From the nice folks at Manischewitz wines and foods – “The Jewish Cowboy”  (Harold Stern from Centerville, Texas)  OY!

“Music for Cooking with Gas” featuring the Harry Fields Quintet

“Music to Sell Weyerhaeuser Hardwood Paneling By”

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

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.

A Doublemint Gum sales promotion record (ironically a single). With music by the Doubleaires, of course.

“Music to Recline By (In a Berkline Chair!)  Music by Richard Maltby and his Orchestra

“Social Security.  Something you can depend on now.”  NOT.

Courtesy of lp cover lover, Marcus Ekblom:  Kentucky Fried Chicken legend – Colonel Sanders presents’ “Tijuana Picnic” on Mark64 Records.  This doesn’t look like the Tijuana I saw.

“Genuss im Stil der neuen Zeit” A record from Lord Extra cigarettes.