American Song-Poem Music Archives: Hot Links

quicknav: Milstein's World Yvan Le Voyeur Rodd's Relations Active Song-Poem Companies Happenin' Labels Record Stores & Distributors Various Artists (A-Z) Garage Fumes Other Discographies The Producers Tunesmiths Groovy Instruments MP3s Pranks & Cranks Cartoonistland Shutterbugs The Zine Scene Beyond Hollywood The Gallerists And More Again	Milstein's World
	Dion McGregor Dreams Again He talks in his sleep. Hear it on CD.
	How To Be A Cult Guru It's easy, if you follow these six basic steps.
	The Many Mishaps of Butch Willis A near-definitive interview with the shaky genius who wrote "(I Got) Pizza On My Jeans."
	Celebrity ABC Gum Project See what hilarity ensues when I ask Tori Spelling and Don Ho to send me their chewed gum.
	Shangri-Las '77 The complete story of the great girl group's abortive 1977 comeback. With tons of rare photos.
	Emily's Illness: Diagnosis Of A Song The story of (daughter-of-Woody) Nora Guthrie's 1967 moment in the sun.
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	Yvan LeVoyeur
	Chinese-American Zodiac Fun with placemats.
	DisneyChrist Behold the Son.
	Play Among The Stars
	Bad Day for Big Daddies
	Claire's World The bedroom poetry of a junkie-witch.
	I Sit On The Beach And Stare . . . A cheerleader ponders boyfriends and eternity.
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	Rodd's Relations
	Tenor giant Ellery Eskelin The son of our hero, song-poem auteur Rodd Keith.
	Dakota Kelly The daughter of our hero, song-poem auteur Rodd Keith.
	Gerald Eskelin, D.M.E. The brother of our hero, song-poem auteur Rodd Keith.
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	Active Song-Poem Companies
	Magic Key
	Ramsey Kearney The "Blind Man's Penis" singer his badself.
	LyricsReview.com This company actually posts submitted lyrics.
	Nashville Song Service
	It's Only Words Might be the world's first lyrics brokerage. From Australia.
	Hit Citi Music Productions
	Poems To Music
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	Happenin' Labels Many these companies also distribute cool product by other companies.
	Norton Records
	Arf! Arf! Records
	Stanton Park Records
	Torpor Vigil Hot new record label and litbook publisher from Toronto.
	Dionysus
	Crypt
	Go Little Records
	Smells Like Records
	Stranded Records
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	Record Stores, Dealers & Distributors
	Twisted Village
	Shangri-La Down thar in Mamphis.
	Goner Records Mamphibian too.
	Forced Exposure
	Ecstatic Yod
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	Various Artists (A-Z)
	Hasil Adkins
	Willie Alexander
	The Bell Sisters Wonderful site about an early '50s sister duet act.
	Hal Blaine The drummer on two out of every three of your favorite records.
	Sonny Bono's InnerViews Top article on page, a review of Sonny Bono's solo album, is the most right-on writing about him ever done ... and the funniest.
	1. Jackie DeShannon Appreciation Society / 2. Jackie DeShannon (official)
	The Dictators DFFD.
	Bo Diddley The Originator. Everything before Bo was leading up to him; everything since has been in response.
	Die Electric Eels The best in Cleveland dadapunk.
	The Double U
	John Fahey
	Jad Fair
	Henry Flynt
	Brute Force
	Foreign Objects The defending champions of "Rock & Wrestling Roll."
The Frogs
Robbie Fulks Let's kill Saturday night!
Woody Guthrie Foundation & Archives Run by his daughter Nora.
1. Bruce Haack & Esther Nelson / 2. Bruce Haack Psychedelic music for kids.
Dora Hall
Richard Hell
Skip Heller
Holy Modal Rounders
Becky Hobbs Are there any more like her where she came from?
Horse Cock Kids Cologne's hottest groove-rock duo.
1. Daniel Johnston / 2. Daniel Johnston
Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Danielle Lemaire Our favorite Dutch artist.
Donna Loren So, do The Zonk.
Buddy Max
Mrs. Miller
Mission Of Burma
The Monkees
Nino Tempo & April Stevens
NRBQ
Dr. Babatunde Olatunji
1. Lucia Pamela 2. Lucia Pamela "The missing link between Sun Ra and The Shaggs."
Righteous Brothers
1. The Shaggs [official!] / 2. The Shaggs
Shangri-Las John Grecco's in-depth history with tons of rare photos.
Del Shannon The prince of paranoid pop.
Silver Apples
Nancy Sinatra
Frank Sinatra, Jr.
Sun Ra
Swamp Dogg
The Tammys Shimmy shimmy shimmy shy-aye miss-ediss. Slow to load, but so worth the wait.
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Johnny Thunders Cyber Lounge
The Tinklers
Tiny Tim Authorized by Tiny's widow, Miss Sue. Do you dare peek at Tiny Tim's birth certificate?
Maureen Tucker Moe's the greatest.
Velvet Underground
Sonny Vincent
Jon Wayne The band, not the dead actor.
The Wildweeds
Wreckless Eric
Yo La Tengo
Thalia Zedek
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Garage Fumes
The Monks
The Sonics And check out their great links page.
The Del-Vetts
'60s Garage Bands
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Other Discographies & Record Databases
Rockin' Country Style Terry Gordon's massive database of records that are a little too country to be strictly rocknroll, a little too rocknroll to be strictly country.
1. Louie Louie / 2. Louie Louie
Show And Tell Music Great collection of thrift-store LP covers.
Radio Jingles Does for jingles what we do for song-poems.
Laughing and Crying Records
The Blue Pages "The Encyclopedic Guide to 78 R.P.M. Party Records."
Camp Records ... and other research findings from the Queer Music Heritage
The Internet Museum of Flexi / Cardboard / Oddity Records "So, you thought they were only round and black."
Hip-Pocket Records With images of the complete Philco HP catalogue.
Paisley Haze "The Northeast's independent labels from the '50s through early '70s."
Yé-Yé Girls Valuable intro to the French '60s girl pop scene.
Cynthia P. Caster Foundation Cynthia's plaster casts.
Countrypolitan
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The Producers
Lee Hazlewood
Kim Fowley
Andrew Loog Oldham
Jack Nitzsche Beyond good and evil.
Artie Butler "Roses, they won't hurt you."
Al Kooper
Don Fleming
Jon Brion
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Tunesmiths
Rod McKuen "A Safe Place To Land" -- McKuen's own site, and an excellent one.
Jimmy Webb
Bert Berns
Al Hazan
Tony Hatch
Toni Wine
Artie Wayne
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Groovy Instruments

1. Mellotron Archives / 2. Mellotrons, Chamberlins & Their Sound
Optigan
Max Crook Featuring his Musitron, of "Runaway" fame.
Combo Organ Discography What keyboards were used on which hits.
120 Years Of Electronic Music Includes histories of many fascinating instruments.
The Serpent Website
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MP3s

Bellybongo Complete song-poem compilation!
Comfort Stand Records A new concept in album marketing.
John Fitzpatrick's Oddball Auditorium
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Pranks & Cranks

Burger King Coal Was this devilish Giftmas Night '98 prank carried out by agents for "arch"-rival McDonald's, or by a pack of elves a-wilding?
Red's Tube Bar From the darkest bowels of prank call history. "I'll cutcha belly open!"
Shut Up Little Man Enter the mystical, drunken world of Raymond & Peter.
Coyle & Sharpe
Neil Hamburger "That's my life."
Melba Jackson Your favorite sweet-and-sour old Christian broad.
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Cartoonistland
Rick Altergott
Peter Bagge
Suzanne Baumann
Jim Blanchard
Leviathan Peter Blegvad's beautiful cartoon illustrations
Ariel Bordeaux
Leela Corman
Sam Henderson's Magic Whistle
John Holmstrom
Pat Moriarty
P. Shaw's One-Eyed World
Wayno
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Shutterbugs
Roberta Bayley
Godlis
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The Zine Scene
Cha Cha Charming Fab online girlpop 'zine.
Ugly Things
Roctober
Duplex Planet
Sad
Clepunk Cle as in Cleveland.
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Beyond Hollywood
Off The Charts: The Song-Poem Story
Heavy Metal Parking Lot Hell yeah.
Planet Krulik Other projects by the Heavy Metal Parking Lot co-auteur.
Complex Corporation Indie film producer/ex-Crime drummer Henry Rosenthal.
Jandek On Corwood
Out Of The Darkness Matt Frere hand-tints the B&W starlets.
Welcome To The Club Great documentary on the female rockabilly stars.
Beth Harrington Productions
River Of Grass A caper film with no crime; a road film where nobody goes anywhere.
Habit Horror's future here now.
Blaxpoitation.com "Dedicated to the folks who've had enough of The Man."
Warhol Stars
Holly Woodlawn
Mary Woronov
Eddie Deezen Character actors rule.
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The Gallerists
Phluxus Gallery and Museum
Launch Pad Gallery
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And More Again
Spectropop Covering Phil Spector, the girl group sound, and all manner of '60s pop in general.
WFMU Best radio station in the land? Could be.
Incorrect Music WFMU program. They play a lot of song-poem stuff.
Songs In The Key Of Z Irwin Chusid's book and CD of "outsider music." Both formats include song-poem music.
Tyree Guyton's amazing Heidelberg Project
Penn & Teller's Sin City
Ads from Comic Books
Les Scopitones
Hoy Hoy The prehistory of rocknroll.
Phluxus Virtual gallery for real art.
Snake Oil Latest gospel gossip.
Nardwuar The Human Serviette Entertaining interviews with cool pop stars.
Cynthia Plaster Caster
Long Shot Excellent litmag from NJ.
Lileks Must-see areas: Institute Of Official Cheer; Ghost Ads; Flotsam Cove.
Remembering The ABA "Where Dennis Rodman wouldn't have received a second look."
TV Party Brilliant website devoted to reclaiming obscure and forgotten TV programs.
Come On Get Happy Excellent Partridge Family fansite.
Gary E. Myers author of Wisconsin 50s/'60s discography Do You Hear That Beat
Johnny Eck You're not half the man he used to be.

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