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Isn’t it romantic?

“Music To Make LOVE By”  The Syd Dale Orchestra   Surprise Records (UK)   What’s on your playlist?

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Janina digs Shuggie

“I’m fuckin’ Shuggie Otis!”

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Disco sucks

“Dracula Disco” / “Red Blood”   A Maximus Records 45  (1977)

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Jazzercise does matter

“Jazzercise”  As Seen On TV  $8.99 As Advertised  With Top Instructor Carol O’Halloran  “Look Great.  Feel Great.   Have Fun.”

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Love notes

“Instrumental Hits  Volume 3”   Floyd Cramer   RCA Records EP

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Skin heads?

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My Sheree

Sheree North digs LPs too.  Sheree, (January 17, 1932 – November 4, 2005), was an American actress, singer, and dancer. She was known for being 20th Century Fox’s answer to Marilyn Monroe from 1954 to 1956. They had their publicity machine cranked up when she landed on the cover of LIFE:

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String quintet

Dynamic Guitar  Shoji Yokouchi  EMI Records (Mylasia)

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Singles only

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Face oddity

David Bowie  “Pinups”  RCA Records (1973)  Released between “Aladin Sane” and “Diamond Dogs.”  The woman on the cover with Bowie is 1960s supermodel Twiggy in a photograph taken by her then-manager Justin de Villeneuve.  In the album booklet, Bowie himself describes Pin Ups as: 

“These songs are among my favourites from the ’64–67′ period of London. / Most of the groups were playing the Ricky-Tick (was it a ‘y’ or an ‘i’?) -Scene club circuit (Marquee, eel pie island la-la). / Some are still with us. /Pretty Things, Them, Yardbirds, Syd’s Pink Floyd, Mojos, Who, Easybeats, Merseys,  The Kinks

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