KOSMO's VINYL of the Week

Anderson .Paak, "Come Down"

12/29/2017

KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we're in California for Anderson .Paak's "Come Down" from his 2016 "Malibu" album...

"Must confess all I know about Anderson .Paak is written here. I discovered this track over the Xmas holiday from #2 son Charlie while we are in France. Not new, but not that old either. The vocal reminds me of a James Brown in some of his more laid-back moments. The track, as I would say, has "got the juice." - KV

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Billy Cotton and his Band, "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts"

12/22/2017

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KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we're back across the Atlantic Ocean to post 'austerity' Britain for the Billy Cotton Band's version of "I've Got A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts"...

"Not sure when this was recorded but possibly in 1945, 1950 at the latest. The Billy Cotton Band Show was still on the radio when I was a nipper in the early 1960s and it was on there I would have first heard this. You've got to be a mighty coldhearted person to listen and not smile. The spoken part has well and truly dated, but "roll a bowl a ball a penny a pitch'" is as good as ever!" - KV

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The Jive 5, "My True Story"

12/15/2017

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KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
We're staying in New York this week, but back to 1961 at Beltone Studios, 1650 Broadway at 51st St., for The Jive Five's "My True Story"...

"The Jive Five started out of Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant neighbourhood in the 1950s, when Doo Wop was very much the sound of many a city street corner. Today Doo Wop seems to have vanished without hardly leaving a trace. On my early visits to NYC I used to make cassette tapes of Don K.Reed's "Doo Wop Shop" radio show - wish I still had them." - KV

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Richard Hell, "You Gotta Lose"

12/8/2017

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KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we're in 1976 New York City, St Marks Place or thereabouts, for Richard Hell's "You Gotta Lose"...

"I can still picture Barney Bubbles in the basement of Stiff Records, sticking down the razor blade lettering for the Richard Hell single cover. It's b-side of "Blank Generation", followed by this, must surely qualify it for one of the greatest 2 track 7" vinyl sides ever." - KV

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Dominic Behan, "The Recruiting Sergeant"

12/1/2017

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KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week it's back to 1958 for the Irishman Dominic Behan's "The Recruiting Sergeant", from the Riverside LP "Easter Monday 1916"...

"First off, I do realize that some folks take issue with songs that celebrate the I.R.A., but I find that Dominic Behan's "Easter Rising" LP (also released as "Easter Monday" on Topic) to be stirring, humorous and insightful stuff. With no Irish background that I know of, I listen to it in the same spirit as I listen to songs about gunfighters. The anti-army "Recruiting Sergeant" was covered by The Pogues, but their version was no match for the original." - KV

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