Disco DuckPlaylist for
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
June 13, 2008

Hosted by Greg Lyon on FRIDAYS at 2-4 pm
on WPVM Asheville (103.5 FM and www.wpvm.org)

Notes:

– Two major themes this week. First and by far most important is the upcoming Asheville appearance (Thursday, July 26 at the Grey Eagle, courtesy of Harvest Records) of Alan and Richard Bishop as "The Brothers Unconnected." The Bishop brothers are 2/3 of Sun City Girls, and this tour is to be an homage to the other third, Charles Gocher, who passed away last year. So I played a bunch of Sun City Girls to get revved up for the show.

– Theme two was the "My First Record" segment. Shaina brought in the first LP she ever bought, Steeleye Span’s 1976 Rocket Cottage. Not a very embarrassing choice, I must say, especially when compared to mine: the Disco Duck Dance Party (Peter Pan Records), also from 1976. Sure, Disco Duck sucks, but I rather liked the second song from the album, the disco Beethoven "A Fifth of Beethoven"–notice the indefinite article, a pun that was obviously beyond my wee head when I bought the record (or had the record purchased for me, as the case no doubt was). My second album was KC and the Sunshine Band Vol. 3. I feel a lot better about that one.

 

Artist Song Album Label Comments New
Eugene Chadbourne 7+7= LSDC&W Fundamental 1987, Love cover  
Love Orange Skies Revisited Elektra 1966  
Larry Young Sunshine Fly Away Lawrence of Newark Castle (reissue) 1973  
The Free Pop Electronic Concept Planetary Gospel A New Exciting Experience Vampi Soul late 60s *
Spontaneous Music Ensemble (John Stevens & Trevor Watts) In the Midlands Bare Essentials 1972-3 Emanem 1973 *
Steve Lacy Sextet As Usual The Gleam Silkheart 1986  
Buffy Sainte-Marie He’s a Keeper of the Fire Illuminations Vanguard 1969, Buffy rocks out  
Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra The World Is Gone VA - The In Kraut Vol. 3: Hip Shaking Grooves Made in Germany 1967-1974 Marina compilation of 70s German lounge exotica *
Unknown Weather/English Objectives VA - Radio Myanmar Sublime Frequencies wonderful weirdness from Burma *
Orchestra Baobab Sibam Made in Dakar Nonesuch 2008, Senegal *
Sun City Girls Apna Desh 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda Abduction 1996  
Sun City Girls 3D Girls Mister Lonely (OST) Drag City 2008, split soundtrack with J. Spaceman *
Sun City Girls Plater Cupids Falling from the Ceiling You’re Never Alone with a Cigarette (Sun City Girls Singles Volume 1) Abduction 1988 recording, ended up on "Three Fake Female Orgasms" double 7" *
Sir Richard Bishop Cross My Palm with Silver Polytheistic Fragments Drag City 2007  
Steeleye Span The Brown Girl Rocket Cottage Chrysalis 1976  
Irwin the Disco Duck and the Wibble Wabble Singers and Orchestra Disco Duck Disco Duck Peter Pan 1976  
Steeleye Span Brown Girl Rocket Cottage Chrysalis 1976  
Irwin the Disco Duck and the Wibble Wabble Singers and Orchestra A Fifth of Beethoven Disco Duck Peter Pan 1976  
The Fall I’ve Been Duped Imperial Wax Solvent Castle 2008, no US issue yet  
Golden Error Hunted VA - Love & Circuits Cardboard 2008 *
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth Hairvest Not Noiice Chalk Circle 2008, Austin TX *
Soda Fountain Rag Angry Girl It’s Rag Time! Yes Boy Ice Cream

2008, Bergen, Norway

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