RE/Search #14 Incredibly Strange Music Volume 1

Incredibly Strange Music is a comprehensive guide to little-known yet amazing vinyl recordings (mostly from the '50s - '70s) like Muhammed Ali Fights Tooth Decay, Jayne Mansfield reading Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky and Me, Sebastian Cabot (Mr French on Family Affair) singing songs by Bob Dylan, Fornicating Female Freaks, Money Is to Burn and How to Overcome Discouragement. 

Enthusiastic, hilarious interviews illuminate the territory of neglected vinyl records ignored by the music criticism establishment of the time. Interviews include The Cramps, Eartha Kitt, Martin Denny, Gil Ray and Lynn Peril.

Lavishly illustrated with reference sections, quotations, sources and an index, this is a comprehensive guide to the last remaining 'garage sale' records. Published in 1993 it marks the 14th release of RE/Search books which is possibly the ONLY surviving 70s punk publisher who never quit, V. Vale’s RE/Search continues to provide ‘Against-the-Status-Quo’ publications that stimulate the imagination and optimistic skepticism to this day.

Vale has been doing counterculture publishing since 1977, when he founded the Punk tabloid, Search & Destroy, San Francisco’s first. It was published at City Lights Bookstore, where V. Vale worked, and was funded by $100 each from Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg. Then in 1980, V. Vale launched RE/SEARCH, which is best known for its impact on the total world of underground culture.

And we've got plenty more RE/Search publications which we'll be sharing here on the site and on our instagram over the next few days. Including Volume 2 of Incredibly Strange Music and the companion CD compilation album for Volume 1.

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Publishers / Editors: Andrea Juno & V. Vale

Book Design: Andrea Juno

Condition: Some some damage to the spine and left hand side of the cover, Ex Libris sticker on the inside front cover.

Published 1993