Whoah, hey! We're at episode 50 of season 4 of Vinyl-O-Matic. Amazing! This time around we'll be concluding singles with a-sides that begin with the letter P as in Papa, hit one a-side that begins with the letter Q as in Quebec, and embark upon singles that begin with the letter R as in Romeo. Let's get things under way shall we? Here's some early aughties garage rock.

Welcome back. We got that set started with The Kills and their 2003 Domino Records single "Pull a U" backed with "The Search for Cherry Red". That was followed up by the amazing Grace Jones and her 1981 Island Records single "Pull Up to the Bumper", and a killer rendition of "Breakdown" that features a third verse provided to Ms Jones by Tom Petty. "Pull Up to the Bumper" made it to number 5 on the R&B charts and number 2 on the Hot Dance charts. Clearly a number one on any chart but so it goes. Next up, one of pop's favorite monsters.

Yup, that was certainly an answer song of a certain era. We just heard Jody Miller's "Queen of the House", a 1965 response to Roger Miller's "King of the Road" and the flipside "Walk Like Me". Preceding that we had Mr. Sheb Wooley regaling us about "The Purple People Eater". So does it only eat purple people or is it purple and eats people? The answer is right in the lyrics: it eats purple people! That was backed with more typical late-50s pop fare "I Can't Believe You're Gone".
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And now for what could be the theme song for this past winter here in Nortern California, not that I'm complaining.

Hey hey. We're back. If you cast your minds all the way back to the top of the last set, we heard BJ Thomas classic performance of Hal David/Burt Bacharach's theme song for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" and it's flipside "Never Had It So Good". That was on Scepter Records from 1969, and went to number one on the charts of course. We followed that up with Blondie's "Rapture" and sadly the flipside is rendered unplayable due to physical damage (likely due to a rascally jukebox). If you want a peak into a bygone era, check out the video for "Rapture" which features some East Village nightlife and cameos by Fab Five Freddy, Lee Quinones and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Up next, let's get our mid-90s slacker on.

Dang, indeed that was a "Real Humdinger" from JJ Barnes and his flipside "I Ain't Gonna Do It". That is on Ric-Tic Records from 1966. Prior to that we heard Pavement on their lead single from 1995's Wowee Zowee, backed with the tracks "False Skorpion" and "Easily Fooled", on Matador Records.
This concludes our programming for today. If you have any questions or comments about what you have heard, please drop me a line: will(at)vinylomatic(dot)com And I'd like to remind you that you can find show notes and archived episode of this very program at vinylomatic(dot)com.
On our next episode, we'll continue our journey through singles with a-sides that begin with the letter R as in Romeo. Join me, won't you?