Monthly
Statement:
December 2005
OBJECT # 14
DATE SENT: December 31, 2005
SENT TO: Tim Heins
SENT VIA: Hand delivered
DESCRIPTION OF OBJECT(S): 15 33 1/3 LP vinyl albums, vintage
1970’s – 80’s. The specific artists, titles,
condition, and description of the album are:
1) Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass South of the Border
A&M Records T 90073
12 Tracks:
Side One
South of the Border
The Girl From Ipanema
Hello, Dolly!
I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face
Up Cherry Street
Mexican Shuffle
Side Two
El Presidente
All My Loving
Angelito
Salud, Amor Y Dinero
Numero Cinco
Adios, Mi Corazon
(Actual Album Missing) Cover picture of Herb with trumpet
smiling and woman in yellow dress leaning against him and
smiling as well. Herb leans against an archway and in the
background are three men in sombreros in shadow also leaning
against archway. Green foliage visible in background exterior.
Guitar and horn visible near three men. Back has liner notes,
b/w photo of Herb with cigarette and trumpet, advertisement
for six other Herb Alpert albums.
2) Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass What Now My Love
A&M Records Stereo SP4114
12 Tracks:
Side One
What Now My Love
Freckles
Memories of Madrid
It Was A Very Good Year
So What’s New?
Plucky
Side Two
Magic Trumpet
Cantina Blue
Brasilia
If I Were A Rich Man
Five Minutes More
The Shadow of Your Smile
Dust jacket and album in good condition. Cover photograph depicts
Herb looking out with sultry expression. Woman in yellow dress
(same as in T 90073) cuddles against Herb’s arm, looking
longingly at Herb. Herb holds trumpet and ignores woman. Two
musicians in sombreros are in background shadow. Album wrapped
in cellophane with price tag (SAVE! Reg. Price $4.79 OUR PRICE
$3.97) attached. Back cover photograph is black and white, Herb
in tuxedo and six other men dressed as matadors in bullring.
3) Liberace
Here’s Liberace
Vocalion/Decca Records VL 73821
13 Tracks:
Side One
Medley (a) Rhapsody in Blue
(b) I Got Rhythm
Mack The Knife
Tico Tico
Side Two
Medley (a) The Last Time I Saw Paris
(b) The River Seine
Autumn Leaves
Under The Paris Skies
The Poor People of Paris
Can Can
Medley (a) Jalousie
(b) Boogie Woogie
(c) You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want To Do It)
Album, dust cover and jacket in average condition. Cover color
photograph of Liberace playing piano, wearing pinky ring on
left hand and wearing a silver lame jacket. Three electric candles
burn, apparently in a candelabra on the piano just above his
head and in the left top corner of the album cover. A microphone
on a stand is in the center of the frame, bisecting the musician
and lining up with the top of his hunched shoulder. Liberace
is bathed in a soft lavender light and only the slightest suggestion
of a piano is given, as all else in the picture is black. The
back of the album lists the tracks as well as a listing of 72
other titles by various artists (Jeffrey Lee and His Orchestra,
Buddy Milton Quartet, e.g.) on the Vocalion label.
4)Barence Whitfield and the Savages OW! OW! OW!
Rounder Records 9011
10 Tracks:
Side A
Rockin’ The Mule
Madhouse
Apology Line
I Don’t Dig Your Noise
Living Proof
Side B
Stop Twistin’ My Arm
Girl From Outer Space
Runnin’ and Hidin’
The Blues is a Thief
Ain’t She Wild
Album, dust cover, and jacket in good condition. Jacket is in
op-art style with day-glo yellow border made up of a square
of yellow drumsticks, five to a side, many of which are broken,
chipped, cracked, or dented. This borders a photograph of Barrence
in green cast on top of a checkerboard op-art purple and blue
squares. Barrence is wearing a green sweater and cap, sunglasses,
mouth wide open and fists clenched in a great shout. His sweater
has squiggles in black and knitted in as well. Back cover lists
tracks, band personnel and credits. There are six black and
white photographs; 3 inches square each, of Barrence and the
band performing.
5) Good Rats Tasty
Rat City Records RCR 8002
Ten Tracks:
Side One
Back to My Music
Injun Joe
Tasty
Papa Poppa
Klash-Ka-Bob
Side Two
Fireball Express
Fred Upstairs & Ginger Snappers
300 Boys
Phil Fleish
Songwriter
Album, jacket, and dust cover in good condition. Notch in upper
left hand corner of jacket/ Jacket has illustration of huge
rat seated on a purple pillow, which is atop a pile of trash.
The rat’s face is stuffed with food, most of which looks
like carrot tops. Rat is holding a fork, wearing a vest and
is on its hind legs. The group’s name and album title
is in large red letters and there is a yellow circle, like the
sun surrounded by a green field. The style is somewhat reminiscent
of R. Crumb. There is a green applied dot on the upper right
hand corner of the album jacket. The back is green with two-tone
(red and black) photographs of the band. Each of their faces
is featured in the photograph, which is laid out in an “X”
format. The back also lists the credits and information regarding
the record company.
6) Emerson, Lake, and Palmer Tarkus
Atlantic Records SD 19121
13 Tracks:
Side One
Tarkus. Eruption
Stones of the Year
Iconoclast
Mass
Manticore
Battlefield
Aquatarkus
Side Two
Jeremy Bender
Bitches Crystal
The Only Way
Infinite Space (Conclusion)
A Time and a Place
Are You Ready Eddy?
Album, dust cover, and jacket in very good condition. Album
jacket is book style. Front illustration is of an armadillo
on tank tracks with a gun pointing toward the viewer. The armadillo
is on a plane of various color stripes, going from earth colors
toward a bright yellow. In the distance are the bones of some
pre-historic creature and some of the bones spell “Tarkus”.
Green applied dot in upper right hand corner and slight wear
on corners. Cover opens to reveal illustrations of the armadillo/tank
in various scenes of battle, some with other creatures. The
illustrations depict other animal/machine combination creatures
on the same plane as cover. Text lists songs, credits and record
company information. The back cover is the plane again, empty.
7) The Guess Who Road Food
RCA Records APL 1- 0405 Stereo
Nine Tracks:
Side One
Star Baby
Attila’s Blues
Straighten Out
Don’t You Want Me
One Way Road To Hell
Side Two
Clap for the Wolfman
Pleasin’ For Reason
Road Food
Ballad of the Last Five Years
Album in good condition, jacket and dust cover in fair condition,
lyric sheet has bent corner. Cover photograph is of a cardboard
tray, shot from above filled with typical road food (burgers,
beer, sodas, straws, plastic forks and napkins). The edge of
the cover is also the edge of the take out tray so the corrugated
cardboard is seen in a top-down view. Also included is a green
bill with the band’s name and the album title. The album’s
tracks are listed instead of food products and times of the
tracks are listed instead of prices. The back of the cover is
the bottom of the take out tray, the album’s songs listed,
written in black magic marker with the RCA logo and album number
stamped in the lower right hand corner. There is a notch taken
from the cover in the lower right hand corner when viewed from
the front. The lyric sheet has a black and white photograph
showing the interior of a home. It is a narrow room, like a
hallway. The band members are seated on couches. There is a
female mannequin visible, an illuminated clock, a long photograph,
and a neon sign with the word DRUGS illuminated. There is a
row of track lighting on the ceiling. Lyrics of two songs are
on that side. The other side has small black and white photographs
of the band members, listing their names and instruments. The
photographs are 2” x 1 1/2”. The lyrics for the
rest of the album are on this side. The dust jacket front is
a color picture of the band in front of a roadside food stand
named PINK’S selling Burgers and Chili Dogs. The band
stands directly in front of the stand and is holding or eating
food. One of the members has his hand reaching in to a trashcan.
The records tracks, the band members and other credits are listed.
The back of the dust jacket is the same view as the album cover,
same products, except all the items have been consumed.
8) Gilbert O’Sullivan I’m a Writer, Not a Fighter
MAM London Records 7 Stereo
10 Tracks
Side One
I’m a Writer, Not a Fighter
A Friend of Mine
They’ve Only Themselves To Blame
Who Knows, Perhaps Maybe
Where Peaceful Waters Flow
Side Two
Ooh Baby
I Have Never Loved You As Much As I Love You Today
Not in a Million Years
If You Love Me Like You Love Me
Get Down
Album is in good condition, jacket is worn, dust cover in fair
condition. Cover image is a two-tone photograph (green and white)
of Gilbert O’Sullivan, his face and shoulders only, skin
tones represented as white. The green surrounding area is a
broad brushed on paint, with some black under-painting. The
album title is in gold script with black outline. Gilbert’s
name has the same color combination but it is in an italicized
font that spreads across the lower left hand corner of the cover.
There is a green adhesive dot on the cover in the upper right
hand corner. The edges of the album cover are worn. The back
of the album cover has the same design motif. The artist’s
name is on the right hand side, near the top, the same script
as the front but smaller and the album title is below left,
same script also smaller. An oval black and white photograph
of Gilbert walking in a wooded area with vegetation, rocks,
and an old brick wall behind him is surrounded by a gold border.
It may be a garden path. Gilbert’s hands are thrust in
the pockets of his jacket, which is open as he looks straight
ahead. He wears bell bottomed pants and dark shoes. The tracks
of the album are listed, as are production credits. The dust
jacket is green and the lyrics are listed on either side in
white typeface. The album title is written on the front side
in the same script as the cover.
9) Various Artists SIXTIES MIX
60 Sensationally Sequenced Hits of the 60’s
Stylus Records SMR 733 Stereo Double Album
60 Tracks:
Side One
Do Wah Diddy Diddy Manfred Mann
Hold Tight The Archies
Shakin’ All Over Johnny Kidd & The Pirates
The Loco-motion Little Eva
1-2-3 Len Barry
Bend Me, Shape Me Amen Corner
It’s My Party Lesley Gore
You Really Got Me The Kinks
Hippy Hippy Shake Swinging Blue Jeans
Shout Lulu & The Lovers
Bobby’s Girl Susan Maughan
I Get Around The Beach Boys
Let’s Dance Chris Montez
Judy in Disguise With Glasses John Fred & The Playboy Band
It’s Not Unusual Tom Jones
Side Two
You Were Made For Me Freddie & The Dreamers
Working in the Coalmine Lee Dorsey
Barefootin’ Robert Parker
It Might As Well Rain Until September Carole King
Good Timin’ Jimmy (Handyman) Jones
A Little Loving The Fourmost
Do You Love Me Brian Poole & The Tremeloes
Do You Wanna Dance Cliff Richard & The Shadows
Foot-Tapper The Shadows
Yeh Yeh Georgie Fame
She’s About a Mover Sir Douglas Quintet
For Your Love The Yardbirds
Walkin’ Back To Happiness Helen Shapiro
Let There Be Drums Sandy Nelson
Side Three
Yesterday Man Chris Andrews
Gimme Little Sign Brenton Wood
Baby Now That I’ve Found You The Foundations
It’s In His Kiss Betty Everett
Rescue Me Fontella Bass
Sweets For My Sweet The Searchers
I Only Want To Be With You Dusty Springfield
Tobacco Road Nashville Teens
You’ve Got Your Troubles The Fortunes
F.B.I. The Shadows
Wooly Bully Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs
Sha-la-la-la-lee Small Faces
How Do You Do It Gerry & The Pacemakers
Rubber Ball Bobby Vee
Barbara Ann The Beach Boys
Side Four
Leader Of The Pack Shangri-Las
Sorrow The Merseys
On The Road Again Canned Heat
She’s Not There The Zombies
I’m Alive The Hollies
Hi-Ho Silver Lining Jeff Beck
Don’t Ever Change The Crickets
I’m Into Something Good Herman’s Hermits
Sunshine Superman Donovan
You Got What It Takes Mary Johnson
Got To Get You Into My Life Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers
He’s So Fine The Chiffons
Sweet Talking Guy The Chiffons
The Clapping Song Shirley Ellis
Hi-Heel Sneakers Tommy Tucker
Album jacket in worn condition, dust cover faded, and albums
in good condition. Album jacket is book style; front cover is
various photographs of the artists who are participating in
this compilation album. The photographs are bordered by various
colors and the title of the album is bursting through the images
as if it has ripped through the paper. There is text on top,
which reads: AS SEEN ON TV 60 ORIGINAL RECORDINGS and DOUBLE
ALBUM. On the bottom the text reads: THE WORLD’S GREATEST
NOSTALGIA NON-STOP MEGAMIX. There are two green adhesive dots
on the upper right hand corner of the album. The album opens
up to reveal more photographs, in numerical order, artists’
pictures, titles of albums and track and a short anecdote about
the band. The back of the album has more photographs, all various
sizes and a list of all four sides and the respective tracks
along with credit information.
10) Holly Beth Vincent Holly & the Italians
Epic Inc Virgin Records ARE 38287
10 Tracks:
Side One
Honalu
Dangerously
Uptown
Cool Love (Is Spreading Around)
Just Like Me
Side Two
For What It’s Worth
We Danced
Revenge
Unoriginal Sin
Samurai And Courtesan
Album cover, dust jacket, is in fair but worn condition. Album
is in good condition. Album cover has a long vertical photograph
of Holly, clutching her shoulders, her hair done in a sweep.
She has a tattoo on her right shoulder. The photograph is blue
toned. The left hand side of the album has her name boldly written
in large type, her initials in red and the rest of the name
in yellow. The album title is in italics and written over the
photograph. The back of the album depicts the group (presumably),
in a bar, in a two-tone photograph (blue and darker blue). The
album tracks are in a deep red box and the text is yellow. Credits
and other information is listed on the bottom of the back cover.
There is a pink adhesive dot on the back cover. The dust jacket
is in black and white. Side one has Holly’s name in the
same graphic style as the cover with lyrics and side two has
the photograph with lyrics as well.
11) Grin Gone Crazy
A & M Records SP-4415/Stereo (SP-4730)
9 Tracks:
Side One
You’re The Weight
Boy & Girl
What About Me
One More Time
Side Two
True Thrill
Beggar’s Day (Eulogy to Danny Whitten)
Nightmare
Believe
Ain’t For Free
Album jacket, dust cover in poor condition. Album in fair condition.
Album cover is in book style, with a cover illustration that
is cartoon-like, psychedelic-style, pen and ink drawing with
a color photograph occupying the center space. The illustrations
depict cups and saucers, animals, eyes, milk pitchers in a frenzied
interaction. The groups name is in the top center of the album
and the center photograph shows a man flipping in mid-air. The
album opens to reveal various black and white and color photographs
with hand written credits serving as a border surrounding the
photographs. Most of the photographs show the band playing,
one large photo has band members seated with an older man. The
back cover is the same style illustration as the front; the
scene depicted has strange animals, people, vehicles etc. The
dust jacket depicts small photos of album covers from the same
company. The jacket’s bottom has come unglued.
12) Mick Ronson Cover: Slaughter on 10th Avenue
N.B.: Album inside Play Don’t Worry
Dynaflex RCA Records APL1-0681/Stereo
9 Tracks:
Side A
Billy Porter
Angel No. 9
This Is for You
White Light/White Heat
Side B
Play Don’t Worry
Hazy Days
Girl Can’t Help It
The Empty Bed(lo me ne andrei)
Woman
Album, jacket, and dust cover in average condition. Album cover
shows Mick Ronson looking up to an unknown object in the distance,
his eyes fixed on something far away. He has bleached blonde
hair and wears a striped red and white shirt and a white scarf
around his neck. In the background are out-of-focus streetlights.
The back of the cover is a street scene of what looks like New
York City. There has been a murder in this scene; people are
looking out of windows, from a bar/candy store, etc at the prone
body of a woman. There are street signs and spot lights and
it looks like a still from a film, or a very early version of
mid-90’s art photography depicting fictional dramatic
scenes. Track titles and credits are also listed on the back.
Dust jacket is plain white paper.
13) Sal Mineo Sal
CBS Epic Records LN 3405
12 Tracks:
Side One
Too Young
My Bride
Not Tomorrow But Tonight
The Words That I Whisper
Blue-Eyed Baby
Tattoo
Side Two
Now And For Always
Down By The River-side
Secret Doorway
Oh Marie
Deep Devotion
Baby Face
Album, jacket, and dust cover in poor to average condition.
Front cover depicts Sal Mineo in a full color photograph. Looking
over his left shoulder back at the camera. He is very young
looking, his hair is deep brown or black and the name SAL is
written in the top right hand corner. The back cover has various
black and white photographs of Mineo singing and acting as well
as three paragraphs of text describing his abilities as a singer
and the list of tracks. The dust cover is yellowing and dried
out.
14) Vikki Carr Nashville By Carr
Liberty/UA, Inc. LST-11001 Stereo
12 Tracks:
Side One
Singing My Song
Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head
Make It Rain
Tomorrow Is My Friend
Living On A Prayer, A Hope, And A Hand-Me Down
Everybody’s Talkin’
Side Two
Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down
Until It’s Time For You To Go
You Are
Medley: Today I Started Loving You Again
Crying Time
Yesterday When I Was Young
The Tip Of My Fingers
Album, jacket, and dust cover in worn condition. Album jacket
is in book style. Front cover is white with a color photograph
of Vicki looking in to her fur scarf, back lit and shoulders
and head only. The jacket opens to a full color photograph of
Vicki seated on a white fence in front of a huge home and grounds
of what looks like a horse farm. The back cover has various
photographs of Vicki on the grounds of her home. There is a
list of the album tracks and credits on the back. The dust jacket
is plain white paper.
15) Journey
Infinity
CBS Columbia JC 34912 Stereo
10 Tracks:
Side One
Lights
Feeling That Way
Anytime
La Do Da
Patiently
Side Two
Wheel In The Sky
Somethin’ To Hide
Winds Of March
Can Do
Opened The Door
Album, jacket, and dust cover in poor condition. Front cover
illustration is of a crystal globe, inside of which is of
a fantastic mountain range and a river leading to it. The
groups name is written across this and there is a folded,
accordian-like circle of feathers in deep red and purple.
There is a red adhesive dot in top right corner of cover.
Back of cover has full figure color photographs of the band
in various poses with a white to red faded background and
the band’s name over the top.
ORIGIN
AND APPROXIMATE DATE OF POSSESSION OF OBJECT(S): Found on
the 5th floor of the Neumann Leather Building, outside main
studio door, in an area where people put things that they
want to get rid of or re-distribute. Found approximately two
or three years ago, though any closer approximation is not
possible for me to ascertain.
MOST RECENT LOCATION OF OBJECT: In my studio, leaning against
a support column which is in the northeast section close to
my door.
RELATION OF OBJECT TO RECIPIENT: Tim and I have been studio
mates, neighbors sharing a wall, artistic discipline, and
a common taste in music since 1989. We have evolved a mutually
respectful system of sound control over the years, abetted
most recently by Tim’s masterful wall-building skills,
which have further reduced the transmission of sounds. I am
more of a transgressor than he, since my studio and darkroom
act as “headphones”* since they bookend Tim’s
studio and at times I have the volume up quite a bit to combat
the sound of the exhaust fan in my darkroom. None-the-less,
Tim is most gracious, and only occasionally enters my studio
to turn the volume down a bit. He has, more to the point,
a great collection of vinyl albums, quite eclectic stylistically,
which he buys, finds, or barters for in various locations
around Hoboken and New York City. He has generously made tapes
of some of these for me when he thinks it might be something
I’d like, which is mostly aligned to what he likes.
When I found these albums I thought in fact either they were
Tim’s or perhaps he’d like them. I believe I showed
them to him once and he commented specifically on the Sal
Mineo album. While I have little interest in Mr. Mineo as
a recording artist and not much in any of the other artists
mentioned above, I fantasize Tim may find something redeeming
about their music. And, of course, I will get to hear it as
well for as long as we share the wall.
RESPONSE
OF RECIPIENT:
DATE OF RESPONSE:
* Quote from Tim Heins
Process:
My
plan is to de-accumulate objects I now own during the course
of the exhibition year. I will photograph the selected object
then send the object with a letter to a person who has some
relationship to the object or whom I think might be interested
in the object. The letter will discuss the project and tell
the receiver they can keep the object, destroy it, give it
away, recycle it or anything else they choose. I will ask
them to document it in the place they now have it and send
their image and/or written description back to me of what
they did with it and where it is. I plan on de-accumulating
an average of one object per week. The new images/descriptions
will be placed in a plastic folder and exhibited along with
a photograph of the object as it was in my possession.
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