Ill Folks

The Blog of Less Renown, celebrating under-appreciated unusual, unique, sick or strange Singers, Songwriters and Songs

Wednesday, September 09, 2020

The COMBAT TV (with the JEWISH STARS Rick Jason and Vic Morrow) THEME SONG by Leonard Rosenman

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  "Hey, they don't LOOK Jewish!"  "Neither did Nimoy and Shatner."  Anyway...it's September, and there's som...
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ILL-USTRATED SONGS #50 - YOUR RECORD LABEL SUCKS! It's FELLATIO and WAYNE KELLY

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Back in 1966, there wasn't free porn on the Internet. There wasn't even an Internet (so you either had to buy records, or shoplift a...
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ILL-USTRATED SONGS #49 "I Like Germany" Sapristi, Christie, Who Doesn't??

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  Sapristi! When you're a middle-aged middle-of-the-road singer trying to squeeze Euros from the EU, you do what you can. That includes ...
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Saturday, August 29, 2020

"THESE GHOULISH THINGS" remind me of FAY DEWITT

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  Fay Dewitt’s “THROUGH SICK AND SIN” album arrived in 1961, at a time when there was great interest in edgy comedy, black (meaning darkly s...
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Marais and Miranda - SIEMBAMBA - the South African Dead Baby Song

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    "Siembamba" is sort of the South African version of "Rockabye Baby." We don't mind crooning to our kids about a ...

Hey Bob Dylan, Spanish is a loving tongue, but wouldn't you rather be FRENCHED?

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There are two things you should know about French girls. First, they love to fight (at least according to Reid-Brooker), and they are as int...

THE BREAM OF THE CROP - $1,000+ Collection on the late great JULIAN BREAM

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Somebody says, “RCA just put out a FORTY CD BOXED SET on him…” You figure, Elvis Presley. You know, THE KING, who died on August 16th and a ...
Sunday, August 09, 2020

CITY BOY’s Steve and Lol : their first vinyl credit: ROY EVERETT “Look at that Old Bird”

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  Birmingham mates and the leaders of the legendary group CITY BOY, Steve Broughton Lunt and bearded Laurence “Lol” Mason got their first so...

LEFTY LEON FLEISHER - The Pianist Who Came Back from The Hand of Fate

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Above, a Chopin nocturne.  Here’s a quote from classical pianist Leon Fleisher’s memoir: “When the gods want to get you, they know right whe...

LAUREL & HARDY video for "STANLEY THE MANLY TRANVESTITE" not by the famous Rodney Dangerfield

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Around 1964, “Camp Records” began issuing gay novelty 45’s. They seemed to be aimed at gays with a sense of humor.   No doubt once used copi...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

CIRCULAR CIRCULATION DOESN'T LAST -- GOODBYE TO "Miss Mercy" of Frank Zappa's GTO'S

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Once in a while on my late-night radio show so many years ago, I offered up the crackpot tune "Circular Circulation," one of the b...

WE STILL LOL with some songs by LOL MASON - AND THRILL TO OTHERS from CITY BOY

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A year ago, LOL MASON, of CITY BOY and THE MAISONETTES passed on. No better tribute could be offered than this, from LOL's great friend ...

RENDING FOR BENT FABRIC - He goes down the Big Alley, cats

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When I was flippin’ through the dollar bin, I’d often see “BENT FABRIC.” I had no idea what it meant. Some bad rock group? Some middle of th...
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Sunday, July 19, 2020

ZIZI was TOP -- talkin' about ZIZI JEANMAIRE and her Serge Gainsbourg song "MERDE A L'AMOUR"

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Merde! Zizi Jeanmaire has swooped the planet. She did lead a long and colorful life. Here's that Music Hall number that is so frisky and...
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