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2008

Tell it like it is

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“A Black Man Speaks From the Ghetto”     Preachin’ and teachin’ in the ghetto.

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Oobladee, Madame

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“Dizzy in Paris” Contemporary Records

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Felix Le Chat

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Felix the Cat   “Roc Castel”   Barclay Records

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Temple rock

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Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt “Sings Cantorial Favorites” Volume 4. I got this record at a record store in Chicago. It obviously came from the collection of an interesting guy and it was one of many lps that I found around the store that had these obsessive, crazy, beat, poetic, sometimes right-on and sometimes incongruous hand-written notes scrawled right on the cover. Here are a few of his descriptive song reviews: “Like baby this sauve, powerful, floating bag is a bitch”; “Straight ahead and so very, very pretty”; A fabulously hip rocker” and “Rough and stomping, baby”.

Below is a clipping from an old Village Voice that I had stuck in the cover. It’s an excerpt from a Harvey Pekar comic about cantorial music. Mazel Tov.

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Nutty professor

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Luis Aguile “Canta Para Los Ninos” Odeon   (Courtesy of LP cover lover Carlos Malavida.)

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Arthur

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Arthur Mullard of London.   “Arthur was a fifties and sixties British actor (he usually played the heavy) and sort of comedian…well known for his gravelly, cockney voice and boyish good looks.   His album, a collection of strange cockney monologues and painfully rendered songs (he sings the Beatles “Yesterday” as “Yus-today”) is a masterwork of dreadfulness.   The cover says it all.”   (Contributed by LP cover lover, Jay Strange)

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Creed

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Lonelyville. “The Nervous Beat” The Creed Taylor Orchestra ABC-Paramount I wonder if that’s Heartbreak Hotel there at the end of the street.

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You talk too much

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“Opera Without Words” Westminster

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Deutsch treat

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Berlin Musica Y Canciones Philips Records. Is she trying to hear that trumpet or play it with her ear?

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The wizard of osmosis

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“Learn While You Sleep”   Sleep Teaching:   A 20th Century Marvel.   Release the power of your subconscious mind.

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