Cover image by the great photographer Paul Huf (1924- 2002) of Holland. Design by Van Borssum. Phillips Favourite Series. The woman is Huf’s muse and singular model for all the covers in the series - British model Ann Pickford.
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Par-dee Records. These records came with, and were meant to be played as the soundtrack to, some 8mm movies from the National Films company (in Toledo, Ohio, don’t cha know).  We can only imagine what those films were since I only have the records. Of course, the attraction for me are the vintage 1950’s graphics here.  Par-dee!!
Dionisio e seu quinteto “Sax & Ritmo” Brazil’s Internacional Records.
SUPERCAR The Original TV Cast Recording. Golden Guinea Records. From the UK. (1962) Music by Barry Gray.
“Songs for Bashful Lovers” Composed and Sung by Carl Eugster with Orchestra. MGM records.
“Into Outer Space” with Lucia Pamela Gulfstream Records (1969). Read the liner notes here. Read Lucia’s NY Times Obit for more.
Lucia insists Into Outer Space was recorded on the moon. Not only that, she’s not entirely happy with lunar acoustics. “The air is so thin everything sounds different up there”, she once noted in an annoyed tone.
How to explain the sound of Into Outer Space? For starters, one critic called Lucia the “missing link between Sun Ra and the Shaggs”. That’s a start, but it’s nowhere near the complete story. Lucia isn’t nearly derivative enough to be neatly pigeonholed between other artists, no matter how out-there they may be.
Approximate the following and come to your own conclusions. Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela is the sound of a ragtime band lost in another galaxy, hopelessly whacked out on alien hallucinogens, desperately trying to pull together history’s strangest concept album.
Which is exactly what Into Outer Space is — a startlingly weird concept album.
Robots Music. French. Corbra Records.
The Monte Carlo Strings Play “Music for Moonlight Madness” Stereophonic Grand Award Records.
A French ep of early James Bond soundtrack music. Pye Records.
“Take It Out Of This” Auntie Tina Dixon on Laff Records.
Waldemar Spillman e sua orquestra “O Primeiro Baile” On Internacaional Records from Brazil.
“Hi from France! A rare LP of raw blues on Arhoolie records … by the late Great Lightnin’Sam Hopkins” -Alain Mallaret
Peter Lauch put out this series of albums in Germany called Sex Magazin (this is #2). They were deluxe gatefold numbers with big, colorful nude photos inside.
“Music Tailored To Your Taste…” “A Group of Brilliant Compositions by Anthony Tamberello performed by the Everest Concert Orchestra under the direction of Derek Boulton.” Everest Records. Hi-Fi.
The Uncensored Humor of The Rebel Playboys “Laugh Out #1″ A stag party record.
Orlando Silveira. Odeon Records.
“Music for Longhairs” on Design Records.
“Out-a Space” The Spotnicks in London. (1961) Oriole Records. This is the first lp by The Spotnicks who were Sweden’s first internationally famous rock band. The band’s outer-space-inspired, instrumental surf-rock climbed toward the top of the European, Australian and Japanese charts in the early 1960’s. The band has since released 42 albums and sold more than 18 million records!
Carnival via Carnaby Street cirque 1967!
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