VA - Limo (1977)

Limo is a Loss Leader mixture of some of WB’s favorite artists (Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat, The Doobies) along with some new blood (Jonathan Cain Band, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Deaf School & The Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band). Only the 45, “In The Mood,” by Henhouse Five Plus Too (featuring the clucking vocals of Ray Stevens) is a non-LP rarity, and it’s obviously a favorite of Dr. Demento, who returns to compile and annotate this set. The good doctor’s liner notes provide way too many fun quotes and tidbits to count… like Bonnie Raitt’s reasoning for doing so many charity concerts (“I just want to throw something back to the community, rather than buy a new pair of racing gloves for my Ferrari”); how Little Feat got their name (ex-Mother Jimmy Carl Black commenting on co-founder Lowell George’s shoe size); the origins of Leo Sayer’s “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” (a bass riff from session master Willie Weeks, who didn’t get a songwriting credit, by the way); the tale of Funkadelic’s Eddie Hazel biting an air marshall who was trying to calm him after he saw a UFO while in mid-flight – resulting in Hazel spending a year in jail (is that true?); how Jesse Winchester was discovered in Canada by The Band’s Robbie Robertson (after moving there as a Vietnam draft resister); that Derek Taylor (The Beatles’ former press officer) signed Deaf School to WB; that Gary Wright (the Dream Weaver himself) was a child actor; how Attitudes (featuring Danny Kortchmar, David Foster, Paul Stallworth and Jim Keltner) was signed by George Harrison’s Dark Horse Records, and… Chicago (the locale) is only the 16th windiest city in America.