Hello and welcome to Vinyl-O-Matic. I am Your Old Pal Will. This time around we resume our journey through albums with titles that begin with the letter C as in Charlie. If you'd like to follow the route we're on, point your browser in the direction of vinylomatic(dot)com(slash)s05e15. While you're there feel free to leave a comment, and perhaps add your suggestion for this week's listener challenge: Top 3 Songs about Johnnie. You know, like Surabaya Johnny, or Frankie and Johnny, or Johnny Hit and Run Pauline. That rascal is always up to something. And now, on with our show. It's all over the place, so let's start by getting our head together.

Dark and mysterious. That last track was called "The Defeatist's Lament" from a 3-record compilation of singles, EPs and splits from the fantastically heavy Louisiana group Thou entitled Ceremonies of Humiliation released in 2014. Before that, we picked up "The Groove Line" from UK based funksters Heatwave off of their 1978 Epic Records release Central Heating. Old Eddy Arnold brought us his rendition of Tumbling Tumbleweeds, written in the 1930s by... a golf caddy. At the top of the set, we heard from Cat Stevens and his song about meditation entitled "Sitting" from his number one 1972 album Catch Bull at Four. Next up, we have some more Thou, from their 2019 Gilead Media compilation Ceremonies of Repetition.

Welcome back to Vinyl-O-Matic. We started that last set off with Thou and a song called "Skinwalker" from Ceremonies of Repetition. That was followed up with the first version of the nascent New Order's single "Ceremony"on Factory Records. It was originally released as a 7" in January of 1981, and then this 12" version was released in March of 1981. When Gillian Gilbert joined the band, it was re-recorded and that version came out in September of 1981. Did you know that every day, someone is born who has never heard "Margaritaville" by Jimmy Buffett? If you are one of those people, well that was for you. Rounding things out, we heard from Yves Montand and his version of what was for a time considered France's alternate national anthem in the years after the war, "Le Chant de la Liberation" or "Le Chant des Partisans". That is from an album entitled Chansons Populaire de France on Monitor Records from 1959. Let's switch gears a bit with a classic Dizzy Gillespie number as interpretted by Charles Mingus and Friends.

Fer sure. It's Christmas in June. That of course was Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem doing their best Beach Boys impression with "Little Saint Nick" from the classic album A Christmas Together by John Denver and the Muppets. We heard a piece by Scott Walker called "The Meeting" from a soundtrack that he composed for a film called The Childhood of a Leader on 4AD from 2016. There was some blackened heaviness from Brooklyn with "Axiom Destroyer" from Mutliation Rites' 2018 album Chasm, on "blood and bone" splatter vinyl released by Gilead Media and Argento Records. That sat began with Charles Mingus and Friends bringing us "Ool-Ya-Koo" recorded live at Lincoln Center on February 4, 1972. I know what you're thinking, "Will, I could really use some more Christmas music right about now." Don't worry, me and Buck have you covered.

You made it! If you cast your minds back to the top of that last set, you will recall that we heard some festiveness from Buck Owens and his Buckaroos with "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy" from the 1965 Capitol release Christmas with Buck Owens. That was followed up with the gothy industrial grooviness of Clan of Xymox with a track called "7th Time" from their self-titled 1986 album on Relativity. George Carlin laid it down for us about one of the many aspects of American life that really hasn't changed. "Muhammad Ali - America the Beautiful" is from his 1972 album Class Clown. Finishing things off, we had Phil and Beth and crew aka The Bowerbirds with a song called "This Year" from their 2012 album The Clearing on Dead Oceans. Interested parties should definitely check out the new Bowerbirds EP Thrift Store/High Rise. If you have any questions about what you have heard, drop me a line: will(at)vinylomatic(dot)com. For show notes, archived episodes and RSS feeds, head to vinylomatic(dot)com. When we next meet, we will head further into albums with titles that begin with the letter C as in Charlie. Join me, won't you?