KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we have only moved 6 blocks down Broadway, although it's 43 years later, for a show tune by Paul Simon: "Killer Wants To Go To College", from 1998's "Capeman"... The "Capeman" musical was something of a Broadway disaster for Paul Simon, receiving no praise and costing him many millions. In NYC, media coverage of its demise was akin to a shark attack/feeding frenzy and so I bought the CD to hear where all this time and money had gone. There are 2 versions of "Killer" on the CD, this one I think is the best and the only track I ever really played from it." - KV
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KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we're on the corner of 53rd & Broadway, New York City, in 1955 for Al Castellanos' "Speak Up Mambo"... "In the 1950s, NYC's Palladium Ballroom was the centre of the Latin dance music universe and all the 'mambo' heavy hitters played there regularly. I first bought this for $1 in a thrift store, based entirely on the cover (which happens to be claret and blue) and discovered the record inside was just as hot. Turns out, Al Castellanos was a Cuban bandleader that relocated in NYC and was right up there alongside Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez and Machito." - KV
KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we're at 827 Thomas Ave, Memphis in 1968 for Dusty Springfield's version of Randy Newman's "I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore", from the "Dusty in Memphis" LP... ""Dusty in Memphis" contains some of the finest white female soul vocals I have ever heard. Recorded at the now gone American Sound Studio with some of the cream of Memphis' musicians, the LP can at first sound more pop than some folks are used to. But if you give it a proper earball you will hear a white soul/pop LP unlike any other." - KV
KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we are in Lagos, West Africa circa 1977 for Fela Kuti's "Sorrow, Tears and Blood" from his "Black President" LP, which was released in Europe in 1981... "I first heard of Fela Kuti from pals in Paris, where the African music scene had more of a profile than it did in London. Like many, I was dazzled by this militant, saxophone-wielding, James Brown influenced, afrobeat showman. I was also dazzled by the painted faces of his 28 amazing looking wives, or was it more ?" - KV
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