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Why are you?

“Why I Am An American”   Chuck Bisset tells.   Triumph Records

This record and many other covers seen here on LP Cover Lover will be for sale at the WFMU Record Fair on Saturday at Metropolitan Pavilion at 125 W. 18th Street, New York City.  Stop by and say hello!

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What time is it?

“Samba Time”  Egidio Bortoli and Latin American Rhythm  Spotlight Records (Australia)

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Again. Naturally.

David Whitfield  “Alone”  Decca Records (UK)  (1961) He was the first UK male vocalist to earn a gold disc; the first to have a hit placed in the Top Ten of the Billboard Hot 100; and the first artist from Britain to sell over one million copies of one disc in America!  Not bad if you have to be alone.

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I’ll have what they’re having!

“HAPPY MUSIC FOR HAPPY PEOPLE”  Bobby Roberts and his orchestra  (Shuffle Rhythms for Continuous Dancing)  Decca Records

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Late night radio

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Capitol idea

Eve Meyer, model, photographer and wife of filmmaker Russ Meyer

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Besame Smoocho

Billy Cafaro con Lucio y su Conjunto  “Besame Pepita!”  Columbia Records (Argentina)

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Paddle ready

“Ping Pong!”  Alvino Rey His Guitars and Orchestra  Capitol Records  What a crazy party!

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Mmmeeeeeeeeee-ooooooow

Ann Margret on this cover from Dot Records in Japan  “Dynamic Sounds”  George Cates

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And here are the JAILBIRD SINGERS, a Swedish “hootenanny” singing group of real prison inmates on Metronome Records (ca., 1963)  (Via Ulf)

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