Hello and welcome to Your Old Pal Will's Vinyl-O-Matic. In this episode we round out our journey through albums with titles that begin with the letter B as in Bravo. We've got a number of tracks that turn out to be connected in various ways, so this should be a fun one. If you'd like to follow along, point your browser in the direction of vinylomatic(dot)com(slash)s05e13. Drop a comment in the show notes if you're so inclined. Without further ado, here is side one track one from Sebadoh's 1993 album Bubble and Scrape.

We just heard from Cat Stevens with "Oh Very Young" that may or may not be about Buddy Holly, from his 1974 album Buddha and the Chocolate Box. Priot to that we had a pair of songs from two different live albums from 1969 featuring Buck Owens. Buck and the boys had an instrumental variation on a theme about swinging London, followed up by Buck's son (and Merle Haggard's stepson) Buddy Alan with his cover of CCR's "Lodi". Starting off that set, we had Lou Barlow's breakup to makeup ode "Soul and Fire" form Sebadohs' 1992 Sub Pop classic (SP192) for those of you playing along at home. Next up, who doesn't love a good descending bass line?

Hi, welcome back to Vinyl-O-Matic. Way back at the top of that last set, we had the lads from Massapequa, the Stray Cats with their Dave Edmunds-produced classic "Stray Cat Strut" from their 1982 collection Built for Speed. Following that was a song about Ye Olden Times When Things Were Presumably Better entitled Burgers and Fries from the great Charley Pride. If you've seen the Ken Burns' Country documentary, you'll have seen Charley playing a fantastic cream and brown Fender Coronado II and now I totally want one. If anyone in listener land has one they don't want anymore, I'll be happy to cover shipping. After that we had more Buck Owens, this time "Together Again" as performed by Glen Campbell on his 1967 album Burning Bridges. Following the theme of Swinging London, we heard Burt Bacharachs' number "Bond Street" which was featured in his soundtrack for Casino Royale. This selection is also a bit of an accident. While the jacket is for Burt's 1971 self-titled album, the record is actually his 1967 album Reach Out. Oh well. And now, more Bacharach.

Say, that song sounds familiar. That was BJ Thomas with a variation of the Bacharach "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" entitled "On a Bicycle Built for Joy" created for the bicycle shenanigans performed by Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Before that we hear from Pure Prairie League with "Falling In and Out of Love" segue-ing into their smash hit "Amie" form their 1972 album Bustin' Out. Once upon a time I had a lady friend by the name of Amy. She was not a fan of the song. So it goes. Before that we heard from Men at Work and their number one breakout hit "Who Can It Be Now?" from the 1982 multiplatinum Business as Usual. Starting that set off we heard from the Carpenters with yet still even more Burt Bacharach, "I'll Never Fall in Love" which reminds us that boys are germ-y. How about we switch things up a bit with some So Cal garage rock?

Now I'm thirsty. Oh right, at the top of that last set we got things going with Fullerton's own Audacity and their song "Hole in the Sky" from their 2013 Suicide Squeeze release Butter Knife. We had Bob Newhart and his classic "Infinite Number of Monkeys" bit from the 1960 album The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back on Warner Bros. The Contortions provided us with some exemplary downtown NYC No Wave with James Chance and a number entitled "My Infatuation" from the 1979 Ze Records release Buy. Last but certainly not least, The Andrews Sisters brought us their interpretation of Lionel Belasco and Lord Invader's calypso classic, as sanitized by Morey Amsterdam.
This concludes our program. If you have any questions or comments, you can always drop me a line: will(at)vinylomatic(dot)com. You can find many many archived episodes, show notes, newsletter signup and all that kind of good stuff by visiting vinylomatic(dot)com. When next we meet, we will finally undertake our journey through albums with titles that begin with the letter C as in Charlie. Join me, won't you?