“It All Happens On Saturday”   The Harry Stoneham Five”   (From the BBC TV Parkinson’ Series).   EMI Studio 2.   These two blokes in a boat are living the high life, not a care in the world.   Toasting their own good taste and good fortune.

(20 votes, average: 2.60 out of 5)

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Johnny Ray “A Sinner Am I” with Jack Parnell and his Orchestra.   This is on the Australian Philips Label.   (Perhaps not by chance my reflection is in the glass of this one.)

(17 votes, average: 3.06 out of 5)

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Li’l Wally Presents “Beer & Dutchmen Polkas” By the Michigan Dutchmen.

Good head enchants. It teases the eyes, inviting the curious to explore the unknown. The texture of head varies as much as the stars in the sky. Head can be rocky and voluminous, billowing up above the edge of the glass, or smooth and creamy, made of tightly knit bubbles. At times it may be loose and foamy. It can be as white as the snows on Mount Kilimanjaro, or as tawny and tan as the Girl from Ipanema. Guinness will leave a ring on the side of the glass for every sip you take. Many Belgian beers will do the same. Still other styles may leave intricate patterns of lace that curve like opera curtains over a brightly lit stage, or they may spot the glass like 101 Dalmatians. Some head dissipates to a veil or ring, and may die completely in the presence of the smallest molecule of natural oil in foods. In beer with high alcoholic content, head may be spare.

Does it serve a purpose? What constitutes good head on beer? How does it form?

Those who analyze beer insist that head is a necessary part of the beer experience. When served in glassware that has been properly cleaned and is of the correct shape, head will hold the delicate aromatics within the beer, and release them gently for your olfactory pleasure. Gases that live within bubbles that form the head will affect mouthfeel, creating sensations that differ on your tongue. When formed as a result of the natural carbon dioxide created by the action of yeast, bubbles will feel more tingly and effervescent than the creamy ones infused with a mix of carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Each style demands its own type of head, or rather, the proteins in barley or wheat malt, coupled with bittering hops, will determine the outcome of the head for each style.

Good head retention is when one-half of the height of the original head persists for at least one minute after pouring.

(Courtesy of Carolyn Smagalski, BellaOnline’s Beer and Brewing Editor)

(41 votes, average: 4.54 out of 5)

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Bud Herrmann “Pops” the Classics on the 97 Key Bosendorfer (a piano).”     Is Bud being ironic here?   Grandiose?   Fatalistic?

(21 votes, average: 3.19 out of 5)

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Lord “Kitch” Kitchner.   “At His Sizzling Best”   “HOT PANTS”   Trinidad records.

(21 votes, average: 3.71 out of 5)

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“Cuzzin Eth Eatin’ Peas & Honey”   It looks like the honey also helps keep the peas on the knife.   I guess if you can’t afford a spoon or a fork this is pretty resourceful.

(16 votes, average: 4.19 out of 5)

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Cumbia Set con la orquesta de CHUCHO TOVAR FLORES on Fonica Estereo records. A beautiful, sexy cheesecake, pin-up illustration. (She seems surprised to have her panties around her ankles. Could they have just fallen by accident?)

(Editor’s note: Illustration by Art Frahm, known for “the “ladies in distress” series for the Joseph C. Hoover & Sons calendar company, in which a lovely girl is literally caught with her panties down, her lacy undies slipping to her ankles while she’s in the process of bowling, walking the dog or changing a tire.”)

(33 votes, average: 4.52 out of 5)

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