Lost in the Grooves

Kim Cooper and David Smay are founders/coeditors of the fanzine, Scram, which is devoted to pop music obscurities. Scram was an editor's choice in Factsheet 5 for "unusually great writing" and sited by LA Weekly as a best-of-LA publication. They are coeditors of BubblegumMusic Is the Naked Truth: The Dark History ofPrepubescent Pop from the Banana Splits to BritneySpears.

Do you remember these great pop stars and their hits? Deerhoof's "The Man," "The King," "The Girl" Butch Hancock's West Texas Waltzes and "Dust Blown Tractor Tunes," Swamp Dogg's "Cuffed, Collared and Tagged," Michael Head's "The Magical World Of The Strands," John Trubee's "The Communists Are Coming to Kill Us, "John Phillips's "Wolf King of L.A., and" Michel Magne's "Moshe Mouse Crucifiction"?" "You will when you read" Lost in the Grooves," a fascinating guide to the back alleys off the pop music superhighway.Pop music history is full of little-known musicians, whose work stands defiantly alone, too quirky, distinctive, or demented to appeal to a mass audience. This book explores the nooks and crannies of the pop music world, unearthing lost gems from should-have-been major artists (Sugarpie DeSanto, Judee Sill), revisiting lesser known works by established icons (Marvin Gaye's post-divorce kissoff album, "Here My Dear"; The Ramones' "Subterranean Jungle"), and spotlighting musicians who simply don't fit into neat categories (k. mccarty, Exuma). The book's encyclopedic alphabetical structure throws off strange sparks as disparate genres and eras rub against each other: folk-psych iconoclasts face louche pop crooners; outsider artists set their odd masterpieces down next to obscurities from the stars; lo-fi garage rock cuddles up with the French avant-garde; and roots rock weirdoes trip over bubblegum. This book will delight any jukebox junkie or pop culture fan.

Reconsider, Baby.; Mimeos and Cut-Out Bins; A; The Action; Adam and the Ants; Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass; Alvin and the Chipmunks; Appaloosa; The Auteurs; B; The Barry Sisters; Joe Bataan; Peter Baumann; The Beach Boys; Be-Bop Deluxe; The Bee Gees; Colin Blunstone; Willie Bobo; Curt Boettcher; Boogie Down Productions; James Booker; The Boys From Nowhere; Brick; Ian Brown; Buckner & Garcia; Richard Buckner; Dorsey Burnette; C; Jackie Cain & Roy Kral; John Cale; Glen Campbell; Captain Beefheart; Cardinal; Aaron Carter; Johnny Cash; The Chills; Lou Christie; Gene Clark; Cock Sparrer; Cockney Rebel; David Allan Coe; Leonard Cohen; Sam Cooke; Costes; Joe E. Covington's Fat Fandango; The Cowsills; Marshall Crenshaw; D; Terence Trent D'arby; Blossom Dearie; Deerhoof; Sugar Pie Desanto; The Dictators; Bo Diddley; Tim Dog; Dogbowl; Swamp Dogg; Johnny Dowd; Dream Lake Ukulele Band; Dream Warriors; Dummy Run; E; The Electric Chairs; The Embarrassment; Roky Erickson & the Aliens; Esquerita; Ex-Girl; Exuma; F; Fastbacks; The Feelies; The First Team; The Flamin' Groovies; Flesh Eaters; Flo & Eddie; Brigitte Fontaine; Fools Face; I, Brute Force; Fortune & Maltese and the Phabulous Pallbearers; Roosevelt Franklin; Frijid Pink; Fugu; Lewis Furey; G; Slim Gaillard & Bam Brown; Diamanda Galas; Game Theory; Jesse Garon & The Desperadoes; Mort Garson & Jacques Wilson; Marvin Gaye; Bobbie Gentry; Robin Gibb; Gibson Bros; Harry "The Hipster" Gibson; The Go-Betweens; Godz; Graham Gouldman; The Gun Club; H; Hackamore Brick; Butch Hancock; The Handsome Family; Roy Harper; Michael Head & The Strands; Hearts & Flowers; Herman's Hermits; The Hollies; The Honeycombs; The Hot Dogs; The Housemartins; I; The Incredible Moses Leroy; The Idle Race; The Individuals; J; The Jacksons; Henry Jacobs' Music & Folklore; The James Gang; Jan and Dean; Jandek; Jan Dukes De Gray; Jeanette; Jefferson Airplane; Johnny Jenkins; Josefus; Juicy Groove; K; Paul Kantner; Kas Product; Andy Kim; Junior Kimbrough; King Crimson; The Kinks; Klaatu; Klymaxx; L; The Lee Harvey Oswald Band; The Leopards; Bob Lind; The Lipstick Killers; Los Locos Del Ritmo; Los Machucambos; The Loud Family; M; The Magic Fingers of Merlin & His Trio; Michel Magne; Michael Mantler; Mariano & The Unbelievables; Curtis Mayfield; Paul Mccartney; K. Mccarty; Megadeth; The Mekons; Middle of the Road; Kylie Minogue; Miracle Legion; Mr. Fox; Monitor; Monty Python; Pamelo Mounk'a; N; Ron Nagle; Buck Naked and the Bare Bottom Boys; Willie Nelson; Neutral Milk Hotel; The New Blockaders; Andy Newman; The New York Rock Ensemble; Billy Nicholls; Harry Nilsson; The Nourallah Brothers; O; Phil Ochs; Old 97S; The Only Ones; Yoko Ono; Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark; The Orgone Box; P; Dolly Parton; The Partridge Family; Pentangle; Pere Ubu; Linda Perhacs; John Phillips; Pink Floyd; Plush; Poco; Michel Polnareff; Poster Children; The Potatomen; Prince and the New Power Generation; R; Mark Radice; The Ramones; The Raspberries; Lou Reed; Nino Rejna and His Hawaian [Sic] Guitars; Emitt Rhodes; Jonathan Richman; Rico; Rock Fantasy; Rodriguez; George Russell; S; Sagittarius; Bridget St. John; Salem 66; Russ Saul; Schoolly D; Scientist; Marvin Sease; Sesame Street; Sex Clark 5; Sonny Sharrock; Judee Sill; The Silos; Frank Sinatra Jr.; Sir Douglas Quintet; Siren; Patrick Sky; Sleep Chamber; Sloan; Sparks; Spirit; Vivian Stanshall; The Stark Reality; Frankie Stein and His Ghouls; Meic Stevens; Suckdog; Supreme Dicks; Swervedriver; Sylvester; T; Television Personalities; The Temptations; 10CC; Jake Thackray; Thin Lizzy; The Three Suns; Cal Tjader; John Trubee and the Ugly Janitors of America; The Tubes; V; Various Artists; V-3; Vulgar Boatmen; W; Loudon Wainwright III; Muddy Waters; Howlin' Wolf; Jimmy Webb; Tony Joe White; White Noise; The Who; Dennis Wilson; Roy Wood's Wizzard; The Wylde Mammoths; X; Xanadu; Y; Zalman Yanovsky; Yes; Dwight Yoakam; Yung Wu; Z; Warren Zevon