Music From A Surplus Store odd space age pop Fascinato

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Jack Fascinato: Music From A Surplus Store


label & cat. no.:
Capitol T1225 pressed in:
USA date:
196? format:
LP condition:
Vinyl: vg+ (few minor scuffs)
Cover: nm- (in shrink; small red spot printing flaw on back) description:
Circa 1962 experimental pop lp of unusual sounds, with original instrumentals performed by a jazz orchestra augmented with an array of objects found at a thrift store and played as instruments. "A collection of seemingly un-musical implements from the hardware shelf, such as trowels, putty knives, and crowbar, are blended with more usual orchestral sounds in twelve fun-filled original compositions by Jack Fascinato and Ken Snyder. The story of this album's making can best be told by this scene and situation: A surplus store... two rather vague customers, prowling among the aisles, bins and racks... furtively tap-tap-tapping plastic helmet-liners, rattling messkits, plinging matched drill sets with a cold chisel. The clerk approaches and asks, 'Can I help you gentlemen?' And the reply, 'No thanks. Just listening'..." This is a sought-after space-age pop classic. Tracks are: Oily Boid; Pixie Pipes Parade; Sweepy Time; Rub-a-Dub; Chinatown Bricklayer; Adios Castanets; Latin Hardware; Spring, Sprang, Sprung; Makin' Tracks; An Old Saw; Basket Weaving; Foggy Recollections. Fascinato studied under modern classical composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and this lp might be of interest to fans of Raymond Scott, Esquivel, Les Baxter, Enoch Light, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Andre Popp, Ferrante and Teicher, Jimmy Carroll, Harry Breuer, Carroll Bratman, and Martin Denny. Check out my other items for more avant garde/experimental, early electronic/electroacoustic, audiophile, 20th century classical, soundtracks, poetry/spoken word, space age pop, and artist records. US Shipping - Media Mail is $5.00 for 1-2 single records, then $0.65 for each additional; Priority Mail is also available but pricing depends on zipcode (you can check eBay's calculated shipping price at the bottom of this page); other expedited shipping options and insurance are all available on request. Combine multiple items to save on shipping.
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