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June, 2012

Out of our heads

“Don’t Let the Devil Blow Your Mind!!”  Elder Marshall Taylor, of the Zion Apostolic Christian Memorial Church and Day Card Center, Detroit, Michigan

“Money Buys Everything” / “I Need a Fix” / “Only a Man Can Satisfy Me” / “There is No God!”

(41 votes, average: 3.32 out of 5)

LPCL: All the nudes fit to print

(98 votes, average: 3.88 out of 5)

Do you want to know a secret?

“Il Segreto in Confessione”  b/w “Mi Voglio Sposare”  Mirella e Franco Trincale  Fonolo Records (Italy)

(36 votes, average: 3.86 out of 5)

One joint, one call, twenty years

(44 votes, average: 3.55 out of 5)

Funny fez

“Kanhaiyaa”  EMI Records Original Bollywood Soundtrack  (1981)

(34 votes, average: 3.41 out of 5)

Catalonia! What makes your big heads so big?

A rare one on the Kubaney label  Manuel Caballero’s “Gigantes y Cabezudos”  Many Spanish festivals include costumed figures known as gigantes y cabezudos, roughly, “Giants and Big-Heads” . The main feature of these figures is typically their papier mache heads; bodies are covered in clothing matching the costume’s theme.  These figures are particularly common in festivals of Basque Country or Catalonia, where many cities and towns have their own figures.  FREAKY great cover.

Bonus pic:

(40 votes, average: 3.85 out of 5)

Chest fever

Bar-Kays  “Too Hot To Stop”  Mercury Records  (1976)   Also includes “Shake Your Rump to the Funk”.

(45 votes, average: 3.51 out of 5)

Paton plays

The Many Sides of Sandy Paton  Elektra Records (1959)  Folk songs from Scotland and the British Isles.  Charles Alexander “Sandy” Paton died in 2009 at the age of 80.

(34 votes, average: 3.24 out of 5)

“Eddie Davis Eyes”

Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis with the Paul Weeden Trio  “I Only Have Eyes For You” Prestige Records  (1963)

(35 votes, average: 3.34 out of 5)

Who knows what evil lurks?

Italian EP by Franco Trincale on Fonola Records  (1972)  I just found this on YouTube.  Crazy.  What is he singing about?  I’m afraid to know.

(35 votes, average: 3.43 out of 5)