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A Naff is a Naff

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The Naff Family Sings The Naff Family Favorites.  Which are you favorite Naffs?  These are mine:

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Return to the Planet of the Capes

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The Christ Messengers   “He’ll Go With Me The Rest of the Way”  (1972)  Private Press out of Tulsa, Oklahoma.   The Messengers are Don, Virginia, Leana and Donata Thomas.

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Phone home

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“Songs That Mom and Dad Taught Us”   The Friends

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Offspring

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“I’m God’s Child”  The Cooper Family  Prestige Records (Alabama) .

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Five feet high and rising

IMG_4538The Hubbs Family Sing The Gospel  Melody Records

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Happy Mother’s Day

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Songs for Swinging Mothers  One of the High In-Fidelity Records  (1962)  A series of comical cover-only “greeting cards”  Just a cardboard disc inside with liner notes to help you make your own mixtape:  “Suggested titles, suitable for enclosure in this Album Cover, are as follows:  “The Things We Did Last Summer”, “What Can I Say After I Say ‘I’m Sorry”, ” Get Me to the Church on Time”, “This Could be the Start of Something Big”, “Careless Love”, “Don’t Blame Me”, “Thou Swell” … get it?!

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Your mother should know

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“Dedicated to Mother”  By the Best of the Mummers AQUA STRING BAND  Sure Records   Share your collection with your mom this weekend.   Or better yet, get her flowers!

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Doin’ the shag

MDS00336“Gospel Classics”  The Singing Peirot Family  (DIY)

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Them belly full

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“A Wonderful Time”  The Whelchel Family    There are so many of these local Christian music records in dollar bins around the country, but some covers rise above and scratch one’s aesthetic itch to please on a higher level.  This one is rich in its simplicity and earnestness.  Also the fashion and hair and girth.

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Catch a wave

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“I’m Going Home … To Watch the Flowers Bloom”   The Richys  (with 7 year-old Janell doing recitations)   “The Richys sing “up-to-date”, yet hold strongly to old-time convictions, which many have laid aside.”

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