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Santa Claus is a black man

Victor Santos on Actuality Records

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Dasher & Dancer…Harvey & Albert?

Meet Harvey the Hippo and Albert the Alley Cat, just two of Santa’s unheralded helpers.  Over the next few weeks, we’re going to share some of the forgotten ghosts of Christmas past..  We’ll be celebrating records from around the world that show the other side of the holiday and highlighting the non-traditional.  That’s what we do.

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Virgin records

Julie’s Sixteenth Birthday  John Bult   Rd Chollo Records  “You’re sixteen, you’re beautiful and you’re mine”  Here’s a classic of the incredibly strange genre.  It just gets stranger, creepier, more menacing the more you look at it.

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(“Somebody shoot me please”)

“Stories for Rainy Days”  Frank Luther  Song Stories with Music and Special Effects  Decca’s Vocalion Records

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Chinese record holders

A hefty sleeve from China.

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She needs an LPCL T-shirt

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Fung for the whole family

Lam Fung  Song Album No. 2   Ruby Record Industries (Singapore)

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Music for a Mexican knife fight

Amalia Mendoza  “Punalada Trapera”  RCA Victor (Mexico)  (1954)

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Helping hands?

“Histoires Amour et Sexe”  Bob Robert  Montagnard Records

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Happy Anniversary LP Cover Lovers!

We must have been daydreaming ourselves!  This cover was our first post on November 23, 2006 – now just more than 5 years ago!  Some stats:  4,000 posts / 8,000 comments /2.2 million visits /1.5 million unique visitors from 225 countries, territories / 7 million page views.  Thanks to everyone that has stopped in for a look, hung around for some laughs, followed us on Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter, joined the conversation and become friends over the years.  Here’s to more LP cover appreciation to come in 2012 and beyond!!

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