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The Rotor Rooter Good Time Christmas Band

The last of my Christmas bin purchases - and it turns out it wasn't a Christmas album at all - just a very unusual (in the most awesome way imaginable) album by a few horn players with a great sense of humour. Since I bought it for Christmas I'll post this the day after Epiphany and start the new year with something a little more unusual than my normal fare. Trying to describe this is a little like trying to taste a menu by looking at it. For those of a certain age who remember The Gong Show imagine one of the weirder acts like The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo (fronted by Richard Elfman, Danny's older brother) who managed to captivate the judges without getting gonged and win their episode. From the little I can find on these guys The Rotor Rooter Good Time Christmas Band were very much in the same wheelhouse as the future Oingo Boingo boys - and they were only lads. The Rotor Rooter Good Time Christmas Band were seasoned players who made one lone album, that appears ...