Babe on board
“Surf Twist” Barclay Records compilation from France. Featuring Les Witchdoctors, Rocky Roberts et les Airedales and Les Sorciers!
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(39 votes, average: 3.54 out of 5) Loading ...Chic of the week
“C’est Chic” Chic (1978) Atlantic Records Produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards (The Chic Organization, LTD) The band’s second LP includes the song “Le Freak” which topped the US charts that year and is still both Atlantic Records and parent company Warner Music’s best-selling single ever. The LP also contains the follow-up hit single “I Want Your Love” Here’s a bit of the album’s last track “(Funny) Bone”
For a great read, pick up a copy of Nile’s new autobiography, “Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny.”
(43 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5) Loading ...Sugar Pie’s guys
American Folk Blues Festival 1964 Fontana Records (UK) Recorded in the Musikhalle in Hamburg that year including Sonny Boy Williamson, Sugar Pie Desanto, Howlin Wolf and others. Courtesy of Chess Records. GO Sugar go!
(59 votes, average: 3.63 out of 5) Loading ...Before the folks get home
Illustration by Raymond Pease for the cover of a paperback digest called “Baby Sitter” (1952)
(39 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5) Loading ...A little black (& white) Samba
Samba e Bom Assim (No.2) Moacyr Silva Copacabana Records (Brazil)
(42 votes, average: 3.19 out of 5) Loading ...“Where’s the booff”?
“Booff” b/w “Avec les Oreilles ” Monique Thubert Barclay Records EP (France) Sidebar: The word “Boof” is defined as (a) a kayaking maneuver (b) Michael J. Fox’s girlfriend in the movie “Teen Wolf” (c) the act of putting something up your butt or (d) all of the above?
(68 votes, average: 3.90 out of 5) Loading ...Frenchette
The timeless beauty of Brigitte Bardot. Cine Musique de France Philips Records (Japan)
(52 votes, average: 4.08 out of 5) Loading ...TGIF
“Happy Week-end” A suite by Vivian Ellis Decca Records EP (UK) (1959)
(35 votes, average: 3.17 out of 5) Loading ...One good turn deserves another
“Twist for Two” Alan Jones and His Orchestra Summit Records (France) (1962)
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