The Mad Peck’s Record Reviews

With his partners and colleagues I.C. Lotz, Patty Andrews, and the Masked Marvel, The Mad Peck penned numerous record reviews — distinct from his comic-strip reviews — for numerous publications, which we include here listed under publication, date (when known) recording artist, and album/song. Because credits are sketchy as to who wrote what, we’re including all here.

  • Fusion (unknown issue)

    Phil Spector, The Andrew Sisters (The Best of), The Animals (Best of), The Byrds (Preflight), Dick Clark (20 Years of Rock N’ Roll), Herman’s Hermits (Their Greatest Hits), Alan Price (Price is Right), The Zombies

  • Fusion #92 (Dec. 1973)

    Morgan David and His Savage Winds (Savage Young Winos), Harry Nilsson (A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night), Helen Reddy (Long Hard Climb), Rick Springfield (Comic Book Heroes), Johnnie Taylor (Taylored in Silk), Let the Good Times Roll.

  • Fusion #92 (Dec. 1973)

    Average White Band (Show Your Hand), Chuck Berry (Bio), Teresa Brewer, Count Basie, Thad Jones (Songs of Bessie Smith), Dixie Hummingbirds (We Love You Like a Rock), Yvonne Elliman (Food of Love), Etta James, Doc Kirby & Co., National Lampoon (Lemmings)

  • Fusion (Unknown Issue)

    Backman Turner Overdrive (II), Chuck Berry (Golden Decade Vol. III), Bread (Best of, Vol. 2), Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come (Journey), Brownsville Station (School Punks) Cockney Rebel (The Human Menagerie), Ry Cooder (Paradise and Lunch), Olivia Newton-John (If You Love Me, Let Me Know), Koerner, Ray, & Glover (Good Old)

  • Fusion (Unknown issue)

    Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival 1972, Joan Armatrading (Whatever’s for Us), Borderline (Sweet Dreams), Can (Ege Bamyasi), Chris Darrow, Tim Davis (Take Me as I am), Phil Everly (Star-Spangled Springer), Faces (Ooh La La), Steve Ferguson, Gallery (Featuring Jim Gold)

  • “Funky Funky Everything: The Mad Peck Straps On”

    (Unknown pub) Clyde McPhatter, Ray Charles

  • Fusion (unknown issue)

    Aerosmith, Luther Allison (Bad News is Coming), Alice Stuart and Snake (Believing), Johnny Cash (Any Old Wind), Tom Fogerty (Excalibur), Grand Theft, Al Green (Green is Blues), Grin (All Out), Guess Who (Artificial Paradise), Bo Hansson (Lord of the Rings), Mississippi John Hurt (Last Sessions), Imus in the Morning (One Sacred Chicken to Go)

  • Fusion (Unknown issue)

    Aerosmith (Get Your Wings), Blue Swede (Hooked on a Feeling), Chicago (VII), Commander Cody (Live from Deep in the Heart Of Texas), Jack Daniel’s Original Silver Corner Band (In Concert), The Eleventh Hour (Greatest Hits)

  • Fusion (Unknown issue)

    Aretha Franklin (Hey Now Hey), Diana Ross (Touch Me in theMorning), Grand Funk Railroad (We’re an American Band)

  • Fusion (Unknown issue)

    Chi Coltrane (Let it Ride), David Essex (Rock On), Gerry Goffin (It Ain’t Exactly Entertainment), Jerry Lee Lewis (Southern Roots), Diana Ross (Last Time I Saw Him), Sha Na Na (From the Streets of New York) Rode Stewart-Faces (Live)