Stars on Long Play III

I debated with myself about posting this.  I decided it would be OK to do so this weekend.

This South's Greatest Hits - high school swim team music

Great albums covers!  I don't really have "southern roots," unless you count my fun cousins in Athens, GA and the many Civil War battlefields I've been to.  But this is one is more personal than others.  Most entries are easy to write.  As the great sports columnist Jim Murray once replied when asked.  "It's easy, you just open up a vein."  No, the South's Greatest Hits cannot be condensed into 2 records/4 album sides.  These late '70's records are how I came across the Capricorn label, and these great acts.  In 1979, my high school swim team coach, besides all the laps we did, he had dry land workouts for us to do at various stations on the desk.  Knowing I was in the A-V Club and a music guy, he told me to make a cassette tape of song segments, with 45 seconds of music, separated by 15 seconds of real time delay of no music.  The workouts were during the 45 sec. of music, and you rotated to the next station during the delay.  Source songs for that cassette (wish I saved it) were South's Greatest Hits - vols. I and II.  They guys on the swim were not all that into music, but they did not complain.  So, we'd hear songs in short bursts: The Allman Brothers, the CDB, Elvin Bishop, the Amazing Rhythm Aces, The Atlanta Rhythm Section, The Marshall Tucker Band, The Outlaws, Wet Willie, Dr. John, Sea Level, and Stillwater.

Dionne Warwick - another DLA, oh my!

Dionne Warwick.  

This is Dionne Warwick's double live album.  It is a great format, the DLA.  It really does not exist anymore, frankly, because the record album format itself also no longer exist.   Among my top DLA's are records by REO, Seger, Little Feat, Genesis, The Nuge, and Skynyrd.  Every act in the seventies had to have a DLA.  UFO, Deep Purple, The Allman Bros., Rush, the Kinks, many more.  But, as I found out from the 300-plus members in my Vinyl Record Collectors over on LinkedIn - there are tons of these records, act acts as diverse as Barry Manilow, this one today, and many votes for Rory Gallagher's Live in Dublin '74 DLA.  For example, one guy I don't know listed: #5 Bob Dylan & and Band - Before the Flood, #4 Velvet Underground, #3, Neil Diamond Hot August Night, #2 Siouxsie & the Banshees - Nocturne, and # 1 for him was Grateful Dead - Live Dead.