The Sons of Crosshatch

These guys look so familiar, especially the guy on the right. Maybe I have another album he's on in a different group, or just has one of those faces. Come on, me, get it together!

Same image on the back, except...

...it's crosshatched! Pretty neat. :)

[un]Timely

Were kids still square dancing even back in 1964? Maybe if their parents made them do it.

P.S. What does Piute mean? :p

Ben Cartwright sings!

This was a nice surprise from the local Sally Ann!

An evening of songs and stories with The Voice of Doom! ;)

Nondescript back cover, but let's take a look at that letter...

Wow, amazing how things worked out! ;) I love stuff like this.

I also love stuff like this. :)

Nice back!

(that title is an inside joke, so kindly disregard it)

Nice cheesecakey front, too. ;)

Ah, there it is.

More info on Ronnie Aldrich here. You can see there that he's a pleasant looking fella, but honestly, I'd rather see the girl on the cover. Heh.

It's party time!

Banjo party time, that is!

I can't picture an album like this being played at a party nowadays, not even in places you'd think of as being more banjo-centric than most. :-(

C.C.A.

Don't get too excited by that intriguing acronym, it only stands for...

Yay. :-/ There is a very interesting at-the-time fact below, though!

They put "O Canada" on it? Weird.

Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty? Wha?!

World's leading producer of ASBESTOS! Sorry, citizens of Earth...

They played a little commercial/P.S.A./whatever about the Kanatta thing roughly 17 trillion times throughout the 90s. Maybe it's on YouTube. *checking* Nope! (I didn't look for very long)

Retire on $30,000 a year?

Not nowadays! :p (well...I could quite easily, actually. Could you?)

This is one o' them 8" records. Gives tons of info on the front, which is good in this case.

Five years from when? Heh.

The album doesn't teach you how to get one of these, unfortunately.

In other words, devote your life to making money and you might succeed. :p

This album was a HUGE success. According to his wiki page, "In 1956 he produced a spoken word record, The Strangest Secret, which sold over a million copies, making it the first spoken-word recording to achieve Gold Record status."