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Why Fidelity Podcast | Show 14

Why Fidelity # 14

Elastic Music for Flexible Ears

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• Las Vegas Can Can - George Garvarentz
• A Year at the Top - Paul Schaeffer & Greg Evigan
  (From the soundtrack of the short lived TV series of the same name - Shared by the brilliant Department of Records)
• Party Shaker - Wolfgang Kaltenbach
• Lap Dance Club - Lalo Schifren
• Voleur - I Gris
• Ulova - Young Stars
• Tut Tut Tut Tut - Gillian Hills
• Greenwich Chorus - Peter Howell
• Tony Hancock - Richard Digance
• I've Got Sixpence - Billy Cotton Band

Why Fidelity Podcast | Show 14

Why Fidelity # 14
Elastic Music for Flexible Ears

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• Las Vegas Can Can - George Garvarentz
• A Year at the Top - Paul Schaeffer & Greg Evigan
  (From the soundtrack of the short lived TV series of the same name - Shared by the brilliant Department of Records)
• Party Shaker - Wolfgang Kaltenbach
• Lap Dance Club - Lalo Schifren
• Voleur - I Gris
• Ulova - Young Stars
• Tut Tut Tut Tut - Gillian Hills
• Greenwich Chorus - Peter Howell
• Tony Hancock - Richard Digance
• I've Got Sixpence - Billy Cotton Band

Why Fidelity Podcast | Show 13

Why Fidelity 13 - Download
"Who put the pop in the Weasel?"

Great God Pan - God Pan
The Boy Catchers Theme - Steve Clayton
I'm Sorry Sir - Mike Rondell
The Spaniard That Blighted My Life - Al Jolson
Je me Donne qui me Plait - Brigitte Bardot
A Gay Ranchero - Charles Magnante (Shared at Goofspot)
The Cockeyed Mayor Of Kaunakakai -Poncie Ponce
Descente - Francis Lai Et Pierre Barouh
Chase that Car - Laurie Johnson
Flying Squad - Brian Bennett
Pop Goes the Weasel - Anthony Newley

Why Fidelity Podcast | Show 12

Why Fidelity Podcast | Show #12

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Playlist:

2nd Movement of the Beer Barrel Polka - Chico Marx and the Night in Casablanca Band
Funeral Procession - David Bedford & Ursula Le Guin
Everybody's Talkin' - High Spirits (Holy Spirit Sch.) (A Pastor McPurvis Discovery)
The Reindeer Hunt - Riz Ortolani
Softly Whispering I Love You - English Congregation
Hatsukoi - Kojima Mayumi
Barbarian Games (Noisy Village) - Les Baxter (Found at Tiki-Tim's Exotica Lounge)
Thank You (Ti ringrazio) - Nives
Turn Down Day - Enoch Light
How About Us - Mickey Rooney & Girls

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Why Fidelity Podcast | Show 11

Why Fidelity Show 11

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Playlist:

Ski Baby Ski - Ava & the Avalanches (from the brilliant Clubbo Records)
Percolator - Boots Randolph
Shopping Centre - Manfred Minnich
Pegleg Flamingo - M.Ace (M.Ace: Steel-String Flat Top Sedition)
Ginchy - Saturn V (found at Goofspot)
The Sing-Sing - Stanley Wilson (from Pagan Love - found at Tiki-Tims)
Bad & Beautiful - Chaino
Entre Acte - Hamilton Streetcar
Proud Mary - Bill & Lisa
Batusi A Go Go - Nelson Riddle & The Original TV Cast
Where's Me Jumper? - Sultans of Ping FC

Why Fidelity Podcast | Show 10

Why Fidelity Podcast | Show 10

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Our gala jumbo sized 10th episode feaures...

Fat Sam's Grand Slam ... Paul Williams

• Bugsy Malone (1976 Film Soundtrack)
  

• also available is a National Youth Theater recording - you can find a couple of free MP3's at Amazon - Bugsy Malone

Ahmedabab Theme ... Jack Arel & Jean-Claude Petit
Wild Honey (Honey West) ... Joseph Mullendore
The Invasion Of Helios ... Giant Crab
Animal Kwackers Theme / Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ... Animal Kwackers

• info @ Nostalgia Central, @ IMDB

The Angry Villagers (Mama Dracula) ... Roy Budd
Boccherini's Minuet ... The Fantastic Pikes
Honolulu Lulu ... Godley and Creme
Eeirie Beach ... The Munsters
A Spasso Per Roma (Bocaccio '70) ... Nino Rota

• Featured Albums:
• Les Baxter - Moog Rock Greatest Classical Hits @ iTunes
• Jack Nitzche - Three Piece Suite @ iTunes
• Bill May/Bobby Darin/Johnny Mercer - Two of a Kind @ Amazon, @ iTunes

We Can't Sing Rhythm and Blues ... Patience & Prudence
Unknown Cookie ... Choir Academy Charter School

Why Fidelity - Show #9

Why Fidelity #9

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Playlist

Madder Than Mad - Unknown
Amen Twist - Bob Azzam
If - Telly Savalas
Zoi Zoi - France Gall
Mä Lähden Stadiin - Carola Ja Lasse Mårtenson
Son of My Father - Giorgio Moroder
If Caught in the Open - US Civil Defense
Fell Down the Stairs - Tilly and the Wall
A Little Fugue for You and Me - Enoch Light
Borodin Butterfly - Lanark (at Comfort Stand)
Album of the Week - Best of the New Seekers (at iTunes)
Dario, Can You Get Me Into Studio 54? - Dana and Gene

Why Fidelity Podcast #8

Why Fidelity Podcast #8
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• Theme From The Detectives : Herschel Burke Gilbert

Herschel Burke Gilbert: The Theme Weaver
Obit at the Film Music Society
The Detectives at IMDB

• Hawaiian War Chant : LeRoy Holmes and his Orchestra
• Up Up and Away : Alan Lorber Orchestra
• Dragster : Keith Mansfield
• O Tren : Joao Gilberto
  

Joao Gilberto Discography and More

• Go Go Go With Ringo : The Whippets
• The Actor Approbrium : Of Monteal

The Sunlandic Twins [Bonus EP]

• Highschool Stalker : Hello Saferide

Official Hello Saferide Site

• Albums of the Week:

The Kimberly Trip : Catasrtophic Behavior (@ Garage Band) (@ ITunes)
Pugh Rogefeldt : Guldkorn (@ ITunes)
Sammy Davis Jr. : The Nat King Cole Songbook

• Wildhorse-Duet : Bauer / Schrader

Weirmarband @ Itunes
Weimarband Official Site
The Blue Flower

Online 60s Radio Station - Live365 Internet Radio - Mystifyingly Glad

Online 60s Radio Station - Live365 Internet Radio - Mystifyingly Glad

Our sister podcast Mystifyingly Glad is now a streaming radio station over at Live365. Enjoy nearly 12 hours of Sunshine, bubblegum, singer-songwriter, chamber, baroque, psyche, easy, moog, soft, power-pop. New tunes will be added every week.

The original Mystifyingly Glad podcast will still show up from time to time as well.

Why Fidelity Podcast #7

Why Fidelity 7 - The Spaced Show

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A slightly shorter show than usual and a themed one as well....

Playlist:

• Why Fidelity Theme 001
• Space Patrol Theme
• The Flying Saucers Have Landed ... Paul St. John
• T.V. Monster Show ... The Munsters
• She's Into Star Wars .. King
• A Night at the Space Opera ... That Hideous Strength
• Album of the Week: Jeff Wayne's The war of the Words
• Walking on the Moon ... Asobi Seksu

Shownotes:

* She's Into Star Wars has got to be the years catchiest novelty tune - though it easily trancends the "novelty" label. Here's some info on King from his PR guys...

"King, a former backing performer and collaborator, is embarking upon a solo
career with a mission to take hip-hop, rock and pop to the next level. King’s
music refuses to conform to standard categorization, and is a bold new breed of
artistic expression. His style is woven together with threads of spacey hip-hop,
straight pop, alternative rock, and spoken word, and it’s soon clear why he had
a big part in Outkast’s multi-platinum album “Speakerboxx/Love Below.” He can
be seen performing with the hip-hop duo live and was also featured in the video
for the song “Roses.” Fans of No Doubt would also recognize him as a guest
rapper on their hit, “Hey Baby.”

* Check out the video for Asobi Seksu's Walk on the Moon at IFilm


She's into Star Wars
King

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Check out the video for Walk on the Moon at IFilm

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds Various Artists See details at Amazon by G-Tools

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds Jeff Wayne See details at Amazon by G-Tools

War of the Worlds Jeff Wayne See details at Amazon by G-Tools

Why Fidelity Podcast #6

Why Fidelity Show 6

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Playlist:

• Tandoori Chicken ... Ronnie Spector
• I Get Around ... The Hollyridge Strings
• Tequilla ... The Three Suns
• Onna no Jyumon .. Meiko Kaji
• Angel, Angel Down We Go ... OST
• The Serpent and the Hawk ... Alan Lorber
• The Ballad of Thunder Road ... Robert Mitchum
• Wings of Thunder ... Spiro Gyra
• Albums of the Week
  * Music for Drama ... Abel Korzeniowski
  * Breakfast at Tiffanys ... Barney Kessel
  * Just the Tracks Ma'am ... Jack webb
• Loop di Love ... J Bastos

Shownotes:

• Tandoori Chicken was the b-side of Ronnie's 1971 Try Some Buy Some single
• Hollyridge Strings Discog.
• The Three Suns at Space Age Pop, The Three Suns Universe
• Meiko Kaji Official, Meiko Kaji also appeared on Why Fidelity #2
• The soundtrack to Angel, Angel Down We Go was generously shared by the utterly essential Record Brother.
• Abel Korzeniowski at Soundoo

Why Fidelity Podcast #5

Why Fidelity Podcast #5

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Playlist:

• Dripsody ... Hugh Le Caine
• The Addam's Family Theme ... Dick Dia
• Tonko Bushi ... Aiko Bingo & Harold Sasahara
• Franklin & Cherry ... Russ Meyer
• I Believe ... The Foxymorons
• Of Angels and Angles ... The Decemberists
• Such A Sound ... Birdie
• AM Slow Golden Hit ... Hotel Lights
• Whipped Cream and Other Delights ... Album of the Week
• Where's Me Shirt ... Ken Dodd

Shownotes:

• Hugh Le Caine
• Dick Dia's TV Potpourri was a featured album at Basic Hip Digital Oddio
• Tonko Bushi comes from Club Nisei: Encore. Gil Asakawa's Nikkei View has a nice article on the first release in the series...

  These musicians played a circuit of Japanese movie theatres, community centers, hospitals, weddings, parties and special events such as the "Yakudoshi," or 41st birthday celebrations. Not all the musicians could read or speak Japanese, but their audiences were mainly Japanese-speaking Issei (first generation) immigrants who had settled in Hawai'I after the traumas of World War II.

• Cherry, Harry and Raquel DVD and CD - IMDB entry, Images Review
• Foxymorons Official Site with loads of downloadable audio. New album Hesitation Eyes
• Such a Sound comes from Birdie's album Triple Echo
• Hotel Lights debut album Hotel Lights | Official Site
• Album of the Week : Whipped Cream & Other Delights (40th Anniversary Edition)
• Ken Dodd bio at Chortle | JimmyClitheroe.co.uk

Mid-week Bonus Track - Ramses Shaffy - Maya

Starting now I'll be posting a bonus tune in the middle of the week to tide things over until the weekend release of the next new podcast. The songs will be in some way related to previous podcasts - encores of popular selections, extra songs by artists featured on Why Fidelity, and so on... - Enjoy!

Here's a track from Ramses Shaffy, who we featured way back in Why Fidelity Show #1.

If you liked "Assemaleistos" I'm sure you'll love "Maya".

Why Fidelity Show # 4

Why Fidelity Show # 4 | Download Page

Playlist:

Why Fidelity Theme 001
The Sound of Music - Speed Limit & The Rhythm Machines
Nobody Loves A Fat Man - Sid Laverents
Here She Comes Now - Ergo Phizmiz and His Orchestra
April & May - David Fridlund
Take Five - Martin Denny
Theme de Candice - Francis Lai
Man Alive - The Tony Hatch Sound
Monty Python's Spamalot - Album of the Week
Birthday - The Texas Chainsaw Orchestra

Show Notes:

The Why Fidelity Theme 001 was improvised live within Firefox using the Free Sound Project samples from Bacterio by Virotic & Tenor Sax by simondsouza.

Roctober has a nice article & film/disc-ography of cult filmaker Sid Laverents while EGG has a video profile.

Experimental sound artist Ergo Phizmiz's official site features nearly 20 hours of archived audio plus a full discography and all the rest.

Monty Python's Spamalot has amassed a fairly astounding 14 Tony nominations. You can preview the cast recording at the very amusing official Spamalot site or buy the wonderful CD.(actually you can, and should, do both!)

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Why Fidelity Podcast #3

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Playlist:

• Franco Noodles while Women Die ... Jess Franco
• The Giallos Flame Profondo Giallo Sampler
• Ape's Shuffle ... The Jeff Wayne Space Shuttle
• Namor The Sub-Mariner '66
• Polynesian Hay Ride ... Alex Keack
• Come Vere the Band ist Playing ... Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band
• Goodbye ... The Universe
• Spirit of Dunkirk ... The Camberwell Now
• Milkshake ... The Pictures
• Talk All You Want To, Johnny ... Decastro & Badillo

Show Notes:

• Franco Noodles while Women Die from El Secreto de Dr. Orloff and courtesy the fine blog M Valdemar
• "The Giallos Flame was created to keep the sound of 70s giallo & Italian horror soundtracks alive!!" The track featured here is a sampler of thier "Profundo Giallo" EP.
• Ape's Shuffle - Jeff Wayne is probably best known for his rock opera version of War of the Worlds. he was also a producer of some repute - Glitter Suits and Platform Boots has a nice Bio.
• Alex Keak's Surfer's Paradise album is currently being shared at Goofspot.
• The Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band's album Music For Non-Thinkers is currently being shared by WeirdoMusic.
• Spirit of Dunkirk comes from The Camberwell Now's album All's Well.

Why Fidelity Podcast - Show #2

Why Fidelity Podcast - Show #2

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Playlist

• The Conet Project
• Range Rider | Keith Mansfield
• Jeans Blues | Meiko Kaji
• Hilo March | Martin Denny
• Maria Minguem | Brigitte Bardot
• Shoo Shoo Baby | Bobbysocks!
• Yellow Submarine | The Jalopy Five
• Public Melody #1 | Cardinal
• Moonflight | Vic Venus
• We're an Accordian Band | Those Darn Accordians

Show Notes

* Vinylvulture has a terrific article about production music legend Keith Mansfield: K is Keith

Think of a UK TV sports programme, any UK TV sports programme, and the chances are it'll be a British television institution such as Grandstand or the BBC's coverage of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships that will instantly spring to mind. Both programmes and others such as the BBC's Athletics coverage are united by the fact their exuberant, driving signature tunes come from the brilliantly musical mind of Keith Mansfield - one of Britain's premier arrangers and composers of the past forty years.

* Meiko Kaji: meiko-kaji.comis a wonderful unofficial website dedicated to this multi-faceted performer.There you can find a generous selection of MP3s including Jeans Blues.

LADY SNOWBLOOD, BLIZZARD FROM THE NETHERWORLD is a film that splits up in different chapters bearing highly poetical names (
"Crying Bamboo, Dolls of the Netherworld", "Umbrella of Blood, Heart of Strewn Flowers", etc.), based on the systematic elimination of the gang members. Ring a bell? In fact, Tarantino can't deny (and in fact proudly acqnowledges) the influence of LADY SNOWBLOOD on the development of the storyline in KILL BILL VOL. 1.

* Martin Denny : Two great sites for Denny info: Space Age Pop and The Temple of Martin Denny

* Brigitte Bardot : Swingin' Chicks and a gallery of pix.

* The Jalopy Five: Thanks to 45Blog for this track...

I find "Yellow Submarine" one of Hit Records' finest moments, not just because they couldn't afford real sound effects or a real brass band, but because they gamely imitated these elements using nothing but their mouths.

45Blog also provided a t'riffic link for The Hit Records Project.

* Vic Venus : This bubblegum sample novelty tune was put together by WMCA DJ Jack Spector. WMCA Good Guys is a site dedicated to this classic NYC station and it hosts a bunch of neat audio files (Real Audio sadly) including this ...

Jack Spector on the "Reunion of the Rock and Roll Radio Greats" held on New York City's WCBS-FM on June 10, 1989. Jack sounded terrific talking about those great days at WMCA with stories and memories. He also played his "Vic Venus Moonflight" record which was a hit for him in 1969! An actual "Jake" aircheck from 1968 is included and fellow Good Guy Dean Anthony drops in for a visit. Jack mentions as many names as he can over the air.... a trademark of the Good Guys! (courtesy Michael Ackerman) (26 mins.)

* Those Darn Accordians : The Official Website features audio sample including the MP3 of We're an Accordian Band.

San Francisco's accordion-fueled rock 'n' roll band pumps out quirky, catchy originals chronicling life in the weird lane. The six-piece group -- fronted by lead singer/squeezebox wizard Paul Rogers and bellows-pumping babes Carri Abrahms, Susie Davis and Suzanne Garramone -- promises to forever rearrange your understanding of the accordion. TDA's four extreme squeezeboxers mix solid keyboard chops with a groundbreaking use of guitar effects pedals and amps to produce a super-cool sound like nothing you've ever heard emanating from an accordion.

Why Fidelity Podcast #1

Music that you won't hear everywhere else, music that's fallen between the pop culture cracks, music from here/there/otherwhere...all in glorious Why Fidelity.

Show #1 - Debut | Download Page
Playlist:

• Drums and Trumpets | The Conet Project
• Chilli Peppers | The Jumping Jacques
• Assemaleistos | Ramses Shaffy
• Show Jumper | Clive Hicks
• Bewilderbeeste | Viv Stanshall
• Holiday Inn | New Vaudeville Band
• Ray Charles for Coca Cola
• Reasons to be Miserable | Marvin the Paranoid Android
• Symphony for a Spider Plant | Mort Garson
• Byakhee, Byakhee | A Shoggoth on the Roof

Show Notes:

• The program opens with a short excerpt from the Conet Project: Recordings of Short Wave Number Stations (Buy deluxe The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations 4 CD Set or download from Archive.com )

• Ramses Shaffy is a legend in the Netherlands from Sylvester Hoogmoed's teriffic Shaffy site...

"He's a Dutch-Franco-Polish-Russian-Egyptian mixture of Tom Waits and Frank Sinatra: Ramses Shaffy! With his spirited, lively and touching songs he seduced the Dutch, who - at least until the late 1960s - were renowned for their lack of flamboyance. It's said that during the 1960s everybody in Amsterdam was in love with him."

• The Clive Hicks track comes from the KPM library collection "Flamboyant Themes".

• Contrary to popular belief The New Vaudeville Band did record some decent songs aside from the ubiquitous Winchester Cathedral - Holiday Inn can be found on the album Winchester Cathedral

• Reasons to be Miserable comes from the old skool Marvin the Paranoid Android

• Cthulu Lives has a nice rundown of the history of A Shoggoth on the Roof and a 20 minute documentary as well!
  

Coming Soon - Why Fidelity Debut Podcast

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