Pete Judd -Idwtc- Rab - Is This A Room Clearer?

[Mr Smithy]

After Teddy & the Counts I had high hopes for this one - sadly not so much.

Not the worst soul record ever made, but gotta be in the running somewhere

Casual poll around the locals over last few days

2 made it to the end with varying degrees of pain

1 made it to the end no comment

1 liked it

others cut out at 10 secs, 20 secs, 40 secs, 1 min, 36.

Thoughts? Comments?

Have fun, or otherwise?

Anyone know anything about Pete Judd? Is this his only moment in the sun?

I don't seem to be able to get a sound wave with a play button but hopefully this will get you there

https://soundcloud.com/mr-smithy-2

[pikeys dog]

Sounds like "Elmer Fudd sings Chuck Jackson"

Tis a no for me.

[Peter99]

It's fecking orrible - are you takin the piss!

[Garethx]

If the thread on over-rated records is to be believed this is no worse than Eddie Parker, The Del Larks or The Professionals.

[Peter99]

If the thread on over-rated records is to be believed this is no worse than Eddie Parker, The Del Larks or The Professionals.

Then the other thread is not to believed - cos those three are infinitely better than this Pete Judd shite!

[Mr Smithy]

'Tis impressive in it's excruciatingness.

Amazing what gets onto vinyl.

Anyone make it to the end?

I'll put the B side up if you like, if I recall he never hits a note, but I'm not going to listen again to find out

[Guest trickbag]

when these people do covers at least play it against

the original and make a comparison,obviously they

didn't and if they did they're all tone deaf,its awful.

please don't put up the other side,im beggin.

ricky

[Steve G]

F*ckin ell mate if Chuck Jackson was dead, he'd be turning in his grave at this pile of steaming horse shit

Fortunately Chuck is still very much with us....

What is interesting about this record though is the Al Browne connection. Since he was responsible for the first ever record on Wand and the second ever record on Scepter a year before. His Brooklyn records (of which there are 3 x CDs dedicated) were usually recorded in the back of a record shop and range between awful, to pretty good. So I wonder why he put out a cover version of Chuck's big hit? I think he also produced / released Ray Dahrouge's first ever 45 (the doo-wop one). Trivia.

It's an interesting record, but in terms of 'clearing a room' on about the same level as a 'rotting cabbage' fart that some people seem more than capable of producing. Combine the two - bad record and bad fart, and your room will surely be clear

Edited July 24, 2012 by Steve G

[Mr Smithy]

when these people do covers at least play it against

the original and make a comparison,obviously they

didn't and if they did they're all tone deaf,its awful.

please don't put up the other side,im beggin.

ricky

I'm not sure what they were about, obviously a "new Interpretation" was thought necessary.

I would assume some sort of chequebook talent scouting was in place, and he was the most qualified.

As you asked so nicely I won't put the other side up, but on a slow day I might. Sorta tempt fate, you know you shouldn't

and you know you'll regret it, but somehow you can't help yourself. And , yes , it is another interpretation of an old fave.

Not sure as nobody said, but even being forewarned you all seem to have made it to the end. Did anyone kill it after ?secs or did you all stick it out

I must admit that when I put it on the first time me and the Mrs were very "deer in the headlights " and only at the end did we burst out laughing.

F*ckin ell mate if Chuck Jackson was dead, he'd be turning in his grave at this pile of steaming horse shit

Fortunately Chuck is still very much with us....

What is interesting about this record though is the Al Browne connection. Since he was responsible for the first ever record on Wand and the second ever record on Scepter a year before. His Brooklyn records (of which there are 3 x CDs dedicated) were usually recorded in the back of a record shop and range between awful, to pretty good. So I wonder why he put out a cover version of Chuck's big hit? I think he also produced / released Ray Dahrouge's first ever 45 (the doo-wop one). Trivia.

It's an interesting record, but in terms of 'clearing a room' on about the same level as a 'rotting cabbage' fart that some people seem more than capable of producing. Combine the two - bad record and bad fart, and your room will surely be clear

A reasonable assessment. I wonder if he knows about it, but it would be a terrible thing to do to the man.

Serious bodily harm has been dished out for lesser insults.

Interesting you though about Al Browne's involvement. He was a local Brooklyn guy who played on 100s of tracks from Johnny Maestros early days through a myriad of local doo wops and as you said Wand / Scepter etc. I'm not sure about this I've never heard anything quite so bad from him, that I can recall. Maybe it was the AB B squad pushing it and hoping no one would notice.

I'd like to think my record would be quite capable of clearing a room without any chemical assistance, and if not, a quick flip of the wrist- B Side up, along with the body count!!

As I said in the intro, I quite liked Teddy & the Counts and it's many many miles ahead of this, has anyone else seen anything on this label?

The numbering system is weird between the two 124/5 - 1034/5.

Also T&Cs has Al Browne Production and it sounds much more like him, in time , tune etc.

All that said though, it is rare!! So another few years when our hearing is more shot than it is now........

[Steve G]

....and there was me about to offer you $5 to take it off your hands for curiousity sake. :lol:

We could always ask Chuck if he knows of it. Maybe it was just a novelty thing that was given out at an event or something? Done quite a bit of research on Al Browne, which is why I made the connection, but have to say I had never heard of this one before.

Seems from what I can make out there was a reasonable independent record scene in Brooklyn which is odd since it's so close to Manhattan. You'd be forgiven for thinking there would be nothing there record wise.

Steve

Edited July 25, 2012 by Steve G

[Mr Smithy]

....and there was me about to offer you $5 to take it off your hands for curiousity sake. :lol:

We could always ask Chuck if he knows of it. Maybe it was just a novelty thing that was given out at an event or something? Done quite a bit of research on Al Browne, which is why I made the connection, but have to say I had never heard of this one before.

Seems from what I can make out there was a reasonable independent record scene in Brooklyn which is odd since it's so close to Manhattan. You'd be forgiven for thinking there would be nothing there record wise.

Steve

.......and a warm, wonderful moment that must have been towards your fellow man, but with reasonably intact faculties your 5 would be wasted as it sat in your box, deprived of it's chance to shine.

That said, I'm sure chud of this magnitude would be of great amusement to the guys at Waxidermy and the like. I don't play on there but if someone does and they sent them a link, there would be plenty more chuckles before this one retires to whatever I do with it.

Would be interesting to see what Chuck thinks, sort of slip it under the door and run. I'm sure you could hear the reaction 2 doors down.

I don't think he would have known about about it, I'm sure it wasn't burning up the airwaves. There are also no credits on there so I'm sure neither he nor Luther would have heard of it through that ( it's a fair bet Luther would have been kickin the guys door in as well if he heard it )

I still favour the "chequebook talent" theory, assuming anyone they gave it to had working cranium fins the bins outside would be full of them after the event and they'd all be at the bottom of the dump by now. Which they probably are anyway.

Point of interest maybe, I found it in an essentially white neighborhood pretty far out on Long Island. Can't imagine how it got there.

A 'band ' like ABs I'm sure would have made 100s of unsung ( or in this case shouldn't be sung, if in fact it was him- I'm still not totally convinced) records,

a full list would probably take a lifetime to research. Being local I'm sure they would be open to ' payment in trade ' rather than wodges of cash for a more remote bunch of backers

Brooklyn /Manhattan are near in the same way as Brixton / Soho are near. Geographically so but that's about it.

I know more about early R&B /DW than The Soul, but in that case not every one wanted to deal with the George Goldners or Maurice Levys of the world

or even the larger indies like Herald / Beltone ( both based not far from Crown Heights , the part of Brooklyn this came from) so a few bucks in the local garage/studio, off to the pressing plant and away you go. Also stores like Birdels were there for years, they put out a few ( mostly Gospel) but that wasn't far away so I'm sure they would help. Even in Manhattan labels like Rojac / Tas-ster ran from 125th St which might as well be Mars as far as central Manhattan is concerned. Same with Chicago, Detroit , LA etc. I'm sure