The Mad-Hatters  From the Greene County Tuberculosis Society of Springfield, Missouri.  Here’s a rarity – a simple DIY paste-on front cover with these simple, odd paper “creations” representing some of the songs inside.  All having to do with the ill effects and respiratory problems of having Tuberculosis.  This is incredibly strange.  (Thanks to Will and Show and Tell Music, who might have more to add…)

Philippe-Gerard   “A Coeur Battant!”   Fontana Records (France)

“Sounds Great!”   A Mercury Records Stereo Sampler.

“You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce!” Contemporary Records.   (1956)   Great West Coast Jazz featuring Harold Land on tenor saxophone, Jack Sheldon on trumpet, and Carl Perkins on piano.   Listen to “Complete” - the opening track, here.

The Fabulous FOUR SKINS “Sing Songs of Medicine and Med School.”   A homemade record by four doctors without borders!   (This comes as a single but when you rub it it turns into an LP.)

“Music For Skiers Only”   Illustrated by Virgil Partch (VIP).

Penaranda “La Inyeccion” on Fuentes Records.

“El Dentista” Calixto Ochoa y su Conjunto Merengue

“Music for Morticians” “Les Pallbearer and His All-Ghoul Orchestra” This has to be one of my rarest records. I believe it was made as a goof by guys working in the design department at Capitol records Who knows how many were made.   It’s dated on the label 1951.   I’m assuming it’s them in the cover photo. I wonder who they got to be the corpse?! I’d love to hear from anyone who might know anything about it, though I imagine that’s unlikely. Still, a great cover and right in the spirit of our obsession.

Jimmie Janes, MD and his orchestra plays – “Music For Dancing Doctors”   (Editors Note: VIP is the incredible, fantastic illustrator Virgil Partch.   Check him out.   I’ll be posting more of his lp cover work here too.   Thanks, for the note Ben T.)