“Talk Talk” (Turn On) The Music Machine   Original Sound Label (1966)

(54 votes, average: 3.74 out of 5)

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Bell Records “Songs That Sold a Million Records”   Ain’t she sweet?

(58 votes, average: 4.17 out of 5)

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Another Westminster Gold Classical cover that makes you tilt your head and go “huh!?”     Dvorak Overtures by the Vienna State Opera Orchestra.

(60 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)

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A prime example of David Stone Martin at his best!   “Groovin with Jacquet”   (1955) Illinois Jacquet and his Orchestra   Clef Records (MGC 676) Also issued on Verve MGV 8061 entitled “Illinois Jacquet And His Orchestra“.

Harry “Sweets” Edison (tp) Illinois Jacquet (ts) Carl Perkins (p) Gerald Wiggins (org) Irving Ashby (g) Curtis Counce (b) Al Bartee (d)

Includes tasty standards like “Love is Here to Stay”; “East of the Sun”; “Stardust”; “Learnin’ the Blues”; and “Honeysuckle Rose.”

(51 votes, average: 4.04 out of 5)

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Brahms Complete Hungarian Dances   Robert Gerle, Violin   Westminster Gold Series Records   Westminster was the king of the wacky classical package – at times pairing “serious” music with food for no apparent reason.   (See our “classical” section for others from the label.)

(47 votes, average: 3.06 out of 5)

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“Funny Boy” (A Povel Ramel Musical)   Knappupp Records   (Thanks to Ulf)

(42 votes, average: 3.02 out of 5)

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Jokamiehen Suosikit 5   M&T Records   Roller skates, short shorts, knee socks and knee pads on this shakey, Finnish blonde.

(46 votes, average: 3.35 out of 5)

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The Brazilian Bitles   Polydor Records

(45 votes, average: 2.96 out of 5)

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“Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat” (check it out) by Charanjit Singh (India, 1982) newly discovered and rereleased by our friend Edo at Bombay-Connections Records who writes:

*Until recently it wasn’t much more than some rumours on the web: a 1982 released LP called TEN RAGAS TO A DISCO BEAT containing Kraftwerk-like acid house music, years before the genre was invented.

So it turns out, the record was no rumour. Only a few hundred copies of the LP were ever pressed, and only a handful seem to have survived. Moreover, the LP outdoes all expectations. Performed on the synths that would later define Acid House, the Roland TB-303 and TR-808, the album sounds light years ahead of its time with its repetitive beats and hypnotic electronic melodies. Its maker, Bollywood session musician Charanjit Singh, set out to translate ancient Indian classical Ragas to the modern synthesizer and in doing so seems to have invented House music along the way. The 10 tracks make a consistent listen from A to Z. Its restrained minimalism and lack of cheesiness makes it incredibly contemporary, sounding animated, fluid and unabashedly alive.”

(55 votes, average: 3.65 out of 5)

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Domenico Modugno   Fonit Records Italy   Is that the right coat for sky diving?

(38 votes, average: 2.76 out of 5)

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