A realization recently hit my brain pretty hard, when I saw the 2023 phone book laying in our living room: For what I think is the first time in my life, our house had its first year without a phone book.
I have memories of phone books past. The US maps with the time-zone borders, the promotional section with zillion-line phones and that corny photo of the "picture-phone" of the future that ended up being outmoded by I-Phones before we could ever have one of our own, the yellow-page ads for Farmbest milk and Falstaff beer years after they were no longer in stores in our area, Talking Fingers (which deserves a whole post of its own), the warning against not "relinquishing" a phone booth when someone else needs it for an emergency, the all-purpose 1776-present calendar... So many memories. In recent years, the phone books shrunk, and didn't have those things. Phone books have been a pretty good part of my life, and I hate to think we won't get them anymore. Oh well...
Now to the latest record in my collection. It's a JOiFU album! Not the one touted in the promotional typing on that 45 sleeve, but their next album.
On Discogs, there are a few JOiFU 45's listed from 1978-80. And an album with all the songs on the 45's. I figured I'd get the album with those songs instead of the 45's. So here it is.
Perhaps you can try to read and decode the broken grammar in this promotional stuff while enjoying (ehh) these songs. The photos open in a new tab when you click them, so you can still hear this page. All the songs are credited to the singers "and the Biji Roks".
I might get around to scanning the labels later, but I figure after this dang long, I might as well post this album now than to wait till then.
Side 1
Ev'ry Time I Hold You in My Arm - Connie Heywey Download
I Like To - Big Jim Biji Download
Gee, why is one line of this song swimming in my brain?
Love Is So Smooth - Connie Heywey Download
Sweet Baby Mine - Big Jim Biji Download
Rocking with Barbara - Big Jim Biji Download
Side 2
Big Hai from Tokyo - Big Jim Biji Download
Going and Coming - Big Jim Biji Download
Use a Little Pressure - Connie Heywey Download
When You Just Said Goodbye - Connie Heywey Download
I Said Hello to Love - Big Jim Biji Download
"Uncle Mistletoe" got me looking up Buddy Max, and here's a Discogs listing of his work, ranging from 1975-2002. Unfortunately, the "Tribute to the Challenger" album isn't listed, but Discogs don't list everything. But this is pretty neat.
