Tiny Tim played the ukulele. He was an interesting eccentric, but his records are a novelty to me. The Idle Race was Jeff Lynn's first band before he joined The Move and founded The Electric Light Orchestra. Alejandro Escovedo is the uncle of the famous singer and drummer Sheila E.
Yes, Tiny Tim was a novelty act from the late 1960's. He specialized in Tin Pan Alley numbers from the '20's and '30's. Was a popular guest on "Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In" TV series. Got married on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson to "Miss Vicky". Anyway, that's a definitely different record for Frank! I imagine it has his first album "God Bless Tiny Tim", and maybe his followup album as well (it's a 2-LP set).
I saw Tiny Tim live playing ukulele and Tiptoe through the Tulips probably when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade. He was the “headliner” for a traveling circus. We got autographs. That was at least the second time my dad saw him live since he hit a show in NYC in the late ‘60s where people pelted him with tomatoes.
Joan Jett Produced " GI " the only " Proper " Germs LP. It's held up well. I saw L7 open up for Nirvana in fall of 1991 right as Nirvana were conquering the world. They were fun. Happy New Year !
I only know L7 as they played on the UK TV show The Word in 1992. One of the girls dropped her shorts towards the end of the song and then walked off partially naked. Surprisingly, the video is on YT and the song is called Let's Pretend Were Dead. I think the program may have been transmitted live at the time too.
Wow Frank !! Mind blown ! That Depeche Mode song from Until the end of the World i had never heard before until today. Absolutely love it, so Thanks for making me curious to look up what song DM had on that soundtrack :)
I love ROG! They do a phenomenal job with their pressings. Morphine is easily one of my top 3 favorite bands ever. They were a Boston based band, and being from Boston, I was lucky enough to see them many times before the singer / 2 string slide bass player, Mark Sandman’s untimely death, when he collapsed on stage in Italy. “Good” is my favorite album from them and their first too. If you’ve never heard “Good”, you’re in for a treat. It’s amazing. That’s Mark’s honest to god real last name, btw.
I am beginning to become addicted to your channel, the moment I open youtube, I will immediately search your channel. I am an avid music listener and collector in all forms, living here on the other side of your world.... Philippines.
Hi Frank Just started watching your channel. Although I may not share your love of heavy metal I do enjoy your format and your insights. I have listened to some tracks from albums that you have featured and I find it fun.
Tiny Tim was incredibly passionate about music. He specialized in Tin Pan Alley because he didnt want the music to die. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of music. He may be seen as a joke to many due to the falsetto and will probably most be remembered for his Tonight Show wedding, but the man was amazing.
Never heard of that "Until the End of the World" soundtrack but I'm loving the lineup for sure! Gonna send you something soon - you're on my PR list! LOL - Red
@@Channel33RPM So many great songs on that LP...now it's actually an LP, I can't believe it. Gotta tell you, though, it ain't metal...early 90;s it's more grunge and alternative... The movie's just been reissued on the Criterion Collection, too. I watched it once, but I'd love to see it again.
Happy New Year! You totally SCORED! Morphine, Sam Phillips, L7 and the soundtrack to Until The End of the World are solid! 🤘 My wife & I love watching your videos, if for nothing else than your reactions! Classic Frank right there. 👍 Keep on seeking, finding and spinning new music. It’s an absolute joy being part of your musical progression. ✌️
As someone else mentioned, Jeff Lynne from ELO was the original writer and leader for the Idle Race. I have the compilation of all three albums plus extras. He left before the third album to join The Move with Roy Wood. They had about three albums out before morphing into ELO. Roy Wood left during the sessions for the second ELO album to go solo and form Wizard. Rick Nielson from Cheap Trick loved The Move and played two of their songs live. Ace Frehley recorded Do Ya which was first recorded by The Move and later ELO.
Escovedo was a Tex Mex cow punk legend from Austin Texas who played with The Nuns Rank N File and later the True Believers. Today he is the most intriguing Americana rock artist of our time.
13 pounds!? That's like 5.8967 kilograms in Canadian, right? ;) As for Runout, I somehow managed to find their edition of Bloody Kisses from Type O still in the shrink for a reasonable price at my local record store. Fantastic! Anyhoo, Happy New Year to you!
5.8967 kilograms, haha, love it! Truthfully, I don't "get" kilos... weight is in pounds and height in feet/inches. That said, miles confuse me... speed and distance in kms all the way! Cheers dude! Frank
Run Out Groove does such a great job! I’ve been super impressed with the quality of their pressings and packaging. Nice stack of wax they sent you, Frank! Cheers!
6:09 As Movie Dealers has already pointed out, Idle Race was a British group from the late 1960s and early 1970s that boasted future E.L.O. leader, Jeff Lynne. Their 1970 cover of Mungo Jerry's "In The Summertime" was only successful in Australia and a few other markets but in Britain was completely overshadowed by Mungo Jerry's original version of the song. The mistake Movie Dealers made was the period. Idle Race was between but also overlapping the eras of The Move but ahead of Electric Light Orchestra. The Move were active from 1966(a couple of releases on British Decca's Deram label) then from 1967 to to 1970 on EMI's Regal Zonophone label then on Fly Records(Fly briefly issued by EMI before switching to PYE distribution). In 1971 The Move began appearing on EMI's then-new Harvest label where they remained until 1974. Idle Race had only two official releases in Britain(singles-wise), one on Liberty in 1969 and another on United Artists, likely a reissue, in 1976. In Canada, Idle Race had two singles, "Neandethal Man"/"Victim Of Circumstance" (Liberty LBF-15391) issued in 1970 and a second, "Impostors Of Life's Magazine"/"Here We Go 'Round The Lemon Tree"(Daffodil DIL-1059) issued 1974, likely issued post-breakup. More info on The Move and Idle Race can be found at 45Cat.com if you're interested.
Frank. As always great episode. Let me begin by saying: thank you for sharing your awesome channel and stories. I have been a Germs fan since 1987. That Germs live album is super, rad. The Starwood was a classic rock club in L.A. In which many famous bands performed there. Including, Motley Crue, Dokken, the Germs and etc. 🤘
As soon as you said Run Out Groove I thought "oh man, he got the Donnas record for FREE!!". I wish someone would reissue their first LP. Fun fact: Belinda Carlisle was a drummer for The Germs. Very briefly. She didn't record anything with them though
I'll see what I can do! I have one more video ready to go, then I plan to take 3-4 weeks off from doing vids, just to recharge the batteries. Cheers Frank
Consider yourself blessed with that Idle Race record. It was Jeff Lynne's first band, before ELO and The Move. Very good British psychedelia, during that brief period where everyone was heavily inspired by (ripping off) Sergeant Pepper.
I just looked at the Track listing for Until the End Of The World album and I noticed Graeme Revell is on it. If you havn't heard the Crow movie score by Revell I highly suggest giving it a listen. Its haunting Awesome stack of records.
What an awesome surprise box!!! I recently got a large box of records from Vinyl Me, Please. I knew what was coming, but it's still fun to receive a big box of records at once. I received the likes of Nils Frahm, TV on the Radio, Fiona Apple, Bon Iver, Angel Olsen and a few more. So much fun!!!!! Enjoy your listening. I know i will!
Your cup runneth over, Frank! Will be very cool to hear your in-depth reviews of the best of these releases in future videos. Uh, (ahem), Frank...you know; I resisted getting bifocals too. ;^) Once I got used to them I no longer had to remove my specs to read anything! Heh.
Yup, I think I am just about willing to acknowledge I need bi-focals, haha. Last time, the eye doc brought it up, and I told him, no way. My work health insurance covers glasses every 2 years. I can go back in March. I will definitely need an upgrade to my glasses, because they just don't work for reading anymore. Signed, Frank "Old Man" Landry
@@Channel33RPM I'm much older than you, I think. I'm 65. (My profile pic is a bit dated, to say the least!) Speaking of work, what is your profession? (If you don't mind my asking!)
I have not spun the Tiny Tim yet. I will include my favourites from this batch in an upcoming vinyl update/record review video. Have a good weekend Henry! Frank
Never heard of most of them, but SCORE! I too prefer black vinyl as it tends to sound better. I saw on another video that black vinyl is made with graphite that makes for less friction when the stylus rides thru the grooves. Colored/splattered vinyl lacks the graphite mixture thus producing for more noise, but some will argue against that. I have some clear red and blue vinyl and they actually sound great (clear colored vs solid colored vinyl do have some differences). I do have two splatter colored vinyl albums and they are rather noisy! I really wished they would STOP making colored vinyl for sound quality purposes considering the amount of money they want for a single copy. Just give me BLACK vinyl that sounds great! Ok, rant over now! I did find a good article on Discogs about black vs colored vinyl: blog.discogs.com/en/true-colors-black-or-colored-vinyl/
Wow... that’s a hell of a care package. I have the Until The End Of The World soundtrack on CD, but dammed if I can remember where it is or what’s on it. Your channel has motivated me to organize my music, particularly my vinyl area. Last week most of it was inaccessible due to clutter, and there were batches of records I’d bought and not played or put away. It’s a work in progress; not ready for inclusion in one of your Vinyl Den videos, but hopefully it will be in a few weeks: drive.google.com/file/d/1kEs9PsDxWOP5tKvREVGyfTH8h71xuDFb/view?usp=drivesdk
Nothing in life is free :) That said, I end up giving quite a few records away. I appreciate the suggestion and will see what else I can do. Cheers Frank
@@Channel33RPM I wasn't asking to be patronized. I simply thought give-aways could help you build your channel. Many successful creators do it. Just a suggestion, Frank.
Tiny Tim played the ukulele. He was an interesting eccentric, but his records are a novelty to me. The Idle Race was Jeff Lynn's first band before he joined The Move and founded The Electric Light Orchestra. Alejandro Escovedo is the uncle of the famous singer and drummer Sheila E.
Yes, Tiny Tim was a novelty act from the late 1960's. He specialized in Tin Pan Alley numbers from the '20's and '30's. Was a popular guest on "Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In" TV series. Got married on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson to "Miss Vicky". Anyway, that's a definitely different record for Frank! I imagine it has his first album "God Bless Tiny Tim", and maybe his followup album as well (it's a 2-LP set).
Thank you for all the info!
Frank
I saw Tiny Tim live playing ukulele and Tiptoe through the Tulips probably when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade. He was the “headliner” for a traveling circus. We got autographs. That was at least the second time my dad saw him live since he hit a show in NYC in the late ‘60s where people pelted him with tomatoes.
Joan Jett Produced " GI " the only " Proper " Germs LP. It's held up well. I saw L7 open up for Nirvana in fall of 1991 right as Nirvana were conquering the world. They were fun. Happy New Year !
L7/Nirvana would have been a great show.
Frank
Pat Smear from The Germs of course ended up playing guitar for Nirvana too. 🎵🙂
Sam Phillips is terrible underrated. Her 90s output is pretty amazing. I haven’t thought about her in awhile. Thanks!
She wrote the music for the Gilmore Girls. Oh and has a whole career pre "Sam" Philips. I like her recent stuff.
I only know L7 as they played on the UK TV show The Word in 1992. One of the girls dropped her shorts towards the end of the song and then walked off partially naked. Surprisingly, the video is on YT and the song is called Let's Pretend Were Dead. I think the program may have been transmitted live at the time too.
Robert Atkin Pretend That We Shaved
Wow...what a loaded box of records!
That Morphine album is fantastic! I have it on CD. Very cool...I am jealous. Enjoy your weekend.
Wow Frank !! Mind blown ! That Depeche Mode song from Until the end of the World i had never heard before until today. Absolutely love it, so Thanks for making me curious to look up what song DM had on that soundtrack :)
I love ROG! They do a phenomenal job with their pressings.
Morphine is easily one of my top 3 favorite bands ever. They were a Boston based band, and being from Boston, I was lucky enough to see them many times before the singer / 2 string slide bass player, Mark Sandman’s untimely death, when he collapsed on stage in Italy. “Good” is my favorite album from them and their first too. If you’ve never heard “Good”, you’re in for a treat. It’s amazing. That’s Mark’s honest to god real last name, btw.
I am beginning to become addicted to your channel, the moment I open youtube, I will immediately search your channel. I am an avid music listener and collector in all forms, living here on the other side of your world.... Philippines.
Awesome. Thank you so much!
I had that Josh Rouse on CD. I was soooo happy when his album 1972 came out on vinyl in 2012, 9 years after the CD
I love the Donnas ! Spend the night is one of their best album after Skinthight ! :)
Man, they were such a good band!
Frank
Nice swag! I just picked up an Idle Race album. A great pop band - obviously if Jeff Lynne is in it, it has to be.
I got the Idle Race album. Its Jeff Lynns band before ELO. Amazing album. I also have The Germs record. Its brutal.
Brutal good? Or brutal bad?
Frank
@@Channel33RPM Brutal Great. Its The Germs last show with Crash. He passes away just days after the show.
Wow! Just plain Wow.
Hi Frank
Just started watching your channel.
Although I may not share your love of heavy metal I do enjoy your format and your insights. I have listened to some tracks from albums that you have featured and I find it fun.
Alejandro is from Austin... great songwriter
Tiny Tim was incredibly passionate about music. He specialized in Tin Pan Alley because he didnt want the music to die. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of music. He may be seen as a joke to many due to the falsetto and will probably most be remembered for his Tonight Show wedding, but the man was amazing.
Never heard of that "Until the End of the World" soundtrack but I'm loving the lineup for sure! Gonna send you something soon - you're on my PR list! LOL - Red
No need to send anything Red, I just appreciate you watching.
Cheers
Frank
I have that soundtrack on CD somewhere...
@@Channel33RPM So many great songs on that LP...now it's actually an LP, I can't believe it. Gotta tell you, though, it ain't metal...early 90;s it's more grunge and alternative... The movie's just been reissued on the Criterion Collection, too. I watched it once, but I'd love to see it again.
Idle Race is Jeff Lynne pre ELO. Check out Birthday! Cam
Unexpected presents,are the best presents. Congratulations Frank.😲👍🎼
Happy New Year! You totally SCORED! Morphine, Sam Phillips, L7 and the soundtrack to Until The End of the World are solid! 🤘
My wife & I love watching your videos, if for nothing else than your reactions! Classic Frank right there. 👍
Keep on seeking, finding and spinning new music. It’s an absolute joy being part of your musical progression. ✌️
Congratz on the great records I better order that Germs record. Josh Rouse is a talented Guy.
Wow! I need to check out that label!
As someone else mentioned, Jeff Lynne from ELO was the original writer and leader for the Idle Race. I have the compilation of all three albums plus extras. He left before the third album to join The Move with Roy Wood. They had about three albums out before morphing into ELO. Roy Wood left during the sessions for the second ELO album to go solo and form Wizard. Rick Nielson from Cheap Trick loved The Move and played two of their songs live. Ace Frehley recorded Do Ya which was first recorded by The Move and later ELO.
Frank, I agree with you 100% about black vinyl. I prefer it for the same exact reasons that you mentioned.
Cool stuff Frank!!😀
Escovedo was a Tex Mex cow punk legend from Austin Texas who played with The Nuns Rank N File and later the True Believers. Today he is the most intriguing Americana rock artist of our time.
13 pounds!? That's like 5.8967 kilograms in Canadian, right? ;) As for Runout, I somehow managed to find their edition of Bloody Kisses from Type O still in the shrink for a reasonable price at my local record store. Fantastic! Anyhoo, Happy New Year to you!
5.8967 kilograms, haha, love it! Truthfully, I don't "get" kilos... weight is in pounds and height in feet/inches. That said, miles confuse me... speed and distance in kms all the way!
Cheers dude!
Frank
Ah that psychedelic record looks amazing! 😍 Thank you for joining my page! 😀 just did some pickups today gonna post on my page soon! Stay tuned!
I'm not familiar with the artists but I love the packaging. The album covers are beautiful. How exciting for you! 😀
Melinda Murphy - You MUST listen to morphine. You won’t be disappointed.
Run Out Groove does such a great job! I’ve been super impressed with the quality of their pressings and packaging. Nice stack of wax they sent you, Frank! Cheers!
I agree. They charge a premium, but they are providing a premium product.
Frank
Tiny Tim played ukulele. (I only know that because I’m freakin’ OLD!!!)
I Know that (but I'm not exactly old) - 15?
The Germs!!!! Pat Smear ftw!
Still waiting for my Type O Negative box set that I ordered from Run out Groove...still waiting after 4 damn months. Sad.
Heck of a nice box Frank! Escovedo was in the LA punk seen back in 70s, and a Tex-Mex kinda player in the 90s Enjoyed the video
Frank Nice box of records. Lucky have a beautiful weekend
You too!
6:09 As Movie Dealers has already pointed out, Idle Race was a British group from the late 1960s and early 1970s that boasted future E.L.O. leader, Jeff Lynne. Their 1970 cover of Mungo Jerry's "In The Summertime" was only successful in Australia and a few other markets but in Britain was completely overshadowed by Mungo Jerry's original version of the song. The mistake Movie Dealers made was the period. Idle Race was between but also overlapping the eras of The Move but ahead of Electric Light Orchestra. The Move were active from 1966(a couple of releases on British Decca's Deram label) then from 1967 to to 1970 on EMI's Regal Zonophone label then on Fly Records(Fly briefly issued by EMI before switching to PYE distribution). In 1971 The Move began appearing on EMI's then-new Harvest label where they remained until 1974. Idle Race had only two official releases in Britain(singles-wise), one on Liberty in 1969 and another on United Artists, likely a reissue, in 1976. In Canada, Idle Race had two singles, "Neandethal Man"/"Victim Of Circumstance" (Liberty LBF-15391) issued in 1970 and a second, "Impostors Of Life's Magazine"/"Here We Go 'Round The Lemon Tree"(Daffodil DIL-1059) issued 1974, likely issued post-breakup. More info on The Move and Idle Race can be found at 45Cat.com if you're interested.
Frank. As always great episode.
Let me begin by saying: thank you for sharing your awesome channel and stories.
I have been a Germs fan since 1987. That Germs live album is super, rad. The Starwood was a classic rock club in L.A. In which many famous bands performed there. Including, Motley Crue, Dokken, the Germs and etc. 🤘
As soon as you said Run Out Groove I thought "oh man, he got the Donnas record for FREE!!".
I wish someone would reissue their first LP.
Fun fact: Belinda Carlisle was a drummer for The Germs. Very briefly. She didn't record anything with them though
Hey Frank! I just got done watching a video from Noble Records called Vinyl tag.it was super interesting and i think you should really do your own!
I'll see what I can do! I have one more video ready to go, then I plan to take 3-4 weeks off from doing vids, just to recharge the batteries.
Cheers
Frank
@@Channel33RPM No worries man! you crank these videos out and they are all amazing! Enjoy you're break man!
Happy New year to you and your family Frank. Congratulations Great box of goodies. Enjoy. Cheers
And to you as well!
Hope he didn't drop it . off. Deliver is fine. Is cork the superior material for a turntable mat?
Consider yourself blessed with that Idle Race record. It was Jeff Lynne's first band, before ELO and The Move. Very good British psychedelia, during that brief period where everyone was heavily inspired by (ripping off) Sergeant Pepper.
I just looked at the Track listing for Until the End Of The World album and I noticed Graeme Revell is on it. If you havn't heard the Crow movie score by Revell I highly suggest giving it a listen. Its haunting Awesome stack of records.
WOW! One heck of haul. Spin spin spin!!!
What an awesome surprise box!!! I recently got a large box of records from Vinyl Me, Please. I knew what was coming, but it's still fun to receive a big box of records at once. I received the likes of Nils Frahm, TV on the Radio, Fiona Apple, Bon Iver, Angel Olsen and a few more. So much fun!!!!! Enjoy your listening. I know i will!
I'm glad to hear you got some cool stuff Lisa. Happy spinning!
Frank
I bought "Spend The Night" by The Donnas in I think whenever it came out on compact disc . I had no idea there was a vinyl record copy.
Love that album. I bought it as a new release on CD as well.
Frank
I just ordered The Donnas from Comeback Vinyl. Release date is 03/20/20. Thanks for the heads Frank.
Such a great album!
Your cup runneth over, Frank! Will be very cool to hear your in-depth reviews of the best of these releases in future videos.
Uh, (ahem), Frank...you know; I resisted getting bifocals too. ;^) Once I got used to them I no longer had to remove my specs to read anything! Heh.
Yup, I think I am just about willing to acknowledge I need bi-focals, haha. Last time, the eye doc brought it up, and I told him, no way. My work health insurance covers glasses every 2 years. I can go back in March. I will definitely need an upgrade to my glasses, because they just don't work for reading anymore.
Signed,
Frank "Old Man" Landry
@@Channel33RPM I'm much older than you, I think. I'm 65. (My profile pic is a bit dated, to say the least!)
Speaking of work, what is your profession? (If you don't mind my asking!)
Saw Alejandro open for Dave Matthews Band many years ago.
Live Secret Machines available? They were the last band that I gave a hoot about before music turned into poprocks.
Great stuffed full of goodies box🤘
I am not really a big fan of Alejandro Escobedo, I am curious to hear your opinion. Thanks for the video.
Those are all cool. Secret Machines. I have an old Tiny Tim record.
I have not spun the Tiny Tim yet. I will include my favourites from this batch in an upcoming vinyl update/record review video. Have a good weekend Henry!
Frank
That "Until the End of the World" soundtrack is *killer!*
IT'S ON VINYL??? EXCELLENT!!!
Whose a lucky guy then!? A great way to start 2020!
Love your channel man! It really got me into other genres of rock
Frank no longer buys vinyl. It just arrives for free in the mail. If I started Channel 200 RPM, would record labels send me free CDs?
Well, nothing in life is free... But of course, if you start a channel, and build up an audience, I'm sure you could review CDs. I'd subscribe!
Frank
Awesome video Frank! Hope you had a good new year's.
-Alex
Thank you Alex. Happy new year.
Frank
you realize the weight is right there on the shipping label right>lol
I would start listening from The Germs.
mr. Finglish (Bäd English Recs)
Great haul. Luckily you didn’t wake anyone in the house up. I noticed you were keeping your voice down.
Frank, we all know you don't like colored vinyl, you should have some sort of contest with some of the records as a prize!
Never heard of most of them, but SCORE! I too prefer black vinyl as it tends to sound better. I saw on another video that black vinyl is made with graphite that makes for less friction when the stylus rides thru the grooves. Colored/splattered vinyl lacks the graphite mixture thus producing for more noise, but some will argue against that. I have some clear red and blue vinyl and they actually sound great (clear colored vs solid colored vinyl do have some differences). I do have two splatter colored vinyl albums and they are rather noisy! I really wished they would STOP making colored vinyl for sound quality purposes considering the amount of money they want for a single copy. Just give me BLACK vinyl that sounds great! Ok, rant over now!
I did find a good article on Discogs about black vs colored vinyl: blog.discogs.com/en/true-colors-black-or-colored-vinyl/
"13 pounds of vinyl"? Why, that described my original Chicago At Carnegie Hall" boxed set from 1971.
www.ebay.com/itm/1971-Chicago-At-Carnegie-Hall-Good-Condition-4LP-vinyl-box-3-POSTER-One-More/113988879679?_trkparms=aid%3D1110001%26algo%3DSPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131231084308%26meid%3D769c6105060043b789bb6b9391fbff79%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D233451200541%26itm%3D113988879679%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982
HAHAHAHAAA!!! Awesome!
Wow!
Can I have one of them😂
Boy do u love Colored Vinyl lol
:)
The idle race Mr Jeff lynne pre move and pre elo fame
Wow... that’s a hell of a care package. I have the Until The End Of The World soundtrack on CD, but dammed if I can remember where it is or what’s on it.
Your channel has motivated me to organize my music, particularly my vinyl area. Last week most of it was inaccessible due to clutter, and there were batches of records I’d bought and not played or put away. It’s a work in progress; not ready for inclusion in one of your Vinyl Den videos, but hopefully it will be in a few weeks:
drive.google.com/file/d/1kEs9PsDxWOP5tKvREVGyfTH8h71xuDFb/view?usp=drivesdk
This dude looks like Henning Wehn
You should think about giving away some of that stuff sent to you for free.
Nothing in life is free :)
That said, I end up giving quite a few records away. I appreciate the suggestion and will see what else I can do.
Cheers
Frank
@@Channel33RPM I wasn't asking to be patronized. I simply thought give-aways could help you build your channel. Many successful creators do it. Just a suggestion, Frank.