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How to listen to records when a mouse is in the house

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“Sucessos Em Desfile” Sammy Kaye and his Orchestra   Columbia Records

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By the light of the silvery moon

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“Ternura”   Phil Green and his Orchestra   Coral Records     (Her hand looks messed up and she has bad skin)

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Black and blue

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Lamento Negro   Nelson Ferraz   Continental Records Brazil

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On the road to find out

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Mother’s little helper

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Boppin’ in Paris

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The Dizzy Gillespie Sextet   “Jazz Time Paris”   French Vogue Records   (1952) NAT PECK – WADE LEGGE – ARNOLD ROSS – LOU HACKNEY – JOE BENJAMIN – AL JONES – BILL CLARK – JOE CARROLL – BILL GRAHAM

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Hillbilly Classics

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“Hillbilly Classics”   Featuring Kenny Arnott   Planet Records (Australia)

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Roy “Little Jazz” Eldridge

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Roy Eldridge “Collates”   Mercury Records (Supervised by Norman Granz) Illustration by David Stone Martin.

Instead of other Collates series, this album is NOT a collection of Roy Eldridge’s previously-released 78rpm/45rpm single tracks, but two different sessions aimed for this LP album.

Roy Eldridge (tp) Buddy Tate (ts) Teddy Brannon (p) Clyde Lombardi (b) Charlie Smith (d)   NYC, August, 1951

579-6 Baby, What’s The Matter With You?
580-6 Yard Dog
581-3 Sweet Lorraine
582-5 Jumbo The Elephant

Roy Eldridge (tp) George Williams (dir) unidentified orchestra   NYC, December, 1951

644-6 Basin Street Blues
645-2 I Remember Harlem
646-4 Easter Parade
647-3 I See Everybody’s Baby

** also issued on Clef MGC 113

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Surreal killer

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The Recorded Detailman.. When YOU are really free to listen…

So there’s more to this than meets the eye (or ear).     Like Jackie Gleason famously tapping Salvador Dali for the cover of his easy listening pablum, this use of de Chirico-like artwork, is the inconcrous cover of a promotional record put out by ENZYPAN – an antacid and the “first thought in digestive disturbances”   From the back cover:   “Whether dyspepsia of functional, secretory or nervous origin; whether manifest by nausea and regurgitation, or by flatulence, gas pressure, irritable colon; whether accompanied by fermentative or putrefactive processes”

The music is “Le Tableau de L’Operation de la Taille”   (“The Table of a Bladder Operation” ) by French composer, Marin Marais (1656-1728).   The only musical description of a surgical operation.   This record,circa 1950, offers the first modern performance and first recording of this unusual composition.   It includes the recorded commentary of the composer’s original annotations announcing the phases of the progressing operation.   The performance is by the Dutch viola da gamba player, Carel Boomkamp, accompanied by the French harpsichordist, Denyse Gouarne.     One final note, this odd piece of medical and advertising history is a 10″ 78 RPM pressing on deep red vinyl.

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(Say it loud) I’m brown and I’m proud

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“Our Songs – Songs Brownie Scouts Sing”

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