Mix Tape 015

Kit & the Outlaws

Aardvarks

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1. "Out of Control" - Yo La Tengo - cover of Channel 3 (Mix14), from "Upside Down" 1992

2. "Long Gone" - The Customs - from 1979, reissued on "Really Long Gone" their reunion album

3. "It's Only Life" - The Feelies - from "Only Life" 1988

4. "Time Changes Things" - The Metros - RCA, 1966

5. "Fever" - The Huntsmen - from "Halloween Garage Rock" -- anyone care to guess who recorded this first? No cheating!

6. "Sun Arise" - This Side Up - Prestige, 1966

7. "Wanna Make Him Mine" - The Emeralds - Jubilee, 1964

8. "Go Away" - The Basements - from the recently release best album of the year so far, "I'm Dead" -- teens from Greece

9. "Police and Thieves" - Junior Murvin - Island, 1976 - his first release, not bad

10. "He Broke Your Game Wide Open" - Frank Dell - Valise, 1967

11. "Don't Tread On Me" - Kit & the Outlaws - Black Knight, 1966

12. "When I Met You" - Lizardz - soon to be released on Fuzz Overdose, from Lost in Tyme V6, yet another great Greek band

13. "My Friends" - The Strangers - King, 1954

14. "She Rocks 'n Rolls All Night and Day" - Redeemers - originally released in 1999, from the album of the same name

15. "Gonna Make Him My Baby" - April Young - 1965 from the album "Where the Girls Are"

16. "Little Bit O' Soul" - Little Darlings - Fontana, 1965 - the original recording

17. "I'm Higher Than I'm Down" - Aardvarks - Vark, 1966

18. "Your Golden Touch" - A Clockwork Orange - Creole, 1967

19. "The Same Identical Thing" - The Gillettes - J&S, 1964

20. "Please Let Me Wonder" - Beach Boys - Wikipedia: It has been said that "Please Let Me Wonder" was the very first song that Brian Wilson wrote under the influence of marijuana. The song was first released on the band's 1965 album Today!. As a B-side, it peaked at a number 52 in Billboard and number 46 in Cash Box. The contemporary Gilbert Youth Survey conducted nationally in April 1965 placed this song at number 9 in its chart one week. Due to the lyrics, which are filled with a sense of longing and uncertainty, it is, in a sense, a contrasting piece to Wilson's "When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)".

Scan Credits:

Customs scan from gethip.com

Frank Dell 45 scan from discogs.com

Kit & the Outlaws scan from http://www.garagehangover.com/

Aardvarks scan from http://www.grandrapidsrocks.com/

Gillettes 45 scan from popsike.com

Mix Tape 014

Maurice Williams

Dukes circa 1959

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1. "Out of Control" - Channel 3 - originally from "I've Got a Gun" on No Future, 1982

2. "I've Been Through It Before" - Paul Messis - previously unreleased, from Lost in Tyme V6 - Plagues cover

3. "It's Your Voodoo Workin'" - Charles Sheffield - Excello, 1961

4. "Goodbye" - Ash Gray and the Girls - from "Born in the Summer" - released last month

5. "We'll Run Away" - Beach Boys - from "All Summer Long" 1964

6. "Dancing Mood" - Delroy Wilson - Studio One, 1968

7. "Don't Tell Me the Truth" - The Remains (original lineup) - from "Movin' On" 2002, only 30 or so years between releases

8. "Turning My Heartbeat Up" - The Moving Sounds - from "Don't Sleep on This" 2006 - Swedish band, great album

9. "Heartbeat" - Detroit Cobras - from "Baby" 2005

10. "Hey Hey Mary" - Thee Martian Boyfriends - from 2010 on Lost in Tyme Records, fantastic album from this Belgian group

11. "Lollipop" - Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs - from "At the Beach" 1965, first released by Ronald & Ruby in 1958 - Wikipedia:  The song originated when Julius Dixon was late for a songwriting session with Beverly Ross. He explained that his daughter had gotten a lollipop stuck in her hair, and that had caused him to be late. Ross was so inspired by the word "lollipop" that she sat down at the piano and produced a version of the song on the spot. Beverly Ross recorded a demo of the song with Ronald Gumm, a 13-year old neighbor of Dixon, under the name Ronald & Ruby. Ross' mother insisted that she use a pseudonym for safety reasons, because they were an interracial duo.[3]
RCA got hold of it and Dixon, who owned the master and had produced the demo, agreed to let them release it. Ronald and Ruby's version rose up the chart reaching #20.

12. "I'll Slip Away" - Rod Riguez - Impact, 1967

13. "Record Man" - Ferrets - from Lost in Tyme V6 originally released in 1987

14. "I'm Crying" - The Animals - released as a single in 1964 and written by Eric Burdon and Alan Price.  It was their 2nd hit after… guess what, "House of the Rising Sun"

15. "If Your Mother Only Knew" - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Tamla, 1962 their 3rd album, "I'll Try Something New"

16. "First Time I Saw Her" - The Dukes - Signett, 1967

17. "New Girl" - Jimmie and the Entertainers - Todlin Town 8203, from TomK (?)

18. "Girl Next Door" - Nervous Eaters - from 1980 self-titled LP

19. "The Boy Next Door" - Frankie Karl & the Chevrons - Philtown, 1965

20. "The New Girl in School" - Alex Chilton - Jan & Dean cover from the 1995 album "A Man Called Destruction"

21. "Girls Mean Trouble" - Them Tyrants - 2009 self-titled album, from Sweden

22. "Riot on Sunset Strip (live, 2009) - Standells - from Lost in Tyme V6

Scan Credits:

Channel 3 scan from discogs.com

Thee Martian Boyfriends scan from http://garagepunk.ning.com/

Maurice Williams scan from discogs.com

"If Your Mother Only Knew" scan from http://motownjunkies.co.uk/

Dukes scan from http://genejones.blogspot.com/Dukes

Nervous Eaters scan from http://digivinyltal.blogspot.com/

Mix Tape 013

Yo La Tengo, getting ready to surf the Hudson

The Feelies

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The first 4 songs are in celebration of the newly released biography on Yo La Tengo, "Big Day Coming."  The book is a must if you like the YLT, Hoboken or baseball.  What a nice surprise!

This mix is among the most incoherent, rambling and unfuzzy of all the mixes, though that's not necessarily a bad thing.  In my own way, it's my tribute (mostly) to YLT.

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1. "Dancing Barefoot" - Feelies - from a promotional single given away with BOB magazine, 1989

2. "Automatic Doors" - The Bongos - released originally as the flip side to "The Bulrushes" on Fetish in 1981

3. "Big Brown Eyes" - The dB's - originally released as part of a six-pack in a clear vinyl envelope, 1982

4. "Prisoners of Rock and Roll" - Yo La Tengo - live from Maxwells Hannukah show, 2011

5. "Keep on Dancing" - The Avantis - the original from 1963, though we have a special fondness for the versions by the Beach Boys and Alex Chilton

6. "I'll Never See My Love Again" - Kim Weston - Gordy, 1965

7. "Out of My Mind" - The Surprise Package - Columbia, 1966

8. "In the Back of My Mind" - The Beach Boys - from "Today!" 1965- at the moment, my favorite Beach Boys album.

9. "In the Morning" - Creatures of the Golden Dawn - from "Standing at the Gates of Time" 1995

10. "I Wanna Be (Your Everything)" - The Pretenders - Carnival, 1970

11. "(He's) Seventeen" - The Supremes - from their debut album, "Meet the Supremes" 1962

12. "Things That Matter" - Wylde Mammoths - from the album with the same name, 1988

13. "All Shook Up" - Otis Blackwell - the original, from 1957.  Elvis got a co-writing credit because he thought it was a good phrase for a refrain.

14. "Wonder People (I Do Wonder)" - Love - unreleased track from 1967, it was later included on the deluxe version of "Forever Changes"

15. "The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" - Grateful Dead - from their debut album in 1967.  I regret throwing this album away (with all my Dead albums) in a hissy fit.

16. "She Has Funny Cars" - Jefferson Airplane - from "Surrealistic Pillow" 1967

17. "The Seventh Son" - Willie Mabon - Chess, 1955 - written by Willie Dixon and first released by Mabon

18. "Not the Way Love Should Be" - The Shades of Blue - Shades, 1966

19. "Talent for Lovin'" - Yellow Hair - Pacific Avenue, 1969

20. "Susie Q" - Los Psicodelicos Xochmilcas - try pronouncing that! - probably from the early 60s, from "Blue Demon's Mexican Rock and Roll Favorites"

Scan Credits:

yo la tengo scan from http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/YoLaTengo?from=Main.YoLaTengo

Feelies scan from http://lostbands.blogspot.com/

Bongos scan from http://991.com/Buy/ProductInformation.aspx?StockNumber=563348

dB's scan from thedbs.com

Mix Tape 012

Hank Ballard

The Six Teens

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1. "LSD" - The Sickidz - from "I Could Go to Hell For You" 1984

2. "Homework" - Otis Rush - Duke, 1962

3. "Everything's Gone Wrong" - Larry Knight & the Upsetters - Golden World, 1966

4. "Every Boy and Every Girl" - Chiffons - 1970? from "Sweet Talkin' Girls"

5. "Fire Away" - Ash Gray and the Girls - from "This Could Be a Wild Night EP" 2010

6. "Tell Her No" - Sheffield's Gate - plenty have covered this, but IMO, these guys from Alabama cover it the best, from " Psychedelic States: Alabama in the 60's"

7. "Send Me Flowers" - The Six Teens - Flip, 1956

8. "Send Me Your Love" - Merrell & the Exiles - from "The Early Years 1964-1967"

9. "Dress Up Girls" - The Model Rockets - from "Tell The Kids the Cops Are Here" 2002

10. "Curly Locks" - Junior Byles - from "Best of Junior Byles & The Upsetters 1970-1976"

11. "A Secret of Mine" - The Lost Soul - Raven, 1966

12. "I'll Be Home Someday" - Hank Ballard & the Midnighters - from "Singin' & Swingin'" 1959

13. "That's What You Always Say" - Dream Syndicate - from "Days of Wine & Roses" 1982

14. "For My Sake" - The Girlfriends - Colpix, 1963 - the B side to "My One and Only Jimmy Boy"

15. "Seems Like Yesterday" - Shillings - 1967 from "Allentown Anglophile" - pick up this album if you can find it - Allentown, PA's Anglo-influenced garage scene, many unreleased

16. "See That Girl" - The Undertones - from "Hypnotised" 1980

17. "I'm Gonna Get You" - The L.A. Teens - Decca, 1965

18. "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" - Lazy Lester - Excello, 1958

19. "Do the Shimmy Shimmy Duck" - Four by Art - from "The Early Years '82 - '86"

20. "N.S.U." - Mission of Burma - live from Maxwells in Hoboken at the Yo La Tengo Hannukah fest, 2010

Scan Credits:

Curly Locks scan from http://maguimrootsreggae.blogspot.com/

Six Teens scan from http://electricearl.com/dws

Lost Soul scan from http://southerngaragebands.com/

Hank Ballard scan from allmusic.com