I recently belatedly got round to buying "Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing", the album by the aforementioned Ms Valazza that got rave reviews when it came out last year. Rightly so, as it turns out.
I put it on and was listening to the opening track "Room In The City", which sounded familiar. A bit of digging revealed that was because it features on a free sampler issued by Fluff and Gravy Records that I had picked up last year (and which was worth every penny I didn't spend).
Rather confusingly both the Bandcamp page and the meta data stuff on each track claim that everything dates from 2016, which is not the case at all. My guess is that the Fluffy folk first issued the sampler then and have kept adding tracks over time.
Anyway, here is the Kassi Valazza song with two other selections from the sampler (both originally released in 2017 it seems).
"Room In The City" - Kassi Valazza
"Billy Burroughs" - Jeffrey Martin
"Surfer Joe" - Son of the Velvet Rat
Readers of a certain age will have spotted the reference in the blog title to the kid's programme that made The Magic Roundabout look like it was created by chartered accountants from Guildford. So just for you, here is Episode 1 in its entirety.
I've never seen that before. Once seen, never unseen. I'll have nightmares now.
ReplyDeleteAs a reader of a certain age I have absolutely no memory of that programme.
ReplyDeleteYou and Rol are both clearly far too young
DeleteI know C remembers HR Pufnstuf as she once mentioned it on my blog. I on the other hand have no memory of it at all. Maybe we didn't get it in Scotland.
ReplyDeleteI do indeed, Alyson. So much cheaper than hallucinogenic drugs too.
DeleteI recognise the theme song but can't recall the programme
ReplyDeleteSo just me and C that were the kool kids then? (Alyson is excused on the grounds that she is barely into her thirties so was not there at the time)
DeleteI remember Pufnstuff, but only the film that followed, not the TV series. I recall the former as Mama Cass played one of the witches and sang. I knew her voice from my parents’ The Mamas & The Papas best of album, which I listened to all the time as a wee nipper.
ReplyDeleteYou are right about Mama Cass. This particular song has a message we should all try to remember (even you non-kool kids):
Deletehttps://youtu.be/DHQKAqgB71o?si=Oyv19HpPk2_RZZ8c
And I was never one of the kool kids, of that there was no doubt!
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