Fuji Puzzle Box

A buddy spotted this on the Dusty Groove website.

If you're a comedy head, you like Nichols and May, because they didn't do comedy sketches so much as character-based improvised riffs with a button on the end: hilarious little scherzos whose conversational tone make them some of the only comedy that still

I bought this last month at Portland's legendary Memory Den.

A guitar-playing elephant falls in love with an ant!

Q: Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer?

This is (surprise/no surprise) a really good disco album!

This, another loan from stalwart DJ pal Rich in Washington, has a somewhat twisted story behind it.

From 1966 comes this classic educational record in which "...we find ourselves enmeshed in a net of historical confusion."

When I digitized my grandmother Esther’s archive this year, I had maybe 2000 photos to ingest, half of them loose, half in scrapbooks.

The first of producer Hal Willner's tribute compilations from the 1980s (to be followed by the Kurt Weill collection "Lost in the Stars" in 1985 and the Disney music collection "Stay Awake" in 1988).

I'D LIKE A PIECE OF...MEEEEEEEEEEEEEAT!

This is one of two Tom Lehrer albums that were not collected on the glorious Rhino box set The Remains of Tom Lehrer (hopefully my next blog post will be about the other one).

I first read about Jerry Rayson in the book Enjoy the Experience, a survey of private press LPs in the United States.

You've seen it for $8 in every Lounge/Exotica bin in every record store you've ever visited...but you never bought it.

Around 1942, my grandmother Virginia Carter Stumbough wrote a children’s book, Three Bugs in a Rug.

Been coveting this for a long time; delighted to find a copy after all this time and restore it.

It’s Spring 1970 and you’re about to finish four years of study at a small liberal arts college in Pennsylvania.

When at the mall, do drop in to the Washington Square Magnavox Store for a demo!

Pink Panther on premises!

As the title promises, lots of great garage-eriffic trash here.

Benjamin Vander Meide (1933-2007) was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

A really sweet album of kids' songs by French singer-songwriter Anne Sylvestre, with some glorious album art that I've carefully restored.

Volume 4 (of at least 6).

From Bruce Bastin's book The Melody Man: Joe Davis and the New York Music Scene, 1916-1978: On August 29 Davis recorded a dozen titles, including older risqué titles like "Electrician Blues" and "Shake Your Can," by New York City-based Joyce Heath, at Mas…

Documentary record built from actuality recordings related to the RFK assassination in 1968 and the subsequent trial of Sirhan Sirhan.