Vinyl Albums - Comments by Charlie Chalk

Vinyl Albums - Comments by Charlie Chalk

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Charlie Chalk 28th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Susan Cadogan - Doing It Her Way (1975)	Hurt So Good: [YouTube Video] This version was recorded in London, and is different to the Jamaican recorded version put out on 7". Here are some comments Susan gave to me about this track and the LP as a whole: "I had to re-record "Hurt So Good" for Magnet Records after they lost the legal case for ownership to Trojan Records in 1975. Magnet had bought out the rights and they flew me over and supported my stay in London and I had signed with them. Peter Waterman produced the new version of "Hurt So Good" and this LP for Magnet who could no longer use the original. I also recorded a version for BBC Top of the Pops which I mimed to, whenever I did the show." "My London "Hurt So Good" produced by Pete Waterman. They tried to make it as much like the original as possible. To think of all the months, weeks and days I spent with Pete...even shopping together....I wonder if he even remembers? Pete and Peter Shelley wrote the follow up single "Love Me Baby" Tony King was the arranger and a whole orchestra played on this album. I was young and very shy ..Pete chose all the tracks we did..."
Charlie Chalk 16th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Hellish Calypsos	The label scans don't match the covers. [Mod: as they are already on right entry deleted here]
Charlie Chalk 20th Jun 2023		Vinyl Album Ross Bagdasarian - A Summer Day's Delight (1973)	Cheers W.B.lbl. As Ross died on January 16th 1972, this must have been issued just prior to his death. Unless of course, it was issued posthumously. Here are the liner notes, which appear to have been written in 1953, in a legible form: My name is Ross Bagdasarian. I was born in Fresno, California, on January 27,1919, and, according to my figures, that makes me 34 years old as of this year. My home town of Fresno is an average size town, I would say. The population is around 90,000 people, and at least twice that many grapes and raisins. The people are average but the raisins are the finest you can get anywhere in the world. I went to school in Fresno. The usual thing. Grammar school, junior high school and high school. Finally, one miserable year in college and boredom really set in. I wanted to be an actor and the man in charge, they called him "Prof," said I should start by painting some walls a deep green. I told him I wanted to be an actor and then I quit. Before I forget, I want to say that in 1927 I became famous with my family. I skipped the third grade. The name Bagdasarian is, needless to say, Armenian, and my father, also needless to say, was and still is a grape grower. I worked in the grapes, if I worked at all, and at the age of sixteen, while driving a truckload of grapes from the vineyard to the packing house, I wrote my first song. It was called "Nuts To You." Some smart alec I knew claimed that it wasn't what you would call a "ballad." Now that I look back I guess he was right. It was a song thought. It had words and it had music and when I sang it, it had spirit, but I guess it wasn't a ballad. After I quit collage, I decided that if I was going to be an actor the thing to do was to go to a place where they did some acting. They didn't do much acting in Fresno. It was a good place to stay and learn to pick grapes but I wanted to act so I went to New York. This was in 1939 and I was 20 years old. I went straight to the Theatre Guild and after three days I got in to see Theresa Helburn. She was one of the directors of the guild. She asked me some pretty important questions about my background in the theatre and I gave her some pretty important answers, the most important of which was that I was the best natural born actor she had ever seen. I got the part of the singing Greek newsboy in "The Time Of Your Life" and every night I came out and sang "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" in addition to the six or seven lines that I had with Eddie Dowling. I didn't exactly steal the show with my performance, but two weeks later I was given the part of the pinball way and on the road. During that summer, I was the assistant stage manager for a show called "Loves Old Sweet Song." The show closed in three weeks, just in time for me to go on the road with "The Time Of Your Life." It was during this period that I drove back to Fresno with Bill Saroyan and while we were in New Mexico I started singing a song that I had been thinking about. It was called "Come On-A My House." Saroyan liked it and helped me finished it. Right after the show closed I was called into the Army and spent the next four years in the Air Force as a control tower operator. I visited nearly all the European capitols while with the Air Force and I did my job well, although I did nothing heroic except the time I kept Sam Williams from going into an off-limits joint and thereby saved him a painful trip to the medics.
Charlie Chalk 20th Jun 2023		Vinyl Album Ross Bagdasarian - A Summer Day's Delight (1973)	Continued: When I got out of the Army I went right back to Fresno. A man gets confused after spending four years in the Army. I went back to the grapes because I was looking for a good clean kind of existence and I figured that the vineyards were the answer. I met and married a wonderful girl and just by way of showing off to her I branched out for muself and leased sixty acres of land, all grapes, in order to make a small fortune and prove to her that her choice had been a wise one. I worked hard with the grapes and when harvest time rolled around I had the prettiest sixty acres of grapes anyone had ever seen. The market dropped before we started and we had to give the grapes away. I guess she thought I was all right though because we're still married. Upon her insistence, her name is Armen by the way, we came to Los Angels with two children and an unpublished song called "Come On-A My House." I spent the next year and half whistling, singing and stomping out the words and music of the song to anyone who would listen.Dave Barbour and Peggy Lee said it was the wrong time of year for a song like that. Frankie Laine said there was no use in trying to get a song like that recorded because dialect stuff just wouldn't get it. And so it went with many others until somehow Rosemary Clooney made a record of it and things finally popped loose. I kept writting songs and also started to do parts in pictures. The songs, in addition to "House" are "Oh Beauty,""He Says Mm Hmm,""The Girl With The Tambourine,""What's The Use,""Don't Nice Don-A-Fight,""Y-y-yup," and "Shepherd Boy," all published and all recorded. Hot Dog! The pictures have been seven in number, the best of which have been the last two. By best I mean I had featured parts in both of them. I don't think they will win any awards either here or abroad. And I'm pretty sure I won't either. Anyway, the names of the pictures are "Destination Gobi," 20th Fox, and as yet unreleased "Alaska Seas" for Paramount. That's pretty much the story. I'm delighted with the whole cockeyed thing because if it hadn't been cock-eyed none of the good things would have happened and I might still be driving a truckload of grapes to the packing house, trying to improve on the lyric of "Nuts To You."
Charlie Chalk 28th May 2023		Vinyl Album Gerry And The Pacemakers - 25 (1987)	I've switched it to UK.
Charlie Chalk 11th Mar 2023		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Lloyd Thaxton Presents (1964)	A few Cod-Ska tracks on the album. My Boy Lollipop: [YouTube Video] House Of The Rising Sun Ska: [YouTube Video] La Ska La Bamba: [YouTube Video] The Tennessee Ska: [YouTube Video]
Charlie Chalk 27th Feb 2023		Vinyl Album Steve Alaimo - Starring Steve Alaimo (1965)	Everybody Likes To Do The Ska: [YouTube Video] I Don't Wanna Cry: [YouTube Video]
Charlie Chalk 2nd Aug 2020		Vinyl Album The Good Earth - It's Hard Rock And All That (1968)	Soon to morph into Mungo Jerry. My Own Country: [YouTube Video] Stop Complainin': [YouTube Video]
Charlie Chalk 27th Sep 2019		Vinyl Album Donovan - The Pye History Of British Pop Music: Donovan Vol. 2 (1976)	We're missing the covers Ade.
Charlie Chalk 18th Jun 2019		Vinyl Album Michael Jackson - Invincible (2001)	These look like images of the CD version.
Charlie Chalk 10th Feb 2018		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Fab No. 2's Of The 60's (1984)	Unfortunate album name!
Charlie Chalk 30th Jan 2017		Vinyl Album Wizzard - Wizzard Brew (1973)	Jolly Cup Of Tea: [YouTube Video]
Charlie Chalk 18th Jan 2017		Vinyl Album The Electro-Sonic Orchestra - The Electro-Sonic Orchestra (1961)	Excellent and innovative 'electronic' set. Here's the whole YouTube album: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3qfMx0uDGGzJm-XtCNjINU6wQj6CqfsG
Charlie Chalk 19th Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Beano - Beano (1979)	The copy I recently picked up has a large photo and a postcard sized one, with autographs on the reverse. (PS - I'm not Jeanette!!) I presume they came with the album.
Charlie Chalk 8th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Beano - Candy Baby (1975)	Nice outfits boys!
Charlie Chalk 22nd Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Musically Intemidaters - Dub Master	Sorry for the late response Paul. I don't think it's necessarily a promo - probably just an original standard Jamaican 'bargain basement' pressing, with no thrills.