I think they used the wrong photo! Halo was the quintessential budget label. They used stock photos for generic orchestral and pop music. Here’s a pool party shot on a “Dance Party” record with music by the National Dance Orchestra.

(12 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)

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From 1959 on Golden Records (a subsidiary of Bell).   I have a handful of Three Stooges lps and a bunch of 45’s from around the world.   Always a kid’s favorite (and some too devoted adults too.)   Nyuck, nyuck.

(9 votes, average: 3.11 out of 5)

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Passage to Madrid.   She doesn’t look like she’s on a train, but he seems to be a conductor.   Maybe this is her fantasy.   Maybe it’s a joint.

(9 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)

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Before he was whacking guys in the desert or stabbing them with their own pen, Joe Pesci took a stab at a singing career. I’m not going to say anything about it, cause you never know, but I’m glad he starting acting. What I make you laugh? I amuse you?

The liner notes compare Joe Ritchie (a temporary stage name) to Little Jimmy Scott. Scott’s influence was noted by Jack Lewis (Brunswick producer) and Monte Kay (of the Modern Jazz Quartet) when Joe played with jazz sax legend Willis “Gator” Jackson at the Palm Garden in Harlem. (Turns out, according to the liner notes, that Joe lived briefly with Little Jimmy Scott in Chicago!)

Joe sings the Beatles’ “Got to get you into my life,” “The Fool on the Hill,” and “Fixing a hole” (think Casino!). Also three Bee Gees compositions, “Holiday,” “To love somebody,” and “And the sun will shine”. This on Brunswick, the soul label that was home to Jackie Wilson, Tyrone Davis, Barbara Acklin, the Chi-lites and others.

(15 votes, average: 2.93 out of 5)

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Oh, this is soo fake. The back cover has a nice C.B. dictionary along with photos of various models of C.B. radios available at the time.   Do you know what “Chicken Coops” are?   How about a “Roller Skate”? or “Eat-um-up”?   Negatory?   See below.   As fads go, in my lifetime, I preferred streaking.

(Ans: weigh stations; a small car; roadside diner)

(11 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)

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Bugs Bunny.   Porky Pig.   Daffy Duck.   Elmer Fudd.   Featuring Mel Blanc with music by Billy May.   This is 78 RPM Captitol album from the early fifties. Looney Toons and Merrie Melodies were Warner Bros.’ answer to the Disney cartoons of the forties and by the time I was a kid, these were the cartoons that gave me my first laughs and life lessons.   Today my company is working with Warner Bros. to reintroduce Tweety and Speedy Gonzales to a new generation.

(12 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

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