wickedflea | (no subject)

I was horrified to find out that the copies I sent out of The Real Leroy Mercer do not in fact include all of some of the famous calls. That is, the whole disc is there, but the release cuts off one of the calls midway and leaves another one out entirely. So here are some mp3 versions that I ripped from another release, Lee Roy Mercer and Billy Beecher: The Original Experience.

C & C Auto
There are actually two calls to C & C. The first one is on the discs I sent out, but the followup isn't. Here are both.

C & C Auto

Junk Yard Dogs

Eddie's Auto
This is the one that was cut off in the middle. I don't know why they would have cut it; maybe they're holding material for another release.

Eddie's Auto

All o' y'all should listen to these tracks. They're from some prank calls that were made in Tennessee way back in the 70s or early 80s and circulated as a bootleg for years. I got a barely audible copy back in 1990 or so and thought it was the funniest thing I ever heard. But Ted "Manson" Hoyt absconded with my tape, and I thought I'd never find those calls again. Years later, I got a copy of an official release of the calls put out by Detonator Records. Then, of course, I lost that tape too and Detonator went belly-up. Finally, a year or so ago, I found not one but two CD releases of the calls. The one put out by the people at asswhupper.com sounds a bit better, but of course it's incomplete.

Oh, and you may have heard some tapes that started being made in the mid-90s by some idiot Oklahoma DJs who totally ripped these calls off. Their main character's name was something very similar -- Ray Bob Mercer or Lee Don Mercer or something, and they never gave any credit to the original calls. They're going to hell for that.