Hello and welcome to season 4, episode 62 of Vinyl-O-Matic. I am Your Old Pal Will, your guide on this journey through Singles with A-side that begin with the letter T as in Tango. Without any further ado, let's get things started off with a version of a classic tune by Redd Stewart and Pee Wee King.

All right, that was The Parliaments, and a couple of fine George Clinton tunes "(I Wanna) Testify" and "I Can Feel the Ice Melting" from 1967 on Revilot Records. Fans of Yo La Tengo will recognize the b-side from Stuff Like That There. Preceding that was a fine rocksteady turn at the Tennessee Waltz by the duo Ewan & Jerry with the Carib Beats, along with their original b-side "You've Got Something". That is on Giant Records from 1967 as well.
Next up, some vintage 80s post-punk from Ann Arbor.

Welcome back to Vinyl-O-Matic. If you cast your minds back, you will recall that at the top of the set we heard from Laughing Hyenas and a white label release of their 1986 demos that included "That Girl", a cover of Alice Cooper's "18" and "Hell's Kitchen" featuring killer guitar from the late great Larissa Stickland and brutal vocals from John Brannon. We followed that up with The Messengers, and their 1971 single on Rare Earth Records "That's the Way a Woman Is" and the interesting flipside "In the Jungle".
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For our next set, a Rufus Thomas single and that same single covered by someone from across the pond.

Back to back to back to back all killer no filler on both of those singles. First, we heard Mr. Rufus Thomas and his daughter Carla bringing us "That's Really Some Good" backed with "Night Time Is the Right Time" on Stax Records of course (S-151 for those of you playing along at home) from 1964. We followed that up with Lulu's version of that very same a-side on Decca Records from 1964 as well. And that searing lead guitar you hear? Jimmy Page. And the flipside which evidently is actually the a-side (oops my bad) is another version of the Bert Berns classic "Here Comes the Night". Again, if you haven't seen the Bert Berns documentary Bang! and you are a pop music nerd like myself, you really should see it.
And now, for something completely different, sort of.

That was a fine way to conclude our episode for the day. We just heard from The Crystals and their 1963 teenage symphony "Then He Kissed Me" along with the flipside "Puddin' n' Tain" not by The Crystals as it says on the label, but by The Alley Cats. As you may have guessed, this is a Collectibles reissue from 1986, with a Phillies Record label, as in Phil Spector. Before that, we heard Moby bringing us his influences in the form of a Sub Pop single from 1996. The a-side was a rendition of Mission to Burma's "That's When I Reach for My Revolver" and the b-side cover of DEVO's "Whip It", purportedly in the death metal style. Make of it what you will.
That about rounds things out for us this time. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to shoot me an email: will(at)vinylomatic(dot)com. And I will remind you that you can always find more archived episodes, shows notes, RSS feeds, podcast links, what have you, conveniently located at vinylomatic(dot)com.
Next time we meet out here in the æther, we will continue our journey through singles with a-side that begin with the letter T as in Tango. Join me, won't you?