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To: Fiji Hill; Revolting cat!
Hooty Sapperticker--Barbara & the Boys (1958)

That song got "Comped" (reissued on a grey market compilation album) in the 1990s. It went around the world among the garage rock crowd.

(CD cover re-reissue/re-compile)

(original 90s edition)

http://www.allmusic.com/album/las-vegas-grind-pt-1-mw0000620694

The label responsible for the Las Vegas Grind series is Strip. "Strip" is also the best possible name for the genre these compilations celebrate.

In an age where exotic dancing is invariably accompanied by Top 40 hits, it is difficult to imagine house bands for strip clubs. On the other hand, it is equally difficult to imagine this collection of bands playing anywhere else.

Las Vegas Grind is the reprobate little sister of lounge music and the unwed mother of all '60s garage bands. It distinguishes itself from these venerable styles in that it has none of lounge music's artsy cocktail pretension, nor does it possess the snotty suburban wrath that is the mark of garage bands. It is like both genres, though, in that there is not a drop of irony anywhere to be found on the whole disc.

To say that it lacks irony is not to say that it lacks jocularity. While most numbers -- "The Strip," "The Whip," and "Drums A-Go-Go," to name but three -- are sincerely risqué, several more dubious tracks -- "A La Carte," "Pimples & Braces," and "Hooty Sapperticker," for example -- approach the level of novelty tune. These musical gags seem to provide the same slightly sweaty, slightly nervous acquittal as Benny Hill, French sex comedies and Playboy cartoons. Never mind the naked ladies, it's all just bawdy fun. With naked ladies or without, Las Vegas Grind is bawdy fun, indeed.

Heck it beat listening to N'Sync or Gin Blossoms in the 1990s.http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/290/MI0002290382.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

221 posted on 01/02/2014 8:42:58 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: a fool in paradise

“Las Vegas Grind” would probably have been for sale at Rhino Records in West LA. I got a lot of LP’s there that were unavailable anywhere else.


229 posted on 01/02/2014 9:21:58 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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