I'd Buy That For A Dollar

Guest host Leaura Hoss joins us to reveal what is on those Melba Moore records you've skipped over in so many dollar bins. Discover this powerful voice in that powerful suit on this powerful episode.  If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!  

Co-host Jeremy brings the hallmark album from the biggest live music performer that no one has ever heard of—Jean-Michel Jarre—a synth music gem that can still be found in the dollar bins.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

Musician Chris Connelly joins us to talk the complex music and even more complex person that is Tiny Tim. We explore how Tiny Tim came to be one of the most famous people in the world for a brief time and how his legacy has lingered.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

Co-host Peter brings the first classical artist to the podcast—Ravel. Not ignoring the composer's well-known dalliances in repetition, the crew finds there is more to Ravel than simply Bolero.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

Co-host Jeremy breathes new life into the podcast with the laid-back light rock sounds of singer-songwriter Kenny Rankin and his 1972 release, Like a Seed.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

Co-host Sean finds a rare avant-classical fusion record that is truly a bargain binner. Master composer and soundtrack extraordinaire Lucia Hwong graces our ears with a beautiful mix of eastern and western influences that blend seamlessly on this wax.  If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

Co-host Peter gets far out with this masterpiece from psychedelic rock outfit Quicksilver Messenger Service that was turned in just a little too late for the mainstream but encapsulates an important time and place.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

Jeremy has got spring spirit and brings some mid-tempo jams from UK dance/soul phenoms Loose Ends' debut, A Little Spice.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

Co-hosts Sean and Jeremy finally bring legendary theatre organist Lyn Larsen out of the shadows and into the waiting ears of our loyal fans.    

Co-host Sean takes us waaaay out—perhaps out of the realm of music itself—as we explore the ambitious and misunderstood Environments series, as well as the person behind it, Irv Teibel.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

Co-host Peter hits a spiritual nerve with the beyond human voice of Mahalia Jackson. The gospel superstar refuses to give her voice to the earthly plane of pop and we reap the rewards of those scared of a little religion.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

Co-host Jeremy brings us news anchor and investigative journalist John Hambrick's single foray into the music industry and it's a doozy of a boot stomper.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

The one and only Bob Bucko Jr joins us to discuss the funky merits of the Isley Brothers' eighteenth studio album. The group's long and prosperous career is also put under the microscope.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

Co-host Peter whisks us away to a very different time and place where the forgotten Erroll Garner stridently washes us in waves of jazz genius.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

Guest host Jakab Selner brings us this oft-found and oft-passed over record by groove masters War. We trace the tale of perhaps the only band to get bigger after their famous lead singer left the band.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!  

Co-host Sean leads a tour through the fabricated reality of exotica and musical genius Martin Denny's exploration of new textures in jazz.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

Co-host Peter flips the station to some more AM Gold and we tune in to the smooth, horn-filled grooves of Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds—a confusingly named trio birthed from an Alka Seltzer jingle.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

Co-host Jeremy brings us this inflection point in Big Country's career where pop stardom was traded for a social message, derailing their ascension as 'the saviors of guitar music.'   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

Guest host Andrew 'Dreas' Christopoulos spins us a groovy slab of jazzy R&B in the form of Norman Connors' You Are My Starship. We dig into the important questions like, "Wait, isn't that a boat?"   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

Co-host Peter brings a document of the classic Temptations lineup in their prime on Motown: a live album that is somehow largely forgotten. Perhaps the generic title or cover let this gem slip into the dust bins of history.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!