Gansters Of Love 4 Evah!

1. Quando Quango Love Tempo
2. Smiley Culture Cockney Translation
3. Tuelo Chain Sex Freight Train
4. Stackridge Dora the Female Explorer
5. Sonny Boy Williamson Don't Let Your Right Hand Know
6. Peter Nardini I'll No' Let Ye Doon
7. Grand Archives Orange Juice
8. Cross River Nationale Da Abasi Dian Idem
9. Carl Stevens King Kong
10. Jamo Thomas I Spy (For the FBI)
11. Glen Adams & The Upsetters X-Ray Vision (Take 4)
12. Dick & Dee Dee Thou Shalt Not Steal
13. Maria Napoleon Estridentistas
14. Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66 Capoeira Do Brasil
15. The George Benson Quintet Jaguar
16. The Suprermes Floy Joy
17. The Chosen Few Music Maker
18. Cook County Pinball Playboy
19. Monk Higgins A Good Man Is Gone
20. Nat King Cole Calypso Blues
21. Pedrito Altieri y su Banda Acero Colonel Boogey

Divinia Jackson’s letter arrived in Gangster blasikin’s mailbox at a most opportune time. He had been substituting as coach for Girls Varsity Basketball at Vista High in Yuma, Arizona for two months because of Coach Jenkins’ fractured kneecap, but summer break had just begun and he had been wondering how to occupy his time.

Ms. Jackson, who was Gangster B’s favorite childhood babysitter, now owned and operated The Divinia Jackson Lonely Hearts Social Club in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It seemed she had a smooth-talking, swindling playboy on her hands whose shenanigans had driven her to the end of her wits. Bartholomew Sneed, as he was known, had already left five of the Lonely Hearts Club’s female clientele destitute and heartsick and he was currently putting the moves on Grizelda Harrison!

After enlisting the help of fellow Gangsters of Love tornadoZ (center), who had been working with ceramics in Klamath Falls, Oregon, and Gangster sammyG (left), who was doing light auto-body repair in Billings, Montana, the three set out to put things right with the lonely lady-folk of Tuscaloosa. They bid their long-suffering wives adieu and rendezvoused at the Birmingham airport where they rented a station wagon for the short drive southward.

Divinia had arranged cozy living quarters and complimentary Lonely Hearts Club memberships for the Gangsters so they could get their bearings and observe the habits and antics of the waxy Mr. Sneed without arousing suspicion. The Gangsters of Love were shown traditional Southern hospitality by the club’s female members and, by week’s end, Gangster G had lured Grizelda Harrison’s romantic attentions safely away from the clutches of Bartholomew Sneed, since, as she later confessed through tears of gratitude, she had always preferred her men a little rough around the edges.

Gangster B had found himself a pair of worthy chess opponents in the witty and athletic Violet Jones and the raven-haired wisp of a woman known to everyone only as Miss Magpie. The two women competed not only at the chessboard, but also playfully maneuvered themselves to be best situated for receiving the tender compliments and warm affections of the tall, dark and gentlemanly Gangster B. As for Gangster Z, mere minutes after arriving in Tuscaloosa, he hit it off with the towering and voluptuous Ramona Guiterrez de Guadalupe from the Lonely Hearts kitchen staff and nobody had seen much of him since.

The overwhelming physical presence and masculine assurance of the Gangsters of Love sent Bartholomew Sneed scuttling from the Lonely Hearts Club’s halls and common areas. To further drive their point home, the Gangsters cornered Sneed one evening after a potluck social and delivered a message in no uncertain terms on the proper way to treat a lady, leaving him with a headache he wouldn’t soon be able to forget.

With Sneed taken care of and a smorgasbord of Tuscaloosa’s most attractive and available women at their fingertips, the Gangsters of Love decided to stay on for the summer, booking GoL shows in nearby cities Birmingham and Montgomery while spinning records at the romantic social mixers hosted by the appreciative Divinia Jackson and her Lonely Hearts Social Club. The tracklist for the Gangster’s final set before heading back west is included here for your perusal—thanks to Miss Magpie, who had saved it as a memento in her Book of Happy Things.