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Today'a rip is a small essentially unheard of gospel group known as "The Goffs" The liner notes claim "many thousands" had heard this group on TV and radio, with a lineup of twin trumpets, organ, piano, guitar, sax, and bass. Yet as far as I can tell, no audio of this album existed online until now. The only trace I found was in the Max Morris collection at Lee University's Dixon Pentecostal Research Center, where just the front and back covers are digitized. The record itself sits in a box in Tennessee, viewable only in person. I have a copy, so I ripped it and uploaded the full album. It's not "lost" in the strict sense, since the archive knows it exists, but it was effectively unheard for decades. If anyone recognizes The Goffs, the Lighthouse label, or the "King's Children" name, I'd love to learn more.

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Today's rip is of a vinyl I purchased for $1 in a Niagara Falls antique store. I was able to find a few strong candidates for preservation there, so always remember to check thoroughly!

This school itself no longer seems to exist, and hasn't for a long time, as the most recent article that comes up when I search for it is an archived newspaper from 1964. The album contains two different performances, one from the "A" Band being the Stage Band, and one from the "B" Band being the Orchestra.

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Today's rip is a tent revival evangelist from the 80s performing some extremely upbeat and theatrical music, stuff like, "GOOOOOOD IS GOD!!! GOD ON THE MOUNTAIN, GOD IN THE VALLEY" or something along those lines, it's quite the show.

He's also known for being one of the late 20th century evangelist pioneers of "Faith healing" where he claimed God could heal all wounds, sicknesses and problems in life if you believed hard enough, this obviously drew some criticism, especially when he himself went to a doctor to receive a triple bypass procedure.

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Today's vinyl rip is a bit different than most of my music related ones, this is an entire hour of both music and a retelling of the Robinson Crusoe story done in the style of an old radio show. In this version, he's stuck on an island for 35 years with no one but his dog, a parrot and a nearby tribesman to speak to. The island is later attacked by pirates and they defend it against them, and he eventually escapes after there's a mutiny on the ship.

It was adapted by Professor Margaret C. Tyler of Ohio State University, who directed the Ohio School of the Air for 27 years and wrote hundreds of educational radio scripts. The narrator and voice cast are uncredited.

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Today, I've got something very unique compared to a lot of other stuff I've found. This is a promotional copy of the album "Songs Of New Nations." The original version came out a few years earlier, but this version was specifically the African nations, while the original also included two from Israel.

The content itself is a vocal/percussion album led by conductor Leonard De Paur, featuring traditional work songs, war chants, lullabies, and drinking songs collected from Ghana, Nigeria, the Congo, and Kenya, performed by an all-male chorus with native drums and percussion.

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I've got a new vinyl rip for today, we've got a late-1950s "Golden Tone Hi-Fidelity" LP of Latin dance music, credited to "Rodriguez and His Orchestra" and distributed by Radio Craftsmen Co. of Los Angeles, released on Golden Tone High Fidelity records. The triptych cover, one pin-up model in a silver mermaid gown posed against orange, navy, and red panels for Cha-Cha, Mambo, and Rhumba respectively, is actually classic budget-label design of the era, credited to C. Arnold Carlson.

Most budget label LPs are ignored by institutional archives, and the original labels are long gone, so there's no one left to digitzed and upload these kinds of records aside from collectors.

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I've got a pretty cool Sci-Fi lost media vinyl rip for you today. This one is a 1973 record made by Wonderland Golden Records. It was another addition to their series of similar "Great Movie Adventures in Song and Story" records. It tells the story of "The Time Traveler" battling Morlocks and meeting other species, eventually having to steal his time machine back after its been stolen from him so he can return home. It's honestly extremely well done, the voice acting, the music and atmosphere are all extremely well done, in my opinion.

(I know the story itself is not considered lost media, but this recording is)

Howdy Folks,

I like to recover and digitize lost media on records or other forms of analog media, when I find something undocumented, I document and upload it myself.

Today's rip is a bit different than a lot of my other stuff, it is a mid-century children's educational record. This was the period before phonics stopped being taught consistently in schools, so this kind of content actually wasn't considered to be niche at the time, just genuinely important stuff that kids should know. It has various different characters like Goldie the Golden Goat, Chuckie the Chipmunk, George the Gentle Giraffe, Sheila with her Shining Shell, etc etc etc. It's a cute little example of how education has changed over the years, both in format and topics covered at all.

Back again with another rip, today we have the Foundation Quartet with their one and only release that I've found so far, "I'm Standing On Solid Rock" The group was based in Defiance, Ohio and recorded at QCA Recording Studios in Cincinnati, produced by Charles Novell, funded through "financial gifts" from supporters per the liner notes. I picked this up at an thrift store in North West Ohio.

https://youtu.be/yT\_Ajx8XLVA

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Today's rip is the Melody Boys, a small, local gospel group from Farmersburg, Indiana. There was a far more famous group named the Melody Boys who was also singing gospel before, during and after this period, but that was a different group altogether who just so happened to share the same name. Something interesting to note about this one is that it's from Crusade Enterprises, who is also the same label who pressed another small gospel group I have from a completely different state, so it shows rhat these groups would have to travel far for a good studio to record at.

Hey folks,

Today's rip is the Melody Boys, a small, local gospel group from Farmersburg, Indiana. There was a far more famous group named the Melody Boys who was also singing gospel before, during and after this period, but that was a different group altogether who just so happened to share the same name.

Something interesting to note about this one is that it's from Crusade Enterprises, who is also the same label who pressed another small gospel group I have from a completely different state, so it shows rhat these groups would have to travel far for a good studio to record at.

Got a nice, very dated, very weird one I ripped for today. This is side one of an exercise instructional record that has spoken instructions over different classical music pieces. The record also came with a 24 page booklet about women's hair, makeup and dieting advice. A good chunk of the advice is extremely of its time, like telling women to hang a piece of clothing a few sizes too small somewhere where they'll see it and think about it everyday, even though this has since been identified as a driver of unhealthy weight loss.

I hope you enjoy this weird shit, side 2 will be out in a few days.

I'm back, here's today's digitzed find. These kind of records are surprisingly common in the vanity pressing world. A bunch of nuns from a convent get together and sing various songs, sometimes hymns, sometimes rock, sometimes Broadway, but surprisingly common in an already very niche zone. This one comes from The Daughters of St. Paul. If you want more info, please check the description of the video!

That's right, I'm back wirh another vinyl rip. Today we've got an early 1960s compact 33 1/3 rpm that was part of a series of educational records sold alongside Repglobe's globes.

Now, you'd expect something like this to be fairly low effort and just made as a little add on for kids to teach them how to use a globe and learn a bit about geography, but it's more than that. It has actual recordings from Alan Shepherd, and reenactments of ancient events. I have 3 and 4 of this series, and 4 will be posted in a few days.

So, I pulled this from an antique mall for $1. Prior to my posting, there was no copy of the audio online, HOWEVER, there were two photos of the front of the album cover. This is the first time I've seen any of the weird gospel ones I've found online at all, even if the only thing they were known for was being made fun of in Facebook groups.

I have an exact year of release for this one because it's actually information found in the runouts. You can hear the woman in the group make reference to, "How the headlines are today" and I believe she's making reference to Vietnam, and POSSIBLY Watergate, but if so, she'd be extremely well informed as it was just starting to come out.