Hello, I hope all is groovy. It sure is groovy here.

Yes, I know it's earlier than usual, but I have been up since 6am wearing my wife's dressing gown and a pair of shades (I can't find my glasses but I have found my presecription sunglasses) sorting out the #50pFriday LP. This week it's a true obscurity from the 1950s, a selection of tribal recordings from Haiti, Cuba and Brazil by The Singing Gods. This seems to me like a pretty authetic recording, and in some places not a million miles from Tam Tam Tam..! The album was named Katherine Durnham presents Drums Of Haiti, Cuba, Brazil ...she was a pioneering black actitivist and dance queen who brought afro and alternative dance styles to her students and audiences, taking the whole modern dance movement on in (literally) leaps and bounds. You can see her in action here, in a video that looks remarkably like my recent walk to a supermarket in Hackney with hurricane Barny. The album can be found right here.

This weekend it's the Utrecht record fayre, sadly I have not made it, but then again I have spent any money I might have had for trophy records on a house, one with no room for my records. But you may well be able to help me find a record though. I've been trying to trace this piece of music for about 25 years now, maybe longer, I think it might be a bit of obscure USA library, like a track from one of those William Tanner or Hanna Barbara library LPs. Any ideas? The track I'm after starts on the clip at 56 seconds. 

I also heard a great R4 show this week about the TV series Man Alive. As a result in any spare moments I've started ot watch Man Alive classic. Here's one, about ravers. It features Simon Dupree and his crazy fans. Really crazy fans. 

News next week about the new Trunk LP. So pens and paper and the ready. I now have to go and walk a dog for a friend. It's half Fox Terrier, half Lakeland Terrier. I reckon that makes it a Fakeland Terrier.

Thanks for listening.

Jonny