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| From | "Scott Shaw" <brynneandscott@cox.net> |
| Subject | Re: An incredible simulation |
| Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:34:21 -0500 |
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I think I have the vinyl but I've never played it.
Haven't looked yet, but is there a way to save this?
Scott S
> You've just awakened a horrible memory! Back in the day when I worked in
> the bowels of a semi-major label, they marketed a series of hastily
> re-recorded hits of the day called "soundalikes" -- actually, I think The
> Soundalikes might have even been the band's name? If memory serves, they
> were bad to the point of being comical...
>
> Which in turn reminds me...I have this album of Beach Boys knockoffs done
> by a group called The Surfsiders. It is hi-larious. It's as if they
> were given a few hours to record these tracks, and only had time to listen
> to the original version once. If you got the chords or melody wrong...no
> problem! It is the 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' of records.
>
> Ok, slightly illegal, I'm sure...but I couldn't resist. Check it out:
> http://marturo.com/marty/surfsiders/
>
> Marty
>
>
>
> Ken Kase wrote:
>
>>OK, this made me think back:
>>
>>It can be worse than mere retreads by artists tenuously connected with the
>>original records. In the 70s, there was a pretty large market for the
>>folks
>>who bought albums at Woolworth's and places like that. Pickwick used to
>>put
>>out packages of current hits performed by some bar band or another. Some
>>of
>>these make for hysterical listening. Longines had a record club type of
>>deal
>>for awhile (when they weren't busy making watches). My mom used to have
>>these records like "Best Hits of 1971" that were all recreations of the
>>popular songs of the day. I first heard "Rocky Mountain High" for the
>>first
>>time on one of those records. (They Might Be Giants name check: "My
>>story's
>>infinite / Like a Longines symphonette") In fact, such artifacts even have
>>their own record collecting niche.
>>
>>--Ken
>>
>
>
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