PART 1 of the "Cupid's Thing" Trilogy!

      I'm gonna try to not blame anyone else for my crazy decision. No, Sammy, nobody put any guns to your head making you go and do this. It's just that sometimes, something comes along and gets me interested, then I see a record for sale online, and I think I just have to plunk down and get it. That's the situation with the 45 I have here.

     There's a post on Bob Purse's "The Wonderful and the Obscure" that has a couple of intriguing songs. After reading about, and of course hearing, these songs, I got curious, and did a search for that "Cupid's Thing" song that those other songs seem to be discussing. And in the words of Clara Peller, what else can I say, "I found it". So here's the 45.

Let's start with side 1.

Please Don't Call Me Again - Gene Marshall Download

And now...

Cupid's Thing - Gene Marshall Download

     So now, we add another name to the list of folks who sent in out-there words to song-poem companies. Thomas Guygax, James Wilson, Jr., Michael Kasberg - and now John E. Lester.

     Finally, I have another Gene Marshall 45 that has a song with this title. I got the photo from the E-Bay listing I ordered this from.

It's Clock Time - Gene Marshall Download

Well doggonit, if HE can have Bob Gerard records, I can have one too.

      First of all, let me show you how great AI is! I put a question to my phone last week, and here was it's wonderful AI response:

     

     Now, folks...

     After hearing those Bob Gerard records on Bob Purse's "The Wonderful and the Obscure", I decided to buy one of my own.

     First, let's go to the ones in "The Wonderful and the Obscure".

https://bobpurse.blogspot.com/search?q=bob+gerard

     One obvious thing you hear in these songs - most of 'em anyway - is a bass that played out-of-tune a lot. A couple of those 45's, done later than the others, had either a different bass player, or the same one played better. Whatever the case, those are not as fun to me. Looking through the 45's, I noticed the catalog numbers of the ones with the weird bass playing went from 390-402. So I looked for a Bob Gerard record somewhere in that 390-402 range, and found 395. So here it is!

Cadillac Love - Bob Gerard Download

Everytime We Kiss - Bob Gerard Download

     PS: I also went & bought my own copy of "Proon Doon"! A prized possession, I tell ya.