The GO Sound of the Slots by the Revells
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This is a highly collectible hot rod album and should be on your priority list, especially if you're a surf-hot rod completist. The album is sealed and in near mint condition. What you have here is essentially The Hondells' third album. No kidding! The brainchild of Reprise/Warner Brothers executive Jimmy Bowen, the concept was to take advantage of the then current craze for slot car racing, and who better to provide the material (thought Bowen) than Gary Usher, for whom such a concept was nothing out of the ordinary! To those in tune enough to have been aware of its release, the belated may 1965 release of GO SOUNDS OF THE SLOTS was celebration of (to quote the liner notes) "America's Newest Addiction, Slot Car Racing." Sprinkled throughout the package were snatches of The Hondells, The Super Stocks and a new musical "force" - Chuck And Joe, a Righteous Brothers-styled club act put together by Chuck Girard and Joe Kelly. Usher would produce the duo on a handful of masters for Decca. The sophistication and overall sound of The Revells' album embodied the synthesis of The Hondells' musical panache with that of an emerging and broader West Coast theme. Whereas skateboarding, surfing and hot rodding were forever immortalized by numerous recordings both vocal and instrumental, GO SOUNDS OF THE SLOTS was to be slot-car music's sole musical expression. "I think the Revell model company put some of the money up for the album," recalled Usher, "Because at the time the slot car craze was so big and merchandising was the name of the game." Joe Kelly's Bill Medley-styled vocal was a prominent feature on such songs as "Fastest Little Racer", "My Little Slot coupe" and "My Baby Digs Slot Car Races".
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