The Martinis - Hung Over

A fine pioneering entry in that great lost genre of vomit-lounge.

The Martinis - Hung Over (YouTube)

Mamie Perry - I'm Hurted

Now this old musty stanky 45 is some lowdown Creeps-style music. Mamie Perry has a great blues voice, but this "Gus Jenkins Orchestra" backing band is out of key with her and out of key with themselves. The slow spacious plodding style of the song, combined with the band's atonal ineptitude, gives the whole thing a sort of exotica feel. Is that a zither I hear in there? And UFO sounds? What?

"I'm hurted" sounds like something one of the Family Circus kids would say, doesn't it?

Mamie Perry - I'm Hurted (YouTube)

Jackie Riggs - His Gold Will Melt

Here's a real puzzler. Can't find out much about this guy except that some have called him a "doo-wop" or "Northern soul" artist. But this weirdo song sounds like Tony Bennett backed up by the freaky elves in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.

Curiously, the intro is a dead-ringer for They Might Be Giants' "Lie Still Little Bottle", and it makes reference to having a TV set in every room long before the Monkees' "Pleasant Valley Sunday".

Jackie Riggs - His Gold Will Melt (YouTube)

Johnny Fever - Zombie

WTF is this? It's a work of beauty, but WTF is it? Too weird to be normal, yet too straight-ahead serious and groovin' to be dismissed as a novelty tune. Fantastic fuzztone soul, the likes of which doesn't pass through these woods too often. And the Gene Simmons-esque growled "YEAH!!" is the icing on the fairy cake.

Johnny Fever - Zombie

Jeffrey Scott Holland - Pig-Bristle Brush

It's guaranteed to make your hair stand straight up like one. Or your money back. Or maybe not. Oh, just click here.

The Kentuckians - Gone Fishin'

I got my pole and my bucket of worms
I'm gonna live on my own terms
I ain't puttin' up with none of your lip
I'm gonna fly-fish and eat tater chips

I'm gone fishin' in Berea and I might be gone for awhile.

Gone Fishin', Gone Fishin', Gone Fishin,
I'm gone fishin' in Berea and I might be gone for awhile.

I got my line and I got a hook
Come on and join me honey if you can cook
I'm a fisherman extraordinaire
Come with me to Owsley Fork with if you dare

I'm gone fishin' in Berea and I might be gone a long time.

Gone Fishin', Gone Fishin', Gone Fishin,
I'm gone fishin' in Berea and I might be gone for awhile.


The Kentuckians - Gone Fishin' (YouTube)

Surapon - Duang Jai

This is... well, it's... see, this guy is really.... uh... hmmm. I can't even begin. Just watch it. And watch the whole thing. And let us ask ourselves, could this possibly be the same man responsible for intergalactic novelty smash hit "Ding Dong"?

Surapon - Duang Jai (YouTube)