“Red Velvet”   Stanley Black and his Orchestra   London Records   This ubiquitous dollar record is easy listening pablum.   Aural wallpaper.   The cover is pretty tame, lifeless and unsexy, but it does have a fifties babe surrounded by LP’s and a sweet console.

(48 votes, average: 4.17 out of 5)

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McDonald’s Cave   By The Piltdown Men   Capitol Records Sweden   (Thanks again Ulf)     I feel like this photo is on a U.S. album cover too.   I’ll think of it.   Unless someone out there can first.   I’ll throw in an LP Cover Lover T-shirt to anyone that can show me an American released LP with the same cover…

(49 votes, average: 3.92 out of 5)

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“Meus Amores…Irany Pinto e Seu Conjunto   Copacabana Records (Brazil)

(44 votes, average: 3.95 out of 5)

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Les Moustaches on the Monte Carlo label   (France).   Here’s one for my New Zealand friend, performer and renaissance man Rodrick (AKA Griffin Point).     Check him out.

(57 votes, average: 3.98 out of 5)

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Command Swing De Luxe   Command All Star Orchestra   Command Records

(48 votes, average: 3.42 out of 5)

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A “concept” album for:   Swingers, flingers and ring-a-ding-dingers.   Losers, choosers and credit card boozers.   Psychotics, neurotics and whacked out erotics.   Mismates, blind dates and turned on roomates.

“Music for RAT FINK Lovers”   Jackie Kannon Rat Fink Records (1964) A new musical experience in social decadence.   Copyright by Cockamamie Enterprises     When to Play This Album:   When she says “Yes”   When she says “No   When your wife is out of town …

(49 votes, average: 3.65 out of 5)

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Here’s a funny one.   A local production from Kin-Tel Records,   “Recorded Live at The Malibu Lounge, Hapeville, GA.”   Talent Mart Proudly Presents The larry Willims Quartette.   “Expectant Fathers (Out of Wedlock)”

(36 votes, average: 3.47 out of 5)

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“Um Natal Tranquilo e Prospero”   1966   This is a strange one indeed.   A guy alone with his stocks and bonds on Christmas.   Yet he’s satisfied with just his pipe and his prosperity.   Why is he dressed as Santa?   He looks like he just pulled off a heist.   Maybe he dressed as Santa for his Wall Street Christmas party and stole everyone’s bonuses.

(32 votes, average: 3.66 out of 5)

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“Pretty Baby”   Dean Martin (Music Conducted by Gus Levene)   Capitol Records

(87 votes, average: 4.47 out of 5)

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Esquivel and his Orchestra   “Strings Aflame” (1958)   Vik   Alternate Cover from Argentina.   Here’s the original RCA Victor cover:

Despite the “strings” in the title, this one actually swings quite well, and has a bit of an exotic gypsy flavor to it, augmented by cool spacey production that makes the strings hum with a strange other-worldly tonality. The set’s filled with the usual crazy Esquivel arrangements, and includes the cuts “Turkish March”, “Andalusian Sky”, “Misirlou”, and “Gypsy Lament”.   (Dusty Groove)

(56 votes, average: 4.23 out of 5)

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