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“MOM! Please! I’m rehearsing down here!!”

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Emil Nargi IS Elvis   “It’s Now or Never”   There are so many records by Elvis impersonators you can’t imagine.   Each one stranger than the last.   Emil looks like he could be one of the little dolls or porceline statuettes that my Grandma Loretta kept in a glass case.

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Hold me tight

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Cuban Rhythms for Dancing   Panart Records

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Does this door make my ass look fat?

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“La Gorda”   Exitos de los Llopis con Anardy Lopez   Colonia Records

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Spirit in the sky

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“Heaven’s Satellite”   with The Good News Singers from Bakersfield, California.   Vision Records   This one is highly sought after and rarely found.

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Dream baby

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“Music To Dream By”   Valentino and His Orchestra     GMS Records     An exceptional example of a 1950’s cheesecake cover on a record of quite unexceptional music.   Looks quite common but it’s really very rare.

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On the road to find out

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Love among the tunes

IMG_3706Rock-A-Ballads A Cadence Records compilation with the Everly Brothers, Andy Williams, Johnny Tillotson, The Chordettes, etc.

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Jump ball

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“Viva A Vida”   Pocho e Orquestra RGE     RGE Records Brazil

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Knee deep

roberto-y-su-nuevo-montuno-el-montuno-llego-uniart-501-frontEl Nuevo Montuno Llego   Roberto y su Nuevo Montuno   UniArt Records   Another gem from Latin Vinyl Junkie!

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Creme de “La Crema”

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“EL PARTY” con LA CREMA   UA Latino   Mellie Mel hooked me up with a great Latin site called Latin Vinyl Junkie

Listen to this there and discover some of the finest in Latina musica.

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