More Dusty 45s

I picked this track up for dollar from a table near Vox Pop in Borough Park, figuring a dollar spent on anything with "Funky Butt" in the title is a dollar worth spending. Which it was, as "Funky Butt" presents a straightforward grind on a Hammond (with a bassline sampled by KMD). But it's not by "The Delegates," since they don't really exist. It's just a throwaway track backing the novelty hit of 1972, "Convention '72," a sketch compiled by a radio DJ in Pittsburg that cracked Billboard's top ten.

The Kissinger bit is an easy laugh, but the whole thing makes a lot more sense if you've read Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail or Crouse's Boys on the Bus. Or, you know, lived through the 72 election. Because it proved so popular, it's pretty easy to find on vinyl -- and now MP3.

Convention '72 by The Delegates

Note: I can only hope that my needle-dropping ways inspired in some small way the boss's renewed efforts to archive analog ephemera.