Elephant Mixtapes #1

Below you will find the track info for the inaugural edition of Elephant Mixtapes. Though a tracklisting appears on the actual cassette, here you will find more info regarding each artist.

SIDE A

1. Megan Roberts – “I Could Sit Here All Day” *
2. Adriano Celentano – “Prisencolinensinainciusol”
3. Tim Rose – “I Know These Two People”
4. Apollo Smile – “Let’s Smile” (Later re-named “Let’s Rock”)
5. Jimmy McCracklin – “Let’s Do It (the Chicken Scratch)”
6. John Martyn – “Don’t Want to Know”
7. Unknown (Written by Cole Porter) – “My Heart Belongs to Daddy”
8. Louise Huebner – “The Emotional Bondage Spell”
9. Odetta – “Sail Away Ladies”
10. Nektar – “Recycle/Cybernetic Consumption”
11. Butterbeans & Susie – “Elevator Papa, Switchboard Mama”
12. Dschinn – “Rock ‘N Roll Dschinny” **
13. Jack Bonus – “Aye Que Lyn”

SIDE B

1. B-Movie – “Moles”
2. Francis Lai – “Spring Time Ballet”
3. The Ambassadors – “Gary, Indiana” ***
4. Theo Bikel – “I Hear the Laughter”
5. Colyn Davies – “The Hearse Song” ****
6. Leona Anderson – “Rats in My Room”
7. Country Funk – “Apart of Me”
8. New Electrikk – “Lust of Berlin” *****
9. Tom Cora – “Cruelty and Memory”
10. Cozmic Corridors – Dark Path
11. Mike Batt – “Zero Zero”
12. Elsa Lanchester – “At the Drive In”
13. Skreem – “Winner Takes All” ******
14. Third World War – “Teddy Teeth Goes Sailing”

* – Little information could be found about her save for she is a professor in western New York focusing on electronic composition. This track appeared on a compilation entitled New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media (1977, 1750 Arch Records).

** – All I know is they may have only had this one record and they are from somewhere in Europe.

*** – This is a young adult choir from Gary, Indiana. The common thread is that all of the members are mentally handicapped in some way.

**** – He was a Cockney singer in the 1940s. Little else is known.

***** – I was unable to find any info on this group except that they are from 1980s Germany. Imagine that.

****** – I found this on a 1987 compilation entitled Little Rock Rocks, collecting Christian hard rock and heavy metal from the Little Rock, Arkansas area.