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Go Suzuki!

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And Come Home Happy!   Words, Music and Song by Henry V. Drennan.   Arrangement by Takeshi Shibuya.

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Before hip hop there was be bop

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James Moody BE BOP “Tomorrow’s Music Today”   Metronome Records (From Lp cover lover, Mika)

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The white riffs of Clover

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The Clover Boys   RCA Victor (Mexico)   “For Teenagers”

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Cocktail jazz

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Graphic designer, musician and lp cover lover Mika of Finland writes us:   Hi There!   The LP Cover Lover site is fabulous! I decided to send you some record covers, mostly for their nice graphics. CHUBBY JACKSON – LEMON DROP   Rainbow Records.   Cover Design: Leonard Besser

Try a Lemon Drop tonight!

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Look who’s talking

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The Many Heads of Dickie Goodman   Rori Records   (1962) Dickie Goodman wrote and recorded novelty songs and parodies beginning with the 1956 top ten hit “The Flying Saucer”   His career-long shtick was to act as a “reporter,” while the responses from the “people” he was interviewing would be soundbites from popular records of the day.   As the original sampling gangster,   he had 17 different labels sue him for using samples on “The Flying Saucer” without permission.   But the judge in the case ultimately sided with Goodman, stating that “he had created a new work” and didn’t simply copy another’s work.   In the early seventies he put out singles like “Convention ’72” “Superfly Meets Shaft” and “Watergate” and in 1975, he released probably his best-known song, “Mr. Jaws,” a spoof of the movie “Jaws” which peaked on the U.S. pop charts at #4 and sold over 500,000 copies.   He died in Fayetteville, NC, on November 6, 1989 (from an apparent suicide).

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A world record

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Lp Cover Lover is spanning the globe in search of vinyl gold!

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“Doctor, doctor, gimme the news…

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Dr. Fishbein Talks to a Growing Girl   “A thoughtful discussion for children and their parents from America’s Dean of Physicians.”

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Hey, Driver

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An homage to Toyota by Manu Dibango.   I’ve never seen the Toyota Starlet before (but I bet it was high maintenance).

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Is she a good witch or a bad witch?

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“Bible Story Lady”   “Creation Series”

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Ok, who ordered the house special?

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Penaranda y sus Muchachos   “Tomasita la Arepera”   Nuria Records

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