Last Month's Thrift Store Vinyl Sharity (I'm Late)

Faron Young, Faron Young Sings on Stage for Mary Carter Paints (Mary Carter Paints, 1961)

As the title suggests, this live concert radio special is brought to you by Grand Ole Opry sponsor Mary Carter Paints (the brand that made legal history, and then became Resorts International). Now it isn't the Opry exactly, although at this point Young is still a member (until 1965), but the revue is very Opry-like: friendly banter, some hits, some filler, and corn-pone comic Archie Campbell recites his malapropic "Cinderfella."

Endless Mike recently featured Young's first two albums, and some of those hits--"Hello Walls"--appear here, too. There are occasionally copies of this LP for sale, and, as it figures, WFMU seems to include it among its playlists.

There's no track listing for this album, and the sides don't really edit well, so we're dealing with two full-side mp3s, with cover scans, on rapidshare.com.