The BAT Pack: A Halloween Mix

Rockin' soul, surf, lounge, jazz, comedy, novelties, outsider oddities, movie ads and dialogue clips...hey kids, it's a '50s/...

Singing TV Horror-Show Hosts

In 1953, the late Maila Nurmi aka Vampira invented that beloved American tradition, the TV horror host. Did other countries pick up on this ...

The Roto Rooter Good Time Christmas Band

"Bernie Green plays More Than You Can Stand In Hi Fi" is back on line. This cheerfully eccentric band of refugees from the UCLA j...

Sounds Of The American Fast Food Restaurants

As a follow-up to last months' posting of Gregg Turkington's S ounds of San Francisco Adult Bookstores is the equally silly: The Go...

Christmas 2001: A Space-Age Adventure

The " Space-Age Santa " collection from a couple Christmases ago featured a track " from a kiddie xian xmas album that I foun...

UnPop Music - A MusicForManiacs Sampler

All music that isn't classical, jazz or ethnic/folk is 'pop', meaning 'popular.' Except when it isn't. Here are some...

FILTHY FRIDAYS: Halloween Instrumentals (2 Disks: 60 Tracks)

Another request satisfied: for what is possible the strangest comedy album ever,  Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan And another weekend is up...