I'd Buy That For A Dollar

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!

Guest host James Duke hops on the line to clue the crew in on legendary session man Vincent "Vinnie" Bell. We explore the wild new textures and melodic constructions on a rare solo venture.   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 and soul singer Ben Pirani joins us to discuss this groundbreaking LP that paved the way for not only the future of R&B but pop music as a whole.  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!

We are joined again by music supervisor and DJ Taylor Rowley, this time for a discussion on Carpenters' 1970 sophomore album, the earnest and reflective Close to You. The conversation also examines their musical legacy and how their lighthearted image led to personal tragedy.  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 Trevor Coleman joins the crew as we ride the Holly Jolly Trolley across genres from fusion to hip hop to country to American primitive guitar.  Feeling Jolly? 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 Ryan Werner guides us through the only Sinatra he knows—an out-of-favor, aging superstar taking a shot in a different direction.  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 Dustin Krcatovich puts points on the board with smooth jazz progenitor Bob James. The crew get into the history of smooth jazz and why you shouldn't fear it.  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 Lauren Raham brings the crew genre-bending New York theatrical group Kid Creole and the Coconuts. Accessible yet abstruse, KCC didn't find the success stateside of pop acts nor the cult cred of fellow New York artists in their circle.  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!