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February, 2009

Breast implants

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“Nasty and Naughty”   Richard and Willie   Dooto Records   “For Adults Only”

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Byrds’ eye view

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“Mr. Tambourine Man”   The Byrds 1965 debut on Columbia Records.   #232 on Rolling Stones’ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.”   Produced by Terry Melcher.   Cover Photo by:   Barry Feinstein.   Here’s an early TV appearance on Hullabaloo.

The only Byrd to play on the band’s first hit was Roger McGuinn, whose chiming twelve-string Rickenbacker guitar became folk rock’s defining sound. Everything else came from L.A. pros, including drummer Hal Blaine and bassist Larry Knechtel from Phil Spector’s Wrecking Crew. But the rest of the Byrds soon caught up, and as the song was breaking, a curious Dylan checked out the band at Ciro’s, an L.A. club, and reportedly didn’t recognize some of his own songs in their electrified versions.   – Rolling Stone

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Mallets A Fore Thought

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Vic Feldman on Interlude Records

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A big squeeze fan

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Janis Martin “Just Squeeze Me”   RCA Victor     Thanks to lp cover lover, Joan for sending this in!

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I sing like a girl

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Clarence “Frogman” Henry “You Always Hurt the One You Love”   Argo Records (1961)   Henry opened for the Beatles on their 1964 tour.   His first big hit, and most enduring recording, is the lovable and very weird, “Ain’t Got No Home” (released in 1956), where he “sings like a frog” and “sings like a girl”.   This reached a new generation, when Daniel Stern did a great sing-along in the 1982 movie “Diner.”   This LP is another example of how record companies in the fifties and early sixties even wouldn’t show the black artists on the cover in the hopes of selling the record to more white listeners.

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Garden variety gospel

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The Humblaires “Swing Wide The Gate”   Mission Records

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Drive, he said

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Harlem River Drive   Eddie Palmieri   Roulette Records   With Charlie Palmieri on Organ and Jimmy Norman, Vocals.   (1971)   Seminal early mix of latin, salsa, soul, funk and jazz.   Have a listen to The 01-harlem-river-drive-theme.

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Home alone

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“Music to Make Housework Easier”   Sinfonieta de Milano Under the Direction of William Gunther   Request Records

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Swing that thing!

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“Blue Lester”   Count Basie’s tenor genius.   Savoy Records

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Supercalifragilistic…yabba dabba doo!

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Another fantastic Hanna-Barbera record.   Fred and Barney do “Mary Poppins”

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