The first of at least a dozen Adam Party lps put out on the FAX Records label.   Each with a cover far more timeless and appealing than the now lame adult comedy of the early 60’s.

“ADAM Magazine presents the wildest sexcapade of stag party humor put on record featuring the fabulous Buzzy Green at his sizzling best!”  

For an informative, illustrated history (and online store) of Adam and other vintage men’s magazines and books check out my buddy’s totally awesome site Vintage Sleaze

(42 votes, average: 4.40 out of 5)

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Put this on and people yell “take it off, take it off!”     This record should have come without a cover.

(17 votes, average: 3.59 out of 5)

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I knew Richard Hayman for a short period of time. I met him when his wife responded to an ad I placed looking to buy record collections. I came to his apartment on Fifth Avenue in the 70’s. A beautiful sprawling apartment with a terrace overlooking the Avenue that he must have bought in the sixties. There was a grand piano in the living room. The walls were covered with his personal music memorabilia, awards, photos, gold records and book shelves wall to wall. In cabinets, closets and storage areas, he had thousands of lps. Finally, we was ready to let them go he said. This was the well kept collection of someone who had spent 50 years in the music business making records and working in A&R for the major labels.

I spent many days coming back to go through the collection lp by lp. Each visit was mostly me sitting on my hands and knees flipping records and pulling the cream of the crop. We had many friendly conversations about his life and music. Even though he was successful for selling millions of mostly easy listening records, his tenure at Mercury records among other labels gave him opportunities to work with many of the biggest names in sixties music. As rock wasn’t his taste many of the rock and psych records had never been played and I sold them to collectors. I found many great covers, lots of great jazz and vocalist lps too that I still have.

(30 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)

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Some guys have all the luck.

(31 votes, average: 4.42 out of 5)

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Wow! This hits the sweet spot. I found it trolling blogs at a really cool site called “If Charlie Parker were a gunslinger, there’d be a whole lot of dead copycats” Lots of cool pictures, videos, quotes and commentary here. And some groovy covers too! Check it out and please let me know if you ever see a copy for sale.

Here’s a cool quote highlighted at the site:

“And, of course, that is what all of this is – all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs – that song, endlesly reincarnated – born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket ’88’, that Buick 6 – same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness.” — Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather

(36 votes, average: 4.61 out of 5)

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