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SAKURA (櫻花) "提醒你 - LIKE I DO" (1966)
Ying Hua, best known by her stage name of Sakura Teng, was born in Muar, state of Johor, Malaysia, sometimes in the late '40s - probably in 1948. She has always been mistaken for a Singaporean as she...
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ZACAR ORCHESTRA "DISCO-TAKE" (1977)
Zacar Orchestra was a Disco project conducted by Ciro "Zacar" Dammicco, best known as a founding member of the Daniel Sentacruz Ensemble; "Disco-Take" was the group's one and only album.Dammicco began...
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THE SHEEP RECORDS STORY #15: GUTTER QUEENS "TEENAGE WASTELAND / GET GLAMED...
Sheep Records was a Swiss underground label specialized in Garage-Rock, Surf, Lounge and other Rock'n'Roll oddities. Run by Christian Müller from Zürich, along with friends Andi Frick and Andreas Egi,...
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LOU RAWLS "THAT'S LOU" (1967)
«Not since the great Ray Charles burst into the musical firmament has an entertainer illuminated contemporary music with the brilliance of Lou Rawls.Having a string of smash hit albums to his credit,...
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JIMI TENOR - FEATURE/REVIEW FROM "RUMBA" MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 1987
These days I'm working on the material for some upcoming posts which will cover Jimi Tenor and His Shamans vinyl releases.Since I need to have the following feature/review translated in English, I...
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DICK HYMAN / MARY MAYO "MOON GAS" (1963)
«There is a distinct possibility that this is the greatest record ever recorded before 1968.» [1]Richard "Dick" Hyman (born March 8, 1927, New York City) is an American jazz pianist/keyboardist and...
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DICK JENSEN "A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS / TAMIKA (COME BACK LATER)" (1972)
Dick Jensen was one of the first artists to sign with the now-legendary Philadelphia International Records label in 1971. Nowadays it seems that he had little in common with the other artists which...
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THE SHEEP RECORDS STORY #16: THE MEN FROM S.P.E.C.T.R.E. "BURNOUT FOR DAVIE /...
Sheep Records was a Swiss underground label specialized in Garage-Rock, Surf, Lounge and other Rock'n'Roll oddities. Run by Christian Müller from Zürich, along with friends Andi Frick and Andreas Egi,...
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JEAN PAUL & ANGELIQUE "JEAN PAUL & ANGELIQUE" (1975)
«This is our first album and we were advised to publish it without a title, because in this way the public will remember better our names: Jean Paul & Angelique.However, we would have called it...
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BUNGALOW RECORDS, THE POOL SERIES #1: DOB "PLANET DOB" (1997)
Bungalow Records was (...or still is?) a Pop / Electronica label founded in 1996 by Berliner DJs Holger Beier and Marcus Liesenfeld, a.k.a. Le Hammond Inferno:«We have always been passionate about...
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RITA CHAO (凌雲) - A COLLECTION OF PICTURES
Here's a collection of pictures of Singapore singer Rita Chao (凌雲). A few pictures were sourced from the Internet; most of the others comes from my own records collection and are made available here...
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STEREO TOTAL "ALLO... J'ECOUTE..." (1995)
Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vaisEt tes larmes n'y pourront rien changerComme dit si bien Verlaine 'au vent mauvais'Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vaisTu te souviens des jours anciens et tu...
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RITA CHAO (凌雲) "SHAKE, SHAKE, SHAKE - 搖搖搖" (1966)
Rita Chao, best known to her Mandarin-speaking fans as 凌雲 (…Ling Yun, Ling Ying or Seow Mei-Mei, depending on the source of information you’d prefer to rely on…), was born in Singapore, most probably...
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JIMI TENOR AND HIS SHAMANS "X-RAYS / STILL IN LOVE" (1987)
Jimi Tenor was born in 1965 as Lassi O. T. Lehto in Lahti, Finland. The resemblance to the youngest member of The Osmonds, Little Jimmy Osmond, earned him his nickname of Jimi in the early '70s.Just...
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AMBO QUAERENS "AMBO QUAERENS" (1980)
«Among all the experiments that are taking place in modern music, maybe the Miami-based French duo of Phil Lasry and Franck Lasry is the one that has most impressed the medias. Featuring voices that...
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SAKURA (櫻花) "牧童之歌 - I DON'T CARE IF TOMORROW NEVER COMES" (1966)
Ying Hua, best known by her stage name of Sakura Teng, was born in Muar, state of Johor, Malaysia, sometimes in the late '40s - probably in 1948. She has always been mistaken for a Singaporean as she...
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NEW LINKS FOR OLD FILES (2)
A few visitors were kind enough to inform me that many of the files uploaded on DepositFiles are unavailable...Today I uploaded all of them somewhere else: if you unsuccessfully tried to download...
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JEAN PAUL & ANGELIQUE "HARMATTAN / AFRICA SOUND" (1976)
This short post is dedicated to Jean Paul & Angelique's single "Harmattan / Africa Sound", hope I will be able to write more about them as soon as I take care about their "Jean Paul &...
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LOLITAS "LE KIT SINGLE" (1990)
Lolitas were a French-German rock band influenced by Punk, Rockabilly, U.S. Garage, French 60s Ye-Ye Music and Pop. For more information about them please have a look at one of the posts I previously...
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DICK JENSEN "PEACE OF MIND / NEW YORK CITY'S A LONELY TOWN" (1973)
I know where to go to get sunshineSouth of the border, go swimming in the waterI know where to get the best of wineOh Paris, that's the place for meWhere do you go when your heart is breaking?How do I...
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