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“Housewives’ Playtime” Jack Emblow Sextet Embassy Records
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“Vote! Que Mulher Bonita” Continental Records
(19 votes, average: 3.58 out of 5) Loading ...Now appearing in the sky lounge
“The JET Age” Features the “speedpicking” of Julian E. Tharpe on Steel Guitar. Midland Records. This was recorded at the Johnny Cash Studio in Hendersonville, TN. The Alabama Steel Guitar Association inducted Julian Tharpe into The Alabama Steel Guitar Association Hall Of Fame on February 26th, 2006 at The Hank Williams Museum, Montgomery Al. But it’s the crazy, DIY art on this relic from the early Seventies that speaks to me.
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“Cocktail Swing” Jack Sterling and his Quintet Columbia Harmony Records
“Idol Worship of the Worshipped Idols” a piece of original art by John Purlia.
A solo exhibit of John Purlia’s Lp cover-inspired art is coming to Distinction Gallery in Escondido, California. The show is titled “Plastic Prophets of Vinyl Redemption” and will run from February 14-March 7. Check it out!
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“Panic The Son of Shock” The Creed Taylor Orchestra (1959) The follow up to “Shock” (1958) also by big screen composer Kenyon Hopkins. A series of short stories with weird music, scarey sound effects and a jazzy beat including “Out of this World”, “The Prison Break,” “Rain,” “The Operation.”
According to an interview with record collector Mickey McGowan for Re/Search Magazine’s Incredibly Strange Music issue, Volume 1, “The Creed Taylor Orchestra made SHOCK Music in Hi-Fi, which bore a warning, “Don’t dare listen to his music alone!” It’s a masterpiece from the beginning, starting with loud heartbeats. “The Crank” effectively conveys the fear which a crank phone call can inspire. “The Secret” features a man and a woman laughing conspiratorily, and raises the question: “Is a secret still a secret once it’s told.” Creed Taylor’s follow-up album was Panic: the Son of Shock. Both of these LPs should also be credited to the film composer KENYON HOPKINS….You hear heavy breathing, whispering, clapping, heartbeats, shudders, screams – a whole gamut of effects. – From a neat site called Movie Morlocks.
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“Caderno de Notas” Ribamar e seu Conjunto Columbia Records (Brazil)
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“Emocoes!” Norrie Paramor e sue Orquestra Odeon Records
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“The Esquire Album of Music for the Continental Host” Guy Lupar and his Orchestra RCA Victor
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Juan Garcia Esquivel “Cabaret Tragico” RCA Victor Mexico. (1957) The soundtrack from a Mexican crime drama—his second to last release before heading north to the States. Vocals on five of the tracks by Columba Domínguez, Elsa Cárdenas, Carmen di Lirio, and Kitty de Hoyos.
One of the last and the best of those infamous mexican nightclub melodramas (”Películas de Cabareteras”), it features a stunning noirish cinematography, over-the-top acting by half a dozen of wonderfully weird and wicked latina beauties such as Columba Dominguez and Kitty de Hoyos (looking like a drag queen performing Marilyn Monroe!) plus great -if low budget- musical show clips performed by the mesmerizing Esquivel, the “King of Zu-Zu-Zu”! Another masterpiece from the great (beer-drinking?) director Alfonso “Corona” Blake, who began as an assistant to Luis Bunuel and Emilio “Indio” Fernandez and gave the world some of the finest campy horror- and “Il Santo”-classics.
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