ndiamone
600 Club - QQ All-Star
Here's a Q8 I GUARANTEE even the most Q8 completist doesn't have.
Back in the 70's my old church folk band in the Midwest cut and pressed their own record, featuring light pop/easy listening songs from the late 60's and early 70's.
The only format that was ever sold in back of church after services was an LP - as if church was a music concert.
This was back in the post Vatican II days when churches were still trying to get people to come in - trying all manner of things to do so - including music by the Belgian Singing Nun, rock and roll Lord's Prayer sung by Australian Sister Janet Mead, `hymns' by the St Louis Jesuits - and a record of pop songs by one decidedly antsy church folk band trying to get the idea past a very prehistoric senior pastor.
He came down with an advanced case of pneumonia and was going to be out of commission for about six weeks. You never saw a record arranged, rehearsed, cut and pressed as fast as this was. Well maybe back in the 50's and 60's when twelve songs for a record plus four or five extras that would show up in a box set later were all cut and mastered in under a week.
By that time the pressings were back and half the parish had already bought theirs. They even made a single (Reach out and Touch b/w Guitar Picker) to give to local radio stations - and it even got a little bit of Bubbling Under chart action for a couple weeks the following summer.
That's actually how he heard about it. FM radio didn't play that well in the rehab hospital, so he turned to his AM all-news channel three blocks from the church, which was in the process of transitioning from all news to sunshine pop.
You have to remember this was a guy who thought Ravel's Bolero was modern and therefore satanic and/or pornographic - and that Leopold Stokowski had been a sellout for making Fantasia.
The DJ announced the name of the group as `The Sebastian Singers from right here on 55th Street three blocks away. Performing every Sunday morning and Wednesday night and every afternoon at Lakefest.' The ensuing tornado emanating from Father's hospital bed as a result was felt in five neighboring states.
By the time Fr. Schultz got back out of rehab though, over 2/3rds of the money for the new boiler had been raised by record sales and concert promotions - so he couldn't really say much since he didn't have any better ideas on how to raise money.
How I Found Out Somebody had Even Mixed It for Quad.
When I was back home last fall for my father's funeral, one of the fathers for one of the choirmasters had also passed right around the same time. Word got out that I collected odd music and odd formats (or more accurately allowed them to collect me) so out of the clear blue sky a couple of days later, half-a-pickup load of media showed up at my Dad's house.
I promptly reinforced the boxes and mailed them to myself out West so I could continue dealing with funeral aftermath with my family. After getting back home a month later and unpacking everything - I find inside - among a number of extremely local performances nobody ever heard or cared about (Maas Piano Concerto by C. Maas Jr recorded 1953 on a home acetate, a reel to reel on 101 paper tape with a 1949 recording of Waldvogelein by the State Zither Club - and some commercials [if yer car won't get a goin' an' ya need a lil towin' diall SHMRL (back in the days of 5 digit dialing) you're the center of his worl'...] ) to a number of peoples family's cassettes and reel to reels of their days growing up - was a Q8 of the folk band album.
Tracks include
1. Act I Medley (Come Saturday Morning, Teach Your Children Well, He's Got the Whole World)
2. For Bobby
3. Holly Holy
4. Your Song
5. O Happy Day
6. Reach Out and Touch
7. Act II Medley (Aquarius, Sing, I Dig Rock & Roll Music)
8. Come Back Home
9. Guitar Picker
10. Today
11. Wedding Song (There Is Love)
12. Get Together
My guess is it's maybe one of only a handful of Q8 copies made - maybe as a test run for the producers/arrangers and their families, being the small print on the back of the shell says Duplicated by Columbia Special Products, Naperville Ilinois - and the mix is in fact discrete. One of a few projects I have to get to now that my ex foster dad is in rehab for the next six weeks from spinal surgery.
Back in the 70's my old church folk band in the Midwest cut and pressed their own record, featuring light pop/easy listening songs from the late 60's and early 70's.
The only format that was ever sold in back of church after services was an LP - as if church was a music concert.
This was back in the post Vatican II days when churches were still trying to get people to come in - trying all manner of things to do so - including music by the Belgian Singing Nun, rock and roll Lord's Prayer sung by Australian Sister Janet Mead, `hymns' by the St Louis Jesuits - and a record of pop songs by one decidedly antsy church folk band trying to get the idea past a very prehistoric senior pastor.
He came down with an advanced case of pneumonia and was going to be out of commission for about six weeks. You never saw a record arranged, rehearsed, cut and pressed as fast as this was. Well maybe back in the 50's and 60's when twelve songs for a record plus four or five extras that would show up in a box set later were all cut and mastered in under a week.
By that time the pressings were back and half the parish had already bought theirs. They even made a single (Reach out and Touch b/w Guitar Picker) to give to local radio stations - and it even got a little bit of Bubbling Under chart action for a couple weeks the following summer.
That's actually how he heard about it. FM radio didn't play that well in the rehab hospital, so he turned to his AM all-news channel three blocks from the church, which was in the process of transitioning from all news to sunshine pop.
You have to remember this was a guy who thought Ravel's Bolero was modern and therefore satanic and/or pornographic - and that Leopold Stokowski had been a sellout for making Fantasia.
The DJ announced the name of the group as `The Sebastian Singers from right here on 55th Street three blocks away. Performing every Sunday morning and Wednesday night and every afternoon at Lakefest.' The ensuing tornado emanating from Father's hospital bed as a result was felt in five neighboring states.
By the time Fr. Schultz got back out of rehab though, over 2/3rds of the money for the new boiler had been raised by record sales and concert promotions - so he couldn't really say much since he didn't have any better ideas on how to raise money.
How I Found Out Somebody had Even Mixed It for Quad.
When I was back home last fall for my father's funeral, one of the fathers for one of the choirmasters had also passed right around the same time. Word got out that I collected odd music and odd formats (or more accurately allowed them to collect me) so out of the clear blue sky a couple of days later, half-a-pickup load of media showed up at my Dad's house.
I promptly reinforced the boxes and mailed them to myself out West so I could continue dealing with funeral aftermath with my family. After getting back home a month later and unpacking everything - I find inside - among a number of extremely local performances nobody ever heard or cared about (Maas Piano Concerto by C. Maas Jr recorded 1953 on a home acetate, a reel to reel on 101 paper tape with a 1949 recording of Waldvogelein by the State Zither Club - and some commercials [if yer car won't get a goin' an' ya need a lil towin' diall SHMRL (back in the days of 5 digit dialing) you're the center of his worl'...] ) to a number of peoples family's cassettes and reel to reels of their days growing up - was a Q8 of the folk band album.
Tracks include
1. Act I Medley (Come Saturday Morning, Teach Your Children Well, He's Got the Whole World)
2. For Bobby
3. Holly Holy
4. Your Song
5. O Happy Day
6. Reach Out and Touch
7. Act II Medley (Aquarius, Sing, I Dig Rock & Roll Music)
8. Come Back Home
9. Guitar Picker
10. Today
11. Wedding Song (There Is Love)
12. Get Together
My guess is it's maybe one of only a handful of Q8 copies made - maybe as a test run for the producers/arrangers and their families, being the small print on the back of the shell says Duplicated by Columbia Special Products, Naperville Ilinois - and the mix is in fact discrete. One of a few projects I have to get to now that my ex foster dad is in rehab for the next six weeks from spinal surgery.
