September 1, 2025
Complete Halloween List
August 29, 2025
A Booty of Classic Oldies: Have Love Will Travel
From '54 to '62, 20 unsung (several rarities too) classic r&b & doo-wop oldies. Willie Egan's "Wear Your Black Dress," The Mariners' "Zindy Lou," The Cyclones' "My Dear" and Ervin Rucker's "So Good" are a few favs. The Six Teens, Donald Woods & The Vel-Aires, Lena Calhoun & The Emotions, The Maharajahs, The Chestnuts, Dal Perkins, and more. Enjoy!
August 26, 2025
Awesome Downtime 24: Melodic Bloomin'
August 9, 2025
Jungle Safari: A Modern Exotica Express
Neo-Exotica, post-exotica, whatever you want to name it. 18 tracks that still retain the original feel/rhythm but with an obvious modern sound. Mostly instrumentals, and all good. Artists include The Red Fox Tails, Space Age Sunset, The Waitiki 7, The Tiki Torches, Kenny Sasaki & The Tiki Boys, Bahama Soul Club, Chalk Dinosaur and others. I don't have any particular favs. It's a nice flow to sit/kick back and relax. Enjoy!
July 28, 2025
Good Time Halloweenie! 2025 aka Halloween in July!
I'm not sure if I'll continue on with the Halloween mixes hence, released now. There was little interest last year, including some of my best Halloween mixes, and so here we are with a bigger mix than usual. Of the 26 tracks, most are '50s and '60s. A couple from soundtracks as well (Riz Ortolani's Tranquillità e angoscia from the film, Don't Torture a Duckling, and Franco Piersanti's Il Nido del Ragno from the film, The Spider Labyrinth).
Big favs in The Crew's "The Jaguar Hunt," Screaming Lord Sutch's "All Black & Hairy," The Wolf Man's (aka Wolfman Jack) "Strange," Monster Fever's "Hunger Pains," The Verdicts' "The Mummy's Ball," and The Gig Experiment's 10 minute "A Noite das Bruxas (The Halloween Night)." They're all good. Enjoy!
July 25, 2025
Classic Canadian Rock ... For U!
Pol, over at his blog, "What's the Connection?" mentioned my posts regarding Canadian music (check out his Kim Mitchell/Max Webster mix here - "Webster Pick" ), and wouldn't you just know it, I had to once again dig out some great classic Canadian tracks. Many rare outside the border. Check out Gino Vannelli's "Jack Miraculous." This was before you've heard the bg music to Mario Kart/Mario Party, and elevator music on speed. Yeah, you gotta check it out.
Valdy's "Peter & Lou" - a big favorite. Steel River's "Ten Pound Note" sounds like The Band, or so I thought many years back. The same deal with Ginette Reno's "Beautiful Second Hand Man" - I thought either Marilyn McCoo or Petula Clark.
Toby Swann's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" - you guessed it, a rockin'/punkified version of the well endeared Wizard of Oz tune. Murray McLauchlan's "The Farmer's Song" - I still listen to it from time to time, for that lump in throat feeling. 18 tracks, all 70s sans a couple of early 80s. Mostly pop rock. Enjoy!
June 27, 2025
Fuzzy Psych & Other Delights: The '70s
Many deep cuts, 16 in all. Psych, blues rock, hard rock, a bit of heavy acid rock, etc. Bands include US's Whalefeathers, & Corpus, Germany's Baumstam, France's Les Variations, Canada's Wanka, & Emerald City, Netherland's Cosmic Dealer, UK's The Way We Live, and more. Enjoy!
June 24, 2025
The Dynamic '60s! Open Your Eyes! [1960-69]
A hodgepodge of genres. Psych, Rock, Pop, Mod, etc. The Rascals, Paul Revere & The Raiders, The Third Rail, The Kinks, Chad & Jeremy, Gary Lewis & The Playboys, Kasenetz-Katz Super Circus, The Sundowners, and more. 18 deep cuts in all. Enjoy!
June 16, 2025
Classic Ladies of Popcorn: A Little Sugar [1956-65]
Several fine goodies including Maxine Brown, Babs Tino, Yvonne Carroll, Tini Yuro, Dee Dee Warwick, Paula Watson, Toni Carroll, Varetta Dillard, and more. 20 tracks in all. Enjoy!
June 12, 2025
Doo-Wop's Greatest Deep Cut Tracks II
Continuing on... Johnny Bronay, Charles Jones, The Miller Brothers, Aubrey Adams, Donnie Myles, The Carousels, Chuck & Dobby, The Jewels, and more. Enjoy!
June 10, 2025
Doo-Wop's Greatest Deep Cut Tracks I
From '53 to '63. The Vel-Tones, The Derbys, The Rhythm Masters, Marie Knight, Dorisetta Clark, The Spirals, The Jive Chords, and more. 20 tracks in all. Enjoy!
June 2, 2025
Popcorn Mania 18: Any Way You Wanta!
From 1953 to '66. Willie Wright & His Sparklers, Linda Willoby, Mari Norleen, Robert Knight, Marv Johnson, Maureen Evans, Dean & Jean, Bobby Bunny & The Jackrabbits, Bill Giant, and more. Also one of my all-time Sam Cooke favs, "Movin' and A'Groovin'." 20 tracks in all. Enjoy!
May 31, 2025
Orange Whisper: The Modern Experimental Age
All modern tracks. Plenty of experimental but not abstract - it's all rhythmic and grooves. Krautrock, Kosmische Musik, Motorik, a bit of Avant-Garde, Electronica, Progressive and Psychedelic Rock, and of course, Experimental Rock. Favorite favs would be Mint Field's "Contingencia," Village Cucumber's "Salarifarilariland," Mihaly Wulfen's "Slow Morning," and Klas Travelling's "1st Klas." 18 tracks in all. Enjoy!
May 27, 2025
20 Shoobie-Oop-Doop-Bam-A-Lam Oldies!
50s & 60s, mostly rare or unsung gems. A mix of doo-wop, R&B, popcorn, etc. Check out Charlie Feathers' "Jungle Fever." Also Larry Williams' "Hootchy-Koo," The King Bees' "Give Me Your Number" and Caterina Valente's "Taboo" plus a couple of not-so-rare in The Blisters' "Shortnin' Bread" and Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Toki's Theme." Enjoy!
May 12, 2025
Lounge & Exotica: Dirty Beat
All 70s sans one track (Luis Bacalov's 67's "A ciascuno il suo (rhythm version)"). Alan Moorhouse, Klaus Weiss, Alan Parker, Gianni Ferrio, Piero Umiliani, Luigi Zito, Keith Mansfield, etc. The usual great artists. Enjoy!
April 12, 2025
Unsung Tracks of Early Rock 'N' Roll
Some sixties in there so not all early rockin' rollers. The Treniers' "Everything's Wild in Wildwood," The Deep River Boys' "Rock Around the Clock," Tiny Bradshaw's "Built Like a Railroad Track," Little Richard's rehearsal take on "Hound Dog," Big Joe Turner's "Midnight Cannonball," Willie Egan's "I Can't Understand It," etc. All good to great. Enjoy!
April 10, 2025
April 8, 2025
The Retro Lounge: Rockin' & Groovin'
20 tracks of rockin' and some groovin' library/lounge tracks, all 70s sans 69's "Relax in Blues" by Giuliano Sorgini, and 1980's "Place Here #3" by Neil Amsterdam. Big favs in Klaus Weiss' "Morning 2," Gert Wilden & Orchestra's "Dirty Boy" and Tony Tape's "Open Road." All good tracks by Franco Micalizzi, Alberto Baldan Bembo, Alan Moorhouse, José Roberto Bertrami, Remigio Ducros, and many others. Enjoy!
April 4, 2025
The Retro Lounge: Do I Make You Horny?
I must be desperate with the horny subtitles, lol. 18 smooth and sexy lounge tracks, from '66 to '80. Arawak's "Accadde a tutti noi," The Mystic Moods Orchestra's "Down Easy" and Alessandro Alessandroni's "Vele al vento" are big favs, especially the latter. Luciano Simoncini, Piero Piccioni, Alan Parker, Remigio Ducros, Ennio Morricone, Syd Dale, and others. Enjoy!
April 2, 2025
A Modern Motorik Kinda Day Again
Last year we had A Modern Motorik Kinda Day (and A Modern Motorik Kinda Night), and this time, more the same. Again, all dozen tracks are fairly rare. They're all good to great including The Shadow Sea's "The Remnant (Extended Electronic mix)," Sappy's "You Can Turn a Phrase," Mayor Dadi's "In Laos" and Vert-X's "Clus." Speaking of Vert-X, they along with a few other bands, piqued my interest to explore the recherché side of modern motorik, albeit by happenstance. A bit of a long story I'll save for perhaps another time. Anyway, enjoy!