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March, 2010

Who do you love?

“I Love”   Monty Kelly   Essex Records   “A High-Fidelity Collection of Sensations in Sounds and Moods”   (A nice tag line for LP Cover Lover too).   This is one of a classic series of 10″ and 45 RPM records on the Essex label.   Each with a beautiful cheesecake model and fifties mod cover.     What an outfit!   Bachelor Pad gold!

(66 votes, average: 4.27 out of 5)

Honky Tonk Angel

Bell Records   “Trouble In Paradise”

(71 votes, average: 4.28 out of 5)

Walk this way

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Georgie Dann   “Casatschok Raskatchoff” (??)

(44 votes, average: 3.61 out of 5)

A Poi and four girls

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Johnny Poi and his Oahu Islanders   “Hawaiian Kiddie Luau”   Cricket Records

(45 votes, average: 2.84 out of 5)

Apres le Twist

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“Apres Le Twist”   Victory Records   (1959)   France

(41 votes, average: 3.71 out of 5)

Polo anyone?

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Ennio Morricone “Vamos A Matar, Companeros”   (Italy)     Inspiration for “Maggot Brain”?

(56 votes, average: 4.29 out of 5)

High flutin’

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The World’s Greatest Flutist Esy Morales   “Jungle Fantasy”   Rainbow Records

(55 votes, average: 4.47 out of 5)

“I found the beef!”

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(42 votes, average: 3.45 out of 5)

You can’t touch that!

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Jean Paredes   Barclay Records EP

(41 votes, average: 3.22 out of 5)

With his horse, Bagel

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From the nice folks at Manischewitz wines and foods – “The Jewish Cowboy”   (Harold Stern from Centerville, Texas)   OY!

(58 votes, average: 3.02 out of 5)