REPRO RELEASED for POOR, UNLUCKY or both SHAKIN'DIGGERS

Here's a topic for poor, unlucky or both diggers who are lookin' for repro/bootleg :

December was exotic :

Ganimian – Come With Me To The Casbah / Daddy Lolo
2 bombs on the same 45, with a funny bootleg label called FATCO, what else ?

Roy Gaines – Skippy Is A Sissy b/w Bob Callaway Native

BIG BOB TAYLOR "Wowsville" on Crypt records
Great stuff, with a cardboard sleeves colourful and pictured by Daniel Clowes
On the A-side, you'll find the "Wowsville" tune + 65 second extra music studio chatter.

JODY WILLIAMS "Lucky Lou" on Argo Records

THE CHAMPS b/w THE RUMBLER "‘Club House’ b/w ‘Blockade’" on Tittyshakin.
Tittyshakin is a sublabel of Jazzman Records for a serie of repro records keen on Tittyshaker.

Albert and Charles "Leisha"/"Weird" on Pionneer Int.
Leisha
Weird

Chuck Higgins "Greasy Pig" on Lucky

Jazzman records stike back and go on with his new re-issue serie and released :
JIMMY HEAP "gizmo" / The Nomads "Icky Poo"...(the following links are the originals, not the repro)

GUIZMO

ICKY POO

Third release on Ttshakin by Jazzman :

THE JAGUARS "Jaguar / Roundabout"

Back to back we present again for all you slickers, dimers and good-for- nuthin’ two bit hustlers two of the sleaziest, grinding instrumentals ever committed to wax!

The Jaguars waxed only two 45s, of which this limited reissue pairing of 'Jaguar' and 'Roundabout' was the pick. Cut back in the Texas oilfields of ’59, all their songs came with a car theme of sorts. Presumably these guys were part of a wild gang of hot rod teen tearaways, blaring music out of their custom cars as they tore up and down the strip. Certainly, the wild & rasping sax on 'Jaguar' is played to sound reminiscent of a revving engine, blaring exhaust and screaming teenage girls!

Roundabout is every bit as good as the A side, and every bit as sleazy... Pure rock and roll strip club material of the lowest / highest variety - possibly the best twin spin 45's of its kind!

New Repro release by Jazzman on his sublabel TTshakin :

Ric GARY/Joe HOUSTON "Pimples and Braces" / "The Hully"

"Goofy and completely adorable knockabout riff on the Champs 'Tequila'. Pour a liberal dose of Mexican mescal into an ice-cold glass of Yankee doodle diddly dandy and your cocktail’s just made for a good time at your all-in all-out Spring Break frat party! It’s not just 'Pimples and Braces', we also get such wonderful nonsense as 'Bongos and Burgers' and 'Tacos and T-Shirts'. Insane! You just cannot not love this record, it’ll wig you out!

Now 'Pimples and Braces' is actually the work of legendary musical satirist Spike Jones and his City Slickers. However, the track mysteriously resurfaced a decade later on the back of a dog rare garage 45 by unknown band the Fallen Angels, and dubiously credited to 'Ric Gary with Ron Wray Light Show' - a suitably offbeat sounding team even if they were wrongly claiming authorship of the song?!

As usual with this series we give you two bangs for your buck and so on the back here is famed honking tenorist Joe Houston's own take on 'Tequila' - a greasy, grinding R&B flavoured romp if ever there was one – make way for more TT a-shakin’!"

Released on last June 2012 :

Don Schraier "Pigtail" on Orbit 45 RE
http://www.nohitrecords.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=3400

RAY ELLIS ' The Sheik’ b/w THE SHIEKS ‘Baghdad Rock’

Two middle-eastern themed pieces of wild 50s dance floor exotica here, with Ray Ellis' 'The Sheik' a perennial favourite among instro-freaks with it's big production and uptempo insistent rhythm. What's more, pitch it down and you also have a classic Belgian popcorn spin! On the flip side, The Sheiks themselves give us their somewhat skewed interpretation of the East with the playful 'Baghdad Rock', a silly but charming jaunt perfect to accompany the most exotic of dance shows, and a novelty record for the true connoisseur!

The Origininals "The whip" / The Frantics "The whip"

Two superb but somewhat questionable instros here with more than a hint of good, old-fashioned S&M, as belied by their titles - both rather cheekily named 'The Whip'!

The main man Chuck Rio leads his band The Originals on the A-side, a quintessentially Rio-esque number complete with Latin percussive elements, a goofy but catchy riff (let's face it, yet another interpolation of his 'Tequila'), and vocal / sound effect break-ins, in this case a stunningly effective use of a whip crack and a voice exclaiming simply 'WOW!'

On the other side, the Frantics whip is a decidedly raunchier affair, with dirty guitars and filthy sax coupled with almost continuous and indeed increasingly frenzied whip cracking throughout! I can only presume that the Frantics, a much smaller and less known outfit than Chuck Rio's boys, were patrons of rather less salubrious watering

In Jazzaman TTshakin serie :

JC DAVIS "The SPLIB pt 1/2"

A bona fide classic and true essential in the sleazy instro field - a rolling, bumping and grinding ride back to the downtown R&B clubs of the late 50s, early 60s, from James Brown's one-time bandleader James C. Davis.

'The Splib' was presumably yet another new dance which no doubt summarily failed to sweep the nation. Tantalisingly, the vocals provide only the vaguest physical direction with a couple of references to shaking and shimmying and little else - leaving us to only try and guess at what the actual moves were. Perhaps that's just as well: by the down and dirty sound of the song itself, it's possible 'The Splib' dance came with an X-rating!

9th released on the Jazzman TTshaker label :

Night Hawk / Scott Woods "Chicken Grabber b/w Chicken Rock"



"Something of a poultry offering here as we ransack the coop to pull out these two Chicken-based oddities. On the top side is the Nite Hawks (a very early incarnation of the Crusaders - yes them of 'Street Life' success and ignominy) with their wondrous, slinky instrumental number 'Chicken Grabber', a jazzy, bump and grinder punctuated by frenzied clucking from the hens and deranged muttering from their unknown pursuer. Made infamous by its appearance in John Waters' notorious schlock-fest 'Pink Flamingos', 'Chicken Grabber' is surely one of the best songs about chicken ever made. That might seem a weak claim on the face of it, but then just consider the hundreds, perhaps thousands of other records inspired by our fowl feathered friends, and then consider that on the flip-side of this little rooster, we serve up Scott Wood's 'Chicken Rock' - another rock & roll curio with a decidedly unhinged air, and another of the very best chicken sides ever waxed."