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I have over 20,000 vinyl LP albums I am selling (see link below); this archive of 45 RPM records is an extension of that collection. Each blog entry is about a 45 from my collection. Contact Styrous® for more information

       

3D Vinyl LPs & 45 RPMs           
Birth of the 45 rpm record ~ March 31, 1949       
The RCA Victor 45-EY-2 45 RPM record player  

Bill Haley
Rock Around the Clock
45 RPM
photo by Styrous®  

45 RPMs 1: Big Black ~ Bulldozer       
45 RPMs 2: The Wild One ~ 1953 12" 45 EP                
45 RPMs 3: Adam & the Ants ~ Ant Music EP    
45 RPMs 4: Bill Haley ~ Rock Around the Clock   
45 RPMs 5: Cal Tjader ~ Huracán on 12" White Vinyl   
45 RPMs 6: Depeche Mode ~ Just Can't Get Enough 12" single  
45 RPMs 7: Glenn Danzig - Who Killed Marilyn?        
45 RPMs 8: PIL (Public Image Ltd.) ~ Metal Box      
45 RPMs 9: Depeche Mode ~ Master & Servant     
45 RPMs 10: A Tribute To James Dean   
45 RPMs 11: Chuck Berry ~ Maybellene    
45 RPMs 12: Prince ~ Raspberry Beret     
45 RPMs 13: The Crickets ~ That'll Be The Day @ 60      

45 RPMs 14: I'll Cry Tomorrow ~ Susan Hayward @ 100   
45 RPMs 15: Charles Laughton reads The Night of the Hunter  
45 RPMs 16: Yello ~ I Love You 7" in 3D                     

45 RPMs 17: Cat People & John Heard                                  

45 RPMs 18: Madonna ~ Don't Cry for Me Argentina 12" of fun!  

45 RPMs 19: Leila And The Snakes, Obiko & Kaisik Wong

45 RPMs 20: Divine ~ Walk Like a Man 45 rpm picture disc    
45 RPMs 21: Pink Floyd ~ The Wall: Music from the film       
45 RPMs 22: Bill Haley & His Comets ~ (We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock         
45 RPMs 23: The Platters ~ My Prayer          
45 RPMs 24: Elvis Presley ~ Don't Be Cruel       

45 RPMs 25: Aretha Franklin & Whitney Houston ~ Now A Duet in Heaven
45 RPMs 26: Julie London ~ Cry Me a River  
45 RPMs 27: Clarence "Frogman" Henry ~ Ain't Got No Home    
45 RPMs 28: Bill Haley and the Comets ~ See You Later Alligator 
45 RPMs 29: Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF) ~ Der Räuber Und Der Prinz    
45 RPMs 30: The Platters ~ (You've Got) The Magic Touch  
45 RPMs 31: The Platters ~ Only You (And You Alone)  
45 RPMs 32: The Residents ~ (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction            
45 RPMs 33: Buddy Knox ~ Party Doll & My Baby's Gone    
45 RPMs 34: Bill Buchanan & Dickie Goodman ~ The Flying Saucer     
45 RPMs 35: Spın̈al Tap ~ Christmas With The Devil           
45 RPMs 36: Hawkshaw Hawkins ~ Ling Ting Tong a Honky Tonk song      
45 RPMs 37: Fats Domino ~ I'm Walkin'      
45 RPMs 38: Skatt Brothers ~ Don't Be Cruel (Disco Daze 4)      
45 RPMs 39: Elvis Presley ~ All Shook Up & Otis Blackwell      
45 RPMs 40: Giuseppe Verdi ~ Il Trovatore    
45 RPMs 41: "Fats" Domino ~ Blueberry Hill  
45 RPMs 42: Silvana Mangano ~ Anna soundtrack             
45 RPMs 43: Grace Jones ~ The Apple Stretching 12"45      
45 RPMs 44: Devo ~ (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction    
45 RPMs 45: Prince ~ Batdance    
45 RPMs 46: Gale Storm ~ I Hear You Knocking & My Little Margie      
45 RPMs 47: Joe Jackson ~ I'm the Man (45 RPM box set)          

45 RPMs 48: Patsy Cline ~ Walkin' After Midnight       

45 RPMs 49: The Supremes ~ I Hear a Symphony        

45 RPMs 50: Bert Kaempfert ~ Wonderland By Night        

45 RPMs 51: Ben E. King ~ Spanish Harlem      

45 RPMs 52: Ferlin Husky ~ Gone     

45 RPMs 53: Elvis Presley ~ Heartbreak Hotel      
45 RPMs 54: Don Cherry ~ Band of Gold      
45 RPMs 55: Rick James ~ Super Freak 12" 45      

45 RPMs 56: Bobby "Boris" Pickett ~ Monster Mash       

45 RPMs 57: The Marcels ~ Blue Moon & John Dillinger       

45 RPMs 58: John Cale ~ Animal Justice & Hedda Gabler        

45 RPMs 59: The Coasters ~ Yakety Yak         

45 RPMs 60: Frank Sinatra ~ Strangers in the Night                       

45 RPMs 61: Tiny Tim ‎~ Keeping My Troubles To Myself          

45 RPMs 62: Michael Damian ~ Rock On with 12"       

45 RPMs 63: The Coasters ~ Poison Ivy                         

45 RPMs 64: Tuxedomoon ~ Ninotchka                          

45 RPMs 65: Sammy Davis Jr. – Six Bridges To Cross & George Nader                          

45 RPMs 66: Lulu ~ To Sir With Love & Neil Diamond                           

45 RPMs 67: Jaye P. Morgan ~ Pepper-Hot Baby        

45 RPMs 68: Del Shannon ~ Runaway & Max Crook's Musitron              

45 RPMs 69: The Judds ~ Why Not Me?               

45 RPMs 70: Smiley Lewis ~ Shame, Shame, Shame               

45 RPMs 71: Dire Straits ~Money for Nothing     

45 RPMs 72: Carl Perkins ~ Blue Suede Shoes        

45 RPMs 73: Sam Cooke ~ You Send Me         

45 RPMs 74: Harry Belafonte ~ Banana Boat Song (Day O)         

45 RPMs 75: Red Buttons ~ Strange Things Are Happening             

45 RPMs 76: Big Joe Turner And His Blues Kings ~ Shake, Rattle And Roll             

45 RPMs 77: Aretha Franklin ~ Spanish Harlem            

45 RPMs 78: Enrico Caruso ~ Caruso Sings 45 (red vinyl)            

45 RPMs 79: Perry Como ~ Catch A Falling Star            

45 RPMs 80: Elvis Presley ~ Are You Lonesome To-night?            

45 RPMs 81: Madonna ~ La Isla Bonita             

45 RPMs 82: The Supremes ~ Come See About Me            

45 RPMs 83: The Supremes ~ Buttered Popcorn w/Florence Ballard           

45 RPMs 84: Crime ~ Hot wire My Heart       

45 RPMs 85: Gary Numan ~ Cars       

45 RPMs 85: Edith Piaf ~ Milord         

 

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I have over 20,000 vinyl LP albums I am selling (see link below); this archive of compacct discs (CDs) is an extension of that collection. Each blog entry is about a CD from my collection. Contact Styrous® for more information. 

1,000,001 CDs 1: Pink Floyd ~ The Division Bell        

1,000,001 CDs 2: The Flaming Lips ~ Zaireeka          

1,000,001 CDs 3: Dalis Car ~ The Waking Hour (30 years later)          

1,000,001 CDs 4: Thoth ~ The Herma: Act One

1,000,001 CDs 5:  Deerhoof ~ Milk Man & Apple O'      

1,000,001 CDs 6: Thoth ~ Tone Poems of the Festad           

1,000,001 CDs 7: Flaming Lips ~ Do You Realize??      

1,000,001 CDs 8: Paul McCartney ‎~ Flowers In The Dust World Tour Pack    

1,000,001 CDs 9: The Rocky Horror Picture Show 15th Anniversary Collection 

1,000,001 CDs 10: earRotator ~ Holy Empire         

1,000,001 CDs 11: Hector Berlioz ~ The King of Thule       

1,000,001 CDs 12: Bowie & Halihal ~ A fine New Year's start!  

1,000,001 CDs 13: Sir Michael Kemp Tippett ~ Praeludium    

1,000,001 CDs 14: David Bowie ‎– ★ (Blackstar)        

1,000,001 CDs 15: Pink Floyd ~ Pulse        

1,000,001 CDs 16: Billie Eilish ~ When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?  

1,000,001 CDs 17: Philip Glass ‎– La Belle Et La Bête         

1,000,001 CDs 18: El Raunch Oh! Grande & The Love Handle Lounge          

1,000,001 CDs 19: Otis Blackwell ~ These are My Songs    

1,000,001 CDs 20: Zeal & Ardor, Manuel Gagneux & Lexi         

1,000,001 CDs 21: Tina Turner ~ Foreign Affair        

1,000,001 CDs 22: Magnetic Fields ~ 69 Love Songs         

The Flaming Lips ~ Zaireeka
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101 Reel-To-Reel Tapes 30: Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band ~ ~ See Reverse Side for Title

Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band  

See Reverse Side for Title  .

detail of album cover             .

detail photo by Styrous®              .

In addition to my vinyl collection I'm selling, I have hundreds of reel-to-reel, pre-recorded tapes I'm selling (see link below). This is an entry about the Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band ~ See Reverse Side for Title. I have the vinyl LP version as well. Interested? Contact me by email, please, not by a comment.

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Jug band music is a unique American musical style that developed in Louisville and Memphis at the turn of the 20th century. Jug bands consist of instruments like harmonica, kazoo, banjo, mandolin, guitar, fiddle, washboard, washtub bass, and the jug (of glass or stoneware). The jug player blows across the aperture often providing a bass ostinato.

 (click on any image for slideshow)

 Dixieland Jug Blowers

circa 1926
photographer unknown
from San Francisco Public Library

Kapakahi Jug Band

1980's

Now, there are post-modern jug bands with new, exciting and experimental sounds that aim to stretch the limits of our experiences. 5-Cent Coffee of the San Francisco Bay Area and some of the songs by Tom Waits fall into this category. 

 The jug band, 5-Cent Coffee, 

performing at the San Francisco Jug Band Festival
on 16 August, 2009

 photo by 5-Cent Coffee

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Jim Kweskin was born on July 18, 1940, in Stamford, Connecticut. He is the founder of the Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band, which was active in Boston in the 1960s. Kweskin adapted the ragtime fingerpicking of artists like Blind Boy Fuller and Mississippi John Hurt but incorporated more sophisticated jazz and and blues stylings.

Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band ~ See Reverse Side for Title

reel-to-reel box cover

album cover photographer unknown

photo by Styrous®

The Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band was formed in the early 1960s in Cambridge, MA. They played a combination of old time folk, jazz and blues tunes with a special emphasis on the material of the jug band of the 1920s. Jim Kweskin was the leader of the band, though Geoff Muldaur was usually heard on lead guitar and vocals. The band also included Bill Keith on banjo, Mel Lyman on harmonica, Fritz Richmond on jug and washboard bass, Richard Greene on fiddle and Maria D'Amato on vocals and kazoo.

 Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band ~ See Reverse Side for Title

reel-to-reel box cover back detail

detail photo by Styrous®

As is the case with most jug band music, the songs are folk-sounding and performed with great, earthy feeling. My very favorite song on this album is, Chevrolet; the vocals by Maria D'Amato (Muldaur) and Geoff Muldaur on it are dynamite. They do a call and response that is sweet (links to music on YouTube below).

Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band ~ See Reverse Side for Title

reel-to-reel box cover back

album photographer unknown

photo by Styrous®

Maria D'Amato married Geoff and went on to a solo career under her married name (Maria Muldaur). Fiddle virtuoso Richard Greene joined Blues Project and then Seatrain; Mel Lyman formed his own authoritarian religion and Kweskin became one of his converts.

Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band ~ See Reverse Side for Title

reel-to-reel box cover back detail

album photographer unknown

detail photo by Styrous®

Kweskin recorded Over Seas Stomp (also known as The Lindy and The Lindberg Hop), Minglewood and Viola Lee Blues. Most of their albums are out of print and some are rather hard to find.

 

Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band ~ See Reverse Side for Title

reel-to-reel

photo by Styrous®

Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band ~ See Reverse Side for Title

reel-to-reel label detail

photo by Styrous®

Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band released six albums and two greatest hits compilations on Vanguard Records between 1963 and 1970. Kweskin produced, Jim Kweskin's America, on Reprise Records in 1971; and four albums on Mountain Railroad Records between 1978 and 1987.

Tracklist:

Side 1:

1 - Blues In The Bottle        
2 - Chevrolet        
3 - Christopher Columbus        
4 - Never Swat A Fly        
5 - Richland Woman        
6 - Downtown Blues        
7 - Turn The Record Over    

Side 2:

1 - Fishing Blues        
2 - Storybook Ball        
3 - That's When I'll Come Back To You        
4 - Viola Lee        
5 - Papa's On The Housetop   

6 - Onyx Hop
       
Credits:

Jim Kweskin - lead guitar and vocals

Geoff Muldaur - guitar and vocals

Bill Keith - banjo

Mel Lyman - harmonica

Fritz Richmond - jug and washboard bass

Richard Greene on fiddle

Maria D'Amato (Muldaur) - vocals

Music links:

Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band music links:

Chevrolet on YouTube

Blues In The Bottle on YouTube

Papa's On The Housetop on YouTube

Jug Band Music on YouTube

other music links:
Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus on YouTube
5-Cent Coffee - Guns and Balloons on YouTube

reel-to-reel listings on eBay

more reel-to-reel tapes on the Styrous® Viewfinder:
                                             reel-to-reel tape archive

The is a great album that is earthy, musically exciting and just what the 'doctor' ordered for get-down music. Thanks, Guys.

Styrous® ~ Thursday, December 26, 2013

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