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January, 2010

Serial life

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The Official Adventures of Flash Gordon Starring Buster Crabbe   (Astonishing tales on the Planet Mongo!) Leo Records   Not to be confused with Flesh Gordon the X-rated, 1974 remake.

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Peakin’ and freakin’

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Puccini Gianni Schicchi   Decca Records

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The hunter gets captured by the dame

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Johnny Christian “Calypso A La Mode   EMI Records

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Single minded

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Verde Campina y otros exitos del Junior   Odeon Records   These are some of my favorite covers, a collector surrounded by his records, next to a big old turntable.     I’ve put this in the “Just Happy” category, cuz I think he is!

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Once more with…

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Organist and bandleader Jean-Louis Benoît aka Lou Bennet “(Pentacostal) Feeling”   (1966) Philips Recorded   in Paris with RENÉ THOMAS (g), KENNY CLARKE (dr), THE PARIS ALL JAZZ STARS and DONALD BYRD on trumpet, originally released by FONTANA (PHILIPS in France) and re-issued by EMARCY/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS/GITANES.

As a sideman Lou recorded and / or performed with JACK SELS, KING CURTIS, HERB GELLER, J. J. JOHNSON, MEMPHIS SLIM, EDDIE “LOCKJAW” DAVIS, DONALD BYRD, LEO WRIGHT, TETE MONTOLIU and IDRIS MUHAMMAD.     Bennett has toured and performed at many European Jazz festivals and in films, but has made only one appearance in the USA – at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1964.   Lou passed away February 10, 1997 in a hospital outside of Paris.

This is one in a series of about 25 similar cover designs also on the Fontana label.   (Do a search for Fontana on LPCL to see some others)

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Black cats

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The Soulful Dynamics “Wildcats” London Records   (1972) The Soulful Dynamics from Liberia.

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Oh baby please don’t go

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A nice little 45 from contributing cover lover, Ulf in Sweden.   Marino Marini ed il suo quartetto   Cupol Records (Italy)   Is that Sophia Loren?

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Basketball Jones

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Some of you may remember the Saturday morning animated cartoon series The Harlem Globetrotters as I surely do.   (1970-1972 on CBS)   Hanna-Barbera meets Meadowlark Lemon and “Curley” Reese and the high-flyin’, high-fivin’, slam-dunkin’est squad ever to cross 125th street!   And don’t forget their fictional bus driver and manager Granny, and Dribbles, their dog mascot.   Josie and the Pussycats, Hanna-Barbera’s other 1970 series, premiered 30 minutes earlier on the same day and network.  

This soundtrack album, The Globetrotters, was produced by Jeff Barry and released in 1970 by Kirshner Records.   It includes tunes heard in episodes of the series (during the basketball game sequences). Don Kirschener served as music supervisor for both the series and the record. Globetrotter frontman Meadowlark Lemon was the only member of the team to be actually involved with the project, adding occasional background vocals to some tracks.   Among those actors also providing voices for the series are Scatman Crothers, Stu gilliam and Eddie (“Rochester”) Anderson.

Check out the cartoon series here!

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Baby daddies

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Here’s a funny one.   A local production from Kin-Tel Records,   “Recorded Live at The Malibu Lounge, Hapeville, GA.”   Talent Mart Proudly Presents The larry Willims Quartette.   “Expectant Fathers (Out of Wedlock)”

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What a croc!

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“See You Later Alligator”     This is another in the series of twelve in a series from Broadway FunTime Records.   Each has an illustration on the cover signed by “Stauffer” – don’t know him but love the drawings on each of these records.   Search for “funtime” to see others up so far.

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