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Published: June 19, 2020, 5:38 p.m.

Ken Nordine - Yellow (1966)

Colors is a "word jazz" album by voice-over and recording artist Ken Nordine. It was commissioned by the Fuller Paint Company to write radio advertisement spots, but after a few commercials became popular, it evolved to become an album of 34 songs. Each track personifies a different color or hue.

Colors (1966) began as a short-lived series of radio commercials written and voiced at the behest of the Fuller Paint Company. The spots ran as scheduled; however, at the end of the campaign listeners began calling radio stations to request they be rebroadcast. Once word got back to Nordine, he rewrote the scripts -- sans sponsor of course -- and composed a few new hues to the initial order of ten. To accompany these quirky paeans, Nordine wisely chose the multi-talented Dick Campbell as his musical director. Campbell had contributed to the broadcast ads, providing apt sonic representations of Nordine's oft unconventional literal interpretations of a predominantly visual medium. Each selection runs roughly 90 seconds and represents a specific shade -- most of which are variations of those found on the aforementioned primary spectrum.

Brother Theodore - Introduction & Bernice (1959) Influential Jewish German-American cult comedian whose monologue style was often referred to as "stand-up tragedy." His early recordings were often under the name Theodore prior to Merv Griffin giving him the title "Brother." Well-known for television and film appearances into the 1990s, including the variety programs of Griffin, David Letterman, Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett, and Joey Bishop.

What kind of Freudian nightmare is it that he is one of the two things I recall about the porn movie Gums?

National Lampoon - Deteriorata (1972) Written by Tony Hendra. He was Spinal Tap's manager. The English fellow. Music by Christopher Guest (who played Nigel Tufnel) and sung by Melissa Manchester, who had big hits later in the decade with "Don't Cry Out Loud" and "You Should Hear How She Talks About You". 

Ken Nordine - Burgundy (1966)

The Last Poets - E Plurbus Unum (1972) 

Ken Nordine - Green (1966)

Jack Palance - Black Jack County Chain (1970)

Ken Nordine - Olive (1966)

Brother Theodore - Willow Landscape (1959)

Ken Nordine - Beige (1966)

The Last Poets - Niggers are Scared of Revolution (1972)

Ken Nordine - Maroon (1966)

Brother Theodore - Curse of the Toad (1959)

Ken Nordine - Ecru (1966)

Ken Nordine - Scratch (1979)

Ken Nordine - Chartreuse (1966) 

James Brown - King Heroin (1972)

Ken Nordine - Turquoise (1966)

C W McCall - Four Wheel Drive (1975) 

From that Wikipedia:

In 1973, while working as a creative director for Bozell & Jacobs, an Omaha, Nebraska, advertising agency, Fries created a Clio Award-winning (1974) television advertising campaign advertising Old Home Bread for the Metz Baking Company. The advertisements featured a truck driver named C. W. McCall, who was played by Dallas, Texas, actor Jim Finlayson. The waitress named Mavis Davis was played by Dallas actress Jean McBride Capps. The commercial's success led to songs such as "Old Home Filler-Up an' Keep on a-Truckin' Café", "Wolf Creek Pass" and "Black Bear Road". Fries wrote the lyrics and sang while Chip Davis, later of Mannheim Steamroller, wrote the music.

McCall is best known for the 1976 #1 hit song "Convoy", which came at the peak of the CB fad in the United States. It sold over two million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in December 1975. Though McCall is not a one-hit wonder, "Convoy" has since become his signature song. McCall first charted the song "Wolf Creek Pass", which reached #40 on the U.S. pop top 40 in 1975. At least three other songs reached Billboard's pop Hot 100, including "Old Home Filler-Up an' Keep on a-Truckin' Cafe", "'Round the World with the Rubber Duck" (a pirate-flavored sequel to "Convoy"), as well as the environmentally-oriented "There Won't Be No Country Music (There Won't Be No Rock 'n' Roll)". A dozen McCall songs appeared in Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart, including the sentimental "Roses for Mama" (1977).

Ken Nordine - White (1966)

The Last Poets - Mean Machine (1971)

Ken Nordine - Flesh (1966)

King Crimson - Elephant Talk (Live) (1984)

Ken Nordine - Azure (1966)

The Red Shadow - Understanding Marx (1975)

Ken Nordine - Puce (1966)

The Last Poets - The White Man’s Got a God Complex (1971)

Ken Nordine - Magenta (1966)

Velvet Underground - The Gift (1968)

The Residents - Give It To Someone Else (1980)

Annette Peacock - Succubus (1979)

Godley and Creme - Ready For Ralph (1981)