thriftcrawler 07/09/05

07/09/05

01. MASK truck

From 1985 comes this truck from the semi-popular cartoon series, MASK. This website tells me that it's called the FIRECRACKER and it's driven by HONDO MACLEAN! What's the MASK gimmick, you ask? Well, when you flip little switches on the vehicles, crazy shit like this happens:

SPROING! Now it's taller and has two lil' phillips-head screwdrivers popping out of its grill! FIRECRACKER originally came with a motorcycle and spare tire, but some 7-year-old undoubtedly melted them both with his dad's lighter back in 1987. This was 95 cents at Red White & Blue.

02. 4 LPs, 3 singles

I could've sworn I bought these four albums at RW&B, but there's no colored price tags on them. Maybe I oughta cut back on the green stuff.

01. Squeeze - Cool for Cats (1979)
Silly new-wave pop with heavy British accents. Pretty good album (the song "Cool for Cats" is tops,) but everything Squeeze did after this was pretty lame.

02. Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1973)
I'll let the note a 70's DJ at WTUL (Tulane University's radio station) wrote on the catalog sticker do the talking: "Keyboard man for Yes. Entire group is Yes without vocalist John Anderson. Very good album." Wakeman's heavy on the cheeze sometimes, but this is a good album.

03. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)
You know this one. Dylan's sophomore outing features "Blowin' in the Wind", "Masters of War", "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" and others.

04. The 5th Dimension - The Age of Aquarius (1969)
This infamously soulless soul group actually manages to sound somewhat black on "Let the Sunshine In", but after that it gets more whitebread than the Kingston "Fucking" Trio.

Okay, I do remember where I got these three 45s: Odds and Ends antique shop on Jefferson Highway. I normally stay away from antique shops ("antique shop" usually translates to "thrift store crap with inflated prices",) but this one advertised "OLD RECORDS" on the side of the building, so Sherie and I checked it out. Here's what I found for 50 cents a piece:

05. Elephant's Memory - Skyscraper Commando (Metromedia - 1971)
I liked the name. Turns out these guys are affiliated with John Lennon in some manner. WOW!

06. Carla Thomas - Guide Me Well (Stax - 1970)
From her 1969 album "Memphis Queen". Strangely enough, she was known as the "Queen of Memphis Soul".

07. Diana Ross - Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand) (Motown - 1970)
Taken from the former Supreme's self-titled debut LP.

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01.	Squeeze - Cool for Cats (1979) Silly new-wave pop with heavy British accents. Pretty good album (the song "Cool for Cats" is tops,) but everything Squeeze did after this was pretty lame.
02.	Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1973) I'll let the note a 70's DJ at WTUL (Tulane University's radio station) wrote on the catalog sticker do the talking: "Keyboard man for Yes. Entire group is Yes without vocalist John Anderson. Very good album." Wakeman's heavy on the cheeze sometimes, but this is a good album.
03.	Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963) You know this one. Dylan's sophomore outing features "Blowin' in the Wind", "Masters of War", "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" and others.
04.	The 5th Dimension - The Age of Aquarius (1969) This infamously soulless soul group actually manages to sound somewhat black on "Let the Sunshine In", but after that it gets more whitebread than the Kingston "Fucking" Trio.

05.	Elephant's Memory - Skyscraper Commando (Metromedia - 1971) I liked the name. Turns out these guys are affiliated with John Lennon in some manner. WOW!
06.	Carla Thomas - Guide Me Well (Stax - 1970) From her 1969 album "Memphis Queen". Strangely enough, she was known as the "Queen of Memphis Soul".
07.	Diana Ross - Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand) (Motown - 1970) Taken from the former Supreme's self-titled debut LP.