Weird and Wacky Vinyl Page 21: Too Weird... recordings

WOW!

Brand new - never opened 1981 recording of "Old Farts On Wheels" at the Crystal Palace, Aspen!!

It features `Old Farts' singing and rolling around on their roller skates for dinner patrons. Liner notes state "...the shows are witty and clever and original. You can even hum to their ballads."

Magoo's voice by Jim Backus is featured in this 1957 RCA recording. Dennis Farnon compositions include "Wormwood Scrubs March" (2 versions) and a complete suite dedicated to Magoo's mother...

Liner notes include an interview with Magoo and composer Farnon with the former confusing Farnon as a lamp post.

All musical styles are represented with the ad tune "Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer Wiener - That is what I'd like to be - 'cause if I were an Oscar Mayer weiner - everyone would be in love with me".

Friend Tom Allen lived three doors down from me in high school. His dad was manager of an Oscar Mayer plant. Periodically his dad would bring home the Wiener Mobile. We stole it one night to cruise Central Avenue and to pick up chicks.

Within five minutes local police assumed something was awry...

What Luck! I finally found Volume II...

Song bird whistles, evangelist tunes, pipe organ - it's all here folks!

Master whistler Ralph Platt whistles bird songs in tune to evangelistic standards including the well known hit "How Can I Be Lonely?". Lorin Whitney accompanies him with a pipe organ.

Heino - Great Hits No.6

The hair - the Roy Orbison sun glasses - the K-Mart bell bottoms...

INCREDIBLE!

But it's Heino highlighted by the spiritual halo while restraining his two German Shepards that really caught my eye!!

More soft music for candlelight dinners by veteran sugary sweet string arranger Jackie Gleason? Not quite...

This highly collectable album features art work by surrealist Salvador Dali. In Dali's own words, "The feminine element, distant and isolated, forms a perfect triangle with the musical instrument and its other echo, the shell."

Glitsy Scotty's Castle located in Death Valley is strange enough. Add a dinner theatre with a pipe organ and it really makes the top ten kitsch sites of the world!

Here famed organist Rex Koury (billed as America's youngest professional theatre organist) plays tunes for our enjoyment including the hit "Wagon Wheels".

Liner notes suggest that one might avoid performing this feat during thunderstorm activity.

London Records recording artist Don Gillis invents music for us...