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NEW NORTON RELEASES • IN STOCK NOW Kim Fowley on Norton! KIM FOWLEY TECHNICOLOR GREASE • LP ED-396 • CD CED-396 (Norton 396) Lost Treasures From The Vaults Volume Four Our fourth excursion into the early career of the legendary Kim Fowley rounds up 16 rare productions, compositions and performances first issued on independent Southern California labels. From the crazed vocal hi-jinx of the pre-Rivingtons Crenshaws to the sultry doo-wop of Yolanda and the Naturals to the Zappa-esque lunacy of Vito and the Hands, each and every track bears the unique Fowley stamp! CRENSHAWS Moonlight In Vermont/ NEWMARKS Goody-Goody Gum Drop/ RANGERS Justine/ YOLANDA AND THE NATURALS My Memories Of You/ JACK B. NIMBLE AND THE QUICKS Like Keyed/ FOUR AFTER FIVES Hello Schoolteacher!/ MEMORIES Little Bitty Girl/ BLUE BELLS Atlantis/ RANGERS Reputation/ ALTHEA AND THE MEMORIES In This Whole Wide World/ RANGERS Mogul Monster/ FALLING ANGELS She’s Mine, All Mine/ KIM FOWLEY Pop Art ‘66/ VITO AND THE HANDS Vito And The Hands/ BELFAST GYPSIES People Let’s Freak Out/ BILL WOODS Story Of Susie THE FLAMETHROWERS - INTENSITY! (45-1702) Double 45 gatefold set! Raw 1960 Detroit guitar instrumentals from the Clix and Bel-Mar labels-- super tuff to find rare sides! Deluxe photo-filled gatefold package with extensive liner notes by Mike Hurtt make this a must-have! Two brutal records with brutal sound! NEW JUKEBOX SERIES • YUCCA WILDNESS! Five Southwest slabs from the vaults of  Yucca Records 1958 - 1966! 45 884 BOB TAYLOR AND THE COUNTS Don't Be Unfair/ BOBBY FULLER Say Honey Monster El Paso rock and roll! One of the wildest! Flip is an outtake from Fuller's first 45 session! 45 885 LONG JOHN HUNTER El Paso Rock/ LONG JOHN HUNTER Ride With Me Baby Explosive guitar driven border town R&B! Classic top deck (later covered by Bobby Fuller) b/w unissued rocker! 45 886 - BOB TAYLOR AND THE COUNTS Taylor's Rock/ BOB TAYLOR AND THE COUNTS Thunder Pounding instrumentals from El Paso teen royalty! Flip is from a different session than on LP version! 45 887 - DON ORR AND THE ORIGINAL ROCKETS Sarah Jane/ SONNY WALLACE Black Cadillac Two killer rockers! Frantic unissued top side b/w tense, brooding sleazer! 45 888 - CHUCK SLEDGE White Heat/ STEVE COOPER AND THE AVANTISSky Diver Brutal unissued heavy reverb surf pounder coupled with rare 1966 blaster! Two great El Paso instrumentals! NEW 45 RPM REPROS - SUPER LTD STOCK! RAY AGEE - I'M LOSING AGAIN (SOUL TOWN) Super rare tough R&B/soul belter! DUSTY BROWN - WELL YOU KNOW (BANDERA) Raw blues guitar/harp stomper! JAMES BROWN - CHONNIE ON CHON (FEDERAL) Amazing Little Richard style romper! RUTH BROWN - I WANT TO DO MORE (ATLANTIC) Rockin' double decker! Two on one! CLEARWATER - DUCK WALK (USA) Killer Chicago Diddley-esque blaster! HAYES COTTON - BLACK WINGS HAVE MY ANGEL (RESIST) "Satan in high heels" - tuff! PHIL FLOWERS - THE DANCES (SWAY) Incredible R&B dance howler! Crazed guitar! LIL GRAY - ARE YOU FOOLING? (JERMA) Rockin' soul/blues with great guitar! JOHN GREER - BOTTLE UP AND GO (GROOVE) Raw booze belter! SLIM HARPO - LITTLE QUEEN BEE (EXCELLO) Thumping swamp blues bopper! HOWLIN WOLF - SMOKE STACK LIGHTNING (CHESS) All time classic! Fantastic! SONNY JACKSON - MY BABE (SUE) Blazing guitar ripper! Great version! TONI JORDAN - THE BEND (DANAE) Drunken ,mambo chant b/w blues killer! LULA REED AND FREDDY KING - YOU CAN'T HIDE (FEDERAL) Sharp R&B rocker! LAZY LESTER - I'M A LOVER, NOT A FIGHTER (EXCELLO) All time blues monster! LITTLE WALKIN WILLIE - GOTTA GOTTA GET CHA (JAGUAR) Insane jump blues! LOVERS - SECURITY (CHECKER) Tarheel Slim! Koko Taylor Wang Dang Doodle on flip! NATHANIEL MAYER - I WANT LOVE AND AFFECTION (NOT THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION) (FORTUNE) Powerful James Brown style rocker! Nay Dog at his best! VINCE MONROE - GIVE IT UP (EXCELLO) Ballsyhonker! Cool! IKE TURNER - SHE MADE MY BLOOD RUN COLD (FEDERAL) Killer R&B creeper! UTOPIANS - DUTCH TREAT (IMPERIAL) Wicked mad Mike Monster! FANTASTIC! GARY "SPIDER" WEBB - THE CAVE (BAMBOO) Solid spooky rocker! Fantastic! subscribe to Norton's new youtube channel! Norton youtube channel Dig in to July news as we bring you killer new Norton releases and a bunch more items of importance! Thank you to many Norton pals-- artist Lluis Fuzzhound, who made the fabulous logo and intro for a brand new Norton youtube channel created by Rich Tupica-- thanks, guys!!. Let us know if you've got a you tuber of a Norton record you'd like to see on the channel and by all means, JOIN UP here Just for fun!

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Spring 2014 Norton Releases

NEW New Norton wax is upon us-- a slathering of grease for the loud and the lovelorn-- these seven inch slabs pave the blacktop for twelve inch action coming in June! Check out the website - lots of hot new wax from Norton and other attitudinal labels plus loads of previously-out Norton titles are now BACK IN PRINT! Plus new stuff from Kicks Books.. soon to celebrate five years in biz-- four of them above water! 182 TICO AND THE TRIUMPHS – HERE COMES THE GARBAGE MAN/THE BIGGEST LIE I EVER TOLD Two unissued 1962 sides from the Jerry Landis (Paul Simon) New York City group! 183 MIRIAM – MY LOVE HAS GONE/THERE GOES MY BABE Miriam steps out from behind the A-Bones drum kit for her first solo outing-- two songs from the upcoming NOBODY'S BABY album. Produced by Sam Elwitt. Of course! 9667 BARRENCE WHITFIELD AND THE SAVAGES – ONE MORE TRY/STOMPIN’ RIFF RAFFS – WHAT A SHAME Northeast meets Far East as the Savages channel Frankie Lee Sims while the Riff Raffs clobber their side with a nod to Don and Dewey! 184 DONDEE AND THE GLADES – THAT’S WHY I CRIED/I HAD A DREAM A true early sixties sad sack anthem – as the cover claims, “For Losers Only.” Nothing about this record is right. 185 JOHNNY BURNETTE – YOU GOTTA GET READY/ FANTABU-LOUS Early rock n’ roll demos! Johnny and Dorsey tear it up with a full band on the rockin’ You Gotta Get Ready from Norton’s CRAZY DATE LP while the frantic flip makes its first appearance on wax! SUN RA -PROPHETIKA (45-1901) CENTENNIAL SOUVENIR (KICKS BOOKS) Two never heard and top rank Sun Ra vocal sing-song doomsday recitations, one with fabulous instrumentation. This small-hole 45 RPM record commemorates the Sun Ra Centennial 2014 and celebrates the publication of the first book of a three "hip-pocket paperback" trilogy called PROPHETIKA--apocalyptic end-time warnings to heed from Kicks Books! Each sleeve is stamped and numbered. PROPHETIKA by Sun Ra (KB9) Foreword by Charles Plymell. Introduction by Phast Phreddie Patterson. The first of three books that will comprise the PROPHETIKA trilogy, a lost trove of unpublished end-times poetry and prose-- hard-edged predictions and prognostications to mankind from the doomsday pen of visionary genius Sun Ra! From Kicks Boks, who previously bought you Sun Ra's THIS PLANET IS DOOMED (KB2) - also available! SWEET EBONY by Royston Ellis! (KBB1) Britain's original beat author, the inspiration for the Beatles' Paperback Writer, resurfaced last year with Kicks Books' GONE MAN SQUARED, after going MIA for five decades. Now, he's back in action, taking the publishing world by storm with SWEET EBONY, the first of TWELVE titles for Kicks Books- with a new book due each month for the next twelve months! SWEET EBONY charts new genre-warping terrain as four free-thinking women from California travel to Kenya on a safari in search of the "F' word- fulfillment of their wildest desires. Ellis writes with shrewd insight into four disparate personalities coping with the clash of cultures at the end of the 1970's. Come along for a wild ride with the man the Beatles called "Paperback Writer", who Jimmy Page backed as a young stringbuster, and who Time Out declared one of London's all-time Top Teenage Rebels! Kicks Books Blue-- for those who wish turn up the heat! KBB series is a thick, larger format book.

Sun Ra Book Launch April 25

• PROPHETIKA BY SUN RA • APRIL 25 •

KICKS BOOKS PRESENTS NEW "HIP POCKET PAPERBACK" PROPHETIKA: LOST WRITINGS OF SUN RA (VOL. 1) IS HERE! In this centennial of Sun Ra's birth, Kicks Books delivers a new collection of lost parables and polemics. PROPHETIKA will be the tenth title from Brooklyn's unsinkable KICKS BOOKS COMPANY, which went underwater in Hurricane Sandy. All of its titles, which include works by Andre Williams, Nick Tosches, Harlan Ellison, Royston   Ellis, Kim Fowley and Charles Plymell, are back in print!

• KICKS BOOKS • THE OWL HAS LANDED •

Kicks "Owl" Tote available now! THE OWL has indeed landed... our new mascot arrives via our first-ever Kicks Books book bag, just in time for our big bash on April 25 at THE POETRY PROJECT at historic ST MARKS CHURCH IN-THE-BOWERY.. celebrating the publication of PROPHETIKA, an apocalyptic array of unpublished Sun Ra poems and polemics, timed to preview during the Grand Cardinal Cross and to coincide with with this month's solar eclipse.. all heralding Sun Ra's birth centennial... articulating the goods at the book launch will be beat poet king

CHARLES PLYMELL of BENZEDRINE HIGHWAY fame, Sun Ra disciple/ rhythm & blues legend BARRENCE WHITFIELD, bi-coastal author / DJ/ saxophone stylist PHAST PHREDDIE, Detroit's destructo-guitar god MICK COLLINS of the GORIES and the DIRT BOMBS (who will leave his axe at home and go for an all-out oratory instead)... and "space" theremin- wielding Mike Edison who will make and break the mood as required, and pontificate at will...

... and perfume will be available at the reading which will be followed by an all-niter at Jonathan Toubin's SHAKIN ALL OVER UNDER SIDEWAYS DOWN stomp at Home Sweet Home, 131 Chrystie Street... join the pilgrimage over to Home Sweet Home, as Charles, Phreddie, Mick, Mike, Barrence and the Kicks krew spin outta site outer space dance floor

rompers and stompers in the basement while the Saturn Room upstairs will provide a heavenly haven for snugglers and stargazers... CHARLES PLYMELL's birthday arrives at midnite, so causes for celebration shall multiply... THE ROYSTON ELLIS monthly series is off to the races with our format-busting SWEET EBONY in the new KICKS Big Book BLUE series.. you heard right.. a book a month for a year... watch for May publication RUSH AT THE END by Royston Ellis.. from Kicks Big Books LAVENDER BLUE.. genre busting, gender bending ... hard-edged and harder bitten... that's Ellis in a nutshell... and yes, limited fragrances are concocted for each book in the series...pick up some scents for mothers day and start your fragrance collection while you can... the ink is dry

Mike Edison, Charles Plymell, Mick Collins, Phast Phreddie

on our agreement to publish WHEN PIMPS WERE KING as a he/she duo, a year in the life of a pimp... circa 1970... true story diary style combo... half pimp... half prostie... the pair is due for Kicks Books Blue series this summer... all roads now lead to our year end Kicks Books 5th anniversary... which will ignite with the anticipated publication of I FOUGHT THE LAW, the authorized biography of Bobby Fuller by Miriam Linna and Bobby's brother Randy Fuller. Fuller's musical legacy comes to the printed page with four wheels burning... details follow on all counts... STAY YE TUNED.. and see you at St. Marks Church and Home Sweet Home on April 25!

• SUN RA PROPHETIKA EVENT BALLYOO •

What: SUN RA CENTENNIAL! Kicks Books and The Poetry Project present the PROPHETIKA book launch with all nite dance to follow at Home Sweet Home hosted by Jonathan Toubin and Shakin All Over Under Sideways Down! When: Friday April 25 Where: St Marks Church on the Bowery, 131 E. 10th Street NYC and after-prance is at 131 Chrystie Street NYC Time: Doors 10 PM, event begins 10:20 sharp What: Rants, raves and readings from Charles Plymell, Mick Collins, Phast Phreddie, Barrence Whitfield, and Mike Edison with occasional noise from the space theremin and the Phast sax. First availability of books and perfume. Followed by: All night celebration with Sun Ra superfan Jonathan Toubin and crew at Home Sweet Home! Join luminaries Barrence Whitfield, Phast Phreddie Boogaloo Omnibus, Mike Edison, Mick Collins, and CHARLES PLYMELL as they read the secret screeds-- long lost unseen pronouncements of doom and rancor from the Sun one. Hear, heed, read and then join the Jonathan Toubin brigade all nite Sun Ra dance-o-thon at Home Sweet Home ... from 131 E. 10th Street to 131 Chrystie Street... let the interconstellational Cardinal Grand Cross mayhem BEGIN!

• KICKS BOOKS • IN PRINT & ON KINDLE •

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We're celebrating Keith's big 7-0 here at Norton Records by blasting our ever growing Norton Rolling Stones 45 RPM Series, now featuring over 50 early Stones compositions as performed by today's top hitmakers worldwide.
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NEW NORTON RELEASES ARE HERE PLUS DIG OUR HOLIDAY LISTINGS!

The Norton website is a great place to find records, books, vintage posters, t-shirts and T-Valentine sipper phones. Take a look at our souped up new website and use the pull-down menus to find great stuff for yourself and all the folks on your gift list. There are over 800 items in our "Merch" section alone- including Mexican movie posters, DVD's, Kicks Books and Perfumes, and great T-shirts including the excellent new Esquerita t-shirt in all sizes! We will gift wrap to your specifications-- free! NEW NORTON ALBUMS • 376 (LP / CD) VARIOUS ARTISTS - SAND SURFIN' (EL PASO ROCK VOLUME 9) • 388 (LP) VARIOUS ARTISTS - GOLDEN GROUPS: THE BEST OF NORTON RECORDS VOLUME 1 • 389 (LP) VARIOUS ARTISTS - GOLDEN GROUPS: THE BEST OF NORTON RECORDS VOLUME 2 •390 (LP / CD) LA LA BROOKS - ALL OR NOTHING • 391 (LP) SUN RA - MY WAY IS THE SPACEWAYS • 392 (LP) DING DONGS - RANG TANG DING DONG • 112263 (LP / CD) VARIOUS ARTISTS - TRAGIC SONGS FROM THE GRASSY KNOLL: JFK MEMORIAL COLLECTION Inc. Hasil Adkins , Homer Henderson NEW NORTON SEVEN INCHERS • 177 (7”) PURPLE MAJESTY - IN THIS DAY AND AGE/I CAN’T KEEP FROM CRYING Mickey Leigh’s 1967 garage band produced by 15 year old Joey Ramone! Purple wax! • 178 (7”) BLOODSHOT BILL b/w DADDY LONG LEGS Split tour single with guys doing each other's songs! • 179 (7”) JERRY & THE DEL-RAYS - I NEED YOUR LOVIN’/QUESTION MARK Unissued 1964 Detroit teenage rock n’ roll! A lo-fi masterpiece! • 180 (7”) LA LA BROOKS - WHAT’S MINE IS YOURS/THE ONE WHO REALLY LOVES YOU The lead singer of The Crystals does King Khan and BBQ along with a non-LP cover of Mary Wells! • 181 (7”) FLAMIN GROOVIES - SOMETHIN’ ELSE/TOO LATE FOR YOUR LIES Roarin’ TEENAGE HEAD warm up blast b/w FLAMINGO demo in knockout sleeve! • 1405 (7”) NEW SURFSIDERS - DANCE DANCE DANCE/LUAU Subtract some music from your day with new “concert” and “party" favorites! • 883 (7”) DELI-CADOS - GRANNY BABY/SHADES -VOODOO WOMAN Over-the-top mega rare Detroit black group rocker b/w jungle jumper! TONS OF NORTON TITLES BACK IN STOCK INCLUDING: • 234 (2-LP) VARIOUS ARTISTS - TURBAN RENEWAL • (LP) FLAMIN GROOVIES - FLAMINGO • (LP) FLAMIN GROOVIES - TEENAGE HEAD NEW BATCH OF KILLER LTD R&B 45 RPM TITLES! • LAVERN BAKER - HOW CAN YOU LEAVE A MAN LIKE THIS? • HANK BLACKMAN - ITCHY KOO • EDDIE KIRK - THE GRUNT • SHIRLEY ANN LEE - HOW CAN I LOSE • J.B. LENOIR - OH BABY • TOMMY LOMONTE - YEAH, YEAH, YEAH! • JESSIE MAE - DON’T FREEZE ON ME • JERRY McCAIN - TRYING TO PLEASE • LIGHTNING SLIM - NEW ORLEANS BOUND • OTIS REDDING - SHOUT BAMALAMA • OTIS RUSH - JUMP SISTER BESSIE • PREACHER STEPHENS - WHOOPIN’ AND A HOLLERIN’ • JOHNNY WRIGHT - GOTTA HAVE YOU FOR MYSELF NORTON HOLIDAY WAX! HOLIDAY FOOTLONG! RUDY RAY MOORE - THIS AIN'T NO WHITE CHRISTMAS!! LP (292) Back in stock as the ultimate holiday footlong. No gift wrap necessary! NORTON HOLIDAY SEVEN INCHERS- 16 TITLES 004 UNTAMED YOUTH Santa’s Gonna Shut ‘Em Down/Santa’s Midnight Run Frantic! 022 HASIL ADKINS Santa Claus Boogie/Blue Christmas Yuletide hunchers! 031 FLAT DUO JETS I’ll Have A Merry Christmas Without You/Caravan Dex decks halls! 053 KAISERS Merry Christmas Loopy Lu/Tipsy Xmas ‘96 beat + instro flip! 054 JACKIE & THE CEDRICS Silent Night Rumble/Santa Claus Wray-tinged Xmas KO! 068 HENTCHMEN Come On Santa/ Merry Christmas Baby Killer 3 chord anthems! 069 ANDRE WILLIAMS Poor Mr. Santa Naughty and nice versions!!! Unreal R&B! 086 SWINGIN’ NECKBREAKERS Santa Claus Ain’t Comin’ This Year +1 098 WILDEBEESTS Rudolph’s Ruin/Plum Duff 111 CHRISTMAS PARTY EP (red wax!) Little Joey Farr- Rock & Roll Santa/Brendan Hanlon & The Bat Men - Christmas Party/Tornados- Santa Claus/Donny Burns- Cool Yule 120 5-6-7-8'S Rock N' Roll Santa/Harlem Shuffle 126 NATHANIEL MAYER Ride in My 225/Mister Santa Claus 167 KNIGHTS OF THE NEW CRUSADE - (Christmas at) Montsegur/3 Magi Of Damascus 169 QUALITIES - Happy New Year To You/It's Christmas Time! 173 LUIS & THE WILDFIRES - Who Likes Christmas Anyway?/I Know Your Mind 1404 THE NEW SURFSIDERS - Little Saint Nick/'Til I Die NEW FROM KICKS BOOKS! KB8 BENZEDRINE HIGHWAY by Charles Plymell Biggest hip pocket paperback ever from Kicks Books- 244 pages of hi-octane beat blasts from the creator of ZAP comix and the last daddy standing of the big boss beat generation! Also available Dec. 3 - autographed ltd box set and Apocalypse Rose perfume for the ladies and Loser fragrance for the man in your life. DIG THE EVER-GROWING KICKS BOOKS LIBRARY ! TRAGIC TALES FROM THE GRASSY KNOLL (KBSP-1) (KBM1) Souvenir memorial booklet commemorating the record release event for the album TRAGIC SONGS FROM THE GRASSY KNOLL: JOHN F. KENNEDY 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION. 33 page songbook with foreword describing several unique popular culture elements to the dark events of Nov 22-24, 1963. Limited edition features full color cover, black endpapers, black satin ribbon. 5.5" x 8.5" format. Need help with the website? Want us to put together a gift box to remember? Let us help. And thank you to everyone who has stuck with us through the past year. Last year at this time, we were underwater, and made no holiday sales at all from Nov. 1- April 1. This year, we're ready to roll once again. We wish you all the very best now and always... with gratitude and attitude! nortonrec@aol.com