2008
Dr. Jane’s addiction
Jimmie Janes, MD and his orchestra plays – “Music For Dancing Doctors” (Editors Note: VIP is the incredible, fantastic illustrator Virgil Partch. Check him out. I’ll be posting more of his lp cover work here too. Thanks, for the note Ben T.)
Sweet surrender
“Music for Pleasure Time” Allegro. Royale Concert Orchestra. Another budget label release of forgettable background music – aural wallpaper, sonic pablum, muzak – saved from the landfill because of a cover with a strange hook and a simple transcendent beauty.
Smokin’ 45’s
James Brown and his Famous Flames “Try Me!” King Records A collection of James Brown’s earliest R&B singles from 1959.
Pistol packin mama!
Dead Eye and the Desperados “Saloon pour hors-la-loi” Authentiques Chansons Cow-boys. On the French label Mode Disques.
You talk to much
Ronnie Hollyman recorded live at the exclusive Key Room. “The Quiet Man” – “Shhh!” King Records
Clap yo hands
Music for Hand-Jiving on London Records. A compilation of hits by Tommy Steele, The Blue Jeans and The Four Jacks, etc.
Hand-Jiving involves a complicated pattern of hand moves and claps including thigh slapping, cross-wrist slapping, fist pounding, chest slapping and pounding, hand clapping, elbow touching and hitch hike moves. It resembles a highly elaborate version of pat-a-cake. The hand jive was popularized by Johnny Otis’ 1958 hit “Willie and the Hand Jive”. Eric Clapton did a version of the song in 1974 that reached the Top 40.









