Hello and welcome to another excellent episode of Vinyl-O-Matic. I am your old pal Will and this time around we will continue to travel through singles with a-side that begin with the letter R. To start things off, maybe you should have second thoughts about letting a long black Cadillac give you a ride.

Now that is how you do Tex Mex. We just heard Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs searching for their "Ring Dang Doo" backed with "Don't Try It." That is a single on MGM Records from 1965. We got the show started off with bad boy outlaw David Allan Coe singing us a kinda spooky kinda self-aggrandizing ghost story. The b-side "Son of a Rebel Son" has an interesting definition of freedom, but perhaps that's just my perspective as a son of a son of a Yankee son.
Next up, Cymarron definitely does not have their phone set to vibrate.

Welcome back. If you cast your minds back, you will recall that we began that last set with Cymarron and their 1971 single on Entrance Records called "Rings" and the flipside "Like Children". Some perfectly serviceable country rock. We followed that up with The Standells classic "Riot on the Sunset Strip", backed with "Black Hearted Woman". That is on Tower Records from 1967. If you're the sort who enjoys American International Pictures exploitation flicks from the 60s, check out the film of the same name (Riot on the Sunset Strip). The actual riots are also mentioned in The Source Family documentary as a semi-seminal event in their history.
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And now we have 6 minutes of Bay Area excellence from Rush & Attack.

Meep meep. We just heard from The Gants and their 1965 cover of Bo Diddley's "Road Runner", along with the flipside "My Baby Don't Care", on Liberty Records. We also heard from Rush & Attack with not 2, not 3 not 4 not 5 but 6, six! tracks on their 2013 Three Ring Records release. The Rush side consisted of "Road Rash", "Every Night", and "About Me", while the Attack side had "Bike", "Dreams", and "Black Smoke".
And now, that New York sound as filtered through Detroit. The band, that is.

All right. That last set launched with Detroit featuring Mitch Ryder and their cowbell-rific rendition of Velvet Underground's "Rock and Roll", along with the flipside "Box of Old Roses". The fancy guitar work on that single was provided by Steve Hunter who would go on to perform with Lou Reed and can be heard on Reed's live album Rock and Roll Animal. Check it out if that's your kinda jam. And we rounded off that set with the ubiquitous sound of popular music tastes changing in the early 80s. I am referring to The Clash, and their smash hit "Rock the Casbah" from 1982 on Epic Records. That song could be heard all over the radio and seen in heavy rotation on MTV. There was pretty much no escaping it.
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Coming up on our upcoming episode of Vinyl-O-Matic, we round out our trip through a-sides that begin with the letter R and embark upon those that begin with the letter S. Join me, won't you?