Honestly, this one is pretty much the first Shingles recording ever. I recorded this while living in a leaky apartment in Harlem, laying these tracks live to tape next to a scratchy portable record-player with an EVI, a delay pedal and a looper. I dubbed like maybe a dozen copies on some blanks I had lying around, and then proceeded to throw them in a drawer, questioning the validity of the tapes as an actual release and not a joke gone too far. It centered about dogshit, after all. I eventually ended up just giving them out at a birthday party, after finding them in a box, be it two apartments and several years later. I assume most of these are no longer around. Discogs certainly doesn't acknowledge it.
This was going to be the first of an on-going series of accompanied 'how-to' records with the idea of starting a weird drone/educational 'Shingles & Co.' tape series (could still happen). The 7" I'm playing along with here had, and still does have, very little information online regarding its origins. A digital rip later appeared on the WFMU beware -of-the-blog a year or so after my recording, albeit with a slightly different back-cover, but that's really the only other copy I've heard/seen otherwise. A completely different version appears to have been issued years later with completely different art.
From what I can piece together, my copy was issued by an east coast dog-food manufacturer, the Great Eastern Pet Supply, during the late 50s. Colette Melville (1920-1988), was an actress in a couple of films you've likely never seen, a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during WWII, and an Aquarius. That's pretty much all the info that basically exists. Can't really find any connection with being Dog Food manufacturing celebrity, but that should bring you up to date.
The art for my initial run was originally on transparency paper, but for a proper reissue-sake, these are wrapped in vellum with slime green c16s.
If you use any of the methods herein to housebreak your dog, please let me know. It would be good to know if any of these recommendations actually hold any water.
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released April 4, 2016
Jesse DeRosa - Electric Valve Instrument
Colette Melville - Narration
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