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July, 2010

Spot on!

The Spotnicks President Records EP

(112 votes, average: 4.26 out of 5)

Please don’t eat the daisies

“A Date With Doris Day”   Columbia Records (Japan)

(59 votes, average: 3.24 out of 5)

A mother plucker

(91 votes, average: 3.49 out of 5)

Say it loud!

Jim Brown “Tells It Like It Is”   Main Line Records Jim Brown Tells It Like It Is   This album was produced and written by Jeff Baxter and includes Jim Brown Farewell Day Speech * Press Interview: How The Negro Industrial and Economic Union (N.I.E.U.) Works * Comments On Black Nationalism * Comments On Racial Violence * Jim Brown Interviewing New N.E.I.U. Member * Negro Pride And Heritage * Comments On Black Muslems *Comments on Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali)

(59 votes, average: 2.66 out of 5)

The lively ones

The Brisks Belter Records EP with “El Cochecito”

(64 votes, average: 3.42 out of 5)

Just Say Na-No

Mork and Mindy “Na-no Na-no”   Bruno D’Andrea    

(56 votes, average: 1.96 out of 5)

The Thing To Do

“The Thing To Do”   Blue Mitchell with Junior Cook, Chick Corea, Gene Taylor and Al Foster   Blue Note Records 4178     (1964) What a beautiful cover!   Classic Blue Note aesthetic.   The running type.   The cropping, the elegant light and a monochromatic blue help capture the expression of the music in Mitchell’s taut hands.   When Horace Silver disbanded his quintet of six years in 1964, Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook and Gene Taylor decided to stay together and form the nucleus of the Blue Mitchell Quintet.   The band took shape that summer with newcomers Chick Corea (only his second recording and first Blue Note session) and Al Foster. Mitchell learned well from his former employer – check the groove on the title track!

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(83 votes, average: 4.01 out of 5)

Catcher in the rye

Junie “Bread Alone” (1980) Westbound Records   A rare solo release by Ohio Players and P-Funk alumn Junie Morrison.

(66 votes, average: 3.74 out of 5)

Express your shelf

“Top Pop”   The Hipsters Singers!   Gala des Varietes Records (France)

(54 votes, average: 3.65 out of 5)

Crouching tiger

Japanese animation soundtrack on King Records

(61 votes, average: 3.49 out of 5)