Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2014 June 11 • Wednesday

Once again the WFMU Record Fair has come around and we were fortunate enough to attend.

As usual I sought out the Canadian dealer with the old and obscure rock and roll records from Quebec. As always there were some gems.

This album by The Rockets might be my favorite from this latest haul. It's an instrumental rock and roll record with some interesting covers. As soon as I noticed that they did the theme from The Blob I was sold on it. (Fortunately it wasn't too expensive.) They also do "The Continental" which is in one of the Astaire and Rogers movies, and cover "Tequila", "Harlem Nocturne", "Tenderly" and "Greensleeves", among others.

The style of the songs is helpfully indicated on the coer: mambo, cha cha and so on. There are some supporting choral parts provided by The Juveniles. I thought that it was as good as it looked and that it looked great!