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September, 2010

Music to watch grills by

Another one taken off my kitchen wall.   Bill Doggett   “Hot Doggett”   King Records

(45 votes, average: 3.44 out of 5)

Barns and no bull

“Goodies Out Behind the Barn”   By Justy and the Keybenders

Shephard of the Hills featuring the “Ballad of Jim Lane”

(41 votes, average: 2.83 out of 5)

Burnin’ love

Fancisco Zapata   Organo y Ritmos   “Rojo Candela”

(39 votes, average: 3.87 out of 5)

Check under the hood

“Just You, Just Me”   Jaye P. Morgan with Marion Evans and his Orchestra   RCA Records     Twenty years before she was a panelist on The Gong Show and The Match Game, Jaye P. was this peachy, peroxide blonde, sweater girl and, in 1955, the top female vocalist in the U.S. according to a Cashbox magazine poll.

(54 votes, average: 3.78 out of 5)

Bee’s wax

“Bumble-Boogie”   By B. Bumble & The Stingers   Top Rank Records

(38 votes, average: 3.61 out of 5)

Let it bleed

Vanusa   RCA Victor Records

(43 votes, average: 3.63 out of 5)

If the fez fits

The Ararat Rockers play Kansas City Jazz

(44 votes, average: 2.57 out of 5)

“My joy is not a toy”

Al Green The Belle Album (1977)   The first without producer Willie Mitchell and the Hi Records rhythm section and his last album of “secular” music in the Seventies.   Not Grade “A” Al, maybe, but here’s a sweet live performance of the title track!

(34 votes, average: 2.44 out of 5)

Guilty until proven innocent

“The Depravity of Man & the New Birth”   A sermon by Dr. Monroe Parker

(41 votes, average: 3.15 out of 5)

“Pick yourself up”

“Histoires de Neige par Claude Vanony   “Le Ski”   Festival Records France   Here are Anita O’day’s thoughts on being down:

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(36 votes, average: 3.14 out of 5)