To be more specific, what is the strangest song you've either played on your station or heard another play?
For my station, it's hard to tell. Either it is Bass Clef "Break Soca Cascade", anything I've ever played by Grouper, or Icna Ore "Shine on down from the heaven above".
The one that comes to mind is a song by the Bonzo Dog DooDa Band called "Tubas in the Moonlight."
When I hear that song I find it almost impossible to feel romantic.
I have a show that I irregularly produce called Slightly Bent, so I've played a lot of music that was, well, different.
Here are my Top 10 favorites (although the list probably changes from day to day, depending on my mood):
10. Does Your Pussy Do The Dog by the Cramps (tied with Bikini Girls with Machine Guns by the same group)
9. Lightning Strikes by Klaus Nomi (you have to hear this cover of Lou Christie's 60's hit to believe it)
8. Eskimo by Corky & The Juice Pigs (these guys are Canadian, eh)
7. She Grabbed My Coconuts by Barry & The Bookbinders
6. Quit Your Bitchin' by the Polkadellics (Tim Bovey, take note)
5. Downtown by Mrs. Miller (this cover of Petula Clark's 60's hit is so bad it's great!)
4. Please Please Me by Barnes & Barnes (a cover of the Beatles hit, played almost straight, by the group that gave us the song Fish Heads)
3. The Creature Without A Head by Lenny & The Squigtones (the fictional group - in real life Michael McKean & David Lander - featured on the TV show Laverne & Shirley, came together & performed live in L.A. at the Roxy and actually released an album)
2. Tammy's Song by Attilla the Stockbroker with Sarah Subservient (showing the punk musician & poet in a somewhat lighter vein)
1. Take The Skinheads Bowling by Camper Van Beethoven (the title says it all)
I encourage everyone to dig these up and listen to them. Your mind will never be the same again.
Crazy Horses - Osmonds
and (Side A) Two Buffalos by the same artist.
As said above - The Court of King Caracticus
was Side B on the 45,
but it was the weirder one, I thought.
I didn't play these on MICRO1700ETC.
(my last big Part 15 set-up) but they did get played
on my Part 15 stations in the 60s and 70s.
Bruce
I found your songs, Bruce, plus the Entire Collection of Rolf Harris:
https://archive.org/details/RolfHarrisCollection
I recall back in the mid 1970's, I lived in Englewood Colorada, just outside of Denver, and at around this time of year one of the local the radio station would play a song called "The Ballad of Alfred Packer".. I think it might have been actually produced by the radio station because I've never heard it since. I recall only the lyrics from the melody of it going "Chomp Chomp Chomp".. Wish I could remember the words, it was a catchy tune which all us high school students got a kick out of it.
Alfred Packer of course was the sole survivor of a stranded mountain team (I forget where specifically) who to survive had ate the others from the expidentition who had died and froze.
Great halloween tune, and it was entertaining, but at the same time, I recall the thought of it being based on an actual event made me cringe a little.
Polk Salad Annie
Coconut Henery Neilson .
In Every Dreamhome a Heartache..
"Ambrose" by Linda Laurie
Mark
Carl, it's amazing you found the Rolf Harris
songs. "Two Buffalos" was played by Bob Steele
here on local 50 kW WTIC. Bob Steele was on
WTIC for - - almost 6 decades in the morning - and
he could do pretty much anything he wanted. Two Buffalos
was a silly song about Buffalos jumping around in a
guys house and there were more and more and more -
until the guy had to shoot them all. I was a very silly
song. But Rolf Harris got into animal rights and stopped
distributing the song. And that was a REALLY SILLY thing
to do. The song was just plain goofy and had nothing to
do with reality. Heck, I support animal's rights, and I love
that stupid song. Carl, maybe you heard it because Rolf decided
to bring it back.
One of you guys mentioned, "Downtown," by Mrs. Miller.
I think that was from a movie. Maybe a beach movie
from the 1960s? Mrs. Miller was the mother next door
who was in the kitchen cooking all the time. She sang it
and it was so horrible it was hillarious. I would love to hear that one.
I'm using mag software here. I hope it doesn't mess things up.
Bruce
Bruce, that's perfect! I needed something to add to LPH # 86 which will be finished tonight, and it will be the Mrs. Miller song!
I'll be looking forward to that, Carl!
Bruce