“Cookin’ Up A Party”  The Joy Boys  Calendar Records (Australia)  “Directions: Put on a Turntable, Spin and Go-Go-Go”

Pepper Adams 5  Interlude Records  (1959)  Design:  Cal Freedman  Photo:  George Jerman   Pepper, Baritone; Stu Williamson, Trumpet; Carl Perkins, Piano; Leroy Vinnegar, Bass; Mel Lewis, Drums   Re-issue of Mode 112 (1957)  Colored vinyl too.

“El Piruli”  Arlon Records  (Panama)

“Green Onions”  by Booker T. & The M.G.s  Stax Records  1962  The first hit from he Memphis Sound of Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, Jr and Donald “Duck” Dunn (who would replace original bassist Lewis Steinberg)  The album also features a great follow up – “Mo Onions”  So good it could make you cry!  Dig it!

hors d’oeuvres for connoisseur DJ’s     A sampler of new releases from Tops Records in 1960.

“Chicken & Dumplin’s”   Bobby Timmons   Prestige Records   Bobby Timmons (p, vib) Lee Otis Bass III (b) Billy Saunders (d)   Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, July 12, 1965

Chicken And Dumplin’s   /   The Telephone Song / Ray’s Idea / A Sunday Kind Of Love / The Return Of Genghis Khan

Bobby played his soulful gospel-tinged jazz piano on many of the greatest jazz albums of the late 1950′s and early 60′s –   including classics with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1958-1961), Cannonball Adderley, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Donald Byrd, Sonny Stitt, Chet Baker and Kenny Dorham (with whom he made his recording debut in 1956).   He composed the standards “Moanin’”, “Dat Dere”, and “This Here”

Bobby died In March 1974 from cirrhosis at the age of 38, in New York.

Graham Dalley   Hollick & Taylor Records   (1966)   Recorded live at The Barn, a restaurant in Birmingham, England.   Sappy organ music like ‘ ‘Sayonara’, “Meet Me in St. Louis” and “The Folks on the Hill’     And sappier liner notes like “It was a great night out. The food and the wine and the mood and the music; you’re going to store it all away in some sweet corner of life’s memories to hold against less magical moments when you want to recall the rosy glow of friendliness and warmth which is the essence of our fare. At any rate, that’s how we hope you feel.”   But, give it up for the inspired front cover – which is why we’re here after all.

The legendary comedy team of Skillet & Leroy (Leroy Daniels & Ernest ‘Skillet’ Mayhandon) “Skillet & Leroy Are The Okra Eaters”   Laff Records (1974) ADULTS ONLY   With music by the Johnny Otis Show.   Cover designed by Howard Goldstein with Bud Fraker photography.   If you like a laff, check back cuz Tony and I are going to put up the complete Laff Records catalog for you here over the next few weeks!

Swampland Jewels.   A nice collection of great New Orleans tunes.   I’m particularly fond of Cleveland Crochet’s “Sugar Bee”