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How to pick up chicks

Kool and the Gang “Live at the Sex Machine  Blue Elephant Records

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Aces over

“Jalaito Sabroson”  Los Ases del Ritmo  Tropical Records

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Look up

“Speak Low” Hal Otis and His Orchestra Westminster Hi-Fi. Jayne Mansfield doesn’t have to say anything at all.

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Come fly with me

“Jaleo de Roock!”  Vik Records  (Can anyone help me find another copy?)

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Three of the ten commandments

Bill Haley and his Comets Decca Records. (1955) Includes “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock” the song that introduced rock & roll to White America. “Rock Around the Clock” was a modest hit until the song was used as the title track of “The Blackboard Jungle” some 12 months later. His next record was a cover of Joe Turner’s “Shake, Rattle and Roll’ which was a top ten hit and the first rock & roll record to sell a million copies!

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Sgt. Pecker

“Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins” John and Yoko Apple Records 1968

With all due respect, this is a true cultural touchstone. Imagine, 40 years ago, the leader of the most famous musical group in the world and one of the leading social, political and creative voices of his generation releasing an album with a cover of himself and his new girlfriend posing for a full-frontal nude . The Beatles had the freedom to do whatever they wanted and the whole world was watching. (This was just the second record released on their own Apple label after George Harrison’s solo Wonderwall soundtrack.) With this radical “artistic” statement, (looped bits and pieces of music and conversation recorded one night prior to John and Yoko “consummating” their relationship), the Beatles of old were clearly no more. Perhaps it took this kind of “up yours” statement to tear himself from the group and his public image and begin his journey as a solo artist. The response to it, and Yoko, from the press and the fans was vitriolic and unkind.

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Haircut 101

Freddie Morgan is “Mr. Banjo.”  Verve Records.  “Conceived, produced and recorded under the personal supervision of Spike Jones.”

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Peggy Sue

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George Petty illustration on this early rock and roll compilation from Brazil on Decca Records. “Ele Gosta de Rock ‘N Roll”

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The Joy of Sax

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Sax Sounds. Apollo Records. 1950’s jazz saxophone compilation with amazing graphics.

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Live eviL

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“Os 7 Diabos” on Brazilian Odeon.

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