Hello and welcome to Season 4, Episode 33 of Vinyl-O-Matic.
I am your old pal Will.
This week we will continue our journey through singles that begin with the letter K, and a few that begin with the letter L.
We get things started of with a little ditty about a futuristic Cerse Lannister.

Hey, welcome back to Vinyl-O-Matic. We just heard from Steve Martin, the a-side performed with the Toot Uncommons aka the Not Ready For PrimeTime Players. This song was deemed by my 10-year-old self to be the pinnacle of comedy, and well it still has a certain resonance. The b-sides are two bluegrass numbers demonstrating Mr. Martin's banjo proficiency.
Prior to that we heard the killer 1974 single from Queen's Shear Heart Attack, Killer Queen with the b-side of Flick of the Wrist. Killer Queen was their first foray into the US charts, reaching #12 on the Billboard Hot 100, and helped win Freddie Mercury his first Ivor Novello award.
Speaking of songs that reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100, here's one from the year 1988 by Lita Ford. And lucky you, it's a promo single so you can hear both the Special Radio Version AND the LP version. The track times are the same, so that must mean the difference is in the lyrics... hmmmm.

Hey it's me, you're old pal will. You are listening to Vinyl-O-Matic. If you cast your minds back, you will recall that we started that set off with Lita Ford's "Kiss Me Deadly", sadly no relation to the Mickey Spillane book. I hope you were able to spot the difference between the Special Radio Version and the LP Version. Pretty racy, huh? The sleeve of this promo single also contains pull quotes from notable industry buyers. For instance, Bob Bell the New Releases Buyer for Wherehouse Entertainment says, "If early sales are any indication, she just might be the female Whitesnake." Keep in mind this is from the pre-Soundscan era, when a gold record meant 500,000 units were sold to distributors, not necessarily that 500,000 consumers bought the record. Hello remainder bin.
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Coming up next, it's a song about a different type of dead media.

Yeah. That was Los Angeles's own Round Robin (Lloyd). Seems like every musical region had their own master of dance singles. Philly had Chubby Checker, Memphis had Rufus Thomas, and Los Angeles had Round Robin. We heard his rendition of "Land of a Thousand Dances (The Na Na Song)" from 1965 and the b-side of "Yea Yea". Prior to that we heard Paul Simon and his catchy slightly-transgressive 1973 tune "Kodachrome". Speaking of Memphis, next up we have The Mar-Keys.

That was a fine way to wind down this episode of Vinyl-O-Matic. We got that set started off with the first Stax house band The Mar-Keys and their single "Last Night", featuring Charles Axton on Sax and Steve Cropper on... second organ(!), and the b-side of "Night Before". That is from 1960 on the Satellite label. We rounded things off with Chic's "Le Freak", which evidently had a different chorus originally, based on Nile Rodgers experience with the Studio 54 doorman, however it was changed to a more radio-friendly chorus more appropriate for smash hit singles. And we heard the instrumental b-side of "Savoir Faire".
Thank you for tuning in. If you have any questions or comments about what you have heard, feel free to shoot me an email, will(at)vinylomatic(dot)com, and of course you can always find archived episodes of this very program at vinylomatic.com or wherever you find quality purveyors of podcasts such as iTunes, Spotify, Overcast, Castro, etc.
Next time, we'll continue our journey through singles that begin with the letter L. Join me, won't you?