas Movie Promo

Beaver and Krause – People’s Park 45 (WB)
Ananda Shankar – Light My Fire (Reprise)
The Fire Escape – The Trip (GNP Crescendo)
Cher – Hey Joe (Imperial)
Holy Mackerel – Scorpio Red (Reprise)
Living Strings – San Francisco Nights (Camden)
Mickey Newbury – Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) (RCA)
Peggy Lipton – The Lady of the Lake (Ode)
Mars Bonfire – Lady Moonwalker (UNI)
Scott Walker – Mrs Murphy (Philips)
Terry Reid – Stay With Me (Epic)
Van Dyke Parks – Datsun Commercial

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode 19 – 176MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

I hope all is well in your part of the world.

It’s time once again for the Iron Leg Radio Show, episode 19!

This time around we have a great one for you, with three long sets of very groovy music.

We get things started with a bunch of garage and other rock, roll on into a set of sunshine and lighter fare, and close things out with a long, trippy grouping of sounds.

As always, I hope you dig it, and I’ll be back next week with something cool.

Peace

Larry

 

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Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #18

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Playlist

Intro – Action Scene – Hawkshaw/Mansfield (KPM)
Joe South – Hush (Capitol)
Joe South – Games People Play (Capitol)
Joe South – I Knew You When (Capitol)
Joe South – Yo Yo (Capitol)
Joe South – Mirror of Your Mind (Capitol)
Joe South – A Million Miles Away (Capitol)
Gallenkamps Shoe Ad

Equals – Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys (Shout)
Chain Reaction – Ever Lovin’ Man (Verve)
Chain Reaction – You Should Have Been Here Yesterday (Verve)
The Knack – Banana Man (Capitol)
The Knack – Pretty Daisy (Capitol)
Spotlights – Batman and Robin (Smash)
Spotlights – Dayflower (Smash)
Montanas – That’s When Happiness Began (WB)
Playboys of Edinburgh – Mickey’s Monkey (Columbia)
Houston Post Now Sounds Groove In Ad

Ohio Express – Beg Borrow and Steal (Cameo Parkway)
Other Side – Walking Down the Road (Brent)
Other Side – Streetcar (Brent)
What-Knots – I Ain’t Dead Yet (Dial)
The Lamp Of Childhood – Season of the Witch (Dunhill)
The Lamp Of Childhood – First Time Last Time (Dunhill)
The Lamp of Childhood – Two O’Clock Morning (Dunhill)
The Lamp of Childhood – You Can’t Blame Me (Dunhill)
Connie Francis – Fallin’ (MGM)
The Velvet Underground – Who Loves the Sun (Cotillion)
L.U.V. Movie Ad

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode 18 – 150MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

I hope the new week finds you well.

It’s time once again for the Iron Leg Radio Show, our eighteenth episode!

This month’s show is – thanks to a very fruitful day at the Allentown All-45 record Show – packed with recent acquisitions.

This time out we start with a tribute to Joe South, moving on to lots of excellent garage, folk rock , sunshine pop and as always a few wild cards.

I hope you dig it, and I’ll be back next week with something groovy.

Peace

Larry

 

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Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #17

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Playlist

Intro – Action Scene – Hawkshaw/Mansfield (KPM)
Don and the Goodtimes – Little Sally Tease (Dunhill)
Los Gatos Negros – Land of 1000 Dances (Vergara)
The Equals – My Life Ain’t Easy (President)
Terry Knight and the Pack – Got Love (Lucky 11)
Chancellors – I’m a Man (Soma)
The Mods – Satisfaction (Revelation VII)
The Mods – Go (Steinbachs Mustang) (Revelation VII)
Mars Bonfire – Ride With Me (UNI)
Mars Bonfire – Born To Be Wild (UNI)
Hollywood Bowl Concert Radio Spot

Fun and Games – Elephant Candy (UNI)
Fun and Games – Grooviest Girl In the World (UNI)
Fun and Games – Something I Wrote (UNI)
The Hardy Boys – Here Come the Hardys (RCA/Dunwich)
Three Ring Circus – Groovin’ On the Sunshine (RCA)
The Pleasure Fair – Fade In Fade Out (UNI)
Morning Glories – Love-In (RCA)
Bread – Could I (Elektra)
Bread – It Don’t Matter To Me 1969 LP Version (Elektra)
Stone Poneys Pepsi Commercial

Gene Clark and the Gosdin Bros – So You Say You Lost Your Baby (Columbia)
Brewer and Shipley – She Got the Time She Got the Changes (A&M)
Brewer and Shipley – Pig’s Head (Kama Sutra)
Gordon Lightfoot – The Pride of Man (UA)
John Denver – Molly (RCA)
Glen Campbell – Guess I’m Dumb (Capitol)
Primrose Circus – PS Call Me Lulu (Mira)
Jimmie Haskell feat. Denny Doherty – To Claudia On Thursday (ABC)
Kaleidoscope – Egyptian Garden (Epic)
Clear Light – Think Again (Elektra)
Jacques Dutronc – Et Moi Et Moi Et Moi (Vogue)

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode 17 – 172MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

I hope the new week finds you well.

It’s time once again for the Iron Leg Radio Show, episode the seventeenth!

This month’s Iron Leg Radio Show is packed with recent acquisitions.

The last month has been very fruitful digging-wise with lots of sunshine pop, psychedelia and even a long sought after local garage 45 that finally came my way.

You get to check out some prime, late-60s California pop, including some very interesting early stuff from Bread (and pre-Bread 45s too)!

As always, I hope you dig it, and I’ll be back next week with something groovy.

Peace

Larry

 

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The Sneekers – Sneaker Talk

The Sneekers

Listen/Download – The Sneekers – Sneaker Talk

Greetings all.

Welcome back to another week here at Iron Leg.

The 2012 Pledge Drive was a big success. I know that some of you that hit both Iron Leg and Funky16Corners dropped some cash into the virtual tip cup, so I send you my thanks.

The tune I bring you today is, despite its major-label-osity, almost a complete mystery.

I don’t remember when I picked up the Sneekers, ‘Soul Sneaker’ b/w ‘Sneaker Talk’ but I think it must be obvious why I did.

How, I ask you, could any digger/fan of music flip by a 45 like this and not put it in the keeper stack?

As far as I’ve been able to tell, the Sneekers 45 was released in 1965, but aside from that, little else in the way of hard facts have turned up.

The band – I’m assuming that the folks on the sleeve are in fact The Sneekers – have an oddly retro look for 1965, with the bow ties, suits and short haircuts.

While ‘Soul Sneaker’ is decidedly non-soulful, ‘Sneaker Talk’ has a kind of wild, beat-era rave-up feel to it. The guitarist is especially good on both sides of the record. While the lyrics are the kind of inane, dance-craze boilerplate that Brill Building/Tin Pan Alley cigar-chompers seemed to be rolling up and tossing out the window on an hourly basis (could they perhaps been a commercial tie-in done on spec?), the group is musically quite good.

While I wouldn’t describe the sound as garage-y, it is definitely butting up against the border of those kinds of sounds (imagine ‘Sneaker Talk’ with some fuzz guitar or organ).

Interestingly, the Ugly Things comp database lists a few other tracks by a group called the Sneekers, based in the UK, two of which were included on collections of Jimmy Page’s session work. I have no idea if this is the same band, or if Page played on these tracks, but the R&Beat sound certainly screams UK to me.

If any of you good folks have anything to add/confirm, please do so in the comments.

See you next week.

Peace

Larry

 

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Iron Leg Radio Show #13

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Playlist

Intro – Action Scene KPM Mansfield/Hawkshaw
Montanas – That’s When Happiness Began (Pye)
Guess Who – Shakin’ All Over (Scepter)
Question Mark and the Mysterians – 18 (Cameo)
Nashville Teens – Find My Way Home (London)
Ian and the Zodiacs – Why Can’t It Be Me (Philips)
TV Spot

Neon Philharmonic Radio Spot
Neon Philharmonic – Brilliant Colors (WB)
Mike Stoller and the Stoller System – Silver Sea Horse (Amy)
Jack Sheldon – I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today (Dot)
Harry Nilsson – I Think the Lord Must Be In New York City (RCA)

Pearls Before Swine – I Saw the World (ESP)
Pearls Before Swine – When the War Began (Reprise)
Pearls Before Swine – The Jeweler (Reprise)
Pearls Before Swine – The Wedding (Reprise)

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode 13 – 90MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

I hope the new week finds you well.

It’s time once again for the Iron Leg Radio Show.

What you see before you is a truncated version thereof, bringing it in at a little bit under an hour.

Times are a little harder than normal these days so I don’t have quite as much time to get things together as I normally do. I’ll go back to the longer format as soon as time allows.

This month you get some interesting stuff, including a couple of great, obscure slices of pop and a set from one of my favorite groups, Thom Rapp and Pearls Before Swine.

As always, I hope you dig it, and I’ll be back next week with more cool stuff.

Peace

Larry

 

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Iron Leg Radio Show Episode #11

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Playlist

Opening – Action Scene – Hawkshaw/Mansfield (KPM)
Monkees – Cuddly Toy (Colgems)
Monkees – She Hangs Out (Colgems)
Monkees – Star Collector (Colgems)
Monkees – The Poster (Colgems)
Monkees – Daddy’s Song (Colgems)
Davy Jones – Are You Sleeping (MCA)
Davy Jones – Think About Your Troubles (MCA)

The Beatles – The Night Before (Capitol)
The Beatles – Tell Me What You See (Capitol)
Mike Melvoin – Paperback Writer (Liberty)
Mike Melvoin – I Want To Tell You (Liberty)
Bobbie Gentry – Skip A Long Sam (Capitol)
Hermans Hermits – For Love (MGM)
Petula Clark – It Don’t Matter To Me (WB)
Josie and the Pussycats – It Don’t Matter To Me (Capitol)
Josie and the Pussycats Theme (Rhino)

Kak – Rain (Epic)
Fugs – Group Grope (ESP Disk)
Fugs – Doin’ All Right (ESP Disk)
Beachnuts – Cycle Annie (Pickwick)
Hangmen – Faces (Monument)
Small Faces – Tin Soldier (Immediate)
Steff – Where Did She Go (Epic)
Stone Country – Love Psalm (RCA)
The Hassles – You Got Me Hummin’ (UA)
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich – He’s a Raver (Star Club)
Goodies Theme (TV)

Listen/Download -Iron Leg Radio Show Episode 11 – 148MB/256kbps

Greetings all.

Welcome once again to the Iron Leg Radio Show (episode the eleventh!).

This month we get thing started with attribute to the departed Davy Jones, as a Monkee and solo.

We also pay a bit of tribute to another artist that passed, the lesser known but very interesting Mike Melvoin.

There are – as always – all kinds of groovy sounds, some unusual and extremely interesting cover versions, a couple of old favorites and hopefully some stuff that is new to you.

As always, I hope you dig it (and if you do, check out the previous 10 episodes in the archive) and I’ll be back next week with something cool.

Peace

Larry

 

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Brenda Lee – Is It True

Brenda Lee

Listen/Download – Brenda Lee – Is It True

Greetings all.

I hope everyone had a chance to dig this month’s edition of the Iron Leg Radio Show. If you haven’t it – like the previous nine episodes – will be available in the Radio Show Archive (click on the tab in the header).

The tune I bring you today is especially groovy, for not one, but two very interesting reasons.

A few years back I professed my love for Brenda Lee’s epic reading of ‘The Crying Game’ from 1965.

I love the song in the versions by Dave Berry and Ian and the Zodiacs*, but once I heard Lee’s rendition there was simply no going back.

She is really remembered today mostly for her early rock tunes (edging up on rockabilly) and her later career as a country singer, but there was a period in the early to mid 60s where Brenda Lee was applying her powerful, emotion-laden voice to some very interesting material.

When I wrote about ‘The Crying Game’ I speculated on how she might have happened upon the tune, guessing (thanks to some help from my man Mack at This Is Tomorrow) that a regional charting of the Ian and the Zodiacs recording may have been the link.

Flash forward three years and another mid-60s Brenda Lee 45 pops up on my radar (on a friend’s sale list). I checked out the sound clip, dug the tune and managed to get it very cheaply.

Then I start to do some research on the tune and discover that Brenda Lee had in fact recorded the tune in the UK, in 1964 with (first interesting thing) Jimmy Page on guitar and Mickie Most producing!

‘Is It True’ is a great bit of beat group action with some muscular guitar by the aforementioned Mr Page that was a Top 20 hit in the UK and managed to break into the Top 40 in many US markets.

The (second) interesting thing is that lee recorded is it true on September 17, 1964, when a little tune called ‘The Crying Game’ (Dave Berry’s version) happened to be a Top 5 hit in the UK.

Whether Brenda Lee heard and dug the song, or had a demo passed to her by Geoff Stephens, it seems likely that she first encountered the song in the UK.

I may be among the minority that revels in this kind of minutae, but I find it fascinating.

If you get the chance, pick up the UK issue of the 45, which comes with a smoking version of ‘What’d I Say’ on the flip.

I hope you do to, and that you dig the song.

See you next week

Peace

Larry

 

*I just realized that ‘The Crying Game’ may be the most posted song in the history of Iron Leg

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