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Lovesaxy

“Sex Sax”   Moacyr Silva e Seu Sax de Ouro   (Brazilian wax)   Check out that crazy font!

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Who do you love?

“I Love”   Monty Kelly   Essex Records   “A High-Fidelity Collection of Sensations in Sounds and Moods”   (A nice tag line for LP Cover Lover too).   This is one of a classic series of 10″ and 45 RPM records on the Essex label.   Each with a beautiful cheesecake model and fifties mod cover.     What an outfit!   Bachelor Pad gold!

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The hunter gets captured by the dame

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Johnny Christian “Calypso A La Mode   EMI Records

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Once more with…

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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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Oh baby please don’t go

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A nice little 45 from contributing cover lover, Ulf in Sweden.   Marino Marini ed il suo quartetto   Cupol Records (Italy)   Is that Sophia Loren?

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That’s amore!

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

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Sweet thai

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Crown Records Thailand

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Pin-up(side) down

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“Stretching Out”   Zoot Sims, Al Cohn,   United Artists   (1958)     The rest of the superb band includes Harry “Sweets” Edison, Hank Jones, bassist Eddie Jones, guitarist Freddie Green, and drummer Charlie Persip.

1. Stretching Out (Bob Brookmeyer) 6:09
2. Now Will You Be Good? (Jentes-Pease-Terker) 5:27
3. Pennies From Heaven (Johnston-Burke) 6:14
4. King Porter Stomp (Morton-Burke-Robbins) 4:38
5. Aint Misbehavin (Waller-Razaf-Brooks) 6:53
6. Bee Kay (Bill potts) 6:39

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Poolside service

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Los Galantes   Musart Records

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Waiting in vain

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Musica e Penumbra (Vol. 2)   “Fats” Elpidio e seu Conjunto   RCA Victor Brazil

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