Showing posts with label Norton Records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norton Records. Show all posts

5/15/12




Greetings from Nortonville!


The merry month of MAY means MAYHEM at Nortonville, USA, with a brash rash of blastables and perusables (and so much more)! Get thee to the Norton website -- we’ve added a mess of tuff stuff—wax of all persuasions, plus hundreds of first time offered original and vintage rock n’ roll show and promotional posters from then to now and a mess more 1960's garage band original show posters rare vintage Mexican poster onesies (stirred up with assorted worldwide movie gunk)  that are sure el spraino your el braino- Git ‘em while you can—when they’re gone, they’re really GONE!  Also dig a limited souvenir crop (posters, novelties) from T Valentine’s NYC invasion and don’t be driving when you check out the Kicks Books link! Bad Seed icon HARLAN ELLISON has joined the starry knights at KICKS BOOKS with his first (and not last) collection for us, PULLING A TRAIN, which delivers his genre-bustin’ 1959 juvenile delinquent-PLUS  opus SEX GANG alongside a passel of arresting tales that haven’t seen print in fifty years! Limited signed box set and perfume available. Remember, slow means SORRY!

To fully utilize the Norton site, use the handy pull-down menu at the top of the home page—you’ll find all the Norton label fare, plus tons of recommended non- Norton fare including records, posters, sheet music, magazines, books, souvenir items, teeshirts, totes and patches, single copy DVD’s and more! 
Use the “Search” link to find anything on our site.

New at Nortonville



• ESQUERITA – SINNER MAN: THE LOST SESSION
(ED-381) Ten unissued selections from a long lost June 1966 NYC session showcase Esquerita pounding it out on piano and organ, flashing back and forth between the two during each song, accompanied only by a fantastic drummer! Dig the over the top nine minute gospel wailin’ title track (based on Nina Simone’s version but delivered at super Voola velocity) that’s worth the price of admission alone! STAGGERING! Sinner Man #1/Hittin’ On Nothing#1/ C.C. Rider/ Leave Me Alone#1/ Letter Full Of Tears/ Hittin’ On Nothing #2/On Broadway/ Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out/ Leave Me Alone #2/Sinner Man #2  LP $12


• ESQUERITA – HITTIN’ ON NOTHING/LETTER FULL OF TEARS (45-170) Explosive soulful pairing of Irma Thomas and Gladys Knight covers! Unissued sides from the Voola vaults! (7”) $5

• HASIL ADKINS AND HIS HAPPY GUITAR – GET OUT OF MY CAR/ SHAKE THAT THING (45-168) Hunch that thing with the world’s greatest one man band! Two monstrous chicken walkin’ hits on one platter! (7”) $5

• GENE MALTAIS – THE RAGING SEA/ GANGWAR
(881) Now on 45 by popular demand - Mad Man Maltais’ storming 1959 Lilac Records double headed blaster! (7”) $5



• FIGURES OF LIGHT – DROP DEAD (377) is now available on super limited CD edition on the website only– git it! $12






Related Essentials!



CHECK YOUR COLLECTION FOR ALL OUR HAIR RAISIN’ ESQUERITA SOUNDS!
LP:
• VINTAGE VOOLA (ED-202) vinyl LP  $10
• ESQUERITA! (Capitol T1186) vinyl LP $12
CD:
• VINTAGE VOOLA (CED-202) CD $12
7”:
• DEW DROP INN/ROCKIN’ THE JOINT (45-014) 7” $5
• DIDN'T IT RAIN (Esquerita with the Clovertones)/I HEAR VOICES (SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS) Esquerita is on one side only. $5
• YOU BETTER BELIEVE ME/WHAT WAS WRONG/ LITTLE RICHARD INTERVIEW (45-149) 7” $5
• Esquerita emblazoned in color on natural 15x16 LP shoulder sack! $10
BOOK:
• KICKS MAGAZINE ROCK N' ROLL PHOTO ALBUM #1: THE GREAT LOST PHOTOGRAPHS OF EDDIE ROCCO Esquerita on cover and featured in several full page photos herein. $5

PLUS… MORE HUNCHERS FROM HASIL ADKINS!
LP:
• OUT TO HUNCH (ED-201) vinyl LP $10
• THE WILD MAN (ED-203) vinyl LP $10
• PEANUT BUTTER ROCK & ROLL (ED-216) vinyl LP $10
• MOON OVER MADISON (ED-217) vinyl LP $10
• LOOK AT THAT CAVEMAN GO! (ED-232) vinyl LP $10
• ACHY BREAKY HA HA HA (ED-239) vinyl LP $10
• POULTRY IN MOTION (ED-281) vinyl LP $10
• WHITE LIGHT/WHITE MEAT (ED-328) vinyl LP $12
CD:
• OUT TO HUNCH (CED-201) CD $12
• THE WILD MAN (CED-203) CD $12
• PEANUT BUTTER ROCK & ROLL (CED-216) CD $12
• MOON OVER MADISON (CED-217) CD $12
• LOOK AT THAT CAVEMAN GO! (CED-232) CD $12
• ACHY BREAKY HA HA HA (CED-239) CD $12
• POULTRY IN MOTION (CED-281) CD $12
Hasil also appears on:
• TURBAN RENEWAL (CED-234) Wooly Bully $12
7”:
• HAZE’S HOUSE PARTY Sex Crazy Baby/Do The Hot Pants/Dottie Dottie/She’ll Be Coming Around The Mountain (EP-001) $5
• BOO BOO THE CAT/MATHILDA (45-017) $5
• SANTA CLAUS BOOGIE/BLUE CHRISTMAS (45-022) $5
• CHICKEN SHAKE/SHE’S MINE #2 (45-026) $5
• SEASICK CRUISE/CHOCOLATE MILK HONEYMOON (45-062) $5

PLUS… MORE GENE MALTAIS MAYHEM!
7”:
• GENE MALTAIS & FLAT DUO JETS Voodoo Woman/Little Girl Jets back up the legend! (EP-029) $5
Gene also appears on:
• RAGING TEENS VOL. 1 (ED-226) LP $10
• RAGING TEENS VOL. 1 (CED-226 CD $12

PLUS… MORE FIGURES OF LIGHT!
7”
IT’S LAME/I JES WANNA GO TO BED (45-130) 7” $5
LP:
FIGURES OF LIGHT – SMASH HITS (ED-336) LP $10
FIGURES OF LIGHT – DROP DEAD (ED-377) LP $10
CD:
FIGURES OF LIGHT – SMASH HITS (CED-336) CD $12
FIGURES OF LIGHT – DROP DEAD (CED-377) CD $12
FOL Band logo - white on Black tee, super ltd, made by band! $12
FOL “I’m Not Here” - white on Black tee, super ltd, made by band! $12






KICKS BOOKS PRESENTS… HARLAN ELLISON!

Harlan Ellison joins Andre Williams, Sun Ra, Nick Tosches and Kim Fowley at KICKS BOOKS, as he explodes from the launching pad with the first volume of mind-maulin’ short stories that deliver a one-two JD punch that is sure to rearrange your zipgun collection. The king of sci-fi future-bop finally reclaims the throne as the unadulterated boss cat of juvenile delinquent badass fiction with a mess of insane stories (including the elusive landmark JD/jailbait/bad seed socker SEX GANG) that have been unavailable for fifty years. Harlan has written a massive introduction that unravels the mystery behind his most elusive cranium crackers! Full blast at kicksbooks.com!  176 pages. $14.95


HARLAN ELLISON - PULLING A TRAIN (KB4-SPECIAL)
Limited first edition boxed edition. Arrives packaged in "plain brown wrapper", with a nod to the days when such books were hidden from public view and sent thru the mail in, yes, a plain brown wrapper! Box set boats a full size switchblade comb, commemorative authentic autographed bookplate (suitable for framing or ready to adhere to inside front cover of book or inside of presentation box lid, as you prefer, dear reader), and four commemorative postcards. One per customer. Website only. Box edition ships for May 27 delivery (author's birthdate). $50


SEX GANG - COMMEMORATIVE LTD FRAGRANCE
In step with all books in the Kicks paperback line, a "sidekick"  perfume has been formulated, street-tested, bottled and packaged. SEX GANG is the heady scent that tells the world OFF! Exclusive, limited, and totally dangerous. With miniature switchblade comb. Arrives bottled in authentic Italian half ounce Baralan bottle, boxed in signature Kicks Books Co. gift box. $15  


Stay tuned at kicksbooks.com!

6/23/09

A-Bones Not Now! New LP + Boat Blast!


NEW ON NORTON  A-BONES   JULY 14

 THE A-BONES, NOT NOW! (Norton 345)  Geraldine / Restless / Outcast / Shallow Grave / The Lover's Curse / He Sure Could Hypnotize / Jupiter Bulldog / Cat Nip (w/Dave “Baby” Cortez)/ Stolen Moments / Bad Times / The Rooster / Six Long Weeks/ Don't Talk About Him/ Granny Tops 'Em At The Hop / Bing Bong (There's A Party Goin' On)

Yes, your favorite slop team makes with the shake once again! The A-Bones return with a 15 song platter recorded at Manhattan’s posh underground NY Hed Studios piloted by reknown engineer Matt Verta-Ray. The A-Bones even managed to lure elusive R&B legend Dave “Baby” Cortez back onto the Hammond organ to grind out a fresh take of his instro stomper Cat Nip. Supercharged originals are filled out with covers of the Animals and the Clovers, plus Shallow Grave, Andy Shernoff's Bobby Fuller style ode to Charles “Smitty” Schmid, the notorious Pied Piper of Tucson and lots more! LP/CD

JULY 10 (Friday) A-BONES RECORD RELEASE PARTY BOOZE CRUISE!!

Skyport Marina - 23rd and FDR Dr. NYC  Ship Sails at 8PM

Ahoy! Celebrate the release of NOT NOW! the first all new A-Bones long player in 1.5 decades with a midsummer night's sloop slop! Take us on a boat, add you, a full bar, and the sylvan tides of the East River et voila! A full steam ahead, ramming speed voyage to alcohol fueled revelry and two chord enchantment. Is that the Statue of Liberty ahead? Is that my dinner flowing behind? A three hour tour, indeed... tickets at rocksoff.com

The A-Bones world tour info:  myspace.com/theabones

Dig all the A-Bones fine releases at nortonrecords.com

6/7/09

3. June in Nortonville!

BEAT BLASTS! DJ BLOWOUTS! RECORD SHOW BASHERS!


Stop the presses!  Two of my most favorite drummers are in town this week!

MUMMIES FEATURING RUSSELL QUAN!!

San Francisco giant  Russell Quan will be bashing his way into our hearts with the fabulous Mummies at Maxwell's on Tuesday and at Southpaw on Wednesday! Here's a pic of Russell on my 1962 red sparkle Slingerlands -- the kit originally belonged to  NJ beat king John Becker of the Dynamic  Del-Aires! Horror of Party Beach, kids! This show goes back to Giorgio Gomelski's Green Door blast in NYC, December 1991. (Photo above by Little Jeff) 






DEXTER ROMWEBER DUO FEATURING SARA ROMWEBER!

Friday (June 12) The mind bogglingly super great Sara Romweber will be supporting her mega talented brother Dex as the tubmaster for the Dex Romweber Duo at the Southpaw in scenic Brooklyn, NY. And what a big show! The great great great Detroit Cobras are heading this show of shows. Don't miss it! (Photo by Janet St Clair)

Saturday (June 13) Double dip with the Duo! Catch the Beat Beauty with her talented bro at Mercury Lounge!





JUNE 12 (Fri) PITTSBURGH MIDNIGHT RAMBLE RECORD FAIR!
Belvedere's Bar Pittsburgh 4016 Butler Street, Pittsburgh (Lawrenceville), PA 15201 8 PM- 2 AM
Billy and Miriam from Norton will be blasting 45s including Mad Mike monsters and Norton raunchsters all night long. Well, until 2 AM at which time we can convene at Eat'n Park for a rehash, DANA! Norton will be set up with their waxen wares, you bring yours too! Tons of records, plus a wide array of frosty adult beverages at the bar! Admission $3 for guys, free for gals. As it should be. Worldwide. For everything.

JUNE 13 (Sat) PITTSBURGH RECORD TRIBUTE TO THE LATE ARNIE WITZORRECK
Tony's Bar & Grill, 139 Howard Avenue, Millvale, PA. (Just down the street from the Attic!) 8:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m. Corky, who worked for Mad Mike in the 1960s, is holding a tribute to his old friend, renowned Pittsburgh record-collector Arnie Witzorreck, who passed away last October. Dance the night away with DJ Flea, who brings 1,000 45s to appeal to everyone's musical tastes. Throughout the night, he'll spin records made famous by Arnie. Millvale, just across the bridge from Laurenceville, was Arnie's hometown so it's the perfect venue for collectors and rockers to gather and reminisce about the great old days, or pound the floor to Goo Goo Muck and more!

JUNE 18 (Thurs) BOWERY ELECTRIC, NYC Miriam and Billy DJ with Norton stuff and more galore at Daddy Long Legs show at the fabulousBowery Electric, 327 Bowery at Joey Ramone Place NYC Open vodka bar 10-11! DLL at 11! Yahoo!

JUNE 22 SONICS! NXNE festival in Toronto, Canada!

JUNE 26 (Fri) HOME SWEET HOME (NYC) Billy and Miriam once again team up to spin with the former Norton intern who just won't go away, Sir Josh Styles, big town high rollin' tastemaker to the teens. 10-4 at 131 Chrystie Street. washable duds, please.


JUNE 28 (Sun) BROOKLYN RECORD RIOT Warsaw, 261 Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn NY Noon-8PM Join us and a gigantic ballroom rampacked with wax purveyors for this Sunday ritual in the heart of pierogi country, Williamsburg, Brooklyn! This gasser of a record show brings in slabs from all over the area and beyond, where DJ's are spinning and kielbasis are a-boilin' in the back bar as brews, braus and bodacious beverages are offered for quaffing. Great summertime record kickoff for the kiddies! Regular Admission: $3.00 Early Admission : $20.00

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That's it, kiddios. Check us out at:

MySpace: Norton Records

and

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and my godforsaken 70's blog:

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