O hai, it's me Your Old Pal Will with another episode of Vinyl-O-Matic. We will be continuing our journey through singles with a-sides that begin with the letter P as in Papa. Do you like pizza? I like pizza. It sure is good.

Hey, welcome back. We got that set started off with Dick and Libby Halleman and their High Society Orchestra bringing us "Pizza Sure Is Good" backed with "Geococcyx Californianus" on Summit Records. I don't know a whole lot about this single other than the a-side being awesome for obvious reasons. It may have been recorded in 1963? That was followed up with some fine mellow 70s country sung by an Australian (Ms. Newton-John) and penned by two Brits: Bruce Welch and John Rostill of The Shadows. It reached #3 on the Hot 100 and #5 on the country charts in 1975.
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Congratulations, you made it! We just heard a 3 record release from 1991 by Dim Stars on Ecstatic Peace records. They were a sort of Downtown NYC supergroup consisting of Richard Hell on vox and bass, Steve Shelley on drums, and Thurston Moore and Don Fleming on guitars. The first disc contained "The Plug" and "Dim Star" as the a-side and "Christian Rat Attack" as the b-side. The other 2 records consisted of "You Gotta Lose" parts 1 through 4, which was evidently penned by Mr. Hell in 1976.
And now for something completely different.

Hopefully, that last set was more enjoyable for you. If you cast your minds back, you will recall that we heard Sonny and Cher with their not terribly punny song "Podunk" and the flipside "A Beautiful Story". That is on ATCO Records from 1967. We followed that up with Robin Scott aka M and his smash hit "Pop Muzik" and the flipside "M Factor". And we rounded things off with The Monkees and the Goffin/King number "Porpoise Song" which ended up being the featured track for the wonderfully weird film "Head" in 1968. If you are a fan of The Monkees or a fan of the odd, definitely check out that film, in which the pop gods destroy their pop image. In a good way.
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