The typical exploito album is aimed at the unsuspecting buyer with the attraction of a budget price.
Some of the releases are by unknown or no-name artists and the sound quality and packaging in the early days made for an inferior product.
[7] Others that give some info on the musicians are Grass, A Rock Musical by Sven Libaek,[8] In 1969, Alshire Records released an album called Famous Songs of Hank Williams: A Return Trip with the Modern Sounds In Modern Rock-Acid Sound, an album that featured musicians covering Hank Williams songs, but in the acid rock genre.
[18] In 1972, he hired Thin Lizzy musicians Phil Lynott, Eric Bell and Brian Downey to record an album that would be released as Funky Junction Play A Tribute to Deep Purple.
It featured covers of Gladys Knight songs and two numbers credited to Funky Junction, "Talking Trash" and "Roads End".
[20] "Talking Trash" also appeared on Tamla Hits by Dianne And The New Worlds, an album supposedly in the soul genre.
[29] Sutton was founded in 1963 by Bob Blythe, formerly of Tops Records,[30] was a label known for budget exploito albums.
One band that had records released under its own name but destined straight for the cut out bins to be filled by the rack jobbers was the New Dimension.
Surf music producers Tony Hilder and Bob Hafner provided the material.
[34] As announced by Billboard in 1965, Pat Collins aka the "Hip Hypnotist" was to do a couple of albums for the label.
[36] Arc also issued an album called The Golden Ring Sing The Best Hits Of Tom Jones.
[41][42] One album that capitalized on human behavior was Music To Strip For Your Man by Teddy Phillips And His Orchestra.