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January, 2010

A day to marimba

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?El Dipsy Doodle?   The Dancing Marimbas of Harold Spina   Dot Records

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Cabin boy

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The Mountain Man and Leroy!!   Mountain Tales Vol. 1   A rarely seen entry in the freaky christian ventriliquist and puppet genre.   This guy looks like he spent a little too much time in a cabin in the hills alone with his doll.

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I’ll be there

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New Orleans Jazz Festival   Turk Murphy Columbia Records   THE New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival started in 1970 with performances by Mahalia Jackson and Duke Ellington, Pete Fountain, Al Hirt, Clifton Chenier, Fats Domino, The Meters, The Preservation Hall Band and included parades every day with The Olympia Brass Band and Mardi Gras Indians.   I’ve been to “JazzFest” six times since 1990 and plan on returning this year in April.   I’ve seen everyone from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Bob Dylan to countless blues, soul, gospel and zydeco acts over the years.   It’s a music and food and good time orgy of non-stop fun.

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AV Club album of the week

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“Musi-que”   A library of MOOD MUSIC for HOME MOVIES and Slide Film   Blue River Records

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Workin’ it out

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Hector and the Mediators   Philips Records (France)     Get it?   The Mediators? – “working it out”? – the Mediators?

Check out the guy on the left and that cool guitar!

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Don’t move or I’ll shoot!

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Another from our favorite classical music label Westminster   “Best Known Overtures”

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All the Kingsmen

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With Johnny Parrack out and front   Chime Records

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Everybody’s talkin’ about Bagisms, Shagisms

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“Coolisms” Featuring the Sharpies   Georgian Records

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Sonny plus 4

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Sonny Rollins Plus 4 with Clifford Brown, Max Roach, Richie Powell, George Morrow   Prestige 7038 (1956)   This was Rollins’ first release after his very successful album Saxophone Colossus and was the last full recording including pianist Richie Powell and trumpeter Clifford Brown as both died in a car accident three months later.   Designed by Reid Miles.   Liner notes by Ira Gitler.

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Thy neighbors’ wives

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Here’s a three-disc set of sex records that until recently was on my want list.   Thanks to Tony for tracking down this set for me!   Sick.   Depraved.   Morally bankrupt.   Sleazy.   Slutty.   Real life swingers!   Horny suburban housewives!   Sex-crazed neighbors lusting after tennis club MILFs.   Swap-hungry cougars ready to throw their keys in the bowl and hook up at Friday night orgies.   Hear the “actual sounds” – “sighs, moans and feelings of sexual love in many of it’s variations.”   On KONTACT Records.   You couldn’t get these at your local Discomat or Sam Goody’s – these were strictly behind-the-counter, sex shop buys or back-of-men’s magazine mail orders.

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