"Because All Women Melt When You Sing to Them of Architecture.

Finally! I am once again in posession of a digital camera, so I can again share with you all the wonderful records that have been piling up from my thrifting.

I thought I'd kick it all off again with this true oddity, in a genre I never knew existed, and wouldn't have believed until I saw it. The Singing Architect Bob Schmertz was born with a handicap that many men wouldn't be able to overcome. He was named "Schmertz". Threatened with a lifetime of celibacy, he took up the banjo, and studied Architecture, and somehow must have found that combining his two pastimes somehow got the ladies hot. When Bob wasn't plucking his banjo and crooning about the likes of Wright and Pei and Lorenzo Di Medici, he also taught architecture. I assume this was at a School in Pittsburgh, as this record was released to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Pittsburgh Architectural Club.

So here with this piece of vinyl, we can now delight to tunes about John Lally and doric columns, and Queen Anne Fronts, and Walter and Mies and Corbu, all built upon a solid foundation of charm and wit."

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bentrecords.blogspot.com/2005/ 03/ladies-beware-of-architect-by-robert.html