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Silly Songs – 3 LP Set from Imperial House

Posted by Bruce on May 3, 2010 in Comedy with No Comments

A three disc set of musical madness appears below (bring a packed lunch, folks, this post is gonna be a long one. )

LP Title: Silly Songs

Label: Imperial House division of K-Tel International, P/L

Category: Comedy

Catalogue Number IH 001

All Selections courtesy of FJ Productions

Record 1, Side 1

Alley Oop – The Hollywood Argyles

They’re Coming To Take Me Away – Jerry Samuels A.K.A. Napoleon XIV

Poco Loco – Gene and Eunice

Rubber Duckie – Harv Norman

Seven Little Girls Singing in the Back Seat – Paul Evans

Running Bear – Johnny Preston

Record 1, Side 2

The Birds and the Bees – Jewel Atkins

Rockin’ Robin – Bobby Day

Mah-Na-Mah-Na – Piero Umiliani

Bread and Butter – Newbeats

My Old Man’s A Dustman – Lonnie Donegan

Charlie Brown – The Coasters

Record 2, Side 1

Chewy Chewy – Ohio Express

The Birds The Word – The Rivingtons

Little Eefin’ Annie – Joe Perkins

Mule Skinner Blues – the Fendermen

Wooly Bully – Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs

Shaving Cream – The Gruesome Three

Loop De Loop – Johnny Thunder

Record 2, Side 2

Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It’s Flavour on the Bedpost Overnight – Lonnie Donegan

Little Green Bag – George Baker Selection

Farmer John – The Premiers

Simon Says – 1910 Fruitgum Company

Bony Moronie – Larry Williams

Hully Gully – Hollywood Argyles

Record 3, Side 1

Western Movies – The Olympics

Georgie Porgie – Jewel Atkins

A Little Bit of Soup – Jermels

The World’s Biggest Whopper – Junior Samples

Mr. Custer – Larry Verne

May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose – Little Jimmie Dickens

Yakety Yak – The Coasters

Record 3, Side 2

Yummy Yummy – Ohio Express

Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow – The Rivingtons

Happy-Go-Lucky me – Paul Evans

Haunted House – Jumpin’ Gene Simmons

Little Red Riding Hood – Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs

Surfin’ Bird – The Trashmen

Blue Moon – The Marcels

40 of the craziest songs ever to be unleashed.

The artwork was also used on a K-Tel compilation entitled Looney Tunes, that collection includes some of these songs, as well as “The Witch Doctor” by David Seville (Ross Bagdasarian Sr.), Kookie, lend Me Your Comb (Ed Byrne) and many others

A little bit of silliness to end the (Queensland) Labour Day public holiday

K-Tel

Posted by Bruce on April 27, 2010 in Labels with No Comments

This month’s final post covers a TV promotional record company that had offices around the world (but is now limited to the U.K., Germany and the U.S.) – K-Tel International

K-Tel’s presence in Australia started in the late 1960′s when it first appeared as Majestic Records, the K-Tel name didn’t start to appear until about the mid 1970′s

The first label in this gallery is the standard K-Tel label for the 1970′s (I don’t have access to some of my records, which does include a couple of Majestic record titles, but as soon as I can access them, I’ll update them here.)

Update: 24/5/2010 during my research, I finally located the first known K-Tel label from the early 70′s and it appears below.

Like all other TV promotional record companies here, the label colour combination would vary from release to release

from 1980 until the companies closure here, K-Tel used the following label design (gee I hate gradient colour labels. )

Also in my collection, I have a release from a subsidiary label called Imperial House (it uses the old Majestic logo)

finally, do not adjust your browser, this is definately a K-Tel release, but was produced under license from Warner Special Products (WEA at the time of release). This is actually a rare U.S. Import for K-Tel, as all of our LP’s are usually manufactured locally

Standby for another “Do Not Adjust Your set” moment, as K-Tel released a Disneyland LP under license. It’s the Disneyland “Rainbow” label but with Australian copyright info:

K-Tel (technically) ceased operations here in Australia around 1986.

One Shot record labels part 1

Posted by Bruce on January 29, 2010 in Labels with No Comments

Amongst my new years resolutions this year is to post a minimum of 2 label galleries a month over the year (until I have more or less completed what I intend to post)

Technically my poll from earlier this month was the first lot. Today, I am posting my second gallery and is part 1 of a gallery of record labels from companies that had a small number of releases.

the first label comes from a release from record company Endeavour records

I have only seen one release by this company and it was the LP entitled “Reach for the Sky” by Apollo 100

the next label in the gallery is for Landfall Press. The company had a number of releases between 1974 and 1977. The following is their custom release label

In part 2, I’ll post a Landfall general release with the Peter Pan records logo. (probably in March)

the next label is for Melbourne based record label, Pisces records (which was released first through Festival and later through Astor records (Astor’s gallery is coming soon))

In case if anyone is wondering, yes, it’s the same Johnny Young of “Young Talent Time” fame.

Here is another one shot. Impact Music Promotions only had the one release, a compilation LP of disco music (I however have a sneaking suspicion this was a one-shot release of K-Tel (as the address was the same as where K-Tel International had it’s offices at the time.))

and finally, a record company that had three or four releases (it turns out that Omega made at least two dozen releases) before finally disappearing into the ether – Omega records.

the label is from a compilation LP of comedy and novelty hits (such as Rod Boucher’s “No Worries Luv”, John Williamson’s first hit “Old Man Emu” and Ray Stevens’ “Bridget the Midget”