Various artists: The Best of David F. Friedman (Modern Harmonic)
Purchased at Jackpot Records in Portland, OR
"Sell the sizzle, not the steak!"
Whatever inaccuracies I've posted on this on blog, I know that to be a direct quote from David F. Friedman. A huckster's huckster, David's place in cinema is well established. That is, he (in)famously produced Herschel Gordon Lewis' gore trilogy (Blood Feast, 2000 Maniacs, and most offensively of all Color Me Blood Red). If I'm correct about this LP, it's the movies after those but before he (pseudonymously) produced several XXX hardcore features. Hey, it's a living.
Collected here: mostly the audio from his movie trailers, with a few music cues. Some of the titles: The Acid Eaters!; A Sweet Sickness; The Ramrodder; The Notorious Daughter of Fanny Hill; Thar She Blows; and best of all, A Smell of Honey, A Swallow of Brine. (What does that mean? I don't know but it sounds great.)
It's amazing that these films even existed, and played in actual (disreputable) theaters. Theaters, nonetheless.
There are so many quote passing by quickly: eight reels of sewage! This is a film that literally assaults the sensual senses! Sell, sell, sell!
It all seems quaint now, considering the easy online access to porn. Men needed to work to watch something to get aroused then, and it was just brief shots of a bare breast or buttock.
The LP comes with a DVD, presumably a disc of trailers from which these audio clips were pulled. I'll get to it.
Sell! Sell! Sell!
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