Saturday, May 9, 2020

Play "Who's In My Box?" With TV's Emma Peel! Dept.

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You know leggy, pouting sex-vixen Emma Peel [at left, or above if you're drooling on your phone - Ed.] from her role as Catwoman in the long-running Marvel TV series, but few know of her passion for early 'seventies country rock, "especially if there's a hint of psychedelia!"

 She was delighted to be chosen to host this week's edition of the show that's ousted the hula-hoop as the nation's heppest teen fad!

 The rules? Why, they're simplicity themselves, and anyone can play this swell game! Emma has a Mystery Album in her Magic Box, and using your skill and judgement you have to identify the album from the single track in the download!

The prize? The entire album, with a cover and everything! The respect of your peer group! Oh - and one million dollars in non-sequential 100s thrown onto the motel bed of your choice.

Ready, Emma? Okay! Let's play ... WHO'S ... IN MY BOX!

UPDATE: Kudos to Four Or Five Guy© finn for winning the most difficult Who's In My Box? yet! Yes, Emma had Wilderness Road - both band and eponymous [rock writer advisory - Ed.] first album in her box!

Here's your million bucks, finn - sorry I couldn't get the hundreds but you should have no trouble changing this at the convenience store.
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38 comments:

  1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 9, 2020 at 7:06 AM

    Emma's Box!

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  2. Harold Raisin IIIMay 9, 2020 at 8:54 AM

    Sounds slightly British, like Unicorn, but different somehow. Is it that band with the sandy sandwich on the cover? I don't have access to the archives at the moment. Honey, could you pour me another round and make it a double? I've got a long ride home.

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 9, 2020 at 8:58 AM

      It's a U.S. group, U.S. recording from 1972. This track is as much as you're going to get. Good, though, ain't it?

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    2. Harold Raisin IIIMay 9, 2020 at 9:30 AM

      Right. You don't cotton to the Brit Country Rock if I 'member correctly. It is good. Very good. I've got to put those marbles to their paces and suss this out.

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    3. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 9, 2020 at 10:00 AM

      One of the reasons I'm not cottoning too much to U.K. rock in general is that there's relatively little of it - it's not a seemingly endless mine of nuggets that the U.S. scene is. I used to enjoy U.K. whimsydelia, but again it's a very finite resource, and I never listen to it now.

      I still listen to the Pretty Things, Procol Harum, Traffic, the Stones, all as album bands, and The Who, Kinks, Small Faces as singles bands. But the second division acts, with a couple of exceptions (like the lovely Honeybus) don't do a whole lot for me.

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    4. One Buck GuyMay 9, 2020 at 10:55 PM

      Badfinger?

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    5. foppingtonMay 10, 2020 at 1:15 AM

      And if so, the second baddishfinger, George's answer to Paul's case of nonpoison Iveys, the delightful Splinter?

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    6. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 10, 2020 at 6:00 AM

      [STROPPY, WHINY ROSEANNE VOICE] What part of "It's a U.S. group, U.S. recording from 1972" don't you understand?

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    7. One Buck GuyMay 11, 2020 at 1:46 AM

      I wasn't guessing, Roseanne, I was wondering if you like yourself some Badfinger, 'cause if you don't you better have a damn good explanation, pal!

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    8. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 12, 2020 at 6:43 AM

      Uh - their haircuts?

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    9. foppingtonMay 13, 2020 at 2:47 AM

      And I was doing the same, but you definitely won't go for the "give me a Rod Stewart but, y'know, combed neatly" jobs Splinter got at the local barber college for 50p and a cold sweat.

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  3. Harold Raisin IIIMay 9, 2020 at 10:12 AM

    I've got it. And I don't have a digital copy either, so I'm excited as a fox in a forest fire, ...or something. But before I spoil it for everyone else, I'm going to sleep on it and see if anyone else gets there too. They kind of lost me on their next album. Interesting cover shot on that one though.

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 9, 2020 at 10:26 AM

      Yup. You have it! Brilliant work! You get the million dollars, but leave us let the other slobs scratch their balding noggins first.

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  4. MrDaveMay 9, 2020 at 10:28 PM

    If I'm not mistaken this was a rehearsal tape from the 1972 the Poughkeepsie Community Chamber Orchestra's production of Prokofiev's Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34. Due to a modern dance troupe performance in the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center at the time, the orchestra was forced to rehearse out on the terrace during a particularly windy April afternoon.

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  5. One Buck GuyMay 9, 2020 at 10:59 PM

    I give my tongue to the cat, n'est-ce pas?!

    Sounds real good though.

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 10, 2020 at 6:17 AM

      Your mother smells of elderberries ...

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    2. One Buck GuyMay 11, 2020 at 1:44 AM

      Mais pourquoi elle ferait ça?

      Ramenez moi une serviette, garçon!

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  6. pmacMay 9, 2020 at 11:06 PM

    My money is on Mr. Dave's guess.

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 10, 2020 at 6:01 AM

      Your money is no good here.

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    2. pmacMay 10, 2020 at 11:09 PM

      gien the currency I use, legally, my money is not good anywhere. Freedonia!

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  7. gregMay 10, 2020 at 12:33 AM

    Love the song, but I've got no freaking clue as to who they are. I even tried cheating with a lyric search to no avail. A side note, I recently, well maybe a year or two ago, discovered Honeybus and am now a huge fan! You've got great taste in music sir!

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 10, 2020 at 6:33 AM

      You've seen the Honeybus post? Look for Drizzle Pop - down there somewhere - maybe something you don't have -

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  8. Jack Kerouac's CatMay 10, 2020 at 3:17 AM

    I know this song, I knew the words to it, but I just can't remember who the fu*k it is. It's killing me!

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  9. Kwai ChangMay 10, 2020 at 5:21 AM

    The Rigg: FINE Wool!

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 10, 2020 at 6:34 AM

      The Doctor will see you now, Mr. Chang. Through to the right.

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  10. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 10, 2020 at 6:05 AM

    I think it's time for finn to reveal the answer.

    If he's not preoccupied with sniping random citizenry from the top of a grain silo (again).

    finn? Step up to the mic here, fella ...

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  11. Harold Raisin IIIMay 10, 2020 at 7:20 AM

    Wilderness Road by Wilderness Road. I would like to thank the Academy, and everyone who made this possible. You love me, you really love me!

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  12. Harold Raisin IIIMay 10, 2020 at 7:36 AM

    I'll be back later to check in and collect the dough. Got to go milk the wallabies.

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  13. Jack Kerouac's CatMay 10, 2020 at 7:54 AM

    Ah yes, Rennie Davis' favorite band.
    I wonder what Prem Rawat would have made of Wilderness Road.

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  14. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 10, 2020 at 8:42 AM

    I'll up this later, when finn's *cough* "milked the wallabies".

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  15. Harold Raisin IIIMay 10, 2020 at 10:10 AM

    Back again Buckaroos. Took me a little while to coral those wallabies. Turns out if you don't milk them on the regular, they get might feisty. Anyhoo, this record is mighty fine. It is psychedelic country rock, but not in a West Coast kind of way. That's why I thought it might be British at first. It's more progressive than cosmic. I kind of prefer the cosmic country rock if it has that beat and doesn't just float away. This record has that and more. Their next one looked good on paper, but I just don't know what the hell happened there. And I like weird too, but I am just confused by what they were trying to accomplish. I love the song titles though - "Heavily Into Jesus," "What Key Does The Lord Sing In?," "The Authentic British Blues. Genius. I would be interested in the backstory on this band.

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  16. Harold Raisin IIIMay 10, 2020 at 10:40 AM

    corral. chorale. coral. why, why, spell check!?

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  17. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 10, 2020 at 1:33 PM



    I think I remember reading something about these guys forming the band to help pay the legal fees of the Chicago 8, but I could be wrong.

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  18. rickMay 10, 2020 at 6:31 PM

    wow so cool. been looking for this for a long time, their second lp has been a favorite of mine since high school

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  19. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMay 11, 2020 at 10:13 AM

    If anyone has the second albums, be a come-with Four Or Five Guy© and post it here!

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