“Yo-yo, Ye-ye” b/w “Bum-Ban-Ban-Ban”   Kinita on Philips Records (Spain)  (1969)  “No one can be a ye-yé without playing with a yo-yo. The yo-yo of the ye-yés, the ye-yés of the yo-yos,”   While real fame eluded her, this song, Kinita’s final single, was a hit.  Then like the yo-yo itself, she went out of fashion and slipped quietly back into obscurity.  Attempts to find the singer have failed and she remains a mystery.  The B-side is “Bum ban Ban ban,” a version of British singer Lulu’s, Boom Bang-a-bang,”  Kinita also achieved some notoriety for her numerous and complicated hairdos, earning herself the nickname ‘the princess of lacquer’.   She has a Tina Turner thing going on here I think.

(38 votes, average: 3.87 out of 5)

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“A Caddy for Daddy”  Hank Mobley  A classic, timeless, quintessential mid-sixties cover from the oft-quoted Blue Note graphic designer Reid Miles.   Here’s something as beautiful on the inside as on the outside.  Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Bob Crenshaw and Billy Higgins at the top of their form.  Artists of the highest order creating in a world of their own.  Turn someone on today.  Here’s the swinging, rumprolling title cut:  A Caddy For Daddy

(51 votes, average: 4.27 out of 5)

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Nippon Records (1977)

(34 votes, average: 3.06 out of 5)

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“Rockin’ with Wanda!”   Wanda Jackson   Capitol Records

(43 votes, average: 3.81 out of 5)

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