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August, 2008

Indian giver

Jim Flora illustrates the cover of “Redskin Romp” by Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra.     RCA Victor.   (1954)

(66 votes, average: 4.08 out of 5)

Right handed

“The Piano Artistry of Jonathan Edwards”   Columbia Records

(54 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

“Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!”

Front and back of “Planet of the Apes” including 4 Stories “Planet of the Apes”, “Escape From the Planet of the Apes”, “Battle for the Planet of the Apes”, “Beneath the Planet of the Apes”. On POWER Records. From 1974. Man these movies blew my adolescent mind! And there’s a fifth — “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes,” the fourth in the movie series from 1972.

(39 votes, average: 3.41 out of 5)

Bow and eros

Emery and “His Violin of Love” This guy looks harmless but with an instrument like that no woman is safe.

(30 votes, average: 2.77 out of 5)

On the road again

“Boulevard of Broken Dreams” (1957) Ferlin Husky Capitol Records

(50 votes, average: 3.78 out of 5)

Well-suited

“Boneca De Pano”   4 Ases e 1 Coringa   RCA Camden Brazil

(43 votes, average: 3.30 out of 5)

Dear Lord, please forgive my doll

Joe Ann Shelton with the Kurt Kaiser Orchestra and Choir Word Records “When i Kneel Down to Pray…”

(40 votes, average: 3.18 out of 5)

Blonde hair, blue skies

Rudhi Dalton y Sus Tropicales   “Mar y Cielo”   Ruisenor Records

(23 votes, average: 3.74 out of 5)

It’s Classic But It’s Good

Robert Russell Bennett and the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Illustration by R. Taylor

(33 votes, average: 3.91 out of 5)

Jazz for People Who Hate Jazz

RCA Victor

(49 votes, average: 3.96 out of 5)