A Bonus Thrift Store Vinyl Sharity

Maxine Brown and Pearl Bailey, Maxine Brown Meets Pearl Bailey (Sutton, >1960)

This undated budget album presents four tracks by Maxine Brown followed by six Pearl Bailey songs from someone’s back catalogue. As Brown had a hit with “Funny” in 1960 (on the Nomar label), and some version of the track appears here, I guess this LP appeared sometime after that single.

I’ve posted some well-used material in the past, so take my word for it: this album is pretty worn. Side B is a bit better than side A; sounds like this record was originally purchased by a Brown fan. But Bailey’s “Paris Blues” and “Cadillac” are pretty good.

The .zip file is available here, via usual hosting service, as always.


Track list for Sutton release SSU 341:
Side A: 1. Funny; 2. All in My Mind; 3. Harry Let’s Marry; 4. Now That You’re Gone; 5. That Certain Feeling; Side B: 6. Solid Gold Cadillac; 7. Hit the Road to Dreamland; 8. Haiti Blues; 9. Paris Blues; 10. I’m Through with Love

Not My Vinyl Sharity

Mundell Lowe, The Original Soundtrack from Billy Jack (Warner Brothers, 1973)

In a pile of records that I have yet to convert to mp3s, there rests a copy of this album. But, because it has twenty-one relatively short tracks, it is hard to get enthusiastic about doing either the transfer or the share. But in this forum right here someone (“Jim”) has been nice enough to provide rapidshare links to the LP as part of a larger “dex,” as the young people call it. The tracks are clearly from beloved vinyl as well-used as my own copy, but they’re all there. You might need to do some slight additional tagging (for the artist, among other things), but the tracks are correctly titled in the right order. There’s no artwork, but some very bad scans appear above.

This Month's Thrift Store Vinyl Sharity

Paul Horn, Visions (CBS-Epic, 1974)

Canadian jazz flutist Paul Horn is often considered one of the fathers (or grandfather) of new age music; I haven’t heard any of his “Inside” albums (at least not knowingly), but they are well received, and Horn is still producing the kind of jazzy world-music-influenced instrumentals associated with New Age.

This album appeared fairly soon after Horn left Hollywood, and with that the major labels, for Vancouver, where he continued producing independent albums more along the line of his current work. His study with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and devotion to Transcendental Meditation, apparently led him to this change.

This album features pop/rock/folk covers: it is very smooth jazz, and not all that new age. Visions, then, is more of a transitional album, marking an approach that Horn abandoned to pursue those “Inside” albums and other collaborative projects. David Crosby’s “Long Time Gone” is pretty good (though “Guinnevere” is sort of dull), and aspects of the Mitchell songs seem really inspired. (Joni Mitchell herself provides background vocals for “Blue”--she isn’t singing lyrics so much as adding to the layered soundscape.) But the Wonder cover sounds really derivative: the backing vocals are too similar to the original for me. All the tracks are super-competent, though.

A lot Horn’s albums are available, even his early-sixties jazz works. But this one seems to be out of print. Perhaps he and Epic had a nasty falling out.

Track list: Too High; Guinnevere; High Tide; Long Time Gone; Blue; Chelsea Morning; Visions; Song with No Words; Dida; Living for the City

The album, in Scratch-Y-Sound, and some rather crude cover scans are here at rapidshare.com.