Sakura Teng and Rita Chao with The Quests   “Talk of the Town” EMI Records (Singapore)     The album includes English, Mandarin and Japanese songs.     Late Sixties.

(42 votes, average: 3.52 out of 5)

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Here’s the soundtrack EP for Josephine Siao’s 1967 film The Golden Cat (飛賊金絲貓), another one of her sadly unavailable “Jane Bond” movies. (Pathe/EMI Records)   (China)     “Hear this at Soft Film and Explore the ephemeral past of Chinese entertainment from Hong Kong, the U.S.A., and around the world: vaudeville pioneers, flappers, aviatrices, burlesque dancers, hula hoopers, movie queens, sex bombs, jade girls, tomboys, pin-ups, sour beauties, girl jocks, swordswomen, and go-go girls.”

(52 votes, average: 3.92 out of 5)

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“Au Pays du Cafe”   Trio Math Samba   Decca Records (France)

(49 votes, average: 3.71 out of 5)

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“TWIST”   Maxim Saury   Pathe Records (France)

(40 votes, average: 3.40 out of 5)

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Gilles Sala

(36 votes, average: 2.78 out of 5)

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Luc Harvet et son Orgue   Vega Records (France)

(44 votes, average: 3.68 out of 5)

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Adel Valentine His Piano and Orchestra   Jolly Records EP (Volume 3)

(44 votes, average: 4.02 out of 5)

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More Echoes of Japan (1961)   (King Records Japan)   Tadaaki Misago And His Tokyo Cuban Boys   The Japanese are masters at recreating and imitating foreign art forms and cultures.   Formed in 1949, The Tokyo Cuban Boys were the first Japanese group to seriously play Latin music. They were all outstanding musicians with a tight brass section backed up by some funky percussion.   Here’s a taste of “Yagi Bushi” —

(43 votes, average: 3.26 out of 5)

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