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December, 2008

Cocktail shaker

“It’s Party Time”   Featuring Jim Watson with Guest Star Joel Cowan.   Spicy Records.   Here’s a gem of a cover.   Looks like something Crumb might have seen (He did a series of similar illustrations and covers depicting great jazz and blues musicians for Yazoo! Records, etc.)

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Big bad woof

Woof Whistler and his DogWoof Whistler & His Terriers [1960] I Had A Little Dog & His Name Was Buff/How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?/Don’t You Care, Little Doggie/Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?/Old Shep/Dogs As Companions/Sittin’ On A Log/Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me A Bow-Wow/My Dog Has Fleas/Old Dog Tray/My Dog Loves Your Dog/Lassie Theme/Hark, Hark, The Dogs Do Bark/My Little Pup With The Patent Leather Nose/There Must Be A Heaven For That Little Dog Of Mine/First Friend

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Roll um easy

“Loaded”   A 1945 Savoy Records jazz session date with West Coasters Vido Musso, Kai Winding, Eddie Safranski, Boots Mussulli, Stan Getz, Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne.

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Hold your head up

Rire-O-Thon Avec Romeo Perusse   (Canada)

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Rythmn blues

A. Ramlie & The Rythmn Boys   “Oh Fatimah”   Singapore pop – Asian surf/garage from the mid-Sixties.

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Shake a tail feather

Roberto Faz Y Su Conjunto Puchito Records

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Best price – hands down!

“El Mas Aplaudido”   Disc Jockey Records

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“I hate those meeces to pieces!”

Mr. Jinks, Pixie and Dixie   Colpix Records.   Hanna Barbera   A regular segment of the television series The Huckleberry Hound Show from 1958 to 1962.   Starring the Voices of Daws Butler and Don Messick.

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Aces over

“Jalaito Sabroson”   Los Ases del Ritmo   Tropical Records

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Turkey breast

Yediden Yetmise Curcuna   Exotic Oriental Belly-Dance Music from Turkey.   Senay Egefon Records

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