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March, 2016

Give the producer some

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RIP the great George Martin.  Here’s his own LP (and his play for some of the female fans the boys in the band had so easily!)  George Martin Instrumentally Salutes ‘The Beatle Girls’  United Artists Records  (1966)  It is the third of a series of albums by Martin featuring instrumental arrangements of Beatles songs (the others being “Off the Beatle Track” (1964) and “Help!”  (1965)

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Minute maid

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“Wake up Little Susie”  A Bell Records two-sided picture sleeve.  Only $.49 in the U.S.   Barry Frank covers the Everly Brothers hit  (1957)

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Hebrew nationals

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For Young Ears  A compilation of pop from Israel circa 1970.  A recent pick from DJ Sheila B on her WFMU radio show “Sophisticated Boom Boom”  (Listen here and every Friday from 3 – 6PM)

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Spirits in the dark

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“L’esprit de Paris”  Mode Disques (France)  Compilation of artists including Francis Blanche, Jacques Fabbri, Jean Constantin, Peirre Louki, etc.

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Feed my Frankenstein cake

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Happy Birthday!  A Columbia Records flexi-disc (“Record Card”) featuring voices by Mel Blanc and Lennie Weinrib as Dr. Frankenstein, Frankenstein’s monster and his assistant!

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Dance across the floor

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A beautiful cover from Brazil on Polydor Records.  Captures a fifties jitterbug thing but with a raw Latin American vibe.  “Dancando na Gafieira”  By Santana & Seu Regional Moderno

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This old mouse

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“El Viejo Raton ”  Perico Records (Puerto Rico)

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Sweet painted lady

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My birthday brought this sweet cover from an ancient want list finally.  Thanks Tony for the surprise!  Franchino del Mare  F.D.M. Records (Italy)

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A Flora (or a fake)

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Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg  Suite No. 1 performed by the Cromwell Symphony Orchestra and Suite No. 2 performed by the Sussex Symphony Orchestra Camden Records  A budget label with what looks like a Jim Flora illustration.  Jon Henry is credited on the bottom front cover, but perhaps he art directed?  Looking for a Flora expert (Irwin Chusid are you there?)

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Smack dab in the middle

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Franck Fernandel  “Les Souris Ailleurs”  (“While the mice are away”?)  Philips Records (France)  (1967)

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