Quartz

Artist: Quartz

LP: Camel In the City

Song: "Camel In the City"

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The next record shop I went to in Minnesota (my 4th) was Electric Fetus in Minneapolis, a place that has evidently been around since 1968. (Electric Fetus, I mean. Minneapolis has been around even longer.) Why, that's even before I was born! One of the neat things I found at Electric Fetus is this 1979 LP from a French disco-synth outfit called Quartz. I'd try to glean more information from the worldwide web about Quartz, but I keep falling asleep while I'm typing. Good night.

[ Electric Fetus — Minneapolis, Minnesota ]

Hambone

Artist: Hambone

LP: Big Fat Juicy Fun

Song: "Big Fat Juicy Fun"
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Speaking of pink album covers and harmonicas, here's some 1981 instrumental disco music I picked up at Square Records in Akron, Ohio a few years back that's pretty heavy on the mouth organ too. Recorded in Atlanta, Georgia and arranged and conducted by jazz trumpeter/high school teacher Tommy Stewart, the music itself is not nearly as big, fat, juicy, or fun as the LP cover would lead us to believe. It's not ghastly or anything, but some pretty high expectations have been set by that lady with the lollipop—not to mention the cutesy stuffed elephant and pig.