Tiny Money Land

OTIS STILL GOING STRONG: At this writing, Otis Fodder's 365 Days project, during which he makes an MP3 of a recording available every day in 2003, has reached day 282 with a 1963 recording of a 4th grade class. Very often, what his contributors dig up are thrift store LPs, 45s and home recordings, and as you can imagine, there's a lot of interesting and/or utterly bizarre things in there. Here's a scattered few of my favorites:

--From San Francisco, the Space Lady's utterly memorable version of "Major Tom"

--Elvis Casio's utterly inept karaoke medley.

--"The Eight Seasons of Chromalox", whose entry is worth it for the notes alone.

--Gen Orange "Thunderstorm". Is it just me, or does this vocalist sound like Arianna Huffington?

--Bob Vido "Boo-Bah-Bah" and Mar-tie "Tribute to Beethoven". Indescribable.

--Kit Ream "Introuniversal Jam/Don't Be So Holy Poly Over My Souly". What happens when rich kids take too much drugs.

--William Shatner's "Rocket Man". If you've never heard it, get it now.

--Ashfordaisyak "Leper In A Tumbledryer". An interesting thing to find in a public area, to be sure.

--J & H Productions, looking for "stoz aftah stoz aftah stoz" from the "label industry".

This isn't all of my hit picks, but I've fallen a bit behind in my listening to these...they still haven't hit on the strangest record I've ever heard anywhere, but they've still got several months left in the year.