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All Lives Matter

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“Black and White” featuring “Black is Beautiful, White is Beautiful,” “All Abroad (sic) the Friendship Train” and “Move a Little My Way”.   “Storysongs and music for children about brotherhood and sisterhood”.   Peter Pan Records.  As necessary today as ever!

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Dreamboat Annie

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Ann-Margret “Hey, Little Star” b/w “Man’s Favorite Sports”  RCA Victor (Japan)  Hard to find a bad photo of Ann-Margret.  Here’s a cute one from the early Sixties.  Japanese record companies put out beautiful, high-quality covers featuring American movie stars and models in the Fifties and Sixties.  You can see many of them on this site!

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Never Can Say Goodbye

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Benny Mussolini’s Genoa speech from May 1938 on this two-sided hit single from Italy.  Learn from history.

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Step kids

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“Papa Aime Maman” (Papa loves Mama) Les Scarlet / “Dumollet Trip” Andre Girard.   Panorama Records (France)

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Dark end of the street

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Jovita Luna in “Marcela’s Other Me” a Spanish film soundtrack picture sleeve from 1961.  RCA Records (Spain)

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Two silhouettes

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Guitare  Les Teen Guitares  “Teen Twist”  Crylor Records (France)  Cool one side flexi-disc

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Another one bites the disc

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Johnny Kraaykamp  “OM IN TE BIJTEN”  Romance Records (Holland)

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Pretty baby

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Carroll Baker  “Baby Doll”  P hilips Records (France)  Music from the Warner Bros. film by Tennessee Williams.  Directed by Elia Kazan.

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Kit Cat

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Surprise Party  Biscothèque LESPEAU – SURPRISE PARTY 7.  Orchestre LESPEAU.  Artistic Director: Pierre SPIERS.  Illustration by Alain CARRIER .

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Joey to the World

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Lynn E. Wickstrom with his Pal Joey!  Hi Joey!  Another obscure DIY Christian puppet record saved here from obscurity.  (After a nasty break up with Lynn over writing credits, Joey retired with his earnings from this recording to a shed in upstate New York.)

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