I’m posting this cover because I wanted to share this performance by Billy Preston at the Concert for Bangladesh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyyetXvX76Q My buddy Fred and my friend Tony were both there in the Garden!   I was in Cleveland and bought the three-disc box set.   Billy – he’s got the spirit in him!   And this original issue LP cover of “That’s The Way God Planned It” on Apple (produced by George Harrison in 1969) is rarer than the more recognized sleeve showing multiple images of Billy dancing:

Billy Preston was a keyboard prodigy who, at ten, in 1956, played a duet with Nat King Cole on his TV show and later, as a teen in the early sixties, toured Europe with Little Richard (the Beatles were the opening act!).   By the end of the decade, Billy was being called “the fifth Beatle” AND “the sixth Stone” for his recordings with each.   Billy had his own top 40 hits with “Nothing from Nothing,” “Will It Go Round in Circles” and “Outta-Space” in the early seventies. Check this out!:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GF6GjGQy0o

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“Tammy Tammy Tammy”   Tammy Faye before all the eye shadow, Jim Bakker and tears.   Hymntone Records

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Ballet by Delibes   Masterpiece Records Brazil

(48 votes, average: 3.52 out of 5)

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

(53 votes, average: 3.87 out of 5)

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“I Walk the Line”   Bell Records

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Organist and bandleader Jean-Louis Benoît aka Lou Bennet “(Pentacostal) Feeling”   (1966) Philips Recorded   in Paris with RENÉ THOMAS (g), KENNY CLARKE (dr), THE PARIS ALL JAZZ STARS and DONALD BYRD on trumpet, originally released by FONTANA (PHILIPS in France) and re-issued by EMARCY/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS/GITANES.

As a sideman Lou recorded and / or performed with JACK SELS, KING CURTIS, HERB GELLER, J. J. JOHNSON, MEMPHIS SLIM, EDDIE “LOCKJAW” DAVIS, DONALD BYRD, LEO WRIGHT, TETE MONTOLIU and IDRIS MUHAMMAD.     Bennett has toured and performed at many European Jazz festivals and in films, but has made only one appearance in the USA – at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1964.   Lou passed away February 10, 1997 in a hospital outside of Paris.

This is one in a series of about 25 similar cover designs also on the Fontana label.   (Do a search for Fontana on LPCL to see some others)

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Los Zorzales Guaranies     “Fiesta Linda”   Philips

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LP cover lover Ruben, writes us:   “Hello LP COVER LOVERS!   I love this cover – maybe it is in your collection, maybe not.   Great site you have.   Regards.”

“Porgy and Bess”   Dianne Carroll and The Andre Previn Trio   United Artists Records

I don’t think of Ms. Carroll so much for her jazz vocal chops as much as her beauty and   the TV show she starred in – Julia.   I think she broke the color barrier as a black woman starring in her own series (and she was a single mom on the show), but that didn’t mean much to me.   At 8, she just seemed cool and I was in love with her.     Thanks for reminding me Ruben.

(49 votes, average: 3.94 out of 5)

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Jerry Colonna At His Best.   Decca Records (1954)   Hear it here.

(55 votes, average: 3.85 out of 5)

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Carnaval ’68

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