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A Bloody Magic Mix !

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Magic, sometimes known as sorcery, is the practice of consciousness manipulation and/or autosuggestion to achieve a desired result, usually by techniques described in various conceptual systems. The practice is often influenced by ideas of religion, mysticism, occultism, science, and psychology. Yes baby, watch me howl and hear my circus coming, I’m gonna put a spell on you ! Rev. Frost Presents…A Bloody Magic Mix ! (52 :27) Tracklist: 1. Edvard Grieg - In The Hall Of The Moutain King 2. The Electric Prunes - Dr Do Good 3. Johnny Kid And The Pirates - Casting My Spell 4. Ray Martin - The Flight Of The Bumblebee 5. Elvis Presley – Chesay 6. Charles Sheffield - It's Your Voodoo Workin' 7. Patrick Williams - The Magician Theme 8. Takeshi Terauchi And The Bunnys – Hungarian Dance No. 5 9. Johnny Horton - Broken Hearted Gypsy 10. Louis Armstrong - You've Got Me Voodoo'd 11. Ron Thompson & His Rowdy Guitar – Switchblade 12. Mitty Collier - My Babe 13. Jack Scott - I Neve...

Little Caesar !

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Harry 'Little' Caesar was born into a family of steelworkers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 1928 and he grew up in Youngstown, Ohio. Harry’s youth was misspent as a gang member under his knickname ‘Kid Wolf’. He was imprisoned for six months during the 1940s for inciting riots, and upon release became a reformed character, joigning a church choir. Harry migrated from gospel to R&B and from Youngstown to Oakland, California, where he began working with the Peter Rabbit Trio and Que Martyn. His career out of music, which started in the late 1950s, was, if anything, more interesting than his career in music. He was a truck driver and actor in B-movies and TV series, including 'Baretta, Hill Street Blues,' 'Mannix,' ,'Hart To Hart,' and ‘The Dukes Of Hazzard’ ! Anyway, Caesar's tunes were full of pathos, and on cuts like the eerie, near-suicidal plaint "River," he comes across like a lo-fi Roy Orbison of soul, dripping with broken-hearted d...

Jim Waller & the Deltas !

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Howdy ! Yeah ok sorry about last week, I was on holidays, I even received complaints by email...You're as mad as me folks ! Ok a lil' bit of sun here...The R&B-inflected surf combo the Deltas formed at Fresno State College in 1961. Eventually billed as Jim Waller & the Deltas, the band featured a lineup of Waller on piano and organ, Terry Christofsen on guitar, Ray Carlson on saxophone, Terry Christenson on drums, and Eddie Atkinson on bass. An R&B-inflected surf combo, Jim Waller & the Deltas formed at Fresno State College in 1961 and featured a lineup of Waller on piano and organ, Terry Christofsen on guitar, Ray Carlson on saxophone, Terry Christenson on drums and Eddie Atkinson on bass, and the band disbanded in 1967. The Deltas released an LP of instrumentals called Surfin' Wild on Arvee Records in 1963 (Sundazed reissued Surfin' Wild on CD in 1995).Raucous and fun, these dozen instrumentals sound more like King Curtis then they do Dick Dale, and th...