So, I've been collecting snapshots of price tags old and new... I feel that they are the proverbial "lipstick traces" of the music industry.  So many stores, so many stories....Feel free to share any you might have about these music emporiums...

I remember "borrowing" a copy of a great Marilyn Monroe coffee table book when I was about 12 years old.  Of course it was for the great writings of Mr. Mailer, not the photos, ahem...

Here's a few shots of Norman Mailer's spoken word LP on the short lived Prestige  records subsidiary "Lively Arts"

 

Below is a complete list of the Label output for the Lively Arts series...In the future I'll do a photo essay for the complete series...

Prestige Lively Arts 30000 series (12 inch LP)

• LA 30001  Billy Dee Williams - Let's Misbehave
• LA 30002  A Taste Of Hermione Baddeley
• LA 30003  Roddy McDowall Reads The Horror Stories Of H.P. Lovecraft
• LA 30004  Burgess Meredith Reads Ray Bradbury
• LA 30005  Larry Storch Reads Philip Roth's Epstein
• LA 30006  James Mason Reads The Imp Of The Perverse And Other Stories By Edgar Allen Poe
• LA 30007  James Mason Reads Herman Melville's Bartleby, The Scrivener
• LA 30008  Morris Carnovsky Reads Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground
• LA 30009  Norman Mailer Reads Norman Mailer

A totally new arena for us, we'll be playing a few songs between Burlesque acts, should be great very sexy...

LINKS:

http://www.sssonicsix.com
http://www.itsachick.com/vvh.html
http://www.elcidla.com/

I stumbled upon these two LPs a few years ago, upon dropping the needle I was instantly taken by the period piece quality to the service on the 1st.  Transistor organ, call and response hymnals, talk of vibrations and colors...Who were these people??  Ann Davies cuts an interesting figure on the 1st LP- a somewhat androgynous and harsh looking leader of an esoteric group that was at one time based in my then neighborhood of Highland Park...I'd have to look into it...

                                                                                                                                                                                

    HAPPY    ALL    HALLOWS    EVE


OK, so the day has finally arrived...All Hallows Eve...Devils Night...So my final three suggestions for listening pleasures this wicked evening are here as well...

First, I'll break ranks and suggest a compact disc.  Not just a compact disc but a compact disc single, CD5, whatever...In 1997, the visionaries @ K-Tel came up with the idea to release a novelty single for the Halloween season by none other than Chubby Checker...Maybe they had seen his half-time extravaganza with the Rockettes back in '88 and, that being pretty scary, they thought he could pull of the Halloween thing. The tracks- Doin' The Zombie, House of Horror, The Twist, & Screams From Beyond rival the Fat Boys collaboration on the scare-o-meter (of course none of these tracks come close to the Fat Boys collaboration that the Beach Boys did, or worse yet Mike Love's "Rock n Roll Again" LP where he helps butcher some older songs...check out "Walk Away Renee" by the Association, Midi/Yamaha DX7 frights from hell...anyhow I digress)