mp3: Big Daddy And His Boys - Bacon Fat I first heard today's selection while waiting for Tom Waits at Paris's beautiful Le Grand Rex theatre last year. It was honking out of an assortment of old speaker horns hung up at the rear of stage. I was close...

mp3: The Champs - Beatnik When radio DJs received The Champs first single, they flipped it over and the b-side, Tequila, became the biggest crossover hit of the instrumental surf rock genre as well as being a pioneering force in the area of Chicano...

mp3: Big Maybelle - That's A Pretty Good Love Here's another absolute humdinger of a tune. From 1956, it's the upbeat flip side to one of Big Maybelle's most moving hits, Candy. Featuring the Kelly Owens Orchestra, That's A Pretty Good Love is as...

mp3: The Gamblers - Moon Dawg! mp3: The Gamblers - LSD-25 Today we have two early surf classics which I couldn't describe better than Billboard magazine did on 23 May 1960, under the title Moderate Sales Potential: Moon Dawg - pounding piano...

mp3: Billy Williams - The Pied Piper This is one of those tunes that, upon first listen, I just knew I had to have. Given the subject matter it's appropriately infectious, especially the vocal purring. Such a fun song. It was written by either Eddie...