Not Truth But Effect Wed Oct 14 with KPC on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Good morning. Chat is open.

Good morning KPC

Hi Amy!

I brought The Reivers' Pop beloved -- I'll play a track today

That really is one fine album.

Agreed!

Hot damn, that cheap perfume track was a major ripper!

Hi Pat! Yes it kicks ass!

Howdy KPC!

Also love the name of the Cheap Perfume album lol

John Zacherle, the greatest of the TV horror movie show hosts in the 1950s & '60s! Known first as "Roland" in Philly and later as Zacherley in NYC. The "Cool Ghoul" nickname was given him by none other than Dick Clark, the famed "American Bandstand" TV teenage dance show.

Yes that's what the article from 1970 said. Richard Meltzer loved the guy!

Howdy KPC & Pat G.!!! I love the Primitive Ring track! I knew it had to have something in common with Fuzz since it exhibited all manner of like-70s-protometal-but-somehow-better licks. @KPC -- totally get why it may be the best album you've heard all year.

And Goodest Morning to you, Rocky Hill Richard!

Hi Richard & Teresa!

And Goodest Morning to you, Amy Lee!

Crack that whip!! I ❤️ Bongo Joe!

Good goth!

Yes we need more deviant Spanish pop!

Zacherle was later a popular rock radio DJ in NYC. A True Story: In the 1960 elections, Zach had a promotion that he was running for President. My parents let me put a "Zacherley for President" bumper sticker on our car. When Mom parked to vote, she got in trouble with a policeman for having campaign material within 100 ft of a polling place entry. When she explained it was a joke by someone on TV, the cop sternly pointed to the sticker and declared, "It says 'For President', doesn't it?"

Agrimensor K reminds me a little of my beloved CCCP from Italy, also during the '80s.

Richard that's a great story! I hope she kicked the cop in the shin

...for lack of a better description. If I only had known a genre to refer to when I was scouring for this sound in the 80's

@Amy -- Exactly! Just look what we've been missing! Until now.

...and if the record store employees weren't so terrifyingly punked out to 13 yr old me...I would have asked.

Terrifyingly punked out record store employees and cops, man -- so frickin' self-important and humorless!

Nah, the cop let Mom go without a summons. But she happily recalled that incident every election day thereafter. Many years later, I was in Greenwich Village at an Off Off Broadway show. And during intermission, who did I recognize in the lobby but ... Zacherley himself!!! I told him the story with the emphatic punchline "It says 'For President," doesn't it?" And as you can imagine, The Cool Ghoul got a monstrous chuckle out of that. :-D

Wow, Richard! That is so amazing!!!

Such sweet sounds...

:)

more dysfunctional romance lol

Its what makes the world go around

Although Zach was not one of The Undead, he did live to 98 and got a major NY Times obit. There's at least one of his Shock Theater shows on YouTube. Low budget but delightfully clever. Zach used to have himself switched into the films he was showing, becoming momentarily part of the action. Example: In the 1931 "Frankenstein" some medical students laugh during a lecture. Suddenly there was Zach at a desk, furiously taking notes and shushing them. :-D

Yes.

That's cute about Frankenstein - excellent

Hello

Hello Rob!

Thanks for listening everybody! See you next week!

10:03 AM		Anoushka Shankar What Will We Remember? Chapter I: Forever, For Now - EP LEITER Verlag GmbH & Co. KG 2023
10:05 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:15 AM		Patrol Cold Blood S/T - EP La Parca 2024
10:16 AM		Cheap Perfume Blood On Your Hands Don't Care. Didn't Ask Snappy Little Numbers 2025
10:19 AM		Ovef Ow Do the Wurm! Vs. The Worm What's For Breakfast? Records and Oort Cloud Records 2023
10:23 AM		Primitive Ring The Callous Man N Primitive Ring In The Red 2026
10:30 AM		John Zacherie (The Cool Ghoul) Dinner With Drac, Pt. 1 Cameo Parkway, 1957-1967 V/A ABKCO orig. released 1958
10:30 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:39 AM		Ambulanz Joy III - EP It's Eleven Records 2025
10:42 AM		beabadoobee & Brendan Yates Powerlines N Pylon beabadoobee 2026
10:45 AM		Agrimensor K Nuevas facoritas N La Ola Nocturna — Experimental Songs & Deviant Pop from the Spanish 80’s V/A Bongo Joe 2026 orig. 1982
10:50 AM		The Tubs Now and Then N Hard Life Merge Records 2026
10:53 AM		Slippers Castaways N Slippers 08 Perennial / K Records 2026
10:53 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:01 AM		Spooky Visions The Microbrain Unravaled - EP Tetryon Tapes 2025
11:02 AM		Siouxsie & The Banshees Halloween Ju Ju (Remastered) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1981 actually JVC Records
11:08 AM		Magazine Goldfinger Real Life Virgin Catalogue 1978
11:09 AM		The Reivers Over and Over R Pop Beloved 3350645 Records DK 1990
11:09 AM		Set Break: -----some funkier things-----------------------------------------------
11:16 AM		William Onyeabor Better Change Your Mind Nigeria 70 - Funky Lagos V/A Strut 2009 orig. 1978
11:24 AM		Monwa & Sun Makonrad Tigers don't cry Cool Spot Records 1989
11:34 AM		Diron Animal Love Family Alone Soundway Records Ltd 2017
11:36 AM		Scan Man Arabian Arabian - EP Soundway Records Ltd 2022 orig. 1988 on Lago Records
11:41 AM		Homer Wishing Well Ensatina Big Crown Records 2024
11:42 AM		Set Break: -----really old thing for the day-----------------------------------------------
11:51 AM		Lillian Goodner Gonna Get Somebody's Daddy (Just Wait and See) The Roots of Etta James Silverphonic Records 2011 orig. 1924 on Ajax Records
11:54 AM		The Minders Detective of Crime Psychedelic Blacktop Space Cassette Records 2022

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