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Have a Les and Mary Christmas

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“Christmas Cheer!”   Les Paul and Mary Ford   Capitol Records

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“It’s a guitar!”

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The Cousins Celebrate Christmas   Palette Records

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Clap your hands say yeah!

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“Hully Gully”   The Angels

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Guitar Boy

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This one is from Sao Paulo, Brasil.   MusiColor Records   I don’t know who this mysterious “Guitar Boy” is.   There’s a cover of Telstar here and some soundtrack themes.

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Hooker with a heart of gold

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John Lee Hooker Plays and Sings the Blues   Chess LP 1454.   Early fifties recordings (When Hook was a younger stud) compiled and released by Chess in 1961.   Personnel: John Lee Hooker vocals; guitar.   (Eddie Kirkland guitar on “Just Me and My Telephone”.)   Studs Terkel writes the liner notes.   Another cool cover photo by Chess house photog Don Bronstein.   This is back porch music from the heart of the Delta.   “Although he often reworked themes by earlier bluesmen during this period, it was rare that Hooker outright covered another artist’s material. So his riveting interpretations of Muddy Waters’s ‘Please Don’t Go’ and Big Maceo Merriweather’s ‘Worried Life Blues’ peak this collection”

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Peter picks for a pack of pretty Pattys

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“String Along With Peter”   The Multi Guitars of Peter Posa     Zodiac Records   Another nice cover delivered in person by Magic Mel from Wellington, New Zealand.

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Love your Fellowmen

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Straight from New Zealand – The dynamic, the incomprable, the amazing FELLOWMEN!

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Don’t shoot the guitar player

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Bruce Murdoch “33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute”   Stormy Forest Records (1971)   Canadian folky.   Here’s a nice post about this record.   Thanks again to Joe in Maine!

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The donkey serenade

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“Adentro Arracacheros!”   Emeterio y Felipe –   Los Tolimenses   Zeida Records

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Miami sound machine

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“Party Down” Little Beaver   Cat Records (1974) Willie Hale was a session musician who played on such hits as Betty Wright’s “Clean Up Woman”, and George McCrae’s “Rock Your Baby”.     The back-up musicians here are a who’s who of the Miami funk/soul sound and TK, Alston and Glades Records stable. Party Down Part 1   features background vocals by Betty Wright, pianist Benny Lattimore (“Let’s Straighten It Out”), and organ man Timmy Thomas (“Why Can’t We Live Together”).

“Come on girl, don’t be shy, we’re just partying down, you and all your friends, we’re gonna party down.”

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