Spending my morning revisiting favorite quirky leftfield tracks spun in DJ sessions by Fred Deakin of Lemon Jelly during his Balearic sets on BBC Radio 1's The Breezeblock. I'll share a few beloved eccentricities below.
Marsha Gee - “Peanut Duck" is a goofy dance single recorded in Philadelphia in 1965 by an unknown vocalist, credited falsely to Marsha Gee and pressed by Penniman label in Spain in 2005. I secured the last copy from the label.
(Not) Marsha Gee - “Peanut Duck”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8-V0Rd5GGo
Another oddity is this electro-reggae DJ single by Black Lodge from 2002 which samples the psychedelic elephants-on-parade scene from
Dumbo. It was limited to a run of 500 copies worldwide.
Black Lodge - "Blood Brass"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOgvD2KRxmY
Fred also likes to dabble in cheeky 60s love choons. Two favorites include:
Sue Thompson - "Norman"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4D3RYJC5KE
and Max Miller "The Cheeky Chappie" - "Mary Ann" from the end of his 1958
Max at the Met LP
(Sorry - the timestamp suffix to queue the end of the show isn't working in BBCode, so use the hyperlink below the embedded YouTube object instead.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDGGffefgp4#t=19m37s
Wonderfully weird music to kick off my weekend.