Phil Hill - The Exciting Racing Sounds of Grand Prix: Challenge of Champions

Phil Hill - The Exciting Racing Sounds of Grand Prix: Challenge of Champions

This is a companion LP to the film Grand Prix. Race car driver Phil Hill narrates this album and interviews fellow race car driver Graham Hill (unrelated to Phil) and Grand Prix film director John Frankenheimer. The first track has those interviews. Then the rest of the album features recordings of Formula One race cars in action at four race tracks throughout Europe. More glorious car noises are in abundance here.

Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. Interviews {9:58}

2. Monza, The Italian Grand Prix {4:49}

Side 2

1. Monte Carlo, Monaco Grand Prix {9:45}

2. Spa Francorchamps, Belgium Grand Prix {3:50}

3. Brands Hatch, British Grand Prix {3:01}

Beth Brown - The Truth about Mental Telepathy

I am trying out posting e-books here. I'm not as experienced in converting books to digital form. I have practiced with the paperback of this title. I scanned all of the pages. It's easy to do so when it is a paperback that is barely over 100 pages long. I may have damaged the book a little when I had to open the book wide enough for all of the pages to be scanned. Not that it matters much anyway, as the previous owner (presumably) had a need to write her or his name on the cover.

I am soliciting feedback about the quality of the scans and if you prefer a bunch of separate picture files or for the scans to be in .pdf form or if there's any other way you would like the scans to be presented. I also have plans to include magazines and other similar types of publications here sometime in the future.


Beth Brown - The Truth about Mental Telepathy

I obtained this copy at an antique store in Bethany, Oklahoma, a suburb west of Oklahoma City. This book promises to be a guide for anyone to develop their telepathic powers and case histories of people doing so.
This book is certainly loaded with case histories about instances where people suddenly found their telepathic abilities in life-altering situations such as a secretary mentally signalling to her boss to give her a raise or a schoolteacher sending signals to draw potential mates for marriage. It seems that more of the pages are devoted to case histories rather than how to develop your telepathic powers.
Supposedly, telepathy was used (unintentionally) to invent the telegraph as Henry Morse in England along with three other people in locations far away from England came up with the idea at about the same time. The author claims that telepathy played a key role in some other significant technological developments such as the printing press, the cotton gin, the automobile, etc. Curiously, there are not any footnotes or sources provided for these claims.
Not only will you develop your telepathic powers that you have (yes, the author says that everyone is supposed to have them), but you read a lot of interesting anecdotes and learn how to use your mind when you're finished with the book.



From the back cover:

Have you ever had someone on your mind, then decided to telephone that person only to hear him say that he was just going to phone you, or that he'd been thinking of you all day?
This is one of the commonest telepathic experiences.
Many people, too busy or uninterested to delve into the subject, chalk up such experiences to coincidence.
These people are not likely to develop their telepathic powers to the fullest extent; and some will meet head-on with misfortune that could have been avoided through faith and concentration.

Beth Brown has been a student of mental telepathy for many years.
She has known the thrill and excitement of gratifying telepathic experiences.
In this volume, she shares her knowledge and belief.

Contents: 124 pages, 12 chapters

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Sydney Omarr - Virgo

Sydney Omarr - Virgo

I meant to post this on August 23, the first day of the Virgo sign, but it slipped my mind. Basically, according to Mr. Omarr, you Virgo (born August 23 to September 22) "are perceptive, analytical, able to size up situations and people. Now you've been described by many as a critic, an individual who is overly concerned with neatness, with health, with a desire for perfection." However, "most of your criticism results from a genuine desire to be of service, to improve conditions." Sydney has more information about your sign, Virgo, as well as how you relate to the other 11 signs of the Zodiac. You'll have to download it yourself to find out more. As if this LP's appearance in the Basement is not enough of an endorsement itself, Henry Miller, considerably one of the best writers around, wrote the liner notes that are on the back cover. The liner notes are in the file too.




Excerpts from the valuable resource Wikipedia on the interesting background of Sydney Omarr:

Sydney Omarr (5 August 1926 – 2 January 2003) was an astrologer and counsellor to the rich and famous. While he wrote numerous books on the subject of astrology, including My World of Astrology and his autobiography Answer in the Sky, he is probably the most widely known for his books on the popular Sun Sign astrology that endeavoured to predict a person's astrological influences based on his 'Sun Sign' - technically derived as the constellation providing the backdrop to the Sunrise on the day of a person's birth (such as Aries, Taurus, etc). He also wrote a daily Sun Sign horoscope column which appeared in more than 200 daily newspapers of the Los Angeles Times syndicate and which was read by millions. It is believed that Sydney Omarr has sold more books on the topic of astrology (over 40 million) than any other individual.
...
As Omarr became a rather prolific writer, he also reinvented himself as a celebrity in his own right, appearing on various radio and television shows to include Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin, and Johnny Carson. He knew countless celebrities, and his wife Jeraldine Saunders was a former model, cruise director, and the creator of the "Love Boat" concept for ABC television.
Toward the end of his life, Omarr wrote a series of astrological guides published by Penguin, Sydney Omarr's Day-By-Day Astrological Guide. While he authored the books up until his death, his protégés have taken over the work, and Signet continues to publish the series. He believed he had been an astrologer in many previous lifetimes, and he was able to do full planetary horoscopes in his head when given an individual's birth coordinates and birth time. For his Los Angeles Times syndicate columns, he wrote each and every daily horoscope column personally, usually three weeks in advance.
...
Sydney Omarr died on 2 January 2003 at St John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California of a heart attack. His wife and friends were at his side. He is buried at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California.
Omarr was born Sidney Kimmelman at 10:27 a.m. on 5 August 1926, in Philadelphia, with the Sun, Mercury and Neptune all in Leo, and Libra on the Ascendant.

Tracklisting:

Side One

1. All About Your Sign {18:50}

Side Two

1. How the 11 Other Signs of the Zodiac Relate to You: Introduction {0:36}

2. How the 11 Other Signs of the Zodiac Relate to You: Aries {1:00}

3. How the 11 Other Signs of the Zodiac Relate to You: Taurus {1:40}

4. How the 11 Other Signs of the Zodiac Relate to You: Gemini {1:43}

5. How the 11 Other Signs of the Zodiac Relate to You: Cancer {1:59}

6. How the 11 Other Signs of the Zodiac Relate to You: Leo {1:37}

7. How the 11 Other Signs of the Zodiac Relate to You: Libra {1:36}

8. How the 11 Other Signs of the Zodiac Relate to You: Scorpio {1:38}

9. How the 11 Other Signs of the Zodiac Relate to You: Sagittarius {1:49}

10. How the 11 Other Signs of the Zodiac Relate to You: Capricorn {1:34}

11. How the 11 Other Signs of the Zodiac Relate to You: Aquarius {1:19}

12. How the 11 Other Signs of the Zodiac Relate to You: Pisces {1:33}

Forrest McCullogh - Flight F-I-N-A-L: A Dramatic Comparison to Death

Forrest McCullough - Flight F-I-N-A-L: A Dramatic Comparison to Death

Once again, special thanks to aethr for contributing to the Basement by sharing this gem. You better believe me, it is a gem. If you're good, you get to go on an all-expenses-paid one-way trip to the special place that would become your final destination. Even better is that Flight F-I-N-A-L is not affected one bit by rising fuel costs.

Narrated by Paul Evangel

Labels on the vinyl say that the "inspiring" music is by the Combined Choirs of Trevecca Nazarene College.

Here's a little bit of info I got from aethr in the comments section in one of the previous posts: written and produced by Forrest McCullough, Evangelist...Amazing record of evangelist madness where the journey to heaven is represented by an airflight with religious student as stewardess and chairman as copilot...lots of christian music choirs and absurd prayers.

I used to own a copy of this LP years ago. I became caught up in some spring cleaning and this LP was purged along with many others. This is one of the few LPs that I regret parting with. In a way, I am reunited with this record. This would have been one of the first posts in this blog if I still had my copy, but it's here now. Hopefully, the flight depicted on this LP will be on your schedule when the time comes.


Tracklisting:  (link will be back soon)

Side 1

1. Flight F-I-N-A-L side 1 {17:30}

Side 2

1. Flight F-I-N-A-L side 2 {14:17}

Note: the track names in the file are named side A and B. Side A is actually side 2 or b if you prefer and side B is side 1 or a.

Earl Nightingale - The Strangest Secret

Earl Nightingale - The Strangest Secret

Yes, that's right. Earl has a strange secret. It's this secret that reveals how to achieve greater success, that reveals how to enjoy greater happiness and peace of mind. How do I know this? Well, the cover says so, therefore that's what the strangest secret does.

Okay, there are actually a lot of secrets out there that are much stranger than Earl's and I bet none of those other secrets have anything to do with greater happiness and greater success. I'll leave it up to you to dwell on those other secrets.

Earl Nightingale is known basically as a pioneer in the field of self-help/human motivation. At around the age of 12, Earl started to get interested in human motivation or why some people are successful while most other people are failures in life. This was during the Great Depression where Earl, like many other Americans, lived in squalor. The years have passed by, Earl serves as a Marine during World War II, then he goes in the radio business. He also starts an insurance agency at the same time where the agency went from last place to sixth place in sales witihn two years. He was also involved in advertising and public speaking.

Then at the age of 35, Earl "retires." This was evidently a big deal as newspapers all over the country wrote articles about Earl's early retirement. Earl doesn't actually retire but starts to study human motivation (his obsession from childhood) and wrote "The Strangest Secret" as well as recording other motivation records.

The other side of this LP consist of The Southwestern Company Sales Tips. These tips are aimed at salesmen particularly college students doing this as a summer job. The Southwestern Company publishes reference books and to this day still exists to supposedly "build people" i.e. hiring college students for cheap as "independent contractors" to peddle their books. Earl schools Southwestern's salesmen in how to deal with the customers and convince people (prospects) to buy the books. Back when this LP came out, salesmen went up to peoples' doors unwantedly and interrupted their lives to talk them into buying some crap. Nowadays, salesmen (known by their new common name "telemarketers") use the telephone to call and interrupt people during dinner time. At the end of the side, Earl in his calming smooth voice offers consolation for those folks unable to sell anything and encourages them to try again the next day while thinking how to differently approach the prospects. I mentioned in an earlier post that it would be a pleasure to even hear Earl describe paint peeling because of his voice. Listening to Earl dispense sales tips has kept me glued to my seat considering that I don't give a shit about selling books door-to-door.

Tracklisting:

1. The Strangest Secret {10:46}

2. The Southwestern Company Sales Tips: Your Job as a Salesman {2:37}

3. The Southwestern Company Sales Tips: Start the Day Right Use Time Wisely {3:23}

4. The Southwestern Company Sales Tips: The Approach (Sales Talk at the Door) {4:13}

5. The Southwestern Company Sales Tips: The Close (Sales Talk on the Decision) {5:11}

6. The Southwestern Company Sales Tips: So Your Sales Were Low Today? {2:22}

Dr. Paul P. Parker - How to Use Tact and Skill in Handling People

Dr. Paul P. Parker - How to Use Tact and Skill in Handling People

Knowing how to deal with people is a valuable skill in all walks of life. It's certainly a neccessity in corporate America, the intended target audience of this record. Having tact and skill in handling people is helpful whether one is trying to sell stuff to customers, wooing people and organizations to secure them as clients, negotiating business deals, getting along with co-workers or managing employees. Handling people is undeniably the most important factor to accomplish corporate America's goal and only reason for its existence: to make more profits.

The cover is revealing for this record's true intentions. There is a small round table with a chess board and chess pieces on it. A chess match is in progress. A captured black chess piece stands off the chess board and a caputured white chess piece also stands off the chess board. There is only one chair. Whoever occupies the chair has the white chess pieces. The one with the black chess pieces does not have a chair. Why is there a chair missing?

The cover is saying that handling people is like being in a chess match. It seems that the other people that are to be handled are the opponents. Specific chess pieces have only certain moves that are allowed in the game. Perhaps there are specific moves to be applied in dealing with different types of people. Strategy is the most important element. It's how to handle (perhaps manipulate) people in getting them to do what you intend. They are the captured chess pieces.

The cover is also subtle in another way. The goal in chess is to capture the opponent's king (the kingdom). Is the cover symbolic in that people in companies are in a real-life chess match? The goal is to capture the real-life equivalent of the opponent's kingdom, the competing company/corporation whether it would be taking it over or just putting it out of business.

Tracklisting:

Side One

1. Discovering Your Ability {3:23}


2. Technical Knowledge Versus Handling People {3:49}


3. How Emotions Affect Behavior {2:51}


4. What People Will Do and Will Not Do {3:17}


5. How to Handle an Argument {3:14}

Side Two

1. Losing Attention {2:53}


2. Taking the Sting Out of Criticism {3:08}


3. Are We Really Salesmen {3:32}


4. Keep In Step With Your Listener {3:38}


5. You Are Worth Half a Million {3:27}

Louise Egolf - Train Your Bird to Talk

Louise Egolf - Train Your Bird to Talk

The Basement continues to help teach useful skills to people because this is first and foremost an educational blog. It was ventriloquism, now it's training your pet bird to talk. Quite obviously, you'll need a living pet bird, especially one of the species mentioned on the back cover, for this skill to be of any use. Even if you don't have a pet bird, listening to this may still be helpful in case you someday purchase your own pet bird or to sample it like the Orb did on a remix of "Toxygene". This record contains 14 tracks of a woman named Louise Egolf repeating the word or phrase that is also the name of the track. You play this record for your bird so that your bird will learn the words or phrases and mimic them. A woman's voice was used because a woman's voice is easier to understand than a man's voice according to the liner notes.

The back cover says that this record can teach the following birds to talk:

African Grey Parrot, Bee Bee, Blue Crowned, Blue Front, Budgerigar (better known as the Parakeet; also called the Budgie), Caique, Chattering Lories, Cockatiel, Cockatoo, Double Yellow Head, Finches Amazon, Green Cheek, Half Moon Conure, Indian Ringneck Parakeet, Jenday, Lorikeet, Love Bird, Macaw, Mynah Bird, Nanday, Orange Cheek, Orange Wing, Panama Parrot, Red Headed Amazon, Rosella, Toucan, Yellow Head, Yellow Nape

Best of luck and wishes for many years of your bird talking to you.

Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. Hello {4:09}

2. How Are You {3:10}

3. Hello, How Are You {3:22}

4. How Are You, Fine Thank You {3:04}

5. Pretty Bird {1:56}

6. Hello Pretty Bird {2:30}

7. Who Are You {2:41}

Side 2

1. Good Morning {3:54}

2. See You Later {4:17}

3. Bye Bye, See You Later {4:11}

4. Hi Baby {3:18}

5. I Love You {2:31}

6. Give Me a Kiss {4:03}

7. What's Your Name {2:44}

Max Toth and Greg Nielsen - Pyramid Power [book cover]

It's Pyramid Power, man!



From the back cover:

"...a good environment for transcendental meditation, bio-feedback and yoga, in that it surrounds its inhabitants with energy." TIME Magazine

"...the reason for the sustained interest in pyramids is a series of inexplicable and enchanting facts that have been learned about the Egyptian pryamids [sic] ." Daily News

"...each basic geometric shape has therapeutic powers, with the pyramid topping the list...Myriad curative powers have been ascribed to pyramids. They...emit psychic energy that caused all sorts of miracles!" Newsday

The topic of controversy in Times Magazine, Esquire, and numerous other publications across the country, Pyramid Power has captured the imagination of millions all over the world using its mysterious energies in research and to create a better life style.

Here is the latest fabulous and provocative information on pyramids around the world, instructions on building your own pyramid and suggested experiments.

Only in PYRAMID POWER, an exclusive chapter written by Karl Drbal, Czechoslovakian Pyramid Patenter and discoverer of Pyramid Energies.

Pyramid Power preserves food stuffs, amplifies thought forms and increases sexual vitality.

The authors, expert in their field, give you all this plus their own exciting discoveries so you can...

PUT PYRAMID POWER TO WORK FOR YOU!

Jimmy Nelson - Jimmy Nelson's Instant Ventriloquism

Jimmy Nelson - Jimmy Nelson's Instant Ventriloquism

The Basement, as you now know, also attempts to provide opportunities to learn useful skills. That would be cool if some of my visitors gain the ability to be ventriloquists. It seems that the fine art of ventriloquism has nearly vanished though it did show up in America's Got Talent. This record offers people the abilities to quickly master the art of ventriloquism. All they need is a puppet/dummy or two and, of course, the means to listen to this record. Jimmy Nelson along with two of his friends, Danny O'Day and Farfel, guide the listener through mastering the difficult letters and encouraging people to keep practicing.



Tracklisting:

Side One

1. The First Lesson -- Position of the Mouth -- The Beginner's, or, Simple Alphabet {6:10}

2. The Difficult Letters -- The Letter "B" {4:13}

3. The Letter "F" {2:49}

4. The Letter "M" {2:47}

5. The Letter "P" {2:02}

6. The Letter "V" {1:34}

7. The Letters "W' and "Y" {2:37}

Side Two

1. Review and Ventriloquial Voice {5:40}

2. The Last Lesson {1:12}

3. Instant Ventriloquism -- Explanation {1:58}

4. Routine for Danny O'Day {3:46}

5. Routine for Farfel {3:21}

6. Routine for Danny O'Day and Farfel {4:09}

Corelli-Jacobs - Music to Grow Plants

Corelli-Jacobs - Music to Grow Plants

If your plants need any help growing, I guess that this would do the job. Dr. George Milstein thought that this was really a good idea.

George Milstein, a New York horticulturist, has determined that music helps plants grow. 'The secret,' he says, 'is a high frequency sound that blends right in with the music. I believe that the sound waves cause the plants to keep their pores open longer and wider, allowing a greater exchange with the air around them.' So once a day for forty-five minutes he plays music for his plants, and he has been so successful that he now has produced a record called Music to Grow Plants By. (Captain James Conely in Air University Review March-April 1972)

The music is orchestral sorta-funk lounge, the type of music used in movies and TV shows back in the 1970s when this record came out and also found on "library" records.

Note: The music is credited to Corelli-Jacobs on the record's label. There doesn't seem to be any information about them on the Internet.

[7-7-12 UPDATE: I accidentally posted the wrong rip which was an older rip. I have now posted it at 320. If you got the older rip, you can upgrade if you like.]

Tracklisting:

Side 1

track 1 {2:37}

track 2 {2:58}

track 3 {4:55}

track 4 {2:38}

track 5 {2:32}

track 6 {3:34}

track 7 {3:22}

Side 2

track 8 {2:08}

track 9 {3:24}

track 10 {2:35}

track 11 {3:54}

track 12 {2:48}

track 13 {2:25}

track 14 {1:51}

track 15 {2:53}