Jack Fascinato had a couple of claims to fame. First, he was the conductor and arranger for the little old pea picker Tennessee Ernie Ford. He was also the musical director for an early day kid’s TV show called Kukla, Fran, and Ollie. Zany puppets and top selling religious albums weren’t enough for Fascinato, he had to put his own orchestra together and in 1959, record an album that has been called the holy grail of space age pop. Music From a Surplus Store featured traditional instruments being played alongside tools and hardware. This cut features “stressed helical springs plucked with a surplus Medical Corps scalpel.” Really. Move over rock and roll, it’s time to get really weird. Jack Fascinato and “Spring, Sprang, Sprung.”
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