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May, 2008

Lord of the rings

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Irving Fields with “The Fabulous Touch”   Instrumental Standard Cha Cha Cha’s on GONE Records.

(24 votes, average: 2.75 out of 5)

Top of the morning

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George Feyer “Ecos de Paris”   Sinter Records.

(31 votes, average: 3.77 out of 5)

Urn, baby, urn

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Helenic Songs on Nina Records.

(40 votes, average: 3.20 out of 5)

Harp and soul

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Jazz harpist, Dorothy Ashby on Argo Records.   After successfully integrating the harp into the hard bop and jazz funk idioms of the sixties, Ashby spent the next decade as an LA studio player on sessions with Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Earth, Wind and Fire and others.   Acid jazz DJ’s picked up on her early recording on Cadet and have sampled her stuff.   This one is here for the striking and artistic cover photo of her hands plucking the strings.   And you thought getting an upright bass to gigs is tough!

(32 votes, average: 4.06 out of 5)

Vinyl inspectors

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“The Playings” On the Brazilian RGE label.

(21 votes, average: 3.43 out of 5)

Put your hands in the air like you just don’t care

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Mrs. Mills sings “Look Mum, No Hands”   UK Odeon Label

(28 votes, average: 2.61 out of 5)

Everyday peephole

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“A Little Spice”   Sung by Faye Richmonde.   DAVIS Records.   Adult comedy circa 1960,

(53 votes, average: 3.42 out of 5)

Afro sheen

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“U.S. on the POP”   By the covers this seems like 1970.

(22 votes, average: 3.82 out of 5)

Music for Half-assed Friends

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Suggested titles, suitable for enclosure in this Album Cover, are as follows:

“You Go To My Head”; “Oh, Johnny”; “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning”; “That Old Feeling”; “Just In Time”; “Just in Time”; “Just A-Sittin’ and A-Rockin'”; “Let’s Sit This One Out”; “Doing What Comes Naturally”; “At Last”; “Somethings Got To Give”; “I Gotta Go Now”; “I Can’t Get Started With You”.

(26 votes, average: 4.12 out of 5)

Topless karaoke

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From Back Beat:   Japanese actress Reiko Ike from the movie Koko no Sekai (1971)

(72 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5)