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April, 2013

What’s for dinner!?!

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Two funny French picture sleeves tagged “Food”  – check out others in the category next time you’re hungry!

(40 votes, average: 3.30 out of 5)

Babes in the wood

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“Music”  The Royals  Spirit Records     Tony and I try to do the heavy lifting here and be the original online source for rarely seen records from our collections, but we’re happy to finally get a copy this one that has been kicking around the “incredibly strange music” world for years.

(45 votes, average: 3.98 out of 5)

Calypso maniac!

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(43 votes, average: 3.86 out of 5)

Form and function

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Look at those lines.   Music to my eyes.

(106 votes, average: 4.69 out of 5)

A good Bett

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Josef Schimansky  “Im Bett”  Peter Lauch und die Regenpfeifer  Golden Records (Germany) (1965)

(46 votes, average: 4.04 out of 5)

Sheer delight

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Raul Lopez  “Loca Ansiedad”  Fabuloso Records (great name!)  (Columbia)

(49 votes, average: 3.92 out of 5)

Bass humor

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New Chamber Jazz  Epic Records  (1955)  Various artists, including The Harry Lookofsky Strings, The Lou Stein Quartet , The Harris-Leigh Quartet and The Sven von Berg Quintet.

(35 votes, average: 3.63 out of 5)

Three the Hair Way

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“LISTEN”  The Harmonettes

(51 votes, average: 3.78 out of 5)

Phat Albert

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Albert Ayler  “Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol. 1”  (1970)  Shandar Records (France)  Ayler disappeared on November 5, 1970, and he was found dead in New York City’s East River on November 25, a presumed suicide.  He is buried in Cleveland, Ohio.

(36 votes, average: 3.36 out of 5)

Sharp dressed man

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“Gettin’ It All Together”  W.V. Grant   21st Century Christ Ministry Records

(36 votes, average: 3.11 out of 5)