Blog: Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else

Promenade, Top Tunes, Hit Parader, Song Hits, Columbia Record Club, Audition, Variety, Crown, and Waldorf are the budget labels we'll hear from today. My favorite of the bunch? The Hit Parader version of Surfin' Bird , which doesn't disgrace the original (by the Trashmen). Of course, "original" has to be taken in context, since the tune was a plagiarism of The Rivington's Papa Oom Mow Mow and The Bird's the Word . The three Columbia Record Club tracks are pretty good, too. All told, these are some of the more successful no-budget covers in [...]

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