Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Beatles Covers Week - Part 2

Day two of "Beatles Covers Week!"...

[DOWNLOAD] Beatles Covers Part 2

01- Blue Jay Way -- Bud Shank
02- Lady Madonna -- Shirley Scott
03- Norwegian Wood -- Paraffin Jack Flash
04- A Hard Day's Night -- Willis Jackson
05- Get Back -- Frank Chacksfield
06- Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da -- Günter Noris
07- Come Together -- Count Basie
08- Hey Jude -- Jo Ment Combo
09- Yellow Submarine -- The Torero Band
10- Help -- James Last
11- I Want You (She's So Heavy) -- The Assembled Multitude
12- Eleanor Rigby -- Pat Williams
13- Something -- Sammy Kaye
14- Nowhere Man -- Gershon Kingsley
15- Penny Lane -- The Electronic Concept Orchestra
16- Yesterday -- Ray Martin

Monday, June 29, 2009

Beatles Covers Week - Part 1

It's been a while since I've done a "Theme Week" so this week is going to be "Beatles Covers Week!"...

[DOWNLOAD] Beatles Covers Part 1

01- Something -- Waldo De Los Rios
02- While My Guitar Gently Weeps -- The Assembled Multitude
03- Paperback Writer -- Gershon Kingsley
04- Day Tripper -- Marty Gold
05- Lady Madonna -- Günter Noris
06- Eleanor Rigby -- Mike Melvoin
07- A Hard Day's Night -- Frank Chacksfield
08- Yesterday -- Xavier Cugat
09- Get Back -- Dennis Coffey
10- Come Together -- Tommy Mottola's Guitar Factory
11- I Am The Walrus -- Lord Sitar
12- Norwegian Wood -- The Folkswingers
13- Let It Be -- Living Guitars
14- Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da -- Enoch Light
15- Hey Jude -- The Moog Machine
16- Yellow Submarine -- Gordon Langford

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Beck's Record Club

Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico 'Sunday Morning' from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

Beck's new project is inviting fellow musicians to his studio to recreate other artists albums in one day. As Beck himself explains on his site:

"An album will be chosen to be reinterpreted and used as a framework. Nothing rehearsed or arranged ahead of time. A track will be uploaded once a week on beck.com as well as through the web sites of those involved with the project."

The first 'release' will be reinterpretations of Velvet Underground & Nico tracks, collaboraters onboard including Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, drummer Joey Waronker, keyboardist Brian Lebarton and W.A.S.P founding member Chris Holmes amongst others.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

The Galactic Force Band - Spaced Out Disco (1978)

You can never have enough spaced out disco...

[DOWNLOAD] The Galactic Force Band - Spaced Out Disco (1978)
01 The Theme From Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
02 Theme From 2001
03 Cantina Band (From Star Wars)
04 Space Dust
05 Main Title From Star Wars
06 Main Title Theme From Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
07 Theme From Star Trek
08 Galactic Go Go

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Wonderland Records: Spaced Out Disco Fever (1977 or 1978)

I'm back! I've been away much longer than I expected. Turns out my hiatus came at the perfect time. There were layoffs at my job (luckily I survived) but that meant more work for me. So I've been super busy...work-wise. I also used my spare time to finally get to some projects that have been piling dust. How you been?

As you may remember...I'm a huge fan of the children's record label Wonderland Records. This album marks the fourth time Wonderland recycled their Star Trek recording. The same exact song also appears on Themes From "Star Trek" & "The Planet Of The Apes", Theme From Star Wars, and T.V. Themes. And each time it's credited to a different band...The Jeff Wayne Space Shuttle, Wonderland Space Shuttle, The Wonderland Singers and Orchestra, and this time The Wonderball Singers & Orchestra (or) The Wonderball Disco Orchestra...depending on which side of the cover you're looking at.

I'm also not sure why they called the album Spaced Out Disco Fever? Only the first three songs are space related and only three songs are disco related. But that's the wonder of Wonderland Records.

[DOWNLOAD] The Wonderball Singers & Orchestra - Spaced Out Disco Fever
01 Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
02 Star Wars
03 Star Trek
04 Name Of The Game
05 Stayin' Alive
06 Short People
07 We Are The Champions
08 Emotion
09 Jack And Jill
10 I Can't Smile Without You

(Stayin' Alive has some massive skips...sorry.)