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Florida Rocket (Number Ninety-Nine) / Riding In My Little Sport Car
Charlie Hines (3)
- Artist
- Charlie Hines (3)
- Label
- Tin Pan Alley (2)
- Catalog number
- TPA-230
- Format
- 7" · 45 RPM
- Country
- US
- Genre
- Pop
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Where it came from
Released in the early 1960s on the Tin Pan Alley label, this 45-rpm record is a quintessential artifact of the vanity press industry. Tin Pan Alley was a company that solicited poems and lyrics from the public, offering to set them to music and produce small-run pressings for a fee. These records were rarely intended for wide commercial distribution and instead served as personal mementos for aspiring songwriters who participated in the service.
The track features Charlie Hines, one of several contract musicians employed by the label to provide vocals for various submissions. The production reflects the low-budget, high-energy aesthetic common to these novelty records, which often aimed to capture the sound of contemporary rock and roll or teen pop. While not a commercial success, these records are now sought after by collectors of outsider music and pop culture ephemera who appreciate the sincere, unpolished ambition inherent in the label’s catalog.
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