“Booff” b/w “Avec les Oreilles “  Monique Thubert   Barclay Records EP (France)   Sidebar:  The word “Boof” is defined as (a) a kayaking maneuver (b) Michael J. Fox’s girlfriend in the movie “Teen Wolf” (c) the act of putting something up your butt or (d) all of the above?

(40 votes, average: 4.05 out of 5)

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“Happy Week-end”  A suite by Vivian Ellis  Decca Records EP (UK)  (1959)

(23 votes, average: 3.43 out of 5)

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Adriano Celentano   “Stai Lontana Da Me”   Ri-Fi Records (Milan)

(35 votes, average: 3.63 out of 5)

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“Baby Sittin’ Boogie”  Buzz Clifford  Philips Records EP

(27 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)

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“Samba Time”  Egidio Bortoli and Latin American Rhythm  Spotlight Records (Australia)

(31 votes, average: 2.32 out of 5)

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And here are the JAILBIRD SINGERS, a Swedish “hootenanny” singing group of real prison inmates on Metronome Records (ca., 1963)  (Via Ulf)

(23 votes, average: 2.57 out of 5)

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Lil Malmkvist (“great fishin’ “)  Fina Fisken  (circa early sixties)  ScanDisc Records (Sweden)  She looks like Lucy, no?  (Thanks for sending Ulf!)

(27 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)

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“Dandy”  The Kinks  PYE Records (France)  From the album “Face to Face” (1966)

(36 votes, average: 3.78 out of 5)

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Jo Ann Campbell sings “A Kookie Little Paradise” and “Bobby, Bobby, Bobby b/w The Playboys singing “Memories” and “You’re All I See”  Karusell Records EP  (Sweden)  (Via ULF!)

(33 votes, average: 3.79 out of 5)

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“Count ‘Em”  Quincy Jones with Harry Arnold and his Swedish Radio Studio Orch.  Recorded in Stockholm for Metronome Records (1958)  A three-song EP with “Count ‘Em”, “Meet Benny Bailey” (featuring the added trumpet of … Benny Bailey) and “Cherokee”  These tracks are also on the LP “Quincy’s Home Again”.  Q writes in the notes, “The atmosphere, the warmth, the musicianship and the understanding I found in Sweden certainly make me consider it my spiritual home”  Consider in contrast what blacks, including many brilliant jazz artists, were experiencing in their native home America in 1958 and why so many became expatriates in Europe for years.  Thanks to Lp cover lover, ULF for another fine contribution.

(27 votes, average: 3.56 out of 5)

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