Norton Needs YOU! Manitoba Auction Sunday!

Thanks, Stompino Ungawa!

NORTON RECORDS STILL SEEKS VOLUNTEERS! It's been forty days since Hurricane Sandy pummeled the Norton Records Red Hook, Brooklyn warehouse and destroyed nearly our entire stock. Thanks to the countless volunteers who helped during the first few weeks, we made a sizeable dent in bringing deeply doused LPs back to their former glory. This is an ongoing effort. Now we are putting the call out once again for volunteers. Norton needs help at our office in Prospect Heights cleaning 45s. It’s crucial that we get on the singles as soon as possible! Hours of operation are 11AM to 10PM every day starting Monday, December 10. If interested, please contact us at (718) 789-4438 or (917) 671-7185 and let us know the day and time that you are available to help. We will give you directions. Also you may e-mail us at nortonrec@aol.com - please type VOLUNTEER in the subject line. No texts or facebook responses please. Please join the Norton Records facebook group and keep up with various worldwide Norton special events. Thanks a ton to all you wax wombats who have provided muscle and hustle during this vinyl crisis!

Locals – see you TOMORROW -- SUNDAY DEC 9 at Manitoba’s Norton Records Auction Fundraiser- where tons of stuff from celebrities and collectors and local shops will be auctioned off by first time tag teamsters Handsome Dick Manitoba and Norton's own Billy Miller! Suggested admission donation is $20 is you can spare it, but come even if you can't spare the coin- a mere $5 entry will getcha White Castle hamburgers WHILE THEY LAST!!! Wild stuff from luminaries like Howie Pyro and Mickey Leigh, plus appliances (microwaves), dinners, records, boss threads, etc all go under the hammer starting at 4 PM! Happy Hour prices on drinks throughout the event!

Dig the new release action at the Norton Records website!

45 RPM Buff-A-Thon at The Bell House

NORTON RECORDS 45 RPM Buff-A-Thon! Calling all 45 RPM luvvin' volunteers! One big night at the fabulous BELL HOUSE!! 149 7th Street Brooklyn, NY 11215 Wednesday, December 5th 5 to 11:45pm FREE! Lotsa Boss DJ's blastin' all nite long! FREE ADMISSION KIDS! THE HOUND (The Cold Blooded Hound!) MICK COLLINS (Dirtbombs) REX (Fool's Paradise, WFMU) TODD-O-PHONIC TODD (Telstar Records) DAVE THE SPAZZ (Music To Spazz By, WFMU) LEAH BETH (Nouvellas) DREW REDMOND (Metropolis Vintage) AVI SPIVAK (Norton Records) CHARLY HIMMEL (Norton Records) NEIL DEVLIN (Norton Records) Seven inch records clean infinitely faster than the LPs that we’ve done at the two Brooklyn Bowl Wash-A-Thons but there are a lot of them! Bring along some rolls of paper towels and a pair of plastic gloves and let's give the wax a rubdown! Norton's seven inchers got soaked by Sandy and all the boss picture sleeves are now history. Help us dip n' dry these sevens back into action- come on over and don't forget the elbow grease! Plenty of wild 45s will be spun all night long!

NORTON RECORDS WASH-A-THON PT. 2

NORTON RECORDS WASH-A-THON #2 FINALE! Sunday November 25th BROOKLYN BOWL 61 Wythe Avenue Brooklyn, NY Telephone: 718-963-3369 4pm til Midnight! Grand finale rub-a-rub record scrub to the non-stop Killer Sounds from the Town’s Top DJs including: ANDY SHERNOFF (Dictators) JOSH STYLES (Smashed! Blocked!) GREAT GAYLORD FIELDS (WFMU) DREW REDMOND (Metropolis Vintage) more top klass spinner DJ's to be announced! Ready to tackle another load of wet wax? The fabulous Brooklyn Bowl has swung open its door and alleys for the Grand Finale Norton Records Wash-A-Thon! Last Sunday, a Norton Army assembled to wash 10,000 LP records in one eight hour marathon! Mucho thanks to the Brooklyn Bowl staff- Adam, Jessie, and the whole gang- THANK YOU ALL! Of course the rippin’, strippin’, stackin’ washin’, dryin’, sleevin’ and dryin’ was greatly accentuatin’ by the top brass DJ assemblage that kept elbows poolenty GREASY! Yes, Hurricane Sandy has precipitated a world record double barrel record washing axtravaganza that tests the mettle of our beloved vinyl format- which outlasted CD’s and tapes- and which will last us all several lifetimes. Join us at the Brooklyn Bowl as we tackle a truckload of wet wax from the label with the able stable- New York’s own NORTON RECORDS, which was totally trashed, bashed and flooded by the wrath and fury of Sandy! Get in on it as a motherlode of the nation’s top disc jockeys blast their best, while lucky YOU joins the loud crowd lathering and buffing our Sandy-soaked footlongs back into action! Free admission but B.Y.O.RG. – Bring Your Own Rubber Gloves … and rolls of hi-klass paper towels! Teams of clean freaks will work with record washers provided by the acclaimed Discwasher Company of Pittsburgh, while others will use the time tested soapy sponge method. Learn a trade! And know that you have participated in saving the wildest wax in the world. As you know, Hurricane Sandy destroyed the contents of the Red Hook based Norton Records warehouse, soaking everything within. Time is not on our side as we strip off and discard wet jackets, and wash, dry and resleeve the recordings of the Sonics, Link Wray, Hasil Adkins, Jack Starr, Bloodshot Bill, Esquerita, Daddy Long Legs, King Uszniewicz and hundreds of artists whose shouts and stomps have come into your homes and hearts via the Norton label. Kudos to the beautiful BROOKLYN BOWL for setting the pins up for the first ever NORTON RECORDS WASH-A-THON—enjoy their food, beverages, great sound system.. plus break for BOWLING after the WASH-A-THON! See you there! Limited advance copies of Norton’s upcoming releases (which were safely at the plant during the storm) will be on sale at Brooklyn Bowl. This includes KIM FOWLEY - KING OF THE CREEPS (1959-69), THE DEL-AIRES - ZOMBIE STOMP (full LP by the Horror of Party Beach Guys), four new albums in our EL PASO ROCK series and T. VALENTINE WITH DADDY LONG LEGS - THE VAMPIRE! Several new singles will also be available! Pick up a Norton bags and teeshirt, too! Sneak peak, pre-pub copies of LORD OF GARBAGE VOL. 1 (memoirs from 1939-1969) by KIM FOWLEY will be available—hot off the press at KICKS BOOKS! Norton Blog In case you can’t come by, but would still like to help, we have a donation button on our homepage: Norton Records We are now also looking for a couple of trusty interns willing to work for school credit or experience for clerical (Mac) work, inventory, library organization, website wizardry, sundry everyday tasks that are now overwhelming us at Norton HQ. If you are interested, please contact us as soon as possible. Thanks to all the Nortonians who are doing benefits and stuff! Keep up with all these romps at the Norton Records facebook page- join us there for late breakin' news! ©2012 Norton Records | Box 646 Cooper Station NY NY 10276

NORTON RECORDS DJ MARATHON WASH-A-THON!

NORTON RECORDS DJ MARATHON WASH-A-THON! 13 TOP JOCKS • 13,000 SOGGY RECORDS Sunday November 18th BROOKLYN BOWL 61 Wythe Avenue Brooklyn, NY 4pm til Midnight! FREE Hurricane Sandy may have preempted one NYC Marathon but it has precipitated another -- the world’s first ever record washing marathon! Yes, join us at the Brooklyn Bowl as we tackle a truckload of wet wax from the label with the able stable- New York’s own NORTON RECORDS, which was totally trashed, bashed and flooded by the wrath and fury of Sandy! Get in on it as thirteen of the nation’s top disc jockeys blast their best, while lucky YOU joins the loud crowd lathering and buffing our Sandy-soaked footlongs back into action! Free admission but B.Y.O.RG. – Bring Your Own Rubber Gloves … and rolls of hi-klass paper towels! Teams of clean freaks will work with record washers provided by the acclaimed Discwasher Company of Pittsburgh, while others will use the time tested soapy sponge method. Learn a trade! And know that you have participated in saving the wildest wax in the world. As you know, Hurricane Sandy destroyed the contents of the Red Hook based Norton Records warehouse, soaking everything within. Time is not on our side as we strip off and discard wet jackets, and wash, dry and resleeve the recordings of the Sonics, Link Wray, Hasil Adkins, Jack Starr, Bloodshot Bill, Esquerita, Daddy Long Legs, King Uszniewicz and hundreds of artists whose shouts and stomps have come into your homes and hearts via the Norton label. Kudos to the beautiful BROOKLYN BOWL for setting the pins up for the first ever NORTON RECORDS WASH-A-THON—enjoy their food, beverages, great sound system.. plus break for BOWLING after the WASH-A-THON! See you there! NON-STOP KILLER SOUNDS FROM THE TOWN’S TOP DJs JONATHAN TOUBIN (New York Night Train) JOSH STYLES (Smashed! Blocked!) TODD-O-PHONIC TODD (Telstar Records) REX (Fool’s Paradise, WFMU) MR. FINE WINE (Downtown Soulville, WFMU) JEFF THE CHEF (Empire State Soul Club) PHAST PHREDDIE (The Boogaloo Omnibus) DAVE THE SPAZZ (Music To Spazz By, WFMU) DEBBIE D (Rock N’ Soul Ichiban, WFMU) DREW REDMOND (Metropolis Vintage) AVI SPIVAK (Norton Records, Human Being Lawnmower) CHARLY HIMMEL (Norton Records) and very special guest… THE HOUND (Back and Better Than EVER!) Limited advance copies of Norton’s upcoming releases (which were safely at the plant during the storm) will be on sale at Brooklyn Bowl. This includes KIM FOWLEY - KING OF THE CREEPS (1959-69), THE DEL-AIRES - ZOMBIE STOMP (full LP by the Horror of Party Beach Guys), four new albums in our EL PASO ROCK series and T. VALENTINE WITH DADDY LONG LEGS - THE VAMPIRE! Several new singles will also be available! Pick up a Norton bags and teeshirt, too! Sneak peak, pre-pub copies of LORD OF GARBAGE VOL. 1 (memoirs from 1939-1969) by KIM FOWLEY will be available—hot off the press at KICKS BOOKS! In case you can’t come by, but would still like to help, we have a donation button on our homepage: Norton Records ©2012 Norton Records | Box 646 Cooper Station NY NY 10276

Norton Records VS Hurricane Sandy

NORTON RECORDS EMERGENCY UPDATE Courtesy Village Voice. Thanks to journalist Eric Davidson. Friday, November 2 Thank you again to all the volunteers who have been helpingNorton Records recover the near total destruction of our Brooklyn warehouse at the hands of Hurricane Sandy. We have been able to salvage some stock but the job is incredibly overwhelming. We will need able hands to help with the salvage effort here at Norton HQ in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. This is an indoor job, pulling records out of wet boxes, etc. If anyone has a vehicle of any sort to assist in getting wet boxes from the Red Hook warehouse to HQ in Prospect Heights, please call. No reception in Red Hook. Email is best bet atnortonrec@aol.com. Billy’s cell (917) 671-7185 and the office landline (718) 789-4438 are the best bet for phone. Don’t leave a message. Call back til you get one of us. Messages are full. Please do not respond with questions on facebook – we will not be following threads, but please repost if you can. We can use any help offered. We will give you the address. Norton asked for help through the weekend but we actually will continue to need any help that we can get throughout the upcoming week. We are working from 11AM until 11PM every day. Anything that you can do to pitch in would be most appreciated. The folks who have helped so far have been simply incredible. Friends, neighbors, Norton artists and complete strangers – we thank you all for the work, the food and snacks you brought and the much needed support you’ve all shown through this ordeal. WE WILL NOT GIVE UP ON YOU IF YOU DON'T GIVE UP ON NORTON. THAT'S A PROMISE. We have gotten messages from people who live too far to get here. Thank you. If you are in our hurricane area, please direct your efforts to helping those who you can reach. Manhattan, Brooklyn, New Jersey, Staten Island, the entire East Coast needs a neighborhood effort. Norton Artists! We are heartbroken to report all of this destruction to you. We will do everything in our power to get your records back into print as soon as humanly possible. Please believe in us 'cause we sure do believe in you as musicians, friends and superstars! STORES AND DISTRIBUTORS! WE HAVE SEVERAL NEW RELEASES WITH NOV. 13 STREET DATE THAT ARE UNHARMED AT THE PRESSING PLANT, and KICKS BOOKS HAS THE NEW HARLAN ELLISON PAPERBACK "GETTING IN THE WIND" AND THE NEW KIM FOWLEY PAPERBACK "LORD OF GARBAGE" AT THE PRINTER. EVERYTHING ROLLS OUT WITH THESE TITLES ON SCHEDULE, GIVE OR TAKE. IF YOU ORDER BACK CATALOG, PLEASE BE AWARE THAT MUCH OF IT IS TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE. IF YOU OWE US ON ANY INVOICES WE ASK THAT YOU DO NOT DELAY IN SENDING PAYMENT NOW IF POSSIBLE. GOD BLESS YOU. FAITHFUL NORTON CUSTOMERS! BE AWARE THAT POSTAL SERVICE HAS BEEN NON EXISTENT SINCE THhE HURRICANE HIT. WE HAVE STACKS OF ORDERS HERE WAITING FOR THE POST OFFICE TO OPEN. RECENT ORDERERS, PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THINGS WILL BE DELAYED HERE AND SOME THINGS YOU ORDERED MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. email nortonrec@aol.com Billy's cell 917 671 7185 Miriam’s cell 917 671 7884 Norton landline 718 789 4438 Norton HQ THANK YOU EVERYONE! ©2012 Norton Records | Box 646 Cooper Station NY NY 10276

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Norton Presents DADDY LONG LEGS

  DADDYLONG LEGS - EVIL EYE ON YOU 

(Norton 382 LP/CD)  Here comes the long awaited debut platter from Brooklyn’s most blues wailing stompers Daddy Long Legs! Trust us – there’s no Fedora hat, third rate wanky, watered down Chicago blues in these grooves! For fans of Howlin’ Wolf, Captain Beefheart, Little Walter, Flamin Groovies, Kid Thomas and Dr. Feelgood! A dozen pounding workouts -- Death Train Blues / I Feel So Electric / Happy Home / Shackin' Up / You'll Be Mine / Witch Hunt / Trouble (Always Come My Ways) / Sittin' Shotgun / Comin' After Me / Candy Sue / Thirty Days / Evil Eye

Dig it on fabulous footlong LP and pocket size compact disc, too!

DADDYLONG LEGS, the rock n' blues group, derives its moniker from its harmonica-blastin’ frontman.

Daddy Long Legs, the aforementioned wailer, is joined by slide-guitar  driving Murat Aktürk (born in Ankara, Turkey) and legendary NYC trap master Josh Styles, who attacks his kit with a whip and a maraca, although not necessarily in that order.

The  trio has taken the music scene by storm, with alarms sounding throughout the East Coast and reverberating across the globe, as they cut through the mediocrity, directly into the meat of real music—from the hip and to the heart.

Within a few short months, DADDY LONG LEGS has taken to stages with the likes of the Sonics, the Flamin’ Groovies, the Hoodoo Gurus, Lenny Kaye, Andy Shernoff, the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, and Question Mark And The Mysterians. They have burned down barrelhouse backrooms, afterhours nightspots, and legendary locations like the famed Friars Club, NYC.

Their rapid rise in popularity is based in their total lack of pretense-- all three young men are seriously dredged in deep blues baconfat, seasoned, seared, scored and tempered...and baptized in hotwired wine and brine.

Their first Norton single, a raw reading of the Rolling Stones Cocksucker Blues, coupled with The Under Assistant West Coast Promotional Man recorded with Andy Shernoff at the helm and at the microphone, brought them to the forefront of the local scene, even catching the ear of  Chicago R&B legend T Valentine, who promptly tapped the trio as his band both onstage and in the studio. A much-awaited combined effort, THE VAMPIRE, is due for release in November.

DADDY LONG LEGS presents here their debut full-length Norton label offering, EVIL EYE ON YOU, a showcase of the trio’s finest original proclamations, set in a sparse black and white selection that is meaty beyond definition.

DADDY LONG LEGS is currently on tour in the US, with an overseas itinerary in the works.

Keep your evil ear on DADDY LONG LEGS. Else they put the EVIL EYE ON YOU.

AVAILABLE ON NORTON RECORDS

DADDY LONG LEGS – EVIL EYE ON YOU (Norton 382) LP/CD

Also available:

DADDY LONG LEGS – Cocksucker Blues/The Under Assistant West Coast Promotional Man (Norton 45-9663)

Stay tuned for early November release of THE VAMPIRE, the new album by Chicago legend T. Valentine with all backing from DADDY LONG LEGS -- insane and unstoppable...get ready for one heckuva blues blast breakdown!

Exclusive Downloads on Itunes! Get it here!

WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT... DADDY LONG LEGS

"Daddy Long Legs is a man. A tall man. A tall, well-dressed, imposing man who blows the harmonica as if breathing life and soul into Delta bluesmen long dead… DADDY LONG LEGS, a trio of characters forging rock n' roll spectacle for the eyes and ears, hearkening back to when troubadours drank moonshine and took their role as entertainers more seriously."

- TheDeli NYC

“a conduit for pure rock n roll”

- Red Hook Star Revue

“Hands down Daddy Long Legs is the best blues harmonica player this writer has ever seen or heard. His playing is so pummeling and soulful it just saws you in half.”

- The Deli NYC Magazine

''In addition to a deliciously unhealthy dose of harmonica, this Brooklyn trio’s electrifying backwater blues is rounded out by primal drums and guitar, which leaves room for singer Daddy Long Legs to belt out his musical sermon.''

- The Most Interesting Academy Dos Equis

Check out the racket about Daddy Long Legs!

Daddy Long Legs Official Website

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