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Choral riffs

The Bison Glee Club   Word Records   Waco, TX.   (1956)

Congratulations to Ron, the winner of our LP Cover Contest:

“Being Al Frankovich”   (Subimitted by Ron at Digital AI)

And thanks to the following runner-ups for playing along:

“Spaghetti-O’s”   Chef BoyarGLEE   (Submitted by Anthony Baio)

“We Are All There!   and You…”   Submitted by El Rondcarré

“Say … Ahhh!   The New M.D.’s   (Submitted by Mr. Wolk)

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Outer Burroughs

CALL ME BURROUGHS (ESP-Disk)   Recorded in his instantly recognizable, craggy and clipped mid-western drawl at the English Bookshop, Paris, France in 1965.   This first recording by poet, novelist and Beat legend William S. Burroughs includes excerpts from his novels NAKED LUNCH, NOVA EXPRESS and THE SOFT MACHINE.   In the Seventies and Eighties, Burroughs recorded a number of solo projects, in addition to collaborating with everyone from John Cale and Laurie Anderson to Tom Waits and Kurt Cobain.

“The excerpts follow the exploits of junkies, prostitutes, doctors, and others as they move through grisly underworlds without concern for the borders between reality and hallucination. By turns, they are blackly funny and deeply sinister, often within the same piece.”

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Will the real dummy please stand up?

Carlos, Neto and Titino!!   Check out Titino, the little dude with the fez!

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Tinted love

From another cool record site:   Vinyles Passion.

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Pigging out

More from the best-selling pig duo in recording history, Pinky and Perky!   “Nursery Romp”     A Columbia (U.K.) EP.

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Rhythm notion

Piano Percussion In Rhythm   Arthur Cohen   ACORN Records   Cover design by Frank Parisi

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Chloe’s big love

Chloe Sevingy photographed by Terry Richardson for Vice magazine, 1994 (via Suicide Blonde)

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That 70’s cat

Cat Stevens   “Teaser and the Firecat”   A&M Records   (1971) “Peace Train”   “Morning Has Broken.” “The Wind,” “Moonshadow,” “If I Laugh,” “Rubylove,” “How Can I Tell You,” “Bitterblue,” “Changes IV” and “Tuesday’s Dead”     It is also the title of a children’s book written and illustrated by Cat Stevens.   The story features the title characters from the album cover, top-hatted young Teaser and his pet Firecat, who attempt to put the moon back in its place after it falls from the sky.

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Aaaaww

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Crackin’ up

“Muchacha Traviesa”   Amparito Jimenez   Sonolux Records (Columbia)   A strange choice for the cover of an album.   Even a nice set of legs wouldn’t distract most collectors from the horror of seeing this crack.

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