SOME RECORDS ARE SO BAD THAT THEY'RE GOOD!!

At different phases of its 40+ year history, the vinyl record had fits of manic popularity. When Elvis first came on the scene, when the Beatles visited America, and the disco explosion, all of these saw record sales so high that you were likely to sell your disc if it was simply in the proximity of a record store. This was the case no matter how odd or bad the record was. I've decided to share a few of the best bad records I've found here.

Sam the Drummer tells famous fairy tales for your children
This is a pretty remarkable record, just a fractured concept. Sam just rattles off familiar stories like the Three Little Pigs while he keeps time on his drums. The highlight of this LP may be "Little Red Rhumba Hood"

Twistin' the Freilach
WOW!! This one is a masterpiece of mismatched genres. Lou Klayman's Orchestra takes familiar klesmer tunes and gives them a treatment one has to hear to believe. Most people like "Hava-Na-Gila" twist style.

Mr & Mrs Hank William
After hearing this record, it's easy to see why country music icon Hank Williams drank himself to death! His wife Audrey (whose recordings make up one side of this disc) couldn't sing to save her life, yet she insisted on being recorded!! Happily someone at MGM saw fit to release at least a small sampling of her output on this, so now we can see why Hank had them honky tonk blues.

Will Success Spoil Rock-Maninoff
Actually this record shouldn't be here with the bad albums because it's really quite good. Rosa Linda does 'Boogie Woogie" arrangements of classical pieces with her tongue planted firmly in her cheek. The title cut is Rosa's take on Rachmaninoff's most famous prelude.

Kali Bahlu
The album is titled "Kali Bahlu takes the forest children on a journey of COSMIC REMEMBRANCE". I challenge ANYONE to make sense of this album. I've heard shopping-cart people who had a better grasp on reality than poor Kali. She rambles for ten or fifteen minutes at a time about "Broken Games", "Earth's Earth" and drinking coffee with Buddha(?!?!)