“Surf Twist”  Barclay Records compilation from France.  Featuring Les Witchdoctors, Rocky Roberts et les Airedales and Les Sorciers!

“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.”

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!

Illustration by Raymond Pease for the cover of a paperback digest called “Baby Sitter” (1952)

Samba e Bom Assim (No.2)   Moacyr Silva  Copacabana Records (Brazil)

“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?

The timeless beauty of Brigitte Bardot.  Cine Musique de France   Philips Records (Japan)

“Happy Week-end”  A suite by Vivian Ellis  Decca Records EP (UK)  (1959)

“Twist for Two”  Alan Jones and His Orchestra  Summit Records  (France)  (1962)