The Five Blobs

Now this is what we record-crazy people live for. Funny thing is that I don’t even remember where I found this single, probably at the Sound Exchange. They overpriced their stuff, but even so, I didn’t pay $170 for this, which is what the only copy available on Amazon is listed for at this moment.

The Five Blobs were never a real band or anything; they were one guy, named Bernie Nee, and presumably a studio band. And it’s finds like this that make those hours and hours spent digging through dusty cardboard boxes full of old Andre Kostelantz singles all worth while.

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The Five Blobs:

• The Blob – Self-evidently silly. This song was the theme of a movie with Steve McQueen, presumably a silly one. Written by a young Burt Bacharach with Mack David, brother of Hal with whom he would write all those Dionne Warwick songs. Altogether a transcendent moment in pop music history. From the fall of 1958.