Various Artists, All Ears (1977) Now, this isn't an alligator station, so feel free to bring it back in the comments below. But here's the 10-34.
This album comes from our friends at RadioShack:
All Ears celebrates America's love affair with
Citizen's Band radios by having a number of studio musicians present original pop and country songs. A couple of
these songs occasionally turn up in
WFMU's playlists.
"Night Ranger" dates the album as
1977. While I'm sure RadioShack had stacks of this LP lying around well into the early 1980s, I suspect it has an earlier composition date: the comedic story-teller's Vietnam references in "L.J.'s Radio" the wouldn't really capture the late seventies zeitgeist. On the other hand, C.W. McCall's "Convoy" was released in 1975, which would more or less encourage RadioShack's odd let's-sell-CB radios-by-releasing-a-record strategy. And Roctober's
impressive listing of Chipmunk and Chipmunk-like tracks insists that the album opener "Hey Shirley (This is Squirrley)" had a previous life as a 1976 GRT single. Maybe the other songs have similar stories behind them: "L.J's Radio" could be an older composition; I can imagine that "Honey Bee, Please Answer Me" had a previous life as a CB-reference-free song at one point. So perhaps 1977 is the correct release date.
I suggest you get yourself a Colorado Kool Aid or a Cup of Mud and enjoy this fine LP.
It should be clean as a hound's tooth to rapidshare, where you'll find two .zip files with the album art at rapidshare.com,
side one, and
side two. So drop the hammer and get 'em.
So amigos, all the good numbers. Down'n gone.
