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This one is indirectly linked to my previous post -- when the Iron Curtain collapsed in 1989/'90, (West) German fleamarkets were suddenly swamped with books and record albums from (East) German public libraries.
In the true spirit of Socialist Brotherhood, these libraries not only contained recordings from the GDR, but from other countries of the Warsaw Pact as well -- one of the library items I acquired was this 1987 Czech Supraphon album by Wanda Jackson & Karel Zich, "Let's Have A Party In Prague".
Being a former public library item, the album was unfortunately no longer in mint condition, but in good enough shape to warrant digitising/archiving.
01 Let's Have A Party
02 Long-Legged Guitar Picking Man
03 Losing Game
04 My Party
05 Right Or Wrong
06 Good Bye
07 Mean Mean Man
08 Jackson
09 It's My Job
10 Summer On My Mind
11 Crying In The Chapel
12 5-4-3-2-1
13 Wheels Of Rock'n'Roll
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(48 MB zipped mp3 including partial scans of cover)
This must be one of the very last albums produced by state-owned Amiga, conceived in 1989, liner-notes from 1990 -- I doubt that many copies were sold as the GDR had to prepare for "free enterprise" and official reunification with West Germany... a historical document, for sure!
01 Biber's Farm - Zwei starke Arme
02 Biber's Farm - Super Willy
03 Biber's Farm - Ich lass das Auto stehn
04 Brigitte & Company - Mit Staub an den Stiefeln
05 Brigitte & Company - Leg deinen Kopf an meine Schulter
06 Brigitte & Company - Fahrn mit dem Zug
07 Kactus - Baerenstarke Cowboys
08 Kactus - Ein Duft von Heu
09 Kactus - Drei ganze Wochen frei
10 Country Pur - White Lady
11 Country Pur - Die Steelguitar
12 Country Pur - Ein neues Leben
* Thank God I'm A Country Boy
* Ring Of Fire
* Rocky Mountain Music
* Foggy Mountain Breakdown
* Back Home Again
* Apple Jack
* If You're Gonna Play In Texas
(You Gotta Have A Fiddle In The Band)
* Take Me Home, Country Roads
* Detroit City
* Broken Down Cowboy
* Good Heardet [SIC!] Woman
* Orange Blossom Special
* Waiting For A Train
* Medley: Wabash Cannon Ball, Roll Im [SIC!] My Sweet Baby's Arms, Jambalaja [SIC!], Old McDonald Had A Farm, Yellow Rose Of Texas, She'll Be Commin' [SIC!] Round The Mountain
It sure sounded "Country" (with the canned applause and everything) and must have given GDR citizens a similar feeling as when watching Marlboro commercials on West German TV -- even though hardly anyone could understand the lyrics and despite the fact that in 1985 none of the musicians were likely to "ever play in Texas" and that it was next to impossible in the GDR to be "a thousand miles away from home waitin' for a train"....
I'm told (from a reliable source at WikiLeaks) that a take of "Don't Fence Me In" was attempted, but aborted by the Stasi "observer" in the studio....
Finally got around to transferring two long out-of-print Joker albums, simply titled "Country & Western" (Vol. 1 & Vol. 2) and credited to "Tommy Scott and His Country Caravan".
1965 66 Memorial Hwy, New Rochelle, NY - Tommy Scott [-1] & The Men Of The Long Journey (Tex Harper [vcl-2/bass], Samuel “Sam”/“Bo Bo” Baxter [vcl-3/rh gt/drums], Gaines Junior “Old Bleb” Blevins [vcl-4/el gt/fiddle/bass], Michael Chimes [harmonica/jews harp], Scotty Lee Blevins [percussion].Producer: Thomas Lee “Tommy” Scott & HansLengsfelder)
140 DEATH BY THE ROAD Request SRLP-8084 Joker SM-3856
141 NINE POUND HAMMER Request SRLP-8084 Joker SM-3856
142 I HAVE A LITTLE RINGLET -2 Request SRLP-8084 Joker SM-3856
143 ALLEY CAT BLUES -1 Request SRLP-8084 Joker SM-3856
144 GOODBYE GREENWICH VILLAGE -2 Request SRLP-8084 Joker SM-3856
145 YES, OLD DAD Request SRLP-8084 Joker SM-3856
146 JOHN HENRY -2 Request SRLP-8084 Request SRLP-6033 Joker SM-3856
147 MUD CREEK BOTTOM -2 Request SRLP-8084 Joker SM-3856
148 RAMBLIN’ MAN Request SRLP-8084 Joker SM-3856
149 TALKIN’ TO MYSELF -2 Request SRLP-8084 Joker SM-3856
150 WILD WIND -2 Request SRLP-8084 Joker SM-3856
151 CHANGE IN BUSINESS Request SRLP-8084 Joker SM-3856
152 MOONSHINE Request SRLP-8084 Joker SM-3856
153 SAY A LITTLE PRAYER Request SRLP-8084 Joker SM-3856
25 May 1969 LeFevre Sound Studio, Atlanta, GA - Tommy Scott & His Country Caravan (Gaines Junior “Old Bleb” Blevins [el gt], James Goss [ac gt], Glenn Andrews [steel/fiddle], Ronnie Goss [bass], ? [drums],Larry Goss [piano] + Tony Moody [-3], Gary Gnade [-2], James Goss, Larry Goss, Ronnie Goss, The Jordanaires+ (Ray Walker/Neal Matthews/Gordon Stoker/Hoyt Hawkins) [bck vcl].Producers: Thomas Lee “Tommy” Scott & Hans Lengsfelder) [+overdubbed in Nashville, TN]
168 SOLDIER AT SEA Request R45-2029/SRLP-6029 Joker SM-3857
169 WINO Request SRLP-6029 Joker SM-3857
170 PART TIME LOVE Request SRLP-6029 Joker SM-3857
171 FALSE HEART Request SRLP-6029 Joker SM-3857
172 ROCKING TOWARDS TENNESSEE Request SRLP-6029 Joker SM-3857
173 LOVED AND LOST Request SRLP-6029 Joker SM-3857
174 CONCERT FOR THE LONELY Request SRLP-6029 Joker SM-3857
175 THIBODAUX Request 45-2030/SRLP-6029 Joker SM-3857
176 GARDEN OF DIVORCE Request SRLP-6029 Joker SM-3857
177 INDIAN CREEK TAVERN Request SRLP-6029 Joker SM-3857
178 SNAKE OIL* Request SRLP-6029 Joker SM-3857
179 A GHOST AND A PINK ELEPHANT** Request SRLP-6029 Joker SM-3857
DOWNLOAD AS LOSSLESS FLAC (MULTI-PART ZIP ARCHIVE -- you'll need all parts and a program like 7Zip to extract the archive): PART 01 PART 02 PART 03 PART 04
I became interested in these albums because of the track "Goodbye, Greenwich Village" (spelled "Good Bye, Greenwich Village" on the album jacket), which is basically a set of commonplace "floating" blues lyrics (very much a remake of Tommy Scott's own "When A Man Gets The Blues") with some references to folksingers and a rather Dylanesque arrangement to the tune of Dylan's "She Belongs To Me."
mp3s (from a different transfer) can be found at "Time Has Told Me".
01. Chussen Kale
02. Erev Shoshanim
03. Temporal
04. Viva La Quince Brigada
05. Memselle Zizi
06. San Francisco Bay Blues
07. Die Moorsoldaten
08. Rasposhvol
09. Salty Dog
10. Charangito
11. David Melech
12. Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor
TECHNICAL NOTES: This is uploaded as a multi-part rar-file - to extract and combine parts, you'll need a program like WinRar or WinZip.
Once extracted/combined, you can verify file integrity with enclosed md5- or ffp-file and convert the FLAC-files to wav-files (for burning as audio CDs) with software like Trader's Little Helperor other tools for your specific OS.
Single Liberty 15 246(undated, pretty scratchy/somewhat distorted):
A - Jailer Bring Me Water B - Ramblin' Man (DOWNLOAD, 28 MB)
In the late 1970s, Don Paulin and Bill Ramsey were given a regular afternoon public TV show, "Show ohne Schuh'" ("Show without Shoes"), in which Don and Bill, aided by musical guest performers, introduced German juvenile audiences to folksongs and "folklore".
I was lucky enough to preserve (at least) two these shows (aired in the early 1980s) by recording the sound off the earphone jack of a cheap portable TV onto cassette -- although, obviously, the visual element is missing and although there is considerable tape hiss (plus some hum and static from the TV), I feel that these should be preserved (at least in mp3 format) as a document of West German "Folk Revival" history.
DOWNLOAD (mono MP3 of TV audio, 128 kbps, around 40 MB each):
Show ohne Schuh' 01 (44:01) Don Paulin & Bill Ramsey with musical guests Jasmine Bonnin, Folk og Rackare, Werner Lämmerhirt, Ball Pompös, Kiel, Nov. 18, 1981 (Broadcast Date) Show ohne Schuh' 02 (42:25) Don Paulin & Bill Ramsey with musical guests Liederjan, Regina Lindinger, Jimmy Patrick, Shari Garbo Nilsen, Oct. 20 or Nov. 27, 1982 (Broadcast Date)
For a tracklist, see photograph on the left -- I have left Track 5, Side A (Sakura) and Track 6, Side A (Comin' Round the Mountain) as ONE TRACK, as it is basically a medley of both songs. Hence, the download has 12 tracks only, instead of the 13 tracks listed on the cover. The title listed as "Fiesta Time" is in fact Tom Lehrer's "In Old Mexico".
In "Salty Dog", Don makes fun of a bluegrass band called "The Golden State Boys" -- I wonder if he's referring to one of the earliest incarnations of The Hillmen (Chris Hillman, Vern & Rex Gosdin, Don Parmley).
TECHNICAL NOTES: This is uploaded as a multi-part rar-file - to extract and combine parts, you'll need a program like WinRar or WinZip.
Once extracted/combined, you can verify file integrity with enclosed md5- or ffp-file and convert the FLAC-files to wav-files (for burning as audio CDs) with software like Trader's Little Helperor other tools for your specific OS.
To anyone growing up in folk-starved 1960s (West) Germany, Don Paulin was a household name. He enjoyed moderate success with a German version of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" (more a "novelty" than anything else) and even had a minor "hit" with "Groupy Girl".
A Philadelphia native (born in 1929), Don Paulin settled down in Munich, Germany, in the mid-1960s and became "West Germany's Folksinger in Residence" recording several "folk" and "folklore" albums, sometimes backed by the cream of West German musicians like Klaus Doldinger or guitarist Siegfried Schwab.
Roughly a decade later, Don teamed up with another American expatriate in West Germany, Bill Ramsey, who after a string of popular hits since the 1950s, including the highly derogatory "Verlieb dich nie in ein Hippie-Mädchen" (Don't ever fall in love with a Hippie Girl), had begun rediscovering his jazz and blues roots.
Don and Bill recorded a rather successful album for Warner Brothers, Germany ("Hard Travelling", 1975), another sadly out-of-print and sought-after item, and (in the late 1970s) were given a regular afternoon public TV show, "Show ohne Schuh'" ("Show without Shoes"), in which Don and Bill, aided by musical guest performers, introduced German juvenile audiences to folksongs and "folklore". Don Paulin also had his own children's TV show, where he and a female narrator provided songs and background for topics like "Freiheitslieder" (Freedom Songs), "Räuberlieder" (Outlaw Songs). "Protestlieder" (Protest Songs) or "Indianerlieder" (American Indian Songs).
I was lucky enough to preserve four of these shows (aired in the early 1980s) by recording the sound off the earphone jack of a cheap portable TV onto cassette -- although, obviously, the visual element is missing and although there is considerable tape hiss (plus some hum and static from the TV), I feel that these should be preserved (at least in mp3 format) as a document of West German "Folk Revival" history.
