Favorite cut-out classics

[nashreed]

What are your favorite cut-out classics? CD or vinyl. The albums you got cheap and that nobody else has heard of (or will ever hear of again)...
CD: Suddenly Tammy! "We Get There When We Do" a great piano based rock trio with killer hooks and great songs, a female "Ben Folds Five". Too bad they've disappeared from the planet.
Vinyl: Nite City
Does anybody remember what famous keyboardist from a very famous classic rock band was a member of this late 70's footnote?

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[Grant]

Back in the mid-70s I picked up a cut-out of the Politicians featuring McKinley Jackson on the Hot Wax label. Good progressive funk.

I miss the 70s, the days when you could walk into a drug store and find $2 distrubuter cut-outs of things you never heard of or stuff you missed the first time.

[RDK]

Yeah, the early 80s were great, too, as the companies were clearing out their lp inventory to make way for CDs. Picked up hundreds of cutouts, including many Japanese pressings of jazz albums. I must also have about hundred ECM jazz cutouts that I used to picked up for a buck each. Many obscure dates that have yet to be released on CD.

Used to find many CD cutous at places like Tower Outlet up until a few years ago. They seem to have dried up though...

Ray

[Blair G.]

Re Nite City:

I don't know but will bite and make a guess,

Tony Kaye or maybe Patrick Moraz ?

[petzi]

Originally posted by RDK
I must also have about hundred ECM jazz cutouts that I used to picked up for a buck each.

Whoa what a steal. :eek:
I have never seen an ECM LP for under 5 bucks, and never a hundred of these.

My favorite cutouts were the DCC CDs I found at Musicforasong. They used to have a much broader selection when I discovered that.

[Alan T]

Re Nite City:

Ray Manzarek

[Pat]

Originally posted by Alan T
Re Nite City:

Ray Manzarek


DING! DING! DING!

We have our winner!!!

Tell him what he's won, Don Pardo! :D

[Jimbo]

Originally posted by Pat



DING! DING! DING!

We have our winner!!!

Tell him what he's won, Don Pardo! :D

...a lifetime supply of Eskimo Pies, the new version of our home game, and a gift certificate from Dicker and Dicker of Beverly Hills!!:p

[nashreed]

I bet you have a voice just like Don Pardo's too, Jimbo.;)
Now for the real prize...What happened to the rest of that band? :D Perhaps a complete DCC Gold collection for the person who knows? (and no, I have no idea what happened to them...)

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[Jeff H.]

My three favorite cutout finds I got on eBay.

Salt Of The Earth-The Soul Searchers. A great Go-Go/Funk Band from Washington D.C.. The album features a cut called "Ashley's Roachclip" whose breakdown was first sampled on Eric B. & Rakim's classic "Paid In Full" and since then has become one of the most sampled tracks in history. This album is quite rare and I've seen it go for a couple hundred bucks on the collectors market. Got it for about $40!!! Still sealed too!!!

The Ebonys-The Ebonys. A fantastic but for some reason slightly obscure R&B vocal group from Camden, NJ. This is probably one of the best albums you've never heard. They had a top 10 R&B hit with "You're The Reason Why" in 1971. Most of the album was produced by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and is brilliant from start to finish. Why they never made another album for Philly International I'll never know. I guess Gamble and Huff were too busy with The O'Jays, Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes, and all the other acts they were producing at that time. They made one more album a couple of years later for Buddah before breaking up. Sony Japan actually reissued this album a few years ago on CD but to my knowledge, even that is no longer available. It's definitely worth seeking out.

From Left To Right-Bill Evans. A brilliant and very underrated album. It was the last album he made while under contract to Verve though it was released on MGM. Great playing on both the grand piano and Fender Rhodes electric. This album was really difficult to find on vinyl but I found a sealed one on eBay a few years ago. Not long after that it finally got reissued on CD. Anyone who's into Bill Evans should check this album out.

[TommyTunes]

Way back in the late sixties and early seventies there was a record store in Brooklyn that specialized in cutout MONO LP for $1.99 each. I got some of the best deals of my life back then. Although at the time I wasn't buying them because they were rare but because they were $2 cheaper than the stereo version and I just wanted to hear more music. At that time I picked up

Sgt Peppers, Rubber Soul, Freakout, Steppenwolf's 1st, Satanic Majesties etc.

They were all brand new and still sealed. I can still remember that store like it was yesterday and it closed in 72.

HG please ready the Time Machine, I wanna go back and pick up a few that I left.

[Peter D]

LP:
Roy Wood - "Boulders". Got it for 99 cents circa 1980
Jefferson Airplane - "Flight Log".

CD: When Rough Trade records went bankrupt in the early 90s, I grabbed a slew of their releases at Virgin Records for $1.99, including the Clean's "Vehicle", Robyn Hitchcock's "Eye" (my fave RH disc), a couple of Two Nice Girls discs (including a great cover of "Sweet Jane"), and a few others that I'm forgetting...

[joelee]

I know they're not considered cut-outs anymore but I rember picking up sealed cut-outs of Let it Be and Tusk within a year or so after their release. I know that Tusk didn't sell well intially and alot of cpies were pressed. I might add, a great record(s) that took time to grow on the listener.