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March, 2011

Ghost buskers

Los Fantasmas   Jose Curbelo   Polydor Records (France)

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Reynold’s rap

Debbie Reynolds   MGM Records E.P. (U.K.)

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Sex bomb

Tom Jones   “Hide and Seek”   / “Love Me Tonight”   London Records EP   (Japan)

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Framed!

Via the always great Retrospace!   I’m having these walls made for me asap.   Who knows who they might hide in the future!

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As seen on TV

Classic K-Tel TV offer from 1972   “Believe in Music” featuring an incredible 22 Original Hits and Original Stars!   Only $3.99.   (AND if you buy NOW, you’ll get this AMAZING Veg-a-matic for only $1.99 – that’s JUST $1.99   So order NOWNOWNNOW)   Here’s one of the many ubiquitous K-Tel commercials from the same year.

Side One:
 Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl) – Looking Glass
 / Beautiful Sunday – Daniel Boone / 
Sunny Days – Lighthouse
 / How Do You Do? – Mouth & MacNeil / 
Long Cool Woman – Hollies / Go Away Little Girl – Donny Osmond / Back Stabbers – O’Jays / 
Go All The Way – Raspberries / 
Fly Pretty Baby – Andy & David Williams / 
Maggie May – Rod Stewart
 / Sealed With A Kiss – Bobby Vinton

Side Two: 
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves – Cher
 / Sylvia’s Mother – Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
 / Sweet & Innocent – Donny Osmond
 / Hold Your Head Up – Argent / 
Let It Rain – Eric Clapton / 
Let Your Yeah Be Yeah – Brownsville Station
 / No – Bulldog
 / Money Back Guarantee – Five Man Electrical Band / 
Speak To The Sky – Rick Springfield
 / Down By The River – Albert Hammond / I Believe in Magic – Gallery

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Actress Greer Garson

Garson won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1942 for her role as a strong British wife and mother in the middle of World War II in Mrs. Miniver.   She gave the longest acceptance speech ever, at five minutes and 30 seconds, after which the Academy Awards instituted a time limit.

Garson was partnered with Clark Gable after his return from war service, in “Adventure” (1945). The film was advertised with the catch-phrase “Gable’s back and Garson’s got him!”   Gable argued for “He put the Arson in Garson”; she countered with “She Put the Able in Gable!”

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I love my baby

Ken Nordine and the Fred Katz Group   “Word Jazz” Dot Records   The crazy, twilight zone meets madison avenue meets jack kerouac recordings of the uniquely voiced Ken Nordine.

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Singles lady

God, I love this!

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Legends of folk metal #1

Here’s a cool dude on a cover found at a new site called VinylBeat

Agapito Zuniga with his squeeze box. Ideal Records.

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Killing me softly

“Instrumental Assassination”   Manfred Mann on Fontana (UK)

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